CHANNEL PARTNER’S RESPONSIBILITIES
7.1. General roles and responsibilities:
a. All information that you provide in relation to the Services should be complete, true, and correct on the date of agreeing to these Terms and shall continue to be complete, true, and correct while you avail the Services.
b. During the Term and thereafter, you agree that you will not disparage us or any of our affiliates in any way which could adversely affect our or any of our affiliates' goodwill, reputation and business relationships with the public generally, or with any of our third-party partners, customers, suppliers or employees.
c. You shall extend all cooperation to us, in our defence of any proceedings that may be initiated against us due to a breach of your obligations or covenants under these Terms.
d. You agree that you shall promptly, and in no event, later than 3 (three) days from the date of change, provide us details regarding any changes in the ownership/control/management, business type, legal name, contact information, bank account, and any other changes that would affect the provision of Services.
e. By agreeing to these Terms, you assert that you are not in the business of selling goods and services mentioned under Schedule II. In case you do, you are not qualified to avail the Services. You further represent and warrant that the End-Customers are not engaged and shall not be in the business of selling goods and services mentioned under Schedule Il during the Term.
f. The Channel Partner shall abide by all the Applicable Laws, including the rules, regulations, guidelines, notifications, and circulars issued by the Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") from time to time.
g. The Channel Partner shall not resell or assign the Services, in whole or in part, or otherwise allow the use of the Services by any third parties or affiliates.
h. The Channel Partner's use of Services should not facilitate any activity which is unlawful, is carried on with the intent to defraud, or is likely to result in unjust enrichment of the Channel Partner or any third parties, including its affiliates.
i. The Channel Partner agrees that it shall be solely responsible for sorting or handling of any complaints received against the Channel Partner.
j. Its use of Services does not facilitate the offer, sale and purchase of products and/or services enumerated in Schedule Il of these Terms.
k. In order to avail the Services, the Channel Partner shall take all necessary steps to facilitate the integration of Rupifi's solutions with the Channel Partner Platform, if applicable. if It is hereby clarified that in the event of any Server to Server (S2S) integration, if done, it shall be solely for the purpose of the Channel Partner using, availing or accessing the Services. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Rupifi shall have the right to conduct periodic audits on the Channel Partner to confirm compliance.
l. The Channel Partner shall ensure that all Transactions, payments, and expenses related to the Services, including without limitation, the Transactions undertaken by End-Customers on or through the Channel Partner Platform are:
i. fairly and accurately recorded, in reasonable detail, in its books and records; and
ii. evidenced and supported by complete and accurate documentation as may be required by Rupifi, including but not limited to invoices and receipts, which shall be maintained at all times and shall be made available to Rupifi upon notice for review (even after termination of the Terms).
m. The Channel Partner shall setup a comprehensive customer grievance redressal mechanism which provides the procedure for addressing complaints received from the End-Customers of the Channel Partner and shall include the details of the person designated by the Channel Partner for handling such End-Customer complaints. It is clarified that such customer grievance redressal mechanism shall provide the facility to the End-Customers for registering their complaints over phone, email, or any other electronic means. The Channel Partner shall respond to such grievances or complaints received from their End-Customers within a period of 5 (five) business days from the date of receiving such grievance or complaint.
n. Should the Channel Partner experience an Information Security Incident, it shall notify Rupifi within one (1) hour of observing, identifying, having information that would ought to have enabled it to identify, or being informed of an Information Security Incident and provide all information and assistance necessary to enable Rupifi to comply with its obligations under privacy and data protection requirements. In particular, such notice shall summarise in reasonable detail the effect on the Parties, and the Terms, and if known, all details of the Information Security Incident and the corrective action taken or to be taken by the Channel Partner. The Channel Partner shall promptly take all necessary and advisable corrective actions (at its sole cost and expense) and shall cooperate fully with Rupifi in all reasonable and lawful efforts to investigate, prevent, mitigate, or rectify such Information Security Incident. The Channel Partner shall collect, preserve, and document all evidence regarding the discovery and cause of, and vulnerabilities, response, remedial actions, and impact, related to the Information Security Incident, and shall provide such documentation to Rupifi upon request.
o. You shall not use the Services in any manner except as expressly permitted in these Terms. Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, you may not:
i. infringe any proprietary rights, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, trademarks, or trade secrets, of any party;
ii. except as may be provided hereunder, copy, display, distribute, modify, publish, reproduce, store, transmit, post, translate, create any derivative works from, or licence the Services;
ili. use the Services to transmit any data or send or upload any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, timebombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programmes or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
iv. use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy the App or Services or any portion thereof;
v. engage in the systematic retrieval of content from the Rupifi solution to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory;
vi. use the Services in any unlawful manner, for fraudulent or malicious activities, or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms; or
vii. violate Applicable Laws in any manner.
7.2. Roles and responsibilities specifically in relation to the Payment Gateway and Checkout Services and Payment Aggregation Services (if applicable):
a. You shall remain compliant with data security standards and best practices, including but not limited to PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, latest encryption standards, transport channel security.
b. You agree that you are allowed to store the payment data of the End-Customers only in You agree accordance with the Applicable Laws, including but not limited to the tokenisation guidelines issued by the RBI.
c. You shall ensure that the End-Customer Data and any data in relation to end-to-end transaction details and information pertaining to the Transaction that is gathered % transmitted / processed as part of a payment message / instruction, including but not limited to Name, Mobile Number, email, Aadhaar Number, PAN number, etc. of the End-Customer, as applicable; payment sensitive data (customer and beneficiary account details); payment credentials (OTP, PIN, Passwords, etc.); and, transaction data (originating & destination system information, transaction reference, timestamp, amount, etc.) shall be stored only in India. In case the processing is done abroad, the data (as mentioned above) should be deleted from the systems abroad and brought back India not later than the 1 (one) business day or 24 (twenty four) hours from payment processing, whichever is earlier.
d. You shall:
i. provide a complete description of its goods or services.
ii. provide sufficient details of their return, refund, and cancellation policy clearly to inform the End-Customers of their rights and responsibilities, for example, in case they need to return goods
iii. if you has a limited or no refund policy, clearly communicate to the End-Customers of the same before the purchase decision is made, to prevent misunderstanding and disputes
7.3. Roles and responsibilities specifically in relation to the BNPL Services (if applicable):
a. The Channel Partner shall provide Rupifi with End-Customer Data in order to enable Rupifi to provide the BNPL Service.
b. The Channel Partner shall establish, service and maintain the link as provided by Rupifi for allowing the End-Customers to avail the 'Pay by Rupifi' option with the same due diligence, care and prudence as it applies to its website, computer, data storage, and transmission systems, but in no case, less than reasonable due diligence, care and prudence.
c. The Channel Partner shall comply with all the Applicable Laws, in relation to collection, storage, and transfer of the End-Customer Data to Rupifi to allow Rupifi to use and further transfer such End-Customer Data to the Partner Lender.
d. The Channel Partner shall report to Rupifi promptly of any change in the End-Customer Data as previously transferred to Rupifi, as soon as the Channel Partner becomes aware of such change, however no later than 3 (three) days.
e. In case an End-Customer defaults with respect to the repayment obligations in relation to the Partner Services, the Channel Partner shall, upon receiving a notice from Rupifi, deregister such End-Customer, prohibit such End-Customer from using the Partner Services and/or transacting on the Channel Partner Platform, or block further purchases from such End-Customer, and provide such other support and collection services as requested by Rupifi from time-to-time, till such End-Customer repays the loan amount.
f. The Channel Partner shall provide all such support to Rupifi as required by Rupifi from time to time in relation to onboarding the End-Customers with the Partner Lenders.
g. The Channel Partner shall be completely liable and responsible to display such terms and conditions and information in relation to the BNPL Services to the End-Customer as Rupifi may require from time to time, including but not limited to the fact that the Partner Services opted to be availed by the End-Customer through Rupifi is a short-term loan and that the End-Customer is solely responsible for the repayment of the loan to the Partner Lender even if there is a termination or cancellation of relationship between the End-Customer and the Channel Partner.
h. In the event that Channel Partner is required either under the Applicable Law or under the order of an Authority to suspend, blacklist, ban or prevent an End-Customer from using the services of the Channel Partner, it shall inform Rupifi within 2 (two) hours, providing reasonable details of the same.
i. The Channel Partner shall ensure that there is no automatic increase in the credit limit of the loan of the End-Customer. The Channel Partner shall obtain explicit consent of the End-Customers before any increase in the credit limit of their loan.
j. Channel Partner shall not delete, remove, obscure or modify the End-Customer Data in any way prior to its transfer to Rupifi. The Channel Partner shall transmit the End-Customer Data of the End-Customers interested in availing the BNPL Services to Rupifi on an "as is" basis without any changes in substance of the End-Customer Data. In case of any accidental tampering with the End-Customer Data, the Channel Partner shall report to Rupifi promptly as soon as the Channel Partner becomes aware, however no later than 3 (three) days. In such case, the Channel Partner shall provide all reasonable support to Rupifi in retrieving / procuring the accurate End-Customer Data.
k. The Channel Partner agrees that it shall not connect the End-Customer, who has initiated the process or provided the requisite documentation for availing the 'Pay by Rupifi' option through Rupifi, with such financial institutions which are not Partner Lenders. Once either the loan/line of credit is approved by the Partner Lender and so communicated to the End-Customer and the Channel Partner, Channel Partner shall not share the End-Customer Data of such End-Customer with any other financial institutions not being Partner Lenders either directly or through a third-party platform in the business of providing 'buy now pay later' options.
I. The Channel Partner agrees to only use the marketing and sales material provided by Rupifi in connection with the 'Pay by Rupifi' option and BNPL Services. The Channel Partner shall provide Rupifi access to any marketing material not provided by Rupifi and shall seek a prior written consent of Rupifi before using such marketing material in connection with the 'Pay by Rupifi' option and BNPL Services.
m. The Channel Partner shall manage all claims and disputes raised by the End-Customers in relation to the Channel Partner services availed by the End-Customer. In the event, any dispute between the Channel Partner and a End-Customer is not resolved within 30 (thirty) days, the disputed amount may be deducted from any future disbursement to the Channel Partner by the Partner Lender. The Channel Partner shall also be under the obligation to reimburse any disputed amount to Rupifi in case of any such request raised by Rupifi.
n. The Channel Partner shall notify to Rupifi the fulfilment date of the orders within 14 (fourteen) days from the date of such order. Any details of an order shared by the Channel Partner with Rupifi post 14 (fourteen) days from the date of the order shall not be accepted in Rupifi's system for any purposes under these Terms.