Terms of service

Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of the websites owned and operated by PICANTE Media and Events; by using our websites, you accept these terms and conditions in full and without reservation. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use these websites.

You must be at least 18 [eighteen] years of age to use our websites. By using our websites and by agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

The list of the websites owned and operated by PICANTE Media and Events can be found here.

License to use our websites
Unless otherwise stated, PICANTE Media and Events and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights published on our websites and materials used on the PICANTE Media and Events network. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages, files or other content from the websites for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

republish material from these websites in neither print nor digital media or documents (including republication on another website);
sell, rent or sub-license material from the websites;
show any material from the websites in public;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material from our websites for a commercial purpose;
edit or otherwise modify any material on these websites;
redistribute material from these websites – except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution; or
republish or reproduce any part of these websites through the use of iframes or screenscrapers.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.

Acceptable use
You must not use these websites in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the websites or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the PICANTE Media network or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use these websites to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities on or in relation to websitess owned by PICANTE Media express written consent.
This includes:

scraping
data mining
data extraction
data harvesting
‘framing’ (iframes)
Article ‘Spinning’
You must not use these websites or any part of it to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use these websites for any purposes related to marketing without the express written consent of PICANTE Media and Events.

Restricted access
Access to certain areas of our websites are restricted. PICANTE Media and Events reserves the right to restrict access to certain areas of our websites, or at our discretion, the entire websites may change or modify this policy without notice.

If PICANTE Media and Events provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of our websites or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential. You alone are responsible for your password and user ID security..

PICANTE Media and Events may disable your user ID and password at PICANTE Media’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our websites, for whatever purpose.

You grant to PICANTE Media and Events a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to PICANTE Media and Events the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or PICANTE Media and Events or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to our websites that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

PICANTE Media and Events reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our websites, or stored on the servers of PICANTE Media and Events, or hosted or published upon our websites.

PICANTE Media’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, PICANTE Media and Events does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our websites.

No warranties
Our websites are provided “as they are” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. PICANTE Media and Events makes no representations or warranties in relation to these websites or the information and materials provided on these websites.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, PICANTE Media and Events does not warrant that:

these websites will be constantly available, or available at all; or
the information on these websites are complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
Nothing on these websites constitute, or are meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of liability
PICANTE Media and Events will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, our websites:

to the extent that the websites are provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if PICANTE Media and Events has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions
Nothing in this disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this disclaimer will exclude or limit the liability of PICANTE Media and Events in respect of any:

death or personal injury caused by the negligence of PICANTE Media and Events or its agents, employees or shareholders/owners;
fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of PICANTE Media and Events; or
matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for PICANTE Media and Events to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Reasonableness
By using these websites, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, PICANTE Media and Events has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against PICANTE Media’s employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with these websites.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this disclaimer will protect PICANTE Media’s employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as PICANTE Media and Events.