TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. Introduction
1.1 The following General Terms and Conditions of Sale govern the sale and purchase of products listed on www.port2port.wine ("the Website”) from time to time ("the Products”).
1.2 Your placement of an order via the Website to purchase any Products indicates your agreement to comply with and be bound by these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, and with effect from the acceptance by us of any such order, they will form a binding contract between: You ("the Customer”) and P2 Group (Pty) Ltd (Registration Number: 2010/013419/07), trading as Port2Port, a South African limited liability company with physical address at 120 Church Street, Cape Town ("P2P”, "we” or "us”), on the one hand; and
1.3 You and each of the retailer/s of the Products listed in the order you have placed ("the Vendors”), on the other hand.
1.4 The Website is an on-line platform owned and operated by P2P, on which a range of Vendors may list and display their products for on-line purchase by the public. None of the Products is manufactured, produced or sold by P2P, and P2P accordingly gives no warranties and makes no representations about or in relation to any of the Products.
2. Orders
2.1 You may place one or more orders for the purchase of Products, via the Website, from time to time.
2.2 An order may be for Products offered by a single Vendor, or for Products listed for sale by a number of different Vendors.
2.3 Each order placed by you is subject to e-mail confirmation by P2P, before it is deemed to have been accepted.
2.4 Please note that the Products displayed on the Website may from time to time be out-of-stock, or they may have been discontinued, and neither P2P nor any Vendor guarantees the availability of any Product.
2.5 Alcoholic products are not sold to persons under the age of 18 years, and P2P reserves the right to refuse any order in its sole discretion.
3. Prices, Payment And VAT
3.1 All Product prices, shipping charges ("Shipping Costs”) and other costs are stated in South African Rand (ZAR), and are inclusive of value added tax ("VAT”).
3.2 Prices and charges may change without notice from time to time.
3.3 You shall be required to make payment in respect of any order you wish to place, including shipping costs, as the final step in the order process, at the payment page, following check-out ("the Payment Page”). No order shall be deemed to have been placed by you until such time as payment for the order has been made.
3.4 All payments shall be made in accordance with the payment instructions set out on the Payment Page from time to time. Your use of any of the payment methods listed on the Payment Page is done entirely at your own risk, and neither P2P nor any Vendor shall be liable to you or to any third party for any loss or damage arising out of the use of any such payment method, including as a result of fraud, provided that no party shall be exempt from liability where such loss or damage is the sole and direct result of gross negligence or wilful default on the part of such party or its employees.
3.5 Should any Products that you have ordered subsequently prove to be out of stock or unavailable, you shall not be charged for the Products concerned. To the extent that you have already made payment for those
3.6 Products, we shall give you the choice of ordering alternative Products to the same value, or having the amounts concerned credited to your account on the Website.
3.7 The Website will not automatically generate a tax invoice in respect of each order placed. You shall have an option to request a tax invoice, and one shall be generated and sent to you, only if so requested.
3.8 The total amount reflected at the Payment Page as being due in respect an order is inclusive of VAT required by applicable law in the jurisdiction of your shipping address.
4. Shipping
4.1 Whilst the Vendors are responsible for providing the respective Products comprising each order, P2P shall be responsible for arranging the fulfilment of each order, and the delivery thereof to the relevant shipping address selected by the Customer, and P2P shall use its reasonable commercial endeavours in procuring such fulfilment and delivery in accordance with these General Terms and Conditions of Sale.
4.2 Subject to availability and receipt of payment, delivery will be made to the address specified by you.
4.3 Unless indicated otherwise, Port2Port shipping fees are R99 per vendor and free shipping applies for all orders over R1500 per vendor. If independently shipped by the vendor, shipping fees and free shipping thresholds may vary (indicated on the product detail page). Estimated delivery times for orders within the Republic of South Africa will range between 3 - 5 working days from day of dispatch (excluding weekends or officially recognised South African public holidays). Estimated delivery time for an order to be delivered outside the borders of the Republic of South Africa will be notified to you after such an order has been placed. In neither case shall P2P or any Vendor be liable for any failure to comply with estimated delivery times.
4.4 You acknowledge and agree that: The availability and the packaging of the Products comprising an order is the responsibility of the relevant Vendors; and Delivery of each order is undertaken by a third party contractor appointed by P2P for that purpose, and the sole liability of P2P and/or any Vendor in case of loss or damage suffered by you or any other person arising out of the packaging, transport or delivery of any Products shall be the replacement, at no cost to you, of Products lost or damaged during transit, provided that no party shall be exempt from liability where such loss or damage arises solely and directly out of such party’s gross negligence or wilful default.
4.5 Shipping Costs, which shall include VAT, shall be for Customer’s account, and shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of clause 3 above. Should Customer have stipulated a delivery address outside the borders of the Republic of South Africa, the cost of import or customs duty is likewise for the Customer’s account, and shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of clause 3 above.
4.6 Certain of the Vendors may, in their sole discretion and without having an obligation to do so, offer free shipping on orders of their Products having an order value in excess of a particular amount. Should you be entitled to free shipping in respect of particular Products, you shall be notified at the Payment Page.
5. Returns
5.1 If for any reason you are not satisfied with any Product ordered via the Website, you may (subject to the provision of this clause 5) return such Product to the physical address set out below, save that Vintage and International Wines, and Products designated on the Website as non-returnable, are not returnable or refundable under any circumstance5.s.
5.2 Returns shall be sent to the P2P premises at120 Church Street, Cape Town, 8001.
5.3 P2P will not accept any return unless the Product that you wish to return:
Is returned in its original packaging;
Is sealed effectively to allow for return shipping without compromising the content;
Is shipped within ten (10) days of the date that you received delivery of the Product;
Is, where you are returning a number of Products that were received as part of the same order, returned in one single shipment;
Is shipped from South Africa;
Contains, where the Product is a bottle of wine, at least half of its contents, and is sealed effectively utilizing the original cork; and
Is not a Product falling in the Vintage or International Wines category, or which is otherwise designated on the Website as ‘non-returnable’, together, "the Return Conditions”.
5.4 Where a Product is returned because the Product is defective, or the quality of the Product has been compromised, P2P shall, provided all of the Return Conditions are satisfied and provided also that P2P determines in its sole discretion that the quality of the Product has indeed been compromised, offer the Customer a choice between:
A refund of the price paid for the Product so returned, VATand original Shipping Costs included, in accordance with the provisions of clause 5.5 below; or
A credit note for the value of the price paid for the Product so returned, VATand original Shipping Costs included, to be credited against the Customer’s account on the Website.
5.5 Refunds are processed within approximately five (5) working days of P2P receiving a valid request for a refund.Each refund will be credited to the same account or payment method used to make the original purchase on the Website. If the payment was made by:
5.5.1. credit or debit card, refund times will depend on the credit or debit card company’s policies. The refund date for the credit will coincide with the date of the original payment, therefore the Customer will not be charged any interest;
5.5.2. PayPal (where available), refunds will be credited to the relevant PayPal account and will be visible immediately. The date of reimbursement to the credit card associated with the relevant PayPal account depends on the company that issued the credit card.
5.6 Where a Product has been returned for any reason other than those contemplated in 5.4 above, P2P will,provided all of the Return Conditions are satisfied, issue a credit note for the amount of the price paid for the Product, VAT included, less the original Shipping Costs, to be credited to the Customer’s account on the Website.
5.7 Should P2P decline to process any return on the basis that one or more of the Return Conditions has not been met, P2P will notify you in writing ("the Return Refusal”).
5.8 You may, within thirty (30) days of receiving a Return Refusal, request that the Products in question be shipped back to you, at your own cost, in the condition in which they were received upon return to the P2P premises.
5.9 If you do not request the return of the Products within 30 (thirty) days after receipt of the Return Refusal, you hereby authorize P2P and/or any of its agents, to dispose of such Products as it sees fit, without any compensation to you, and P2P shall have no liability to you arising out of such disposal, whatsoever.
6. Privacy
6.1 Any and all personal information and/or data furnished (directly or indirectly) to P2P in the course of your purchase of any Products via the Website shall be handled in accordance with the terms of the P2P Privacy Policy, and by placing any orders via the Website, you consent thereto.
6.2 P2P recommends that you read the P2P Privacy Policy, which explains P2P’s online privacy practices.
7. No agency between P2P and Vendors
You acknowledge that nothing in these General Terms and Conditions of Sale shall constitute a partnership, joint venture or agency agreement between P2P and any Vendor, in any shape or form.P2P acts at all times as an independent contractor to each of the Vendors.
8. Subcontracting
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, P2P shall be entitled, in its sole discretion, to outsource the performance of any of its obligations in terms hereof, to any third party sub-contractor, without your knowledge or consent.
9. Force Majeure
9.1 Neither P2P nor any Vendor(each of them "a Fulfiller”) shall be liable to you for a failure to perform any of their obligations in terms of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale where:
Such failure was due to an impediment beyond the Fulfiller’s reasonable control;
The Fulfiller could not reasonably have been expected to have taken such impediment and its effects upon the Fulfiller’s ability to perform into account at the time of conclusion of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale; and
The Fulfiller could not reasonably have avoided or overcome the impediment or at least its effects.
9.2 For purposes of this clause 9, the following events (which enumeration is not exhaustive) shall be deemed to be impediments beyond the control of the Fulfiller, namely:
War, whether declared or not, civil war, civil violence, riots and revolutions, acts of piracy, acts of sabotage;
Natural disasters such as violent storms, cyclones, earthquakes, floods and destruction by lightning;
Explosions, fires and destruction of plant, equipment, machinery and machines and of any kind of installations;
Boycotts, strikes, labour unrest, industrial actions and lock-outs of all kinds, including, without limiting the generality of the aforegoing, go-slows, suspension of labour, labour disturbances, interference by trade unions, occupation of or work stoppages; and
Acts of authority, whether lawful or unlawful, apart from acts for which the Fulfiller has assumed the risk.
9.3 Relief from liability for non-performance by reason of the provisions of this clause 9 shall commence on the date upon which the Fulfiller is first affected by the impediment, and shall terminate upon the date upon which such impediment ceases to exist.
9.4 If such impediment has not been overcome or its effect so nullified within a period of 60 (sixty) days, then either you or the Fulfiller shall be entitled (as its sole remedy therefor) to cancel the order/s so affected, and no party shall have any claim against any of the others of them, arising out of such cancellation, whatsoever.
10. Disclaimers And Limitations Of Liability
10.1 P2P is not the producer, manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer of the Products, and P2P accordingly makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the Products, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
10.2 You agree that P2P will not be liable to you for loss or damage suffered by you or any other person, arising out of the purchase and/or consumption of any Product, and you hereby indemnify P2P against any such loss or damage, howsoever arising, save for any claim for direct loss or damage arising as the sole result of P2P’s gross negligence or wilful default.
10.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, you hereby agree that neither P2P, nor any Vendor, nor their employees, officers, agents and/or sub-contractors shall be liable to you for loss of profits, or indirect or consequential loss suffered by you or any third party, howsoever caused.
10.4. In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction finds that P2P and/or the Vendor is liable to you, you agree that the total aggregate liability of P2P and/or the Vendor and, the employees, officers, agents and/or sub-contractors of P2P and the Vendor, whether under this Agreement or in law shall be limited to an amount equal to the aggregate amount actually paid by you to P2P in respect of the specific Product/s in relation to which the cause of action arose.
11. Indemnify
By placing any order via the Website, you (the Customer) acknowledge and agree that your use of the Website and your purchase of any Products via the Website, is done at your sole risk, and you hereby irrevocably indemnify each of the Vendors, P2P, and their respective employees, officers, agents and sub-contractors against any claim which might be brought against them, in respect of any loss or damage suffered by you and/or any third party, arising out of your use of the Website and/or your purchase of any Products via the Website, howsoever arising, provided that no party shall be exempt from liability where the loss or damage is the sole and direct result of that party’s gross negligence or wilful default.
12. Assignment
12.1 P2P and/or any Vendor may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with its rights and/or obligations under these General Terms and Conditions of Use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
12.2 You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these General Terms and Conditions of Sale.
12.3 You may not transfer an order to any other person.
13. General
13.1 P2P reserves the right to make changes to these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, and/or the Privacy Policy, at any time. Revisions will apply from the date of the publication of the revised terms on the Website, and shall not have retrospective application.
13.2 If any provision of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale is determined to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale remain in full force to the extent permitted by law.
13.3 The laws of South Africa (without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles) govern all matters arising out of or relating to these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, including, without limitation, their validity, interpretation, construction, performance, and enforcement. All legal proceedings arising out of or in connection with these General Terms and Conditions of Sale shall be brought in South Africa.
13.4 These General Terms and Conditions of Sale (which incorporate the Privacy Policy by reference) constitute the entire agreement between you, P2P and each Vendor in relation to your purchase of Products via the Website from time to time, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your purchase of Products via the Website.
13.5 When any number of days is prescribed in these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, same shall be reckoned exclusively of the first and inclusively of the last day unless the last day falls on a day that is not working day, in which case the last day shall be the next working day.
13.6 In the event of a conflict between the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale and the provisions of any Vendor’s documentation, the provisions of these General Terms and Conditions of Sale shall take precedence to the extent of the conflict, unless otherwise agreed by P2P and the Vendor in writing.
13.7 The rule of construction that a contract shall be interpreted against the party responsible for the drafting or preparation of the contract, shall not apply to these General Terms and Conditions of Sale.
13.8 Any reference in these General Terms and Conditions of Sale to a party shall include a reference to that party’s assigns expressly permitted under these General Terms and Conditions of Sale and, if such party is liquidated or sequestrated, be applicable also to and binding upon that party’s liquidator or trustee, as the case may be.
14. Promotion: Payday Perk
14.1 Terms and Conditions are as follows: Promotion ends at midnight on Friday, 31 January 2025. Spend R750 or more and get 10% off with code SAVE10, spend R1,500 or more and get 15% off with code SAVE15, or spend R3,000 or more and get 20% off with code SAVE20. Free delivery applies per vendor for shipments exceeding R1,500. Only one voucher code can be used per checkout, but you can use all three vouchers on separate orders if the amounts qualify. Vouchers are exclusively redeemable on Port2Port SA, cannot be redeemed for cash, and expire at midnight on 31 January 2025. For assistance, contact help@port2port.wine