1. Background

China Quality Focus Limited, hereunder called "CQF", is a HK limited company, acting as a consultant for quality purposes and offers services related to quality assurance for importers buying products in China. CQF acts in the capacity of an independent third party, on behalf of its clients.

2. Access to this Site

This Site is owned and operated by CQF. CQF grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of the Site and not to download (other than regular and proposed downloads) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with the express written consent of CQF. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of the Site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions or prices; any derivative use of the Site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tools. None of the Site or any portion thereof may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of CQF. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout or form) of CQF without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or other "hidden text" using CQF' name (China Quality Focus) or trademarks without the express written consent of CQF. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by CQF.

3. General

Each time you use or cause access to this web site, you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions, and as amended from time to time with or without notice to you. You agree that the owners of this web site (CQF) exclusively reserves the right and may, at any time and without notice and any liability to you, modify or discontinue this web site and its services or delete the data you provide, whether temporarily or permanently. We shall have no responsibility or liability for the timeliness, deletion, failure to store, inaccuracy, or improper delivery of neither any data nor information.

4. Services

CQF services, hereunder called the "Services", include but are not limited to:

-Product inspections
-Factory audit
-defect sorting
-Production monitoring

CQF will perform it services on behalf of the client. CQF will do its best to ensure that services are performed in a professional and reliable manner.

The performance of the Service will consist in a document, hereunder called the "Report". The Report will display the collection of information that CQF has been requested to supply and will be delivered as an online report.

5. Performance of services

CQF acts as a third party but on behalf of the client. Our role is to get information in the factory for preventing any quality issue related to our clients' production and for which our clients request a service.

CQF keeps the right to accept or reject a demand of service or a request of any kind and cannot be sued if do so.

CQF will carry out its services according to client's specifications made on the online booking and as validated by CQF. In case there is no client's specifications, CQF will uses the relevant standard or common practices.

6. Client's obligations

The Client agrees to supply CQF with relevant and correct information when ordering the Services and to ensure that CQF will access the needed information not later than 48h before the desired service.

Client also accepts to abide to our payment and invoicing policies.

7. Invoicing

Invoices for Services performed by CQF are payable monthly, right away upon receipt, each party accepts to charge its own bank fees. For new clients, services have to be paid prior to the services.

Clients may cancel the desired service until 3PM China Time the day before the requested service, otherwise CQF will charge the service entirely and will be released from its obligations.

For orders invoiced with travel expenses (orders outside of our network or orders with Western inspectors), these orders will be charged based on real travel expenses (receipts will be provided). If the payment had occured prior to the service, an advance for travel expenses might have been charged. In this case, the client will have to pay for real travel expenses and we will deduct the advance from his next invoice.

8. Liability and indemnification

8.1 Limitation of liability

CQF will accept liability only in case of negligence proven by the client. CQF is not an insurance company and refuse to bear such a role. Clients who want to ensure their goods against bad quality, problem of shipments, inadequate material etc should look for a proper insurance through an insurance company.

CQF will do its best to perform its services with due diligence and will perform it Services based on the Client's instructions. These instructions are given online through the online booking filled by the Client. Thus CQF will issue the Report relating to the facts as recorded by it within the limits of the instructions and criteria received.

CQF is thus under no obligation to report information that are not requested by the client through his booking. Moreover our services do not include the checking of the internal mechanics, the safety requirements or the chemical testing of products.

If CQF is not able to perform its services due to any reason out of its control, client cannot hold CQF responsible for this.

8.2 Indemnification

If CQF is proven responsible for a loss or damage of any kind, CQF's liability to the client and to any other party shall not exceed ten times the total fees paid the client for the specific service concerned and for which a claim has been made. Moreover, our liability can only be engaged for the specific products that CQF inspected at the time of performance of the service.

Thus, if the amount of loss and claim is above CQF liability (as defined above), the client shall bear the difference between CQF's liability (as defined above) and the amount of loss (the price of the claim) and this for all claims made by other parties (including the client and its final clients) against CQF.

If client has a claim or a loss to declare, notice must be given to CQF headquarters (info@chinaqualityfocus.com or by mail at China Quality Focus Limited located at Rooms 13-18-20, 13/F, Hollywood Plaza, 610 Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong) within 1 week following discovery of the facts, or within two months from the completion of the CQF Service.

9. Termination of services

CQF has the right to suspend or terminate the provision of services to the client at any time. Provision of services will be suspended in case client does not follow these terms and conditions or if client does not pay or is unable to pay.

10. Supplier & Factory obligations

The report is not a certificate for the supplier and is not an evidence for shipment. The issuance of the report does not exonerate the buyers from exercising all their rights and does not release the manufacturer or seller from his contractual liabilities and responsibilities for his products.

11. Employment Offers

This Site may contain information on employment opportunities within CQF. If you decide to apply for a vacancy we will assume that, by creating an application form or sending us your CV, you are signaling your agreement for CQF to use, hold and destroy any personal data contained in your form/CV for the purpose of considering your application in accordance with our standard recruitment procedures and for the purposes outlined in detail below.

Please do not apply if you do not agree to CQF using, holding or destroying your data for any of the purposes that are outlined below:

We may wish to retain your details on file for up to the next 12 months and to notify you of any suitable vacancies that arise. You would then have the opportunity to apply for these vacancies if you wished to do so.

We may use your personal information for purposes of market research, specifically relating to the improvement of recruitment and HR policies and practices.

12. Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the Hong Kong Law. Thus all disputes shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong.

14. Copyright

The information contained on this Site or in any publication made available on or through this Site is the exclusive property of CQF or is licensed to CQF and is protected by copyright and other proprietary rights. Nothing contained in this site may be reproduced, distributed or edited in any manner without the prior written authorization of CQF.

15. Disclaimer

The information contained and accessed on or through this website is provided by CQF for general guidance and is intended to offer you general information of interest. CQF owns or licenses all text, data, images and other materials on the Site. CQF has made every effort to ensure that the information contained on this Site is accurate and reliable. However, errors may sometimes occur. Therefore CQF expressly disclaims all express or implied warranties of any kind as to any matter whatsoever relating to these pages. In no event shall CQF be liable for any indirect or consequent loss or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise) arising out of or in connection with the use of this website.