Anti-Discrimination Policy

ÀWA Marketplace links conscientious customers worldwide with innovative businesses. It’s an ecosystem where individuals from all walks of life come together to inspire one another and establish relationships via the creation, sale, and purchase of items centered around holistic wellness. We want everyone on ÀWA Marketplace to feel secure, and we make inclusivity a priority. This policy details the types of behavior that are prohibited on ÀWA Marketplace in order to ensure that everyone has a great experience.

This policy is included in our Terms of Service. By using ÀWA Marketplace, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to this policy and our Terms of Service.

ÀWA Marketplace forbids the use of our Services for the purpose of discriminating against individuals based on the following personal characteristics (collectively referred to as “protected groups”):

  • Race
  • Color
  • Ethnicity
  • National origin
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • Gender identity
  • Sexual orientation
  • Disability
  • Any other characteristic protected under applicable law

It is your obligation to be familiar with your local laws and any other applicable legal requirements regarding discrimination. Furthermore, ÀWA Marketplace prohibits hate speech. Hate speech is when a person or group is targeted with violent, insulting, derogatory, or humiliating words based on one or more protected group characteristics.

Discrimination and hate speech are not permitted while utilizing public services of ÀWA Marketplace, such as listing things, using community spaces, and submitting reviews, or when communicating directly with other members of the ÀWA Marketplace community, such as through Messages. As an ÀWA Marketplace vendor, you are prohibited from displaying discriminatory conduct toward protected groups in your store material, including shop announcements and shop policies. Prohibited behaviors include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Service denial due to membership in one or more protected groups
  • Demonstrating intolerance or a lack of regard for another member based on protected group characteristics
  • Having a store policy that prohibits sales to members of one or more of the above-mentioned protected groups
  • Making disrespectful or degrading statements directly or indirectly about any of the protected groups named above
  • racial epithets
  • Support for or glorification of hate organizations and their members

If you believe there has been prejudice or hate speech on ÀWA Marketplace, please contact us at contact@awarawa.com and we will investigate.