AFRILOGEMENT Terms and Conditions of Use

The information in the general conditions of use was updated on August 01, 2023.

The purpose of these Buyer Terms and Conditions is to define the conditions under which AFRILOGEMENT makes available to Buyers, as part of the Service, technological tools used to purchase Products from Real Estate Developers.

The Service consists of a set of tools enabling Buyers to register on the Site, to establish contact with Property Developers in order to place orders for Products, to pay the price of Products, to confirm receipt of Products and to communicate with each other using a messaging tool made available to them. It also includes a rating system enabling the Buyer to assess the quality of the goods and services offered by the promoters. AFRILOGEMENT is in no way a reseller of the Products offered by the Sellers via the Service. Therefore, Products purchased via the Service cannot be returned or exchanged by AFRILOGEMENT. AFRILOGEMENT reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend access to the Service by the Buyer in the event of non-compliance with these Buyer Terms and Conditions of Use. Each Buyer undertakes to conclude purchases in good faith.

Through its Website and/or Application, the Company provides the User with access to a number of Services designed to assist him/her with his/her real estate project. The User is fully aware that the Company cannot guarantee the outcome of any of these services:
Real estate rental and/or sales advertisements that he/she wishes to consult on the Website and/or the Application;
The answers given to requests for contact with real estate partners who have published advertisements for the rental and/or sale of real estate;
The real estate financing offers that will be proposed by the credit institutions or brokers with which he/she will be in contact via the Website and/or the Application;
And more generally to the particular needs of the User.
Nor can the Company guarantee the quality of the approximate property estimates made by the user via the Services accessible on the Website and/or the Application with a view to putting his/her property(ies) up for sale.
The Company accepts no responsibility for the reliability and/or relevance of the information provided by real estate partners and/or lending institutions on the Website and/or the Application - said information being posted and distributed under their sole responsibility.
The Company uses its best efforts to put Users in contact with Real Estate Partners and the Company's partner credit institutions offering their services via the Website and/or the Application.
The Company does not guarantee the conclusion of a contractual relationship between the User and said Real Estate Partners and/or partner credit institutions.
Users acknowledge that the Company does not intervene in this capacity at any time in exchanges and transactions between Users and the Company's real estate partners and/or credit institutions or brokers, and does not act as a mediator between Users and the Company's real estate partners and/or credit institutions or brokers.
Consequently, the Company cannot be held liable, in tort or in contract, for the conclusion, non-conclusion, performance, resolution or mediation of any contractual relationship between Users and the Company's real estate partners and/or credit institutions or brokers, or for the consequences, whatever their nature, resulting from a dispute between the latter.
Finally, as the Company does not operate as a credit institution and limits its intervention to simply putting the User in contact with its real estate Partners and the credit institutions or brokers that are partners of the Website and/or the Application, the Company cannot be held liable for :
The quality of the advice provided by the Real Estate Partners and/or credit institutions to the User once they have been put in contact via the Services;
In the event of a positive or negative, tacit or express response from a partner credit institution or broker to the User's financing request;
The proper execution of the real estate loan concluded between a partner credit institution or broker and the User;

The User is solely responsible for his/her use of the Website and/or the Application and the Services accessed from the Website and/or the Application.
The Company may under no circumstances be held liable in any proceedings brought against a User who is guilty of non-compliant use of the Website and/or the Application and/or the Services it provides.
In this respect, the User acknowledges and accepts that he/she will be personally responsible for any claim or proceedings brought against the Company as a result of his/her non-compliant use of the Services and/or the Website and/or the Application.
The Website and/or the Application may contain hypertext links to third-party websites.
In this respect, given the evanescent nature of the content that may be disseminated, the Company cannot be held liable in the event that the content of said third-party websites contravenes the legal and/or regulatory provisions in force.
In any event, the Company shall not be liable :
In the event of unavailability of the Services for reasons such as failure of the public electricity network, failure of the cable telecommunications networks, loss of connectivity to the Internet network due to public or private operators, in particular the User, the causes of which stem in particular from strikes, storms, earthquakes or any other cause having the characteristics of force majeure ;
In the event of use of the Services by a User under conditions that do not comply with the terms of these GCU; within the limits of current legislation, for any indirect damage, including in particular loss of profit, data or any other loss of intangible assets, even if the Company has been informed of the potential for such damage, which may arise from the use or inability to use the Services, following access to said Services by an unauthorized User. The Company shall not be held liable for any malfunction of any nature whatsoever relating to the User's computer equipment or Internet access connection, when accessing the Website and/or the Application and, more generally, the Services. In particular, the Company cannot guarantee the User of the Services against :
Problems of access speed to the Websites and/or Applications and/or the buffering speed of the User's computer of videos accessible via the Services that the User may encounter.
The quality of the texts, information, descriptions, photographs and Videograms attached to the real estate rental and/or sale advertisements published by the User.

In its capacity as a hosting service provider within the meaning of the provisions of the law on the digital code in the Republic of Benin, the advertisements broadcast under the exclusive responsibility of the Real Estate Partners, the Company cannot materially organize a general surveillance of the advertisements it hosts on the Website and/or the Application and cannot determine whether they are legal or not.
Should the User discover that all or part of an advertisement - posted on the Website and/or the Application by a Real Estate Partner - could be manifestly illicit, the User is invited to report this to the Company.

The Company may not be held liable if the performance of any of its obligations is prevented or delayed due to an event of force majeure as defined by article 1218 of the French Civil Code and interpreted by the case law of the Courts of common law, including but not limited to natural disasters, fire, malfunction or interruption of the telecommunications network or power grid.

Access to the Service by Buyers is reserved for strictly personal use. When using the Service, the Buyer declares that he/she is acting in a private capacity. In addition to acceptance of these Buyer Terms and Conditions, access to the Service is subject to opening an account on the Site. To do so, you must provide the data required for identification. When opening an account, You agree to provide only accurate information. To use the Service, You must use the login and password created when You opened Your account. You agree to keep them secret and not to disclose them to any third party. You will be solely responsible for access to the Service using your login and password, unless there is proof of fraudulent use for which you are not responsible. In the event of loss, misappropriation or fraudulent use of your login and/or password, You agree to immediately notify AFRILOGEMENT customer service.

Opening an account and using the Service are free of charge (except for any connection costs, the price of which depends on your electronic communications operator), with no obligation to purchase anything on the Site. Only the purchase of goods and services or Products from Sellers is subject to payment, in accordance with the conditions set out in the General Terms and Conditions of Sale.

The information and data concerning You are processed by AFRILOGEMENT and are necessary for the management of Your account and Your access to the Service.

All texts, comments, works, illustrations, works and images reproduced or represented on the Site are strictly reserved under copyright and intellectual property law, for the entire duration of the protection of these rights and for the entire world. As such, and in accordance with the provisions of the French Intellectual Property Code, only private use is authorized, subject to different or even more restrictive provisions of the Intellectual Property Code. Any reproduction, representation, modification or total or partial adaptation of the Site and/or of all or part of the elements found on the Site or incorporated therein is strictly forbidden.
The company names, trademarks and distinctive signs reproduced on the Site are protected under trademark law. The reproduction or representation of all or part of any of the aforementioned signs is strictly prohibited and requires the prior written authorization of the trademark owner.
Certain Products are subject to personal and specific rights of use regulating copies, public broadcasting, rentals, etc. You must respect the contractual conditions applicable to these Products. You must respect the contractual conditions applicable to these Products and AFRILOGEMENT cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of these Products in this context.

AFRILOGEMENT's liability towards the Buyer can only be engaged for facts which are directly attributable to AFRILOGEMENT and which cause prejudice directly linked to these facts. AFRILOGEMENT cannot be held liable for indirect prejudice. Nor can AFRILOGEMENT be held liable for misuse of the Service by the Buyer or for any fault on his/her part. Nor can AFRILOGEMENT be held liable for facts attributable to a third party to the Service.

If one or more stipulations of these Buyer GCU are held to be invalid or declared as such in application of a law, regulation or final decision of a competent court, the other stipulations shall retain all their force and scope.

Applicable law and handling of claims under the Service - Online settlement of disputes. These Buyer GCU are governed by Beninese law. Any dispute relating to their interpretation and/or execution shall be subject to Beninese jurisdiction. For any claim relating to the Service, please contact our customer service department.