VENDSTEWARD GROUPTerms & Conditions

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1. Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], doing business as VendSteward Group ("VendSteward," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your access to [WEBSITE URL], your communications and transactions with us, and your use of our equipment-sales, location-assistance, installation-coordination, and managed vending services (collectively, the "Services").

By accessing the website, submitting an application or order, signing an Order Form or service agreement, or using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you act for a company or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

A signed Order Form, Managed Services Agreement, financing agreement, location agreement, warranty, or other written agreement may contain additional terms. If there is a conflict, the signed agreement controls for the subject it addresses.

2. Eligibility and Business Use

You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter a binding contract. Unless an Order Form expressly states otherwise, VendSteward's machine-ownership and managed-service offerings are intended for business and commercial use, not personal, family, or household use. You are responsible for providing accurate, complete, and current information.

3. VendSteward Offerings

Equipment purchase

You may purchase vending equipment and related accessories from VendSteward. The model, configuration, price, taxes, freight, installation scope, estimated delivery timing, and included support will be stated in the applicable Order Form. Equipment-only purchases do not include location procurement, stocking, maintenance, or ongoing management unless expressly listed.

Managed vending ownership — “You Own It. We Manage It.”

Under a separate Managed Services Agreement, VendSteward may coordinate some or all of the following: location evaluation, installation, product sourcing, inventory planning, stocking, pricing support, telemetry monitoring, routine cleaning, service coordination, collections, reporting, and owner payouts. The exact scope, fees, expenses, service levels, and responsibilities are those stated in the signed agreement; no service is included merely because it appears in marketing materials.

Third-party services

Manufacturers, payment processors, software providers, financing companies, installers, route operators, repair technicians, property owners, and other third parties may perform parts of the Services. Unless expressly stated otherwise, they are independent parties responsible for their own acts, systems, approvals, warranties, and terms.

4. Applications, Approval, and Order Acceptance

Submitting an inquiry, application, deposit, or proposed location does not require VendSteward to accept an order or approve a managed program. We may evaluate location suitability, power and connectivity, access, security, projected traffic, product restrictions, service distance, insurance, credit or financing status, and operational feasibility. An order is accepted only when we provide written acceptance or execute the applicable agreement.

5. Pricing, Taxes, Fees, and Payment

Prices and fees are those shown in the applicable Order Form or agreement and may include equipment, software, connectivity, card processing, freight, installation, permits, inventory, route service, maintenance, insurance, storage, location commissions, management fees, and taxes. Unless expressly included, these items are additional. You authorize us and our payment providers to charge the payment method you provide for amounts due under your agreements.

Overdue amounts may incur the lesser of [LATE FEE/INTEREST RATE] or the maximum permitted by law, plus reasonable collection costs. We may suspend nonessential Services for undisputed overdue amounts after any notice and cure period stated in the signed agreement.

6. Financing

Equipment financing is offered, approved, and administered by third-party financing providers unless a signed agreement expressly identifies VendSteward as the creditor. VendSteward does not guarantee approval, rates, terms, funding, or savings. You are responsible for reviewing the financing agreement, payment schedule, security interest, personal guaranty, prepayment terms, default remedies, and total cost before signing.

Your financing obligation is separate from machine sales performance, location performance, or the continuation of managed services. Slow sales, loss of a location, downtime, or dissatisfaction does not cancel your obligation to a financing provider.

7. Location Assistance and Placement

VendSteward may identify, evaluate, introduce, or help negotiate potential locations when included in a signed agreement. Unless that agreement expressly provides a written guarantee, VendSteward does not guarantee that a location will accept a machine, remain available, permit exclusivity, generate any level of sales, or continue for any period.

The machine owner is responsible for reviewing and approving the final location agreement unless VendSteward is expressly authorized in writing to do so.

Property-owner approval, power, connectivity, permits, accessibility, security, insurance, product restrictions, and site preparation must be confirmed before installation.

A location may terminate, relocate, restrict, or remove a machine according to its agreement. Replacement-location assistance, if any, is governed solely by the signed managed-service agreement.

No location is represented as "prime," profitable, exclusive, or guaranteed unless supported by a specific written commitment in the final agreement.

8. No Earnings or Profit Guarantee

IMPORTANT: PURCHASING OR FINANCING A VENDING MACHINE INVOLVES BUSINESS RISK. VENDSTEWARD DOES NOT GUARANTEE REVENUE, PROFIT, SALES VOLUME, CUSTOMER TRAFFIC, PAYBACK PERIOD, RETURN ON INVESTMENT, OR FINANCING REPAYMENT.

Any examples, calculators, projections, case studies, or estimates are illustrative only unless VendSteward provides a separate written earnings-claim disclosure supported by substantiating records. Actual results vary based on location, traffic, pricing, product mix, inventory cost, spoilage, theft, commissions, payment fees, downtime, seasonality, competition, labor, financing, and other factors. You must conduct your own due diligence and consult your own business, tax, financial, and legal advisers.

9. Delivery, Installation, and Risk of Loss

Delivery and installation dates are estimates unless expressly guaranteed in writing. Delays may result from manufacturing, freight, customs, weather, site readiness, permits, utility work, or events outside our reasonable control. Risk of loss and title transfer as stated in the Order Form; if it is silent, risk of loss transfers upon delivery and title transfers after full payment, subject to any lender's security interest.

You must inspect shipments promptly and report visible damage, shortage, or incorrect equipment within [NUMBER] business days, retaining packaging and documentation for carrier claims. Installation requires a ready, safe, accessible site meeting manufacturer specifications.

10. Inventory, Pricing, and Product Compliance

For managed programs, ownership of inventory, purchasing authority, retail pricing, replenishment frequency, product selection, spoilage, shrinkage, and expense allocation will be stated in the Managed Services Agreement. Unless VendSteward expressly assumes the obligation, the machine owner is responsible for product legality, labeling, sales tax, food-safety requirements, age restrictions, recalls, and compliance at the location.

VendSteward may adjust product mix and recommended pricing based on sales data, availability, costs, seasonality, and location requirements when authorized by the applicable agreement. We do not warrant that every product will remain available.

11. Managed Services, Reporting, and Payouts

Service frequency may be based on remote inventory data, sales velocity, route efficiency, and reasonable operating needs rather than a fixed weekly visit unless a signed service level states otherwise. Temporary stockouts, connectivity issues, component failures, or service delays may occur.

Reports may include gross sales, refunds, taxes, payment-processing charges, inventory cost, spoilage, location commissions, management fees, repairs, software charges, and other authorized deductions. Payout timing, reserves, dispute windows, and calculation methods must be stated in the Managed Services Agreement. You must report a suspected error within [NUMBER] days after the report; otherwise, the report is accepted except for fraud or manifest error.

12. Customer Responsibilities

Provide truthful information and timely access, approvals, keys or credentials, insurance certificates, and site contacts.

Maintain required electrical service, internet or cellular availability where applicable, ventilation, climate, lighting, and a safe machine area.

Do not move, modify, open, repair, reprogram, wrap, or connect unauthorized devices to equipment managed by VendSteward without written approval.

Promptly report damage, theft, temperature alarms, payment problems, safety issues, complaints, government notices, and location changes.

Comply with contracts, laws, permits, taxes, accessibility requirements, product rules, and property requirements applicable to your role.

13. Cancellations, Changes, Returns, and Refunds

You may request an order change or cancellation within 24 hours after purchase for a full refund, unless work has already begun on a custom or specially ordered item and applicable law permits different treatment. After 24 hours, equipment may be in production, allocation, packaging, or shipment preparation and may be subject to the cancellation or restocking fee disclosed in the Order Form.

After shipment, approved returns require prior written authorization. The customer is responsible for return freight, insurance, proper packaging, and any disclosed restocking fee unless the return results from our error or applicable law requires otherwise. Installed, used, damaged, custom-branded, configured, special-order, clearance, or consumable items may be nonreturnable as disclosed before purchase.

Managed Services may be cancelled only as provided in the signed Managed Services Agreement, including its initial term, renewal, notice, cure, early-termination charges, transition duties, and outstanding-payment provisions.

14. Buyback or Financing-Takeover Programs

No buyback, repurchase, resale, guaranteed exit, loan assumption, or financing-payment takeover is included unless VendSteward provides and signs a separate written Buyback Program Agreement for the specific machine. Marketing references to a possible buyback or payment takeover are invitations to request an evaluation, not guarantees.

Any offer may depend on inspection, condition, age, model, title, lien status, payment history, location rights, software transferability, freight, market demand, and lender approval. VendSteward cannot assume or modify third-party financing without the lender's written consent. The owner remains responsible for all financing obligations until the lender confirms a valid assumption or payoff in writing.

15. Warranties and Repairs

New equipment may be covered by the manufacturer's written limited warranty. Warranty coverage, exclusions, claim procedures, labor, travel, shipping, replacement parts, and downtime remedies are controlled by that warranty. VendSteward may assist with warranty administration but does not expand the manufacturer's obligations.

EXCEPT FOR EXPRESS WARRANTIES IN A SIGNED AGREEMENT AND TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR GUARANTEED BUSINESS RESULTS.

16. Website Use and Intellectual Property

VendSteward and its licensors own the website, branding, content, designs, software, documentation, and related intellectual property. We grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the website for lawful evaluation and use of the Services. You may not copy, scrape, reverse engineer, interfere with, misuse, or commercially exploit the website or systems without written permission.

17. Communications

You consent to receive transactional communications relating to inquiries, orders, installation, service, security, and account administration. Marketing email and text messages are sent only as permitted by law and applicable consent. You may unsubscribe from marketing email using the message link and reply STOP to marketing texts. Message and data rates may apply. Opting out of marketing does not stop necessary service communications.

18. Privacy and Camera-Assisted Machines

Our collection and use of personal information is described in the VendSteward Group Privacy Policy at [PRIVACY POLICY URL]. Certain smart machines may use cameras or sensors to validate product selection, process transactions, prevent fraud, and address disputes. Required notices must be displayed at or near machines. The applicable agreements will allocate privacy, security, access, and retention responsibilities among VendSteward, the machine owner, the location, and technology providers.

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19. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate access to Services for material breach, undisputed nonpayment, unsafe conditions, unlawful conduct, fraud, system abuse, loss of required third-party services, or threats to people, property, equipment, or data, subject to any notice and cure rights in a signed agreement. Termination does not erase accrued payment obligations, financing duties, confidentiality, ownership rights, indemnities, liability limitations, or provisions intended to survive.

20. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VendSteward and its officers, employees, and agents from third-party claims, damages, liabilities, penalties, and reasonable costs arising from your breach of these Terms or a signed agreement; your products, site, instructions, modifications, or unlawful conduct; or your failure to obtain required approvals, permits, insurance, or disclosures. This obligation does not apply to the extent caused by VendSteward's gross negligence, willful misconduct, or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

21. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VENDSTEWARD WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, SAVINGS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; OR LOSSES CAUSED BY A LOCATION'S PERFORMANCE, THIRD-PARTY FINANCING, PRODUCT AVAILABILITY, THEFT, VANDALISM, NETWORK FAILURE, OR MANUFACTURER DOWNTIME, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, VENDSTEWARD'S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING FROM A PARTICULAR ORDER OR SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID TO VENDSTEWARD FOR THAT ORDER OR SERVICE DURING THE [SIX/TWELVE]-MONTH PERIOD BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THESE LIMITATIONS DO NOT APPLY WHERE PROHIBITED OR TO LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LEGALLY BE LIMITED.

22. Disputes, Governing Law, and Venue

Before filing a claim, each party agrees to provide written notice describing the dispute and allow at least 30 days for good-faith informal resolution, unless urgent injunctive relief is reasonably necessary. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of [STATE], without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to any enforceable dispute provision in a signed agreement, exclusive venue will be the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY, STATE], and each party consents to their jurisdiction.

No mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver is included in this website draft. Add either only after counsel selects language appropriate to the states, customer types, and agreements involved.

23. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms by posting a revised version and updating the "Last updated" date. Changes apply prospectively. Material changes to an existing paid service will be handled according to the applicable signed agreement and law. Your continued use of the website after an updated effective date constitutes acceptance where permitted.

24. General Provisions

Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control, except payment obligations. You may not assign your agreement without our written consent; VendSteward may assign it in connection with a merger, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or to an affiliate or service successor. If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. A waiver must be in writing and is not a continuing waiver. Headings are for convenience only. Electronic signatures and records may be used where lawful. These Terms and incorporated written agreements are the entire agreement concerning their subject matter and replace prior discussions on that subject.

25. Contact Us

[LEGAL ENTITY NAME] d/b/a VendSteward Group
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