1 - General
1.1 - Present Regulations describe Terms and Conditions applicable to our services on WWW.BIDSHELLS.COM. The services are provided by the company DEEP'N REEF SHELLS, LDA, located in URBANIZAÇÃO DA QUINTA VELHA, LOTE 2 - LAJES DA FREIRIA - 2590-275 SOBRAL DE MONTE AGRAÇO , PORTUGAL, Vat Number 507 472 578, contact email: contact@bidshells.com.
1.2 - From this point on, DEEP'N REEF SHELLS, LDA. will be referred as "BIDSHELLS".
1.3 - BIDSHELLS has the right to modify at any time the contents of these Regulations.
1.4 - BIDSHELLS is a public website where shells collectors and dealers can buy shells using the auction method. When you subscribe, you have to give your generalities according to the instructions in the 'subscribe form'. BIDSHELLS will have the undisputable right to admit or not any User to its services.
1.5 - For instructions how to place bids are described in the 'Help' section.
2 - Procedures for registration
2.1 - During the registration process you will be asked to agree to present Terms and conditions.
2.2 - BIDSHELLS services are forbidden to persons under 18 years old. Moreover, our services cannot be used by Users that are temporarily or definitively banned.
If you are registered on behalf of a Company, you must have the authorithy to accept present Regulations.
2.3 - All BIDSHELLS Users must respect National and International Laws.
3 - Your personal data
3.1 - Your personal data are all the informations you give to BIDSHELLS when you register.
3.2 - After registration, you can control and modify your data in the User Page.
3.3 - Prohibitions.
Your personal data and your activities on BIDSHELLS must not:
a) be false, wrong or misleading;
b) violate people's privacy and protection rights, for what the treatment of personal data is concerned;
c) violate Laws or Regulations.
d) contain viruses or other software that damage, interfere, intercept or steal operating systems, personal data and informations;
e) cause any kind of damage to BIDSHELLS and its Users;
f) cause the stop, either temporarily or totally, of the service provided.
3.4 - It is forbidden:
a) To send spam emails to email addresses of BIDSHELLS.
b) To transfer or sell your login to other persons.
c) The use of your login by other persons, even if they have been delegated by you.
4 - Purchase offer
4.1 - Your offer, according to these Regulations and to the Laws in force, is a mandatory commitment, which means that it is a contract. Bid only if you want to buy and remember that, if you win the object, you have to respect the contract. When you bid on an object, you automatically accept the selling conditions reported in the item description. Bids cannot be retracted, other that in exceptional circumstances that will be indisputably evaluated, case by case, by BIDSHELLS and only after a quick communication to the Customer Service: contact@bidshells.com. For example, they are exceptional circumstances a bid for a wrong amount, or a wrong name of the species.
4.2 - Fraud.
In addition to the applications of Law enforcements, BIDSHELLS has the right to suspend or delete your account if it is clear that you have undertaken fraudulent activities by using our website.
4.3 - Increasing by trick a maximum bid.
In addition to the Law penalties, it is a violation of present Regulations to increase by trick the price of an item for sale or interfere with the insertions.
5 - Payment instructions.
5.1 - PayPal: it's a safe and convenient way to pay BIDSHELLS purchases. If you choose this payment option you will have to pay the PayPal fees, by adding 5% on the sum you have to pay.
Our paypal email is: geral@deepnreef.com
5.2 - Bank Transfer: You can pay using bank transfer directly from your Bank or on the web. If you choose this option, please be aware that no cashing commissions will be charged on BIDSHELLS, that they must be all paid by you. To have the data for the Bank Transfer please contact us.
6 - Role.
6.1 - BIDSHELLS cannot guarantee the continuous access to the website and its services, that can be influenced by events that are not under our control.
6.2 - In the case that a clause of these Regulations will result null or ineffective, this will not affect the whole Regulations.
6.3 - If you violate present contract, and BIDSHELLS doesn't legally act against you, it doesn't mean that Shellauction.net will definitively renounce to legally act against you or against third persons.
6.4 - By accepting these Regulations, you commit yourself not to use any software or any other automatic mechanisms to copy or enter in our web pages, without our written permission. You commit yourself not to use any mechanism, software, procedure that could interfere with the correct functioning of our web site. You also commit yourself that you will not perform any action that could cause an unmotivated congestion of our technological infrastructures and of our system.
6.5 - Finally, you commit yourself not to copy, reproduce, alter, modify or spread the contents of our website (with the exception of your personal data) without our written permission.
7 - Suspension or exclusion
7.1 - Apart from the ordinary actions contemplated by Law for not respecting the obeys of these Regulations, BIDSHELLS keeps the right to advise, suspend pro-temporally or definitively, by interrupting its services because of:
(a) Violations of present Regulations;
(b) If BIDSHELLS cannot verify the authenticity of the informations you gave when you registered or during your use of our service;
(c) You act in a way that can cause important economic losses or that can cause legal liabilities to BIDSHELLS or to other Users. If you're either temporally or definitely banned, you will not be allowed to register again.
8 - Limitations of liability
8.1 - According to Law prescriptions and with the exception of customers' rights, BIDSHELLS is not liable for economic losses, indirect or direct damage, also of the image, that could be experienced by users or third persons because of the use of our web site and/or our services.
8.2 - Accepting the present Regulations, you commit yourself to keep BIDSHELLS, its employees, administrators, consultants untouched by any claim or reimbursement request by thirds, that could derive from the violation of the rules contained in the present Regulations, of the Law obligations or thirds' rights.
9 - Communications
9.1 - Communications to BIDSHELLS. Other than when differently stated, all communications must be done using one of the followings emails addresses:
- contact@bidshells.com
9.2 - For mail communications:
Deep'n Reef Shells, Lda.
Urbanização da Quinta Velha, lote 2 - Lajes da Freiria
2590-275 Sobral de Monta Agraço
PORTUGAL
9.3 - Communications from BIDSHELLS:
BIDSHELLS will sent communications to the email address you gave during the registration process. Alternatively, could send you a registered mail to the address you gave during the registration process.
9.4 - Whole Regulations. Present Regulations, web pages and Shellauction.net rules here presented, are the whole agreement you make with BIDSHELLS.