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Terms and Conditions

In General

Sri Lanka Export Development Board (“www.srilankabusiness.com”) owns and operates this Website.  This document governs your relationship with www.srilankabusiness.com (“Website”). Access to and use of this Website and the products and services available through this Website (collectively, the "Services") are subject to the following terms, conditions and notices (the "Terms of Service"). By using the Services, you are agreeing to all of the Terms of Service, as may be updated by us from time to time. You should check this page regularly to take notice of any changes we may have made to the Terms of Service.

Access to this Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the services without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts or this entire website.

This website may contain links to other websites (the "Linked Sites"), which are not operated by www.srilankabusiness.com. www.srilankabusiness.com has no control over the linked sites and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Your use of the linked sites will be subject to the terms of use and service contained within each such site.

Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy, which sets out how we will use your information, can be found at Privacy. By using this Website, you consent to the processing described therein and warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

Prohibitions

You must not misuse this website. You will not: commit or encourage a criminal offence; transmit or distribute a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or any other material which is malicious, technologically harmful, in breach of confidence or in any way offensive or obscene; hack into any aspect of the service; corrupt data; cause annoyance to other users; infringe upon the rights of any other person's proprietary rights; send any unsolicited advertising or promotional material, commonly referred to as "spam"; or attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of or accessed through this Website. Breaching this provision would constitute a criminal offence and www.srilankabusiness.com will terminate your user account and report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and disclose your identity to them.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Intellectual Property, Software and Content

The intellectual property rights in all software and content (including photographic images) made available to you on or through this website remain the property of www.srilankabusiness.com or its licensors and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved by www.srilankabusiness.com and its licensors. You may store, print and display the content supplied solely for your own personal use. You are not permitted to publish, manipulate, distribute or otherwise reproduce, in any format, any of the content or copies of the content supplied to you or which appears on this website nor may you use any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise.

Sellers Displaying content (including photographic images) in e-marketplace should use their own products/services content. using third-party content (including photographic images) will lead to terminate their account permanently.

Terms of Sale

By placing an order, you are offering to purchase a product on and subject to the following terms and conditions. All orders are subject to availability and confirmation of the order price.

Dispatch times may vary according to availability and subject to any delays resulting from postal delays or force majeure for which we will not be responsible.

In order to contract with www.srilankabusiness.com, you must be over 18 years of age and possess a valid credit or debit card issued by a bank acceptable to us. www.srilankabusiness.com retains the right to refuse any request made by you. If your order is accepted, we will inform you by email and we will confirm the identity of the party which you have contracted with. This will usually be www.srilankabusiness.com or may in some cases be a third party. Where a contract is made with a third party www.srilankabusiness.com is not acting as either agent or principal and the contract is made between yourself and that third party and will be subject to the terms of sale which they supply you. When placing an order, you undertake that all details you provide to us are true and accurate, that you are an authorized user of the credit or debit card used to place your order and that there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of the goods. The cost of foreign products and services may fluctuate. All prices advertised are subject to such changes.

  1. Our Contract 

    When you place an order, you will receive an acknowledgement e-mail confirming the receipt of your order: this email will only be an acknowledgement and will not constitute acceptance of your order. A contract between us will not be formed until we send you confirmation by e-mail that the goods which you ordered have been dispatched to you. Only those goods listed in the confirmation e-mail sent at the time of dispatch will be included in the contract formed.

  2. Pricing and Availability

    Whilst we try and ensure that all details, descriptions and prices which appear on this website are accurate, errors may occur. If we discover an error in the price of any goods which you have ordered we will inform you of this as soon as possible and give you the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it. If we are unable to contact you, we will treat the order as cancelled. If you cancel and you have already paid for the goods, you will receive 85% of the total purchase value.

    The shipping cost does not include the government import duties and other taxes charged by the destination country. You are responsible for such additional charges payable after your order has been shipped. Please refer to the relevant sources to learn about the duties and taxes charged in your country.

  3. Payment

    Upon receiving your order, we carry out a standard authorization check on your payment card to ensure there are sufficient funds to fulfil the transaction. Your card will be debited upon authorization being received. The monies received upon the debiting of your card shall be treated as a deposit against the value of the goods you wish to purchase. Once the goods have been dispatched and you have been sent a confirmation email the monies paid as a deposit shall be used as consideration for the value of goods you have purchased as listed in the confirmation email.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SUPPLIER

  1. The Supplier shall make available sufficient stocks of the items offered through the portal and shall inform SLEDB in the event of non-availability of such items.

  2. The supplier shall conform to the exact specifications of the goods displayed online in the Supplier’s web page and if weight exceeds the specified quantity, Supplier shall meet the excess delivery charges.

  3. The Supplier shall take immediate steps to dispatch the goods to the freight forwarder, once the transaction is confirmed.

  4. The Supplier shall be responsible for producing any additional documentation necessary for a transaction such as SLSI certification, CITES certification, GSP etc.

  5. The Supplier shall be responsible for packaging the goods in such a manner as required for shipping.

Supplier shall bound by the following conditions 

  1. Supplier shall adhere and protect title rights of the others during the course of services provided by the SLEDB and in the event, the Applicant violates the rights of an Intellectual Property Right Holder, the SLEDB shall reserve the right to terminate/discontinue the services provided by the SLEDB.

  2. The Applicant shall indemnify the SLEDB against any claims damages or liabilities arising out of or resulting from any act or omission in connection with the services save and except the acts or omissions which amounts to gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the applicant.

  3. In the event, any of the charges increased by the services obtained from other organizations such as Banks the SLEDB reserves the right to increase the fees charged from the applicant in line with such increase. (in order to give effective and efficient service to the providers)

Guidelines, Terms and Conditions for On-line Portal Supplier membership

  1. The shippers should provide the appropriate weight of the products to be displayed in the Trading portal.

    The supplier should provide the Gross Weight and Volumetric Weight of each Package accurately. These details should be obtained after completion of proper packaging which is in accordance with the shipping requirement.

    Calculation of Gross Weight

    Gross Weight = Weight of the Product + Container + Packing Materials (g)

    The formula for the Volumetric Weight

    Volumetric Weight = Length (cm) x Width (cm) x Height (cm) / 5000

    ** cm = centimetre

  2. The freight charges will be calculated based on the Gross weight or volumetric weight whichever is higher. i.e if the Volumetric weight is higher than the Gross weight, volumetric weight will appear as the weight of the product in the portal.

    E.g.: Gross weight of a package is 50 kg and the dimensions of the product are 65cm x 65cm x 85 cm 

            Volume weight     =      65 x 65 x 85 /  5000     =    71.82 kg

    Since the volume weight (71.82) is higher than the gross weight, the freight will be calculated on 71.82Kg. 

  3. The freight forwarder will monitor the weight of the packages to be shipped and if any difference with the weights provided to the portal and available weight at the point of shipment, will inform the shipper to bear the difference. 

  4. Price should include a 6% transaction commission which consists of commission payable to Bank (5%) and the SLEDB (1%) of each B2C transaction.

  5. The shipper is liable to obtain and bear the cost of necessary documents and other requirements needed such as Quality, product certifications, Insurance etc prior to shipment of purchased products.

Disclaimer of Liability

The material displayed on this website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. Unless expressly stated to the contrary to the fullest extent permitted by law www.srilankabusiness.com and its suppliers, content providers and advertisers hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity and shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including but without limitation to any direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services, arising out of or related to the use, inability to use, performance or failures of this website or the linked sites and any materials posted thereon, irrespective of whether such damages were foreseeable or arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise. This does not affect www.srilankabusiness.com's liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

Linking to this Website

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you. This website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of this website other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Disclaimer as to ownership of trademarks, images of personalities and third party copyright

Except where expressly stated to the contrary all persons (including their names and images), third party trademarks and content, services and/or locations featured on this Website are in no way associated, linked or affiliated with www.srilankabusiness.com and you should not rely on the existence of such a connection or affiliation. Any trademarks/names featured on this website are owned by the respective trademark owners. Where a trademark or brand name is referred to it is used solely to describe or identify the products and services and is in no way an assertion that such products or services are endorsed by or connected to www.srilankabusiness.com.

Indemnity

The parties who use this website shall indemnify the SLEDB against any loss, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses whatsoever arising out of or resulting from any acts or breach or omissions in connection with the services provide herein save and except the acts or omissions or false representation or failure to comply with the terms and conditions stated herein and / or MOU, Agreement, Contract or any document in connection with this transaction signed by the parties by using this services.

Variation

www.srilankabusiness.com shall have the right in its absolute discretion at any time and without notice to amend, remove or vary the Services and/or any page of this website.

Invalidity

If any part of the Terms of Service is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms of Service will not be affected all other clauses remaining in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause/sub-clause or part of a clause/sub-clause can be severed to render the remaining part valid, the clause shall be interpreted accordingly. Alternatively, you agree that the clause shall be rectified and interpreted in such a way that closely resembles the original meaning of the clause /sub-clause as is permitted by law.

Complaints

We operate a complaint handling procedure which we will use to try to resolve disputes when they first arise. Please let us know if you have any complaints or comments.

Waiver

If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.

Entire Agreement

The above Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersede any and all preceding and contemporaneous agreements between you and www.srilankabusiness.com. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only if in writing and signed by a director of www.srilankabusiness.com.