Terms and Conditions

Terms of Website Use

These Terms of Website Use (together with the documents referred to herein) (collectively, these “Terms”) inform you of the terms and conditions pursuant to which you may make use of our website themanufacturermxawards.com (our “Site”), whether as a guest or an authorised user. Use of our Site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our Site.

Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use our Site, as these will apply to your use of our Site. We recommend that you print a copy of these Terms for future reference.

By accessing, browsing, or using this Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Site.


Other Applicable Terms

These Terms refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our Site:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate and complete. By submitting a nomination, you consent to the nominee data being shared with the relevant category sponsor.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Site.
  • Your terms of sale with us, if applicable. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and your terms of sale with us, the terms of sale shall govern to the extent of such conflict.


Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms at any time. You are expected to check the terms on our Site from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.


No Reliance

Although we will endeavour to keep the information made available from our Site (the “Site Content”) updated and accurate, we cannot and do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the Site Content, and you agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any adverse consequences arising as a result of the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the Site Content. You further agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any trading, investment, medical, commercial or other decisions made in reliance on the Site Content.


Accessing our site

We will try to make our Site available but cannot guarantee that our Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or is error free or is virus free, and can accept no liability on account of unavailability, interruptions, errors or viruses. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Site and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or any other internet connected device. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.


Intellectual Property Rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all copyright, trademarks, design rights, database rights, confidential information or any other intellectual property rights (together the “Intellectual Property Rights”) in our Site and the Site Content. The Intellectual Property Rights in our Site and the Site Content is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

Site Content may be displayed, reformatted and distributed internally within your organisation only in insubstantial portions for research and related work in the ordinary course of your business. No other internal or external dissemination of any Site Content is permitted except as expressly indicated in these Terms or your terms of sale with us. You must not use any Site Content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce parts of the material contained on our Site in certain other circumstances. Please e-mail us at events@hennikgroup.com if you wish to ask for permission to do so.

Subject to the above, you must not, in any way, modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off our Site or downloaded from our Site, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics made available from our Site separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Site Content must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any Site Content in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option and your cost, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.


Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law.

Subject to any pre-existing terms and conditions of sale, to the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Site or any Site Content, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • use of, or inability to use, our Site;
  • or use of or reliance on any Site Content.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation;
  • or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or to your downloading of any Site Content, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of any websites linked on our Site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.


Viruses

We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our Site by 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. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.

In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.


Links to Third Party Websites or Resources

This Site may provide links to third party websites or resources. Since we do not control such websites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for the content, products or performance of such third party websites and resources, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect to such websites and resources. We reserve the right to terminate any link at any time without notice. The inclusion of a link to another website or resource does not constitute or imply an endorsement, authorisation, sponsorship, or affiliation by us of that website or resource, or any products or services provided therein. The information practices of those websites are not covered by any policies or terms applicable to our Site. We recommend that you review any terms of use and privacy policy of any linked third party website before providing any information to that website or using its products and services.


Applicable Law

These terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by New York law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York located in the Borough of Manhattan.


Miscellaneous

If any provision of these Terms shall become or declared illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever, such term or provision shall be divisible from the other provisions and shall be deleted herefrom.


Contact Us

To contact us, please email awards_tm@nineteengroup.com. Thank you for visiting our Site.