1. Website activities and purchase orders
On the Website we display, publish, promote and sell wines and spirits (the "Products").
The Website offers a number of features to inform the User about the Products and to facilitate the placing of orders, such as, for example, the ability to:
- browse the various wine categories;
- click on a product to open the Product page with its technical characteristics, our description, any awards it has won and, above all, our tasting notes;
- learn about our offers; open a personal account in order to make purchases;
- select one or more of the Products on the Website that the User intends to purchase by adding them to a virtual “cart”, and then decide whether to continue browsing the Website or to view the contents of the cart in order to submit the purchase order;
- before making a purchase, check all information relating to the purchase of the Products, including shipping costs and estimated delivery times;
- enter the shipping address and the payment details required to complete the purchase order;
- subscribe to mailing lists in order to receive newsletters about the Products and the Website’s initiatives.
In order to place orders on the Website, the User must:
- be of legal age;
- have a valid e-mail address.
Payment may be made by credit card, bank transfer or cash on delivery. We accept all of the following credit, debit and prepaid cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Postepay) through PayPal.
2. Cookies, privacy and terms of purchase
The User is requested to provide true and accurate personal data and to update the personal data ("Personal Data") provided at the time of registration whenever it is no longer current, and to read the Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy regarding our processing of Personal Data and the rights granted to the User in that respect under the applicable data protection legislation.
The User is also requested to read the terms and conditions of purchase, returns and shipping before completing a purchase order, since submitting an order implies acceptance thereof. If you pay with Scalapay, you receive your order straight away and pay in 3 instalments. You acknowledge that the instalments will be assigned to Incremento SPV S.r.l., to related parties and to their assignees, and you authorise such assignment.
3. Use of the Website
The Website and the Website Content (as defined below) may be used solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and in compliance with these Terms of Use and applicable law. We reserve the right to discontinue or suspend access to the Account (as defined below), even without prior notice, or to refuse to open a new account, where we consider that the Terms of Use have been breached or that this is necessary for security reasons.
4. Personal account
The User may create an account on the Website (the “Account"). The Account is personal. The User is requested to keep their login credentials secure and not to disclose them. The User must promptly inform us of any unauthorised use of their Account login credentials. The User is responsible for all activities carried out through their Account and may be held liable for any damage of any kind resulting from the improper use of their Account login credentials or from any abuse of the services provided by the Website. We accept no liability in the event that a User’s personal data is used by unauthorised third parties.
5. Intellectual property
The information, product pages, tasting notes, photographic material, offers, images and, in general, all content of the Website (“Website Content") are our property and are protected by intellectual property legislation, including the rules on copyright, trademarks and domain names. The reproduction of the Website Content for the purpose of sale, distribution for commercial purposes, inclusion or posting on other unauthorised websites, or in any case for professional and/or commercial purposes, is expressly prohibited. These Terms of Use do not grant the User or any third party any right to use our trademarks or to exploit the Website Content commercially.
6. Third-Party Content
The Website may include, use or display content created by third parties, information obtained from public sources and/or links to external websites or web pages operated by third parties ("Third-Party Content"). Such Third-Party Content is beyond our control; we therefore accept no liability for the correctness, completeness and lawfulness of the Third-Party Content and of third-party websites, or for any consequence arising from the User’s access to and browsing of such Third-Party Content.
7. Warranties
Although we endeavour to ensure that the information available on the Website is accurate and constantly updated, we give no warranty as to the correctness, completeness, accuracy or currency of the information on the Website, including, for example, the descriptions of the Products and services, the prices and/or the availability information shown on the Website. Information on the Products offered on the Website is published for descriptive or promotional purposes only. We give no warranty, express or implied, of merchantability or fitness of the Website for a particular purpose. We cannot guarantee that the Website, its services, features and the Website Content will be free from interruptions, or that the use of the Website will produce any specific result. We give no guarantee whatsoever that the Website Content complies with the laws in force in countries other than Italy.
8. Limitation of liability
Subject to the mandatory limits of the law, we accept no liability for any direct or indirect damage to the User or to third parties, regardless of its cause, origin, nature and consequences, including, by way of example, costs incurred or any other loss of intangible assets, arising from the use of the Website or the inability to use it, or from reliance on information directly or indirectly available on the Website.
We reserve the right to modify or remove some of the Products from the Website, temporarily or permanently, or to change the retail prices of such Products, without giving any prior notice of such changes.
The User is responsible for, and undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless Vintalia S.r.l. in respect of, any access to the Website and any purchase on the Website from places where its content or the purchase of alcoholic beverages is considered illegal. Accordingly, any access from such countries or purchase by the User shall be at the User’s sole responsibility, and the User shall fully indemnify us against any legal consequences.
The Website is protected in accordance with international standards. We accept no liability for any problems, damage or risks that may be encountered while browsing the Website.
9. Governing law and jurisdiction
All matters relating to the use of the Website and to these Terms of Use shall be governed by Italian law. Any matter or dispute connected with the use of the Website or with these Terms of Use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of the place where the User is resident or domiciled.
10. Changes
We reserve the right to make corrections and changes to the Website if and when necessary, without prior notice. If the User does not accept such changes, the User should consider whether or not to continue browsing; indeed, use of the Website after the publication of such changes constitutes the User’s acceptance thereof.