Terms & Conditions
These Terms and Conditions govern the use of the services offered by My Messenger Africa (“My Messenger Africa”) on the My Messenger Africa website (the “Website”).
Please read these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) carefully before using My Messenger Africa’s services or its website.
Your use of My Messenger Africa services or its website constitutes your acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions in these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, and your confirmation that you are either at least eighteen (18) years of age or under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
Use Of Website
By using My Messenger Africa’s website, you confirm that you are either at least 18 years of age or are using the website under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
We grant you a non-transferable and revocable license to use the website, under the Terms and Conditions described, for the purpose of shopping for items sold on the website. Any breach of these Terms and Conditions shall result in the immediate revocation of the license granted to use the website without notice to you.
Some services and features on the website may require registration or subscription.
Should you choose to register or subscribe for such services or features, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself, and to promptly update such information if there are any changes.
User Account
You are the sole authorised user of any account you create with My Messenger Africa and are entirely responsible for all activities that occur under such account.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account name you create as well as any password associated with such account. You agree to immediately notify us of any suspected or actual unauthorised use of your account and/or password.
By providing your contact information such as phone number and email address, you agree to receive information including but not limited to availability of items in your order, status of your order, promotions, other information that My Messenger Africa may deem fit to send you. At any point, you may request us to discontinue sending you such information.
You must inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering by updating your personal details.
If My Messenger Africa believes that there is likely to be a breach of security or misuse of the My Messenger Africa website, we may require you to change your password or we may suspend your account.
Within reason, My Messenger Africa may suspend or cancel your account for a variety of reasons including but not limited to breach of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions.
My Messenger Africa shall not be responsible or liable in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, your failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions.
User Submissions
The My Messenger Africa website may allow the submission of various kinds of communication in the form of comments, reviews, photographs, videos, comments and other communication by users of the website.
All such submissions will be considered non-confidential and will be available for My Messenger Africa to use as it deems fit in any medium and in any territory globally.
All users of the My Messenger Africa website hereby agree not to submit material that: (i) is copyrighted, subject to privacy or publicity rights or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from the owner to submit the material; (ii) is unlawful, illegal, obscene, harassing, defamatory, libellous, treasonable, pornographic, hateful, racially, religiously or ethnically offensive or is otherwise inappropriate; (iii) could damage the reputation of My Messenger Africa or any third party; or (iv) impersonates another person. My Messenger Africa reserves the right to remove any submission at its discretion and not least if the submission breaches any of the above listed terms.
My Messenger Africa does not endorse submissions made on its website and My Messenger Africa disclaims any liability in connection with any submission.
You accept that by accessing My Messenger Africa’s website you may be exposed to submissions that may be offensive, inaccurate or distasteful, and you hereby waive any legal rights or claims you may have against My Messenger Africa in relation to this.
Website Content And Pricing
While care is taken to ensure the content published by My Messenger Africa on its website, including but not limited to product images, product names, product descriptions, product functionalities, product uses, product ingredients and prices, is accurate and complete, errors may occur and you hereby agree that My Messenger Africa will not be liable in any way for such content.
Though content may be the same, depending on item version (e.g. books), images on the site may differ slightly from actual item.
Also, prices of items that need to be weighed (e.g. fruits, vegetables, meat) may be guide prices or approximated to enable you make a buying decision.
However, you will only be billed for the actual weight purchased; any difference in guide to actual price wil be credited/debited to your My Messenger Africa wallet as the case may be. Actual price of weighed items will be fully visible to you upon delivery.
In line with this, My Messenger Africa reserves the right to refuse or cancel any order if the order contains item(s) that are mispriced or contain incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete content.
Order Acceptance And Cancellation
My Messenger Africa reserves the sole right to determine which orders to accept and process as well as the right to cancel any order at its own discretion.
However, My Messenger Africa will ensure that the cancellation of any order is communicated in an appropriate time and manner.
Orders Including Alcoholic Drinks
Alcoholic drinks may only be purchased by individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years of age. By purchasing such products on the My Messenger Africa website, you confirm that: (i) you are at least eighteen (18) years of age; and (ii) you will provide legitimate and legally recognised identification confirming your age to the driver upon delivery of your order (iii) you accept that failure to provide such identification may result in My Messenger Africa and its employees or agents refusing to deliver your order (iv) you accept that My Messenger Africa and its employees or agents reserve the right not to fulfil delivery of your order if there is any doubt that the identification provided by you is illegitimate, fake or falsified in any way.
Third Party Websites
My Messenger Africa may provide web links to websites owned or operated by third parties. My Messenger Africa does not endorse the content or any products or services available on such websites and is not responsible for such content.
Your connection to any other websites from the My Messenger Africa website is at your own risk.
Use Of Material
Unless otherwise stated, all rights to all materials, content, layout, images, text and design of this website are proprietary to My Messenger Africa. Users of this website may browse the website and may download material displayed on the website for non-commercial, lawful, personal use only, provided all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the material so downloaded are retained and such information is not modified, copied or posted on any networked computer or broadcast in any media. All other copying, reproduction, posting on any other website, republication, downloading, uploading, encoding, modification, translation, public performance or display, distribution or transmission of any portion of this website, or the making of any derivative works from this Website, is prohibited without the express permission of My Messenger Africa.
Trademarks And Copyrights
This website is owned, controlled and operated by Official Messenger Africa in Nigeria, UK, America and other geographical locations in the future.
All material on this website, including images, illustrations, audio clips, and video clips, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights that are owned and controlled by us or by other parties that have licensed their material to us or provided us permission to use such material.
The material on the My Messenger Africa website may be used by you for personal, non-commercial purposes. You must not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute such material in any way, including by e-mail or other electronic means and whether directly or indirectly and you must not assist any other person to do so. Without the prior written consent of My Messenger Africa, modification of the materials, use of the materials on any other web site or networked computer environment or use of the materials for any purpose other than personal, non-commercial use is a violation of the copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights, and is prohibited.
Territorial Use
My Messenger Africa offers no guarantee that items on the My Messenger Africa website are appropriate or available, and accessing the My Messenger Africa website from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited and done at the user’s risk. Ultimately, the user is responsible for ensuring that accessing or using the My Messenger Africa website is done in accordance with applicable local laws.
Applicable Law
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Nigeria and any disputes will be decided by Nigerian courts.
Limitation Of Liability
You agree that My Messenger Africa shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from or in connection to use of My Messenger Africa’s services or website. In no event shall My Messenger Africa’s total liability to you exceed the amount paid by you to My Messenger Africa.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify and hold harmless My Messenger Africa, its owners, licensees, affiliates, subsidiaries and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, against any losses, claims, actions, costs, damages, penalties, fines and expenses including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party or penalty imposed due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and other Policies, or your violation of any law, rules or regulations or the rights of a third party.
Termination
At My Messenger Africa’s discretion and without prior notice to you, My Messenger Africa may suspend or terminate your access to the My Messenger Africa website.
Upon any termination of your access to the website, you shall immediately cease all access to and use of the My Messenger Africa website and we shall, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, immediately revoke all password(s) and account identification issued to you and deny your access to and use of the website in whole or in part.
If you are dissatisfied with the website or with any terms, conditions, rules, policies, guidelines, or practices of My Messenger Africa in operating the website, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the website.
Delivery Windows
For your convenience, we offer a number of windows in which we expect to deliver your order. At checkout, you may select your preferred window and we will make every attempt to deliver within your selected delivery window. In the event that there is a delay, you will be notified as much in advance as possible. Ultimately, the delivery windows are a guide and we are not bound to deliver within the stipulated windows. What we do guarantee is that your order will be delivered within 7 WORKING DAYS of the time of your selected delivery window. That said, the majority of our customers’ orders are delivered within their chosen delivery window and it is always our goal to achieve this. Beyond the delivery window selected at checkout, we are unable to accept requests for deliveries at specific times.
Communicating With You During Order Processing
While processing your order, we may need to contact you to discuss the availability of items in your order and any suggested replacements. We require your response within 15 minutes of receiving emails or phone calls about any replacements in your order, otherwise, we may deliver only the actual items ordered without including any suggested replacements. At checkout, we ask customers their preferred mode of us communicating with them, this preferred mode of communication however only applies to any update to your order prior to dispatch. Once an order has been dispatched, other communication may be by phone call, so we require you to have your phone readily available.
Access To Your Delivery Location
We always endeavour to deliver your order directly to your doorstep, however if access to your location is limited due to a dilapidated road, flooding, road blocks, civil unrest or any other encumbrances, then we will require you to notify us in advance and also to meet the delivery driver at a convenient and more accessible location. Failure to notify us of any such issues may result in a delay and/or rescheduling of your delivery or a cancellation of your order.
Access Within Your Building
Our delivery drivers are very happy to carry your order to your doorstep. If your building has an elevator, the drivers will bring the order to any floor you’re on. If, however, the building has no elevator, the highest floor the drivers will walk up to is the 2nd floor (assuming the ground floor is the 1st floor). Also, if your order contains large and/or heavy individual items such as water refill bottles, the driver will only walk up to the 2nd floor (assuming the ground floor is the 1st floor) if the building has no elevator.
Meeting Our Delivery Driver
In order to enable our delivery drivers effect timely deliveries, they are mandated to wait for a maximum of 5 minutes for each customer to receive their orders from them. After contacting a customer and the customer is either unresponsive or fails to show up after 5 minutes, the driver will leave your address. If you are unreachable at the point of delivery, your order may be rescheduled at an additional cost.
We will accept no liability for perishable or other items that are damaged due to the wait time.
Cancellations
When we receive customer orders, we begin processing them immediately. And because we do not hold our own inventory and we only purchase from supermarkets and retail outlets when customers place orders, as soon as customers pay for their orders, we start purchasing their selected items from the supermarkets. The retailers we buy from have a no-return policy so, we in turn, are unable to return any items customers purchase from us to the retailers. Thus, once an order has been paid for, My Messenger Africa is unable to accept a cancellation of the order, neither is My Messenger Africa able to process a refund (either to the customer’s My Messenger Africa wallet or their bank account). This, however, does not affect your rights to a refund in the event that an incorrect or damaged item is delivered.
Returns
If we deliver an incorrect or damaged item (damage that has been caused by us), we will happily replace the item at no additional cost to you. For us to replace such items, customers will need to notify the delivery driver of their observation at the point of delivery. Once customers have taken delivery of their order and signed confirming this, they take ownership of the items and My Messenger Africa will be unable to accept any returns. For this reason, we ask customers to carefully check and confirm the accuracy of their order with the delivery driver before acknowledging receipt by signing.
My Messenger Africa will not accept returns for items that have no material damage to them.
Products that are materially intact but whose packaging may have scratches, peels, tearing, dents, discolouration, rust, or any other aesthetic impairment that does not affect the taste, functionality or integrity of the actual product may not be accepted by My Messenger Africa as a return.
Refunds
If an item you ordered is unavailable, we will continue to check for the item until it is back in stock. If, after our checks, the item remains out of stock, any credit due to you will be added to your My Messenger Africa eWallet. We do not process refunds to bank accounts.
In instances where your address is not within our delivery coverage locations or we later receive a payment which did not reflect in our account at the time you made it, we may process a refund to your account after deducting relevant bank charges.
Treatment Of Our Employees
My Messenger Africa employees always strive to please customers and often go to extra lengths to ensure customers are fully satisfied with the service. We expect that our customers will accord the same courtesy and respect to all our employees they may engage with via email, over the phone or in person. Our employees mean a lot to us and without them, we will not be able to provide the level of service we offer our customers. So, while we will be patient with customers, we will not tolerate any written, verbal or physical abuse to our employees by anyone. Any breach of this by a customer may result in our refusal to fulfil the customer’s order. In such an instance, if the items in the customer’s order have already been picked and paid for, we may decide not to deliver to the customer’s location and instead require the customer to pick up the order at a location of our choosing. If, however, the items have not been purchased, we may process a refund after deducting relevant bank, transactional and operational charges and costs My Messenger Africa may have incurred. My Messenger Africa reserves the right to report any incidence of abuse to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.
SHIPMENT
1 Rates Given Are all in NIGERIAN NAIRA AND SUBJECT TO EXCHANGE RATES VARIANCE
2 HANDLING FEES PER HAWB @ MAXIMUM 30 KILOS @ N15,000 PER HAWB
3 Return Packages Will Be Charge Same Rate As Sending Package To the Destination
5 Shipment Will Be Forwarded On As Per Invoice Cum Packing List, Shipper/Customer Has Liability For Any INCORRECT Declaration.
6 EXTRA HANDLING Surcharge @ ISLAND Destinations @ N25,000 PER HAWB
7 Address Correction @ N50,000 PER HAWB
8 Volume Weight Will Be Calculated As L X B X H Cm / 5000
9 In Case Of Lost Shipment, TRANSGLOBAL/MY MESSENGER and/or our PARTNERS ARE ONLY Liable To Pay MAXIMUM OF N100,000 Or The DECLARED Value Of Shipment ON AWB, Whichever Is LOWER
10 Insurance Service Is Available at N30,000 or 3% of Shipment Value WHICHEVER IS HIGHER PER HAWB
11 For Lost Parcel with Insurance, Customer Can Claim as per declared value maximum of up to N400,000 Per Shipment OR HAWB
- In Case Shipment Returns Due To Any Reason, Charges of N100,000 applicable + re-forwarding charge if re-forwarding required
- Non-Conveyable Charges of N40,000 Will Be Applicable if any shipment is OVERSIZED, ODD SHAPED or MANUAL HANDLING REQUIRED AT DESTINATION
- No Claim for Damage Shipments WITHOUT INSURANCE