Terms and Conditions of Use
Last Updated: September 29, 2023
These Terms and Conditions govern the access and use of the website https://bbdouro.com/ (“Website”).
The Website is owned by BBDouro, Unipessoal, Lda., with registered office at Rua da Praia – Douro Marina, 1st floor, 4400-554, Vila Nova de Gaia, with the unique registration number and tax identification number 510 130 933 (hereinafter “BBDouro”).
By using or visiting the Website or any of the information, data files, written text, graphics, links, audio files, or other sounds, photographs, videos, or other images (collectively, “Content”), resources, and services (collectively, including the Content, the “Services”) made available through it, you, as a user or visitor of the same (“User”), are accepting (i) these Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms and Conditions”) and confirming that you have read and understood the (ii) Privacy Policy available on the Website, which can be accessed here. The Website is a consultation portal, aimed at promoting products or services provided by BBDouro and attracting potential clients.
Through the Website, BBDouro enables the User to access its Services, which are subject to these Terms and Conditions, including updates, developments, and/or new products.
I) User Responsibility
BBDouro reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time, limited to posting the changes online on the Website, indicating the update date. It is the sole responsibility of the User to verify and comply with them each time they use the Website. Using the Website after the publication of changes constitutes acceptance of the updated wording of the Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with the changes made or, in general, with the Terms and Conditions, you must immediately stop using the Website and the Services.
By accessing, using, and downloading materials from the Website, the User agrees, on their own behalf and/or on behalf of the entity they are acting for, to comply punctually with these Terms and Conditions, ensuring they have the authority to act on behalf of the third party they represent, if necessary.
Access to the Services through means other than the interface provided by BBDouro is expressly prohibited, as well as access (or attempt to access) the Website and/or the Services through automated means (including the use of scripts or web crawlers).
The use of the Website for purposes other than those intended, including illegal purposes or any other that may be considered harmful to the image of BBDouro, is expressly prohibited. Usurpation, counterfeiting, exploitation of usurped or counterfeited content, illegitimate identification, and unfair competition incur criminal and/or administrative liability.
The User is also prohibited from creating or introducing any type of viruses or programs on this Website that may damage or contaminate it, or advise third parties to do so.
II) Intellectual and Industrial Property
All information contained on the Website and all data and information compiled by BBDouro associated with it (such as data files, written text, software, music, audio files, or other sounds, photographs, videos, or other images) that you have access to as part of the Services or through their use are considered BBDouro. The User is not allowed to modify, lease, lend, borrow, sell, distribute, or create a derivative work based on such content (in whole or in part) unless expressly authorized in writing by BBDouro or by a third party holding the respective intellectual property and personality rights.
The User acknowledges and agrees that BBDouro holds all intellectual property rights (whether registered or not and wherever in the world these rights may exist) relating to the content of the Website and Services. BBDouro holds all rights not expressly granted to the User in these Terms and Conditions.
The User also agrees not to remove, hide, or alter any notices of intellectual property rights (including copyright and trademark notices) that may be posted or inserted in the Website content.
Trademarks and Related Matters
Unless expressly authorized by BBDouro, nothing in these Terms and Conditions grants the User the right to use any of BBDouro’s registered trademarks, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.
III) Limitation of Liability
BBDouro will use reasonable diligence to ensure that all information contained on the Website is accurate and up-to-date.
However, the use and reading of the contents of this Website are carried out exclusively at the User’s own risk and are provided “as is and as available.” By accessing the Website, the User acknowledges and accepts that its content may be incomplete, inaccurate, not up-to-date, or may not meet its needs and requirements.
Users are solely and exclusively responsible for their use of the Website and its contents and for evaluating the information obtained through the Website.
BBDouro adopts appropriate security measures to detect the existence of viruses. However, the User should be aware that the security measures of computer systems on the Internet are not entirely reliable, and therefore, BBDouro cannot guarantee the absence of viruses or other elements that may cause changes in the User’s computer systems (software and hardware) or in the electronic documents and files contained in them.
BBDouro assumes no responsibility for damages resulting from the impossibility of accessing the services made available through the Website or for damages caused by viruses, service interruptions, content cancellation, Internet-related issues, or related to the non-existence and/or defective functioning of the User’s electronic devices.
If you disagree, partially or entirely, with the Website, or these Terms and Conditions, you only have the option to stop using the Website.
IV) Hyperlinks to Other Websites
To facilitate user accessibility, BBDouro may include links to third-party-owned or operated websites on the Internet. When using links to these third-party websites, the User must review and accept the rules of that Website before using it. The User must also accept that BBDouro does not control the content of that website and cannot assume any responsibility for materials created or published by those third-party websites. Furthermore, the provision of links to a non-BBDouro website is included solely for exclusively informative purposes and for the convenience of the User, and does not imply BBDouro’s endorsement of the website or the products and services referenced therein.
V) Política de privacidade
The Privacy Policy is available here. The document contains an explanation of the procedures adopted by BBDouro regarding the processing of personal data of its Users and the protection of their privacy when using the Website.
VI) Contacts
If the User has any questions about these Terms and Conditions or any comments about the Website, they can contact us via the following email: info@bbdouro.com.
VII) Miscellaneous Provisions
If one or more provisions of these Terms and Conditions are deemed invalid or declared as such by application of the law or a final decision issued by a competent court, the remaining provisions shall remain valid and effective.
These Terms and Conditions, as well as the User’s relationship with BBDouro according to them, are governed by the applicable Portuguese law.
The User and BBDouro agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Judicial Courts of the District of Porto to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation and/or execution of these Terms and Conditions, without prejudice to the applicable mandatory legal provisions.
Notwithstanding the above, BBDouro may apply precautionary measures (or other equivalent type of urgent legal compensation) in any jurisdiction.
