Last Updated: April,
2022
These Terms of Use and any terms incorporated herein (hereinafter, the “Terms”)
apply to your (“user”, “you“) use of the Services, including https://PairChange.com/
(“Website“), the technology and the platform integrated therein and any related applications
(including without limitation the mobile one) associated therewith, which are operated and
maintained by Fintechvision Ltd. and its affiliates (“PairChange”, “We”, or “Us”).
We
provide you with the possibility to use our Services as defined above on the following terms
and conditions.
These Terms of Use constitutes a binding agreement between PairChange and the user as soon as the user visits the Website and uses Services. By doing so, the user confirms that he has read and accepted these Terms of Use in their entirety before finishing the registration procedure.
The user accepts that Terms of Use may be updated by PairChange from time to time. If the user does not read and accept the Terms of Use in its entirety he should not use or continue using the Services.
We reserve the right to alter, amend or modify these Terms from time to time, in our sole discretion. We will provide you with notice of such changes by sending an e-mail, providing notice on the homepage of the Website and/or by posting the amended Terms via our Website and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms. The amended Terms will be deemed effective immediately upon posting on Website.
Our Services provide you with a possibility to Exchange one type of crypto asset to another one and access to Marketplace.
change the password, which is generated by our Services automatically, for a strong password that you do not use for any other websites, online or off-line services;
provide accurate e-mail, which actually belongs to you and shall be, therefore, verified. The access to the services provided by the PairChange without verification of the e-mail is not allowed;
maintain the security of your PairChange Account and promptly notify us if you discover any suspicious activity related to your account;
agree to receive emails containing information about credentials, passwords, transactions and marketing promotions;
agree to pass through AML/KYC procedures, which may be applied to You according to our internal AML/KYC policies. As a part of such procedures, PairChange reserves the right to request additional information and documents, which are aimed without limitation to identify our user and to prove the source of the funds;
take responsibility for all activities that occur under your PairChange Account.
user sent crypto assets to a previously used one-time address that had been generated for a Floating exchange rate transaction;
user sent an amount of crypto assets different from the amount to be sent that was displayed on the Website, or did not account for the relevant withdrawal and network fees, thus sending an amount that is too small;
the user sent crypto assets to a PairChange floating-rate address later than in 3 hours after the address was provided. PairChange floating rate addresses cannot be used after the 3 hour mark.
in order to avoid any substantial losses for the customer caused by the rate change, when a significant disparity between an estimated exchange rate available on the Website and the rate received from a third-party exchange arises, a Floating exchange rate transaction may be failed automatically.
user sent crypto assets more than 15 minutes (20 minutes in case of BTC, XMR, LTC, DCR, EOS, GAS, BNB, VET) after clicking the “confirm & make payment” button when exchanging via the Fixed exchange rate option;
user sent an amount of crypto assets different from the amount to be sent that was displayed on the Website, or did not account for the relevant withdrawal and network fees, thus sending an amount that is too small;
user sent crypto assets to a previously used one-time address that had been generated for a Fixed exchange rate transaction.
In order to perform the Exchange via our Services, our system will automatically generate a particular address for the initiated transaction, which contains information about (i) the user; (ii) the crypto asset that user wants to exchange and the crypto asset that user wants to receive (jointly - "crypto pair"); and (iii) the recipient address provided by the user (the address where exchanged crypto assets will be deposited). The user understands that the crypto assets to be exchanged are transferred only to the particular address provided by the system. The address is active only for one transaction and particularly, the one designated by the system.
The technical issues arising from your misuse of our services, such as creating incorrect transactions (entering a wrong address both when indicating the recipient address and when sending your crypto assets to us), and other types of user mistakes may be resolved by our technical department with limitations. Upon successful resolution of a technical issue, the crypto assets sent incorrectly will be refunded to the user, less all applicable fees.
PairChange technical department is able to refund only BTC from the Segwit BTC address. No other crypto assets, including but not limited to, LTC, BSV, BCH sent to a Segwit BTC address could be refunded;
No crypto assets sent to us via an unsupported and/or not recommended network (e.g. BSC network) can be refunded. Recommended networks will be displayed to you during the transaction process.
You acknowledge and agree that any refund may cause operating costs for the allocated resources required for resolving user issues arising from misuse of our services. PairChange shall be entitled to recover its operating costs for the services while executing any refund. In this case crypto assets will be refunded to the user, subtracting operating costs and network fees, only with a prior user’s consent.
YOU INDEMNIFY AND HOLD PairChange HARMLESS AGAINST ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INCORRECT USE OF ADDRESS, INCORRECTLY CONSTRUCTED TRANSACTIONS ETC.
PairChange does not provide custodial services, which means, we do not store your crypto assets on deposits and balances. In limited cases such as e.g. necessity to carry out AML/KYC procedure, your Exchange may be delayed. YOU HEREBY UNDERSTAND AND ACKNOWLEDGE, THAT ANY DELAYS ARE POSSIBLE; YOU INDEMNIFY AND HOLD US HARMLESS AGAINST ANY CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE EXCHANGE DELAY, WHETHER ORIGINATED FROM OUR FAULT OR NOT.
PairChange is neither the creator, nor the administrator of any fiat provider at Marketplace. Therefore PairChange is not responsible for providing, setting or controlling the fees applicable to any of the services or products which you find and use via our Marketplace. It merely acts as an aggregator landing platform for the various fiat providers integrating APIs of those providers. All fiat trading capabilities and services take place in accordance with and are subject to the policies and terms of use of the said fiat provider.
PairChange keeps its fee policy transparent. The current fee structure is two-layered and is comprised of exchange and network fees.
The exchange fee is the amount charged by PairChange for executing transactions initiated by the users. The exchange fee structure depends on the transaction type: the Floating exchange rate or the Fixed one. The Floating exchange rate transactions incur a 0.25% fee from the output amount (it differs for transactions executed through our API partners). As with regard to the Fixed exchange rate transactions, PairChange finds the best rate available on the market and fixes it for the conversion in question; the respective rate is displayed to the user, thus guaranteeing the protection of users’ funds from market fluctuations during the exchange.
The network fee is paid to cryptocurrency miners for processing transactions in the network, and it serves to ensure withdrawals of the funds from exchanges. PairChange collects and transfers these payments to respective exchanges, which themselves set the amount of the fee at any particular time. The moment a transaction is created, this fee is displayed to the user, with the amount being based on our estimates. With that, you acknowledge and agree that the final amount of the network fee charged can sometimes differ from our estimate. This occurs entirely due to the volatile nature of network fees prevalent on exchanges and does not depend on our platform in any respect.
In furtherance of the clause 2.5.5 PairChange reserves the right to apply the AML/KYC procedure to particular users, addresses and particular transactions of crypto assets.
Prior to your use of the Services and on an ongoing basis you represent, warrant, covenant and agree that:
you use our Services at your sole option, discretion and risk;
you are solely responsible for any applicable taxes which may be payable while using our Services;
you are NOT in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country where crypto assets transactions are explicitly prohibited or United States of America (including all USA territories like Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Island, and the US Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas) (“Restricted Locations”). PairChange does not operate in Restricted Locations. PairChange maintains the right to select the markets and jurisdictions to operate in and may restrict or deny its services to certain countries at any time;
you are at least 16 years old or of other legal age, according to your relevant jurisdiction;
you agree to pay the fees for Exchanges completed via Services as defined by PairChange, which We may change from time to time; you also understand and acknowledge that network withdrawal fees are applicable to any types of withdrawals requested by you, the third party authorized by you, or under the request of a competent authority;
there are risks, associated with Internet-based system, such as the failure of hardware, software, and Internet connections and with the Blockchain Protocol, such as any malfunction, unintended function, unexpected functioning of or attack on the Blockchain protocol;
you guarantee that your crypto assets belong to you and they are not sold, encumbered, not in contention, or under seizure, and that neither exist any rights of third parties to your crypto assets;
you shall provide correct information for constructing Exchange (e.g. payin and payout wallet address). Such wallet addresses shall not be associated with terrorism, fraudulent, scam or any type of illegal activity.
You further represent, agree and warrant, that you will not violate any law, contract, third-party right or commit a tort by accessing or using the Services, and that you are solely responsible for your actions and/or inactions while using our Services. Without prejudice to the foregoing, you represent, agree and warrant, that YOU WILL NOT:
use our Services or will immediately cease using those if any applicable law in your country prohibits or will prohibit you at any time from doing so;
use our Services to participate in fraudulent, scam or any type of illegal activity;
exchange via our Services or attempt to pay-in crypto assets, which are obtained from illegal gambling activities; fraud; money-laundering; or terrorist activities; or any other illegal activities. With our Services the user can only use crypto assets, which are obtained from legal sources;
provide false, inaccurate, or misleading information;
attempt to modify, decompile, reverse-engineer or disassemble our software in any way;
use any robot, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Services or to extract data;
attempt to circumvent any content filtering techniques we employ, or attempt to access any service or area of our Services that you are not authorized to access;
develop any third-party applications that interact with our Services without our prior written consent; AND
Encourage or induce any third party to engage in any of the activities prohibited under this Section.
YOU INDEMNIFY AND HOLD US HARMLESS AGAINST ANY CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF ASSETS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ORIGINATED FROM OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH INVALIDITY OR BREACH OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION AND THE ENTIRE TERMS.
Never share the details of your transaction, including, but not limited to, your PairChange ID, the transaction hash, recipient address and/or e-mail related to a PairChange account, with anyone except PairChange representatives. PairChange will not request specific information about user accounts, transactions or other personally identifiable data from you unless: (i) the information is requested to help complete a transaction initiated by you; (ii)the information is requested to efficiently process your enquiry; or (iii) it is legally required e.g. in connection with the AML/KYC procedure.
You should ascertain that your transactions and/or account details are not disclosed by ensuring that you do not knowingly or accidentally share, provide or facilitate unauthorized use of it.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, PairChange SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGES INCURRED AS A RESULT OF ANY INFORMATION SUBMITTED TO IT THROUGH THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTACT E-MAIL THEREOF OR FOR ITS TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION TO ANY PERSON(S) OR ENTITY(IES) AS A RESULT OF A REQUEST FOR SUCH TRANSMISSION REASONABLY BELIEVED BY PairChange TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY SUCH PERSON OR ENTITY.
PairChange does not and will not provide any investment advice or legal advice regarding your exchange. You acknowledge that only you are responsible for your decisions and actions performed on our platform and we will not make any personal recommendations for or advise you on the exchange of particular crypto assets. Before performing any exchange of crypto assets, you should carefully consider whether such an exchange is suitable for you with your current circumstances and financial resources.
Be aware that crypto assets are generally assumed to be subject to high volatility due to them still being in the early stages of developing, technologically and financially. Crypto assets do not necessarily have a specific form of protection or regulation by any governmental body, which means that by exchanging crypto assets, you will not be able to enforce any guarantees or safeguards expected with regulated financial services.
THE RISK OF LOSS IN THE EXCHANGE OF CRYPTO ASSETS CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL, AND THEREFORE YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOSSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXCHANGE OF CRYPTO ASSETS AND MUST ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH EXCHANGES AND FOR THEIR RESULTS.
You may be charged fees by the third-party service provider. PairChange is not responsible for any third-party services' fees. You are solely responsible for your use of the third-party service, and you agree to comply with all terms and conditions applicable to any third-party service.
The exchange rates discrepancy is at any time possible due to the Third-Party algorithms. YOU INDEMNIFY AND HOLD PairChange HARMLESS AGAINST ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE AFORESAID EXCHANGE RATES DISCREPANCY WHICH IS BELOW 10 USD.
While using our Services, you may view Third-Party Content. We do not control, endorse or adopt (unless otherwise expressly stated by Us) any Third-Party Content and shall have no responsibility for Third-Party Content, including without limitation material that may be misleading, incomplete, erroneous, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. In addition, your business dealings or correspondence with such third parties are solely between you and the third parties. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings, and you understand that your use of Third-Party Content, and your interactions with third parties, is at your own risk.
All our intellectual property assets ("IP") including but not limited to all copyrights, trademarks, patents, service marks, trade names, software code, icons, logos, characters, layouts, trade secrets, buttons, color scheme and graphics are protected by local and international intellectual property laws and treaties.
We hereby grant you a limited, nonexclusive and non-sublicensable license to access and use our IP for your personal use only.
In any case you may not alter, modify, reproduce, distribute or commercially exploit any materials, including text, graphics, video, audio, software code, user interface design or logos.
The license granted under this Section will automatically terminate if We suspend or terminate your access to the Services
Except as expressly provided to the contrary in a writing by Us, our Services are provided on an "As is" and "As available" basis. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM, AND YOU WAIVE, ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT AS TO OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION, CONTENT AND MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN.
Except as otherwise required by law, IN NO EVENT SHALL PairChange, OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY OR RESULTING FROM RELIANCE BY ANY USER ON ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM PairChange, OR THAT RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DELETION OF FILES OR EMAIL, ERRORS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OR ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT RESULTING FROM A FORCE MAJEURE EVENT, COMMUNICATIONS FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO PairChange'S RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR SERVICES.
Exchanges via our Services cannot be canceled by PairChange. Therefore, check the details of your exchange details before making such exchange. PairChange is not responsible for your crypto assets once they have been sent outside of the Services. Moreover, PairChange doesn’t guarantee the uptime of the exchange.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF PairChange (INCLUDING OUR DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS), WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WHETHER ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR IMPUTED), PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, PairChange OR TO THESE TERMS EXCEED THE FEES PAID BY YOU TO PairChange WITHIN 3 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF ANY CLAIM GIVING RISE TO SUCH LIABILITY.
We strive to protect our users from fraudulent and scam activities in the sphere of crypto assets. It is possible, that some crypto assets are purposed for unlawful seizure of the property, or are construed as a fraud, scam or any other activity, recognized by the laws as illegal and/or non-compliant with legal requirements. PairChange cooperates with law enforcements agencies and other competent authorities in order to determine and disclose such crypto assets. We reserve the right to prohibit and discontinue any Exchanges via our Services with such crypto asset at our sole discretion, without any prior notice to you and without publication of the reason for such decision, whenever this comes to our knowledge. YOU INDEMNIFY AND HOLD PairChange HARMLESS AGAINST ANY CLAIMS, DEMANDS AND DAMAGES, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER IN AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, ORIGINATED FROM OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH PROHIBITION AND DISCONTINUATION OF EXCHANGES IN OUR WEBSITE WITH ANY CRYPTO ASSET.
PairChange takes all possible measures to integrate and exchange those digital coins and digital tokens and other types of digital mediums of exchange only that cannot be classified as “security“ by SEC or other competent national authorities.
The responsibility for the fact that the crypto asset cannot be treated as “security“ lies with the owner of digital token and/or digital coin. PairChange reserves the right at its sole discretion to prohibit and discontinue any exchanges (as well as any other type of transaction) with the token or the coin if there is any risk or speculations that such token and/or coin can be treated as “security“.
We follow the best practices to decide whether crypto assets are security or not. However, for the avoidance of any doubt the provisions of this clause shall not constitute or deemed to be construed to constitute any warranty and/or investment, financial, legal or any other professional advice, that any crypto asset that any crypto asset available through our Services is not a security.
We reserve the right to terminate these Terms and delete your PairChange Account and registration (including your username and password) in the following cases:
If for any reason We decide to discontinue to provide the Service, by providing at least a 3 (three) calendar days’ notice (which shall be provided by e-mail);
If We believe that you have breached any of the terms of these Terms, immediately without notice;
If We decide to terminate our Services, immediately without notice.
PairChange may suspend or terminate your account or use of the Services, or the processing of any crypto asset transaction, at any time if it determines in its sole discretion that you are accessing the Services from a Restricted Location or are a resident of one (see cl.5.1.3. of our Terms of Use).
You and PairChange agree to arbitrate any dispute arising from these Terms or your use of the Services, except for disputes in which either party seeks equitable and other relief for the alleged unlawful use of copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets or patents.
Any dispute, controversy, difference or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms, including the existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination thereof or any dispute regarding non-contractual obligations arising out of or relating to it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted.
The law of this arbitration clause shall be Hong Kong law.
The seat of arbitration shall be in Hong Kong.
The number of arbitrators shall be one. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English language.
Other than class procedures and remedies discussed below, the arbitrator has the authority to grant any remedy that would otherwise be available in court. Any dispute between the parties will be governed by these Terms and the laws of Hong Kong, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles that may provide for the application of the law of another jurisdiction.
Whether the dispute is heard in arbitration or in court, you will not commence against PairChange a class action, class arbitration or representative action or proceeding.
These Terms contain the entire agreement, and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings between the parties regarding the Services.
In the event of any conflict between these Terms and any other agreement you may have with PairChange, the terms of that other agreement will prevail only if these Terms are specifically identified and declared to be overridden by such other agreement.
Our failure or delay in exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms shall not operate as a waiver thereof.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any of these Terms shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other of these Terms, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.
You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without prior written consent from PairChange, including by operation of law or in connection with any change of control. PairChange may assign or transfer any or all of its rights under these Terms, in whole or in part, without obtaining your consent or approval.