Terms of Use

1. GENERAL

The website www.poppinette.com is owned and run by POPPINETTE LTD, KBO 0843.586.036 having its registered office at Lieven de Winnestraat 26, 9000 Ghent, E-mail: info@poppinette.com, hereafter referred to as “POPPINETTE”

2. SUBJECT OF THE TERMS OF USE

POPPINETTE appreciates your interest in its site and its activities, products and services.

The object of this website is to offer commercial activities and establish commercial transactions.

Therefore, POPPINETTE wishes to regulate visits to and/or use of the internet site and the products and services offered on this site through these terms of use.

The mere fact of your visit to our website and/or consultation of the products and services offered, or registration for services that are offered on this site, implies that you have explicitly accepted these terms of use and that you undertake to observe these terms.

If you consider that you cannot or will not observe these General Terms of Use, we request you not to surf the website or use the services offered.

Therefore, these terms of use apply to the exclusion of any general terms set by the user of the site. These terms of use apply to all offers, performances, services and agreements between POPPINETTE LTD and the user, unless explicitly agreed otherwise in writing.

Should you wish to express comments or complaints with regard to the functioning of our website, please send an email to info@poppinette.com.

3. ACCESS TO AND FUNCTIONING OF THIS SITE

This website was built by means of the currently prevailing techniques in order to provide maximum accessibility.

On no account does POPPINETTE guarantee that this will enable you to use your equipment to visit this website, navigate it or utilise its services at all times and without any difficulties. You undertake to visit this website in a normal way; you shall, therefore, refrain from any attempts to interfere in any way with the normal functioning of the site through technical means, from trying to gain access or gaining access to parts of the website that are not intended for you, or from disrupting the functioning of the site.

It goes without saying that you will refrain from altering the contents of this site or from posting inappropriate messages on this site which are offensive, in violation of public order or morality.

If access to or the use of certain parts of the website is subject to the use of an account, which can be obtained through a registration procedure, this account is always entirely personal. You yourself are responsible for the preservation of your user name and password and their use in accordance with these terms.

If an infringement of these terms is found, POPPINETTE reserves the right to block or remove an infringing profile or account without giving prior warning or notification and as of right.

If need be, POPPINETTE may discontinue the account with which the present General Terms of Use have been breached, temporarily or permanently, and to deny the holder of this account the possibility of a new registration.

If the denounced act constitutes a criminal offence, POPPINETTE will immediately inform the competent authorities.

It is forbidden to copy the contents of this site in full or in part or to post links to this site, without the express permission of POPPINETTE.

4. LIABILITY FOR THE INFORMATION ON THIS SITE

POPPINETTE uses all means at its disposal to display the contents of this site correctly and faultlessly. However, you cannot derive any rights from the information that can be found on this site.

Any product prices mentioned are merely indicative and are therefore provided subject to any changes. Only the prices as laid down in an order form, an accepted tender or agreement are binding, unless specified otherwise.

POPPINETTE cannot guarantee that any links on the website will be operational at all times. Furthermore, it is not liable for any lack of security on those sites, and the use of these links is at the user’s own risk. Providing personal data on these sites does not fall within the scope of these terms of use.

POPPINETTE does not guarantee that any pictures or images on the site can be the subject of a transaction because these images can be the subject of exclusive rights or agreements with regard to the rights of use.

POPPINETTE will examine and, if necessary, rectify any reports you may make of irregularities or inaccuracies on this site with due speed. POPPINETTE has taken all necessary measures to remove the possibly unlawful information temporarily or permanently or to cut off access to this information in the event of a complaint.

5. ESTABLISHING TRANSACTIONS THROUGH THIS SITE

The procedures to be followed in order to establish a transaction with POPPINETTE are mentioned on the website.

Dutch and English are the common commercial languages with regard to this site and the products and services offered.

A transaction will only have been fully completed after confirmation by POPPINETTE.

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

POPPINETTE owns the domain name poppinette.com. POPPINETTE is a protected trade name.

Concept, construction, structure, design, images, pictures, logos, animations or audiovisual works, the texts, data and others are either property of POPPINETTE or POPPINETTE has the required rights of use to them. These items can be the subject of protection by various intellectual property rights; you acknowledge and accept these intellectual property rights of POPPINETTE.

Consequently, any reproduction, dissemination, sales transaction or offer for sale, distribution, publication, modification and/or use of this website and its contents, in whatever form and in whatever manner, is strictly forbidden. Temporary or definitive storage of any information and/or part of this website in an (electronic) data base or otherwise is not allowed, with the exception of the automatic information ‘caching’ by your browser.

If you are offered the possibility to download images and/or texts from this site, this does not imply consent by POPPINETTE to use these images and/or texts for any other purpose than the one that has been agreed on. Unless specified otherwise, such a right of use will be limited to single use.

Furthermore, various POPPINETTE products may also enjoy trademark protection. These marks may not be used or copied in any way from this website without prior and express permission from POPPINETTE.

7. PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA: PRIVACY POLICY

POPPINETTE respects your privacy as a visitor and/or user of this site and goes to great lengths to inform you as clearly as possible about the way in which POPPINETTE gathers and uses personal data.

Therefore, a privacy policy was formulated. POPPINETTE advises you to read these policy lines carefully before providing information about yourself through this website.

You may be required to create an account or complete an application form in order to use the website optimally. You may be asked for your surname, first name, address, telephone number and e-mail address when creating this profile or completing a form. The information requested is essential in order to make optimal use of the services and the website applications or in order for POPPINETTE to contact you in certain cases.

The data you provide POPPINETTE with in order to acquire information, are saved with a view to processing that request for information.

Personal information you may send to POPPINETTE can only be safely processed after it has passed the security systems and protection filters.

These data are only used by POPPINETTE and its parent companies, subsidiaries or sister companies. On no account will POPPINETTE provide third parties with these data, unless:

• POPPINETTE is under/is being put under a legal obligation to do so
• the judicial authorities or police forces request this
• these third parties are employed by POPPINETTE in order to provide the services ordered by you (for instance fulfilling mailings, delivering ordered material).

In the exceptional case that POPPINETTE would intend to pass your personal data to organizations with which POPPINETTE cooperates, you will always be asked for your prior consent.

POPPINETTE makes use of cookies. These are small pieces of information that are sent from this website to your browser in order to identify users more quickly. The cookies are written to the hard disk of your computer. Consequently, you do not have to identify yourself with every new visit (by entering your login and password) to be able to use certain services. Should you wish to delete these cookies, please consult your browser’s manual. You are free to switch off this option in your browser. In that case, it may occur that you cannot consult and/or use certain parts of this Website, or that you may not be able or only partially able to consult and/or use certain parts of this Website. POPPINETTE bears no liability in this respect.

In accordance with the Law of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy, you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. The processing of personal data by POPPINETTE is registered with the Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Hoogstraat 139, 1000 Brussels; T.02.2138540; e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be; internet: www.privacy.fgov.be. The right of access entitles you to access to data that are gathered by the web platform. The right of rectification gives you the possibility to correct incomplete or inaccurate data.

You can delete your account and deregister yourself from the services you have applied for at all times. POPPINETTE will do all it can to act upon your request quickly and appropriately.

8. COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE

All complaints concerning the functioning of this website, the information on this website, the offered services or products, can be reported to info@poppinette.com.

Your complaint will be processed by POPPINETTE with due speed, without POPPINETTE taking on the obligation to act upon your complaint or to inform you about the actions taken as a result of your complaint.

9. ALTERATIONS OF THE TERMS AND THEIR VALIDITY

POPPINETTE is free to alter these terms at any time by publishing the altered terms on this site. Once the altered terms have been published on this site, they will immediately enter into force.

In the event that part of these terms of use should be ruled to be invalid or impracticable by a judicial decision, that particular part of the terms of use shall be deemed to have expired, while the other stipulations of these terms of use shall remain fully valid and effective.

10. APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT COURTS

Belgian law is applicable to disputes with regard to compliance with, validity and application of these terms of use. Only the courts in Ghent have jurisdiction.