Terms and Conditions

1.  Introduction

This document constitutes a legally binding agreement (“Agreement”) governing the terms of providing you with our Product.  Throughout this document, the words “Tradefox,” “tradefox.co,” “us,” “we,” and “our,” refer to us, Scrap Connection B.V., or our websites, tradefox.co, as is appropriate in the context of the use of the words.  Likewise, the words “you” and “your” refer to you, the person who is being presented with this document for your agreement.

2.  Definitions

“Agreement” means these Terms of Service;

“Tradefox” refers to the business which owns the websites (Scrap Connection B.V.), our Sites, or our product, depending on the context of the usage;

“Product” refers to the services that we provide through our Site;

“Sites” refers to our websites under the domain https://tradefox.co

“User” refers to you, Buyers, Sellers, and any other person who uses our Product, or visits our Site;

“You” refers to you, the person who is entering into this Agreement with Tradefox.

3.  Description of Service

Tradefox provides a business intelligence platform that displays reviews about businesses in the recycling industry.

4. Trust reviews

You can leave a trust review if you are aware of the reputation of a company. To leave a trust review, it is not required that you have traded with them. You can score a company from 1 to 5 stars, based on the reputation that you know the company by.

Don’t make up a trust score or leave a trust score impersonating someone else. If you’re closely associated with, work(ed) for, or are in competition with a particular company, you shouldn’t give it a trust score. These scores will be deleted.

5. Trade reviews

You can leave a trade review if you have traded with a company. To leave a trade review, it is required that you have traded at least once with the other party. On the Tradefox dashboard you can score a company from 1 to 5 stars on the following: 

Integrity, material quality, payment process & claims.  If there was a claim filed it’s optional to leave additional comments. If you choose to ‘submit confidentially’, Your feedback will be included when we calculate your trading partner’s TrustScore and visible in aggregate on their profile, but they won’t be able to read the details of your review. Trade feedback submitted without this option will be visible to the public and your counterparty will be notified that you have given feedback on their trade.

Don’t make up a trade review or leave a trade review impersonating someone else. If you’re closely associated with or work(ed) for a particular company, you shouldn’t give it a trade review. These scores will be deleted from our database.

6. Introductory / participation credit offer

6.1 Subscribers will be offered the opportunity to participate in the TradeFox introductory credit scheme whereby report credits will be issued to the subscriber in return for providing trade reviews.

6.2 Report credits can be redeemed against future trade reputation reports requests.

6.3 The following minimum reviews are required to be provided to earn a report credit:

a) XX Trust reviews

b) XX Trade Reviews

c) XXX Incidents of praise

6.4 All trade credits must be redeemed within 18 months of the report credit being issued.

7 General information  

– Tradefox reserves the right to remove any illegitimate feedback from a user’s profile.  
– If you have inadvertently submitted feedback in error, please contact Tradefox support for assistance.  

8.  Information Supplied 

When using our website, you will provide your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card information when subscribing to a paid plan and telephone number.  We also require that Users provide suitable proof of identity, such as a copy of a business card, or some other evidence deemed suitable by Tradefox.  Please note that although we engage in these vetting procedures, we make no warranties as to the identity of any User.

We may choose to process your payment directly, or we may pass some or all of the information you provide to us, including your credit card information, to a third party payment processor for processing.

In addition to providing us with the above information about yourself, when signing up for our Product, you must be at least the minimum age of contractual capacity in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, which is eighteen years old.

If you live somewhere other than Amsterdam, The Netherlands, you must be at least the minimum age of contractual capacity where you live, but, if that age is lower than eighteen, you must still be at least eighteen to use our Product.

9.  Disclaimer 

We are merely a business intelligence platform for Buyers and Sellers who wish to find new trading partners and gain insight about a company’s trading behaviour.  As such, we make no claims as to the reliability of either Sellers or Buyers who purchase scrap material from Sellers and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we make no claims about the quality of material sold, the reliability or honesty of a User, or the safety of any material provided or the method by which it is transported.  You hereby acknowledge that Tradefox takes no responsibility for the sale of goods by Sellers, or the purchase of goods by Buyers, and you agree to release us from any liability related to such transactions that we might otherwise have towards you.

10.  Payment 

10.1. As part of registering, or submitting billing information when you subscribe for the plus or pro plan to the product, User agrees to provide us with updated, accurate and complete billing information, and User authorizes us (either directly or through our affiliates, subsidiaries or other third parties) to charge, request and collect payment (or otherwise charge, refund or take any other billing actions) from User’s payment method, and to make any inquiries that we may consider necessary to validate User’s designated payment account or financial information, in order to ensure prompt payment, including for the purpose of receiving updated payment details from User’s credit card company (e.g., updated expiry date or card number as may be provided to us by User’s credit card company).

10.2. Subscription Auto-Renewal. 

In order to ensure that User will not experience any interruption or loss of services, User’s Subscription includes an automatic renewal, unless User cancels its Subscription by contacting support@tradefox.co.  

11.  Taxes 

Tradefox is not responsible for maintaining financial records on behalf of Users.  As a User, you agree that you are an independent business or individual, not working on behalf of Tradefox in any way, and that you are retaining us for our services as a business intelligence platform only. Tradefox does not act as a representative, advisor, or accountant for any User in any way, nor does it manage how contracts are performed (such as how material is delivered).

As a User, you are solely responsible for maintaining your financial records and reporting your income to the Internal Revenue Service and state revenue agencies.  You must ensure that you comply with all applicable tax legislation (as well as any other legislation), which may include the payment of sales or use taxes to state revenue agencies.  You must also ensure that you comply with all customs requirements, such as the payments of tariffs on metals.

12.  Refunds 

We are only a company that offers a business intelligence platform in which Buyers and Sellers can contact each other for the exchange of scrap materials and look up company’s trading behaviour.  As we are not the Seller of any material ourselves, we cannot offer refunds, and it is up to Buyers and Sellers to solve any disputes amongst themselves independently of Tradefox.

13.  Copyright 

You agree not to copy, distribute, display, disseminate, or otherwise reproduce any of the information on our websites, or our websites themselves, without our prior written permission.  This includes, but is not limited to, aggregating our content, rewriting it and/or reposting it elsewhere.

14.  Trademarks 

“Tradefox” is a trademark used by us, Scrap Connection B.V., to uniquely identify our Site and our Service.  You agree not to use this phrase anywhere without our prior written consent.  Additionally, you agree not to use our trade dress, or copy the look and feel of our websites or its design, without our prior written consent.  You agree that this paragraph goes beyond the governing law on intellectual property law and includes prohibitions on any competition that violates the provisions of this paragraph.

15.  Revocation of Consent 

Where Tradefox has given prior written consent for your use of our protected material in accordance with our above “Copyright” and “Trademarks” provisions, we may revoke that consent at any time.  If we so request, we may require that you immediately take action to remove from circulation, display, publication, or other dissemination, any of the marks, copyrighted content, or other materials that we previously consented for you to use.  We therefore recommend that, if granted such permission, you do not use our intellectual property in any manner that would result in a loss if we exercised our right to revoke consent to use that intellectual property.

16.  Representations & Warranties 

WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE MERCHANTABILITY OF OUR OR OUR USERS’ GOODS OR SERVICES OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RELEASING US FROM ANY LIABILITY THAT WE MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO YOU IN RELATION TO OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR OUR PRODUCTS, FOR REASONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FAILURE OF OUR SERVICE, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER TORT.  TO THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW RESTRICTS THIS RELEASE OF LIABILITY, YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE ONLY LIABLE TO YOU FOR THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF DAMAGES THAT THE LAW RESTRICTS OUR LIABILITY TO, IF SUCH A MINIMUM EXISTS.

YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY LOSSES CAUSED BY THE PURCHASE OF GOODS OR SERVICES FROM OUR USERS, BY CONNECTING THROUGH OUR SERVICE.  THIS INCLUDES ANY FAILURE OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY GOODS OR SERVICES, INCLUDING INJURY TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF THE GOODS OR SERVICES OF OUR COMPANY OR A THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING ANY FAILURES OR DISRUPTIONS, UNTIMELY DELIVERY, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED, INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL, ON OUR SITE WHICH PREVENT ACCESS TO OUR SITE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY.

THE PROVISION OF OUR SERVICE TO YOU IS CONTINGENT ON YOUR AGREEMENT WITH THIS AND ALL OTHER SECTIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.  NOTHING IN THE PROVISIONS OF THIS “REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES” SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS SECTION.

17.  Indemnity 

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless for any claims by you or any third party which may arise from or relate to this Agreement or the provision of our Product to you, including any damages caused by your use of our Site or the products or services ordered from it.  You also agree that you have a duty to defend us against such claims and we may require you to pay for an attorney(s) of our choice in such cases.  You agree that this indemnity extends to requiring you to pay for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements.  In the event of a claim such as one described in this paragraph, we may elect to settle with the party/parties making the claim, and you shall be liable for the damages as though we had proceeded with a trial.

18.  Choice of Law 

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws in force in the Netherlands. The offer and acceptance of this contract are deemed to have occurred in the Netherlands.

19.  Forum of Dispute

In order to limit the costs and complexity of legal proceedings against Tradefox, you agree that any dispute naming Tradefox or a party acting for or on behalf of Tradefox arising from or relating to this Agreement will be heard solely by the Dutch court system known in the Netherlands as the “Procedure Voor Geringe Vorderingen” (hereafter named as “Small Claims Court”, ).  You agree that even if you may be entitled to a monetary, equitable, or other remedy exceeding the jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court, you will waive your right to that remedy and still bring your action within the Small Claims Court.  

If the subject matter of a dispute includes multiple claims, at least one of which is eligible to be heard in the Small Claims Court, you will release us from liability for the ineligible subject matter and will instead proceed with the eligible subject matter within the Small Claims Court.

If, after the application of these Forum of Dispute provisions, your claim is still ineligible to be heard in the Small Claims Court, you agree that the dispute shall be heard in the next most summary manner available in a court of competent jurisdiction.[b]

If you bring a dispute in a manner other than in accordance with this section, you agree that we may move to have it dismissed, and that you will be responsible for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements in doing so.

You agree that the prevailing party in any dispute will be entitled to claim from the unsuccessful party the entire amount of the prevailing party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs, and disbursements in relation to the dispute.

20.  Force Majeure 

You agree that we are not responsible to you for anything that we may otherwise be responsible for, if it is the result of events beyond our control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, war, insurrection, riots, terrorism, crime, labour shortages (including lawful and unlawful strikes), embargoes, postal disruption, communication disruption, failure or shortage of infrastructure, shortage of materials, or any other event beyond our control.

21.  Severability

In the event that a provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, conflicting with another provision of the Agreement, or otherwise unenforceable, the Agreement will remain in force as though it had been entered into without that unenforceable provision being included in it.

If two or more provisions of this Agreement are deemed to conflict with each other’s operation, Tradefox shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force.

22.  Non-Waiver

In the event of a breach of this Agreement by you, or other actionable conduct, we may not take action against you, either knowingly or unknowingly.  Such a failure to act on our part against you, or anybody else, for actionable conduct, should not be considered a waiver of our rights under this Agreement or under any applicable laws.

23.  Termination & Cancellation

We may terminate your account or our provision of services to you, without explanation, though we will strive to provide a timely explanation in most cases.  Our liability for refunding you will be limited to the amount you paid directly to us (not including payments paid to us when such payments were intended to be credited to another User rather than to Tradefox directly), except in cases where the termination or cancellation was due to your breach of this Agreement or for cause.

Termination for cause includes any activity which may be unlawful and/or harm Tradefox, its Users, or any other person, and includes but is not limited to the engagement or attempted engagement in fraud, hacking, violence, breach of contract with Tradefox or another User, money laundering, tax evasion, or any other activity which can cause harm to the Tradefox platform.

For services which have no time limit, such as advertising or account services with no expiration date on our provision of the service, you agree that we are not liable in any way whatsoever for refunding payments once our Service is at least partially provided to you, as we cannot take on the burden of guaranteeing that our Site will be online, or our business will exist, for an infinite amount of time.


24.  Assignment

You may not assign your rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our prior written consent.  We may assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party at our discretion.

25.  Amendments

We may amend this Agreement from time to time.  When we amend this Agreement, we will send you an e-mail informing you that there has been a change.  You may refuse to agree to the amendments, but if you do, you must immediately cease using our websites and our service and inform us of your refusal by e-mailing support@tradefox.co with details.