Contents
- Introduction
- Access to the Site
- What you are allowed to do
- What you are not allowed to do
- Intellectual property rights
- Content
- Your personal information
- External links
- General
- Contacting us
These are the terms and conditions of use for www.wineinvestment.com ("Site"). The Site is operated by or
on
behalf of Cult Wines Limited, a company registered in England and Wales and with its registered office at The
Clockwork Building, 45 Beavor Lane, London, W6 9AR (we might refer to ourselves as "Cult Wines", "we",
"our" or
"us"). Our VAT registration number is GB 129 9514 84.
Your use of the Site will be subject to these terms and conditions and by using the Site you agree to be bound
by them. Any products (or associated services) you order through the Site are supplied subject to our Retail
Sales Terms and Investment Terms.
We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time by changing them on the Site. These
terms and conditions were last updated on 10th August 2021.
The Site is intended for use only by persons who are at least 18 years of age. By using the Site, you confirm to
us that you meet this requirement and that, if you are under the age of 18, you have received permission from
your parent or guardian before using the Site.
It is your responsibility to ensure your equipment (computer, laptop, netbook, tablet or other mobile device)
meets all the necessary technical specifications to enable you to access and use the Site and is compatible with
the Site.
We may, from time to time, restrict access to certain features, parts or content of the Site, or the entire
Site, to users who have registered with us. You must ensure that any registration details you provide are
accurate. If you choose, or you are provided with, a log-on ID (such as a username and password or other
identifier) as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not
reveal it to anyone else. You are responsible for all activities that occur under your log-on ID and must notify
us immediately of any unauthorised use or other security breach of which you become aware. We reserve the right
to disable any log-on ID, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of
these terms and conditions or if any details you provide for the purposes of registering as a user prove to be
false.
We cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error-free operability of the Site. There may be times when
certain features, parts or content of the Site, or the entire Site, become unavailable (whether on a scheduled
or unscheduled basis) or are modified, suspended or withdrawn by us, in our sole discretion, without notice to
you. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any unavailability, modification,
suspension or withdrawal of the Site, or any features, parts or content of the Site.
You may only use the Site only in accordance with these terms and conditions. You may retrieve and display content from the Site on a computer screen, print and copy individual pages and, subject to the next section, store such pages in electronic form. Additional terms may also apply to certain features, parts or content of the Site and, where they apply, will be displayed on-screen or accessible via a link.
What you are not allowed to do
Except to the extent expressly set out in these terms and conditions, you are not allowed to:
- 'scrape' content or store content of the Site on a server or other storage device connected to a network or create an electronic database by systematically downloading and storing all of the content of the Site;
- remove or change any content of the Site or attempt to circumvent security or interfere with the proper working of the Site or the servers on which it is hosted; or
- create links to the Site from any other website, without our prior written consent, although you may link from a website that is operated by you provided the link is not misleading or deceptive and fairly indicates its destination, you do not imply that we endorse you, your website, or any products or services you offer, you link to (and do not frame or replicate) the home page of the Site, and the linked website does not contain any content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, indecent, offensive or which infringes on the intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party.
You must only use the Site and anything available from the Site for lawful purposes (complying with all
applicable laws and regulations), in a responsible manner, and not in a way that might damage our name or
reputation or that of any of our affiliates.
All rights granted to you under these terms and conditions will terminate immediately in the event that you are
in breach of any of them.
All intellectual property rights in any content of the Site (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trade marks and logos) are owned by us or our licensors. Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these terms and conditions gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading content from the Site. In the event you print off, copy or store pages from the Site (only as permitted by these terms and conditions), you must ensure that any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced.
We may change the format and content of the Site from time to time. You agree that your use of the Site is on an
'as is' and 'as available' basis and at your sole risk.
Whilst we try to make sure that all information contained on the Site (other than any user-generated content) is
correct, it is not intended to amount to authority or advice on which reliance should be placed. You should
check with us or the relevant information source before acting on any such information.
Except to the extent provided in our Retail
Sales Terms and
Investment Terms, we make or give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness,
currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of any content of the
Site and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind
are hereby excluded and we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of you or
anyone else using the Site or relying on any of its content.
We cannot and do not guarantee that any content of the Site will be free from viruses and/or other code that may
have contaminating or destructive elements. It is your responsibility to implement appropriate IT security
safeguards (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements as to the
safety and reliability of content.
Use of your personal information submitted to or via the Site is governed by our Privacy and Cookies Policy
The Site may, from time to time, include links to external sites, which may include links to third party offers and promotions. We include these to provide you with access to information, products or services that you may find useful or interesting. We are not responsible for the content of these sites or for anything provided by them and do not guarantee that they will be continuously available. The fact that we include links to such external sites does not imply any endorsement of or association with their operators or promoters.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall limit or exclude our liability to you:
- for death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
- for fraudulent misrepresentation;
- for breach of any term implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and which, by law, may not be limited or excluded; or
- for any other liability that, by law, may not be limited or excluded.
Subject to this, if you are a consumer and not a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any
business losses, and if you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or
consequential losses, or for any loss of profit, revenue, contracts, data, goodwill or other similar losses, and
any liability we do have for losses you suffer is strictly limited to losses that were reasonably foreseeable.
These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law, except that (if you are a consumer and not a
business user) and if you live in a country of the European Union, there may be certain mandatory applicable
laws of your country which apply for your benefit and protection in addition to or instead of certain provisions
of English law.
You agree that any dispute between you and us regarding these terms and conditions or the Site will only be
dealt with by the English courts, except that (if you are a consumer and not a business user) and if you live in
a country of the European Union, you can choose to bring legal proceedings either in your country or in England,
but if we bring legal proceedings, we may only do so in your country.
Please submit any questions you have about these terms and conditions or any problems concerning the Site by email to [email protected], by telephone on +44(0)207 1000 950 between the hours of 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.