Terms and Conditions of the ALEO.com platform

Auction
may have a form of a Purchase Auction or a Sales Auction.

Purchase Auction
online negotiations during which suppliers during Auction in progress, lower their price Offers to place the most attractive bid and conclude the purchase transaction. For the Auction to take place, at least two suppliers must take part.

Sales Auction
online negotiations during which suppliers during Auction in progress, raise their price Offers to place the most attractive bid and conclude the sales transaction.

Bank
ING Bank Śląski S. A., with its seat in Katowice at ul. Sokolska 34, 40-086 Katowice, entered into the register of the National Court Register kept by the District Court in Katowice, VII Commercial Division of the National Court Register, under the number KRS 0000005459, REGON: 271514909, NIP: 6340135475.

Electronic Banking ING
an e-banking system allowing electronic access to a bank account, transactions and other functionalities maintained by some of the entities from ING Group.

Price List
Attachment no. 1 to the Terms and Conditions, indicating what Services are included in particular Packages and the amount of remuneration due to the Operator in relation to providing thereof.

Offer Form
A form available via the Account, used by the User to create Offers.

Working Day
means the day on which the Bank performs operattions within Supplier Financing, and in the case when the Currency of the Program is other than PLN in relation to the LIBOR or EURIBOR currency rate, which as well is the day on which banks with their registered offices in the main domestic market of a given currency are open for business.

Supplier Financing
a financing program offered by the Bank via the Platform, allowing the Supplier to receive payment for the indicated receivables before their due date, as well as the Recipient to finance the indicated receivables after their due date.

ING Group
entities related to the Operator or ING Bank Śląski S.A. or their shareholders or affiliates which constitute a capital group within the meaning of the applicable provisions of law and any other entities located in Poland or in any other country that are or will be connected financially, organizationally or personally to ING Bank Śląski S. A., its shareholders or affiliates.

Account
a separate section of the Platform attributed to a given User, accessible by the User upon the provision of a password and an ID. Under conditions specified by the Operator in these Terms and Conditions or stated otherwise, Operator is entitled to allow User to use additional identification numbers or passwords assigned to the account as its integral part. The account allows the User to manage User-related information and to carry out legal and factual actions ascribed to the given User.

Confirmed Account
an account for which the User’s identity has been confirmed. The confirmation of the User’s identity is optional and conducted upon request of the User.

Ultra High Risk Countries
are countries, which are subject o sanctions of the European Union or the United Nations or the United States of America or other applicable sanctions, in particular: Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, North Korea.

Operator
ING Usługi dla Biznesu S.A. with its registered seat in Katowice at ul. Chorzowska 50, 40-121 Katowice, entered into the Companies Register at the District Court for Katowice-Wschód 8th Commercial Division of the National Court Register under no. KRS 0000408358, REGON (statistical number): 242834901, NIP (taxpayer identification number): 6342805313, e-mail address: [email protected].

Privacy Statement
an electronic document available via the Platform at https://aleo.com/pl/o-platformie/polityka-prywatnosci containing detailed information on the principles of personal data processing and protection by the Operator in connection with the operation of the Platform.

Package
a range of Services provided by the Operator with a specific function and about defined in the Price List.

Platform
an IT system that fulfils the function of a B2B („business to business”) e-commerce platform, available to the Users and Non-Registered Users under the ALEO.com brand, and available particularly under www.aleo.com, owned and managed by the Operator.

Terms and Conditions
this document constituting the general terms and conditions of the Agreement entered into between the Operator and the User.

Additional Terms and Conditions
an e-document, available through the Platform, which the Operator may use to Offer new Services, discounts, rebates, promotions related to the use of the Services, change the scope of the Start Package Services and other commercial conditions. The User’s and Operator’s rights and obligations not regulated under the Additional Terms and Conditions are specified in the Terms and Conditions. Resolutions of pt 19 of the Terms and Conditions are applied to changes to the text of Additional Terms and Conditions.

Transaction
each Agreement, including a sales or rent Agreement, executed between the Users through the Platform and in compliance with the terms specified in the Terms and Conditions. In order for a Transaction to be in force, the User is not required to hold a Confirmed Account, unless otherwise stated in this Terms and Conditions.

Agreement
the Agreement for the provision of the Services executed between the Operator and the User or the Non-Registered User upon the User’s or Non-Registered User’s approval of the Terms and Conditions.

Service
each service provided by the Operator via the Platform to Users or to the Non-Registered Users.

User
a natural person who carries out business activity, a partner of a civil law partnership, functioning within conducted business activity, a legal entity or an organisational unit other than a legal entity having its registered office in a country other than an Ultra High Risk Country that, under the provisions of the applicable law, has registered on the Platform. A consumer within the meaning of the Civil Law Act of 23th April 1964 may not be a User of the Platform.

Non-Registered User
a natural person who carries out business activity, a civil law partnership, a legal entity or an organisational unit other than a legal entity having its registered office in a country other than an Ultra High Risk Country that, under the provisions of the applicable law, has legal capacity and is fully entitled to undertake legal acts WHO did not register at the Platform or a consumer within the meaning of the Civil Law Act of 23rd April 1964 who uses the Platform for information purposes.

Contracting Authority
a User who is a contracting authority within the meaning of the Public Procurement Law Act of 11th September 2019.

Permanent RFPs
Requests of the User including the information on the potential intention of entering a Transaction, indicating a subject of the Transaction, filed with the use of an adequate form and targeted at other Users.

Request For Proposal
Requests of the User including the information on the potential intention of entering a Transaction, indicating a subject of the Transaction, filed with the use of an adequate form and targeted at other Users. Request for Proposal can be closed, in case when its directed to limited(specified) number of Users(“Closed Request for Proposal”) or open, in case when its directed to an unlimited number of Users(“Open Request for Proposal”)

1. The Operator acting according to the law of Poland, EU and international law within the sactions applied by the EU, United Ntions and the United States of America, neither does get involved in any relations with the subjects from the Ultra High Risk countries, as well as with subjects financially related to these countries oraz related to subjects from these countries or financially related with them, nor the Operator offers any Services to these subjects.
3. The Operator enables using the Services:
   a. to the Users through the Account, opened in accordance with Clause 3 of the Terms and Conditions; within the full range;
   b. and Non-Registered Users, within the range of:
   
   i. access to the data about entrepreneurs and enterprises;
   ii. publishing opinions about the Users.
   
   The Services may be provided to the Users in Packages. The Services included in the particular Packages and fees charged by the Operator for the provision of services are set in the Price List. If a Service is not indicated in the Price List as payable, it is provided for free. The terms of paying the fees are set in Clause 12 of the Terms and Conditions.
4. In case of paid Services, the User receives the access to them sent to the period chosen by the User directly after paying the fee set in the Price List. The day of the payment is the first day of the period chosen by the User.
5. Failing to pay the fee by the User for the next consecutive period of using the paid Services within the required deadline effects in deactivation of the payable Package and returning to providing by the Operator Start Package after the last day of the paid period ends. Failing to pay the fee according to the first sentence is no obstacle to receiving th access for the User to paid Services, according to the statements above.
6. The User may resign from using the payable Package when it is in force by contacting the Operator. In such a case the User is not entitled to the refund of the paid fee for the binding period. The access reserved in this statement is indepenendent from availability to resign from the extension of the Package for the next period as well as availability to terminate the contract within the range of the paid access, given in the statement above.
7. Should the User resign from the payable Package during the Package Period, the User is entitled to the refund of the paid fee. The availability restricted in this statement is independent from the availability to resing from extension of the Package for the next perdiod and to terminate the contract within the paid access, given above.
8. Packages are active since the moment of being made available in 30 days (monthly) or 365 days (annual) periods. For the chosen Packages, the Operator may apply free trial periods.

1. Entitled to create the Account is the Non-Registered User, except from the Consumer in the meaning of the Civil Law Act from 23rd April 1964.
2. The Account may be created only by a person authorized to make such declarations of will within the organizational structure of the entrepreneu oraz having the appropriate proxy.
3. In order to create the Account, the User must fill in the registration form on the Platform by entering into the form basic registration data related to the business activity carried out by the person who creates the Account, among others: taxpayer identification number, statistical number, telephone number, business name, legal form, address (street, number, code, town) and the name, surname and an e-mail address of the person creating the Account on behalf of and for the User. The registration data, including the data referred to in the preceding sentence may be downloaded from publicly available national registers which provide data about undertakings or legal entities and assigned to the created Account. In the case of a change in the data provided during the registration process, the User is obliged to inform the Operator about that change in 7 days, counting from the date of making the change, in the pain of suspension the Account according to pt. 16 of the Terms and Conditions, unless that change is related to the change of registration data, it is then automatically noted by the Operator while it is inserted into the appropriate register.
4. The provided address of the business activity should be identical to the address provided in the relevant register of entrepreneurs, if such register exists in the country where the User has its registered seat. While the e-mail address is provided, the given address should be the one that is used in the business activity.
5. Agreement of the conditions of the Terms and Conditions is required to create the Account, during the process of registration of the Account. It can be done by checking the appropriate agreement field and "Sign in" button on the registration form. Accepting the Terms and Condtitions and clicking the "Sign in" button means accepting the Agreement.
6. The person who creates the Acount chooses the access password to the Account and is obliged to keep it secret.
7. The Account will be activated after confirmation of its registration by the User, after clicking the registration confirmation link, which will be sent to e-mail address provided during the registration process. It is not possible to use the Account until it is activated.
8. The User may have only one Account on the Platform.
9. In order to obtain the status of a holder of a Confirmed Account by the User Account, the User of the Account should confirm its identity to the Operator.
   a. by logging in to the User Account from SSO;
   b. by making a repayable money transfer from the company bank account of 1 PLN to the individual customer bank account. The process of confirmation of the identity may vary from country to country and will be described by the Operator in the electronic communication directed to the User during the process of registration on the Platform, or after this process.
10. The registration process and the confirmation process described in clauses 3.1 – 3.9 above are not required from Users who use the Platform by logging in from the Electronic Banking ING. However, the User may start using the Platform only after accepting the Terms and Conditions by ticking the appropriate box in the form presented to the User on the Platform during the first log in. The Account of a User who uses the Platform with the intermediary of the Electronic Banking ING is always a Confirmed Account.
11. In the case of any justifiable doubts related to the accuracy of the data or data provided by the User according to pt. 3.2, the Operator reserves the right to reject creating the Account and entering into the Agreement, or in the case of the Account that has been already created, to block the Account and to terminate the Agreement concerning the rules mentioned in pt. 15 of the Terms of Use. The Operator may request that the accuracy of such data is confirmed throughout the life of the Account.
12. Any person may report an abuse concerning the existence of an Account that has been registered by an unauthorised or registered person with the use of inaccurate data including, in particular, data related to the business activity carried out by the reporting person, as well as concerning any added false opinion or eroding third parties' rights in any other way. Such abuse may be reported using the „report an abuse” option available on the Platform or through the internal communication mechanism available on the Platform.
13. If the Operator receives a report on such abuse, it will contact the reporting person. The Operator has the right to request that the reporting person provides documents that, in his/her assessment, will ensure credibility of the abuse report. The reporting person is responsible towards the Account User in relation to whom it has reported the abuse for any effects resulting from a report submitted groundlessly or in bad faith. The User may hold only one Account on the Platform.
14. If required by the applicable provisions of law, the User will be required in every case to provide the Operator with an excerpt from the relevant companies register and a copy of the passport or other identity document of one of the persons authorised to represent the User.
15. The User immediately informs the Operator about loss of the access data and changes them. The User bears the full responsibility for all of the actual and legal effects resulting in receiving the access and usage of the Account (or identifiers assigned to them) by the persons using the User password (or the password assigned to a specified identifier), if caused by the User.
    
    The User ensures that the persons eligible by them to access the Account, including by using separate identifiers or passwords assigned to the Account, have appropriate attachment to place statements of will on behalf of the User within the activities on the Platform,including making Transactions or activities related to using the Supplier Financing. Statements of will placed by persons mentioned in the last sentence, are placed on the Platform only on behalf and for the benefit of the User.

1. The Platform may not be used by the User to carry out a Transaction not related to the professional character of the User's activity. In particular the User carrying out a Transaction is not a consumer in the meaning of Civil Law Act from 23rd April 1964.
2. The Platform allows the User to present its own commercial Offer in the form of a catalogue of products or services, to send and review Requests For Proposal, to make commercial Offers, to organise Auctions or participate in Auctions aimed at carrying out a Transaction.
3. If a special form has to be preserved (for instance written form or the form of a notarial deed), as required under the provisions of law or in relation to a legal act executed earlier between the parties to a Transaction, in order for the legal act underlying the Transaction to be valid, each User that is a party to the Transaction is obliged to make a declaration of will in the form required under the law or in relation to a legal act performed earlier between the Parties, immediately after executing the Transaction, unless the parties to the Transaction expressly agree otherwise.
4. If in the further provisions of the Terms and Conditions, a given effect results from an activity undertaken by the User (for instance acceptance, approval of the Offer), it is assumed that all the activities result from the User using an appropriate functionality of the Platform, available to the User once it is logged into its Account.
5. Unless the contracting parties expressly agree otherwise prior to the execution of the Transaction:
   1. The prices quoted by the Users in pricelists and Offers are net prices, exclusive of the tax on goods and services. Upon the receipt of the order, the seller will establish the gross price inclusive of the tax on goods and services which the buyer is obliged to pay. The price indicated in the Offers made in the course of electronic bidding, referred to in clause 8 hereof is a gross price.
   2. The prices quoted by the Users do not cover any additional costs such as: transportation costs, insurance and other costs that may be related to the delivery of products or services as a result of executing a Transaction.
   3. Taxes and delivery costs which apply to the Auction or commercial Offer presented in the form of a catalogue of products or services Offered by that User will be indicated.
6. Any changes to the terms of the Transaction (including editing or cancelling the contents of an order) are permissible solely on the condition that both parties to the Transaction approve such changes with the use of the Platform mechanisms. If the party to whom it has been suggested that the terms of the Transaction should be changed or that the Transaction should be annulled fails to give its express consent to such actions, the parties to the Transaction are obliged to execute the Transaction in accordance with the previously agreed conditions.
7. The currency of all Transactions and Offers shall be determined by the User organising the Auctions or presenting the commercial Offer in the form of a catalogue of products or services, and shall be deemed accepted by the User taking part in the Transaction. The currency conversion available on the Platform is only for information purposes and is based on the rates of European Central Bank.
8. The User offering the Transaction represents and warrants that it will provide other Users participating in the Transaction with any and all information required by the provisions of law applicable in the country where the User organizing the Transaction is established or any other applicable law, including any information on the goods or services subject to the Transaction.

1. On the terms specified herein, the Operator provides to the Users and Non-Registered Users a service of access, which, at the choice of the User or the Non-Registered User, by means of the Platform’s functionalities to the data concerning legal entities or natural persons conducting business activity, from at leas public registers (including the KRS Companies Register and CEIDG and Financial Portal operated by the Ministry of Justice), whose data is made available by the means of the platform, does not have to be the Users. The data constituting public sector information is processed in a manner consisting in placing them on the Platform in the document template specified by the Operator: it is possible within the service to download the data, access to which is possible upon the functions of the Platform.
2. The Operator process the data mentioned in the clause 5.1 bove - including personal data by the means of GDPR, in the character of administrator of this data - exclusively within the data from readily abailable resources, including data being a subject to entering to public registers. Regarding the source of the data, this data is made available for information (reference) purposes only and may contain errors, inaccuracies or other shortcomings for which the Operator is not liable to the broadest extent possible that is permitted by the applicable law. Particularly, data presented by the Operator, data should not be a sole basis of any business decisions or any other decisions, as well as the cannot be treated as recommendation to take any actions or fail to act, particularly to start or stop business relations or any other relation.
3. More information concerning processing of personal data, including data from public registers, particularly in using the rights concerning processing of personal data, Inspector for the Protection of Data chosen by the Operator may be contacted by e-mail: [email protected] oraz in writung to the legal seat of the Operator ((best with the postscript "GDPR").
4. The data referred to in clause 5.1. above, including personal data, are processed in information cause connected with promulgation of data concerning running a business, based on the legitimate interests of the Operator. More information on the legitimate interests of the Operator is available in the Privacy Statement.
5. More information about processing of personal data, including data from public registers, available in the Privacy Statement
6. The User and the Non-Registered User undertake to use the functionalities referred to in clauses 5.1 in a manner which does not interfere in any way with the operation of the sources that provide data made available to obtain by means of the Platform as well as with the operation of the Platform itself.

1. A User may submit an Offer:
   1. by filling in, on its own, the Offer Form available on the Platform and sending it to another User;
   2. as a reply to another User’s Request For Proposal;
   3. as a reply to an invitation to participate in an Auction created by another User;
   4. within the Permanent RFPs.
2. A User, within its own Account, may present its products or services in the catalogue of products and services that is available to the public (including persons other than Platform Users), products and services catalogue. The fact that the User has placed a given product or service in the catalogue does not mean it has made an Offer, but it is an invitation for other Users to make contact and place Requests For Proposals
3. In order to create an Offer on its own, the User should use the Offer Form available through the Account and select the essential elements of the Offer (its subject matter, the price) along with its validity period.
4. In order to create an Offer on the basis of the received Request For Proposal, the User who has obtained the Request For Proposal accepts the provided business terms and conditions and creates its own Offer on their basis.
5. The User will place an Offer upon sending such Offer to the recipient by the mans of the functions of the Platform.
6. A User who has submitted an Offer may change its terms by using the option of updating the Offer and sending its modified version to the recipient of the Offer. However, a suggested change may be introduced to the terms of the Offer only upon the recipient’s approval. If the recipient of the Offer fails to express its consent to the suggested changes, the party who submits the Offer will be bound by the conditions of the previous Offer until the lapse of its validity period.
7. A User who has submitted an Offer may specify its additional terms in greater detail in the files attached to the Offer form. In the case of any discrepancies between the terms specified in the Offer Form and the contents of the attachments, it will be assumed that the terms of the form prevail, unless the parties to the Transaction expressly state otherwise.
8. The Transaction will be executed once the person placing Offer receives information that the Offer has been approved, i.e. once the status of the order being the subject matter of the Transaction changes to „pending”.
9. The User expresses its consent to receiving electronic invoices from other Users by means of the Platform mechanisms.

1. An Auction is a process of executing a Transaction within which the User who organises the Auction (the Auction organiser), as a result of publishing an invitation to submit the Offers, receives Offers submitted by at least two Users (Auction participants). The Auctions may be Purchase Auctions or Sales Auctions.
2. Each Auction consists of two stages: Auction preparation (establishment of the terms and conditions and the choice of its participants) publication and the bidding during which the participants submit subsequent bids. The terms of carrying out the bidding are provided for in clauses 6.10 - 7.12 of the Terms and Conditions.
3. The Auction organiser may create an Auction independently or by means of a request for a proposal previously sent by the Auction organiser to the bidders who have submitted their Offers in reply to such Request For Proposal.
4. The Auction can have character:
   a. closed (private),where the only subjects that can participate in it are the ones, that have been individually invited to take part in the Auction by its organizer oraz the ones that will become the User until the Auction starts or
   b. open (public), where in the form of a response to public (open) invitation can also participate subjects, which were not individually invited to take part in the Auction by its Organizer and have or have achieved the User status until the Auction starts.
5. In the case of the open Auction (public), its Organizer - until the Auction starts, can cancel the invitation to take part in the Auction, including individual invation, as well as the one that hadn't that individual character, which means that it was not aimed to subject particularly indicated in the invitation. Information about cancellation of invitation conveyed to subject, whose cancellation does not regard, through the Platform before the Auction starts. Subject, whose invitation has been cancelled has no possibility to take part in the Auction. It is not possible to cancel the individual invitation to take part in the Auction by the Organizer.
6. An Auction may be prepared on the basis of Offers submitted in reply to the Organizer’s request of proposal. In such a situation the Auction organiser does not define its scope (or the items) – they are transferred automatically from the Request For Proposal. The value of a participant’s initial Offer is equal to the price indicated in its Offer submitted in reply to the Request For Proposal. The period in which the Offer is to be binding upon the participant is transferred from the Offer submitted in reply to the Request For Proposal. The Auction that is created on the basis of the Request For Proposal cannot be published in the Platform catalogue and it may only be a Purchase Auction
7. In order to participate in an Auction, a User submits an Offer that is binding upon the User subject to the conditions specified by the Auction organiser.
8. The participant may make the conditions of its Offer more precise by adding attachments in the form of files. In the case of any discrepancies between the terms specified in the Offer form and the contents of the attachments, it is assumed, unless otherwise expressly specified in the Offer form, that the terms specified in the Offer Form.
9. An Auction participant may modify an Offer submitted to the Auction organiser. This activity is possible only before the start of the bidding. The Auction organiser may accept an Offer modified by the User for further participation in the Auction, but it is not obliged to do so.
10. The bidding starts on the date specified by the Auction organiser. The price is the only element of the Offer that may be changed during the bidding. Once the bidding has commenced, the participants submit their bids through the Platform. Subsequent bids modify the Offer placed by the particular Auction participant and replace it.
11. The bidding is finished once the Auction organiser uses the „finish the bidding” option, either prior to the commencement of the bidding or upon the lapse of the bidding, subject to the automatic extension of the Auction time if any participant submits a bid less than 3 (three) minutes prior to the end of the bidding time. In this case the duration of the bidding is automatically extended for 3 (three) minutes. The automatic extension of the auction time may occur multiple times. Automatic If the time allocated for the bidding lapses, or the bidding is finished earlier by the Auction organiser, the participants cannot submit any further bids.
12. Once the bidding is finished, the Auction organiser assesses the Offers that have been submitted. The Auction organiser may choose the Offer that is most favourable and execute a Transaction with the User who has submitted it, but is not obliged to do so. The Auction organiser may choose any Offer that has been submitted, at its own discretion. The notification on the bidding being finished, sent automatically by the Platform to the Auction participants, does not mean that the organiser has chosen another Offer or that it has resigned from the right to use the participant’s Offer within the period of its validity. Offers submitted within the bidding are binding upon the Auction participants until the deadline they specified as the Offer validity period when joining the Auction, even after the bidding is finished.
13. A Transaction is executed:

    ·  a. in the case of a purchase Auction – once the organiser uses the „place an order” functionality in the Auction panel in the „Participants” section, where the participants’ Offers are available, provided that the Offer validity period has not expired. An Auction participant who has received such an order from the organiser is obliged to update prices of the subject matter of the Auction so that the sum of the prices for the individual items is equal to the aggregate price bid at the Auction and to provide the other party with an Offer that has been updated accordingly.

    ·  b. in the case of a Sales Auction – once the participant receives a sales Offer placed by the Auction organiser. The Offer recipient is obliged to accept such Offer. A User who places a sales Offer referred to above, prior to submitting its Offer, is obliged to update the prices of the individual subject matters of the Auctions so that the sum of the prices for individual items is equal to the aggregate price bid at the Auction and to provide the other party with an Offer that has been updated accordingly.

14. The activities related to updating the Offer and adjusting it to the aggregate price bid at the Auction, referred to above, are technical activities, aimed at performing the Transaction, which have no impact on its validity or contents. In the case of any discrepancies between the agreed terms of the Transaction and the contents of representations exchanged at a later time, the terms of the Transaction will prevail.
15. The Auction organiser is authorised to suspend the bidding for a period of time specified by them. The organiser should ensure equal treatment of the Auction participants and notify them of the date at which the Auction is to be renewed. The bidding cannot be suspended for a period exceeding the validity period of at least one of the Offers submitted at the Auction.
16. In the case of any technical disruptions to the Platform, resulting in the Auction or the bidding being discontinued, the Offers submitted by the Users prior to the discontinuation of the Auction (the bidding) will be binding. The organiser may decide to finish the Auction. Any Offers submitted during a discontinued Auction will be binding upon the participants who submitted them for the Offer validity period.

1. If it is compliant with the applicable law, a Contracting Authority may use the Platform to carry out a procedure for the award of a public procurement contract in the form of an electronic tender, in line with the applicable law. The Contracting Authority independently assesses if a given order fulfils the prerequisites for an electronic bidding.
2. The Contracting Authority makes an announcement consistent with the applicable law, by placing the announcement on the Platform under the agreed address. The Operator does not verify and is not responsible for the contents of the announcement.
3. The bidders that the Contracting Authority allows to participate in the procedure mustcreate an Account on the Platform.
4. During the tender, the Offers submitted by the contractors are automatically classified on the basis of their price. An Offer submitted in the course of a tender ceases to be binding if another contractor has submitted a better Offer.
5. If required under the applicable law, immediately after the closing of an electronic tender, the Contracting Authority will provide, under the website address provided in the announcement of the public procurement, the name (business name) and address of the bidder whose Offer has been chosen.
6. The Contracting Authority awards the public procurement contract to the bidder who Offers the lowest price, unless the applicable law provides other requirements.
7. The Contracting Party and the User are required to fulfil all the respective requirements arising from the applicable law governing the public procurement procedure.

1. Ther Opertor provides the Users possibility to use, through the Platform, the Supplier Financing, provided by the Bank.
2. The conditions, under which the Supplier Financing is available within the Platform, are specified in the Attachment no. 4, which is integral part of the Terms and Conditions.

1. Each party to an executed Transaction may issue an assessment of the Transaction (a credential) related to this Transaction for a second part, hereinafter referred to as the credential recipient. The credential is a 1-5 grade assessment. The party issuing the credential may combine the grade with a verbal description. Both the party issuing the credentials and the recipient decide whether and to what extent they wish to publish the credentials as part of their Account’s profile, which is public available on the Platform.
2. Under the rules of the Terms of Use, the Operator make available publishing opinions about others Users and Non-Registered Users to the Users and Non-Registered Users. The Operator makes available responding to the opinion by adding a comment to evaluated Users. Opinion and response for the opinion published by the User, as well as the opinion of the Non-Registered User is public and available on the platform, and the User or the Non-Registered User is fully responsible for publishing the content. Opinion, as well as response for the opinion published by the User and Non-Registered User are public within the Platform.
3. An opinion issued by the User may be indicated as an opinion from the company. In order to add an opinion indicated as in the last sentence, it’s necessary to provide a Tax ID and email address during the registration process. In order to add an opinion as a private person, the User is obliged to show email address and designation of a person who adds the opinion like name and last name or pseudonym.
4. Opinion issued by the Non-Registered User may be published on the Platform only as a private opinion. The rules regarding private opinion issued by the User are used for the Non-Regitered User's opinion as well.
5. A User issuing an opinion or a response to the opinion, as well as the Non-Registered User issuing an opinion, accepts the rules that the data mentioned in clause 3 and 4 above will be published on the Platform next to the text of an opinion or response to the opinion.
6. User and Non-Registered User are fully responsible for the content published by them.
7. Opinion, as well as the response to opinion, issued by the User, are indicated with the name of the User and name and last name of a person who issues an opinion or responding for an opinion.
8. Adding marketing and advertising content, as well as offensive, vulgar and any other content violating the rights of third parties in the opinions or responses to the opinions, is strictly prohibited.
9. Clause 3.13 of the Terms of Use is applied accordingly to applications in the subject of opinions published by Non-Registered Users.
10. In order to preserve transparency of the platform, particularly to make available response to the opinion, the Operator can inform the evaluated company about the publication of opinion on its profile. The User, as well as the Non-Registered User accept that content published by them are not anonymous and does not reconcile the rights of evaluated companies, concerning its subjective character.

1. It is possible to post information, including updates concerning the User on the User’s Account in the company’s profile which is public on the Platform.
2. The User, as well as the Non-Registered User, may not, within their activities on the Platform, and in particular the activities referred to in clause 9, publish content (including, but not limited to, pictures, text, documents or other materials or information) that violate the provisions of the applicable law, rights of third parties, the principles of social coexistence, are harmful, offensive or otherwise inappropriate. If the Operator is notified about such violation, the Operator reserves the right to remove such content, block access to it, lock out the Account or terminate the Agreement with the User with immediate effect.
3. The Operator has no technical and organisational capability to monitor or verify on a constant and regular basis the content uploaded by the User or the Non-Registered User to the Platform. If a User a Non-Registered User or any other person or entity discovers that the contents, particularly opinions, uploaded by the User or Non-Registered User may violate clause 12.2 above, or any other provisions of these Terms and Conditions, they should contact the Operator through the contact form available on the Platform. In case of where notification mentioned in the previous sentence is plced on behalf of other person, the person who issues it is obliged to provide the Operator with a relevant power-of-attorney in writing or other valid authorization to represent this person, without undue delay.
4. Registered or Non-Registered Users are required to use the Platform in accordance with applicable law, these Terms and Conditions and the Additional Terms and Conditions, if have been issued and accepted, as well as to the moral principles decorum/good manners. It is forbidden to perform any actions that hinder or prevent the registered or unregistered User from using the Platform or any of its functionalities. It is prohibited to send internal messages, Offers, invitations to sale Auctions, Requests For Proposal and electronic messages of the unsolicited form or manner that is in an unwarranted amount of the normal use of the Platform or in a manner likely to cause nuisance to any other User, Non-Registered User or the Operator. The Operator may to move electronic messages and other information sent by the User through the Platform not in accordance with the Terms and Conditions to the box marked “Spam” or remove them, if the receiver of the notification has decided so, indicating the communication sent by them to a particular User as “Spam“.

1. The User may pay the fee choosing one of the following ways available within the Platform:

   ·  a. payment by a traditional or electronic transfer;

   ·  b. electronic transfer of the rapid transfer or payment card via PayU system ("PayU service").

2. In order to provide PayU Service to the Users, the Operator shall pass the following personal data of the Users, necessary to provide PayU service: IP address, e-mail address, name, surname, code of the country, name (company) of the entrepreneur, Personal Identification Number. Within the scope of PayU service, PayU is the administrator of the personal data of the Users transferred from the Operator to PayU, independent from the Operator defined in GDPR.
3. Personal data of the Users transferred from the Operator to PayU shall be processed in accordance with applicable law, including the provisions of GDPR.
4. The User expresses the consent to receive electronic invoices from the Operator via the Platform’s mechanisms.

1. The Operator is the administrator of personal data of User (provided and generated during the process of account creating and while using the Platform, among others the information about activity of the User on the Platform), as well as of the Non-Registered User (accessible through the Platform).
2. Personal data of the User is processed in order to make and execute an agreement, as well as for purposes concerning conducting statistical surveys, analytical and User satisfaction research, as well as for other purposes specified in the Declaration of privacy protection. Personal data of the Non-Registered User is processed in order to use the Platform, among others regarding adding an opinion on the Platform, as well as for other purposes specified in the Declaration of privacy protection.
3. The Operator can process personal data of the User and Non-Registered User for products and services direct marketing purposes, including using of profiling operations, under the rules specified in the Declaration of privacy policy.
4. Legal basis of processing of personal data of the User and Non-Registered User is:
   

   ·  a. necessity of processing to make and execute an agreement (among others communication with the user in order to send commercial offers, invitations to submit offers, invitations to take part in auctions and other similar messages regarding functioning of the Platform);

   ·  b. realization of legal obligations to the Operator, including the ones resulting from the act on provision of the electronic services (among others consideration of the complaint and reporting of abuse within the Platform);

   ·  c. realization of legitimate interests of the Operator (among others communication with the Non-Registered User through the websites, including chat);

   ·  d realization of legitimate interests of the Operator and other ING Group companies (which means presentation of its products and services) and additionally an agreement – regarding electronic and phone communication channel in connection with direct marketing of products and services).

   More information about the legal basis of processing of personal data by the Operator, including legitimate interests realized by the Operator, available in the Declaration of privacy policy.
5. Personal data of the User is stored during the entire contract, after its termination – until the claims are time-barred (this period results from the Civil Codex). Personal data of the Non-Registered User is stored until the claims regarding using the Platform are time-barred.
6. Personal data of the User and the Non-Registered User can be transferred to:
   

   ·  a. subjects operating on the basis of legal provisions (public authority), including, among others, Prosecutors Office, Police and Tax Office – regarding realization of legal obligations to the Operator (for example regarding possible abuse within the Platform);

   ·  b. subjects providing IT services (for example providing hosting of websites) for the Operator and other companies of ING Group – within the scope necessary to realization of these services.

   More information about transferring personal data by the Operator including its transferring outside of the European Economic Area, available in Declaration of privacy policy.

·  c. the Bank - regarding using the Supplier Financing, including in aim to conduct transactions of financing receivables and issuing a VAT invoice for the Bank on the basis of conducted services.

More information about the legal basis of processing of personal data by the Operator, including legitimate interests realized by the Operator, available in the Declaration of privacy policy.
7. Using the Platform is voluntary. However, providing personal data regarding creating an Account is necessary to make, and therefore execute the agreement – without providing personal data making and execution of this type of agreement is not possible.
8. Regarding the processing of personal data of the User and the Non-Registered have specified rights, including: (i) right to access the personal data concerning the User (Non-Registered User); (ii) right to correct the data; (iii) right to delete the data; (iv) right to limit processing of the data; (v) right to transfer the data; (vi) right to object the processing of the data (within the scope, where the processing of personal data is realization of legitimate interests); (vii) right to cancel the agreement at any moment (within the scope where the basis of the processing of personal data is the agreement) – under the rules specified in the legal provisions on protection of personal data, including GDPR provisions.
9. The User and the Non-Registered user have right to lodge a complaint to the authority inspecting the compliance with the regulations of legal provisions on personal data protection.
10. In cases regarding processing of personal data, particularly using of the rights of the User and the Non-Registered User regarding the processing of personal data, Inspector for the protection of data can be contacted by the e-mail [email protected] or in writing to the legal seat of the Operator (best with the postscript “GDPR”).
11. More information about the User’s and Non-Registered User’s rights regarding processing of their personal data, available in the Declaration of privacy protection.
12. The User is obliged to fulfil all the obligations on his own, including information obligations, prescribed in the regulations on personal data protections, including GDPR, to people, whose personal data is processed within the Platform – as data administrator independent from the Operator.
13. The Platform allows sending messages with an invitation to use the Platform to a person other than a User. Each time a User invites persons or entities other than the Platform Users to register on the Platform or to undertake actions aimed at executing a Transaction, it should ensure that, if applicable, it has obtained appropriate legal basis allowing sending information to the email address used by such person, in accordance with the applicable law.

1. The Operator’s sole role is to provide mechanisms to allow the execution of Transactions between the Users and Supplier Financing service.The Operator is not responsible for the Users’ actions or omissions or the Users’ declarations made towards other Users or for the improper performance or failure to perform obligations resulting from the Transactions or the content, including opinions, uploaded by the User on the Platform. The Operator will not verify the contents of the declarations of will or knowledge or guarantee their validity and compliance with law.
2. The Operator will make every effort to maintain the continuity of the provided Services, but will not be responsible for the Platform’s unavailability caused by technical disruptions or the actions or omissions of third parties.
3. The Operator will not be responsible for any damages caused by materials exchanged between parties to Transactions via the Platform or as a result of the Users exchanging information. The User should always scan received files with antivirus software.
4. The Operator will make all due efforts to verify the User’s identity exclusively as part of the procedures specified in clause 3 of the Terms and Conditions; however, the Operator is not responsible for any results of the utilisation of untrue or unlawful information by the User.
5. The User, while making certain materials, product and service descriptions, as wel as published opinions, available on the Account, represents that it has obtained all the relevant authorisations, in particular those related to its commercial copyrights or any licences that have been granted to it, which allow the User to publish, within the Platform, works related to products or services Offered thereby. The User will be solely responsible for any violations resulting from the failure to hold relevant authorisations.
6. The Operator’s responsibility towards the Platform User, related to the improper performance or failure to perform a Service and any tort related to the provision of the Service, is limited to the amount of one thousand Polish zlotys. In no event will the Operator be held responsible for the User’s damage in the form of lost profit or loss of any data.
7. Any markings that identify ING Group entities (in particular trademarks) may be used by the User solely upon the prior consent of the Operator, which must be expressed in writing in order to be valid.
8. It is prohibited to trade in goods or services on the Platform that have been excluded from trade under provisions of the applicable law or that are in violation of such provisions – in particular, this prohibition relates to trading in goods that violate intellectual property rights. Attachment no. 2 hereto constitutes a non-exclusive list of products and services that may not be subject to trade on the Platform.
9. The User is obliged to hold relevant permits, concessions or authorisations to execute a specific type of a Transaction including to trade in specific goods or services, if it is required to hold such permits, concessions or authorisations under the applicable provisions of law.
10. The Operator will not monitor or verify the said permits, authorisations or concessions held by the User, and is not responsible for Transactions executed in violation of the provisions that provide for an obligation to hold such authorisations.
11. The Operator is entitled to block or remove any Request For Proposal, catalogue item, Auction, opinion or other content entered by the User, including content described in clause 11 above, while its publishing violates the clause 11.2 of the Terms and Conditions or while tey regard products indicated in the Attachment no. 2. In this case, the Operator will inform the User about these activites through the Platform.
12. The Operator may introduce editorial changes to the contents of the Request For Proposal, the catalogue item or to any other content entered by the User, to which the User hereby authorises the Operator. Editorial changes serve the purpose of improving the quality of the published content (e.g. correction of misprints) and they do not concern changes that could have an impact on the subject matter of the Transaction (e.g. change of the price or delivery date). In the case of a necessity to introduce content-related changes, such changes may be introduced solely upon a prior consultation with the User that published the Request For Proposal subject to edition.
13. The Operator shall not be held liable for the content uploaded by the User or third party content, nor shall the Operator be liable for any damage or other failures resulting from any defects of the Platform by the User’s software or hardware or their incompatibility with the Platform; the Operator shall also not be liable for damage resulting from the fact that the Internet was not available or malfunctioning.
14. The limitation of liability does not apply to cases of mandatory statutory liability, in particular liability under the product liability law, liability for a guarantee that has been assumed, and liability for intentional or negligent injury to life, limb or health.
15. The Operator is not liable for any fiscal results of using the Platform encumbering the User, including in particular the results of using by the User all Offered by the Operator Special Offers and Trial Periods.
16. All complaints regarding activities of the Platform should be sent to electronic e-mail address [email protected] The message should consist of the following data:
    a. name and last name or the User name;
    b. detailed description of the case.

1. The Platform as well as other materials (inter alia text, graphics, specification of information including Offers and bidding, product catalogue and other) created by the Operator or the entities from the ING Group and made available on the Platform may constitute a work within the meaning of Article 1 of the Act dated 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights or a database within the meaning of Article 2 section 1 item 1 of the Act dated 27 July 2001 on the Protection of Databases and as such are subject to legal protection.
2. The User as well as the Non-Registered User may use the works or databases that are available on the Platform as well as other materials referred to in clause 14.1 solely within the scope necessary for the performance of the Agreement, including the use of the Platform’s functionalities.
3. Subject to clause 15.2 above the User and the Non-Registered User is not authorised in particular to:

   ·  a. within the scope of recording and reproduction – produce copies of the work by means of a given technique including printing, reprography, magnetic recording and digital technique;

   ·  b. within the scope of trading in the original or copies on which the work has been recorded – market, lend or rent out the original or copies;

   ·  c. within the scope of dissemination of the work in a manner other than specified in item 15.2 – screen, replay or communicate a work to the public in such a way that any person may access the work at a place and time of their choice,

   ·  d. permanently or temporarily reproduce a computer program by any means and in any form, in part or in whole; insofar as loading, displaying, running, transmission or storage of a computer program necessitate its reproduction, such acts shall be subject to authorisation by the Operator or another entity;

   ·  e. translate, adapt, arrange or otherwise alter a computer program, without prejudice to the rights of the person who alters the program;

   ·  f. spread, including loan or fee, the computer programme or its copy.

4. In accordance with Article 7 section 1 of the Act on the Protection of Databases the Operator hereby declares that it does not authorise downloading or secondary use by the User or Non-Registered User for any purpose of a significant, in terms of quality or quantity, part of any database that the Operator is a producer of.
5. The Operator declares that in the event of discovering a violation of its rights to the Platform, including materials indicated in clause 15.1 hereof, it will with all firmness exercise its rights under the Act on Copyright and Related Rights, Act on the Protection of Databases, Industrial Property Right as well as under the Act dated 16 April 1993 on Combating Unfair Competition and other Acts.

1. The Agreement between the User and the Operator will expire as a result of:

   ·  a. submitting a statement on the termination of the Agreement, with the notice period of 30 days;

   ·  b. submitting statement on the termination of the Agreement by the Operator with the notice period of 30 days;

   ·  c. terminating the Agreement by the Operator, subject to the terms indicated in clause 16.2 of the Terms and Conditions.

2. The Operator may terminate the Agreement with the User with immediate effect in particular if the Operator establishes that:

   ·  a. a violation referred to in clause 11.2 of the Terms and Conditions has been committed,

   ·  b. the User has provided inaccurate registration data or has no updated them when they have changed,

   ·  c. the ban on providing unlawful contents has been violated, including as regards contents that violate exclusive rights of third parties, in particular in the case referred to in clause 8.5 of the Terms and Conditions.

   ·  d. the violation of the clause 10.4 of these Terms and Conditions, including Users’ actions aimed at disrupting the functioning of the Platform’s IT system, or causing other registered or unregistered Users or Operator difficulties to use the Platform

   ·  e. the User has traded in materials that have been excluded from trade under the provisions of applicable law or has conducted business activity without relevant consents, authorisations or concessions,

   ·  f. the User has undertaken other actions that could bring about damage to other Users or the Operator.

   ·  g. sending electronic messages, Offers, invitations to sale Auctions and Requests For Proposal to other users that are not in accordance with clause 11.2 of the Terms and Conditions or statements in Attachment no. 2.

   ·  h. fact that the User registered on the Platform has its business seat or is controlled by or represented by directly or indirectly by an entity or a person having a business seat or place of residence on one of Ultra High Risk Countries, also in case when the above mentioned entities or persons are on the sanction list implemented by the European Union, the United States or the United Nations.

   ·  i. violation by the User the rules of social symbiosis and good trade practices;

   ·  j. violation by the User the rules of giving opinion or response for the offer, particularly by including any marketing or advertising content in them, as well as offensive, vulgar or any eroding third parties' rights or generally applicable law.

   The Operator informs the User about termination of the Agreement, including by sending message directy onto e-mail address indicated by the User. Termination of the Agreement is equivalent to exclusion of the possibility to use the Account by the User.
3. In the cases specified in clause 16.1 b above, the User is entitled the right to demand that an appropriate part of the fees paid to the Operator in relation to the use of the paid Services is repaid to the User, pro rata to the period left until the completion of services. In other cases the Operator is not obliged to refund the fees paid for the Operator
4. The Operator is entitled to block the User’s Account, if the Operator suspects that:
   

   ·  a. some circumstances indicated in clause 16.2 of the Terms and Condition, that justify termination of the Agreement with immediate effect, occur

   ·  b. an authorized person uses the User Account

In the case of the Account lockout, the Operator informs the User via e-mail message sento to the address provided by the User, pointing all the reasons of the lockout and, immediately, performs actions in order to clarify all the suspicions, which should have been finished until 30. working day commences. In order to set the aforementioned term, all the period during which the Operator awaits for the information or explanations, which need to be explainded to the User of the blocked Account and which are essential to explain all the suspicions, are not included.

After the aforementioned term commences, the Operator restore the access to the Account for the User or terminates the Agreement by the means of the clause 16.2 of the Terms and Conditions.
5. As a result of the Account lockout, it is impossible to log in to the Account and as a consequence in particular to execute Transactions. In order to remove the lockout, the User should contact the Platform administrator.
6. In the event of an Account lockout, the Offers, Requests For Proposals, or any other activity carried out in respect of the Account related to an ongoing and not concluded Transaction will be blocked by the Operator due to a violation of the Terms and Conditions and will be considered null and voidm for the recipient of such Offer and Request For Proposal or not executed in the case of that activiy, except from applicable law.
7. In the case of establishing a lockout of the Account, in the event of termination of the Agreement due to the reasons specified in clause 17.2 above, the User whose Account was locked out or the Agreement was terminated with, as well as the User that received the Offer or Request For Proposal from the aforementioned User, shall not raise any claims, including claims concerning compensation, damages or loss of profit, against the Operator or any of the entities from ING Group, to the extent permitted by the applicable law, in relation to such lockout of the Account, termination of the Agreement or such Offer or Request For Proposalor using the Supplier Financing, if the Operator has executed activities due to explain circumstances, that we the basis to establish a lockout of the Account until the date indicated in clause 16.4, and immediately after their conclusion has re-established access to the Account to the User or thas terminated the Agreement according to clause 16.2.

1. A complaint relating to the non-performance or the improper performance of the Services by the Operator should be sent to the Operator by means of a contact form available on the Platform and should contain the User’s data such as: first name and surname or business name, description of the situation constituting the grounds for the complaint and its suggested solution.
2. The Operator will reply to such complaint within 21 days of the date of its receipt or – in the case of receiving an incomplete complaint which does not meet conditions mentioned in clause 17.1 or a complaint that lacks any information necessary for its consideration – the Operator will request the User to provide additional information related to the complaint and will examine the complaint within 21 days of the receipt of such information.

1. In order to use the Platform, the User must have an ICT device with access to the Internet and one of the following web browsers:

   ·  Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11,

   ·  Mozilla Firefox version 52, 60 and 67 - 69

   ·  Google Chrome version 49, 71-77,

   ·  Apple Safari version 11 and 12

   ·  Microsoft Edge version 17 and 18

   ·  Opera version 62 or newer,

   ·  Samsung Internet versions 9.2, 9.4, 10.1.

2. The User is obliged to adjust the uploaded image files to the format required by the Platform. The images may be automatically modified by the Platform’s IT mechanisms.

1. The Operator has the right to amend the Terms and Conditions by notifying the User, with an internal message, sent to the User’s Account by means of the Platform’s IT mechanism or by sending a message directly to the e-mail address indicated by the User. The Operator send a notification about the Terms and Conditions alt least 5 (five) working days before the changes take effect. Notification about the change of the Terms and Conditions specify the term when the changes take effect.
2. If the User does not submit a statement that it objects to the introduced amendments within 5 (five)working days from the receipt of the communication on the amendment of the Terms and Conditions, it will be deemed that the User accepts the new wording of the Terms and Conditions.
3. No amendment to the Terms and Conditions will have an impact on Transactions that have been executed under the previously applicable Terms and Conditions.
4. If the User submits an objection to the changes of the Terms and Conditions, the Agreement will be terminated on the date the new Terms and Conditions enter into force. The provisions of clause 16 of the Terms and Conditions will apply accordingly.
5. The change of the confirmation process described in clauses 3.1 to 3.9 above, as well as the limitation of the functionalities available to Users without a Confirmed Account, shall not be considered as an amendment of these Terms and Conditions and does not require the User’s consent. Information published by the Operator on the Platform, including using text messaging (“Chat”) with Users or Non-registered Users do not constitute an amendment of the Terms & Conditions. In the event of a discrepancy between the information published by the Operator on the Platform (including within the chat communication) the Terms & Conditions shall prevail.

1. Any matters left unregulated in the Terms and Conditions will be governed by Polish law.
2. The Operator may assign rights resulting from the Agreement to any third party without the User’s consent.
3. Any matters related to any claims resulting from the Terms and Conditions will be resolved by the court with local jurisdiction over the Operator’s seat. If the choice of the court based on the first sentence of this clause shall be considered ineffective (void) due to any reason, all disputes arising out of or in connection with the Terms and Conditions, including all disputes regarding the existence, validity, effectiveness and interpretation of Terms and Conditions, shall be finally resolved by the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw, in accordance with the rules of this court. The arbitration shall take place in Warsaw. The language of the arbitration shall be Polish and the judgment shall be final and binding upon the User and the Operator. The arbitrators shall interpret the Terms and Conditions on the basis of Polish law.
4. If any actual or future provision or part of a provision of the Terms and Conditions is deemed invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, for any reason at present or in the future, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the enforceability of any of the remaining provisions hereof. The Terms and Conditions shall be construed pursuant to the provisions of law, as if such unenforceable provision was never contained herein, and the Operator and the User shall commence negotiations in good faith in order to rephrase such provision so that it is enforceable and effective, and reflects the Operators’ and the Users’ intentions at the time of the conclusion of the Terms and Conditions.
5. Timezone suitable to all activities, including transactions and other operations processed by the Operator, User or Non-Registered User using the Platform is CET.
6. The Polish language version of the Terms and Conditions is the only binding version. For the avoidance of doubt, any other language versions that are or will be published by the Operator, are solely for the User’s convenience and are not binding.
7. The Terms and Conditions will come into force on 17th May 2018.
8. The following attachments constitute an integral part of the Terms and Conditions: