Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Gourmandize!
Gourmandize.com is a “Website” owned by the company 750 GRAMS INTERNATIONAL, SAS (LCC).
Legal Information Summary:
Company name: 750 GRAMS INTERNATIONAL, SAS
Share capital: 30, 000€
Head Office: 8 Allée de l'Innovation, Les Alizés, Parc Gouraud, 02 200 Soissons
CRN n° (RCS): Soissons B 529 357 253
VAT N °: FR90529357253
Company director: Jean-Baptiste Duquesne
US Country Manager: Lydia Lane
US Office: 1521 Alton Rd Suite 218 Miami Beach, FL 33139
Hosting Company: Ima'Diff
9-13 rue Damesme, 75012 Paris
0153808989
These General Terms of Use Notice, Privacy Policy, Terms of Sale Notice and Competition Terms of Use Notice apply exclusively to your access to, interaction with, and use of, this Website and its Services and does not alter in any way the terms or conditions of any other agreement you might have with Gourmandize.com, Gourmandize.co.uk and 750 GRAMS INTERNATIONAL SARL for products, services, or otherwise. For the purpose of these Notices Gourmandize.com, Gourmandize.co.uk and 750 GRAMS INTERNATIONAL SARL will be referred to as “Gourmandize” from here on.
- Last Updated October 1st, 2012
Please read this Terms and Conditions Notice carefully before using this or any other Gourmandize website. We will refer to all Gourmandize websites from here on as the “Website”.
By viewing, accessing or using any of our services on this Website, you agree to the Gourmandize Privacy Policy and all the Terms and Conditions and Code of Conduct in this Notice.
We reserve the right to modify, change, add, or delete any part of this Terms and Conditions Notice at any time. Please review the Terms Notice regularly to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued access to and/or use of our Services after changes have been made to the Terms Notice indicates your agreement to be legally bound by the updated and/or amended Terms. We will provide notice of such changes only by modifying the “last updated” date posted above.
If you do not accept these Terms please do not access and/or use our Services.
- General Terms and Conditions
- Privacy Policy & Cookies
- Terms of sale
- Competition Terms and Conditions
1. General Terms and Conditions
- Last updated August 14, 2014
1. Use of Services
1.1 By viewing or using this Website you agree you are 16 or over. If you are under 16 years of age you must obtain a parent’s or guardian’s permission before using any of the interactive features on this Website. If you are under 16 you may not reveal any personal information about yourself or any other person including any email address, telephone number, home address on any of our Websites or Services.
1.2 You agree to use our Services for lawful purposes only and not to infringe the rights of or restrict or inhibit any person's use of our Services and to comply at all times with these Terms and with all laws and regulations that apply.
2. Privacy Policy
2.1 At Gourmandize, we take your privacy very seriously and believe strongly in protecting user privacy and have therefore adopted a Privacy Policy. Users of this Website should refer to Gourmandize’s Privacy Policy, available for viewing below, before providing any information or personal data.
2.2 Any personal information supplied by you as part of any registration process and/or other interaction with our Services will be collected, stored and used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our Services you consent to such collection and processing and you promise that all data provided by you is accurate.
3. Intellectual Proprietary Rights
3.1 All Website materials, including, without limitation, Gourmandize logos, designs, texts, graphics, images, pictures, photographs, videos, advertisements or any other files, content, information, data (in whole or in part) are either ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Copyright © 2012 Gourmandize and 750 Grams International SARL or are the proprietary property of Gourmandize’s affiliates or licensors or are protected by trademarks, database rights and other intellectual property rights and are owned by or licensed to Gourmandize. All trademarks on this Website either belonging to Gourmandize or any other licensed or registered trademarks may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Gourmandize and 750 Grams International SARL. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned on the Website are the property of their respective owners.
3.2 You may electronically copy and print to hard copy portions of this Website for the sole purpose of using the materials for informational and non-commercial, personal use only, provided you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. It is strictly prohibited to store any content, materials and services from this Website, in any medium or on any other website, distribute, transmit, re-publish, broadcast, modify, or show in public (in whole or in part) without our prior written permission (and the prior written consent of the owner of the relevant intellectual property rights as and if applicable) in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
4. External Links – limiting liability for links to other Websites
We are not responsible for the contents or reliability of any other websites to which we provide a link, and we do not, expressly or otherwise, endorse the views and/or content expressed within those sites.
5. Third-Party Content & Services
Third party content may appear on the Website or may be accessible via links from the Website as a service to those interested in this information. Gourmandize does not monitor, nor has control over any Third-Party Content and assumes no liability for any mistakes, misstatements of law, defamation, omissions, falsehood, obscenity, pornography or profanity in the statements, opinions, representations or any other form of content on the Third Party Site. Gourmandize does not endorse or adopt any Third-Party Content, nor does it reflect our beliefs. You understand that the information and opinions in the third party content represent solely the thoughts of the Third Party author. Gourmandize does not warrant the accuracy of any information contained on, and undertakes no responsibility to update or review, any Third-Party Content. You agree to use these hyperlinks and Third-Party Content contained therein at your own risk.
6. Submitted Contributions
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU AGREE WITH OUR CONTRIBUTION TERMS BEFORE SUBMITTING OR UPLOADING ANY CONTENT TO THIS WEBSITE.
6.1 For the purposes of this condition, the term “Submitted Contribution(s)” shall refer to any material, information, content, including without limitation any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio material or any other media uploaded, posted, emailed, submitted, or otherwise communicated to Gourmandize the Website via any method at any page on this Website or any other content communication or submission medium or forum.
6.2 By choosing to submit, disclose, or offer any contribution, including without limitation any recipe, text, review, photograph, image, video, and other information, content or material to Gourmandize, whether or not solicited by Gourmandize, you must comply with the content standards set out in the Code of Conduct. You promise that any contribution you submit complies with the Code of Conduct and you will fully reimburse 750 Grams International SARL for any costs arising from breach of your promise.
6.3 You remain the owner of the copyright in any original Contribution that you submit. By submitting any contribution of any kind, without limitation, to any of our services, you hereby grant to 750 Grams International SARL an irrevocable, unconditional, nonexclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license of the entire right, to use, display, publicly perform, modify, reproduce, publish (without limitations, on other devices such as mobile phone applications, or in books, magazines…), distribute, translate, make derivative works of, and otherwise commercially and non-commercially exploit your Submitted Contributions (in any way without limitations, in part or in whole or copies of the same) and all copyright, trade secret, trademark, or other intellectual property rights therein, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, for the full period during which such rights subsist and thereafter to the fullest extent possible in perpetuity (including but not limited to print, film, or electronic storage devices), without compensation of any kind to you or any third party.
6.4 By submitting any contribution of any kind you hereby grant to 750 Grams International SARL and its editors the permission to make revisions to that submitted contribution. These revisions may include, but are not limited to, syntax, spelling, titles, grammar and/or measurements.
YOU HEREBY WARRANT:
a) All Submitted Contributions, in every form without limitations must be your own original work and you must own the entire right, title and interest in and to the Submitted Contributions, and all power and authority to grant the license set forth herein to your Submitted Contributions. Gourmandize will not accept any recipes, texts, photos, pictures without limitations, taken without prior permission, from any other websites, blogs, books, magazines or any Submitted Contributions in every possible form, that you do not hold the entire rights for.
b) The permission you have granted to us is not exclusive and therefore you may continue to use the Submitted Contributions in any way in any medium, including allowing others to use it, provided such use does not interfere with or impair the rights you have granted to us.
c) Your Submitted Contributions do not violate, misappropriate, or infringe any copyright, trade secret, trademark or other intellectual property right of any third party.
d) You are solely responsible for all Submitted Contributions to this Website and you promise that your Submitted Contributions do not contain, in any way, content that may be defamatory, obscene, indecent, pornographic, sexually explicit, harassing, threatening or offensive, incites racial, cultural or religious hatred, impersonates or appears to impersonate any other person, is in contempt of court, violates any law or regulation or encourages conduct that would amount to a criminal offence or give rise to a civil liability and/or is otherwise objectionable and/or an infringement of any applicable law or regulation.
e) You will not display any information, material, content or data, personally identifiable or not, belonging to a third party (person, firm, enterprise, or other without limitations) without prior permission from the third party to do so.
f) Your Submitted Contributions do not contain any virus or corrupt file or any other any other computer code, files, or programs designed to damage or destroy any functionality of our services or interfere, intercept or expropriate any data, personal information or other, nor will limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
g) We shall not be required to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of our use or exploitation of any Submitted Contribution.
h) Publication or use of any Submitted Contributions is at the sole discretion of Gourmandize and Gourmandize is under no obligation to publish or use any Submitted Item.
i) If your Submitted Item is published, used and/or posted on this Website or otherwise used by Gourmandize and 750 Grams International SARL, we may include your (User) name in conjunction with such publication, posting, or use. By submitting, disclosing, or offering a Submitted Contribution, you hereby grant Gourmandize the right to use your name in connection with the publication, use or posting of your Submitted Contribution. For each Submitted Contribution, you must include your (user)name and e-mail address with your Submitted Contribution, to enable Gourmandize to contact you with any queries we may have about your Submitted Contributions; however, only your (user)name and not your e-mail address will be published with your Submitted Contributions.
7. Code of Conduct
All use of this Website, including any contributions you make to the Website must comply with this Code of Conduct. Your viewing, access and use of our Website means that you accept and agree to abide by this Code of Conduct.
7.1 This Website might include discussion forums or other interactive areas, including, but not limited to, leaving comments, reviewing recipes, submitting recipes and exchange areas. All such forums and interactive areas are for strict personal use only and shall not be used only for any kind of commercial purposes. You are solely liable for any material you upload or transmit to the interactive areas of this Website.
7.2 You must not impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
7.3 Without Gourmandize’s written permission, you must not distribute, publish, or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized promotions, advertising or solicitations for funds, goods or services, nor shall you submit any material or perform any actions that result in the transmission of junk email, chain letters, surveys, contests, or unsolicited messages.
7.4 All your Submitted Contributions to the Website must be your own original work (unless express, prior permission from the owner) and must not plagiarize another person’s work.
7.5 Your Submitted Contributions must not contain abusive or offensive content; unsuitable or irrelevant URLs or the mention of unsuitable websites; must not include advertising or disclose any personal information (including anyone else’s personal information or email address); must be in the native language of the Website, English being the predominant language for Gourmandize.com and Gourmandize.co.uk.
7.6 If there appears to be breach of the code of Conduct (Gourmandize’s sole decision), under any form mentioned in the entire contents of our Terms and Conditions of Use, we have full right, yet no obligation to change, modify, delete or refuse any Submitted Contributions in whole or in part, and if the circumstances require, we may take whatever action we feel is appropriate.
8. Warranties and Disclaimer
This Website and all services and content available on it are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, and you agree use of this Website and/or its content is at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Gourmandize disclaims all warranties, conditions and other Terms, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. Gourmandize does not represent or warrant materials on this Website are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free, nor that defects will be corrected. Gourmandize does not represent or warrant this Website or its Server(s) or Services are free of viruses or other harmful components or bugs. You acknowledge your use of this or any other Gourmandize Website is at your sole risk.
Gourmandize reserves the right to change any and all Content contained on this Website at any time without notice. Reference to any products, services, processes, or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, and supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof by Gourmandize.
9. Limitation of Liability
9.1 We accept no liability in respect of any Submitted Contributions by any of our members and users. Your choice to use any of our Services on this Website is entirely at your own risk.
9.2 We do our best to make sure recipes are in the correct order, rated accurately and comments by members are true. We cannot guarantee that all recipes will be easy to prepare or successful to every palate. Recipe outcomes can be based on personal preference and opinion and are not the responsibility of this website.
9.3 In no event shall Gourmandize or any of its employees or third parties connected to us be liable for any direct, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages, or any other damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, loss of use, loss of profits or loss of data, whether in an action in contract, tort (including, but not limited to, negligence, whether such losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise) arising from, out of or in any way connected with the use of, or inability to use, our services on this Website or content contained on, or accessed through, this Website. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so some of the above might not apply to you.
9.4 Gourmandize may not be held responsible for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond our control.
10. Reimbursement
10.1 You agree to reimburse, defend and hold harmless Gourmandize in full and any of it’s affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, licensors, suppliers and operational service providers on demand in respect of any and all claims, actions, proceedings, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including any solicitor’s or lawyer’s fees) suffered or reasonably incurred by Gourmandize arising from, or related to, your access to and use of this Website other than in accordance with these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.
11. Removal and Disclosure of Materials
11.1 Gourmandize is entitled to, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, remove, suspend, destroy, delete any Material and Submitted Contributions, without limitation, at any time and for any reason that we deem, in our opinion, inappropriate and which do not comply with these Terms. We reserve the right to, at any time without liability, revoke your registration and right to use any of our services on this Website (without limitation blocking IP addresses and deactivating your username and password) and refuse any Submitted Contributions. We may access, use and disclose transaction information about your use of our Website, and any Material and Submitted Contributions transmitted by you via or in connection with our Website, to the extent permitted by law, in order to comply with the law; to initiate, render, bill and collect for our products and services; to protect our rights or property, or to protect users of our Website from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of our Website.
11.2 If you are the rights-owner (or are duly authorised to act on the rights-owner's behalf) and have reason to believe that content appearing on our Website belongs to you and/or is subject of infringing your rights, you can contact us via our designated Contact Us form to ask for the removal or to disable access to the content. You must state clearly where this infringing content appears on the Website, your personal details to permit us to contact you
12. Legal Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France.
13. Termination
Gourmandize reserves the right, without notice and in its sole discretion at any time, to terminate your license to use this Website, to block or prevent future access to and use of this Website, and to remove and discard any Material and Submitted Contributions.
14. Severability
If any of the Terms in this Notice are deemed illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining Terms shall not be affected and shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
15. Advertising and Sponsorship
Any advertising and sponsorship on this Website are under the sole responsibility of their respective Advertisers and Sponsors and they, alone, ensure that any materials submitted for inclusion on our Website comply with relevant laws, regulations and codes and these Terms. Gourmandize shall not be responsible for any error or inaccuracy in such advertising or sponsorship materials.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this legal notice, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at contact_at_gourmandize.com
2. Privacy Policy & Cookies
– Last updated October 1st, 2012
1. General terms about our Privacy Policy
1.1 At Gourmandize the Website and 750Grams International SARL, we recognize the importance of your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information when you are using our Websites or any of our Services.
1.2 Some services on our Website require collecting information about you. For this reason, Gourmandize has developed this Privacy Policy, to explain to you our privacy practices for our visitors to our Website and our use of any personal information you provide to us.
1.3 This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Gourmandize Terms and Conditions. By using our Web site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be notified by posting the policy on out Websites and updating the “Last updated” date set forth above.
1.4 Our websites may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
1.5 Special notice to California Customers – In 2003 California passed privacy rights "Shine the Light" law, Civil Code section 1798.83. This law requires businesses to respond to inquiries from California customers requesting information on business practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. See section 6 below that clearly states your information will not be sold, traded, or otherwise transferred to outside parties without your prior consent except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy. If you wish to request more information and/or opt-out of the rare occasion your information is shared with a trusted third parties please contact us at the address below.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at contact_at_gourmandize.com
2. What Information Do We Collect?
2.1 We collect Personal information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, or submit contributions.
2.2 When registering or ordering on our site, you may be asked for personal information about you such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone or mobile number or demographic information such as gender, date of birth, geographical location and preferences. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
3. How Do We Collect And Use Your Personal Information?
We may ask for your personal information at several different points on our Website to enable you to have full use of our Services. In general, we use personal information for the purpose for which it was collected:
3.1 When you register
to become a member on our Website. We will ask you to create a unique login Username and password and certain personal information will be required (such as your name, email address).
3.2 When you submit a contribution
(such as a recipe, review, comment) for editorial purposes to attribute your submitted contribution to you
3.3 To enable us to contact you
for any reason regarding content you have submitted to the Website
3.4 To process transactions
(such as your credit card, credit card billing address, and related billing information if you purchase products or services on our Website). Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
3.5 To personalize your experience
(your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs).
3.6 To administer a competition, promotion, survey
or other site feature. Participation in these contests, promotions, offers, and surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore may choose whether to disclose personal information in connection with these activities.
3.7 To send periodic emails
(e.g. newsletters, if you have previously subscribed to receive newsletters, to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions). If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
3.8 To improve the Website
We collect personal information when you contact us to submit comments, questions or suggestions. We use the information you provide to respond to your submission and use the ideas to make site improvements.
4. Recommending content using our Email-A-Friend Service
If you choose to use our referral service for e-mailing a recipe or other content to a friend, you will be asked to enter a friend’s e-mail address. Gourmandize will automatically send your friend a one-time only e-mail on your behalf which contains the recipe or other content, you have chosen to share, inviting your friend to visit the Website. Gourmandize does not store this information.
5. Do we use Cookies?
5.1 Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Although such cookies do not contain any personally identifying information about you, we might link this information to personal information about you. If we do, we will treat it as personal information under this Privacy Policy.
5.2 We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
6. Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information, without your prior consent except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
7. Offensive or inappropriate content
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate, abusive or unlawful content on this Website, we may use or disclose your personal information when we believe it is necessary, to protect us and our users of the Website and stop the misuse or our Services. Where we reasonably believe that you are or may be in breach of the law, Gourmandize may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
8. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and Services are all directed to people who are at least 16 years old or older. If you are under 16 years old, you should not register for our services or otherwise provide information on our Website. We strongly advise that anyone over the age of 16 and under the age of 18, should ask for a parent’s or guardian’s permission, before using any of our Services and/ or submitting contributions or any personal information about themselves or any other person.
9. How long do we keep your information for?
We keep your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary to provide requested services, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Gourmandize. You may cancel your registration with Gourmandize at any time, by sending us an email, stating clearly that you wish to unsubscribe from any or all of our Services. If you choose to no longer receive communications (e.g. newsletters etc.), you can change your profile to opt-out of receiving communications, however your records may stay on the system so we can ensure that we do not contact you in the future.
Gourmandize will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
10. Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our Website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. However, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
11. Third Party Sources
Gourmandize may obtain information about you from third parties, such as demographic marketing information, address verification, or third party mailing lists, and add such information to, or combine it with, your personal information. Should we ever obtain this information and link it to you, we will treat it all as personal information under this Privacy Policy.
12. Security
We use reasonable security measures to store and maintain your personal information and any personally identifying data so as to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by unauthorized parties while it is under our control. We use secure socket layer (“SSL”) encryption when transmitting certain kinds of information, such as payment information, over the Internet, to be only accessed by those authorized with special access rights to our systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information will not be stored on our servers.
We collect, process, and maintain your information in France. By providing your information to us you are consenting to the transfer of your information to France for processing and maintaining in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
13. Your Consent
By using this Website, you consent to our privacy policy.
14. Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our Privacy Policies, we will post those changes on this page and the “last updated” date will be updated.
3. Terms and Conditions of Sale
- Last updated March 6, 2014
These terms and conditions of sale apply between Gourmandize and any person visiting or making a purchase via this Website (which we will refer to as the "Purchaser").
We strongly advise any Purchaser to read these Terms of Sale before placing an order on this Website. These terms and conditions may be subject to change, the conditions applied are those in vigour on the Website at the time of order placement.
1. Legal Capacity
The Purchaser declares to be at least 18 years of age and have the legal capacity or holds parental permission allowing him to place an order on the Website.
2. Cookbook Rights
When you publish and order a cookbook using our cookbook publishing Service on the Website, you are the sole editor and publisher of your book. We will not sell or publish other copies of your personalized cookbook and you remain the sole proprietor of the rights of your book.
3. Purchasing Cookbooks
All cookbooks are free of charge for the first 1,000 (one thousand) participants on the Website with the capacity to order a cookbook (see Conditions of order below article 5.1). There will be no extra costs or fees charged at any stage of this ordering process. This condition is for a limited time only and will not be applicable here after the first 1000 orders have been placed. After this date, the cookbooks will be available for purchase and these Terms of sale will be modified accordingly.
4. Placing An Order
Once your order has been placed and confirmed by us via email, you will receive your order within 30 days. There will be no return policy and no refund policy for these cookbooks, the purchase, order and postage being free of charge for the Purchaser.
5. Conditions Of Order
5.1. The conditions to receive and benefit from this Offer (receiving free cookbooks) are determined by a points based system. You may gain points by submitting contributions to the Website. You must be a registered member before submitting contributions and these Submitted Contributions must comply with our rules and regulations (see Submitted Contributions in our Terms and conditions Notice above).
5.2. For every Submitted Contribution you will gain points added to your personal account. We offer one point for every Submitted Recipe, one point for every Submitted Picture, two points for every Submitted Recipe and Picture combined. You can access your personal account any time to follow the progress of your points. Gourmandize reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to cancel any points you may have obtained at any time, for any reason, if, for example without limitations, there has been breach of the code of conduct.
5.3. Once you have placed an order and therefore used points from your account, the corresponding number of points will be deducted. We will not give back any points that you have already used, for any reason.
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions of Sale, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at contact_at_gourmandize.com
4. Competition Terms and Conditions
- Last updated October 24, 2014
1. Current Competition
Magimix Holiday Baking Contest - Submit as many original holiday baking recipes before November 30, 2014 for a chance to win! The winner will be chosen by Gourmandize and its international team on the recipe's originality, creativity and photograph (if applicable).
- No purchase necessary
- Entries must be ORIGINAL recipes and photos
- All members must be at least 18 years of age to compete.
- This contest is open to residents of the USA & Canada
- Competition runs from 11/03/2014 - 11/30/2014
- The winning recipes will be chosen by our site Chef and jury on originality of the recipe
- Void where prohibited.
The winning recipe authors will recieve one of three 5200XL 16-Cup Magimix by Robot-Coupe (MBRC) Food Processor in Brushed Chrome (valued at $500 each).
Recipes must be submitted to the website on or after November 3, 2014, to be in the running. Contest ends November 30, 2014. This competition is presented by Magimix, Gourmandize and 750 Grams International.
Good luck!
VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
2. Terms and Conditions of Competitions
2.1 These competition terms and conditions (which we will refer to as our "Competition Terms") are the general terms and conditions that apply to all the competitions promoted by this Website. We refer to all these competitions as the "Competitions" in these Competition Terms.
2.2 Competitions may also have their own specific terms and conditions (such as the details of how to enter, what the opening/closing dates are and what sort of prize you may win). Any such Competition-specific terms and conditions will be made available on our Competition’s page on the Website.
2.3 We strongly advise you read these Competition Terms in combination with any applicable Specific Terms. Where any such Specific Terms conflict with these Competition Terms, the Specific Terms will take precedence.
2.4 We may change these Competition Terms at any time. You should check our Website regularly for any changes which will apply from the date that they are uploaded
2.5 By entering any Competition you agree that you will be legally bound by these Competition Terms and also any applicable Specific Terms.
2.6 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
3. Eligibility Rules for our Competitions
3.1 We impose that all persons entering our competitions on the Website must be of 16 years of age or more. Any person aged between 16 and 18 must have the permission of their parent or legal guardian to participate and they agree to our Competition Terms.
3.2 Where Competitions are open to children (aged 15 or younger) and/or young persons (aged 16 or 17), the age requirements will be publicized to entrants in the relevant Competition.
3.3 It will be our sole decision as to whether any eligibility requirement has or has not been met and we may require evidence or confirmation from entrants before awarding prizes.
3.4 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
4. Competition Duration and Conditions
4.1 All our Competitions are held for a limited time, with the entry and closing dates being clearly specified on our Competition’s page.
4.2 Certain Competitions may use a point’s based system, where participants can gain points for their participation on the Website. This participation is specified on the Competition’s page and will vary de pending on the Competition you choose to enter. On the date of closure of each Competition, the points gained are removed from your personal account and the counter will be reset to zero. We reserve the right to refuse to award points and/or cancel points you may have gained during a Competition, at any time and for any reason (including but not limited to, breach of the Competition Terms or Specific Terms applicable to the Competition).
4.3 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
4.4 All entries must be made online through our website.
4.5 Odds of winning depend on each individual contest and the number of entries we receive. Odds will vary on how the winning entry is chosen, whether by judges,the number of votes, comments, or social media shares, or a drawing that the chances of winning are increased by the number of recipes or photos added.
4.6 How winners are chosen may change with each contest. Please refer to Section 1 Current competition to see how the current competition chooses a winning entry.
4.7 We are not responsible for lost/delayed recipes, photos or entries, printing or posting typographical errors, or technical failures.
4.8 Winners will typically be announced within one week of the last day of competition. Announcements may vary if the contest specifics are very complicated. In this case a winner announcement date will be posted the winners will be announced over one week later.
4.9 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
5. Competition Prizes
5.1 We may hold monthly Competitions on this Website, with different prizes for each Competition. The prizes and conditions will be clearly specified and displayed on our Competition’s page.
5.2 All prizes are subject to availability, non transferable and non exchangeable. We reserve in all cases the right to replace the stated prizes with prizes that we consider to be of broadly equivalent value. We offer no cash alternative for non-cash prizes and prize winners must accept prizes in the form offered.
5.3 Some of our Competitions may offer you the chance to win points. On the date of closure of the Competition, the winner of the Competition is determined by the number of points, the participant with the highest number of points, winning first prize. On the date of closure of the Competition all points are removed and the accounts are reset to zero. If you did not gain the necessary amount of points to win the Competition, you will not be able to exchange your points for prizes or cookbooks or any other product available for purchase on the Website.
5.4 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
6. How to Claim Your Prize?
6.1 You will be notified by email if you are a prize winner of one of our Competitions.
6.2 Prizes will be dispatched to the winners via standard mail service, unless otherwise stated. We will not be liable for any prizes which are lost, delayed, or damaged in the post for reasons beyond our control.
6.3 Prizes will only be delivered to the shipping address entered in your personal information. Should a prize winner's contact details change, it is their responsibility to notify us by email, before shipping of your prize, using our designated contact form.
6.4 If a winner does not give submit a valid address or respond to communication about receiving his or her prize within one week, the prize will be awarded to the next best eligible recipe.
6.5 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
7. Tampering
If for any reason any Competition is not capable of running as planned as a result of any (including but not limited to) technical failures, unauthorized intervention, computer virus, mobile network failure, tampering, fraud or any other causes beyond our control which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of a Competition, we reserve the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition and/or any draw/s or judging related to the Competition and/or to disqualify any individual who (whether directly or indirectly) causes (or has caused) the problem.
8. Failure to Enforce Terms and Conditions
8.1 A failure by us to enforce any one of the terms and conditions in any instance(s) will not give rise to any claim or right of action by any entrant or prize winner, nor shall it be deemed to be a waiver of any of our rights in relation to the same.
9. Laws
9.1 These Competition Terms (and any Specific Terms) shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of France.
If you have any questions regarding our Competitions and/ or Competition Terms, please contact us at contact{at}gourmandize.com
Legal Information Summary:
Company name: 750 GRAMS INTERNATIONAL, SARL
Share capital: 30, 000€
Head Office: 127 rue d'Avron, 75020 Paris, France
CRN n° (RCS): Paris B 529 357 253
VAT N °: FR90529357253
If you have any questions about this Legal Notice, the practices of this Website, or your dealings with this Website, please contact us at contact_at_gourmandize.com