Legal notice

LEGAL INFORMATION AND ACCEPTANCE

In conformity with the provisions of Act 34/2002, on information society and electronic commerce services, FILPORC with Tax Identification Number 448 608 067 00022 is a private corporation with its headquarters at Av. Bombeiros Voluntários, Ed. da Bolsa do Porco | 2870-219 Montijo, and with email address filporc@filporc.pt makes available to its users, through the portal www.porkinstyle.eu and www.porkinstyle.com (herein after, the “Portal”). 

This Portal was created to implement the promotion campaign European Pork. Pork in Style, co-funded by the European Union. The content of this promotion campaign represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility. The European Commission and the European Research Executive Agency (REA) do not accept any responsibility for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

These General Conditions have been prepared in accordance with the applicable legislation in Portugal and the European Union, including laws on electronic commerce, consumer protection, and personal data processing. This includes, but is not limited to, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR), as well as national laws on data protection, digital rights, and consumer rights.

The User, merely by using this Portal, expresses full acceptance of these General Conditions, which are subject to modification by FILPORC at any time. Consequently, the User must, under his or her sole liability, carefully read these General Conditions upon each intended use of the Portal.

FILPORC informs that any mandatory procedures to obtain the services offered are those described in these General Conditions and, when applicable, the corresponding Specific Conditions, as well as any other specific conditions indicated on-screen when browsing, wherefore the User must declare his or her knowledge and acceptance of these procedures as necessary for accessing the services offered in the Portal.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS, USE AND UTILISATION OF THE PORTAL

The Services offered by FILPORC in its Portal are, in principle, and unless otherwise specified, free of charge. Access to the Services supplied through the Portal does not require, in general, a prior User subscription or registration.

FILPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

The User assumes the obligation to use the Contents and Services available through the Portal in conformity with these General Conditions and the Specific Conditions established for certain Services, as well as in accordance with legal provisions, morality, customs and public order.

Additionally, The User assumes the obligation to respect the intellectual and industrial property rights of FILPORC, including its domain name, and/or third parties, and to this end will abstain from illegally, fully or partially, reproducing, copying, distributing, making available, creating derivative products, or in any other way making public, transforming, or modifying the Contents, unless the User is authorised in writing by the holder of the corresponding rights or is legally permitted to do so, as shown below.

FILPORC does not guarantee the utility of the Portal for any specific activity or the suitability of its contents and services for specific purposes, wherefore the User is solely and exclusively liable for the use of information, contents and services.

The contents included in the Portal are provided in good faith by FILPORC with information from both internal and external sources. Given this circumstance and the large amount of information made available to the User through the Portal, FILPORC cannot guarantee full reliability, legality, exactness or suitability of the same, despite its best efforts in this regard. Therefore, FILPORC cannot control the Users’ use of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the illegal, incorrect, inappropriate or unsuitable use by Users of the Portal, its services or contents.

In the event that a User causes damages to any third parties, given its use of any products, service, content and/or tool facilitated through our website, as well as for improperly using the same, the User expressly exempts FILPORC from any liability which may be attributed to FILPORC.

CONTENTS AND SERVICES OF THE PORTAL

The languages used in the Portal will be English and Korean, FILPORC is not responsible for the User’s lack of understanding of the languages used. FILPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Contents in the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

Any User who intends to establish a hyperlink from his or her own website to the Portal must not use FILPORC as a metatag or to attract users to his or her own website or hinder the User’s access to the Portal. The inclusion of a hyperlink to the Portal in no way implies the existence of a relationship between FILPORC and the owner of the website in which it is inserted, nor the acceptance or approval by FILPORC of its contents or services, wherefore no declaration may be made or insinuated as to authorisation granted by FILPORC for the hyperlink, or as to the supervision or use of the services offered in said website that includes the hyperlink.

In this sense, the Portal may redirect information, content, products and services of independent third parties, at the User’s disposal. FILPORC is not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, accuracy, integrity, validity, the author’s rights fulfilment, legality, decency, quality or any other aspect of the web pages and/or third parties’ content. FILPORC does not guarantee, support, assume or take responsibility for any content or web pages or any other materials, products or services belonged to the third parties.

INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY

All of the contents, understood as the following and not limited to the same, texts, photographs, illustrations, graphs, software, databases, graphic designs, source codes, audio-visual and audio contents, as well as any names, domain names, logos, trademarks, tradenames, designs and brands accessible in the Portal are subject to intellectual and industrial property rights owned by FILPORC or authorized third parties. In this regard, these are considered works protected by Portugal and European legislation jointly in the realm of intellectual and industrial property rights.

Access by the User to the contents and services of the Portal in no way implies, in any case, any type of waiver, transmission or transfer, whether full or partial, of the aforementioned rights. Users have the right to use, modify, exploit, reproduce, distribute or publicly communicate the contents for commercial or non-commercial purposes, except if authorization is specifically required, provided that Users fulfil the following conditions:

– Under no circumstances may information content be denatured.

– The User is obliged to properly provide source references for the contents used (including a link to this Portal).

– The User is obliged to include the date on which the contents were last updated.

EXCLUSION OF GUARANTEES AND LIABILITY

As stated above, FILPORC does not guarantee the availability and continuity of the functioning of the Portal, its services and contents, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to the unavailability or discontinuity of the Portal or any of its services, or due to access failures to any of the different websites of the Portal, or failures of those websites from which certain services are provided.

FILPORC does not guarantee the utility of the Portal for any specific activity or the suitability of its contents and services for specific purposes, wherefore the User is solely and exclusively liable for the use of information, contents and services.

The Portal makes available to the users’ technical devices for links (such as, among others, links, banners, directories, etc.), that enable access to the website(s) owned and/or managed by third parties and of which FILPORC is neither the owner nor has any type of association. As a result, FILPORC will not be liable for controlling and monitoring the contents, wherefore FILPORC will assume no liability whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly, for said website(s). The User must exercise due caution when evaluating and using said information, contents and services made available through these devices.

Likewise, FILPORC excludes any liability derived of the rendering of services or of making available goods or products that may be acquired or contracted from third parties by accessing the Portal, especially in those cases in which the purchase or contract procedure is implemented directly in the third-party website.

FILPORC does not guarantee privacy and security when using the Portal and, in particular, does not guarantee that unauthorised third parties will not be knowledgeable of the type, conditions, characteristics and circumstances of the use which Users make of the Portal, wherefore in no case will it be held liable for damages of any kind which may arise due to these unauthorised accesses.

In the event that a User causes damages to any third parties, given its use of any products, service, content and/or tool facilitated through our website, as well as for improperly using the same, the User expressly exempts FILPORC from any liability which may be attributed to FILPORC.

To this end, the User will solely and exclusively assume any liability which may derive as a result of the foregoing. Likewise, the User will assume all expenses, costs and, when applicable, compensation which may derive of legal proceedings initiated on the grounds of noncompliance with the provisions of these Conditions and applicable regulations.

If the User were to consider any of the contents or information available in the Portal illegal or in violation of their rights, the User can contact FILPORC via email at filporc@filporc.pt, including a reference to the illegality of the contents.

CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS OF THESE GENERAL CONDITIONS

FILPORC may, at any time, modify these Terms of Use or introduce new conditions either for the entire service or for the use of specific contents or features, only by notifying said modification to the users via the Portal.

In the event of modifications to the service or to these General Conditions, and if you the User do not express your opposition in writing and continue to access the Portal, we will understand that the User has accepted the new General Conditions.

In the event of a regulatory action, legal or regulatory measure which, in the opinion of FILPORC, prohibits, substantially restricts or makes the provision of the Service unfeasible, FILPORC shall be entitled to: (i) modify the service or the General Conditions in order to adapt them to the new circumstances, (ii) interrupt the provision of the service.

APPLICABLE LEGISLATION AND JURISDICTION

These General Conditions are bound to Portuguese legislation. For any controversy which may derive from the application of the services or the interpretation or application of the General Conditions, FILPORC and the User, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction to which they may be entitled where permitted by applicable law, will submit themselves to the Courts of Portugal.