PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE
These terms tell you the rules for using our website www.yfood.io (our site).
Who we are and how to contact us
www.yfood.io is a site operated by YFood Ltd (“we” or “us”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 10074242 and have our registered office at Spectrum House, 2B Suttons Lane, Hornchurch, Essex RM12 6RJ. Our main trading address is WeWork Paddington, 2 Eastbourne Terrace, London W2 6LG. Our VAT number is 244714118.
We are a limited company.
To contact us, please email us at support@foodtechweek.london.
By using our site you accept these terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use (“terms”) and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
There are other terms that may apply to you
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
OurAcceptable Use Policy, which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with thisAcceptable Use Policy.
Our Cookies Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
If you purchase tickets from our site, ourTicket Terms and Conditions will apply to the purchase and issue of tickets.
We may make changes to these terms
We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time. These terms were most recently updated on 15th September 2016.
We may make changes to our site
We may update and change our site from time to time to reflect changes to our services, our users’ needs and our business priorities.
We may suspend or withdraw our site
Our site is made available free of charge.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
Our site is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our site is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
You must keep your account details safe
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our site security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.
We have 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 of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at support@foodtechweek.london.
How you may use material on our site
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Do not rely on information on this site
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.
We are not responsible for websites we link to
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
User-generated content is not approved by us
This website may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site, including to 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 our site do not represent our views or values.
If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users pleasecontact us on support@foodtechweek.london.
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any tickets to you, which will be set out in ourTicket Terms and Conditions.
If you are a business user:
We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
We will not be liable to you 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, our site; or
use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.
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.
Uploading content to our site
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in ourAcceptable Use Policy.
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 our 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 and other users of our site a licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties as described below under the heading ‘Rights you are giving us to use material you upload’.
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 our 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 our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in ourAcceptable Use Policy.
You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.
Rights you are giving us to use material you upload
When you upload or post content to our site, you grant a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence:
to us to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that user-generated content in connection with the service provided by our site and across different media and to promote our site and/or our services; and
to third parties including other users of the site, our partners and/or our sponsors to use that user-generated content for their purposes or in accordance with the functionality of the site.
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our 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 our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, 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 our site will cease immediately.
Rules about linking to our site
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.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in ourAcceptable Use Policy.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact support@foodtechweek.london.
Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
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 English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
In these terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”):
In these Terms and Conditions, unless the context clearly indicates another intention:
All Bookings and the issue of Tickets are subject to these Terms and Conditions.
All Bookings are subject to (i) availability and (ii) the Buyer making payment in full by debit card or credit card before we accept the Booking. The price the Buyer must pay is the price for the Tickets and any additional booking fees specified in the Booking.
A Booking is not complete until we accept the Booking. We will send an email to the Buyer confirming our acceptance (or rejection) of the Booking within 72 hours. If we send an email confirming our acceptance of the Booking, Tickets will then be immediately available for the Buyer to download.
Tickets are valid for only for the attendee(s) named in the Booking and cannot be transferred to another person except with our prior written approval, which we will not unreasonably withhold or delayed. If you wish to make a request to transfer a Ticket to another person, you must inform us by email at getintouch@yfood.io of that person’s name and email address as soon as possible and at the latest before the start of the Event. Tickets remain our property at all times. Possession of a Ticket does not confer any rights on you to use, alter, copy or otherwise deal with any of the symbols, trade marks, logos and/or intellectual property appearing on the Ticket.
You acknowledge and accept that we have the right to publicly announce our business relationship with you which shall include but not be limited to announcements on social media. Such announcements shall not be disparaging or otherwise adverse to your business.
We reserve the right to alter the advertised content, timing and/or location of the Events or the advertised speakers or participants at any time where necessary for reasons beyond our reasonable control. Where we change the date(s) of the Event or move the Venue to a location more than 20 miles from its previously advertised location, we will provide you with notice of the same and will offer you the choice of either the opportunity to attend the Event as varied or a full refund of the amount you have paid within 45 days of receiving written notice from you.
If we cancel the Event for reasons beyond our reasonable control, we will attempt to notify you as soon as reasonably practicable and we will offer you a full refund of the amount you have paid within 45 days of notifying you.
If the Buyer cancels the Booking or you wish to return one or more Tickets or you do not attend the Event (except in circumstances where we have cancelled the Event or changed the date(s) and/or location), we will not refund any amount paid.
On entry to the Venue or at any time during your attendance at the Event, authorised personnel reserve the right to request that you produce a valid Ticket and photo identification at any time.
You and your property are liable to be searched in a manner permissible by law by authorised Event or Venue personnel on entry to the Venue and at any time during the Event to ensure the safety of all persons at the Event. Failure to submit to any requested search by authorised Event or Venue personnel will lead to refusal of admission, and/or ejection and may also lead to exclusion from the Venue.
If admission is reasonably refused for whatever reason, or if you are reasonably ejected or excluded from the Venue for whatever reason, no money will be refunded or compensation provided.
While attending the Event you must comply with oral and/or written instructions issued by authorised Event or Venue personnel, all relevant laws, health and safety requirements and Venue regulations and announcements. We or authorised Event or Venue personnel may refuse you admission or eject you from the Venue if you do not comply with oral and/or written instructions reasonably necessary for the smooth running and safety of the Event.
We or authorised Event or Venue personnel may refuse you admission or eject you from the Venue provided we and they act reasonably. Any person who in the reasonable opinion of authorised Event or Venue personnel carries out any unnecessary noise, any threatening, abusive or dangerous behaviour or any behaviour likely to cause distress, confusion or nuisance may be required to leave the Venue.
Filming, photography and broadcasting may take place during the Event. You give your express consent to the use of your actual or simulated likeness and voice in connection with the production, exploitation and advertising of the Event and/or the promotion of our business without compensation or credit, in perpetuity throughout the world.
You must not breach or infringe the rights of any sponsors, suppliers, broadcasters or other parties commercially associated with the Event.
You must not (unless authorised by us in writing in advance) conduct promotions or commercial activity, including the distribution or offer for sale of any newspaper, periodical, drink, food, merchandise, ticket or any other article.
The consumption of intoxicating liquors is permitted only in the bars or other authorised areas or places during hours decided by us or authorised Event or Venue personnel and the right is reserved to close bars at any time.
Smoking is not permitted at the Venue.
You may distribute photos and/or videos you take at the Event provided that you do not display in such photos or videos the trade marks or other intellectual property rights of any other party. If you post or distribute any images or recordings taken at the Event or any other material in connection with the Event (“Content”) which is offensive or brings us, any of our partners or any participants at the Event into disrepute or infringes the rights (including intellectual property rights) of our partners, any participants or any attendees at the Event, we may ask you to remove such Content and destroy any copies.You grant us a perpetual, worldwide right without any requirement to pay fees or royalties to you to post or link to such Content on any website(s) operated by us and/or our partners at the Event.
We shall not be liable for any loss, damage or theft of your personal property while you are attending an Event.
The following paragraphs 1 to 3 apply only if you are acting in the course of trade or business:
These Terms and Conditions and the rights and obligations of you and us shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England and Wales.
If you are acting in the course of a trade or business, you and we irrevocably agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales in respect of any dispute which arises hereunder.
If you are a consumer, you and we agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction in respect of any dispute which arises hereunder.However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.