These terms tell you the rules for using our website: https://uk.edrington.com/ (“this site”).
These terms (together with the separately posted Privacy and Cookies Policies) tell you information about this site and the terms and conditions that we commit to when you use this site; and detail your own commitments for your personal use of this site.
By entering and using this site you confirm that you accept these terms and agree to comply with them. Where actions you take are guided by other specific policies or wording, we will ensure that this is made clear to you and may ask you to tick a box and consent to the relevant terms. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use this site.
Information about us
This site is run by Edrington UK Distribution Limited (“We” or “Edrington UK”), a company registered in Scotland under the Companies Acts (Registered number SC203623; previously Edrington-Beam Suntory UK Distribution Limited and Maxxium UK Limited) and has its registered office at 191 West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 2LD, to which address any notices should be sent. It is part of The Edrington Group Limited and is a third-party distributor for Beam Suntory in the UK.
Changes to these terms and this site
We may amend these terms from time to time so please check these terms to ensure that you understand the terms that will apply at that time.
We may update and change this site from time to time to reflect changes to our brands, our users’ needs and our business priorities.
This site is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that this site, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of this site for business and operational reasons.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access this site through your internet connection are aware of these terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under these terms.
Users in the United Kingdom
This site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not make any representations, warranties or guarantees that content available on or through this site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
Age requirement to use this site
This site is intended solely for the use of persons over the legal drinking age in their country of residence and where the sale, consumption and advertising of alcohol is permitted in the relevant jurisdiction.
To ensure legal compliance, we ask you to confirm that you are over the legal drinking age. Persons under such legal drinking age or who reside in a jurisdiction where the sale, consumption and/or advertising of alcohol is not permitted, should not use this site in any way.
Information about this site
Intellectual Property
All content (including, but not limited to, logos, text, data compilations, graphics, icons, images, photographs, audio clips, sounds, music, and software, and any combination thereof) available on this site (the “Content”), is either owned or licensed by Edrington UK, and is protected by applicable copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
All trade marks, whether they are figurative or not, and all other marks, trade names, service marks, brand names, business names, illustrations, images, logos which appear on this site whether registered or not (the “Trade Marks”), are and remain the exclusive property of Edrington UK and/or its licensors and are protected by applicable trade mark laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
All other intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, registered or unregistered trade marks, logos, designs, copyrights, patents, know how or trade secrets) in or related to this site or the products depicted (the “Intellectual Property Rights”) are and shall remain the exclusive property of Edrington UK and/or its licensors and such Intellectual Property Rights are protected by applicable intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
This site is protected by copyright. Permission is given for the downloading and temporary storage of one or more of these pages for the purpose of viewing on a personal computer or monitor. The reproduction, permanent storage, or re-transmission of the contents of this site is prohibited without the prior written consent of Edrington UK. For permission to reproduce any of the contents of this site please contact [email protected].
Unless otherwise stated, all contents of this site are copyright of Edrington UK.
Content
The content of this site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on this site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on this site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on this site is accurate, complete or up to date.
You must not misuse this site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to this site, the server on which this site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to this site. You must not attack this site via a denial-of-service attack or distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this clause you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use this site will cease immediately.
Links
Any links to third party websites are provided solely for the purpose of your convenience. We have no control over the content of such websites and accordingly make no representation concerning the content of those sites to you nor make endorsement of any of them. We have not tested any content, software features or links found on their sites and do not give any representation regarding their quality, safety, suitability or reliability or any of the material contained in them.
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists and you must not establish a link to this site in any website that is not owned by you.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
Account details
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and not disclose it to any third party.
We reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at [email protected].
User-generated content
This site may include information and materials uploaded by other users of this site, including to social media pages, video-sharing sites, bulletin boards and chat rooms. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on this site do not represent our views or values.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to this site, or to make contact with other users of this site, you warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty. Any content you upload to this site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to this site constitutes a violation of their Intellectual Property Rights or of their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on this site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with acceptable content standards.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
You must not upload any material that could incite a terrorist offence, solicit any person to participate in terrorist activities, provide instruction on any method or technique for committing a terrorist offence or threaten to commit a terrorist offence.
Disclaimer
Please note that telephone and other connection charges may apply to your use of this site. For details of such charges you should contact your telephone company and internet service provider.
The information contained in this site may include opinions or views which, unless expressly stated otherwise, are not those of Edrington UK.
This site is not guaranteed to be free from any so-called computer viruses and it is strongly recommended that you check for such viruses before downloading it to your computer equipment.
The information and other contents of this site are designed to comply with Scots law. If anything on this site is construed as being contrary to the laws applicable in any other country, then this site is not intended to be accessed by persons from that country and any persons who are subject to such laws shall not be entitled to purchase our products unless they can satisfy us that such purchase would be lawful.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by Scots law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:
- use of, or inability to use, this site; or
- use of or reliance on any content displayed on this site.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:
- loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
- business interruption;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
- any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide this site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use this site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
Disputes
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Scots law. You and we both agree that the courts of Scotland will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of England and Wales, you may also bring proceedings in England and Wales.
If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by Scots law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.
Complaints / reports
If you wish to complain about any content on this site, please contact us at [email protected].