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These terms govern your use of Ra8m — the point of sale, the desktop app, Ra8m Ecommerce storefronts, and the integrations that come with them.

They are a contract between you and us, so please read them. The sections on liability, warranties and your responsibilities as a merchant matter most.

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1.Agreement to these terms

By creating a Ra8m account, subscribing to a plan, installing the desktop app, or using any part of the service, you agree to these terms. If you are agreeing on behalf of a business, you confirm you are authorised to bind that business, and "you" means that business.

Our Privacy Policy forms part of these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use Ra8m.

2.Definitions

Ra8m, the Service
The Ra8m platform in all its forms: the web application, the desktop application, the local print service, Ra8m Ecommerce storefronts, and associated APIs and integrations.
We, us, our
Alhanoot for General Trading CO.L.L, the company that operates Ra8m.
Merchant, you
The business that holds a Ra8m account, and anyone using the Service under that account.
Authorised User
A member of the Merchant's staff whom the Merchant grants access, in a role the Merchant assigns.
Merchant Data
Everything the Merchant enters into or generates through Ra8m: products, prices, stock, customers, sales, invoices, accounting records and files.
Storefront
The public online shop published through Ra8m Ecommerce, on a yourstore.ra8m.com subdomain or a custom domain.
Shopper
A person who places an order on a Storefront.
Plan, Add-on
The subscription tier the Merchant selects, and the optional paid extras such as additional branches, Ra8m Ecommerce, and a custom domain.
Local Print Service
The small background application installed on the Merchant's computer that connects Ra8m to printers, cash drawers, scales and scanners.
Boxy
The independent third-party logistics company integrated with Ra8m Ecommerce for last-mile delivery.

3.Eligibility and registration

  • You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into a contract
  • You must be operating a genuine business, and hold any licences that business requires under Iraqi law
  • The information you give us at registration must be accurate, and you must keep it up to date
  • One account is for one business. Sharing an account across separate businesses is not permitted

We may refuse, suspend or close an account where we reasonably believe these requirements are not met.

4.Free trial and plans

Ra8m offers a 14-day free trial with no card required. During the trial you have access to the features of the plan you selected.

Plans are Basic, Advanced and Manufacture. Each includes Ra8m POS and one branch. Ra8m Ecommerce, additional branches and custom domains are paid add-ons on top of any plan.

At the end of the trial, you must select a paid plan to keep using Ra8m. If you do not, the account is suspended and, after the period described in section 19, deleted.

5.Fees, billing and renewal

  • Fees are stated in Iraqi dinars (IQD) and are payable in advance for each billing period
  • Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you cancel before it ends
  • Add-ons are billed alongside the plan, priced per additional branch and per custom domain
  • If a payment fails, we may suspend access until the balance is settled
  • Fees are not refundable for a partial period, and cancelling mid-period does not generate a pro-rata refund
  • You are responsible for any taxes, duties or bank charges applicable to your business

We may change prices. We will give you at least 30 days' notice before a price change takes effect, and it will apply from your next billing period. If you do not accept the new price, you may cancel before it takes effect.

6.Account security, users and PINs

You are responsible for everything that happens under your account, including actions taken by your Authorised Users.

  • Keep sign-in credentials confidential and do not share them between people
  • Assign each staff member their own account and the narrowest role that lets them do their job
  • Set and manage operator PINs for point-of-sale terminals, and change them when staff leave
  • Remove access promptly when someone leaves your business
  • Tell us without delay if you believe an account has been compromised

7.Acceptable use

You must not use Ra8m to:

  • Sell goods or services that are illegal under Iraqi law, or that you are not licensed to sell
  • Sell pharmaceuticals or controlled substances without the licences those require
  • Sell counterfeit goods or infringe anyone's intellectual property
  • Resell, sublicense, rent out or provide the Service to a third party as if it were your own
  • Copy, reverse-engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source code of any part of the Service
  • Scrape, crawl or extract data by automated means beyond the exports we provide
  • Probe, scan or test the security of the Service without our prior written permission
  • Upload malware, or anything designed to disrupt or gain unauthorised access to any system
  • Send unsolicited bulk messages to shoppers or anyone else
  • Place an unreasonable load on the Service, or interfere with other merchants' use of it

We may suspend an account immediately, without notice, where we reasonably believe this section has been breached and there is a risk to other users, to us, or to the public.

8.Your data and content

Merchant Data is yours. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, store, process, transmit, back up and display Merchant Data — solely to operate, secure and support the Service for you, and to comply with the law. That licence ends when the data is deleted.

We may generate aggregated, de-identified statistics from usage of the Service and use them to improve it. These never identify you, your business or your customers. How we handle personal information is set out in the Privacy Policy.

You can export your data as CSV at any time from inside Ra8m, and we encourage you to keep your own copies.

9.Your responsibilities as a merchant

Ra8m is a tool. What you do with it is yours to answer for. You are responsible for:

  • The accuracy and legality of your product listings, descriptions, prices and stock information
  • Correct tax treatment, invoicing and receipts under Iraqi law
  • Your obligations to your own customers, including consumer-law obligations
  • Publishing your own privacy notice to shoppers on your Storefront
  • Having a lawful basis for the customer information you record
Pharmacies and clinics: by recording prescription, patient, treatment or insurance information in Ra8m, you warrant that you hold every licence, authorisation and patient consent that Iraqi law requires, and that you are entitled to record it. You remain responsible for that information at all times.

10.Storefronts and domains

  • Every Storefront gets a free yourstore.ra8m.com subdomain. That subdomain is licensed to you for as long as your subscription runs — it is not sold or transferred to you
  • We may reclaim a subdomain that is dormant, that infringes a trademark, or that is being used abusively
  • Custom domains are a paid add-on. Registering, renewing and configuring DNS for your own domain is your responsibility
  • You are the publisher of everything on your Storefront, and responsible for its content

We may remove Storefront content, or suspend a Storefront, where we reasonably believe it is unlawful or breaches section 7.

11.Orders placed by shoppers

Ra8m is not the seller. When a shopper buys from a Storefront, the contract of sale is between the shopper and the merchant. We provide the software that makes the transaction possible; we are not a party to it.

The merchant is solely responsible for product quality and description, availability, pricing, fulfilment, returns, refunds, warranties, after-sales support, and all consumer-protection obligations owed to the shopper.

Shoppers with a complaint about an order should contact the merchant they bought from.

12.Payments and payment providers

Subscription payments to us are processed by a third-party payment provider, under that provider's terms.

Payments made by shoppers on a Storefront — by card, wallet or cash on delivery — are settled to the merchant, not to us. We do not hold merchant funds, we do not act as a payment institution, and we are not responsible for settlement timing, chargebacks, disputes, failed transactions or fees charged by a payment provider.

The merchant is responsible for the accuracy of prices, totals and tax shown at checkout.

13.Delivery and third-party logistics

Ra8m Ecommerce integrates with Boxy for last-mile delivery. Boxy is an independent company, not our agent or subcontractor for the delivery itself.

  • The delivery arrangement is between the merchant and Boxy, under Boxy's own terms
  • Delivery times, pricing, coverage, damage, loss and cash-on-delivery collection and reconciliation are matters between the merchant and Boxy
  • Any delivery statistics shown in our marketing are indicative and are not a guarantee
  • We are not liable for any delivery outcome, delay, loss or shortfall in collected cash

Our responsibility is limited to transmitting order details to Boxy accurately and returning tracking information into Ra8m.

14.Desktop app, local print service and hardware

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Ra8m desktop app and the Local Print Service on computers you control, for the duration of your subscription. They are licensed, not sold.

  • Updates may be downloaded and installed automatically so that the app stays secure and compatible
  • You are responsible for keeping the computer, its operating system and its network reasonably secure and supported
  • Printers, cash drawers, barcode scanners, scales and customer displays are supplied by third parties. We make no warranty about any specific hardware model, and compatibility can change when a manufacturer changes firmware or drivers
  • The licence ends when your subscription ends, and you must stop using the software and remove it

15.Offline mode and synchronisation

Ra8m POS is designed to keep working without an internet connection, and to sync when connectivity returns. This is provided on a best-efforts basis.

  • Data captured offline exists only on that device until it syncs. If the device is lost, damaged, wiped or reinstalled before syncing, that data cannot be recovered
  • You should sync regularly, and keep exported backups of anything critical
  • Where the same records are edited on more than one device before syncing, conflicts are resolved by the Service's synchronisation rules, which may mean one version supersedes another
  • Features that need a live connection — storefront orders, delivery dispatch, card payments — are unavailable while offline

16.Third-party services and integrations

Ra8m connects to services operated by other companies — delivery, payments, messaging, and hosting among them. Those services are governed by their own terms, and we do not control them.

We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, security or acts of any third-party service, and an interruption at a third party may interrupt the corresponding Ra8m feature. Where a third party stops offering a service or changes it, we may need to change or withdraw the related feature.

17.Availability, maintenance and support

We work to keep Ra8m available and fast, but we do not promise uninterrupted service. Availability can be affected by maintenance, third-party outages, connectivity, and events beyond our control.

  • We may perform scheduled maintenance, and will try to do it outside peak trading hours and to give notice where practical
  • We may perform emergency maintenance without notice where security or stability requires it
  • Support is available through the channels published on our website, during our published hours
  • We may add, change or remove features as the product develops

18.Intellectual property

The Service — including its software, design, interfaces, documentation, and the Ra8m name and logo — belongs to us and our licensors. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you beyond the licence to use the Service described here.

You may not use our name, logo or branding without our written permission, except to state factually that you use Ra8m.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them to improve the Service without owing you anything for them.

19.Suspension, termination and data export

You may cancel at any time from inside Ra8m or by contacting us. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and no pro-rata refund is due.

We may suspend or terminate an account:

  • For non-payment, after we have told you and given you a reasonable chance to settle
  • For a breach of section 7 (Acceptable use)
  • Where required by law, or where continuing would expose us or others to legal risk
  • For convenience, on at least 30 days' written notice

After termination we retain your data for a limited export window so you can download it, and we will tell you how long that window is. After it closes, the data is deleted from active systems and, in due course, from backups. Export your data before you cancel.

20.Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose, and we disclaim all implied warranties to the extent the law allows.

In particular, we do not warrant that reports, accounting figures or tax calculations produced by Ra8m are correct for your circumstances. They are a tool, not professional advice. You remain responsible for verifying your own financial and tax filings, and for taking professional advice where you need it.

21.Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business or goodwill, loss of anticipated savings, or loss or corruption of data, however it arises.

Our total liability arising out of or in connection with these terms, in any 12-month period, is limited to the total amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where the law does not allow it to be excluded or limited, including for fraud.

22.Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims, losses, damages and reasonable costs arising from:

  • Your breach of these terms or of any applicable law
  • The goods or services you sell, and any dispute with one of your customers
  • Merchant Data you record, including any claim that you had no right to record it
  • Your failure to hold a licence, authorisation or consent that your business required

23.Changes to the service and these terms

We may update these terms as the product and the law develop. The date at the top of this page shows when they were last revised.

For material changes we will give you at least 30 days' notice by email or in-app message before they take effect. Continuing to use Ra8m after that date means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, you may cancel before they take effect.

24.Governing law and disputes

These terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Iraq.

The competent courts of Baghdad have exclusive jurisdiction. Before starting proceedings, please contact us — most disputes are resolved faster by talking to us first.

25.General terms

  • Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor as part of a merger, acquisition or reorganisation.
  • Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
  • No waiver. If we do not enforce a right straight away, that does not mean we have given it up.
  • Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service, and replace any earlier understanding.
  • Notices. We give notice by email to your registered address or by in-app message. You give notice to us at the address in section 26.
  • Force majeure. Neither party is liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including power or internet failure, and acts of government.
Language. These terms are published in Arabic and English for convenience. In the event of any conflict or difference of interpretation between the two versions, the Arabic version prevails.

26.Contact us

For any question about these terms:

  • Email: support@hanooot.com
  • Phone: +964 776 080 9050
  • Post: Alhanoot for General Trading CO.L.L, Baghdad / Al-Sulaikh / M 316 / Z 5 / D 59, Baghdad, Iraq

Questions about these terms?

If anything here is unclear, or you want something confirmed in writing before you commit, get in touch and we will answer plainly.