Legal Disclaimer

The web site “www.williams-humbert.com” (hereinafter, the “Web Site”) is the property of “BODEGAS WILLIAMS & HUMBERT S.A.” (hereinafter, the “COMPANY”), with V.A.T. No. A11606779 and with its registered office situated at Ctra. Nacional IV, Km 647- Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz, Spain). The foregoing company is registered at the Companies Register of Cádiz, at volume 798, sheet 112 and page number CA-5855.

The COMPANY hereby welcomes you to the Web Site and kindly invites you to carefully read the General Terms and Conditions of Use of this Web Site (hereinafter, the “General Terms and Conditions of Use”) that set out the terms and conditions that shall be applicable when you browse and use the Web Site, in accordance with the provisions of applicable Spanish regulations. Given that the COMPANY may modify these General Terms and Conditions of Use in the future, we recommend that you periodically visit and read these General Terms and Conditions of Use to keep up to date with any changes thereto.

In the interests of the transparency, clarity and simplicity of the use of the Web Site, the COMPANY hereby notifies the User that any suggestion, query or clarification in relation to the General Terms and Conditions of Use shall be received and resolved by the COMPANY via the email address: rgpd@williams-humbert.com

1. Purpose

The COMPANY provides the content and the services that are available through the Web Site, subject to these General Terms and Conditions of Use, as well as pursuant to the policy regarding the processing of personal data (hereinafter, the “Privacy Policy”). Access to this Web Site or the use thereof in any way whatsoever shall determine the status of “User” and shall imply the acceptance and ratification, without any limitation whatsoever, of each and every one of these General Terms and Conditions of Use, and the COMPANY hereby reserves the right to modify these General Terms and Conditions of Use at any time whatsoever. As a result thereof, the Users shall be responsible for carefully reading the applicable General Terms and Conditions of Use in force each and every time that the Users access the Web Site, and accordingly, if the Users do not accept any of the terms and provisions set out herein, the Users must abstain and refrain from using the Web Site.

Moreover, the User is hereby notified that, occasionally, particular terms and conditions may be established for the use via the Web Site of specific content and/or services, and accordingly the use of said content or services shall imply the acceptance and ratification of the pertinent particular terms and conditions thereof.

2. Services

Through the Web Site, the COMPANY provides the Users with the possibility to access: Information regarding the COMPANY and group companies, the contact details, the products and services and the physical address thereof (a contact section for forwarding queries together with the Users’ personal particulars), as well as links to access social media (hereinafter, the “Services”).

3. Privacy and Data Processing

The COMPANY processes your personal particulars in accordance with the terms and provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 27 April 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC. You may query the information regarding the processing of your personal particulars, pursuant to Article 13 of Section 2 of the aforementioned Regulation, via this [LINK].

4. Industrial and Intellectual Property

The User hereby acknowledges and accepts that all of the content that is displayed on the Web Site and in particular, all of the designs, texts, images, logotypes, icons, buttons, software, trade names, trademarks, or any other distinctive signs the subject of any type of industrial and/or commercial use, are subject to intellectual and industrial property rights, and all of the trademarks, trade names or distinctive signs, all of the industrial and intellectual property rights, in respect of the content and/or any other aspects of the web pages of the Web Site, constitute the exclusive property of the COMPANY and/or third parties, that have the sole and exclusive right to use the foregoing. In light thereof, the User hereby undertakes to not reproduce, copy, distribute, disclose or disseminate or in any other way to publicly communicate, transform or modify said content and to indemnify the COMPANY in relation to any claim that may result from any breach of said obligations. Under no circumstances whatsoever shall access to the Web Site imply any type of waiver, transfer, licence or assignment, whether total or partial, of said rights. These General Terms and Conditions of Use of the Web Site do not confer in favour of the Users any other right to use, alter, operate, reproduce, distribute or publicly communicate the content and/or any other aspects of the Web Site. Any use or exercise of any rights shall be subject to prior and express authorisation that must be specifically issued by the COMPANY or the third party of the pertinent rights.

The content, texts, photographs, designs, logotypes, images, computer programs, source codes and, generally speaking, any intellectual creation that exists on the Web Site, as well as the Web Site as a whole, as a multimedia artwork, are protected, pursuant to copyright, by applicable intellectual property regulations. The COMPANY is the legal owner of the elements that comprise the graphic design of the Web Site, the menus, navigation buttons, the HTML code, the texts, images, textures, graphics and any other content of the Web Site or, in any event, the COMPANY holds the corresponding authorisation for the use of said elements. The content available on the Web Site may not be reproduced, whether in full or in part, or transferred or registered by any information retrieval system, in any way or form or via any support media whatsoever, except with the prior written authorisation of the COMPANY.

Moreover, the Users are hereby forbidden to remove, evade and/or manipulate the “copyright” or the technical protection devices, or any information mechanisms that may exist within the content of the Web Site. The User of the Web Site hereby undertakes to adhere to and abide by the aforementioned rights and to abstain from carrying out any actions that may prejudice said rights, and in any event the COMPANY hereby reserves the right to exercise all measures or legal actions that may correspond thereto for the protection of its legitimate intellectual and industrial property rights.

5. Obligations and Responsibilities of the User of the Web Site

The User hereby undertakes to:

  • Properly and lawfully use the Web Site, as well as the content and services thereof, in accordance with: (i) applicable legislation in force from time to time; (ii) these General Terms and Conditions of Use of the Web Site; (iii) ethical standards and generally accepted good practices; and (iv) in accordance with public policy.
  • Establish and implement all of the technical requirements necessary to access the Web Site.
  • Provide precise and accurate information when completing the personal particulars thereof on the forms contained on the Web Site, and to keep said personal particulars up to date at all times so that said personal particulars always represent the real situation of the User. The User shall be solely and exclusively responsible for any false or inexact statements thereof and for any losses and damages caused to the COMPANY or third parties as a result of the information provided thereby

Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing paragraph, the User must, furthermore, abstain from:

  1. Carrying out any unauthorised or fraudulent use of the Web Site and/or of the content thereof for any unlawful purposes, or for any activities prohibited in these General Terms and Conditions of Use, or that prejudice the rights and interests of any third party, or that, in any way whatsoever, may damage, disable, overload, deteriorate or prevent the normal use of the services or the documents, files or any other type of content stored in any type of computer equipment whatsoever.
  2. Accessing or attempting to access restricted resources or areas of the Web Site, without having complied with the conditions required for said access.
  3. Causing damages to the physical or logics systems of the Web Site, of its suppliers or of any third party.
  4. Introducing or releasing within the computer network any computer viruses or any other physical or logics systems that may cause damage to the physical or logics systems of the COMPANY, of its suppliers or of any third party.
  5. Attempting to access, use and/or manipulate the information and data stored on the Web Site, as well as in relation to the data of any third party suppliers or other Users.
  6. Reproducing or copying, distributing, permitting access to the public through any public communication channel, transforming or modifying the content, unless the User has received the authorisation of the holder of the corresponding rights or when legally permitted.
  7. Removing, concealing or manipulating the notes regarding intellectual or industrial property rights and any other identification data of the rights of the COMPANY or of any third parties included within the content, as well as the technical protection devices or any other information mechanisms that may be inserted therein.
  8. Obtaining and attempting to obtain the content through the use of procedures other than that which, as the case may be, have been established for said purposes or that are expressly set out in the web pages where the content is stored or, generally speaking, the procedures that are habitually used via the internet, by reason that said procedures represent any risk of damaging or disabling the Web Site and/or the content thereof.
  9. In particular, and by way of illustration however not limited to, the User hereby undertakes not to transfer, disclose or provide to any third parties any information, data, content, messages, graphics, drawings, sound and/or image files, photographs, recordings, software and, generally speaking, any type of material that:
    1. In any way whatsoever contradicts, undermines, prejudices or jeopardises the fundamental public rights and freedoms provided for in the Spanish Constitution, in International Treaties and in any other legislation.
    2. Induces, promotes or encourages any type of criminal, denigrating, defamatory, violent activities or that, generally speaking, are contrary to applicable law, ethical standards, generally accepted good practices or public policy.
    3. Induces, promotes or encourages any type of actions, attitudes or thoughts of a discriminatory nature, by reason of sex, race, religion, beliefs, age or condition.
    4. Includes, provides or enables access to products, elements, messages and/or services of a criminal, violent, offensive, harmful, degrading nature or that, generally speaking, are contrary to applicable law, ethical standards, generally accepted good practices or public policy.
    5. Induces or may induce any unacceptable state of anxiety or fear.
    6. Induces or promotes the participation in any type of dangerous, risky or harmful practices for the health and mental balance of people.
    7. Is protected by the intellectual or industrial property legislation applicable to the COMPANY or to any third party without the intended use having been authorised.
    8. Breaches moral standards, personal and family privacy or the reputation or image of people.
    9. Constitutes any type of advertising whatsoever.
    10. Includes any type of virus or program that prevents the normal functioning of the Web Site.

If, for the purposes of accessing any of the services and/or content of the Web Site, the User is provided with a password, the User hereby undertakes to diligently use said password, and to keep said password in secret at all times. As a result thereof, the User shall be responsible for the proper and adequate custody and confidentiality thereof, and hereby undertakes to not disclose said password to any third party whatsoever, whether temporarily or permanently, or to provide access to the aforementioned services and/or content in favour of any third parties whatsoever. Furthermore, the User hereby undertakes to notify the COMPANY of any fact or situation that may represent any type of improper use of the password thereof, such as, by way of illustration, the theft, misplacement or unauthorised access thereto, for the purposes of the immediate cancellation of said password. As a result thereof, until the User has effected the foregoing notification, the COMPANY shall be released from any responsibility that may result from the improper or inadequate use of the password, and the User shall be responsible and liable for any improper or unlawful use of the content and/or services of the Web Site by any illegitimate or unauthorised third party.

If, whether negligently or fraudulently, the User breaches any of the obligations established in these General Terms and Conditions of Use, the User shall be held liable for all of the losses and damages that may result from said breach for the COMPANY and/or any third parties.

6. Responsibilities

The COMPANY does not guarantee the continued access, or the correct visualisation, download or utility of the elements and information contained on the pages of the Web Site, which may be obstructed, hindered or interrupted by factors or situations that are outside the control thereof.

The COMPANY shall not be held liable for any decisions that may be adopted as a result of any access to the content or information provided on the Web Site.

The COMPANY may interrupt the service or immediately terminate the relationship with the User if the COMPANY detects that the use of the Web Site or of any of the services provided thereby breach the terms of these General Terms and Conditions of Use. The COMPANY shall not be held liable for any losses, damages, claims or expenses, caused by any use of the Web Site. The COMPANY shall only be responsible for deleting, as quickly as possible, the content that may cause said losses or damages, provided that the COMPANY has been notified thereof. In particular, the COMPANY shall not be held liable for any losses or damages that may result, among other reasons, from:

  1. Interferences, interruptions, faults, omissions, telephonic faults, delays, suspensions or disconnections in relation to the functioning of the electronic system, as a result of any deficiencies, overloads or errors in the telecommunication lines and networks, or as a result of any other reason outside of the control of the COMPANY.
  2. Illegitimate intromissions by means of the use of malignant programs of any type whatsoever and via any communication channel, such as computer viruses or any other programs.
  3. Improper or inadequate use of the Web Site.
  4. Security or navigation errors caused by any malfunctioning of the internet browser or by the use of obsolete versions thereof. The administrators of the Web Site of the COMPANY hereby reserve the right to remove, totally or partially, any content or information from the Web Site.

The COMPANY shall not assume any liability whatsoever for any losses and damages of any type whatsoever that result from any improper use of the services that are freely available for the use of the Users of the Web Site. Furthermore, the COMPANY shall be released from any liability whatsoever for the content and information that is received via the information request forms, that must only be used for the provision of the query and clarification services. On the other hand, in the event that any losses or damages are caused by any unlawful or improper use of said services, the COMPANY may claim from the User the losses and damages incurred thereby.

The User shall defend, indemnify and shall hold the COMPANY harmless in respect of any losses and damages that may result from any claims, legal actions or legal claims from any third parties as a result of the access or use by the User of the Web Site. Furthermore, the User hereby undertakes to indemnify the COMPANY in respect of any losses and damages that may result from the use by the User of “robots”, “spiders”, “crawlers” or any similar types of tools used to obtain or extract data or any other actions thereof that represents an unreasonable burden on the functioning of the Web Site.

7. Hyperlinks

The User hereby undertakes not to reproduce, in any way whatsoever, even by way of any hyperlink whatsoever, the Web Site of the COMPANY, including any of the content thereof, except with the express written authorisation of the COMPANY.

The Web Site of the COMPANY includes links to other web sites managed by third parties, for the purposes of providing the User with access to the information of collaborating and/or sponsor companies. In light thereof, the COMPANY shall not be held liable for the content of said web sites, and shall not act in the capacity of guarantor and/or provider of the services and/or information that may be provided via the third party links.

The User is hereby granted a limited, revocable and non-exclusive right to create links to the home page of the Web Site solely and exclusively for private and non-commercial purposes. The web sites that include a link to the Web Site (i) must not allude or suggest that the COMPANY recommends said web site or the services or products thereof; (ii) must not misrepresent the relationship thereof with the COMPANY, or affirm that the COMPANY has authorised said link, and must not include any trademarks, company names, trade names, logotypes or any other distinctive signs of the COMPANY; (iii) must not include content that may be considered to be of bad taste, obscene, offensive, controversial, that incites or promotes violence or discrimination based on sex, race or religion, of that is contrary to public policy or unlawful; (iv) must not include a link to any of the web pages of the Web Site other than the home page; (v) must include a link directly to the URL of the Web Site, without permitting that the web site that includes said link reproduces the Web Site as part of its own web site or within any of the “frames” thereof or creates a “browser” in relation to any of the web pages of the Web Site. The COMPANY may request, at any time whatsoever, that any link to the Web Site be removed, after which said link must be immediately removed. The COMPANY is not able to control the information, content, products or services provided by other web sites that have established links to the Web Site.

As a result thereof, the COMPANY shall not assume any type of liability whatsoever for any aspect in relation to said web sites.

8. Cookies

You may read the information regarding cookies by clicking on this LINK.

9. Term and termination

The service of this Web Site and the rest of the services shall, in principle, be provided in perpetuity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the COMPANY may cancel or suspend any of the services of the Web Site. Where possible, the COMPANY shall notify of the cancellation or suspension of the provision of the specific service.

10. Statements and Warranties

Generally speaking, the content and services provided on the Web Site are merely of an illustrative nature. As a result thereof, by providing said content and services, the COMPANY does not provide any type of warranty or statement whatsoever in relation to the content and services provided via the Web Site, including, by way of illustration, any warranties regarding the lawfulness, reliability, suitability, accuracy, exactness or the marketability thereof, except to the extent that, at law, said statements and warranties are not able to be waived.

11. Force majeure

The COMPANY shall not be held liable in the case of any impossibility of providing the service, if said situation is the result of prolonged interruptions of the electricity supply, telecommunication lines, labour disputes, strikes, rebellion, explosions, floods, acts and omissions of the Government, and generally speaking any of the situations of force majeure or unforeseen circumstances.

12. Dispute resolution. Applicable law and jurisdiction

These General Terms and Conditions of Use, as well as the use of the Web Site, shall be governed by generally applicable Spanish law. Any dispute shall be resolved before the Courts of the capital city of Madrid.

In the case that any term or provision of these General Terms and Conditions of Use was declared to be unenforceable or null and void by virtue of applicable law or as a result of any judicial or administrative decision, said unenforceability or voidness shall not mean that these General Terms and Conditions of Use as a whole are unenforceable or null or void. In said situations, the COMPANY shall modify or replace said clause for another clause that is valid and enforceable and that, as far as possible, complies with the objective and spirit of the original clause.