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Welcome to the Ethicalwine.com Terms & Conditions for use. By registering your details or placing an order you agree to be bound by the Terms & Conditions set out below. If you have any questions regarding these before you register or place an order, please contact us at info@ethicalwine.com.

We reserve the right to amend these Terms & Conditions from time to time, so please check these regularly. Your continued use of the website (or any part thereof) following such change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change.

1. Use of the website
2. Privacy & Security
3. Product descriptions
4. Intellectual Property Rights
5. General

1. USE OF THE WEBSITE

   Registration

   You warrant that:

   • The Personal Information which you are required to provide when you register is true, accurate, current and complete in all respects
   • You will notify us of any changes to the Personal Information by updating your information online or by contacting us by email at info@ethicalwine.com
   • You agree not to impersonate any other person or entity or to use a false name or a name that you are not authorised to use.

   Age Restrictions

   The UK Licencing Act 2003 states that it is against the law to sell or supply intoxicating substances to persons under 18 years of age in the UK. Ethicalwine.com recommends but does not sell wine. However you should note you must be at least 18 years of age to order from any of the UK stockists listed. For other countries the legal minimum age may be higher.

   Indemnity

   You agree fully to indemnify, defend and hold us, and our officers, directors, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless immediately on demand, from and against all claims, liability, losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of any breach of the Terms & Conditions by you or any other liabilities arising out of your use of this website, or the use by any other person accessing the website using your account and/or your Personal Information.

   Third Party Links

   Ethical Fine Wines assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any links to the internet or other third party websites from its website. Once you activate these links you will leave this website and Ethical Fine Wines will not be responsible, or liable, for the content or privacy practices of any other websites on the internet to which you may visit from this site.

   Ethicalwine.com also prohibits all persons from providing hypertext or other links to the ethicalwine.com website (other than to our home page) from their website or from a third party's website without our prior written consent.

   Our rights:

   We reserve the right to: Modify or withdraw, temporarily or permanently, this website (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you and you confirm that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification to or withdrawal of the website.

   All text and graphics used, unless specified, are directed solely at those who access the website from the United Kingdom mainland. Ethicalwine.com makes no representation or will not be held liable for any action placed upon the website by individuals from other locations.

2. PRIVACY & SECURITY

   Data Protection

   Ethicalwine.com is fully committed to the Data Protection Act 1998 and is dedicated to the privacy of your information. We will not release your personal information to any outside company for mailing or marketing purposes unless you have given us your express permission to do so. However you should be aware that if we are requested by the police of any other regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal activities to provide your Personal Information and/or User Information, we are entitled to do so.

   Credit card details

   We do not store any credit card details on the website. We use encryption systems to ensure credit card details are sent in secure format and we will continue to use new security protocols and software as they become available. We will take all reasonable care, in so far as it is in our power to do so, to keep the details of your order and payment secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part, we cannot be held liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures unauthorised access to any data you provide when accessing or ordering from the website.

   Internal use of personal information

   By registering your details on this website, you consent to Ethicalwine.com maintaining, recording, holding and using personal data we collect about you. Information can also be collected to allow Ethicalwine.com to send you offers which we feel will be of particular interest to you. You agree that you do not object to us contacting you for any of the above purposes whether by telephone, email or in writing and you confirm that you will not consider any of the above as being a breach of any of your rights under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

3. PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS

   Products

   Vintages, labels and closures may vary from those shown on the website. All wines are 75cl and all spirits 70cl unless otherwise stated. We make every effort to ensure information on the website and in our literature is up-to-date and accurate. However Ethicalwine.com takes no responsibility whatsoever for information that is incomplete, inaccurate or out of date. Ethicalwine.com shall not be held liable to any individual or business for any damage or loss which may have occurred from the use of any matter contained on this website or in other Ethicalwine.com literature.

   Payment

   We accept the following major payment cards only: Visa, MasterCard, Electron, Maestro, Solo. Payment will be debited from your account upon receipt of your order. You are responsible for confirming that you are the legitimate holder of the credit/debit card and that your details are correct. All credit/debit cardholders are subject to validation checks and authorisation by the card issuer. If the issuer of your payment card refuses to authorise payment, we will not be able to process your order and a message will appear informing you that the transaction cannot be processed. All products are offered subject to availability and remain the property of Ethical Fine Wines until payment is received in full.

   Prices

   Prices are subject to currency and market fluctuations, changes in duty and VAT, as well as stocks remaining unsold. We reserve the right to change price and availability without notice. Prices supplied to us by stockists may not be up-to-date.

4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

   All copyright, database rights, trademarks and any other intellectual property rights in and to the content on this website and other Ethical Fine Wines literature, such as text, graphics, logos, banners, images, buttons, underlying source code and software, is the sole property of Ethical Fine Wines, or the applicable licensor. Any use (including copying, reproduction, duplication, transmission, or display of the content of this website, without the express permission of Ethical Fine Wines for purposes other than the viewing of information or for ordering purposes, is strictly prohibited.

   Permission is granted to electronically copy, and to print in hard copy, portions of this website for the sole purpose of placing an order with Ethical Fine Wines or using this website as a shopping resource.

   GENERAL

   We reserve the right to refuse supply to any individual or business.

   Severance

   If any part of the Terms & Conditions shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severable from the Terms & Conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any of the remaining provisions of the Terms & Conditions.

   Law 

   The Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

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