Disclaimer

This disclaimer applies to your use of this website. You should read this important information carefully before continuing to use the website.

1. General

  1. You are visiting a What's Cooking? website (What's Cooking Group NV/SA - KBO 0421.364.139, with registered office at Beke 1, 9950 Lievegem - Belgium) (hereinafter referred to as "What's Cooking?"). 

  2. These terms and conditions apply exclusively to the website available at https://www.whatscooking.group and to your access and/or use thereof.   

This website may contain or refer in any way to hyperlinks to other websites, applications or web pages of third parties. What's Cooking? has no control over the content or other characteristics of these websites, applications or web pages and is in no case and in no way liable for their content or characteristics and provides no guarantee in this respect. The placing of links in or on this website by What's Cooking? in no way implies an implicit approval of the content of these websites, applications or web pages.  

These terms of use do not apply to the content or use of these websites, applications or web pages and do not in any way cover the usage policies of other service providers you may make use of on or through this website. 

  1. By visiting/using this website, you agree to these terms of use. These terms of use apply without prejudice to our privacy policy on the processing of personal data on or via the website, available at Privacy policy

  2. We reserve the right to amend these terms of use at any time. These changes will apply to your access to and/or use of this website following such change(s). Continued use of the website will be deemed acceptance of the amended or new terms. 

2. Use of the website 

  1. You acknowledge and agree to use this website in good faith and accept that you are responsible and liable for any use of it (e.g. when completing the contact form on the website). 

  2. You are obliged to use the website only for legitimate purposes. The information that you may post yourself on the website (e.g. when filling in web or contact forms) must be complete, correct, concrete and reasonably relevant, may not contain any viruses or other malware that may cause technical errors or unauthorized interventions on the website or be harmful in any way to What's Cooking?'s systems and/or (personal) data belonging to you or other users of the website, may not violate applicable (Belgian and European) legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter: "GDPR") and Book VI Economic Law Code and may not infringe any third party rights, including but not limited to intellectual property rights. You must indemnify What's Cooking? in principal, interest and (court and lawyer's) costs against any claim in this respect.  

  3. You must have a decent and stable internet connection and high-performance hardware and software suitable for (the services of) the website. You must also have sufficiently adequate and recent anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall protection on your systems. 
     

  4. In the event that the systems of What's Cooking?, its partners, service providers, suppliers and/or other users or website visitors suffer damage as a result of the exchange of computer viruses or other harmful files, only you shall have full and unlimited liability vis-à-vis What's Cooking? and you will indemnify What's Cooking? in full, without limitation, in principal sum, interest and (legal and solicitor's) costs against any claims from third parties (including partners, service providers, suppliers and users/website visitors of What's Cooking?) who may suffer damage as a result. 

  5. What's Cooking? is entitled, unilaterally and without prior notice of default, to deny you access to the website (or a part thereof), namely in the event that you in any way fail to comply with the current terms and conditions of use, the privacy policy and/or other What's Cooking? policies. In such case, What's Cooking? is in no way liable for any damage you may suffer as a result. 

3. Information and content - availability 

  1. What's Cooking? endeavours to ensure that all information and content on the website, in the broadest sense of the word, including photographs, video files, texts, descriptions, etc., is correct, complete and up-to-date. Despite our efforts, inaccuracies may occur for which What's Cooking? does not accept any liability 

  2. What's Cooking? endeavours to ensure that the website is accessible and available 24 hours a day but cannot guarantee this. What's Cooking? cannot exclude that breakdowns, interruptions or technical faults may occur which limit or prevent access to the website. 

  3. What's Cooking? reserves the right to remove, change, improve and/or update the content, information, presentation, accessibility and/or availability of any part of this website at any time. 

4. Processing of personal data 

What's Cooking? cares about your privacy and acts in accordance with the applicable legislation on the protection of personal data (including the GDPR). The processing of your data by What's Cooking? on or via the website is subject to our privacy policy, available at: Privacy policy

5. Intellectual property 

  1. This website, parts thereof and all information and/or content on, connected to and/or generated by the website, including but not limited to all texts, images, logos, graphics, formulas, video files, sound files, HTML codes, software, databases, the design or any other creation, content or information on or related to the website, are the exclusive intellectual property of What's Cooking? or its licensors. 

    In other words, you are at all times prohibited from reproducing or communicating the website (or parts thereof), including all information attached to or generated by the website and/or its content, to the public in any way whatsoever without the prior written consent of What's Cooking? or its licensors.  

  2. Nothing in these terms and conditions of use may be interpreted as constituting a transfer or licence of or in respect of the intellectual property rights of What's Cooking? or its licensors to you. 

  3. You acknowledge and accept that the information or content on the website may be subject to protection by (intellectual property) rights of third parties. You declare that you will respect these rights and indemnify What's Cooking? in full, in principal, interest and (legal and solicitor's) costs for any infringements of these rights committed by you. 

6. Liability 

  1. What's Cooking? is in no way liable for: 

    • damage of whatever nature resulting from or related to the use of the information on this website; 

    • the quality, completeness, accuracy, suitability, availability or form of the information on or generated by the website or by other (external) websites or applications referred to via (even permitted) hyperlinks on the website; 

    • (damage resulting from) any decision made or action taken by you based on the content or information on the website;  

    • possible breakdowns, interruptions, technical errors, wrong technical manoeuvres, unauthorised interventions (including hackers), viruses, etc. on the website; 

    • (the functioning and/or availability of) third-party software and/or applications or the consequences thereof for the use of the website;  

    • indirect, indirect or consequential damages (including but not limited to loss of time, loss of an opportunity, loss of profits, loss of revenue, emotional damage etc.); 

    • minor fault other than wilful misconduct or serious misconduct equivalent to wilful misconduct;  

    • cases of force majeure. 

  2. What's Cooking? can under no circumstances be held jointly and severally or in solidum with third parties to compensate any damage. 

  3. You must indemnify What's Cooking? in full against all claims from third parties in connection with or in any way resulting from your visit and/or use of this website. 

7. Complaints

Complaints arising from the use of this website or the application of these terms and conditions of use can be reported to What's Cooking? via this web form: https://www.whatscooking.group/en-GB/contact

8. Applicable law 

  1. This disclaimer is exclusively governed by Belgian law. 

  2. Any dispute which may arise concerning (the interpretation or application of) these terms of use or arising from any use of this website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ghent, department(s) of Ghent.