Changes to the Site; Purpose of the Site; and Release of BrickLink:
General Statements Regarding Fees and Taxes:
Order Cancellation:
Exchange Rates:
Buying and Selling Offenses:
Non-Paying Buyer: As a Buyer, fail to pay the Seller for items after you have submitted an order, unless you are legally entitled to withhold payment. If you as a Seller have experienced a non-paying Buyer in your store, you may submit a Non-Paying Buyer Alert.
Non-Responding Seller: As a Seller, fail to respond to a Buyer who has placed an order in the Seller’s store. If you are a Buyer and have experienced a non-responding Seller on an order that you have placed, you may submit a Non-Responding Seller Alert.
Non-Shipping Seller: As a Seller, fail to ship items to the Buyer after payment from the Buyer. If you as a Buyer have experienced a non-shipping Seller, you may submit a Non-Shipping Seller Alert.
Fee Avoidance: Circumvent BrickLink fee structure (as further defined here: Fee and Billing Policy), including without limitation using any of the below methods.
If you experience any user attempting to avoid fees, you may submit a Problem Member Report.
Linking: Link to pages outside of the Site. Users must not link from their Splash Page, Terms & Conditions, Shipping Policy, About Me page or from their listings of items for sale, to another site. If you experience another user linking to a page outside of the Site, you may submit a Problem Member Report.
Limit of Feedback in Store Terms: Posting Store Terms that limit or attempt to limit users from leaving feedback or from leaving a certain type of feedback (for example negative).
Feedback as an Advertising Tool: Put links in feedback comments which link to pages outside of the Site. Such links may be automatically replaced with: https://store.bricklink.com/[username]. It is permitted to put a link (such as www.mystore.com) in feedback comments which redirects directly into the Seller's store on the Site.
Feedback Extortion: As a Buyer, demand additional goods, services or refunds over and above what was agreed in the original transaction with the threat of negative Feedback if the Seller does not comply with such demand. Sellers are not allowed to require Buyers to leave positive Feedback or revise existing Feedback in exchange for shipping items, completing refund requests or providing monetary compensation. Sellers are, however, allowed to ask the Buyer to leave positive Feedback at the end of a successful transaction. Please note that we can't accept reports of Feedback extortion received through email outside of the Site because these can be easily falsified. In order to protect yourself, we recommend you always use the BrickLink messaging system to communicate with your Buyer or Seller. If you have experienced feedback extortion, please contact Customer Support.
Sale of Plagiarized Designs: Offer to sell, sell or provide MOC designs that violate others’ intellectual property rights, publicity or privacy rights as it is expressly forbidden by these Terms. Sellers who facilitate such transactions will incur penalties ranging from a warning to account suspension or termination depending on the severity of circumstances.
Sale of Non-Compliant Products: Offer to sell or sell any product(s) which do not comply with applicable laws including, but not limited to, EU laws, including the EU General Product Safety Regulation. Sellers who repeatedly violate this requirement will incur penalties ranging from a warning to account suspension.
Feedback Removal Rules
Customized Email:
Rules of Conduct:
The LEGO BrickLink Rules of Conduct and House Rules (collectively the “Rules of Conduct”) apply to all visitors to this Site.
The goal of the Rules of Conduct is to establish a culture of courteous, respectful, and inclusive communication among all participants on the Site. Our Rules of Conduct prohibits harassment, bullying, and posts involving illegal content such as, for example, pro-terror material or crimes involving the health or safety of any person, among other types of prohibited content. Click here to access the Rules of Conduct and here to access the House Rules to learn more about what kind of behavior is permitted on this Site and what is prohibited.
How LEGO BrickLink Enforces its Rules of Conduct
We enforce our Rules of Conduct in various ways.
Moderation
User reports
If you think you have seen activity that violates the letter or the spirit of our Terms of Service or Rules of Conduct, please alert our moderators:
For Australian users: You can make a complaint about content on our Site directly to the Australian eSafety Commissioner. Complaints to the Australian eSafety Commissioner must be in writing and must include the following:
A report form can be filled in and submitted via the eSafety Commissioner website.
Procedures When content or a User is flagged as potentially being in breach of our Terms of Service or Rules of Conduct, our moderation team will review the content or activity in question to evaluate whether a breach has occurred.
Rights of Redress – how to set things right
Internal complaint handling process. We may take certain restrictive actions on your content or account if we believe you have violated the law or our policies, or we may decide not to act on a report you submitted regarding potential illegal or policy-violating content. When this happens and you disagree with our decision, you may challenge our decision to take action (or not to take action as the case may be), via our internal complaint handling system within 6 months of receiving notice of our decision.
You can file a complaint via Customer Support. Please specify ‘Appeal a decision’ in the subject line of your email so that we can promptly begin the review process. We will review our decision and respond to you as soon as possible.
Out of court dispute settlement body: You may be able to refer your matter to an out-of-court dispute settlement body. Out-of-court dispute settlement bodies are independent bodies with the means and expertise to consider the issues brought to them. The EU Digital Services Act requires that each EU/EEA Member State certify out-of-court settlement bodies to handle eligible disputes. The European Commission publishes and updates a list of certified out-of-court settlement bodies which can be found here.
BrickLink will work with the out-of-court settlement body where required by law. We are not bound by any decisions made by these out-of-court settlement bodies. The exact process for seeking out-of-court settlement resolution may vary depending on the individual procedural rules of the out-of-court dispute settlement body as well as upon the Member State. For more information, please check the website of the out-of-court dispute settlement body to which you wish to refer the matter.
For EU users: Pursue your complaint in court. You also have the option to pursue your claims in court. If you have legal questions or wish to examine the legal options that may be available to you, you may want to consult with your own legal counsel.
In Denmark the Digital Services Coordinator is the Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, which can hear complaints about our compliance with the requirements of the EU Digital Services Act, as well as certify an out of court dispute settlement body. You will find the Danish Digital Services Coordinator at https://digst.dk/, or you can click here to make a complaint.
Sanctions
In connection with these Terms of Service, you: a) confirm that it is not directly or indirectly subject to any sanctions, export or trade controls or equivalent laws, including restricted or designated party lists, imposed by any governmental or intergovernmental entity against designated countries, regimes, entities, and persons including, without limitation, by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Affairs or by the relevant bodies of the United Kingdom or the European Union and/or its Member States (collectively, “Trade Restrictions”);
b) shall comply with the Trade Restrictions in respect of any products or activities related to this Terms of Service and, in particular, shall not directly or indirectly sell, distribute, ship, market or divert such products or activities to or through any country or region subject to comprehensive Trade Restrictions, including Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria or the occupied regions of Ukraine covered by Trade Restrictions;
c) shall not, directly or indirectly sell, distribute, ship, market or any products or activities related to this Terms of Service to or through Belarus or Russia;
d) shall undertake its best efforts to ensure that the purposes of sub clauses (b) and (c) of this clause 12.1 are not frustrated by any third parties further down your commercial chain, if any, including by possible of your customers and resellers;
e) shall immediately inform Bricklink about any breach of or problems in applying or enforcing sub-clauses (b), (c) or (d) of this clause 12.1, including any suspected relevant activities by third parties that could frustrate the purpose of those sub-clauses. You shall promptly make available to Bricklink on request all such information concerning compliance or suspected non-compliance with the obligations under sub-clauses (b), (c) and (d) of this clause 12.1 as may be necessary to allow Bricklink to assess, investigate and address such problems; and
f) shall not commit any act or fail to do anything that would put yourself or Bricklink in breach of any applicable Trade Restrictions.
Any breach of this sanctions clause shall constitute a material breach of this Terms of Service, and Bricklink shall be entitled to seek appropriate remedies, including, but not limited to termination of this Terms of Service. You hereby indemnify Bricklink against any claim, damages, liability, costs, fees, and expenses incurred by Bricklink because of your failure or omission to comply with this sanctions clause.
We may also impose the following sanctions for breaches of our Terms or Code of Conduct:
Content removal: Posts containing illegal content, product listings for dangerous products, or content which we consider to be misleading or fraudulent will be removed as soon as they are found. Content which we have been informed of infringes another’s intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights will also be removed. Other content may be removed for breach of our Rules of Conduct after review on a case-by-case basis.
Content editing (for example, to delete an image or specific text): If only a portion of a submission is illegal or inappropriate or in breach of our Rules of Conduct, we may edit that content to remove the offending material.
Temporary limiting of certain privileges: Depending on the nature of the violation of our Terms, we may impose a variety of restrictions such as revoking buying or selling privileges, restricting user access to post in the Forum, limiting Sellers to onsite payment methods only, or unverifying users, among other restrictions (depending on the circumstances).
Temporary suspension of access privileges: User accounts may be suspended for repeated violations of our Rules of Conduct, for example, for repeated incidents of harassing or bullying behaviors. We may also suspend the accounts of Users who leak confidential information or who post misleading or fraudulent information, as well as Users who make repeated unfounded complaints about other Users or who abuse our reporting system
Permanent blocking of access privileges: User accounts used to post certain illegal content (such as child sex abuse material) will be terminated and reported to the relevant authorities. We also reserve the right to terminate the accounts of Users who repeatedly or seriously violate our Rules of Conduct, or who persistently make repeated unfounded complaints about other Users, abuse our reporting system, or attempt to circumvent sanctions for prior bad behavior.
Before imposing any of the above sanctions, we will take the following factors into account, including (but not limited to):
Rights of Redress – how to set things right
For EU users: Pursue your complaint in court. You also have the option to pursue your claims in court. If you have legal questions or wish to examine the legal options that may be available to you, you may want to consult with your own legal counsel.
In Denmark the Digital Services Coordinator is the Digitaliseringsstyrelsen, which can hear complaints about our compliance with the requirements of the EU Digital Services Act, as well as certify an out of court dispute settlement body. You will find the Danish Digital Services Coordinator at https://digst.dk/, or you can click here to make a complaint.
For Australian users: If we are unable to resolve your complaint within a reasonable time, we will refer your complaint to the Australian eSafety Commissioner.
Designer Terms:
User Generated Content:
User Obligations for the Content/Data:
Site Availability:
No Warranty:
Limit of Liability:
Indemnification/Reimbursement:
General Compliance with Laws
Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance
Notices:
FOR US RESIDENTS ONLY: Notice for Claims of Copyright and/or Trademark Infringement:
This section explains how to submit a copyright infringement claim, in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). Although DMCA applies only to copyright matters, BrickLink will also use the DMCA process to respond to trademark infringement claims.
If you believe that your work is the subject of copyright infringement and/or trademark infringement and appears on our Site, please provide our designated agent with the following information:
BrickLink’s agent for notice of claims of copyright or trademark infringement on this Site can be reached as follows:
Russell Callender
Email: bricklink@support.lego.com
Address:
505 Technology Drive.
Suite 300
Irvine, CA 92618
U.S.A.
Attn: Legal Department
Please also note that for copyright infringements under Section 512(f) of the U.S. Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.
Submitting a DMCA Counter-Notification
Intellectual Property:
Governing Law; Severability, Waiver, Entire Agreement; Survival:
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration; Class Action Waiver:
Assignment:
Contacts
For EU users: We have appointed a contact person who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to product safety, these Terms of Service or our Rules of Conduct. If you have any questions about product safety, these Terms or our Rules of Conduct, please contact us. You can also send a letter to our contact person at:
LEGO BrickLink
505 Technology Drive.
Suite 300
Irvine, CA 92618
U.S.A.
Attn: DSA/GPSR Contact Person
Please include your name and country to which your inquiry relates.
For EU users: The contact person responsible for communicating with the Danish Digital Services Coordinator, the European Board for Digital Services, market surveillance authorities, and the EU Commission is: Larisa Pircalabelu at DSAInquiries@LEGO.com.
For EU users: Pursuant to Article 13 of the EU Digital Services Act, we have appointed LEGO System A/S as our legal representative. Member States' competent authorities, the European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services can address their queries related to the Digital Services Act:
by email to: DSAInquiries@LEGO.com
by email to:
LEGO System A/S
Aastvej 1, 7190 Billund
Denmark
Att: LEGO BrickLink DSA/GPSA Contact Person
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For Australian users: If we are unable to resolve your complaint within a reasonable time, we will refer your complaint to the Australian eSafety Commissioner.