Terms & Conditions

This page tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of this website and any and all other online or digital platforms (including without limitation mobile and other applications, such as Facebook apps) which we maintain (our “Site”). Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our Site. This Site is for the personal use, of persons who are lawfully permitted to purchase and consume alcoholic beverages, in countries and other territories where the sale, advertising and consumption of alcoholic beverages is lawful. By using our Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. Please exit our Site immediately if you do not accept these terms of use.

These terms also refer to the Cookie Policies, which also apply to your use of our Site.
Please exit our Site immediately if you are not of legal age for consuming alcoholic beverages in the country or other territory in which you are located, or if you are accessing our Site in a country or other territory where use of our Site is not permitted. Content is to be shared with those over the legal drinking age only.

1. ACCESSING OUR SITE

Access to our Site is permitted on a temporary basis to users located in countries or other territories where the sale, advertising and consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted. We reserve the right to withdraw, amend, suspend or terminate indefinitely the services we provide on our Site without notice. We may suspend, terminate, or restrict access to the services we provide on our Site if you have breached these terms and/or breached our Content Standards. We may also suspend, terminate or restrict access with immediate effect if, for example, we need to take steps to defend the Site or its users from fraud, malware, spam or cybersecurity or data breaches or if we are required to do so by law. We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All intellectual property and database rights, in our Site, and in the materials published on it by us, including but not limited to trademarks, designs, logos, text, images, audio and video materials, look and feel and software (including code, interface and website structure) (“Materials”) are owned by us, our subsidiaries, affiliates companies and/or any of our partners. The Materials are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may not remove any copyright or other proprietary notices from any Materials on our Site.
Except as provided in these Terms and Conditions of Website Use, the use of this Site does not grant you any rights, title, interest or license to any Materials you may access on this Site. You are entitled to use the Materials on the Site for the sole purpose of use of the Site, and you may not use the Materials for any other purpose not connected with your enjoyment of the Site. You may print a reasonable number of hard copies, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Site for your lawful, personal, non-commercial use. You must not use any part of the Materials on our Site for commercial purposes unless expressly permitted by us and/or, where applicable, from the relevant Owner.
 

3. ACCEPTABLE USE

You may use our Site only for lawful purposes and we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate your use of the Site where you are in breach of these terms.
You are not permitted to use the Materials outside of the Site, save that you may use the recipes contained in the Site for your professional and domestic use as you see fit. You may not use our Site:
• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way or which is intended to promote alcohol to minors.
• To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any Material which does not comply with our Content Standards below.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware (“Malicious Code”).

4. OUR LIABILITY

The material displayed on our Site is provided “as is” and without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy, to the extent permitted by law, we and all other members of our Group of Companies and our affiliates (“Our Group”) hereby expressly exclude and disclaim:
All conditions, representations, or warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our Site or in connection with the User Services, or your use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for: loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, loss of goodwill, wasted management or office time, and for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.
Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability or damages, Our Group’s liability in such jurisdictions shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Nothing in these terms affects or limits your statutory rights as a consumer.

5. INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE AND EVENTS

Your privacy is important to us. We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

6. MALICIOUS CODE, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES

You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing any malicious code. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack or Malicious Code that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

7. LINKING TO OUR SITE

Unless otherwise authorised in writing by us, you may not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement of any website on our part. If you wish to make any use of Material on our Site other than that set out above, please address your request for the attention of our Digital Director as specified in section 20 of the present Terms and Conditions of Website Use.

8. LINKS FROM OUR SITE

Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

9. INDEMNITY

You will indemnify Our Group against any loss, damage or cost incurred by us arising out of your use of our Site, any User Services provided by you or accessible to you via the Site, any breach of these terms and conditions by you, or your violation of any other laws, regulations and rules. You will also indemnify us against any claims that information or material which you have submitted to us is in violation of any law or in breach of any third-party rights (including, but not limited to, claims in respect of defamation, invasion of privacy, breach of confidence and infringement of any intellectual property right). We reserve the right exclusively to defend and control any claims arising from the above and you will fully cooperate with us in any such defences.

10. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These terms of use, including our Cookie Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Site.

11. JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW

Details of our internal complaint-handling system can be found here:
In the event a dispute cannot be resolved between us and any business users by means of our internal complaint-handling system, we may agree to enter into mediation to settle such a dispute and will do so in accordance with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) Model Mediation Procedure or Alternative Dispute Resolution Group (ADRG) procedure. Unless otherwise agreed by us in writing, the mediator will be nominated by CEDR or ADRG. If you are located in the U.S., these terms are governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, excluding its conflicts of law rules, and any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions of Website Use or your access or use of this Site will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of New York in the State of New York, and you hereby submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts. If you are located anywhere except the U.S., then (i) these terms are governed by English law; and (ii) the English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our Site although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country and (iii) these Terms and Conditions of Website Use are governed by English law.

12. VARIATIONS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

13. TRANSFERRING THIS AGREEMENT

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

14. INFORMATION ABOUT US

In the present Terms and Conditions of Website Use and in the connected Cookie Policy, “US” or”WE” refers to Alcobrands, registered in Edward Pecherstraat 1, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. If you have any concerns about material which appears on our Site or if you need to communicate with us, mail to infoGWC@alcobrands.be.