Website ownership and copyright
The Website is owned by The Gables Country House and managed by The Gables Country House as content provider and content aggregator. All materials distributed in the Website (the “Materials”) are either owned by The Gables Country House or licensed to The Gables Country House. Except for downloading one copy of the Materials for your personal, non-commercial home use, you must not reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, perform or display the Materials without first obtaining the written permission of The Gables Country House. Materials must not be used in any unauthorized manner. Text, photographs and or graphic material, including the Winelands Web brand and logo (collectively, the “Materials”) shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither these Materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use.
User interaction
Participation: The Website offers an opportunity for you to transmit messages via e-mail (“Message Features”). You must use Message Features in a responsible manner, and are solely responsible for any content you transmit. You must not transmit any message (“Message”) in connection with any Message Feature that: (i) imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website’s infrastructure, or otherwise adversely affects, restricts or inhibits any other user from using and enjoying the Website; (ii) is threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit or indecent; (iii) constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law; (iv) violates, plagiarizes or infringes the rights of third parties including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right; (v) contains a virus or other harmful component; (vi) constitutes or contains false or misleading indications of origin or statements of fact; (vii) contains material irrelevant to the subject matter of the Message Feature; or (viii) contains any virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, cancelbot or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routine. In order to participate in any Message Feature, you will be asked to provide certain personal information such as, for example, your name and email address. (The Website’s Privacy Statement explains how such information may be collected and used.)
License: By transmitting any Message, you are granting to The Gables Country House a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and irrevocable right and license to reproduce, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, perform or display such Message, in whole or in part, in any form, media or technology known or hereafter developed.
Message Review: The Gables Country House act as a passive conduit in connection with your use of Message Features. The Gables Country House have the right, but not the obligation, to review, edit or delete any Message transmitted by you that they believe may create a liability for them, and also to deny access to any Message Feature. Display of any Message in any Message Feature does not constitute its approval or endorsement by The Gables Country House. You acknowledge that Messages are not confidential and they may be read, intercepted by others and widely accessible on the World Wide Web. You acknowledge that by submitting Messages to this Website, no confidential, fiduciary, contractually implied or other relationship is created between you and The Gables Country House other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
Termination and variation of services
The Gables Country House may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Website at any time, including the availability of any Website feature, database, or content. They may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or the entire Website without notice or liability.