Terms and conditions

1. Recitals

Welcome to the site www.bialetti.com, the official online store of Bialetti Store S.r.l. (hereinafter the "Site"). The Site is managed and maintained by Bialetti Industrie S.p.A., having its registered office in Coccaglio, via Fogliano 1, tax code, VAT number and registration number with the Companies Register of Brescia 03032320248, in its capacity as parent company of Bialetti Store S.r.l., as well as by latter, having its registered office in Coccaglio, via Fogliano 1, tax code, VAT number and registration number with the Companies Register of Brescia 02623040983 and by the suppliers/business partners of Bialetti Industrie S.p.A. and Bialetti Store S.r.l. (hereinafter jointly referred to as the "Operators").

Access to and use of the Site are subject to these General Terms and Conditions of Use (hereinafter the "General Conditions"). Before accessing and using the Site, or purchasing products, the user is required to read and be aware of and accept these General Conditions and the General Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Should you not agree with the General Conditions of the Website, in whole or in part, please do not use our website.

Anyone who accesses and uses the Site expressly agrees not to use the Site for illegal purposes or, in any case, any use in violation of any applicable legal provision.

The Operators may modify or simply update these General Conditions, in whole or in part. Users will be informed on modifications and updates to the General Conditions on the Homepage of the Site as soon as they become effective, and the said General Conditions will be binding once they have been published on the Site, in this section.

If a clause of these General Conditions is considered unlawful, null or invalid, for any reason whatsoever, the invalidity or ineffectiveness thereof will not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining provisions.

2. Content of the Site

Access to and use of the Site, including view of the web pages, communications with the Operators, download of information about products and purchase of the said products on the Site are activities carried out by our users, exclusively for personal purposes and are not related to any commercial, entrepreneurial and professional activity.

The Site presents hypertext links (hereinafter the "links") to other websites that have no connection with our Site. The Operators do not control or monitor said websites and the content thereof. The Operators shall not be held liable for the content of said websites and the rules adopted therein in terms of your privacy and the processing of your personal data while you are browsing. Please therefore take the necessary precautions when connecting to these websites through the links on the Site and read the conditions of use and privacy policies thereof. These General Conditions and the Privacy Policy do not apply to websites managed by parties other than the Operators. The Site provides links to other websites merely to help users browse and search the web and facilitate hyperlinks to other sites. Activation of links does not entail any recommendation or report by the Operators on access to and browsing the said sites, nor entails any guarantee about the content thereof nor the services or goods provided or sold by the said sites to Internet users.

3. Limitation of liability

By accessing the site, you will be exclusively liable for the use of the Site and the content thereof. The Operators shall not be held liable for the use of the Website and any contents not compliant with the applicable legislation, by any of its users, except that the Operators may be held liable in the case of willful misconduct and gross negligence. In particular, you will be solely liable for the communication of incorrect or false information and data relating to third parties, without the express consent thereof, and the improper use of said information and data.

Finally, since that material will be downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of a service selected at the user's own risk, the user will be exclusively liable for any damage to its IT systems or any loss of data resulting from the said download of material, for which the Operators shall not be held liable. The Operators also disclaim any and all liability for any damage resulting from services on the website not being accessible or damage caused by viruses, corrupted files, errors, omissions, interruptions of service, erasure of content, problems with the network, providers, or telephone and/or Internet connections, unauthorized access, alteration of data, or failure and/or malfunction of the user's electronic equipment.

The user is responsible for the correct storage and use of his or her personal data, including the log-in details used to access personal services, and for any detrimental consequences or damage caused to the Operators or third parties due to the improper use, loss, or theft of said information.

4. Privacy Policy

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully – in order to understand how the Site collects and uses your personal data and for what purposes - that is also applicable to users who merely access the Site and use the related services, including if they do not purchase any product.

5. Intellectual property rights

All the contents, in any format, published on the Site, including web pages, graphic design, colors, schemes, tools, features and design of the Site, diagrams, layouts, methods, processes, functions and software related to the Site, are protected by copyrights and other intellectual property rights held by the Operators and other title holders. No part of this Site and the content thereof may be reproduced in any way without the express written consent of the Operators, who have the exclusive right to authorize or forbid any direct or indirect, temporary or permanent, reproduction, in any way or form, in whole or in part, of the Site and the content thereof. As regards the use of the Website, you are exclusively authorized to:

(i) visualize the Site and the contents thereof;
(ii) perform any other action of temporary reproduction that are economically irrelevant, which are transient or ancillary and an integral and essential part of the view of the Site and the content thereof;
(iii) browse the Site, only for the purpose of making legal use of the Site and the content thereof.

Any additional action of reproduction should be authorized from time to time by the Operators or, if necessary, by the authors of the individual works available on the Site. Such actions of reproduction shall in any case be performed for lawful purposes and in compliance with copyrights and other intellectual property rights of the Operators and the authors of the individual works available on the Site. The authors of the single works published on the Site may, at any time claim authorship of their work, and object to any alteration, editing or other changes in said works, including any action that may be detrimental to the works, and may sully the image and reputation thereof. You agree to respect the copyright of the artists who have chosen to publish their works on the Site or cooperated with the Site to create new expressive and artistic works for publication, including not exclusively on the Site, or, that are an integral part thereof. You are, in any case, not authorized to use, in any way and form, the content of the Site and any single work protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. For example, you may not alter or otherwise modify the protected contents and works without the consent of the Operators, where necessary, of the individual authors of the works published on the Site.

6. Applicable law

These General Conditions are governed by the Italian law and shall be interpreted pursuant to the same, including, for example, any dispute concerning the existence, validity and effectiveness of the General Conditions and any other agreement that refer thereto.

If you are a consumer, for the legal relationships governed by these General Conditions, please refer in particular to Legislative Decree No. 206 of 6 September 2005, introducing the "Consumer Code", as subsequently amended or supplemented.