TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE WEBSITE
1. These Terms and Conditions set out the general terms, conditions and manner in which TECHBID SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ, with its registered office in Gdynia, provides services electronically via the techbid.pl website (hereinafter referred to as the „Website”).
§ 1 Definitions
1. Auction – public sale of Goods, organised at a designated time via the Website.
2. Bid price – the winning Bid during the Auction, specified in Polish zlotys or another currency, constituting net price (excluding value added tax – VAT). The auction price also does not include delivery costs and the auction fee.
3. Password – means a string of letters, numbers or other characters selected by the User during Registration on the Website, used to secure access to the User's Account on the Website.
4. User Account – means an individual panel for each User, activated on their behalf by the Service Provider after the User has completed Registration.
5. Bidding – means a type of Offer posted by a User, in which the Bidder specifies the price at which they are willing to purchase the Goods.
6. Bidder – means the Service Recipient submitting an offer to purchase Goods as part of the Auction.
7. Service Recipient – means a User who has a User Account and who takes steps to purchase or purchases a service.
8. Login – means the User's individual identifier, consisting of a string of letters, numbers or other characters, required together with the Password to log in to the User's Account on the Website.
9. Offer – means a proposal to conclude a contract for the sale of Goods, on terms specified by the User, including, among other things, the type of Goods, the location of the Goods, the specification of the Goods and any other data necessary to verify the Goods.
10. Auction Fee – means the fee paid by the User who wins the Auction. The Auction Fee is determined at the time the auction is listed and is specified in detail on the Auction page.
11. Terms and Conditions – refers to these Terms and Conditions of the Website.
12. Registration – means an actual action performed in the manner specified in the Terms and Conditions, required for the User to use all the functionalities of the Website.
13. Website – means the websites under which the Service Provider operates the Website, operating in the techbid.pl domain.
14. Durable medium – means any instrument or tool that enables the User or Service Provider to store information addressed personally to them in a way that allows future access to the information for a period of time appropriate to the purposes for which the information is intended and which allows the stored information to be reproduced unchanged.
15. Goods – means a product presented at an Auction via the Website.
16. Paid service/Package – means a service provided by the Service Provider via the Website.
17. Service Provider – means TECHBID SPÓŁKA Z OGRANICZONĄ ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚCIĄ with its registered office in Gdynia (81-571), ul. Chwaszczyńska 200/200A, NIP: 9581756973, REGON: 542513560, entered in the Register of Entrepreneurs of the National Court Register kept by the District Court Gdańsk-Północ in Gdańsk, 8th Commercial Division of the National Court Register under KRS number 0001190133; Share capital PLN 5,000; e-mail: kontakt@techbid.pl, which is also the owner of the Website.
BDO number – 000198452.
18. User – means an entity to which, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and the provisions of law, services may be provided electronically.
§ 2 General provisions and use of the Website
1. All rights to the Website, including copyrights, intellectual property rights to its name, internet domain, Website, as well as to templates, forms and logos belong to the Service Provider, and their use may only take place in a manner specified and consistent with the Terms and Conditions.
2. The Service Provider shall endeavour to ensure that the Website is accessible to Internet users using all popular web browsers, operating systems, device types and Internet connection types. The minimum technical requirements for using the Website are a web browser version of at least Internet Explorer 11 or Chrome 110 or FireFox 109 or Opera 95 or Safari 11 or newer, with Javascript enabled, accepting cookies and an Internet connection with a bandwidth of at least 512 kbit/s. The Website is responsive and dynamically adapts to any screen resolution.
3. The Service Provider uses cookies, which are stored by the Service Provider's server on the User's end device when Users use the Website. The use of cookies is intended to ensure the proper functioning of the Website on Users“ end devices. This mechanism does not damage the User's end device and does not cause any configuration changes in the Users” end devices or in the software installed on these devices. Each User may disable the “cookies” mechanism in the web browser of their end device. The Service Provider points out that disabling „cookies” may, however, cause difficulties or prevent the use of the Website.
4. In order to create a User Account on the Website, the User must have an active e-mail account.
5. It is prohibited for the User to provide unlawful content and to use the Internet Service, the Service Website or the services provided by the Service Provider in a manner contrary to the law, good manners, violating the personal rights of third parties or the legitimate interests of the Service Provider.
6. The Service Provider declares that the public nature of the Internet and the use of electronic services may involve the risk of unauthorised persons obtaining and modifying User data, therefore Users should use appropriate technical measures to minimise the above-mentioned risks. In particular, they should use antivirus software and software that protects the identity of Internet users. The Service Provider never asks Users to disclose their Password in any form.
7. The User is entitled to use the resources of the Website solely for their own use. It is not permissible to use the resources and functions of the Website for the purpose of conducting activities by the User that would violate the interests of the Service Provider.
8. Users of the Website should archive information about concluded agreements on their own.
§ 3 Registration
1. In order to create a User Account, the User is required to complete the Registration process.
2. In order to register, the User should complete the registration form provided by the Service Provider on the Website and send the completed registration form electronically to the Service Provider by selecting the appropriate option in the registration form.
3. When completing the registration form, the User has the opportunity to read the Terms and Conditions and accept their content by ticking the appropriate box on the form.
4. After submitting the completed registration form, the User shall immediately receive confirmation of Registration by the Service Provider via email to the email address provided in the registration form. At this point, an agreement for the provision of the User Account service by electronic means is concluded, and the User gains access to the User Account and the services available within the User Account.
§ 4 Free services
1. The Service Provider provides paid and free services to Users electronically. The services are provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
2. The Service Provider provides the following free services to Users by electronic means:
a) Maintaining a User Account;
b) Newsletter;
c) Posting a comment.
3. The Service Provider reserves the right to select and change the type, form, time and manner of granting access to the selected services listed above, of which it shall inform Users in a manner appropriate for amendments to the Terms and Conditions.
4. The User Account Management service is available after Registration, in accordance with the rules described in §3 of the Terms and Conditions.
5. A User who has completed Registration may request the Service Provider to delete their User Account. A request to delete a User Account is tantamount to terminating the agreement for the provision of the User Account service by electronic means, in accordance with §13 of the Terms and Conditions.
6. The Service Provider is entitled to block access to the User Account and services provided electronically in the event of the User acting to the detriment of the Service Provider or other Users, violating the law or the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, as well as when blocking access to the User Account and services provided electronically is justified for security reasons – in particular: the User breaking the security of the Website or other hacking activities. Blocking access to the User Account and services provided electronically for the reasons listed above shall last for the period necessary to resolve the issue that is the basis for blocking access to the User Account and services provided electronically. The Service Provider shall notify the User electronically of its intention to block access to the User Account and services provided electronically to the address provided by the User in the registration form.
7. The Newsletter service consists of the Service Provider sending electronic messages to an e-mail address containing notifications about new information posted on the Website. The Newsletter is sent by the Service Provider to all Users who have subscribed to it.
8. Any User may use the Newsletter service by ticking the appropriate box in the registration form on the Website during registration. It is also possible to subscribe to the Newsletter at a later date by ticking the appropriate box in the User Account.
9. A User Account is required to use the Newsletter service. Deleting an Account in accordance with the provisions of the Terms and Conditions is tantamount to the User losing the ability to use this service.
10. The User may opt out of receiving the Newsletter at any time by unsubscribing via the link provided in each e-mail sent as part of the Newsletter service or by activating the appropriate field in the User Account.
11. The free service “Posting a comment” on the Website consists in the Service Provider enabling the User to publish individual and subjective statements of the User concerning, in particular, the content presented by the Service Provider.
12. You may opt out of the free “Post a comment” service at any time by ceasing to enter content on the Website.
§ 5 Orders for paid services
1. The Service Provider provides Users who have a User Account with a paid Package service via electronic means.
2. The User may place orders on the Website via the Website or by e-mail 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
3. A user placing an order via the Website completes the order by selecting the Service they are interested in. A Service is added to the order by selecting the “ADD TO BASKET” command under the given Service presented on the Website. After completing the entire order and selecting the payment method in the „BASKET”, the User places the order by sending the order form to the Service Provider, selecting the „BUY AND PAY” button on the Website. Each time before sending the order to the Service Provider, the User is informed about the total price for the selected Service, all additional costs that they are obliged to bear in connection with the Contract, as well as the duration of the Contract, the exact scope of the Service and the date and method of its performance.
4. Placing an order constitutes the User's acceptance of the Service Provider's offer to conclude a Contract for the provision of the paid Service that is the subject of the order. After placing the order, the Service Provider shall send a confirmation of its placement and conclusion of the Contract to the e-mail address provided by the User.
§ 6 Payments
1. The prices listed on the Website for a given service are net prices.
2. The final price binding on the parties is the price of the service specified on the Website at the time the User places the order.
3. The User may choose the following payment methods for the ordered Paid Service:
a) payment card or bank transfer via an external e-payment system operated by TPay, based in Poznań (in this case, the order will be processed after the Service Provider sends the User confirmation of order acceptance and after the funds are credited to the Service Provider's bank account).
4. The User shall make payment for the order in the amount specified in the Agreement within 7 working days.
5. In the event of the User's failure to make payment within the time limit referred to in §6(4) of the Terms and Conditions, the Service Provider shall set an additional time limit for the User to make the payment and shall inform the User thereof on a Durable Medium. The information about the additional deadline for payment shall also include information that after the ineffective expiry of this deadline, the Service Provider shall withdraw from the Agreement. If the second deadline for payment expires without effect, the Service Provider shall send the User a statement of withdrawal from the Agreement on a Durable Medium pursuant to Article 491 of the Civil Code.
6. At the User's request, the Service Provider shall send an invoice for the ordered paid services by e-mail to the e-mail address provided by the User when ordering the service. The invoice shall be delivered by e-mail in the form of an electronic file in PDF format. In order to open the file, the User should have free software compatible with the PDF format. The Service Provider recommends Adobe Acrobat Reader for this purpose, which can be downloaded free of charge at https://www.adobe.com.
§ 7 Placing an Offer in an Auction
1. Using the User Account functionality, the User may prepare an Offer by completing a dedicated form and specifying, among other things, the subject of the offer and its terms and conditions, and then publish it on the Website, or complete a preliminary contact form available on the Website. In this case, the Service Provider will contact the User in order to collect all the data for the Auction and then place the Auction on the Website.
2. The content of the Offer prepared by the User should be reliable, relate only to the Goods that are its subject matter, comply with the provisions of law, in particular contain information resulting from applicable law, and must not mislead Service Recipients.
3. The User bears full responsibility for the content and scope of the Offer presented, including responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies in such a description. If the description or other content of the Offer is found to not meet the requirements set out in the Terms and Conditions, the Service Provider may request the User to correct the description and hide the visibility of the Offer until the User makes the corrections.
4. The User is not entitled to provide content posted as part of the Offer that contains information concerning the personal data of third parties and disseminates the image of third parties without the legally required permission or consent of the third party.
5. Concluding a contract through an Auction allows the User to set a minimum price. This is the lowest price at which the User is willing to conclude a contract with the Service Provider. If Bidders set prices lower than the minimum price, the contract will not be concluded. The minimum price is not disclosed to Service Recipients until a price equal to or higher than the minimum price is reached in the Auction. If the minimum price is not reached, the Parties allow for the possibility of negotiating the sale price of the Goods through the Service Provider.
6. When placing an Offer via the Website, the User must have legal title to the Goods being auctioned, and furthermore, the Goods being offered may not be prohibited under applicable law or these Terms and Conditions.
7. The Offer shall be published by the User after the Auction has been accepted by the Service Provider and the Auction parameters have been set on the Website.
8. From the moment the Offer is published, the User is bound by its content. The User may only make changes to the content of the Offer until the first bid is placed by the Bidder.
9. The Auction Winner is obliged to pay the Price and Auction Fee in full within 7 days of the Auction date.
In the event of a delay in payment of the Price:
a) The Service Provider reserves the right to charge statutory interest for late payment,
b) The Service Provider may also impose a contractual penalty on the Bidder in the amount of 20% of the auctioned amount, but not less than PLN 1,000.
10. In the event of a delay in payment of the Price and Auction Fee by the customer, the seller may withdraw from the Sales Agreement after the ineffective expiry of the additional payment deadline. If the seller exercises its right of withdrawal, it may claim compensation from the buyer for lost profits, which include, among other things, damage caused by non-payment of remuneration.
11. Ownership of the Goods covered by the Sales Agreement shall pass to the customer upon receipt by the Service Provider of the full amount of the Price and Auction Fee and upon delivery of the Goods.
§ 7a Exclusion of warranty and guarantee
- Products presented at Auctions via the techbid.pl Website are sold in the condition they are in at the time of bidding.
- These products are not covered by warranty, and the warranty for physical and legal defects is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
- By making a purchase in an Auction, the User accepts the fact referred to in paragraphs 1–2.
§ 8 Auction Procedure
1. The Auction Notice is posted on the Website in the form of an Offer published by either the Bidder or the Service Provider. It includes, in particular:
a) the date of the Auction;
b) the kind, type, and quantity of Goods sold in the Auction;
c) the amount of the Starting Price.
2. The Starting Prices of Auction Goods given during the Auction may be either gross or net amounts, with the exact type of price specified for each specific item in the Auction.
3. The auction is won by the highest bid submitted by the time the auction closes.
4. After the Offer is submitted, other Bidders have a minimum of 3 minutes to submit their bids. The Auction time is automatically extended.
5. The Service Provider reserves the right to verify selected Offers.
6. If the verified Offer is not confirmed or if the customer cannot be contacted by telephone (incorrect number, number busy or out of range), the Offer shall be rejected.
7. Bids are binding. Even if the reserve price is not exceeded and the seller agrees to sell the equipment at that price, the bidder is obliged to accept it and pay the price.
8. In the case of sales abroad, VAT is added and refunded upon presentation of relevant documents confirming that the goods have arrived in the destination country/left Poland.
§ 9 Complaints
1. The User may submit complaints to the Service Provider in connection with the use of services provided electronically by the Service Provider. Complaints may be submitted in electronic form and sent to the Service Provider's e-mail address. The complaint should include a description of the problem. The Service Provider shall consider the complaint immediately, but no later than within 14 days, and respond to the User's e-mail address provided in the complaint.
§ 10 User responsibility for content posted by them
1. By posting content and making it available, the User voluntarily disseminates the content. The posted content does not express the views of the Service Provider and should not be equated with its activities. The Service Provider is not a content provider, but only an entity that provides appropriate ICT resources for this purpose.
2. The user declares that:
a) is entitled to exercise copyrights, industrial property rights and/or related rights to, respectively, works, industrial property rights (e.g. trademarks) and/or related rights that constitute the content;
b) the placement and disclosure of personal data, images and information concerning third parties within the framework of the services referred to in §4 of the Regulations was carried out in a lawful and voluntary manner and with the consent of the persons concerned;
c) agrees to allow other Users and the Service Provider to view the published content, and authorises the Service Provider to use it free of charge in accordance with the provisions of these Terms and Conditions;
d) consents to the creation of derivative works within the meaning of the Act on Copyright and Related Rights.
3. The user is not entitled to:
a) posting personal data of third parties and disseminating images of third parties without the legally required permission or consent of the third party when using the services referred to in §4 of the Terms and Conditions;
b) posting advertising and/or promotional content as part of the use of the services referred to in §4 of the Terms and Conditions.
4. The Service Provider shall be liable for content posted by Users provided that it receives notification in accordance with §11 of the Terms and Conditions.
5. Users are prohibited from posting content within the scope of using the services referred to in §4 of the Terms and Conditions that could, in particular:
a) be posted in bad faith, e.g. with the intention of violating the personal rights of third parties;
b) infringe any third party rights, including rights related to copyright and related rights, industrial property rights, trade secrets or confidentiality obligations;
c) be offensive or constitute a threat to other persons, contain language that violates good manners (e.g. through the use of profanity or terms commonly considered offensive);
d) conflict with the interests of the Service Provider;
e) otherwise violate the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, good manners, applicable law, social or moral norms.
6. In the event of receiving a notification in accordance with §11 of the Terms and Conditions, the Service Provider reserves the right to modify or remove content posted by Users as part of their use of the free services referred to in §4, in particular with regard to content which, based on reports from third parties or relevant authorities, has been found to constitute a violation of these Terms and Conditions or applicable law. The Service Provider does not monitor posted content on an ongoing basis.
7. The User agrees to the free use by the Service Provider of the content posted by them, solely within the scope of the services provided by the Service Provider as part of the Website, in particular the publication of content on the Website.
§ 11 Reporting threats or violations of rights
1. If the User or another person or entity considers that the content published on the Website violates their rights, personal rights, good manners, feelings, morality, beliefs, principles of fair competition, know-how, secrets protected by law or on the basis of an obligation, they may notify the Service Provider of a potential violation.
2. Upon being notified of a potential infringement, the Service Provider shall take immediate action to remove the infringing content from the Website.
§ 12 Protection of personal data
1. The rules for the protection of Personal Data are set out in the Privacy Policy.
§ 13 Termination of the agreement
(does not apply to fixed-term contracts)
1. Both the User and the Service Provider may terminate the contract for the provision of electronic services concluded for an indefinite period at any time and without giving reasons, subject to the preservation of the rights acquired by the other party prior to the termination of the above-mentioned contract and the provisions below.
2. The parties may terminate the contract for the provision of electronic services by submitting an appropriate declaration of intent, in particular using any means of remote communication, in a manner enabling the other party to familiarise themselves with it.
3. Termination of the agreement on the basis of a statement by the Service Provider or the User shall take place with one month's notice from the date of submission of the statement to the other party, subject to . The notice period specified in this provision does not exclude the statutory right of the User who is a Consumer to withdraw from the agreement.
§ 14 Final provisions and amendments to the Terms and Conditions
1. The content of these Terms and Conditions may be recorded by printing, saving on a medium or downloading from the Website at any time.
2. In the event of a dispute arising from the concluded contract for the provision of electronic services, the parties shall endeavour to resolve the matter amicably. The law applicable to the resolution of any disputes arising from these Terms and Conditions is Polish law.
3. The Service Provider reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions. All agreements for the provision of electronic services concluded before the date of entry into force of the new Terms and Conditions shall be performed on the basis of the Terms and Conditions in force on the date of conclusion of the agreement for the provision of electronic services. Amendments to the Terms and Conditions shall enter into force within 7 days of their publication on the Website. The Service Provider shall notify the User of any amendments to the Terms and Conditions 7 days prior to their entry into force by means of an electronic message containing a link to the amended Terms and Conditions. If the User does not accept the new content of the Terms and Conditions, they are obliged to notify the Service Provider of this fact, which results in the termination of the agreement in accordance with the provisions of §13.
4. Agreements with the Service Provider are concluded in Polish.
5. These Terms and Conditions shall enter into force on 22 December 2025.
