Maverick Work Wear, Inc., operating under the business name BRUNT Workwear, has formulated a complete set of cooperation guidelines for all qualified retail partners, aiming to fully safeguard the brand image, market reputation and stable high-quality supply of all workwear products launched by the company. These standardized cooperation rules take effect right away and apply to all business partners who obtain formal qualifications to resell the brand’s full line of workwear goods. Any business entity that places bulk procurement orders from the brand for subsequent retail sales to ordinary consumers will be automatically regarded as having fully recognized and voluntarily abided by all the binding rules listed in the complete document, and all partners are required to carefully review all relevant clauses before completing any order confirmation procedures.
All bulk procurement applications submitted by retail partners must be processed and completed in strict accordance with the unified ordering, logistics distribution and after-sales return management standards implemented by the brand at the actual time of application. The brand reserves the independent right to adjust and optimize the above-mentioned operational process standards at any time according to market operation needs and internal management arrangements without prior separate notification. The brand also holds the absolute right to refuse to accept all or part of any submitted procurement applications without the need to provide specific explanatory reasons. Any additional supplementary clauses or modified cooperation requirements put forward by retail partners independently, including various implicit agreement contents attached to procurement application documents, will be directly rejected by the brand and judged as substantive changes to the unified cooperation framework, unless the brand issues a formal written official document to confirm and recognize such additional clauses separately. Meanwhile, all kinds of exemption statements, one-click confirmation agreements and electronic pop-up authorization rules set on the independent operation platforms of retail partners will not produce any legal binding force on the brand in all commodity transaction and cooperation links.
All retail partners must carry out all commodity sales activities in strict accordance with the unified normative requirements stipulated in the cooperation rules. Any sales behaviors that violate the relevant cooperation constraints are strictly prohibited, and the brand has the right to immediately freeze and close the partner’s official cooperative sales account, while retaining all other legal rights to pursue subsequent liability compensation. Any products that flow into the market through unapproved sales channels or are resold to non-qualified purchasers will not be eligible to participate in the brand’s official preferential marketing activities, enjoy professional after-sales supporting services and exclusive cooperative welfare policies. Within the scope permitted by national laws and regulations, the brand will completely cancel all quality warranty commitments and after-sales guarantee services for products with irregular circulation channels, goods sold by unqualified vendors, and products that fail to meet the brand’s unified quality inspection and control standards in the circulation link.
Retail partners can only sell all purchased workwear products to actual end consumers with real use demands, and shall not engage in any bulk resale, hoarding and resale, or secondary distribution behaviors. The single purchase quantity of each customer in the actual sales process shall not exceed the daily personal use demand standard of ordinary individual consumers. Without the brand’s prior formal written approval and official authorization, retail partners are not allowed to deliver, issue sales invoices or arrange cross-border transportation of any brand products to any customer groups outside the United States. Partners are also forbidden to provide product transfer services to any third parties who are clearly aware of or have reasonable grounds to judge that the goods will be transported overseas in a disguised form.
Retailers can carry out product promotion display and formal retail sales through their independently registered and operated official network sales platforms, on the premise that the platforms fully display complete and legal enterprise registration names, effective physical mailing addresses, real contact phone numbers and official dedicated business email addresses. The brand can withdraw the network sales qualification of any partner at any time based on comprehensive market assessment and independent judgment, and the partner must immediately remove all product display content and stop all online sales behaviors after receiving the official qualification revocation notice. All third-party public e-commerce trading platforms including mainstream comprehensive shopping websites are not allowed to carry out any brand product sales business without the brand’s exclusive written offline authorization. All oral promises and informal written explanations made by the brand’s on-site staff and external commissioned agents cannot be used as valid credentials for opening additional network sales channels. All partners must strictly abide by all national industry laws and regional administrative management regulations involved in product publicity, offline and online sales, and daily market promotion work.
Every retail partner needs to complete comprehensive commodity inspection work immediately after receiving the bulk goods, and conduct regular daily checks during the subsequent indoor storage cycle. The key inspection contents cover surface damage, functional defects, outer package seal breakage, man-made trace alteration and other unqualified product problems. Partners need to regularly sort out all inventory goods, timely screen out products that have expired or are about to reach the valid use period, and completely remove all expired and substandard goods from the sales inventory to ensure that no non-compliant products are put on the shelves for sale. Once any defective products are found in the inspection process, partners must immediately suspend the sales placement of the involved goods and feed back the detailed defect situation and batch information to the brand’s special logistics and quality inspection department in a timely manner.
In the daily storage and handling process of all workwear products, partners need to adopt standardized protective operation methods, place all goods in indoor environments with constant low temperature, dry air and stable humidity, keep away from long-term direct sunlight exposure, high-temperature heat sources and humid and damp storage spaces, and strictly implement all additional special storage protection guidelines and operation specifications issued by the brand from time to time. In order to fully protect the personal use safety of all end consumers, all retail partners need to fully cooperate with the brand’s overall emergency deployment when the brand launches product safety recall work and releases public consumer safety reminder notices, and actively complete all relevant commodity sorting, recovery and information statistics work within the specified time limit.
All products must be sold with the original factory outer packaging intact and all anti-counterfeiting seals completely unremoved. Partners are not allowed to label complete new products as second-hand goods, unpacked trial products or other similar non-new product labels in any sales link. Any behaviors such as secondary labeling, repackaging independently, disassembling the original bundled product sets, privately matching different commodities for combined sales, pasting wrong product information labels and artificially polluting product accessories are all explicitly prohibited. It is forbidden to scratch, cover, alter and erase the production batch coding and all anti-counterfeiting identification marks printed on the product body and outer packaging. Partners shall not tear off, cover or modify all copyright protection marks, exclusive trademark patterns and brand exclusive property identification labels attached to products, product instruction manuals and supporting auxiliary materials. All behaviors of privately modifying, translating and deleting the text content on the official product labels and supporting promotional brochures are not allowed. Partners cannot display and sell non-brand workwear products together with the brand’s regular products in offline stores and online storefronts, so as to avoid misleading consumers into mistakenly believing that non-brand goods are officially produced, officially endorsed or closely associated with BRUNT Workwear brand.
Retailers and all front-line sales staff under the partner’s team must take the initiative to learn the full functional characteristics, material advantages and applicable scenario standards of all sold products, master professional and comprehensive product service knowledge, so as to accurately provide end consumers with reasonable product selection suggestions and safe use guidance, and clearly inform customers of the complete content of official warranty services and standardized after-sales return rules. Partners need to keep smooth customer service communication channels before and after product sales, and respond to all consumer consultation demands and after-sales problem feedback in a timely and efficient manner. All sales staff and external contact personnel of partners must maintain a standardized and professional service image in all external product promotion and customer communication links, and avoid all words and behaviors that may damage the good market reputation and brand image of BRUNT Workwear. When the brand launches official investigation and work evaluation on relevant service disputes and negative public opinion events, partners need to provide full cooperation and truthfully provide all relevant on-site sales records and communication data.
All brand exclusive logos, registered trademarks, service identification patterns, official product packaging design styles, text copyright works and all intangible intellectual property rights related to product operation and promotion are fully owned by BRUNT Workwear. The brand only grants retail partners a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and recyclable temporary use right of the above intellectual property resources, which is only used for daily product market promotion and formal retail sales within the cooperation scope. All intellectual property use qualifications will be automatically cancelled immediately after the partner’s authorized retail cooperation identity is terminated. The brand has the unconditional right to conduct real-time review and standardized approval on all intellectual property use plans and actual use behaviors of partners at any stage of cooperation. All market reputation and commercial goodwill accumulated by relying on the brand’s intellectual property resources in the cooperation process will all belong to BRUNT Workwear exclusively, and partners have no right to claim any shared ownership and additional compensation rights.
Once retail partners have any breach of cooperation behaviors that violate the above all standardized terms, the brand has the right to immediately terminate all cooperative relations and close all retail authorization qualifications, and at the same time exercise all legal means to recover economic losses and safeguard legitimate rights and interests. After the cooperation is officially terminated, partners must immediately stop all brand product sales behaviors, cancel all official publicity contents related to the brand, no longer use any words and scenes that are easy to mislead the public to recognize the cooperative identity, and completely stop all use behaviors of the brand’s exclusive intellectual property resources.
Both parties clearly recognize that once any partner breaches the cooperation rules or intends to carry out irregular breach behaviors, simple economic compensation cannot fully make up for the brand’s brand reputation losses and market order damage. Therefore, the brand has the right to apply to the relevant regulatory authorities for mandatory injunction protection and other fair legal remedy measures to stop the breach behaviors in a timely manner. The brand’s temporary non-exercise of any legitimate rights and interests stipulated in the clauses will not be deemed as a permanent waiver of relevant rights, and will not affect the brand’s subsequent normal exercise of all protective rights.
The brand can adjust, supplement and optimize the full content of the cooperation terms in real time according to market development changes, and only need to issue formal written notices or official electronic notification messages to all retail partners to complete the formal update procedure. All revised clauses will take effect immediately after the notification is issued. If partners continue to carry out product sales, intellectual property use and other cooperative business behaviors after receiving the update notice, it will be automatically regarded as fully recognizing and accepting all revised new clauses. A single tolerance of the brand for a certain breach behavior of the partner will not be deemed as a long-term waiver of the constraint force of relevant clauses, and will not affect the brand’s subsequent punishment of similar breach behaviors. If individual clauses in the terms are judged to be inconsistent with local legal provisions by the judicial department, all other remaining clauses will still maintain complete legal validity. Some core constraint clauses will still continue to take effect even after the cooperation between the two parties is terminated. Within the maximum scope permitted by local laws, both parties voluntarily and irrevocably give up the right to apply for jury trial in all judicial disputes related to the cooperative terms and product transaction businesses, and both parties fully confirm that this waiver behavior is completed on the premise of fully understanding relevant legal rights and obtaining professional legal consulting services from independently hired lawyers.