Terms and conditions

OVERVIEW

This website (“site”) is owned and operated by Artisan Ceylon. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us”, “our” or “Artisan Ceylon” refer to Artisan Ceylon. Artisan Ceylon offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here.

By visiting our site and/ or purchasing something from us, you engage in our “Service” and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Service”, “Terms”), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply to all users of the site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, customers, merchants, and/ or contributors of content.

Please read these Terms of Service carefully before accessing or using our website. By accessing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. If these Terms of Service are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms of Service.

Any new features or tools which are added to the current store shall also be subject to the Terms of Service. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and/or changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.

PRIVACY

Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of Artisan Ceylon Services, to understand our practices.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

When you use this Site, or send emails to Us, you are communicating with Us electronically. You consent to receive communications from Us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on this Site or through our other services. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communication that We provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirements that such communications be in writing.

TRADEMARKS & COPYRIGHTS

All content included in or made available through Artisan Ceylon, such as graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are registered or unregistered trademarks or trade names of Artisan Ceylon, its affiliates or its Partners in Sri Lanka and/or other countries. The “Artisan Ceylon” and the “Artisan Ceylon” trademarks and/or trade names may only be associated with its products and services and may not be used in connection with any other products and/ or services, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Artisan Ceylon or Artisan Ceylon. All other trademarks not owned by Artisan Ceylon or its Partners or its vendors that appear on this Site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Artisan Ceylon its vendors or its Partners. All content included on this Site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the exclusive property of Artisan Ceylon, its Partners or its vendors and such content is protected under the Intellectual Property Act of Sri Lanka No 36 of 2003.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS

By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you confirm that you can form legally binding contracts and therefore you confirm that you are at least 18 years of age or are accessing the Site under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Subject to your compliance with these Conditions of Use and your payment of any applicable fees, Artisan Ceylon or its content providers grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable license to access and make personal and non-commercial use of Artisan Ceylon services. You may print and download (page caching) or portions of material from the different areas of the Service solely for your own non-commercial use. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any Artisan Ceylon Service, or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any Artisan Ceylon Service or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Conditions of Use are reserved and retained by Artisan Ceylon, or its licensors, suppliers, publishers, rights holders, or other content providers. No Artisan Ceylon Service, nor any part of any Artisan Ceylon Service, may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Artisan Ceylon. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Artisan Ceylon without express written consent. You may not use any Meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing Artisan Ceylon’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of Artisan Ceylon. You may not misuse the Artisan Ceylon Services. You may use the Artisan Ceylon Services only as permitted by law. The licenses granted by Artisan Ceylon terminate if you do not comply with these Terms and Conditions of Use.

YOUR ACCOUNT

To access certain services offered by the platform, we may require that you create an account with us or provide personal information to complete the creation of an account. We may at any time in our sole and absolute discretion, invalidate the username and/or password without giving any reason or prior notice and shall not be liable or responsible for any losses suffered by, caused by, arising out of, in connection with or by reason of such request or invalidation.

You are solely responsible for protecting the security and confidentiality of the password and identification assigned to you. You shall immediately notify Us of any unauthorized use of your password or identification or any other breach or threatened breach of this Site’s security. Each time you use a password or identification, you will be deemed to be authorized to access and use the Site in a manner consistent with these Terms, and We have no obligation to investigate the authorization or source of any such access or use of this Site. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL ACCESS TO AND USE OF THIS SITE BY ANYONE USING THE PASSWORD AND IDENTIFICATION ORIGINALLY SELECTED BY, OR ASSIGNED TO, YOU WHETHER OR NOT SUCH ACCESS TO AND USE OF THIS SITE IS ACTUALLY AUTHORIZED BY YOU, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSMISSIONS AND ALL OBLIGATIONS (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS) INCURRED THROUGH SUCH ACCESS OR USE.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

Artisan Ceylon together with its Partners attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, Artisan Ceylon does not warrant that the product descriptions provided by the Vendors or other content of this Site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered through the Site itself is not described, and you are not satisfied with the purchase, your sole remedy is to return it in its unused condition to the Vendor concerned. It would be the Vendor’s responsibility to ensure merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose of the products and services they offer through the Site.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT

Visitors may post reviews, comments, photos, and other content and communications, and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address; impersonate any person or entity, or other content. Artisan Ceylon reserves the right (but is not obligated) to remove or edit such content but does not regularly review posted content. If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Artisan Ceylon a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Artisan Ceylon and sub licensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Artisan Ceylon for all claims resulting from content you supply. Artisan Ceylon has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Artisan Ceylon takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS

Artisan Ceylon respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please report in the manner prescribed below.

RISK OF LOSS

All items purchased from Artisan Ceylon are made pursuant to a delivery contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

PRICING

The list price displayed for products on our website may or may not represent the full retail price listed on the product itself, suggested by the manufacturer or supplier, or estimated in accordance with standard industry practice; or the estimated retail value for a comparably featured item offered elsewhere. The list price may or may not represent the prevailing price in every area on any particular day. Where an item is offered for sale by one of our Vendors, the list price may be decided by Artisan Ceylon and the Vendors at their discretion. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be incorrectly priced. If an item’s actual price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, contact you for further instructions, before delivery or cancellation of your order and notify you of such cancellation. Please note that this policy applies only to products sold and delivered through the Site. With regard to your purchases from third-party sellers using the Site the third-party sellers may follow different policies in the event of an incorrectly priced item. Unless otherwise specified all prices shall be listed in Sri Lankan Rupees (LKR).

CONVENIENCE FEE

Convenience Fee is applicable for orders having the total value of LKR 5,000.00 and above for selected payment methods. It can vary for each payment method and will be displayed during checkout.

RETURN, REFUND, CANCELLATION POLICIES

There shall not be any refunds/returns affected via the Site. Products and Services that require refunds/returns are to be directly negotiated with Artisan Ceylon. In any case of refunds requested by the customer due to his/her own mistake/fault, a processing fee of 3% will be charged during the refund process. Furthermore, unless mentioned otherwise, shipping fee will not be refunded in case the customer wants to pick up an order that was initially paid for delivery.

PRE-ORDERS

Pre-Orders must be paid in full and will be available from the date mentioned on the relevant product page. Refunds before the available date will be charged 3% as processing fee.

OTHER BUSINESSES

Parties other than Artisan Ceylon, their Partners and Vendors may operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines on this Site. In addition, we provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their Web sites. Artisan Ceylon does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

This Site and all information, content, materials, products (including software) and services included on or otherwise made available to you through this Site are provided by Artisan Ceylon or its Partners on an “as is” and “as available” basis, unless otherwise specified in writing. Artisan Ceylon and its Partners make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of this Site or the information, content, materials, products (including software) or services included on or otherwise made available to you through this Site, unless otherwise specified in writing. You expressly agree that your use of this Site is at your sole risk. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Artisan Ceylon and its Partners disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Artisan Ceylon and its Partners do not warrant that this Site; information, content, materials, products (including software) or services included on or otherwise made available to you through this Site; their servers; or e-mail sent from the Site are free of viruses, or other harmful components. Artisan Ceylon and its Partners will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this Site or from any information, content, materials, products (including software) or services included on or otherwise made available to you through this Site, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages, unless otherwise specified in writing.

APPLICABLE LAW

The Site and the Terms and Conditions herein contained shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Sri Lanka. By accessing the Site, you agree that the laws of Sri Lanka will govern all matters relating to the Site without giving effect to any principles of conflict of laws.

DISPUTES

You agree that any legal action, dispute or proceeding between Artisan Ceylon and you for any purpose concerning the Terms and Conditions or in relation to your visit to the Site or the products you purchase through the Site or the parties’ obligation hereunder shall be governed by the Arbitration Act No 11 of 1995 in Sri Lanka. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the Services must be commenced within one (01) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.

SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY

Please review all other policies, such as our privacy policy posted on this Site. These policies also govern your visit to the Site. We reserve the right to make changes to our Site, policies, and to the Terms and Conditions at any time. If any of these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

CONFLICT OF TERMS

If there is a conflict or contradiction between the terms and conditions in Artisan Ceylon and any other relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices, the other relevant terms and conditions, policies or notices which relate specifically to a particular section or module in Artisan Ceylon shall prevail in respect of your use of the relevant section or module of the website.

OUR ADDRESS

You can contact us at the following address for any further queries or any difficulty you may have with the Site.

Artisan Ceylon

#1 First Floor, Deanstone Place

Colombo 3

Sri Lanka

Web: www.artisanceylon.com

Email: [email protected] 

Contact Numbers: +94 70 3155 222

NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Artisan Ceylon’s copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying Artisan Ceylon that your copyrighted material has been infringed.

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon;

A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;

A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Artisan Ceylon’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its Site can be reached as follows:

Email: [email protected]  

Contact Number: +94 70 3155 222