These general terms and conditions of use in combination with currently applicable legislation govern access to and navigation on the website of Kingchefs Community (hereinafter the “Kingchefs website”). Users are requested to read these general terms and conditions of use carefully before using the Kingchefs website. By using the Kingchefs website, users agree to be bound by the general terms and conditions of use as displayed on the site at the moment they access it. Failure to accept these terms and conditions will mean that use of the Kingchefs website is forbidden.
Within these general terms and conditions of use, “Kingchefs” shall refer to the Kingchefs Community, its subsidiaries and other associated or contracting companies. These general terms and conditions of use shall apply alongside the general terms and conditions of sale, any specific terms and conditions and the purchase order covering the products and services offered by Kingchefs.
Kingchefs shall not be responsible for the correctness, exhaustiveness or up-to-date nature of the data and/or programs, information or content (the “Information”) available on the Kingchefs website. The Information is provided “as is” without any express or implied warranty, including but not limited to warranties as to the possibility of sale, fitness for purpose and absence of breach of the intellectual property of third parties.
Under no circumstances may Kingchefs or its associated companies be held liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or other loss or damage caused by the use of or reliance on the Information located on the Kingchefs website or on any other website to which that site forwards, including but not limited to failure to make a gain, interruption to business and loss of programs or other data, even where Kingchefs has expressly warned of the risk of such loss or damage.
Users shall be responsible for any content they place on the Kingchefs website.
Users undertake to refrain from placing any content on the Kingchefs website that:
- is liable to constitute a breach of public order or to breach legal provisions, including those against defamation, the protection of minors, and minorities;
- is pornographic or degrading in nature;
- breaches the rights of third parties, including any intellectual property rights, copyrights, or the right to privacy, or that belittles or denigrates the activities or reputation of an advertiser or of any company.
Kingchefs may therefore not be held liable for the content of any messages or information posted by users or for the content of the information of third parties online, even if that information is accessible via the Kingchefs website. However, Kingchefs reserves the right (which it may exercise at its free and unfettered discretion) to examine, modify or delete any content that Kingchefs considers to be illegal, defamatory, derogatory, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.
Via hypertext links or other links, users can access other websites that are not part of the Kingchefs website. Kingchefs may not be held liable and extends no warranty in respect of the websites that users can access from the Kingchefs website. By accessing a website that does not form part of the Kingchefs website, users acknowledge and accept that Kingchefs has no control over any content and information on that website. Users are responsible for protecting their computer equipment against viruses, worms Trojan horses and all other elements of a destructive nature.
Kingchefs products and services, together with any content referred to on the Kingchefs website and all elements of the Kingchefs Community’s visual identity, are registered trademarks, protected by intellectual and industrial property rights held by Kingchefs or its associated companies. Similarly, the products, services and company names mentioned on the Kingchefs website are protected by intellectual and industrial property rights. These elements may not be used without the express written permission of Kingchefs.
Gathering content and information from the Kingchefs website through the use of robots or any other means is prohibited.
Kingchefs shall be entitled to modify these general terms and conditions of use at any time, without informing the user. The updated version of the general terms and conditions of use shall come into effect at the moment it is displayed on the Kingchefs website and users shall be deemed to have accepted the latest version displayed by virtue of using the Kingchefs website. Users therefore accept to consult the Kingchefs website on a regular basis.
The reproduction, modification or distribution of any or all of the Kingchefs website in any form and in any manner whatsoever is prohibited without the express, written permission of Kingchefs.
Creating a user account
Some sections of the Kingchefs website are accessible solely to users having created a user account to enable them to benefit from Kingchefs’ services. As part of the creation of their user account, users must provide a certain amount of information about themselves and must choose a username and password. Users undertake to provide full, accurate and up-to-date information, and to make any necessary modifications to that information to ensure it remains up-to-date. Kingchefs reserves the right to suspend or withhold permanently the use of Kingchefs services if any piece of information provided by a user proves to be inaccurate, incomplete or not up-to-date. Users are solely responsible for keeping their password confidential. Users acknowledge and accept that their account is strictly personal and that communicating their password to third parties is prohibited. Users are wholly liable for any use of their usernames and passwords, whether or not they have authorised that use. Users undertake to inform Kingchefs immediately of any unauthorised use of their usernames and passwords. If they fail to inform Kingchefs of this, they may access solely those parts of the Kingchefs website that do not require the creation of a user account.
Cookies & Form
Cookies: One or more “cookies” will be stored on the hard disk of all computers connected to the Kingchefs website. A “cookie” is a small file sent by a server consulted by a user and saved on the user’s hard disk.
The “cookies” sent by the Kingchefs website are not designed to identify the persons connecting to it. “Cookies” are in no way intended to be used to make use of nominative personal data concerning the persons connected to the website/the application.
In particular, we measure the number of pages viewed, the number of visits, and the activity of visitors on the website and their return frequency, via the internal solutions of Kingchefs and its partners. Persons connecting to the Kingchefs website may also elect not to have “cookies” stored on their hard disk by modifying the options of their software and their internet navigation on their computer.
Some pages of the Kingchefs website require personal identifying information to be communicated for the purpose of ordering a product or a service or for registering with Kingchefs. In this regard, users are encouraged to fill out a form on the Kingchefs website when creating their user account and return that form to Kingchefs via the website.
Kingchefs will collect this personal identifying information for the purpose of performing commercial transactions.
Description of Kingchefs’ services
The Kingchefs information service is a service providing information on foodservice industry. It is managed centrally by Kingchefs Community and comprises the communication of data and information compiled and organised via a method designed by Kingchefs (hereinafter the “Kingchefs data”) together with other associated information and services. The Kingchefs information service is available as a search engine on the Kingchefs website. The Kingchefs information service includes information on the products and/or services of third parties and may grant access to information and services provided by third parties.
In addition to the corporate/product indexing service, the Kingchefs package also provides access to advertising/visibility services.
Kingchefs property
Users acknowledge that the data of Kingchefs constitutes a rich ensemble of information and the copyrights, trademarks and all other intellectual and industrial property rights in Kingchefs services and Kingchefs data remain the property of Kingchefs or of its franchises/partners, as appropriate, or of third parties for content provided by such third parties. User may not modify or delete the symbols for copyright or other identifying marks taken from the Kingchefs visual identity, or any information concerning property rights to Kingchefs data.
Kingchefs information sources
Kingchefs invests in data collection every year. Our main sources of information are the owners or managers of foodservice companies, restaurant equipment and supply manufacturers, distributers and retailers.
Kingchefs data quality
Kingchefs takes adequate measures to guarantee the quality of its service, including contacting companies directly and performing a quality control process when gathering Kingchefs data, above and beyond the quality control at the end of the collection process.
Kingchefs has a company policy and written procedures governing the gathering, reliability, quality, updating and communication to third parties of Kingchefs data. Our employees are governed by strict confidentiality rules. Kingchefs also places great stead in the professional secrecy to which some professions are subjected.
Procedure for access and correction by community members
Where the community member contacts Kingchefs regarding a potential error on this website, we will act quickly to correct that error or misleading information as soon as we are informed of it.
Data protection and Freedoms
In accordance with Law 78-17 of 16 June 1978 as amended on data protection, files and freedoms, real persons shall have the right to access, oppose and amend data and information concerning them by contacting our department at the following address: [email protected].
Kingchefs gathers information and date on real persons as part of the creation of user accounts, for sales administration purposes.
Personal data collected as part of the creation of CLIENT user accounts for sales administration purposes may be used by Kingchefs and its partners for commercial purposes, within the limits imposed by applicable legislation, such as by informing you of new products and services from Kingchefs and/or its affiliated companies or of any change to existing products and services. Any real persons concerned may exercise their right to object to their data being used for canvassing purposes at any time by contacting the department stipulated in the paragraph above.
Paid service and payment
Get your company profile and products indexed in Kingchefs database is free of charge. However, submitting all the information to the database is time-consuming and err-prone, especially if you have too many products. In this case, you can contact us to input and import all the information for a paid service.