YUPANGCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

TERMS & CONDITIONS – USE OF THE WEBSITE

THE WEBSITE

1.1. This page, together with the other documents referred to on it, tells you the terms and conditions (the “Terms”) on which you may make use of our website:  www.yec.ph/www.yec.com.ph (the “Website” or “Site”) whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these Terms carefully before ordering any Products from the Site. By using the Website, you indicate that you accept these Terms and that you agree to abide by them.

1.2. YEC, is operated by YUPANGCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION (“We” or “Company”), a Company registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with official address 339 Gil J Puyat Avenue, Makati City 1200 Philippines.

1.3.  We can be reached via e-mail yupangcoelectronics@yupangco.com and through phone at +63 (02) 8899-9757/ 8899-9759.

1.4. We reserve the right to change these Terms at any time without notice to you by posting changes online. You are responsible for regularly reviewing information posted online to obtain timely notice of such changes. Your continued use of the Website after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the amended Terms.

1.5 In order for you to use the site, you must be a least 18 years of age and possess a valid credit or debit card issued by a bank acceptable to us.

1.6 You are responsible for all access to the Website through your Internet connection and for bringing these Terms to the attention of all such persons.

1.7. You shall not in any way use the Website or submit to us or to the Website or to any user of the Website anything which in any respect:

a. is in breach of any law, statute, regulation or by-law of any applicable jurisdiction;

b. is fraudulent, criminal or unlawful;

c. is inaccurate or out-of-date;

d. may be obscene, indecent, pornographic, vulgar, profane, racist, sexist, discriminatory, offensive, derogatory, harmful, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, malicious, abusive, hateful, menacing, defamatory, untrue or political;

e. impersonates any other person or body or misrepresents a relationship with any person or body;

f. may infringe or breach the copyright or any intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, trade mark rights and broadcasting rights) or privacy or other rights of us or any third party;

g. may be contrary to our interests;

h. is contrary to any specific rule or requirement that we stipulate on the Website in relation to a particular part of the Website or the Website generally; or

i. involves your use, delivery or transmission of any viruses, unsolicited emails, trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, easter eggs, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.

1.8. You hereby grant to us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, assignable, sub-licensable license to use any material which you submit to us or the Website for the purpose of use on the Website or for generally marketing (by any means and in any media) our services. You agree that you waive your moral rights to be identified as the author and we may modify your submission.

1.9. Commentary and other materials posted on the Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to the Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

1.10. You agree to comply at all times with any instructions for use of the Website which we make from time to time.

2. REGISTRATION FOR THE SERVICE

2.1 If you would like to submit an order to the Website to purchase one of the products listed on the Website, you will need to register for an account on the Website (an “Account”) which you will be able to access on the Website through the “LOG IN” part of the Website. To register, you need to supply us with your name, address, postal code and email address and possibly some other personal information. See our Privacy Policy for more details about this.

2.2. Once you registered with the Website, you will be asked to allocate a password to your Account. You must keep the password confidential and immediately notify us if any unauthorized third party becomes aware of that password or if there is any unauthorized use of your email address or your Account or any breach of security known to you. You agree that any person to whom your user name or password is disclosed is authorized to act as your agent for the purposes of using (and/or transacting via) your Account. Please note that you are entirely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your password.

2.3. You must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly, so that, among other things, administration emails can be sent to you. Any Accounts which have been registered with someone else’s email address or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require you to validate Accounts at registration or if we believe you have been using an invalid email address.

2.4. When you register for an Account, and whenever you log on to your Account thereafter, you have the option to sign up to receive, and to opt out of receiving, information emails (such as newsletters, information on offers etc). You are able to unsubscribe from such information emails at any time by logging in to your Account.

2.5. Although we save the information relating to any order that you submit to the Website to purchase one of the products listed on the Website, you will be unable to directly retrieve this information for security reasons. You may access this information by logging in to your Account. You will be able to view information relating to your completed, open or recently dispatched orders and manage and save your address information, any bank details and any newsletter to which you may have subscribed.

3. ORDERING AND PAYMENT

3.1. Before making an Order, you must first register in accordance to Clause 2.

3.2. We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you are accurate.

3.3. Once you selected a Product that you wish to Order, you will then be shown or told (on the Site) the charges you must pay including Value Added Tax (VAT), and any applicable delivery charges. Unless otherwise stipulated on the Site, all charges are stated in Philippine Pesos.

3.4. You shall pay for the Product in full at the time of ordering by supplying us with your credit or debit card details from a credit or debit card company acceptable to us which we require in order to process your Order. Alternatively, you may pay by any method that we have said is acceptable to us, but in any event, we shall not be bound to supply before we have received cleared funds in full. Your credit card payments will be received and processed by our Payment Service Provider. Depending on the results of a credit check, we reserve the right not to offer certain forms of payment and to refer you to our other forms of payment.

3.5. If you are asked for details of a payment card, you must be fully entitled to use that card or account. The card or account must have sufficient funds to cover the proposed payment to us.

3.6. You undertake that all details you provide to us for the purpose of purchasing the Product from us will be correct, that the credit or debit card, or account or other payment method which you use is your own and that there are sufficient funds or credit facilities to cover the cost of the Product. We reserve the right to obtain validation of your payment details before providing you with the Product. 

 

3.7. We shall not be obliged to supply the Product to you until we have accepted your Order. Unless expressly stating that we accept your order, an email, letter, fax or other Acknowledgement of your Order by us is purely for information purposes and does not constitute the Confirmation of Order. Acceptance shall take place when we expressly accept your Order by email to you, in the form of a document called a “Confirmation of Order” stating that we are accepting your Order. In that Acknowledgement, we may give you an Order reference number and details of the Product you have ordered. We may in our discretion refuse to accept an Order from you for any reason, including unavailability of supplies or we may offer you an alternative Product (in which case we may require you to re-submit your Order first).

3.8. If you discover that you have made a mistake with your Order after you have submitted it to the Site, please contact Customer Service at yupangcoelectronics@yupangco.com immediately. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to amend your Order in accordance with your instructions.

3.9. We try very hard to ensure that the price given to you is accurate, but the price of your Order will need to be validated by us as part of our acceptance procedure. If the price for the Order changes before we accept your Order, we will contact you and ask you to confirm that you wish to proceed at the amended price.

3.10. We undertake to deliver only those Products whose dispatch we have confirmed in the Confirmation of Order. We will not be obliged to supply any other Products which may have been part of your Order until we have sent a Confirmation of Order in relation to those Products.

4. PROMOTIONAL VOUCHERS, GIFT VOUCHERS, STORE CREDIT

4.1. Promotional vouchers, in the forms of codes, may be issued by us from time to time during certain promotions. Gift vouchers work like gift certificates which may be purchased from the Website.

4.2. We may email gift and promotional vouchers to you. Subject to clause 2.2, we accept no liability for errors in the email address of the voucher recipient.

4.3. We assume no liability for the loss, theft or ineligibility of gift or promotional vouchers.

4.4. In the event of fraud, an attempt at deception or in the event of the suspicion of other illegal activities in connection with a voucher purchase or redemption of that voucher on the Site, we are entitled to close your Account and/or require a different means of payment.

4.5. Conditions for the redemption of promotional vouchers

4.6. Promotional vouchers are valid for the specified period stated on them only, can only be redeemed once and cannot be used in conjunction with other promotional vouchers. Individual brands may be excluded from certain voucher promotions;

4.7. If you place an Order for a Product less than the value of the promotional voucher, no refund or residual credit will be returned to you;

4.8. The credit of a promotional voucher does not accrue interest nor does it have a cash value;

4.9. If the credit from your voucher is insufficient for the Order you wish to make, you may make up the difference through payment.

5. DELIVERY &/OR PICK-UP

5.1. We, upon our discretion, may deliver the items ordered/purchased to a location within general METRO MANILA specified by the customer for FREE on a given schedule.  More so, deliveries outside Metro Manila are subject to additional charges based on local courier rates.  Final cost of delivery charges will be made known to the customer either via e-mail or telephone call, subject to customer’s approval prior to release.  Delivery of unit is five (5) to seven (7) business days within general Metro Manila and seven (7) to ten (10) days if outside Metro Manila depending on the location and the courier provider.  Customer shall be notified in advance via email or telephone call regarding delivery schedule of the goods purchased.

5.2. Customer may pick-up his/her orders/purchases at our Main Showroom at 339 Gil J. Puyat Avenue, Makati City, c/o e-Marketing Group. If goods are not available upon purchase and pick due to unpredictable situation, we will notify client in advance to re-schedule pick-up or will arrange and schedule delivery free of charge within Metro Manila.

5.3. Items may only be picked up at Main Office Showroom if and only if there is a confirmation from us which indicates pick up schedule. Otherwise, all orders are considered for delivery subject to the payment of applicable delivery fees.

5.4. All orders/purchases will be processed and released only after it has been approved and fully paid by the customer.  Corresponding Official Receipt &/or Sales Invoice will be issued accordingly upon delivery/release and receipt of goods.

6. RETURN, EXCHANGE & REFUND POLICY

6.1. All products sold by Yupangco Electronics Corporation are covered by an exchange, return, or refund policy only if it falls on any of the following reasons:

a. Change / Upgrade of item due to change of mind i.e. color variation and feature (upgrade of unit)

b. Factory/ Manufacturer defects

c. Defective Unit

6.2. For change of item due to change of mind, the product is eligible for exchange within 7 days of purchase under the following terms:

a. The product is in good working condition; and

b. The product must be in its original box and packaging, and

c. The replacement product shall be of equal or higher value than the original product. In the case that the replacement item is valued lower than the original cost of purchase, additional items may be added to meet the price value of the original item.

d. Applicable freight charges shall be under the account of the customer

6.3. For change of item &/or return of product due to manufacturer/ factory defect, the product is eligible for exchange within 7 days of purchase. The product should be returned to us in its original box and packaging.

6.4. Only products diagnosed with intermittent defects/ defective units shall be eligible for refund.

a. Defective units must be serviced/ repaired. After the repair and you still find the unit defective, the same will again be serviced/ repaired.

b. After the second repair and the unit is still defective (whether same or new defect), unit must be replaced with another unit. If the replacement unit is found to be defective, clause 6.4.a will be applied. After which, if you still insists and after a thorough investigation it turned out that the replacement unit is beyond repair, the unit must again be replaced (for the second time.)

c. Only after exhausting clause 6.4.a. and 6.4.b., and if you still insists in refunding your payment will a request for payment refund be accommodated

6.5. Items with defects due to force majeure and misuse or mishandling beyond the manufacturer’s usage recommendation under normal operations and conditions shall be declined for returns, exchanges or refunds.

6.6. All servicing and testing of products shall be coursed thru our Service Centers. All applicable freight charges from and to shall be under the account of customer.

6.7. Warranty.

a. All electronic products are covered with one (1) year warranty on parts and labor excluding accessory items and freebies.

6.8. Failure of us to deliver the product to you will we only refund whatever amount received by us.

7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

7.1. This clause 5 prevails over all other clauses and sets forth our entire Liability, and your sole and exclusive remedies.

a. To the extent permitted by law, our total liability to you or any third party shall in no circumstances exceed, in aggregate, a sum equal to the greater of: i) PHP500; or ii) 110% of any aggregate amount paid by you to us in the 12 months preceding any cause of action arising

b. We shall not have any liability (whether in contract, tort, negligence, misrepresentation, restitution or under any legal head of liability) in relation to your use or inability to use or delay in use of the Website or any material in it or accessible from it or from any action or decision taken as a result of using the Website or any such material for any: (a) indirect or consequential losses, damages, costs or expenses; (b) loss of actual or anticipated profits; (c) loss of contracts; (d) loss of use of money; (e) loss of anticipated savings; (f) loss of revenue; (g) loss of goodwill; (h) loss of reputation; (i) loss of business; (j) loss of operation time; (k) loss of opportunity; or (l) loss of, damage to or corruption of, data; whether or not such losses were reasonably foreseeable or we had been advised of the possibility of you incurring such losses. For the avoidance of doubt, (b) to (l) apply whether such losses are direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise.

8. FORCE MAJEURE

8.1. We shall not be liable to you for any breach, hindrance or delay in the performance of a Contract attributable to any cause beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation any natural disaster and unavoidable incident, actions of third parties (including without limitation hackers, suppliers, governments, quasi-governmental, supra-national or local authorities), insurrection, riot, civil commotion, war, hostilities, warlike operations, national emergencies, terrorism, piracy, arrests, restraints or detainments of any competent authority, strikes or combinations or lock-out of workmen, epidemic, fire, explosion, storm, flood, drought, weather conditions, earthquake, natural disaster, accident, mechanical breakdown, third party software, failure or problems with public utility supplies (including electrical, telecoms or Internet failure), shortage of or inability to obtain supplies, materials, equipment or transportation (“Event of Force Majeure”), regardless of whether the circumstances in question could have been foreseen.

9. GENERAL

9.1. Contracts for the supply of products formed through the Website or as a result of visits made by you are governed by these Terms.

9.3. No failure or delay by us in exercising any right under these Terms shall operate as a waiver of such right or extend to or affect any other or subsequent event or impair any rights or remedies in respect of it or in any way modify or diminish our rights under these Terms

9.4. If any clause in these Terms shall become or shall be declared by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall in no way affect any other clause or part of any clause, all of which shall remain in full force and effect, so long as these Terms shall be capable of continuing in effect without the unenforceable term.

9.4. Nothing in these Terms shall create or be deemed to create a partnership, an agency or a relationship of employer and employee between you and us.

9.5. No person who is not a party to these Terms shall acquire any rights under it or be entitled to benefit from any of its terms even if that person has relied on any such term or has indicated to any party to these Terms its assent to any such term.

9.6. These Terms (and all non-contractual obligations arising out of or connected to them) shall be governed and construed in accordance with Philippine laws. Both we and you hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Philippines Courts.

9.7. We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time. All amendments to these Terms will be posted on-line. However, continued use of the Site will be deemed to constitute acceptance of the new Terms.

10. AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE, SECURITY AND ACCURACY

10.1. While we endeavor to make the Website available 24 hours a day, we cannot be liable if, for any reason, the Website is unavailable for any time or for any period. We make no warranty that your access to the Website will be uninterrupted, timely or error-free. Due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. In addition, we may occasionally need to carry out repairs, maintenance or introduce new facilities and functions.

10.2. Access to the Website may be suspended or withdrawn to or from you personally or all users temporarily or permanently at any time and without notice. We may also impose restrictions on the length and manner of usage of any part of the Website for any reason. If we impose restrictions on you personally, you must not attempt to use the Website under any other name or user.

10.3. We do not warrant that the Website will be compatible with all hardware and software which you may use. We shall not be liable for damage to, or viruses or other code that may affect, any computer equipment, software, data or other property as a result of your access to or use of the Website or your obtaining any material from, or as a result of using, the Website. We shall also not be liable for the actions of third parties.

10.4. We may change or update the Website and anything described in it without notice to you.

10.5. While we endeavor to ensure that information and materials on the Website are correct, no warranty or representation, express or implied, is given that they are complete, accurate, up-to-date, fit for a particular purpose and, to the extent permitted by law, we do not accept any liability for any errors or omissions. This shall not affect any obligation which we may have under any contract that we may have with you to provide you with services, including any obligation that we may have under that contract to provide you with accurate information and advice, and which we may do through a secure part of the Website available to people who use the appropriate password.

10.6. The material contained on the Website is provided for information purposes only and it shall not give rise to any commitment or obligation by us. Any information on the Website shall not constitute any part of an offer or contract.

11. TRADEMARKS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

11.1. The YUPANGCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION/ YUPANGCO names and logos and all related names, design marks and slogans are the trademarks or service marks of us or our licensors.

11.2. We are the owner of all the materials: illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics published on our Site. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved and may not be used without our expressed approval in writing.

11.3. You must not use any part of the materials on the Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or from our licensors.

12.THIRD PARTY WEBSITE

12.1. We have no control over and accept no responsibility for the content of any site to which a link from the Website exists (unless we are the provider of those linked sites). Such linked sites are provided “as is” for your convenience only with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them. We do not provide any endorsement or recommendation of any third party site to which the Website provides a link.

12.2. You must not, without our permission, frame any of the Website onto your own or another person’s website.

13. PHILIPPINES LAW AND JURISDICTION

13.1. These Terms and your use of the Website (and all non-contractual relationships arising out of or connected to it or them) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Philippines law. You submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Philippines courts to settle any dispute which may arise under these Terms.