Terms Of Use

Last updated February 2020

 

Welcome to the SFHpayments.ch website (the “Website”).

 

SFH Suisse Finance Holding SA (“SFH”) provides the content and services available on the Website to you, subject to the following Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and any other terms and conditions and policies which you may find throughout our Website in connection with certain functionality, features or promotions as well as customer service, all of which are deemed a part of and included within these terms of use (collectively, “Terms of Use”).

 

THE SECTION BELOW TITLED “DISPUTES” CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.  THEY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. PLEASE READ THEM.

 

You must be 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction in order to make a purchase on our Website.  If you are under 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, then you may not make a purchase on our Website. If you are under 18 years old, you may browse our Website. However, you may not provide personal information to us, make a purchase on the Website nor register on the Website.  This Website is not directed to children under 13 years old. By accessing or using the Website, you are acknowledging that you have read, understand, and agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by these Terms of Use.  

 

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE, YOU MAY NOT USE OUR WEBSITE.

 

1. PRIVACY

Please review our Privacy Policy for details about our personal information practices.

 

2. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR PERSONAL USE

The products and services available on the Website, and any samples thereof we may provide to you, are for personal and/or professional use only. You may not sell or resell any of the products or services, or samples thereof, you purchase or otherwise receive from us.  Please note that we will track the purchases you make on our Website. We reserve the right, with or without notice, to cancel or reduce the quantity of any order to be filled or products or services to be provided to you that we believe, in our sole discretion, may result in the violation of our Terms of Use.

 

3. PURCHASE RELATED POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

To view policies and procedures related to orders placed through this Website (such as order processing, delivery, returns and exchanges), please see our Sales Terms section of this Website. 

 

4. ACCURACY OF INFORMATION

We attempt to be as accurate as possible when describing our products and services on the Website; however, we do not warrant that the product or service descriptions, information or other content available on the Website is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. This Website may contain typographical errors or inaccuracies and may not be complete or current. SFH therefore reserves the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions (including after an order has been submitted) and to change or update information at any time without prior notice. Please note that such errors, inaccuracies or omissions may relate to pricing and availability, and we reserve the right to cancel or refuse to accept any order placed based on incorrect pricing or availability information. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All information and content available on the Website and its look and feel, including but not limited to trademarks, logos, service marks, features, functions, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, data compilations and software, and the compilation and organization thereof (collectively, the “Content”) is our property or the property of our parents, subsidiaries, our affiliates, partners or licensors, and is protected by European and international laws, including laws governing copyrights and trademarks. The Content nor any portion of the Website may be used, reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, accessed, modified, or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, for any purpose without our express, prior written consent.

 

6. LIMITED LICENSES

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable and non-exclusive license to access and make personal use of the Website. This limited license does not include the right to: (a) frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose the Website or any portion thereof; (b) republish, redistribute, transmit, sell, license or download the Website or any and/or all Content (except caching or as necessary to view the Website); (c) make any use of the Website or any and/or all Content other than personal use; (d) modify, reverse engineer or create any derivative works based upon either the Website or any and/or all Content; (e) collect account information for the benefit of yourself or another party; (f) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing any and/or all Content; or (g) use software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or take any other action that may impose an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure. You must retain, without modification, all proprietary notices on the Website or affixed to or contained in the Website.

 

We also grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable and nonexclusive license to create a hyperlink to the homepage of the Website for personal, non-commercial use only. A website that links to the Website (i) may link to, but not replicate, any and/or all of our Content; (ii) may not imply that we are endorsing such website or its services or products; (iii) may not misrepresent its relationship with us; (iv) may not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, obscene, offensive controversial or illegal or inappropriate for any ages (as determined in our sole discretion); (v) may not portray us or our products or services, in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive or objectionable manner, or associate us with undesirable products, services, or opinions; and/or (vi) may not link to any page of the Website other than the home page. We may, in our sole discretion, request that you remove any link to the Website, and upon receipt of such request, you shall immediately remove such link and cease any linking unless separately and expressly authorized in writing by us to resume linking. Any unauthorized use by you of the Website or any and/or all of our Content automatically terminates the limited licenses set forth in this SECTION 6 without prejudice to any other remedy provided by applicable law or these Terms of Use.

 

7. YOUR OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In the access or use of the Website, you shall comply with these Terms of Use and the special warnings or instructions for access or use posted on the Website. You shall always act in accordance with the law, custom and in good faith. You may not make any change or alteration to the Website or any Content or Services that may appear on this Website and may not impair in any way the integrity or operation of the Website. Without limiting the generality of any other provision of these Terms of Use, if you default negligently or willfully in any of the obligations set forth in these Terms of Use, you shall be liable for all the losses and damages that this may cause to SFH, our parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or licensors.

 

8. YOUR ACCOUNT

Subject to the age restrictions outlined above, you may view and use many features of the Website without registering, but in order to access and use some parts of the Website, you may need to register an account with us.  You may choose to create an account via our Website if you are over eighteen (18) years of age. Do not register if you are not over eighteen (18) years of age. If you are over eighteen (18) years of age and do register, you will have an email address/username and password for your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account, username and password and for restricting access to your computer. If there has been an unauthorized use of your password or account, please notify us immediately. You are responsible for keeping such information current, complete, accurate and truthful. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur with your permission or authorization under your account, username and/or password, or because you fail to maintain sufficient security over your account, username and/or password.  If you are accessing and using the Website on someone else’s behalf, you represent that you have the authority to bind that person as the principal to all Terms of Use provided herein, and to the extent you do not have such authority you agree to be bound to these Terms of Use and to accept liability for harm caused by any wrongful use of the Website or Content resulting from such access or use. You may cancel your account with us at any time. We reserve the right to refuse service and/or terminate accounts, without prior notice if these Terms of Use are violated or if we decide, in our sole discretion, that it would be in SFH’s best interests to do so.

 

9. THIRD PARTY LINKS

We are not responsible for the content of any off-website pages or any other websites linked to or from the Website. Links appearing on the Website are for convenience only and are not an endorsement by us, our parents, subsidiaries, our affiliates or our partners of the referenced content, product, service, or supplier. Your linking to or from any off-website pages or other websites is at your own risk. We are in not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, off-website pages or any other websites linked to or from the Website, nor do we assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, content, products, or services of such pages and websites, including, without limitation, their privacy policies and terms of use. You should carefully review the terms of use and privacy policies of all off-website pages and other websites that you visit. 

 

10. ASSIGNMENT AND DELEGATION

SFH may, in its sole discretion, transfer or assign all or part of its rights under these Terms of Use, and may novate or transfer all or any portion of its duties and obligations under these Terms of Use. SFH may engage subcontractors or agents in performing its duties and exercising its rights hereunder, without your consent. If you do not agree with any transfer or assignment, then you should discontinue your use of the Services and cancel your account.

 

You may only assign or part with any of your rights under these Terms of Use upon prior written approval by SFH and following a satisfactory credit check of the person or entity you wish to transfer your rights to and completion by them by the SFH sign-up process.

 

11. SPECIAL FEATURES, FUNCTIONALITY AND EVENTS

The Website may offer certain special features and functionality or events (such as contests, sweepstakes or other offerings) which may (a) be subject to terms and conditions, rules and/or policies in addition to or in lieu of these Terms of Use; and (b) be offered by us or by third parties. If so, we will notify you of this and if you choose to take advantage of these offerings, you agree that your use of those offerings will be subject to such additional or separate terms of use, rules and/or policies.

 

12. SUBMISSIONS

It is our policy to decline unsolicited suggestions and ideas. Notwithstanding our policy with regard to unsolicited suggestions and ideas, any inquiries, feedback, suggestions, ideas or other information you provide us (collectively, “Submissions”) will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential. Subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy, by transmitting or posting any Submission, you hereby grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, unrestricted, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, assignable right and license to copy, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, license, distribute, sell or assign the Submission in any way as we see fit, including but not limited to copying in whole or in part, creating derivative works from, distributing and displaying any Submission in any form, media, or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, alone or as part of other works, or using the Submission within or in connection with our products or services. You also acknowledge that your Submission will not be returned and we may use your Submission, and any ideas, concepts or know how contained therein, without payment of money or any other form of consideration, for any purpose including, without limitation, developing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing products and services.

 

If you make a Submission, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control the rights to your Submission. You further represent and warrant that such Submission does not constitute or contain software viruses, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead us as to the origin of any Submission. You agree to indemnify us for all claims arising from or in connection with any claims to any rights in any Submission or any damages arising from any Submission.

 

13. USER CONTENT

When you transmit, upload, post, share, distribute, reproduce, email or otherwise make available data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, images, videos, messages or other materials (“User Content”) on the Website in any manner (including, but not limited to, through a “Contact Us” form), you are entirely responsible for such User Content. Such User Content constitutes a Submission as per section 12 above. This means that all third parties, and not we, are entirely responsible for all User Content that they post to the Website. You agree not to engage in or assist or encourage others to engage in transmitting, uploading, posting, emailing or otherwise making available on the Website User Content that (a) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (b) you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; (c) is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading; (d) you were compensated for or granted any consideration by any third party; or (e) infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party. In addition, you agree not to transmit, upload, post, email, or otherwise make available any software viruses, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitation or promotional material, including chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.” You further agree not to (i) impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, including without limitation, a SFH representative, programmer, designer, artist, forum leader, guide or host; (ii) “stalk” or otherwise harass including advocating harassment of another, entrap or harm any third party including harming minors in any way; (iii) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content; (iv) intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law; or (v) collect or store personally identifiable data about other users.

 

We do not endorse or control the User Content transmitted or posted on the Website and therefore, we do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of User Content. You understand that by using the Website, you may be exposed to User Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable to you. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any User Content, including, without limitation, for any errors or omissions in any User Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred by you as a result of the use of any User Content transmitted, uploaded, posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Website. You hereby waive all rights to any claims against us for any alleged or actual infringements of any proprietary rights, rights of privacy and publicity, moral rights, and rights of attribution in connection with the User Content.

 

You acknowledge that we have the right (but not the obligation) in our sole discretion to refuse to post or remove any User Content and we reserve the right to change, condense, or delete any User Content. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing or any other provision of these Terms of Use, we have the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms of Use or is otherwise objectionable and we reserve the right to refuse service and/or terminate accounts without prior notice for any users who violate these Terms of Use or infringe the rights of others.

 

14. DELETION OF USER CONTENT

If you wish to delete certain parts of your public User Content, such as your ratings and reviews posting(s), on the Website or in connection with our mobile applications, please contact us by email at support@SFHpayments.ch and include the following information in your deletion request: first name, last name, user name/screen name (if applicable), email address associated with our website and/or mobile applications, your reason for deleting the posting, and date(s) of posting(s) you wish to delete (if you have it).  We may not be able to process your deletion request if you are unable to provide such information to us. Please allow up to 10 business days to process your deletion request.

 

15. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT NOTICES

We respect the intellectual property of others and require that users of the Website do the same. We also maintain a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the website’s use privileges of users who are repeat infringers of intellectual property rights. Consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you believe that copyrighted materials have been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send an email or written notice to us and provide the following:

  • • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest that you claim is infringed;
  • • Identification of the copyrighted work(s) that you claim has been infringed;
  • • A description of the material that you claim is infringing and the location of that material on the Website;
  • • Your address, telephone number and email address;
  • • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  • • 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.

 

YOU CAN CONTACT US FOR NOTIFICATIONS OF CLAIMED INFRINGEMENT AT: 

SFH Suisse Finance Holding SA
Via Canova 9
6900 Lugano, Switzerland
Phone: +41 91 922 70 91
Email: support@SFHpayments.ch

 

16. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE WEBSITE AND ITS CONTENT AND SERVICES ARE PRESENTED “AS IS.” NEITHER WE NOR OUR PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, OR LICENSORS MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THESE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE OR THE WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENTS OR SERVICES. YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER WE NOR OUR PARENT COMPANIES, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, OR LICENSORS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY OR IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) FOR ANY (a) INTERRUPTION OF BUSINESS; (b) ACCESS DELAYS OR ACCESS INTERRUPTIONS TO THE WEBSITE; (c) DATA NON-DELIVERY, MISDELIVERY, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION OR OTHER MODIFICATION; (d) LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY SORT INCURRED AS A RESULT OF DEALINGS WITH OR THE PRESENCE OF OFF-WEBSITE LINKS ON THE WEBSITE; (e) COMPUTER VIRUSES, SYSTEM FAILURES OR MALFUNCTIONS WHICH MAY OCCUR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING DURING HYPERLINK TO OR FROM THIRD PARTY WEBSITES (f) ANY INACCURACIES OR OMISSIONS IN CONTENT OR (g) EVENTS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL. FURTHER, NEITHER WE NOR OUR PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, OR LICENSORS WILL BE LIABLE IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, OR IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) RELATED TO THE WEBSITE OR YOUR USE THEREOF, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND IN NO EVENT SHALL OUR MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR SUCH CLAIMS EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). YOU AGREE THAT NO CLAIMS OR ACTION IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, OR IN TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO, THE USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THESE TERMS OF USE MAY BE BROUGHT BY YOU MORE THAN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION RELATING TO SUCH CLAIM OR ACTION AROSE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE WEBSITE, TERMINATION OF YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS YOUR SOLE REMEDY.  WE HAVE NO OTHER OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, OR RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU.

 

17. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless for any loss, damages or costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any third party claim, action, or demand arising from (i) your use of the Website or the Website Content in violation of any law, rule, regulation or these Terms of Use, or (ii) any part of your User Content. You also agree to indemnify us for any loss, damages, or costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers, or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.

 

18. DISPUTES

With respect to any dispute, claim, or controversy regarding the Website, all rights and obligations and all actions contemplated by these Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of SWITZERLAND, as if the Terms of Use were a contract wholly entered into and wholly performed within SWITZERLAND. ANY DISPUTE RELATING IN ANY WAY TO YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, THESE WEBSITE TERMS OF USE, OR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PARTIES (OTHER THAN CLAIMS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF SFH OR OUR PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS OR LICENSORS OR CLAIMS IN EQUITY) SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO CONFIDENTIAL ARBITRATION IN SWITZERLAND AND YOU AGREE TO SUBMIT YOURSELF TO THE JURISDICTION AND PROCEEDINGS THEREOF.  ARBITRATION MEANS THAT AN ARBITRATOR(S) WILL DECIDE THE CLAIM, AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT OR TO HAVE A JUDGE OR JURY DECIDE YOUR CLAIM. YOUR RIGHTS TO PREHEARING EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND APPEALS MAY ALSO BE LIMITED IN ARBITRATION. It is further agreed that any dispute over the scope of this arbitration provision and any dispute as to whether a claim is arbitral shall be submitted to the arbitrator for decision. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of our affiliates, partners or licensors or otherwise have a cause of action in equity, we may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any court of competent jurisdiction and you consent to jurisdiction and venue in any such court for such purposes. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the Rules then prevailing with the Arbitrator. The arbitrator’s award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. You agree that any arbitration or proceeding shall be limited to the dispute between us and you individually, and (i) no arbitration or proceeding shall be joined with any other; (ii) there is no right or authority for any dispute to be arbitrated or resolved on a class action-basis or to utilize class action procedures; and (iii) there is no right or authority for any dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons. YOU AGREE THAT YOU MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST US ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

 

19. CONSENT TO RECEIVE NOTICES ELECTRONICALLY BY POSTING ON THE WEBSITE AND VIA EMAIL

You consent to receive any agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications (collectively, “Notices”) to which these Terms of Use refer from us electronically including without limitation by email or by posting notices on this Website. You agree that all Notices that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. To withdraw your consent to receive Notices electronically, you must notify us of your withdrawal of such consent by emailing us at support@SFHpayments.ch and discontinue your use of this Website. In such an event, all rights granted to you pursuant to these Terms of Use, including but not limited to the limited licenses set forth in SECTION 6 hereof, shall automatically terminate. Unfortunately, we cannot provide the benefits of this Website to any user that cannot consent to receipt of Notices electronically. Please note that this consent to receive Notices is entirely separate from any election you may make with respect to receipt of marketing communications. Your options with respect to receipt of marketing communications are set forth in our Privacy Policy.

 

20. GENERAL

You acknowledge and agree that these Terms of Use constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between us concerning your use of the Website, and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements, or other communications. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change these Terms of Use at any time by posting the changes on the Website and providing notice of such change. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the Website and release of notice of such change. Your continued use of the Website thereafter constitutes your agreement to all such changed Terms of Use. We may, with or without prior notice, terminate any of the rights granted by these Terms of Use. You shall comply immediately with any termination or other notice, including, as applicable, by ceasing all use of the Website. Nothing contained in these Terms of Use shall be construed as creating any agency, partnership, or other form of joint enterprise between us. Our failure to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter, nor shall our waiver of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself. In the event that any provision of these Terms of Use shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law or be so held by any applicable arbitral award or court decision, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render these Terms of Use unenforceable or invalid as a whole but these Terms of Use shall be modified, to the extent possible, by the adjudicating entity to most fully reflect the original intent of the parties as reflected in the original provision. The headings in the Terms of Use are for convenience only and shall not be used in its interpretation.

 

If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Use, please email us at support@SFHpayments.ch.