Cow & Gate

Terms and Conditions

Please read these terms of use carefully. If you proceed to use this Site, you are agreeing to these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, please refrain from using this Site. This Site is operated by Cow and Gate. Access to this Site is permitted on a temporary basis, and Cow and Gate reserves the right to withdraw or amend the Site without notice (see below). Cow and Gate will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

1. This site is produced by Cow and Gate for your information, education and communication. Please feel free to browse this site.
2. The site and its contents are designed to comply with Irish laws and regulations and are intended for use by Irish residents only. Cow and Gate makes no warranty or representation that any information contained in this site is relevant or appropriate to other locations.
3. This site offers you the option of viewing information about Cow and Gate infant milks. If you choose to view this information you are accepting that Cow and Gate is supplying this information at your individual request for information and education purposes only. Cow and Gate makes no warranty or representation as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of such information.
4. Use of this site is at your own risk. Neither Cow and Gate or any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the site is liable (to the fullest extent permitted by law) for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive loss or damages, loss of income or revenue, loss of profits or contracts, loss of data or any other loss arising out of your access to, or use of, the site. This includes damage to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment. This does not affect Cow and Gate liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence, for fraudulent misrepresentation or any liability that by law cannot be excluded. Without limiting the foregoing everything on the site is provided to you 'as is' without any warranties as to merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement or otherwise. All warranties, conditions, representations, undertakings, obligations and terms (express or implied by statute, common law, course of dealing or otherwise) are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties so check your local laws.
5. The copyright to the contents of this site and all other intellectual property rights in this site belongs to Cow and Gate. All rights are reserved. Users may download materials for their own personal, non-commercial use, provided all copyright and other proprietary notices are kept intact. The copying, redistribution, re-posting, publication, adaptation or alteration of any part of this site for any public or commercial purposes is prohibited without written prior permission from Cow and Gate.
6. The trademarks, logos, characters and service marks (collectively the 'Trademarks') displayed on the site are registered or unregistered trademarks of Cow and Gate. Nothing contained in this site grants or should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right in and to the trademarks without the express written permission of Cow and Gate. Your use of the Trademarks and contents of the site, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited. You are advised that Cow and Gate will aggressively enforce their intellectual property rights in the site and its contents to the fullest extent of the law, including seeking criminal sanctions.
7. Images of people or places displayed on the site are either the property of, or used with permission by, Cow and Gate. The use of these images by you is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms and Conditions or by specific permission elsewhere on the site. Unauthorised use of images may violate copyright, trademark, privacy and/or publicity laws as well as communications regulations and statutes.
8. The content and general health information presented in this site is for information, education and communication purposes only and is not intended to be used for diagnostic treatment or other purposes. Cow and Gate disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from reliance on the information for any purpose. Please consult your doctor or family member's doctor for medical advice.
9. Personal information voluntarily submitted to Cow and Gate via the site, such as interactive registration, may be used by Cow and Gate. Please see our Privacy Statement for details of such use.
10. Any communication or material which you transmit to Cow and Gate through this website or otherwise via the Internet will be treated as confidential. Any communications and other material which you send to Cow and Gate are and shall remain the property of Cow and Gate and may be used for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise without compensation.
11. This site may contain links to other sites. Cow and Gate is not responsible for the content of any other site or for on-going review of other sites. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by Cow and Gate. Cow and Gate is not responisble for these websites or their content of their availability. Your linking to any other sites is at your own risk and Cow and Gate accepts no loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Hyper-linking to this site, in any manner, is not permitted without Cow and Gate's written permission.
12. Cow and Gate does not represent or warrant that this, or any site to which ours is linked, will be accessible or available on a timely basis, or that access to the same will be uninterrupted or error free.
13. Cow and Gate reserves the right to alter, amend or delete material from the site at any time. Cow and Gate makes no representation that the content of the site is up to date.
14. Cow and Gate may, at any time, revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should, therefore, periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions.
15. You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site.
16. Cow and Gate will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
17. These terms are governed by Irish law and Irish courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with these terms and any suit, action or proceedings will be brought in such courts.

FORUM TERMS & CONDITIONS

These Rules and the Terms and Conditions govern the use of the Cow and Gate forum. By agreeing to abide and be bound by feedingforlife.ie Terms and Conditions, you agree to use Cow & Gate’s forum in accordance with the following Rules.

Regarding your posts:

1. No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be polite and constructive, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
2. No objectionable or unlawful content: harassing, abusive, defamatory, harmful, threatening, obscene, sexually oriented, racially offensive, profane, or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
3. Contributions must be civil, tasteful, relevant and genuine.
4. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute material which is off-topic in subject-specific areas. No spamming: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times.
5. No advertising or promoting of any kind.
6. No impersonation or misrepresentaion of your identity or affiliation with any third party.
7. Do not use inappropriate (e.g. offensive, vulgar, etc) user names.
8. You may add URL's to the forum - but these must not link to sites containing off-topic material or be of an obscene nature.
9. No material must be posted for which you have not obtained all necessary consent, licences, or approvals.
10. No material must be posted that is in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or duty of confidence.
11. We will not be responsible as author, editor or publisher of any contribution and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from use of the forum by any person in contravention of these Rules. We reserve the right to promptly remove, or to disable access to, any contribution.

Using your posts:

From time to time we may wish to use content that you have posted. By using the site, you agree that we may use such content for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without compensation.

Safety:

For safety and security reasons, we advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else. This could be, for example: a telephone number, home address or email address. If you have a useful address to share, please inform the host of the forum area using the 'Contact Us' link, and they will promote it if they deem it appropriate. Please do not include postal addresses of any kind.

About the law:

1. Defamatory or illegal material of any kind may not be submitted in to any Cow & Gate forums. This includes: graphics, text, video, programs or audio downloads.
2. Contributing material, with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act, is strictly prohibited.
3. You agree to only submit materials which are your own original work. You must not plagiarise, violate, or infringe the rights of third parties. This includes: copyright, trade secrets, trade mark, publicity, privacy, personal or proprietary rights.
4. The views featured in the Cow & Gate forum areas come from members of the public. They are not necessarily those of Nutricia or its affiliates.

If you're under 18:

1. Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any discussion.
2. Cow and Gate advises parents and guardians, who permit persons under 18 years to use the forum, to communicate to them about safety online.
3. Minors who are using the forum should be made aware of the potential risks to them and of their obligation to comply with these Rules.
4. Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else, such as a: telephone number, home address or email address.

If you breach these Terms of Use:

1. Failing to abide by these Rules when taking part in our forum, constitutes a material breach of the terms of use on which you are permitted to take part in the forum. This will result in you being sent an email which informs you as to why your contribution has been failed, edited, removed or suspended. This email will also warn you that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against you.
2. This action may include your registration log in account being placed into pre-moderation or a temporary or permanent suspension. This will prevent you from participating in any or all of the Cow & Gate forum areas.
3. If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Cow & Gate, and we consider such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, we may use whatever information that is available about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringements.
4. We reserve the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any account, at any time, for any reason.
5. We reserve the right to disclose information regarding your contribution to any law enforcement agency as we reasonably feel is necessary or as is required by law.

Complaints

If you wish to complain about any contribution posted on the forum, please contact us at help@cowandgate.ie.

FORUM HOUSE RULES

1. People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome on our forums. So always be polite and respectful towards others. If you consider someone is being offensive or rude in any way, please report it.
2. Try not to post messages that aren't in any way relevant to the topic at hand. If there's something else you want to talk about, you can always start a new discussion by creating a new thread.
3. Keep your messages clear and easy to read. When you're online and not face to face with people, it's easy for misunderstandings or ambiguities to arise. So please read and check your messages before you post them on the boards.
4. Be conscientious regarding your privacy. Your profile and messages are 'out there' on the web for anyone to see. So take care in what you say about yourself or others. Never, for instance, post your phone number, address or bank details.
5. By using this Cow & Gate website, you are accepting our terms and conditions which will govern your use of the website and we recommend you read them prior to such use. So to ensure you're familiar with them it's worth reading them now if you haven't done so already.

GP Promotion Registration card Terms & Conditions

1. Open to ROI residents only aged 18 years or over, excluding employees of Danone Baby Nutrition Ireland, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion.
2. No purchase necessary. Entry to the promotion is by signing up to the Cow & Gate programme via post or telephone or online at www.cowandgate.ie.
3. If joining the Cow & Gate programme via telephone or online, entrants must be sure to select GP Surgery as their reference - 'how they heard about Cow & Gate'.
4. Only 1 entry per person. Promotion is open from 00.01am on 22.11.08 and closes at 23.59pm on 31.12.09
5. No responsibility is accepted for any entry which, due to a technical error or any other reason, is not delivered to Danone Baby Nutrition Ireland or is delayed. Proof of postage is not proof of entry.
6. The prize draw will be supervised by an independent person and will take place on the 2nd day of each month during the promotional period only.
7. The winner will be the first entry drawn at random from all valid entries. The first valid entry is the winner. The winner will be drawn at random. The winner will be notified by email or telephone by the 7th of each month.
8. There is one prize only per month which is a 200 Euro voucher for a shop of your choice, it is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative in whole or in part.
9. The winner agrees that the winner’s name and county may be made available by the Promoter.
10. The Promoter reserves the right to select an alternative winner, should the original winner not validate their identity and age within 30 days of having been notified by the Promoter as the prizewinner.
11. The Promoter reserves the right to withdraw or amend this promotion in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside its reasonable control. The Promoter also reserves the right to award alternative prizes of equal or greater value, should the advertised prizes become unavailable for any reason.
12. The Promoter reserves the right to cancel, terminate or temporarily suspend this promotion in the event of technical or any other difficulties, or for any other reason, with no liability to any entrants, the prizewinners or any third party.
13. The decision of the Promoter in all matters is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
14. Entrants are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions by participating in this promotion.
15. Prize draw governed by Irish law.

Promoter: Danone Baby Nutrition Ireland, Block 1, Deansgrange Business Park, Deansgrange, Co. Dublin. Please do not send entries to this address.