Terms of Service

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the SeedMatchGroup website and services at seedmatchgroup.com (the "platform"). The platform is operated by SeedMatchGroup from the Republic of Cyprus (see the Legal Notice). SeedMatch Group is the specialised commercial agriculture platform of Global B2B Group, its parent group.

These Terms are the master agreement. Two further documents form part of them:

• the Buyer Terms, which apply when you request quotations, submit project or transaction requests, or ask about marketplace listings; and
• the Supplier Terms, which apply when you take part as a supplier, manufacturer, seed producer, produce seller or other provider.

Our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, Compliance Policy and Intellectual Property Policy also apply. If documents conflict, this order applies: (1) a separate written agreement signed by you and SeedMatchGroup, for its subject matter; (2) the Buyer Terms or Supplier Terms, for their subject matter; (3) these Terms; (4) the policies.

2. Business use only

The platform is for business-to-business use only. It is intended for commercial growers, agribusinesses, agricultural investors, government bodies and their authorised representatives acting for their trade, business or profession — not for personal, household or hobby use.

Our sourcing service is designed for commercial agricultural projects with a value generally from USD 250,000. When you register, submit a request or take part as a supplier, you confirm that you act for a business or public body and have authority to do so. We may ask for information to confirm this and may decline or pause a request or account that does not appear to meet these criteria.

If, despite these controls, mandatory consumer-protection law applies to you, nothing in these Terms limits or excludes the rights that law gives you.

3. What SeedMatchGroup does

SeedMatchGroup is a private, human-led B2B sourcing platform for commercial agricultural projects. It is not an automatic or open marketplace. Depending on the request, our work may include:

• RFQ intake and human review: a sourcing specialist reviews each request for quotation ("RFQ") or project request before any supplier is approached.
• Scope and brief: clarifying the requirement with the buyer and preparing a project brief.
• Supplier research and outreach: researching and approaching suitable independent suppliers, and sharing project information with them only as reasonably necessary.
• Organising responses: collecting, organising and presenting the responses received so the buyer can compare them.
• Introductions: making staff-reviewed introductions between a buyer and a supplier after project review.
• Managed marketplace: listing anonymised capability records only where the seller or producer has opted in and a staff member has decided to list them. Buyers request listed records through SeedMatchGroup, not directly.
• Supplier directory: showing anonymised profiles of companies that staff have reviewed before they are shown to buyers.
• Regulatory review: recording compliance reviews that can hold or block marketplace listings, the progress of a request and supplier matching where the rules are restrictive or unclear.
• Information tools: guides, market intelligence, calculators and similar resources (see the "Information on the platform" section).

We decide, acting reasonably, whether and how to take a request forward. We do not promise any number of quotations, any response time, any particular supplier or any result.

4. What SeedMatchGroup does not do

Unless expressly agreed in a separate written agreement signed by SeedMatchGroup:

• SeedMatchGroup does not manufacture, breed, produce, grow, stock, sell, buy, store, transport, import, export, install, commission, register or certify any seed, plant material, produce, fertilizer, crop-protection product, equipment, greenhouse, irrigation system or other goods or services.
• SeedMatchGroup is not the seller or the buyer of goods and does not take title to, or possession of, goods.
• SeedMatchGroup does not hold, receive or process payments between buyers and suppliers and does not provide escrow.
• SeedMatchGroup does not negotiate, accept or sign terms on behalf of a buyer or a supplier and has no authority to bind either of them. Staff may relay and help clarify questions and commercial points while organising responses; this is not acceptance on anyone's behalf.
• SeedMatchGroup is not a lender, bank, credit provider, investment or financial adviser, insurer, regulator, certification body, laboratory, customs agent or engineering, agronomy or legal adviser. Our reviews are not regulatory approvals or certifications.

5. Which contract applies, and when it forms

Your agreement with SeedMatchGroup is these Terms (with the Buyer Terms or Supplier Terms that apply to you) and any separate written agreement you sign with us.

The supply contract for any goods or services is between the buyer and the supplier only. It forms only when the buyer and the supplier sign or accept their own written contract, purchase order or order confirmation. An RFQ, quotation, estimate, listing, introduction, platform message or summary prepared by SeedMatchGroup is not that contract and does not bind anyone to buy or sell, unless the buyer and the supplier expressly agree in writing that it does.

SeedMatchGroup is not a party to the supply contract unless it expressly agrees in writing to be. The buyer's rights and remedies for the goods or services are against the supplier, under that contract and applicable law.

6. Fees

SeedMatchGroup's sourcing service is free for buyers. Where a project proceeds, SeedMatchGroup may receive a commercial fee from the selected supplier, manufacturer or partner under a separate agreement with that party. This does not change supplier selection, which stays buyer-led and supplier-neutral.

7. Reviews and checks we carry out

We carry out limited, risk-based checks as part of the service — for example reviewing RFQs before outreach, reviewing directory companies before they are shown to buyers, reviewing opted-in records before listing them, and recording regulatory compliance reviews. These checks rely on the information and sources available to us at the time and may not identify every issue.

A review, listing, approval, allocation or introduction is not a certification, audit, endorsement, guarantee or regulatory approval of any company, product, document or claim. Unless a statement on the platform expressly says that SeedMatchGroup has confirmed a specific fact, information about a company or product is the statement of that company or of the stated source. Buyers and suppliers must still carry out their own due diligence.

8. Information on the platform — verify before reliance

Prices, price ranges, benchmarks, market intelligence, trade data, calculators, estimates, project templates, regulatory summaries, translations, AI-assisted or automated content and other informational content are indicative. They may be incomplete, simplified or out of date, and they are not legal, regulatory, engineering, agronomic, safety, financial, tax or investment advice.

Before you rely on any of it: confirm product details, prices and terms with the supplier in writing; confirm legal and regulatory requirements with the competent authority in each relevant country; and take advice from qualified professional advisers.

Crop-protection products and other regulated chemicals are treated as sensitive. The platform does not present any use of such a product as permitted in a country unless the competent authority there has explicitly approved it, and listings or requests may be held until this is verified. See Regulation & Restricted Items.

Where we provide a translation of these Terms or of an extract, it is for information. Yields, savings, returns and other outcomes depend on many factors outside our control and are never guaranteed.

9. Responsibilities follow each party's role

Each party is responsible for the duties that its actual legal role carries — for example as manufacturer, seller, exporter, importer of record, registrant, operator or user of a product. The detailed allocation is in the Supplier Terms (including product authenticity, quality, safety, labelling, certificates, origin, traceability and the seed-, input-, produce- and equipment-specific duties) and the Buyer Terms (including requirements, evaluation, permits and import clearance, inspection and acceptance).

These Terms do not shift to any buyer or supplier the statutory duties that apply to SeedMatchGroup itself, and they do not make a party responsible for duties of a role it does not have.

Global B2B Group and its platforms, including SeedMatchGroup, are committed to conducting their own activities in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. SeedMatchGroup facilitates sourcing and reviewed RFQs; it does not itself manufacture, breed, grow, pack or export the products concerned.

Subject to applicable law, each participant is responsible for the requirements that apply to its own role. Suppliers, producers and exporters are responsible for ensuring that the products they offer and supply meet the applicable product, safety, quality, licensing, certification, labelling, traceability, sanitary or phytosanitary, export, customs and documentation requirements in the countries of origin and destination, where relevant. Buyers and importers remain responsible for their own import permissions, local requirements and due diligence. Buyers and Suppliers are also responsible, for their own role, for the environmental, water, energy, biosecurity, land-use, permitting, chemical-input, worker-safety and waste obligations that apply in the project jurisdiction. Requirements differ by product and jurisdiction.

SeedMatchGroup does not guarantee any participant's compliance and makes no environmental representation. Nothing in these Terms exempts any person, including SeedMatchGroup, from duties imposed by applicable law, transfers responsibilities that the law places on a particular party, or constitutes legal advice. See Participant responsibilities for examples by product type.

10. Your general obligations

• Give accurate, complete and lawful information and keep it up to date.
• Use the platform only for genuine business purposes and in line with the Acceptable Use Policy.
• Comply with applicable law, including sanctions, export-control, anti-money-laundering, anti-bribery and data-protection law (see the Compliance Policy).
• Keep confidential any non-public information you receive through the process and use it only for the project concerned.
• Keep your account credentials secure and tell us promptly about any unauthorised use.

11. RFQ allocation policy

Every RFQ is reviewed by a sourcing specialist before any supplier outreach. Submission does not create a public listing, automatic match, entitlement to supplier contact details, or obligation on SeedMatchGroup or any supplier to respond.

• Eligibility: the service is intended for genuine commercial agricultural projects, generally from USD 250,000, with an identifiable buyer, lawful purpose and enough information for responsible review.
• Allocation factors: SeedMatchGroup may consider project scope, crop, country, budget, timeline, technical fit, export capability, supplier capacity, geography, compliance risk, conflicts, completeness of information and current request volume.
• Human discretion: SeedMatchGroup decides whether, when and to which suitable suppliers an RFQ is allocated. It may request clarification, narrow or divide the scope, pause outreach, decline the request, or stop the process.
• No guaranteed outcome: there is no guarantee of a minimum number of quotations, supplier participation, response time, price, availability, financing, introduction, award or completed transaction.
• Confidentiality: project details are shared only as reasonably necessary for the reviewed sourcing process. Buyer identity and direct contact details may be withheld until appropriate.
• Supplier neutrality: allocation is not a certification, endorsement, ranking or warranty. Buyers remain free to reject every response and are responsible for final selection and due diligence.
• No circumvention: users must not use an RFQ, response or introduction to bypass agreed communications, misuse confidential information or evade applicable platform terms.

12. Safety, recall and regulatory notices

If you become aware of a product recall, safety incident, plant-health or quarantine finding, suspected fraud, or a regulatory inquiry connected with a request, listing, introduction or supply arranged through the platform, tell the other party concerned and SeedMatchGroup promptly (at legal@seedmatchgroup.com), and in any case within any period that applicable law requires. Each party will cooperate reasonably with the others and with competent authorities. This does not replace any duty you have to notify an authority directly.

13. Records

Buyers and suppliers should keep the records needed to show the origin, traceability, documents and compliance of goods supplied, for at least the period required by applicable law or [RETENTION PERIOD — counsel to confirm], whichever is longer, and provide relevant copies on reasonable request where needed to deal with a safety, plant-health, fraud or regulatory matter. SeedMatchGroup keeps its own records in line with the Privacy Policy.

14. Copyright and intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the platform's software, written content, page structure, design, trademarks, logos, original images, calculators, templates, guides, methodologies, taxonomies and databases are owned by SeedMatchGroup, Global B2B Group or their licensors and are protected by law.

You receive a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to view and use the platform for your organisation's legitimate B2B evaluation, sourcing or supplier participation. Without prior written permission you may not republish, sell, scrape, systematically extract, train a competing dataset or model on, frame, mirror or create a commercial derivative of protected platform content. Material you submit is subject to the Intellectual Property Policy.

15. Suspension and termination

Acting reasonably, and with notice where appropriate and lawful, we may refuse, pause or remove a request, listing, content or account, or suspend or end access, where we reasonably suspect fraud, false information, counterfeit or illegal products, sanctions or export-control breaches, money laundering, bribery, intellectual-property infringement, circumvention, security abuse or another breach of these Terms or our policies, or where the law requires it. We may share information with competent authorities where the law requires or permits it. You may stop using the platform at any time.

Sections on information, responsibilities, notices, records, liability, indemnities, intellectual property and governing law continue after termination.

16. Platform availability and warranties

We provide the platform with reasonable care and skill, but we do not promise it will always be available, uninterrupted or error-free. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude implied warranties and conditions about the platform and its informational content, such as satisfactory quality or fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant crop performance, germination, purity, yield, harvest quality, equipment performance, returns, financing approval or the outcome of any project; those matters depend on the supplier, the supply contract and many factors outside our control.

17. Limitation of liability

What these Terms never exclude or limit

Nothing in these Terms (including the Buyer Terms and Supplier Terms) excludes or limits:

• any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law;
• death or personal injury caused by negligence, to the extent such liability cannot lawfully be excluded;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• wilful misconduct;
• gross negligence, where liability for it cannot lawfully be excluded or limited;
• mandatory product-safety or food-safety duties that apply to a party under applicable law;
• breach of confidentiality or data-protection obligations, to the extent liability for such breach cannot lawfully be excluded or limited;
• obligations to pay amounts that are due (for example fees or the price of goods under a supply contract);
• liability for a party's own legally actionable acts or omissions where applicable law prohibits excluding it;

Excluded losses

Subject to the paragraph above, SeedMatchGroup is not liable, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, for:

• indirect or consequential loss;
• loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts or anticipated savings;
• loss of opportunity or goodwill;
• loss of crop, yield, harvest or production, to the extent it is an indirect or consequential loss;
• loss or corruption of data that could have been restored from reasonable back-ups;

Third parties

Suppliers, financing providers, carriers, laboratories and other third parties are independent. SeedMatchGroup is not liable for their goods, services, acts or omissions, except to the extent a loss is caused by SeedMatchGroup's own breach of these Terms, negligence or other legally actionable act or omission.

Overall cap

Subject to the carve-outs above, SeedMatchGroup's total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and the platform is limited to [AMOUNT/FORMULA — counsel to confirm], being the platform service fees paid or payable to SeedMatchGroup in connection with the relevant transaction or service during [PERIOD — counsel to confirm]. Where no fees are paid or payable by you or for your transaction (for example, buyers using the free service), the cap is [FEE-FREE FALLBACK AMOUNT — counsel to confirm].

Mandatory law

Where applicable law does not allow a limitation or exclusion in this section, it applies only to the extent the law allows. Mandatory consumer-protection rights, where they apply, are not affected.

18. Indemnities

Each user will compensate SeedMatchGroup for losses, including reasonable legal costs and third-party claims, to the extent they are caused by that user's breach of these Terms, fraud, wilful misconduct or breach of applicable law. In the same way, and subject to the "Limitation of liability" section, SeedMatchGroup will compensate a user for third-party claims to the extent they are caused by SeedMatchGroup's breach of these Terms, fraud, wilful misconduct or breach of applicable law.

• Responsibility is proportionate: it is reduced to the extent the party claiming (or anyone it is responsible for) caused or contributed to the loss.
• The party claiming must give prompt notice of the claim, take reasonable steps to limit the loss, and not settle a claim without the other party's consent (not to be unreasonably withheld).
• These indemnities do not remove or limit any right a third party has under applicable law, or any duty of SeedMatchGroup that cannot be waived.

19. Events outside reasonable control

No party is responsible for a failure or delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control — for example extreme weather, plant-health outbreaks, war, sanctions or other government action, strikes, epidemics, or failures of power, telecommunications, hosting or internet services — provided it takes reasonable steps to reduce the effect. This does not excuse payment obligations or duties that applicable law makes mandatory.

20. Third-party services

The platform uses or links to third-party services (for example hosting, mapping, authentication, analytics, communications and market data). They are provided by their own providers under their own terms. Our responsibility for our own choice and use of these services is governed by the "Limitation of liability" section.

21. Financing

• SeedMatchGroup is not a lender, bank, credit provider, investment adviser or regulated financial services provider, and does not provide loans, credit, or financial, investment, tax or legal advice.
• SeedMatchGroup does not negotiate, underwrite, approve or guarantee financing. It may help a buyer organise project documents and complete a readiness checklist; this is not a credit assessment or offer. Whether such help or an introduction is a regulated activity depends on local law.
• Financing requests are shared with independent financing providers only with the buyer's explicit consent. Any approval, terms and contract are decided by, and are between the buyer and, the provider.
• SeedMatchGroup is not responsible for providers' decisions, actions or defaults; its own liability in connection with financing introductions is governed by the "Limitation of liability" section.

22. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any non-contractual obligations connected with them, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the courts of the Republic of Cyprus have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the platform.

This does not deprive anyone of the protection of mandatory rules of the law of their own country, or of a right under applicable law to bring proceedings elsewhere, and either party may seek urgent interim relief from any competent court. To the extent permitted by applicable law, claims against SeedMatchGroup are to be brought individually and not as part of a class or representative action; this does not affect any collective-redress right that applicable law makes mandatory.

Disputes about goods, services or financing are to be resolved between the parties to the supply or financing contract under that contract.

23. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Each version shows its version number and effective date. Where a change materially affects your rights, we will give reasonable notice before it applies to existing accounts. A submission made under an earlier version remains governed by the version accepted at that time, unless you agree otherwise.

24. General

• If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the provision applies to the extent it is enforceable.
• These Terms, the Buyer Terms or Supplier Terms and the policies referred to above, together with any separate written agreement with SeedMatchGroup, are the whole agreement between you and SeedMatchGroup about the platform.
• A delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it.
• You may not transfer your rights under these Terms without our written consent.

25. Contact

Legal questions and notices: legal@seedmatchgroup.com. Privacy: privacy@seedmatchgroup.com.