Terms of Use (Website)
Age Restriction for Access
The promotion and sale of alcoholic beverages are strictly regulated.
Age Gate Agreement: By entering and using this Website, you confirm and warrant that you are of legal drinking age in your country or territory of residence (e.g., 18 years or older in the United Kingdom).
Prohibition of Minors: This Website, its content, and its marketing materials are not directed at, nor intended for, individuals under the legal drinking age. If you are under the legal drinking age, you must exit this Website immediately.
Intellectual Property (IP) Rights
Ownership: All website design, text, graphics, logos, tasting notes, blog posts, images, and other content ("Content") belong to Panther Brewery Limited or our licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
Limited License: We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Website strictly for personal, non-commercial purposes.
Restrictions: You are strictly forbidden from copying, reproducing, scraping, distributing, or modifying any of the Website's Content without our explicit prior written permission.
Acceptable Use and Prohibition of Data Scraping
As a condition of your access to and use of this Website, you agree that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the Website, including the introduction of viruses, trojans, or harmful code, or unauthorized access (hacking) to our servers or databases.
To protect our infrastructure, pricing data, and intellectual property, you specifically agree NOT to engage in any of the following activities:
Automated Data Extraction: You may not use any robot, spider, scraper, deep-link, page-scrape, or other automated device, program, algorithm, or methodology to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Website, its inventory, pricing, or tasting notes.
Bypassing Security: You may not attempt to override, bypass, or circumvent any security measures, age-verification gateways, or navigational structure of the Website.
Server Interference: You may not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, systems, or networks, including engaging in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
Unauthorized Copying (Mirroring/Framing): You may not frame, mirror, or otherwise incorporate any part of this Website into any other website or application without our prior written authorization.
Commercial Exploitation: You may not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or exploit any portion of the Website—including product descriptions, imagery, and pricing data—for any commercial purpose without our express written consent.
Consequences of Violation: We reserve the right to actively monitor site traffic to detect unauthorized automation. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have violated these acceptable use policies, we may immediately suspend or terminate your access to the Website, block your IP address, and pursue any legal remedies available to us under the law.
User Accounts and Security
If you create an account on our Website (e.g., to save favourites or manage email preferences):
Responsibility: You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account details and for any activity that occurs under your account.
Accurate Information: You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating an account.
Termination: We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts at our sole discretion, without notice, particularly if we suspect the user is underage, has provided false information, or is violating these Terms.
Account Closure and Deletion: You have the right to close your customer account at any time. To request account closure and the deletion of your personal data, please submit a request via the Contact Us form on our Website. Upon receiving your request, we will close your account and process the deletion of your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws. Please note that we may be required to retain certain transactional data for a statutory period for tax and accounting purposes.
User-Generated Content
If the Website allows users to leave reviews, comments, or other content:
License to Use: By posting content, you grant Panther Brewery Limited a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, and worldwide license to use, reproduce, and publish that content across our marketing channels.
Prohibited Content (Alcohol-Specific): We strictly prohibit, and will immediately remove, any reviews or comments that encourage irresponsible drinking, binge drinking, underage drinking, or drinking and driving.
General Prohibited Content: You may not post content that is defamatory, spam, hate speech, offensive, or infringes upon the copyright or intellectual property of others.
Disclaimer of Warranties
"As Is" Basis: The Website is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis.
No Guarantees: We explicitly do not guarantee that the Website will be secure, free from bugs, viruses, or errors, or that it will always be available without interruption.
Content Accuracy: While we strive to ensure that tasting notes, product descriptions, and pricing are accurate, we do not warrant that all site Content is entirely accurate, complete, or error-free.
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Panther Brewery Limited shall not be liable for any indirect, consequential, special, or punitive damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Website. This includes, but is not limited to, damages for loss of profits, data, or goodwill resulting from malware, site outages, or unauthorized access to your account.
Links to Third-Party Websites
The Website may contain links to external websites.
Convenience Only: These links are provided for your convenience only.
No Responsibility: We have no control over the content, privacy policies, or practices of those external sites and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
