hinders other internet users;
Anything that degrades the experience for the people bidding alongside you — scripted bidding, flooding a lot with requests, or automating what the site expects a person to do by hand.
Disclaimer
What we stand behind,
and what we cannot
The conditions in this disclaimer apply to the website of European Whisky Auctions (europeanwhiskyauctions.com). Please read this disclaimer carefully. By visiting this website and/or using the information provided on this website, you are also agreeing to this disclaimer. All information on this website is used at your own risk.
It concerns the website as a thing you look at: the pages, the links, the availability. What you buy and sell through the Platform is governed by the Terms of Use instead, and those are a separate document.
About this website
Not about the auction
We aim for accurate
But cannot guarantee it
Use is at your own risk
Including the links we point at
Last revised
February 2021
Content and availability
We do our utmost,
which is not the same as a guarantee
Thousands of lot descriptions, a dozen information pages and a good number of outbound links. We check what we publish, and now and then something is still wrong or out of date.
If you spot one, tell us — it gets fixed the same day, which is a better outcome for everybody than a clause in a disclaimer.
- The information on the site We try; we do not warrant
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European Whisky Auctions will do its utmost to ensure that all information and content referred or linked to on this website is complete and correct. European Whisky Auctions cannot, however, be held responsible for incomplete or incorrect information found via this site.
European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability for damages incurred through a visit to this site or damages resulting from the services or content provided or referred to.
- Changes and closure Without prior notice
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European Whisky Auctions reserves the right to change or close down this website at any moment and without prior notice. European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability for the consequences of changes to or the closure of this website.
In practice this is the clause that covers maintenance, a page that moves, and the evening an auction closes and the servers are busier than usual.
- Your connection Your provider, your risk
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The technical functioning of the broadband connection is for the risk of the broadband provider. European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability whatsoever for damage ensuing from the broadband provider's obligations.
Worth knowing if you bid from a train: a bid that never reaches us because the connection dropped is not a bid we can act on.
Using this website
It is not permitted to use this website
in such a way that it:
Four things, and none of them will trouble anybody who is here to look at whisky. They are written down because an auction is a busy, time-critical thing, and one badly behaved script can spoil a closing evening for several hundred people.
impedes the functioning of this website;
Scraping the catalogue at a rate the servers were not built for, probing for weaknesses, or anything else that makes the Platform slower for everybody else during an auction.
is detrimental to the information offered via this website or the underlying software;
Altering, republishing or misrepresenting what is on the site, including our photographs and lot descriptions, and anything aimed at the software that serves them.
compromises intellectual rights or legislation and regulations.
The photographs, the descriptions, the design and the code are ours. Using them elsewhere needs our permission, which is usually given if you simply ask.
Liability
European Whisky Auctions
accepts no liability whatsoever:
The three exclusions below are the heart of the disclaimer, and they are quoted here exactly as they are written.
They are about the website. Nothing here limits what you are entitled to as a buyer or a seller on the Platform, and nothing here sets aside the consumer rights you have under Dutch and European law.
- Access and functioning If the site is down or misbehaving
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European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability whatsoever for any obstruction of access to or incorrect functioning of the European Whisky Auctions website.
That is the letter of it. In practice, if an auction is affected by a problem at our end we extend the closing, because an auction nobody could reach is not an auction — and we would rather do that than lean on a clause.
- Viruses and malware On the site or the servers behind it
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European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability whatsoever for viruses on this website or the server from which the information is retrieved.
The Platform runs on our own servers, is served over HTTPS throughout, and carries no third-party advertising — which removes the most common route by which this sort of thing arrives in the first place.
- Consequential loss However it comes about
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European Whisky Auctions accepts no liability whatsoever for lost profits or extraordinary, incidental, indirect, additional or any other damage arising from or related to the functioning of this website or our services, regardless of how this damage occurs.
This is the broad catch-all clause that closes the list. It concerns the website and our services in general; it does not touch the rights you have as a buyer or seller under the Terms of Use.
Questions about this disclaimer?
For more information about this disclaimer, please contact us by sending an e-mail or give us a call at +31 (0)50 - 8200 363. A real person will answer, and it will not be a lawyer.
This disclaimer was last revised in February 2021.