Legal Notices
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF THE ELECTROLUX WEBSITE WELCOME TO THE AB ELECTROLUX
(“ELECTROLUX”) WEBSITE. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE
(“SITE”). THIS SITE MAY BE USED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. BY USING THE SITE
OR DOWNLOADING MATERIALS FROM THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO FOLLOW THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
SET FORTH IN THIS NOTICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO FOLLOW THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DO
NOT USE OR DOWNLOAD MATERIALS FROM THE SITE. BY ACCESSING THE SITE YOU INDICATE YOUR
AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Cookies
AB Electrolux (publ.) uses “cookie” technology to enhance and facilitate your visit
to the Electrolux website. The “cookie” files are sent to your computer and identify
you as a unique user and store your personal preferences and technical information.
We use
- a) Permanent “cookies” (i.e., the cookies remain on your computer until you delete them)
- b) Temporary “cookies” (i.e., the cookies last until you close your browser)
“Cookies” do not themselves contain or reveal any personal information. If you submit
personal information via the Electrolux website information can be linked to the data
stored in the cookies.
If you do not accept AB Electrolux (publ.) use of cookies you may change your browser
settings so that the browser does not accept cookies (instructions on how to change your
browser’s cookie settings should be found in the help section in your web browser. If you
change the settings you will not be able to access certain parts of the Electrolux website.
If you have any questions with regard to our use of cookies, please contact us at webmaster@electrolux.se
License
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, ELECTROLUX grants you a
non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use and display this Site and
the materials thereon. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation
of the Site in any way.
ELECTROLUX authorizes you to view and download the information (“Materials”) at Site
only for your personal, non-commercial use. This authorization is not a transfer of title
in the Materials and copies of the Materials and is subject to the following restrictions:
1) you must retain, on all copies of the Materials downloaded, all copyright and other
proprietary notices contained in the Materials; 2) you may not modify the Materials in any
way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use or communicate
them for any public or commercial purpose; and 3) you must not transfer the Materials to any
other person unless you give them notice of, and they agree to accept, the obligations arising
under these terms and conditions of use. You agree to abide by all additional restrictions
displayed on the Site as it may be updated from time to time. This Site, including all Materials,
is copyrighted and protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You agree to
comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this Site and to prevent any unauthorized
copying of the Materials. Except as expressly provided herein, ELECTROLUX does not grant any
express or implied right to you under any patents, designs, trademarks, copyrights or trade secret
legislation.
User accounts
You might be required to open an account to be able to access certain restricted parts of
the Site. In such event you must complete the registration process by providing us with
complete and accurate information as stated in the applicable registration form. You will
also be required to choose a password and a user name. You are entirely responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely
responsible for any and all activities that occur under said account. You agree to notify
ELECTROLUX immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.
ELECTROLUX will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else
using your password or account.
User warranties
You represent and warrant that you will use the Site in compliance with this Agreement
including the laws and provisions under this Agreement and to comply with all existing and
future Site policies and rules. You agree that you will not use the Site to: (a) transmit
spam or unsolicited communications; (b) pretend to be ELECTROLUX or someone else; (c) forge
headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content
transmitted through the Site; (d) misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
(e) act in a manner that negatively affects other users’ ability to use the Site; (f) engage
in activities that would violate any applicable law, (g) post or transmit any material
which violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others or which is unlawful,
abusive, defamatory, vulgar or otherwise objectionable or which contains any advertising
or solicitation with respect to products or services or (h) collect or store personal data
about other users unless specifically authorized by such users. If you do not comply with
the aforesaid, you may not use the Site, ELECTROLUX shall not be legally bound by this
Agreement, and reserves all its legal rights in relation to such non-compliance.
You further agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless ELECTROLUX, its affiliates and
their respective officers, directors and agents from and against all claims and expenses,
including attorney fees, arising out of the use of this Site.
Changes
ELECTROLUX reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove
any portion of this Agreement in whole or in part, at any time. Changes in this Agreement
will be effective when notice of such change is posted on the Site. Your continued use of
the Site after any change to this Agreement are posted will be considered acceptance of
those changes.
ELECTROLUX may terminate, change, correct any errors or omissions in any portion of the
Site, make any other changes to the Site, the materials and the products, programs,
services or prices (if any) described in the Site, suspend or discontinue any aspect
of the Site, including the availability of any features of the Site, at any time without
notice. ELECTROLUX may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict
your access to parts or the entire Site without notice or liability. ELECTROLUX may
terminate the authorization, rights and license given above at any time and, upon such
termination, you shall immediately destroy all Materials.
Acknowledgement of Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to,
copyright, patents, know-how, confidential information, database rights, and rights in
trademarks and designs (whether registered or unregistered) in the Site are vested in
ELECTROLUX or its licensors. All goodwill and intellectual property rights arising through
the use of such intellectual property rights vested in ELECTROLUX shall inure to ELECTROLUX.
Information provided by you
The Privacy Policy associated with this Site protects any personally identifiable
information you may provide to ELECTROLUX via this Site. However, you should not
send any confidential or proprietary information to ELECTROLUX via the Site. You
agree that any information or materials that you or individuals acting on your behalf
provide to ELECTROLUX will not be considered confidential or proprietary. By
providing any such information or materials to ELECTROLUX, you fully assign and
transfer to ELECTROLUX all intellectual property rights in and to such information
and materials and ELECTROLUX is thereby free to use, reproduce, display, publicly
perform, transmit, distribute, modify assign, and license such information and
materials, and you further agree that ELECTROLUX is free to use any ideas, concepts
or know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to ELECTROLUX.
You further warrant that you shall not provide any information or materials to
ELECTROLUX that is defamatory, threatening, obscene, harassing, or otherwise unlawful
under whatever applicable law, or that incorporates the proprietary material of
another. ELECTROLUX reserves the right to, in its sole discretion, remove any
information provided by you from the Site.
Security
You may not: (a) use any device or software capable of interfering with the operation
of the Site; or (b) take any action, which imposes a disproportionately large or
unreasonable load upon the infrastructure of the Site (such as sending mass emails - “spamming”),
or (c) interfere or tamper with the software of the Site or the functionality thereof.
This includes putting material on the Site, which is infected with viruses, Trojan horses,
time bombs or other elements that may damage or interfere with the programming structure
of the Site.
Third Party web sites.
ELECTROLUX does not undertake to monitor or review Third Party Site Content nor is ELECTROLUX
responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any such third party web sites. Furthermore,
ELECTROLUX may provide on this Site links to Web Sites operated by other entities. If you use
these Sites, you will leave this Site. If you visit any linked Site, you do so at your own
risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses
or other destructive elements. ELECTROLUX makes no warranty or representation regarding any
linked Web Sites or the information appearing thereon or any of the products or services
described thereon. Links do not imply that ELECTROLUX or this Site sponsors, endorses, is
affiliated or associated with, or is legally authorized to use any trademark, trade name,
logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible through the links, or that any linked
Site is authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol of ELECTROLUX
or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries.
External links to the Site
All links to the Site must be approved in writing by ELECTROLUX, except that ELECTROLUX
consents to links in which: (i) the link is a text-only link containing only the name “ELECTROLUX”
and does not contain any of ELECTROLUX or its licensor’s proprietary trademarks; (ii) the link
“points” only to www.electrolux.com and not to deeper pages;(iii) the link, when activated by a
user, displays that page full-screen in a fully operable and navigable browser window and not
within a “frame” on the linked web Site; and (iv) the appearance, position, and other aspects of
the link may neither create the false appearance that an entity or its activities or products
are associated with or sponsored by ELECTROLUX nor be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill
associated with the name and trademarks of ELECTROLUX or its Affiliates. ELECTROLUX reserves
the right to revoke this consent to link at any time in its sole discretion.
Exclusion of implied warranties.
Although care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on this Site, ELECTROLUX
assumes no responsibility therefore. THE MATERIALS MAY CONTAIN INACCURACIES AND TYPOGRAPHICAL
ERRORS. ELECTROLUX DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE MATERIALS OR THE RELIABILITY
OF ANY ADVICE, OPINION, STATEMENT OR OTHER INFORMATION DISPLAYED OR DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE SITE.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ANY RELIANCE ON ANY SUCH OPINION, ADVICE, STATEMENT, MEMORANDUM, OR INFORMATION
SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ALL CONTENT IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. ELECTROLUX EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR
AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE CONTENT. ELECTROLUX DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS
AS TO THE SECURITY OF THIS WEBSITE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE ANY INFORMATION SENT MAY BE INTERCEPTED. ELECTROLUX
DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVERS WHICH MAKE THIS SITE AVAILABLE OR ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS SENT BY ELECTROLUX ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER HARMFUL ELEMENTS. ALL SUCH
REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS ARE EXCLUDED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT LAW PROHIBITS THEIR
EXCLUSION.
Limitation of liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL ELECTROLUX BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES
FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS, CONTRACT, REVENUE, DATA, INFORMATION OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
RESULTING FROM, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO
USE THIS SITE OR THE CONTENT OR OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, EVEN
IF ELECTROLUX HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ADDITION TO
THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN, IN NO EVENT SHALL ELECTROLUX BE LIABLE FOR ANY ERRORS,
INACCURACIES, OMISSIONS OR OTHER DEFECTS OR UNTIMELINESS OR UNAUTHENTICITY OF ANY
INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS SITE.
Duty to mitigate losses.
Without prejudice to limitation of liability set forth herein, you shall take all
reasonable steps to mitigate your loss arising in relation to any claim or action
(whether for negligence, breach of contract or otherwise), which you may bring
against ELECTROLUX.
Notices
All references to “writing”, “notices”, and “notification” and all similar ends
related expressions shall cover electronic methods of communication (for instance,
e-mail) provided that the party relying on the communication retains acceptable
evidence that the communication was sent and received.
Exclusive remedy
If ELECTROLUX does not comply with its undertakings under this Agreement, it shall
either correct the non-compliance or, at its option, terminate this Agreement
by prior notice, posted on this web site, to you. To the maximum extent permitted
by law, this clause expresses your sole and exclusive remedy in relation to
non-compliance by ELECTROLUX.
Whole agreement and severability
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between ELECTROLUX and you with
respect to your use of the Site. Any cause of action you may have with respect to
your use of the Site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause
of action arises. If for any reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any
provision of the Agreement or portion thereof, to be unenforceable, that provision
shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to affect the intent of
the Agreement, and the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and
effect.
Third Party rights.
Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, a person who is not a party to this
Agreement may not enforce any of its terms.
Jurisdiction Statement.
This Site is controlled, operated and administered by ELECTROLUX from its offices
in Sweden. ELECTROLUX makes no representation that materials at this Site are
appropriate or available for use at other locations outside of Sweden and access
to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. If you
access this Site from locations outside of Sweden, you are responsible for compliance
with all local laws. The laws of the Kingdom of Sweden shall govern this Agreement,
without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions. The Stockholm District Court
shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance on any dispute arising from
this Agreement.