Global Terms of Use

Welcome to the website of Pioneers Co , (“PioneersCo”) (the “Website”). This page (together with the documents referred to on it) sets out the terms on which you may use the Website, whether as a guest or a registered user (“Terms of Use”).

Please read and review these Terms of Use carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and accept the Terms of Use and agree to abide by them. If you do not fully accept the Terms of Use, you must not access or use the Website. These Terms of Use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of the Website:

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 the Website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all personal data provided by you is accurate.

Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on the Website.

PioneersCo reserves the right to change the Website and the Terms of Use from time to time without notice, which changes shall take effect from the next time you access the Website. Therefore, we suggest that every time you access the Website you access this page to ensure that you are aware of the current Terms of Use.

Accessing the Website. Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and PioneersCo reserves the right to withdraw or amend the service it provides on the Website without notice. PioneersCo will not be liable if the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures in connection with accessing the Website, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not share it with any other person. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use. You agree to notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorised disclosure or use of your user identification code and/or password.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use, and that they comply with them.

Content

The information provided on the Website is for general information purposes only. Certain sections of this Website are intended for particular audience including PioneersCo’s employees, customers and shareholders, as well as Food & Beverages community and the general public. PioneersCo will use reasonable efforts to ensure that information on the Website is accurate and up-to-date but gives no undertaking, warranty or representation of any kind (whether express or implied) as to its accuracy, currency, fitness for purpose or completeness. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or other terms and these are excluded only to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

The information available on the Website is not a substitute or replacement for expert’s consultation, nor does it constitute advice, recommendation or suggestion. Information on PioneersCo’s products may vary by country and you must check with local regulatory authorities to check for relevant information or variations.

Any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and PioneersCo is under no obligation to update such material. Some statements made on this Website are historical and should be understood as referring to events as they stood at the time that the information was first published. Events may also have superseded forward- looking statements made on this Website and the facts subsisting may differ from the views expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Past trends or activities should not be taken as a representation that such trends or activities will continue in the future. Nothing on this Website should be construed as the giving of advice or the making of a recommendation, and should not be relied on as the basis of any decision or action.

Functionality

PioneersCo does not warrant that functions available on the Website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the server that makes it available is free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output. You confirm that you are aware of and assume all risks related to the use of the internet, including risks of damage to your software and hardware due to the presence in the Website or any other related website of a virus or any other element capable of altering the computer system.

Viruses, hacking and other offences. You must not misuse the Website 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 the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you may be committing a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. PioneersCo may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

PioneersCo will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You are advised to virus check all materials and/or content accessed and/or downloaded from the Website using commercially available, up to date virus checking software.

You and/or any other person accessing the Website may use the Website for lawful purposes only. You and/or any other person accessing the Website must not use the Website in any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation, or which is in any way unlawful or fraudulent.

Intellectual Property Rights and Trademarks

The contents of the Website are protected by copyright and other intellectual property around the world. All the intellectual property rights in the Website, including without limitation, in all documents, files, text, images, RSS feeds, audio files, podcasts, video files, flash tutorials, graphics, devices and code contained in it is owned by PioneersCo, its affiliates or its third party providers.

PioneersCo hereby authorizes you to copy extracts of and/or documents published on the Website (except for third party owned content which has been identified as such) for non-commercial personal use only, provided that any copy of the documents which you make shall retain all copyright and other proprietary notices and any disclaimer contained on the documents. If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at PioneersCo’s option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. Except as expressly provided above, you may not otherwise copy, display, download, distribute, modify, reproduce, republish, reverse engineer or retransmit any information, text or documents contained in the Website or any portion thereof in any electronic medium or in hard copy, or create any derivative work based on such images, text or documents, without the express written consent of PioneersCo.

No information or statement contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise any license or right under any patent, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right of PioneersCo, or its affiliates, or any third party. Except as expressly provided above, no information or statement contained herein shall be construed as conferring any license or right under any PioneersCo group patent, copyright or trademark. No PioneersCo trademark or logo may be used or reproduced without our prior written consent.

PioneersCo cannot guarantee that you have any right to use third party owned content which is available on the Website and you must obtain permission from the third party owner before using or downloading such content.

All product names, whether or not appearing in print or with the trademark symbol, are trademarks of PioneersCo, its affiliates, related companies or its licensors or joint venture partners, unless otherwise noted. The use or misuse of these trademarks or any other materials, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited and may be in violation of copyright law, trademark law, the law of slander and libel, the law of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.