General
The website always has to be used in accordance with the rights and duties that are mentioned on the website, and the rights and duties that are determined in this disclaimer, the standard sales conditions (that you receive as customer) and the privacy policy. These documents represent our terms of agreement.
The terms and conditions are always valid for us, Pattyn, but also for you, the user. As soon as you use our websites, you recognise and accept that our terms and conditions are applicable.
We can, in exceptional cases, deviate from our terms and conditions. These deviations have to be recorded by letter and accepted by all parties. These deviations only apply as replacement or addition to the clauses they apply to and have no effect on the application of other determinations from the terms and conditions.
Who is Pattyn?
The website www.pattyn.com is an initiative of Pattyn with registered office at Hoge Hul 2 – 8000 Bruges, VAT-number BE 0871.045.944. You can contact us via the contact form on our website or via info@pattyn.com.
About our website
We offer a user-friendly website that is safe for every user. We take all reasonable measures that are necessary to guarantee a good operation, safety and accessibility of our website. Yet we cannot give absolute guarantees, and our measures should be considered as a commitment of means.
The use of the website always happens at own risk. This means that we cannot be held liable for damage that comes from disruptions, interruptions, harmful elements or defects to the website, regardless the existence of a strange origin or force majeure.
We hold the right to limit or disable all access to our website at any time without a warning. We do this exclusively when the circumstances justify this, but this is no absolute condition.
About the content on our website
The content of this website is majorly determined by us, and we use this content with utmost care. This means that we take the necessary measures to keep our website as complete, accurate and actual as possible. Even when content is supplied by third parties. The content on this website can always be changed, supplemented or deleted.
Yet we cannot give guarantees regarding the quality of the information on our website. It is possible that the information is incomplete or insufficiently accurate. Consequently, we are not accountable for (direct and indirect) damage you suffer as a result of the information on our website.
In case certain content on our website violates the ruling law and / or is a violation of the rights of third parties, we ask you to report this as fast as possible so we can take correct actions in order to adjust or delete the content.
Our website contains content that can be downloaded. Every download from our website always happens at own risk. We are not accountable for damage caused by a loss of data or damage of the computer system completely. This falls exclusively under the responsibility of you as a user.
Our website contains hyperlinks to websites or pages of third parties, or can refer indirectly to those websites or pages. The placement of links to these websites or pages implies in no way to an implicit approval of the content or a connection with that website. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for a safe and correct processing of the link and the eventual destination. From the moment the link is clicked, you leave our website and cannot hold us accountable for any damages.
It is possible that other websites do not offer the same guarantees as us. That’s why we advise to carefully read the terms and conditions and the privacy policy of these websites.
About the expectations of you as user
As a user you hold a certain responsibility when using our websites. You should always withhold of actions that can have a negative impact on the operation and safety of our website. The website may not be used to bypass our business model and/or to collect data from other users on a large scale.
It is consequently not allowed to use our website to spread content that causes damage to other users of the website, like the distribution of harmful programs such as viruses, malware, worms, trojans and cancelbots. The distribution of unwanted and/or commercial messages via the websites, like junk mail, spam and chain letters is also covered here.
We reserve the right to take all necessary actions that lead to recovery for us and our users, both judicial as extrajudicial. Only the user is personally and integrally responsible if his or her actions and behaviours damage the website and other users. In that case he must safeguard Pattyn against any damage claim that follows.
Intellectual property
Creativity deserves protection, also our website and its content. This protection is supplied by intellectual property rights and applies to all entitled parties, being Pattyn and third parties. With content we mean the broad category of brands, logos, pictures, video, audio, text, ideas, notes, et cetera. All this content is protected by the copyright, software right, database right, drawing and model right and other applicable (intellectual) property rights. The technical character of our website is protected by the copyright, the software right and database right. Every trade name we use on our website is also protected by the applicable trade name right or brand right.
Every user gets a limited right of access, use and display of our website and its content. This granted right is non-exclusive, non-transferable and only used within a personal, non-commercial framework. We ask our users to not use and/or change something in the, by these right protected things, without permission of the rightful person. Pattyn attaches great importance to her intellectual property rights and has therefore taken all possible measures to ensure the protection. Every infringement on the existing intellectual property rights will be prosecuted.
Processing of personal data
The data you supply can be necessary for the processing and completion of questions, quotations and orders, and drawing up invoices and agreements. Every point of contact requires a minimum of data. Further data can be asked in function of the personalisation of the application or order. Your personal data will be exclusively used in agreement with the privacy policy on our website.
General provisions
We reserve the freedom to change, expand, limit or stop our website and the corresponding services at all time. This can neither be done without any previous notification of the user nor can this cause any form of damage claim.
These terms and conditions (including the general sales conditions) are controlled and interpreted exclusively in agreement with the Belgian law. All disputes that connect with or come from offers of Pattyn, or agreements that are concluded with Pattyn, will be presented to the competent court from the juridical Bruges district.
If the operation or validity of one or more of the above provisions of these terms and conditions come in jeopardy, this won’t affect the validation of the other provisions of this agreement. In such case we have the right to change the concerned provisions in a valid provision of similar effect.