USE OF THE SITE

1.1  Your access to and use of this site is subject to all applicable laws and regulations which apply to this site, to the Internet and/or to the World Wide Web, as well as these terms and conditions. Your accessing of this site and/or your use of this site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions without reservation, limitation or qualification.

1.2  You may not use this site if any of the following conditions apply to you: You are not of legal drinking age in the jurisdiction from which you are accessing this site (“Your Jurisdiction”); It is otherwise illegal in Your Jurisdiction for you to access, view and/or use this site; or The consumption, use, advertising or promotion of alcohol and/or alcoholic beverages is illegal in Your Jurisdiction. If any of these conditions apply to you, please leave this site immediately. If you do not leave this site, then you will be deemed for all purposes to have represented that none of these conditions apply to you.

1.3  This site is maintained exclusively for the personal use and entertainment of persons resident in jurisdictions where the consumption and use of alcohol is permitted and who are of legal age for the consumption of alcohol in those jurisdictions.

1.4  The information posted by the site operator on this site is believed to be accurate when posted, but is not warranted or represented in any way to be so. Any use or reliance on such information is at your own risk. Your access and/or use of this site is strictly on an “as is” basis, and you must not assume that this site will be error free or that it will operate without interruption or as intended.

1.5 Declaration Wine & Spirits Inc. (“Declaration Wine & Spirits”) reserves the right to alter, update, add to and/or revise these terms and conditions at any time and from time to time. Any such alteration, update, addition or revision will be effective immediately upon its posting to this site.

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT

2.1 All references in this site to trade names, trademarks, logos, service marks, designs and other intellectual property (“Intellectual Property”) are references to the owner and/or licensee(s) of such Intellectual Property in Your Jurisdiction, and all rights in respect of all of such Intellectual Property are reserved. ® refers to a registered trademark of the owner of the Intellectual Property in Your Jurisdiction; ™ refers to a trademark of the owner of the Intellectual Property in Your Jurisdiction; and © refers to a copyright of the owner of the Intellectual Property in Your Jurisdiction.

2.2 Unless otherwise noted or provided in these terms and conditions or in the text on this site, everything you see or read on this site is the property of or used under license by Declaration Wine & Spirts, including all copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos, designs and other intellectual property. You agree that Declaration Wine & Spirits owns all right, title and interest in and to the Intellectual Property, that nothing from this site may be used by you except as provided in these terms and conditions without the written permission of Declaration Wine & Spirits, and that you will not use the Intellectual Property for any unlawful or infringing purpose. You agree not to reproduce or distribute the Intellectual Property in any way, including electronically or via registration of any new trademarks, trade names, service marks, or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), without prior express written permission from Declaration Wine & Spirits. Declaration Wine & Spirits neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on or downloaded from this site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with Declaration Wine & Spirits.

2.3 Nothing contained on this site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any Intellectual Property displayed on this site without the prior written permission of Declaration Wine & Spirits or any third party that may own any such item displayed on this site. Your use of any of the Intellectual Property displayed on this site and any other content on this site is strictly prohibited except only and to the limited extent expressly permitted in these terms and conditions. Declaration Wine & Spirits will aggressively enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, should you breach any of these terms and conditions.

SUBMISSIONS

3.1  Any communication or material you transmit to Declaration Wine & Spirits or through this site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like (all of which are collectively called (“Submissions”), is and will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Any Submissions you transmit or post become the property of Declaration Wine & Spirits and its affiliates and may be used and exploited for any purpose including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast, posting and other exploitation in any way, whether for commercial gain or otherwise and with or without your name associated with the material, at Declaration Wine & Spirits election. Declaration Wine & Spirits is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any Submission for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information. In that regard, by transmitting any Submission to Declaration Wine & Spirits, you will be deemed for all purposes to have assigned and transferred to Declaration Wine & Spirits all copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights in and to the Submission and to have irrevocably waived and released all moral and/or personality rights in and to the Submission, and you acknowledge and agree that your clicking of the “Button confirming your agreement to these terms and conditions” that is required to send a Submission will be deemed for all purposes to be your electronic signature to these terms and conditions. Declaration Wine & Spirits is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any Submission for any purpose whatsoever.

3.2  Without limiting the generality of section 3.1 above, you agree to sign and deliver to Declaration Wine & Spirits on demand all further documents and assurances that Declaration Wine & Spirits may request in connection with the assignments, transfers, releases and waivers contemplated by that section.

3.3  Declaration Wine & Spirits is not responsible for any Submissions which may be posted in any forum or news group accessible or operated through or by this site, and Declaration Wine & Spirits will have the right (but not the obligation) to remove from any such forum or news group anything which it sees fit to remove for any reason. You must not submit or otherwise publish through this site or through these forums or news groups anything which: defames, libels or invades the privacy of any person; is obscene, pornographic, abusive or threatening; infringes on any intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, including without limitation copyrights and trademarks; violates any law; advocates or describes any illegal activity; or advertises or solicits funds for goods or services.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND INDEMNITY

4.1  Your use of and browsing in this site are undertaken at your own risk. Neither Declaration Wine & Spirits, any of its directors, officers, employees, or agencies, nor any other party involved in the creation, production, delivery or operation of this site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to or use of this site or any consequences flowing therefrom, including, without limitation, computer viruses which may infect or other damages which may occur to your computer equipment or other property as a result of your access, use of or browsing in this site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from this site.

4.2  Without limiting the generality of section 4.1, everything on this site is provided to you without any warranty or representation of any kind, whether expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchant ability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or any other warranties which may be implied according to the laws of any jurisdiction, unless in Your Jurisdiction the exclusion of some or all of such expressed or implied warranties is not permitted or is restricted, in which case all such expressed or implied warranties are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law in Your Jurisdiction.

4.3  You promise to indemnify and save Declaration Wine & Spirits, and its officers, directors, employees, agents and distributors, harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, costs and expenses whatsoever, including without limitation reasonable legal fees and disbursements, resulting directly or indirectly from: your breach of any of your agreements, representations or warranties set out in these terms and conditions; your access to or use of this site or any site to which this site is or may be linked from time to time, or your use of, reliance on, or publication, communication or distribution of anything on or from this site or any site to which this site may be linked from time to time; and/or your violation of any law or regulation.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY ISSUES

5.1  Unless encrypted, information sent or received over the Internet is insecure and Declaration Wine & Spirits cannot and does not make any representation, warranty or promise concerning the interception by third parties of your personal or other information. Declaration Wine & Spirits will not be responsible for any damages you or any third party may suffer as a result of or in connection with the transmission of any information from or to Declaration Wine & Spirits through this site.

5.2  Through your accessing or usage of this site, Declaration Wine & Spirits is able to and may in fact gather certain information about you and your web site usage. In so doing, Declaration Wine & Spirits will comply with the Declaration Wine & Spirits Online Privacy Policy. You may access the full text of the Privacy Policy by selecting the link in the footer.

LINKED SITES

6.1  If and to the extent that any other sites on the World Wide Web are linked to this site at any time, Declaration Wine & Spirits is not responsible for the content of any such linked site or any link contained within such a linked site. Declaration Wine & Spirits reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time and the linking of any site to or through this site does not imply any endorsement by Declaration Wine & Spirits of the companies, products or information offered, described or otherwise made available on or through such linked sites. If you decide to access any site linked through or to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. Declaration Wine & Spirits reserves the right to alter, update, add to and/or revise these terms and conditions at any time and from time to time. Any such alteration, update, addition or revision will be effective immediately upon its posting to this site.