GENERAL TERMS & CONDITIONS OF SALE
New Motion Labs Ltd
last updated 5th September 2024
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
All sales of NEW MOTION LABS products or services (the “Product(s)”) by NEW MOTION LABS LTD. or any of its affiliates and/or subsidiaries registered in Europe, (hereinafter referred as NEW MOTION LABS) shall be governed by the terms and conditions set forth herein. ACCEPTANCE BY NEW MOTION LABS OF ANY PURCHASE ORDER BY THE CUSTOMER IS LIMITED TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN, AND ANY TERMS OR CONDITIONS PROPOSED BY THE CUSTOMER WHICH DIFFER FROM, ARE INCONSISTENT WITH OR WHICH ARE IN ADDITION TO THOSE STATED HEREIN, SHALL NOT BE, NOR DEEMED TO BE, ACCEPTED BY NEW MOTION LABS. The terms and conditions herein shall apply to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions shown in the purchase orders, confirmations or any other documents received from the Customer other than Product identification and quantity ordered. The terms and conditions herein supersede all prior general terms and conditions of sale of NEW MOTION LABS.
QUOTATIONS – ACCEPTANCE OF ORDER
Quotations given by NEW MOTION LABS to the Customer are valid for fifteen days from their date of issuance, unless previously withdrawn or otherwise agreed in writing by NEW MOTION LABS, and quotations are subject to sufficient Products being available on the date the order is received by NEW MOTION LABS. Purchase orders may only be regarded as accepted by NEW MOTION LABS upon the sending by NEW MOTION LABS of a written order acknowledgement to the Customer. NEW MOTION LABS reserves the right to use an alternate source or sources of supply than might be specified in Customer’s purchase order, NEW MOTION LABS’s order acknowledgement or any other document pertaining to a sale of Products, provided that Products of the same quality are supplied from such alternate source or sources.
PRICE
Unless otherwise agreed in writing by NEW MOTION LABS, the prices charged by NEW MOTION LABS for the Products shall be those prices set forth in the NEW MOTION LABS price list in effect on the date of shipment of the Products by NEW MOTION LABS. Prices set forth in the NEW MOTION LABS price lists do not include value added tax, sales and other taxes, customs levies, local delivery or other shipping charges (including insurance), the price of packing materials and crates, and surcharges for materials and utilities, all of which shall be charged in addition to the prices set forth in the NEW MOTION LABS price list.
PAYMENT
4.1 Full payment of the price is due within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of NEW MOTION LABS’s invoice unless otherwise agreed in writing by NEW MOTION LABS. Amounts not timely paid by the Customer shall bear interest as provided for by law, notwithstanding any other legal action NEW MOTION LABS may undertake against the Customer.
4.2 If the Customer does not comply with the terms of payment described above in more than two instances, or if circumstances become known to NEW MOTION LABS that, in its reasonable judgment, diminish the Customer’s creditworthiness, NEW MOTION LABS may, with respect to any purchase order not yet performed, without prejudice to any statutory rights, (a) request advance payment, or (b) request adequate security. If after a reasonable amount of time the Customer has not complied with (a) or (b), NEW MOTION LABS may refuse delivery under the purchase order, or claim damages for non-performance.
4.3 The Customer shall be deemed to have paid only if the payment is made directly to NEW MOTION LABS. If NEW MOTION LABS has several claims against a Customer at the time a payment is received from such Customer, the payment shall have satisfied the oldest claim first, regardless of any other designation by the Customer. As to any particular claim, payment shall first be applied against expenses incurred by NEW MOTION LABS in respect to such claim, then against interest charged in respect to such claim, and finally against the claim itself.
4.4 NEW MOTION LABS may show additional damages caused by the Customer’s default and demand indemnification from the Customer therefore. The Customer shall have a right of set-off or a right to withhold payment only if the Customer’s counterclaim (a) has been acknowledged by NEW MOTION LABS, or (b) has been confirmed by legal action and can no longer be contested by NEW MOTION LABS.
IDENTIFICATION
NEW MOTION LABS will show the purchase order number, together with appropriate information identifying the shipment, on NEW MOTION LABS’s invoices, shipping containers or tags, and other accompanying papers.
DELIVERY TERMS
6.1 Except as otherwise agreed by NEW MOTION LABS in writing, the Products shall be delivered Ex Works (as defined in Incoterms 2020) NEW MOTION LABS’s plants or warehouses or plants or warehouses of affiliated companies of NEW MOTION LABS, or plants or warehouses of suppliers of NEW MOTION LABS LTD. , as the case may be (“NEW MOTION LABS Facility”).
6.2 Any delivery dates indicated by NEW MOTION LABS for the Products are indicative only and NEW MOTION LABS shall not in any way be liable for any delays in delivery. NEW MOTION LABS shall nevertheless use its reasonable efforts to affect the delivery on the dates it has indicated.
6.3 Partial deliveries by NEW MOTION LABS shall be permitted.
6.4 In the event of interference with or interruption of NEW MOTION LABS’s business due to any event of force majeure or due to other causes beyond NEW MOTION LABS’s control, such as, but not limited to, strikes or other labour disputes, fires, floods, nuclear incidents, earthquakes, storms, accidents, disease, epidemic, scarcity of labour, materials or fuel, airport or port congestion or other transportation difficulties, war, acts (including failure to act) of any governmental authorities, acts of public enemies, mobs or rioters, sabotage, or in the event of interference with or interruption of the Customer’s business due to any of such causes, deliveries hereunder may be suspended or partially suspended, as the case may be, during the continuance of such interruption.
6.5 In no event shall NEW MOTION LABS be liable for loss of profits or indirect, special or consequential damages. If any Product is in limited supply or the availability of the Product is otherwise restricted, NEW MOTION LABS shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to allocate its supply of Product to and among Customer and other purchasers of the Product
TRANSFER OF RISKS
7.1 The risk of loss or damage to the Products shall pass to the Customer at the Ex Works point specified in Paragraph 6.1. Version June 2023 2
7.2 Once NEW MOTION LABS has informed the Customer that the Products ordered are ready for delivery, they must be claimed immediately by the Customer. If the Products are not claimed immediately, NEW MOTION LABS may put the Products in storage at the Customer’s expense.
7.3 The risk of loss or damage to the Products shall pass to the Customer no later than at the time the Products are declared ready for delivery even if delivery is delayed due to the Customer’s complete or partial default in payment or due to any other reason for which the Customer is responsible.
RETENTION OF TITLE
8.1 TITLE TO AND OWNERSHIP IN THE PRODUCTS SHALL ONLY TRANSFER TO THE CUSTOMER AFTER FULL PAYMENT OF THE APPLICABLE INVOICE AND ANY APPLICABLE INTEREST. CONSEQUENTLY, BEFORE SUCH FULL PAYMENT, NEW MOTION LABS REMAINS OWNER OF THE PRODUCTS (“RETENTION PRODUCTS”). ALTHOUGH NEW MOTION LABS RETAINS TITLE IN THE PRODUCTS SOLD UNTIL FULL PAYMENT OF THE PRICE, THE CUSTOMER SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY OR TO THE PRODUCTS, UPON THE TRANSFER OF RISK AS DEFINED ABOVE IN SECTION 7.
8.2 The Customer shall inform NEW MOTION LABS immediately of any attachment to, or any other legal or factual impairment of the Retention Products, or of any security granted to NEW MOTION LABS.
8.3 NEW MOTION LABS, or any agent designated by NEW MOTION LABS, may remove Retention Products from the Customer’s premises if the Customer has failed to pay the invoice(s) related to such Retention Products or if NEW MOTION LABS has cancelled the purchase order related to such Retention Products pursuant to these terms and conditions. If the removal occurred due to the Customer’s default in paying, such removal shall not constitute a cancellation of the underlying purchase order by NEW MOTION LABS unless NEW MOTION LABS expressly stated this in writing.
8.4 To the extent permitted by applicable law, the following provisions shall apply: a) If the Retention Products are processed, manufactured or remodelled, NEW MOTION LABS shall be a co-owner of the resulting new product. NEW MOTION LABS’s co-ownership shall be in proportion to the Retention Products’ invoice value when compared to the invoice values of the other processed or remodelled products that became part of the new Product. b) If NEW MOTION LABS loses title to a Retention Product under applicable law due to a commingling with other products, the Customer hereby already transfers to NEW MOTION LABS the Customer’s co-ownership in the resulting new products in proportion to the Retention Products’ invoice value when compared to the invoice values of the other products that became part of the new product. The Customer shall hold all such products in safe custody for NEW MOTION LABS free of charge. c) The Customer may resell the Retention Products or the products co-owned by NEW MOTION LABS only in the ordinary course of business under customary terms of sale and only as long as the Customer satisfies its financial obligations towards NEW MOTION LABS when due. The Customer shall sell the Retention Products only with retention of title. Claims of the Customer which arise from the Customer’s sale of the Retention Products are hereby assigned to NEW MOTION LABS, and NEW MOTION LABS accepts such assignment. Such claims shall serve as security for NEW MOTION LABS’s claims against the Customers to the same extent as the Retention Products. d) If the Customer sells the Retention Products jointly with other goods not delivered by NEW MOTION LABS, the assignment of the claims shall be only in the amount of the Customer’s invoice amount that can be attributed to of the Retention Products. In case of resale of products co-owned by NEW MOTION LABS pursuant to paragraph (a) above, claims will be assigned to NEW MOTION LABS corresponding to the amount of NEW MOTION LABS’s co-ownership. e) If the Customer collects amounts received from the sale of Retention Products in a revolving account relationship between the Customer and its respective customers, the Customer hereby transfers to NEW MOTION LABS such portion of the final balance due to the Customer which corresponds to the amounts received in respect to the Customer’s sale of NEW MOTION LABS’s Retention Products. f) The Customer is authorized to collect amounts due from resales of the Retention Products as long as the Customer meets his payment obligations to NEW MOTION LABS. If the Customer (a) is in default with his payments, (b) transfers his business to a third party, (c) has suffered a reduction in his creditworthiness, (d) is in liquidation or insolvency proceedings, or (e) has violated his obligations under this Section, NEW MOTION LABS may revoke the authorization to collect such outstanding amounts due at any time. g) If NEW MOTION LABS has revoked the Customer’s authority to collect outstanding amounts from his customers, the Customer shall immediately inform his respective customers of his assignment of such claims to NEW MOTION LABS and shall provide NEW MOTION LABS with all information and files necessary for the collection of the outstanding amounts. In addition, the Customer shall transfer any security received from his respective customers in respect to such claims. In the event that the aggregate value of the collateral securing NEW MOTION LABS’s claims exceeds 20%, NEW MOTION LABS shall at the Customer’s request release excess collateral selected by NEW MOTION LABS.
ACCEPTANCE OF ITEMS; NOTICE OF DEFECTS
9.1 The Customer shall note any claim for short delivery on the carrier’s collection note, goods received note or the equivalent thereof, with signature of the collection note, the goods received note or the equivalent thereof constituting acceptance and receipt of the quantities recorded on the said notes and conformity of the delivery with the purchase order.
9.2 The Customer shall be obliged to examine Products delivered immediately upon receipt. In respect to obvious defects, written notice shall be provided to NEW MOTION LABS within 8 days of the Customer’s receipt of the Products. In respect to concealed defects, written notice shall be provided to NEW MOTION LABS immediately after the discovery of such defects. The notice shall specify the order date, invoice and shipment numbers, and shall if possible be sent to NEW MOTION LABS with a sample of the defective Products.
LIMITED WARRANTY
10.1 NEW MOTION LABS expressly warrants: that (a) NEW MOTION LABS has title to the Products provided to the Customer; (b) the Products provided to the Customer conform to the description on the face of the relevant purchase order; and (c) the Products are free of defects in material or workmanship that would be discovered by following NEW MOTION LABS’s standards of manufacture and inspection at the time the Products were manufactured. This limited warranty shall remain in effect for one year following the invoice date (unless a special warranty period for certain Products or Services applies, as set forth in the NEW MOTION LABS Special Warranty Period Schedule which can be found at www.NEW MOTION LABS.com/TermsandConditionsofSale)
10.2 This limited warranty shall not be effective unless the Products are properly used, properly mounted and properly lubricated and kept free of all contaminants, and does not cover the replacement of Products damaged as a result of external factors such as, but not limited to, the breakage of components or mechanisms surrounding the Products, insufficient maintenance, overloading, contaminants, incorrect handling or incorrect lubricant, improper selection, sizing, alignment, installation, any modification, addition, or repair made during the applicable warranty Version June 2023 3 period by anyone other than NEW MOTION LABS . The above limited warranty is conferred for the benefit of the Customer only, to the exclusion of any other person. NEW MOTION LABS does not warrant that the operation or use by Customer of the Products in its applications will comply with the requirements of any safety code or regulation, or with any environmental or other law or regulation.
10.3 EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTY DESCRIBED ABOVE NEW MOTION LABS DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF ANY OTHER KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR STANDARDS OF PERFORMANCE.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11.1 NEW MOTION LABS’s sole liability under the exclusive, express and limited warranty set forth in Section 10 above, shall be, at NEW MOTION LABS’s choice, to repair or replace without charge, Ex Works NEW MOTION LABS Facility, any Products which do not comply with the foregoing exclusive, express and limited warranty, or a credit of a fair amount not to exceed the price paid for the nonconforming Product; PROVIDED that any Products or parts for which repair or replacement is requested must be forwarded to NEW MOTION LABS, Ex Works NEW MOTION LABS Facility, for physical and metallurgical examination to determine whether they complied with said limited warranty. REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT WITHOUT CHARGE OR CREDIT OF AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE PRICE PAID SHALL BE THE CUSTOMER’S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY.
11.2 Under no circumstances shall NEW MOTION LABS be liable for any special, incidental, punitive or consequential damages, including without limitation: (a) the cost of removing or replacing Products, or of any other work performed on Products; (b) any damage to, or any of the costs of making adjustments to or repairs upon any mechanisms, equipment or machinery in which the Products were installed; (c) any other expense, loss or damages claimed to be caused by a defect in the Products; and (d) loss of goodwill, loss of profits or revenue, line shut-down, cost of capital, third party penalties whether or not the possibility of such damages has been disclosed to, or could have been reasonably foreseen by NEW MOTION LABS.
11.3 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall be taken to limit or exclude the statutory rights of any United Kingdom Customer dealing as a consumer (a consumer being a person who is acting for purposes which are outside his business), including rights enacted into UK law pursuant to Directive 1999/44/EC or pursuant to the UK Consumer Protection Act 1987.
11.4 The following provisions shall apply to Customers who order Products for delivery in Germany: (a) If a consumer makes a warranty claim related to a product which is, or consists in part of, a NEW MOTION LABS Product, any Customer of NEW MOTION LABS who pursuant to Sections 437 and 478 para. 2 of the German Civil Code (BGB) claims damages from NEW MOTION LABS based on such consumer claim, shall immediately notify NEW MOTION LABS of the consumer claim and of the Customer’s claim to seek damages from NEW MOTION LABS in respect thereto. The Customer shall send the defective Product back to NEW MOTION LABS for physical and metallurgical examination. (b) The recourse of the Customer pursuant to Sections 437 and 478 para. 2 BGB is limited to amounts not covered by the insurance of the Customer.
RETURN OF GOODS
Customers can return goods within 3 months of receipt as long as it is in resalable condition, however the customer incurs a 25% handling charge and an additional collection charge unless the customer returns the goods themselves.
CANCELLATION
13.1 Should the Customer desire to cancel a purchase order, after being so advised NEW MOTION LABS shall discuss the matter promptly with the Customer and if possible, reach a mutually satisfactory agreement for cancellation. If such an agreement cannot be reached, the Customer shall give NEW MOTION LABS a notice of the Customer’s desire to proceed with cancellation, such notice to be sent to NEW MOTION LABS by registered mail addressed to NEW MOTION LABS. NEW MOTION LABS shall thereupon submit a statement to the Customer of the amount of Product in any NEW MOTION LABS Facility which was completed and ready for shipment, the amount of Product or raw materials in such facility partially completed or purchased for use in the performance of the cancelled purchase order, whether actually in the process of manufacture or not, and the scrap or other value of all finished and unfinished Product and raw materials, all as of the time of receiving said notice from the Customer.
13.2 Within thirty days from the receipt of such statement from NEW MOTION LABS LTD. , the Customer will notify NEW MOTION LABS of the Customer’s desired disposition of all completed Products, and will pay NEW MOTION LABS as liquidated damages (a) for all Products completed and ready for shipment at the contract price; and (b) for all unfinished Products and raw materials at cost, plus all sales and administrative overhead and profit in proportion to the state of completion of the Products at the time of the termination of the Customer’s order, provided, however, that the Customer will be credited with the scrap or other value of all unfinished Products and raw materials and of any finished Products which the Customer directs NEW MOTION LABS to retain. Title to and possession of all raw materials and finished and unfinished Products which the Customer directs NEW MOTION LABS to retain shall remain with NEW MOTION LABS. Any Products delivered to the Customer shall be subject to the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions. Payment by the Customer under this Section 12 shall be made by the Customer in accordance with Section 4.
13.3 Unless NEW MOTION LABS has agreed otherwise with Customer in writing, NEW MOTION LABS may, at any time and without notice to Customer, substitute or make changes to the design, materials, processes, manufacturing locations, suppliers, or any other aspect of the Products which do not, in the reasonable opinion of NEW MOTION LABS, affect form, fit or function.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
14.1 Customer shall comply strictly with all applicable U.S. or other government export laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Export Administration Regulations, and the various economic sanctions laws, regulations and executive orders administered by the Office of Foreign Asset Controls. Customer shall assist NEW MOTION LABS in complying and documenting compliance with those laws, regulations and executive orders.
14.2 Customer represents that it is not, and to the best of Customer’s knowledge, its customers, its customers’ end-users and its agents are not, on the U.S. Government’s Denied Parties List, the Unverified List, the Entity List, the Specially Designated Nationals List, or the Debarred List, and are not otherwise subject to any U.S. or other government sanction or restriction that would prohibit the sale or export by NEW MOTION LABS of the Products, Services or technology that are the subject of this agreement. When NEW MOTION LABS so requests, Customer shall provide all end-user and end-use information of which it is aware or which it could obtain with commercially reasonable efforts. Version June 2023 4
PRODUCTS DISPLAY
The Customer undertakes not to display the Products in a public place, and in particular not to make any dispatch or delivery to a public or private exhibition of whatsoever kind without the express prior written agreement of NEW MOTION LABS.
BUSINESS CONDUCT
Customer represents and warrants that it has not engaged in and will not engage in any unlawful or unethical conduct (such as making or offering to make any improper or illegal payment or gift to an employee or official of a government, political party or political candidate, governmentowned or controlled company or public international organization) to promote NEW MOTION LABS’s products or services or to promote or facilitate the business interests of NEW MOTION LABS.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Nothing in this agreement is to be construed as a grant or assignment of any license or other right to Customer of any of NEW MOTION LABS’s or its affiliates’ intellectual property rights, whether patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or otherwise. All improvements and developments related to the Products or Services arising out of the efforts of NEW MOTION LABS and Customer will be owned exclusively by NEW MOTION LABS, and Customer shall reasonably cooperate with NEW MOTION LABS in confirming that result. Customer shall indemnify and defend NEW MOTION LABS from all loss and liability resulting from or related to claims that design elements for the Products or Services that were provided by Customer infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties.
CONFIDENTIALITY
With respect to confidential information concerning the Products and the transactions subject to the agreement that the Customer comes to know either through disclosure from NEW MOTION LABS or otherwise, the Customer (a) shall not disclose the information to any third party, (b) shall not use the information for any purpose other than evaluation and use of the Products, and (c) acquires no ownership, license or other interest in the information.
GOVERNING LAW & DISPUTE RESOLUTION
The Agreement is governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Situs, as defined below, without reference to its conflict of laws rules. Both parties consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Situs for the resolution of any disputes, controversies or claims arising out or in connection with any agreement between NEW MOTION LABS and Customer; that consent will be to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts, except if Customer is from a jurisdiction that does not recognize judgments issued by such courts for enforcement, in which case NEW MOTION LABS may choose to bring suit in other courts. The Situs is defined as the country in which the NEW MOTION LABS legal entity making the sale is located. The application of United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded.