Terms of use

Valantai operates this platform and acts as a broker. On any given project Valantai is not the owner of the goods, not the seller and not the manufacturer. The contracting seller is identified within each project. Valantai introduces buyers and runs the process; it does not contract to supply.

Valantai is paid a commission by the seller, on completion of a sale, calculated on the gross sale value of the goods, at the rate agreed with that seller when the lot is listed. A buyer pays Valantai nothing. Nothing on this platform is advice to a buyer on whether to buy or on what to pay.

Everything on this platform is provided for evaluation and is subject to contract. No page, document, figure, schedule or message on it constitutes an offer capable of acceptance, and no contract arises unless and until a written agreement is signed by the relevant parties.

Registering interest is not an offer, is not a commitment, and does not reserve anything. Prices are on application. Any recommended retail prices shown are reference figures published by the manufacturer and are not offer prices.

Information on this platform comes substantially from the seller and from the manufacturer's published material. Valantai presents it in good faith and does not independently verify it. Quantities, specifications, warranty positions, regulatory statements and availability are indicative and remain subject to contract, availability and physical inspection of the stock.

Statements about the regulatory position in any market are provided as information, not as certification or advice. You are responsible for satisfying yourself as to the requirements of your own market, including product conformity, refrigerant rules, energy labelling, import requirements and any registration or certification your jurisdiction demands. Valantai will help you look into these things; it does not certify them.

Nothing on this platform is legal, tax, customs or investment advice.

A seller supplies a stock schedule in whatever language they write in. Where a schedule is shown in a language other than the seller’s own, that translation is produced automatically and is offered for convenience only.

The seller’s original wording is what controls. It is kept unaltered, it is shown alongside every translated description, and it is what appears in any file you download. Where a translation and the original differ in any respect, the original prevails.

No reliance may be placed on a translation. It is not a warranty, a specification or a description of the goods, and Valantai does not verify that it is accurate, complete or fit for any purpose. A translation may misdescribe a product’s type, grade, condition, specification, compliance or intended use.

Every schedule, in every language including the original, must be validated by your own due diligence before you commit to anything. That includes satisfying yourself as to the identity, quantity, specification, condition, origin and lawfulness of the goods. Nothing shown on this platform relieves you of that, and Valantai accepts no liability for any decision taken in reliance on a translated description.

Quantities, prices and totals are never translated. They are the seller’s own figures throughout, save that any total shown is calculated by Valantai from those figures and is identified as such.

Access is personal to you and to the email address it was issued against. Do not share your sign-in link, forward material, or let anyone else use your access. We record which pages are opened and which files are taken, against the address they were released to. Documents, spreadsheets and presentations carry a reference identifying the copy that was released to you; photographs and video are supplied as we received them and do not. Access may be withdrawn at any time and without notice.

Demonstration links are a limited exception: they are time-limited, may be withdrawn at any moment, and are not personal, so anyone holding one has whatever access it carries.

Material on this platform is confidential. Where a project requires you to accept confidentiality wording before entering, that wording governs your obligations in respect of that project's material, and these terms do not limit it.

The platform, its design and its contents belong to Valantai or to the party that supplied the material. Manufacturer names, model designations and product photography belong to the manufacturer and are used to identify the goods. You may use what you are given here to evaluate the transaction, and for nothing else. You may not copy, republish, or use it to build a competing offering.

We do not promise the platform will be available without interruption or free of error. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it, or any project on it, at any time.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, Valantai is not liable for any loss of profit, loss of business, loss of contract, loss of anticipated saving, or any indirect or consequential loss, arising from your use of this platform or from reliance on information presented on it. Your remedies in respect of any goods lie against the seller under whatever contract you enter into with them.

We generate the sale documents from what the parties enter, so that the schedules cannot contradict each other and neither side has to retype the other side's figures. Generating a document is not advice and it is not the practice of law.

We give no legal advice. Nothing on this platform, in any document it generates, or in any explanation beside one, is legal advice or a substitute for it. Take your own before you sign anything.

We do not warrant that any document is binding or enforceable. We do not warrant that a contract has been formed, that any term is valid, that any term will be enforced in any country, or that any document is effective in any proceedings.

Who owns goods is decided by where the goods are. A sale contract generated here says what the parties intend about ownership, and it is governed by English law. English law itself decides questions of ownership by reference to the law of the country where the goods are at the relevant time, which may not be the country whose law the parties have chosen. Some countries impose requirements on a seller who wants to keep ownership until payment, such as writing, agreement before delivery, registration, or a deadline for claiming goods back, and where those are not met the seller may have nothing. We do not assess any of that and we give no assurance about it. If it matters to your deal, take advice on it.

We do not comment on variations. Where a party asks for a change to the standard form, we insert their words, attribute them, and show them to the other side. We do not draft them, advise on them or express a view on them.

We do not verify bank instruments or transport documents. A letter of credit, standby credit, guarantee or transport document uploaded here is shown as an upload by whoever uploaded it. We do not check that it is authentic, operative or enforceable, and we are not a party to it. Verify it through your own bank, using contact details you obtain independently.

Incoterms®. Contracts generated here incorporate an Incoterms® 2020 rule, which the parties choose. Incoterms® and the Incoterms® 2020 logo are trademarks of ICC, and the Incoterms® rules are protected by copyright owned by ICC. Use of these trademarks does not imply association with, approval of or sponsorship by ICC. We do not reproduce the rules and we do not advise on which to choose. They are published by the International Chamber of Commerce.

The same applies to tax, customs, export control and sanctions. We run screening checks on deals we host. Those are for our own purposes and are not a clearance, an opinion or a permission for either party.

How we handle personal data is set out in our privacy notice, which forms part of these terms.

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of this platform, are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

We may update these terms. The version in force is the one published here, and the date at the top tells you when it last changed.