Please review the ‘Merchant Policy’ carefully as outlined below before submitting your application.  Your application will be reviewed once you submit. When your application doesn’t align with the Nomad Tea Festival Terms & Conditions, you will be encouraged to apply next time. Your application fee will be refunded. 

1. TERMS OF REFERENCE
In these terms and conditions, the term “Organiser” shall mean “tea vendor”, “tea educator”, “tea party host”, “tea performer”, “tea event creator”, “you”, or “your” and include all employees, partnership, firm or individual to whom space has been allocated for the purpose participating in the Nomad Tea Festival to promote tea businesses, teach a tea class, or host a tea event. 

The term “Nomad Tea Festival” shall mean, “The 1st Nomad Tea Festival (Nomad Tea Festival 2020)”, “festival”, “we”, “us”, or ’our’.

2. ALLOCATION OF EXHIBIT SPACE
The Nomad Tea Festival will allocate the space following the nature of the festival, mostly based on a first-come, first-served basis, except for our sponsors. We reserve the right to change the allocated space at any time.

3. APPLICATION AND PAYMENT PROCEDURES
Your application fee is the only fee we ask. Your application fee will vary between $0 and $120 ($10 per month)depends on your selection and time of applying. 

If you are hosting a free tea workshop, tea party, or tea performance event, your application fee will be waived. 

If you are hosting a paid tea event, we will be using Eventbrite to run your event. Please read carefully Eventbrite’s Community Guideline and Merchant Contract, so we can publish your tea event on Eventbrite in addition to our website. For your potential payouts, you will be paid 85% of tickets sold value, 15% will be used for paying Eventbrite’s fees (3.5% of each ticket price + $1.59 + 2.5% of payment processing fee per order) + international transfer fee to your account + service fees we may anticipate. You should receive all payouts for your event by August 26th, 2020. 

4. INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL
Your virtual tea market or tea event space will be installed timely in order of applications we receive. Your tea vendor, tea workshop, tea party, or tea performance space will be up for 12 months until the next Nomad Tea Festival in 2021 on our website. 

If you wish to remove your space on our website after the festival, contact us. 

5. COORDINATION, REGULATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 
You agree to provide all the required information to install your space at the Nomad Tea Festival. Whatever you submit to us is required to comply with regulations and restrictions with accurate information.  

6. PRIVACY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES.
Be thoughtful and careful about the kind of information you submit to us. Especially when you share a picture, your picture with other people in a tearoom or tea garden may seem cool. However, if there were people unknowingly in your picture, don’t submit the picture to us.  

Please don’t submit any material that you don’t have a right to. This includes, but is not limited to, all images, logos, videos, and text uploaded on your application, which will be uploaded on our website.

Once you submit your application, we will consider you have all rights to your submitted materials. We will not be responsible for any dispute or complaint about the materials you submitted to us. 

7. SECURITY
We want our platform to be secured. Our website provides HTTPS, SSL, and constantly monitor our security in the backend.  

Don’t post, transmit through or release into the Nomad Tea Festival Services a virus, worm, Trojan Horse, time bomb, spyware, rootkit, cancelbot, or other computer code, file, or program that is harmful or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment. 

You can whether any of the materials that you are about to submit contain a virus through your choice of vaccine program or https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload. 

8. THE IMPORTANCE OF SHOWING UP 
If you are hosting a live event at the Nomad Tea Festival, you must show up. If life happens and you need to withdraw from any scheduled live event, you need to notify us in writing with a reason as soon as you find out. 

If you withdraw from hosting your scheduled event without informing us, you will be fined $500. If cancellation is inevitable, you may be asked to reschedule your event even if that means before or after the festival (July 26th, 2020). 

If something doesn’t seem to go on as you anticipated, just let us know in advance, so we can figure out a better way together.   

9. CANCELLATION 
Once this application has been submitted, the cancellation will require a written notification sent to the Nomad Tea Festival right after making the decision. Your application fee will not be refunded. 

10. BREACH OF THE CONTRACT
When you breach this contract, we reserve the right to terminate the contract forthwith. Your application fee will not be refunded. 

11. ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES
Any disputes that cannot be solved between Nomad Tea Festival and Organisers shall be settled by the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration in English. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on the parties.