General Terms and Conditions of Use
Welcome to our web site ("shoescribe.com"). These General Terms and Conditions of Use govern the access to and use of shoescribe.com. The access to and use of this web site as well as the purchase of products on shoescribe.com are based on the assumption that these General Terms and Conditions of Use have been read, understood and accepted by you.This website is managed and maintained by YOOX S.p.A. ("YOOX"), with registered office in Italy at Via Nannetti 1, 40069, Zola Predosa (Bologna), business register number, tax code and VAT number 02050461207, fully paid share capital of EUR 570,544.00.
If you need any assistance, go to the Customer Care area, where you will find information on orders, shipping, on refunds and returning products purchased on shoescribe.com, a registration form, tips and other general information on the services provided by shoescribe.com. Remember that you can always contact YOOX by e-mail: info@shoescribe.com
For any other legal information, go to the sections: General Terms and Conditions of Sale, Return Policy and Privacy Policy of shoescribe.com.
YOOX may amend or simply update all or part of these General Terms and Conditions of Use. Any amendment or update to the General Terms and Conditions of Use shall be posted for our users on the Home Page of shoescribe.com as soon as such amendments or updates have been made and shall be binding as soon as they are published on the web site in this section.
Therefore, you should regularly access this section on the web site in order to check the publication of the most recent and updated General Terms and Conditions of Use of shoescribe.com. If you do not agree to all or part of YOOX's General Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not use our web site.
The access to and use of shoescribe.com, including display of web pages, communication with YOOX, downloading product information and making purchases on the web site, are carried out by our users exclusively for personal purposes, which should in no way be connected to any trade, business or professional activity.
Remember that you will be liable for your use of shoescribe.com and its contents. YOOX shall not be considered liable for any use of the web site and its contents made by any of its users that is not compliant with the laws and regulations in force, without prejudice to YOOX's liability for intentional torts and gross negligence.
In particular, you will be liable for communicating information or data which is not correct, false or concerning third parties (in the event such third parties have not given their consent), as well as for any improper use of such data or information.
1. Privacy Policy
We recommend that you read the Privacy Policy which also applies in the event that users access to shoescribe.com and use the relevant services without making purchases. The Privacy Policy will help you understand how and for what purposes shoescribe.com collects and uses your personal data.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
shoescribe.com's contents, including but not limited to, works, images, pictures, dialogues, music, sounds, videos, documents, drawings, figures, logos and any other material posted on shoescribe.com in any format, including menus, web pages, graphics, colours, schemes, tools, fonts, design of the web site, diagrams, layouts, methods, processes, functions and software which are part of shoescribe.com, are protected by copyright and by any other intellectual property right of YOOX and of the relevant right-holders. The reproduction, wholly or in part, in any form whatsoever, of shoescribe.com and of its contents is not allowed without YOOX's written consent.
YOOX has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any reproduction (whether direct and indirect, temporary or permanent or by any other mean or in any form, in whole or in part) of shoescribe.com and its contents.
As far as the use of shoescribe.com is concerned, you are only authorised to display the web site and its contents.
You are also authorised to carry out all the other temporary acts of reproduction which are transient or incidental and an integral and essential part of displaying shoescribe.com and its contents and which have no independent economic significance. You are also authorised to surf on the web site for the lawful use of shoescribe.com and its contents.
You are not authorised to reproduce by any means or in any form, in whole and in part, shoescribe.com and its contents. Any reproduction must be authorised from time to time by YOOX or, if necessary, by the authors of the work posted on the web site. Such reproductions shall be carried out for lawful purposes and in compliance with copyright and the other intellectual property rights of YOOX and of the authors of the works posted on the web site.
The authors of works posted on shoescribe.com are at any time entitled to claim the authorship of their work and to object to any distortion or any other modification of the works, including any damage to the works which may prejudice the honour and reputation of the authors.
You undertake to comply with the copyright of the authors who chose to publish their work on shoescribe.com or have cooperated with shoescribe.com in the creation of new expressive and artistic works which are intended for publication, not exclusively on the web site, or which are an integral part of the web site.
In any event, you are not authorised to use, in any manner or form whatsoever, the contents of the web site or any single work protected by copyright or any other intellectual property right. By way of example, you must not alter or modify the web contents or any work protected by copyright and by any other intellectual property right without YOOX's consent and without the consent, where necessary, of each author of the works posted on shoescribe.com.
3. Trademarks and Domain Names
YOOX is the exclusive owner of the logos and registered trademarks "Yoox" and "shoescribe.com" and of any other sign which includes the word "YOOX" and the domain name "shoescribe.com".
All of the other signs which are used for distinguishing the products sold on shoescribe.com posted on the web site are registered trademarks of the respective owners and are used on shoescribe.com only for the purpose of distinguishing, describing and advertising the products sold on shoescribe.com.
YOOX and all of the other owners of registered trademarks are entitled to the exclusive use of the trademarks respectively owned.
You are not authorised, without the consent of YOOX and of any other owner of the registered trademarks posted on the web site, to use such trademarks for distinguishing products or services.
Most of the trademarks posted on the web site and concerning the products for sale on shoescribe.com are famous and well known to the general public and to each user of shoescribe.com.
Any unlawful or unauthorised use of such trademarks is prohibited and gives rise to serious legal consequences. Such trademarks and any other sign posted on shoescribe.com must in no way be used in order to obtain undue advantage from the distinctive character or reputation of these trademarks or in such a way as to damage them and their owners.
4. Links to Other Web Sites
shoescribe.com contains links to other web sites which are in no way connected to shoescribe.com or YOOX.
YOOX does not control or monitor such third party web sites or their contents. YOOX shall not be held liable for the contents of such sites and/or for the rules adopted by them in respect of, but not limited to, your privacy and the processing of your personal data when you are visiting those web sites.
Please, pay attention when you access these web sites through the links provided on shoescribe.com and carefully read their terms and conditions of use and their privacy policies. Our General Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy do not apply to the web sites of third parties.
shoescribe.com provides links to other web sites exclusively to help its users in searching and surfing the Internet and to allow links to web sites on the Internet.
When YOOX provides links to other web sites, YOOX does not reccomend that to its users access these web sites and it does not provide any guarantees to their web content or to services and products supplied and sold by these web sites to Internet users.
5. Links to shoescribe.com
Please, contact YOOX at the following e-mail address webmarketing@yoox.com if you are interested in linking the home page of shoescribe.com and other web pages which can be publicly accessible. You are requested to contact YOOX for requesting our consent to linking shoescribe.com. YOOX grants links to shoescribe.com free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis.
YOOX is entitled to object to certain links to its web site in the event that the applicant who intends to activate links to shoescribe.com has, in the past, adopted unfair commercial or business practices which are not generally adopted or accepted by the market operators, or has made unfair competition activities vis-à-vis YOOX or the latter's suppliers, or when YOOX fears that such practices or such activities might be adopted by the applicant in the future. In any event, it is forbidden to post deep links (such as deep frames) to shoescribe.com or to use unauthorised meta-tags without YOOX's consent.
6. Disclaimers on Content
YOOX has made all efforts to prevent the publication on its web site of content describing or representing situations of physical or psychological violence or which, according to the sensitivity of shoescribe.com's users, might be deemed to violate civil beliefs or human rights and dignity, in all its forms and expressions.
In any event, YOOX does not warrant that the contents of the web site are appropriate or lawful in other Countries outside Italy.
However, in the event that such contents are deemed to be unlawful or illegal in some of these Countries, please do not access our web site and, where you nonetheless choose to access it, we hereby inform you your use of the services provided by shoescribe.com shall be your exclusive and personal responsibility.
YOOX has also adopted measures to ensure that the content of shoescribe.com is accurate and does not contain any incorrect or out-of-date information.
However, YOOX cannot be held liable for the accuracy and completeness of the content posted by YOOX on its web site, except for its liability for tort and gross negligence and as otherwise provided for by the law.
Moreover, YOOX cannot guarantee that the web site will operate continuously, without any interruptions and errors due to the connection to the Internet. In the event of any problem in using our web site please contact us by visiting our Customer Care area, or write to the following e-mail address: info@shoescribe.com. A YOOX representative will be at your disposal to assist and help you to restore your access to the web site, as far as possible.
At the same time, please contact your Internet services provider or check that each device for Internet connection and access to web content is correctly activated, including your Internet browser.
Although YOOX shall use its best efforts to ensure regular access to its web site, the dynamic nature of the Internet and web content may not allow shoescribe.com to operate without any suspensions, interruptions or discontinuity due to updating the web site.
YOOX has adopted adequate technical and organisational security measures to protect services on shoescribe.com, integrity of traffic data and electronic communications in order to prevent unauthorised use of or access to data, as well as to prevent risks of dissemination, destruction and loss of data and confidential/non confidential information regarding users of shoescribe.com, and to avoid unauthorised or unlawful access to such data and information.
7. Our Business Policy
YOOX has adopted a business policy; its mission consists of selling products through its services and its web site to "consumer" only. "Consumer" shall mean any natural person who is acting on shoescribe.com for purposes which are outside his or her trade, business or professional activity (if any).
If you are not a consumer, please do not use our services for purchasing products on shoescribe.com. YOOX shall be entitled to object to the processing of purchase orders from persons other than consumers and to any other purchase order which does not comply with the General Terms and Conditions of Sale and these General Terms and Conditions of Use.
8. Governing Law
These General Terms and Conditions of Use are governed by Italian law.