Terms and conditions
The Vinify service is provided to you by Smakeappen AS. These terms of use therefore constitute an agreement between you and Smakeappen AS.
We agree to provide the Vinify service to you. The service includes all Vinify products, features, applications, services, technologies and software that we provide to promote Vinify's goal: To make it easier for you to discover and rate great beverages:
Offer personalized opportunities to discover, rate and share. We want to make it easier for you to navigate a huge and complicated selection of beverages. Our systems will further be built to make this experience more valuable for you and other users.
Promote an honest and transparent environment. Products in Vinify must be evaluated honestly, and with the intention of helping others discover beverages. Therefore, among other things, we require full names for all logged-in users so that we can to a certain extent ensure that reviews are written by real people. Persons with negative intentions, financial interests or who can in any way be perceived as dishonest or with unethical motives contravene our guidelines. An example of this is users associated with the beverage industry who try to "build up" their own products or "build down" other people's products. By extension, this may also apply if you evaluate other people's products positively/negatively for your own or others gain/loss. Any "grey area" here should be interpreted with caution and Vinify sets low standards for recognizing and judging such behavior in Vinify. Vinify reserves the right at any time to ban accounts and delete reviews that we subjectively believe violate any of these guidelines. Vinify also reserves the right to expand or tighten the definition of this at any time in order to capture unforeseen negative use of the service. Users who are marked as "verified experts" are subject to extra high demands and should act with extra caution when using the service. "The safest form of prevention is abstinence".
Promote a positive, inclusive and safe environment. We may also share information about abuse or harmful content with other users, companies, the police or other public regulatory bodies.
For more information, see our privacy policy.
Who can create and use a Vinify account:You must be at least 18 years old.
We must not have previously disabled your account for violating the law or any of our policies.
Providing a safe and open service to a wide community requires that we all do our part.
You may not impersonate someone else or provide false information. You must disclose your full name when creating an account on Vinify. You may not impersonate someone you are not, and you may not create an account for someone else unless you have their express permission.
You may not do anything illegal, deceptive or fraudulent or for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.
You may not breach (or assist or encourage others to breach) these Terms or our policies
You may not attempt to create accounts through unauthorized means.
You may not manually, automatically collect or quote any of the reviews on Vinify, information about the products or other users of Vinify.
You may not sell, license or buy accounts or data obtained from us or our Service.
You may not modify, transform, create derivatives of or reverse engineer our products or their components.
As part of our agreement, you also give us the permissions we need to provide the service:
We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a license to use it. Nothing changes with respect to your rights to your content. We do not claim ownership of content you publish on or through the service, and you can freely share your content with others, wherever you want. When you share, publish or upload content protected by intellectual property rights (such as images or tasting notes) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to operate, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, perform or publicly display, translate and process your content. This license terminates when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete content where possible in part or by deleting your account.
You agree that we may download and install updates to the Service on your device.
You must have written permission from us or have an open source license in order to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.
Removal of content and deletion of your accountWe may remove content or information you share on the Service if we believe it violates these Terms of Use or our guidelines or if we are required to do so by law. We may immediately refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you.
Our agreementWe reserve all rights we have not expressly granted to you.
Update of these TermsWe may change our Service and our policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you by email at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they take effect. If you continue to use the Service thereafter, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not wish to accept these or any of the updated terms, you may delete your account.
Revised: 05.05.2020.
