By using and/or accessing European Quality Circle's Websites, you fully agree to the terms and conditions of use contained herein. You fully agree that the use of European Quality Circle's websites is at your sole risk and responsibility. You undertake not to disrupt, or attempt to disrupt, the functioning of our Websites.

Disclaimer:

Neither European Quality Circle nor any of their employees, agents, third party content providers or licensors, warrant that the European Quality Circle’s Websites will be uninterrupted or error free. European Quality Circle does not warrant that this site, any software, or content of any kind, downloaded from this site or any sites that link to this site or which can be accessed from this site, are free from viruses or any other harmful elements. In general, European Quality Circle cannot be held liable in the event of any problem whatsoever, whether of a technical or other nature, that affects the use of its Website.

The functioning of the Websites may be liable to disruption by events beyond control of European Quality Circle, or force majeure, for which European Quality Circle accepts no liability. The European Quality Circle’s websites and its services are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.

European Quality Circle makes no warranties and endorses no liability as to the results that may be obtained from the use of information and data contained on the European Quality Circle’s websites.

Users of the European Quality Circle website endorse the entire responsibility for their statement, opinion or any kind of content posted by them on the European Quality Circle’s websites. Under no circumstances will European Quality Circle be liable for any loss or damage caused by the reliance of Users of European Quality Circle Websites, on information obtained through the European Quality Circle’s websites. It is the User’s responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the European Quality Circle’s Websites.

European Quality Circle reserves the right to amend, interrupt temporarily or delete permanently all or part of the content of its Websites, without prior notice and without compensation of any kind to Users. It can in no circumstances be held liable for any damages occasioned to Users as a consequence of the amendment, disruption, suspension or deletion of its Websites or some content of it.

Users of European Quality Circle’s Websites are invited to seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content.

European Quality Circle is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of external internet sites that link to this site or to sites which can be accessed from this site. European Quality Circle is not responsible for the accuracy and/or completeness and/or availability of prices quoted and/or the quality of any goods or items bought by you, from sites that link to this site or to sites which can be accessed from this site. If you make a purchase from a site that links to this site or can be accessed from this site, your agreement or arrangement will be with the seller of such item and not European Quality Circle. Any agreements or arrangements made between you and any third party named on this site are at your sole risk and responsibility.

In no event will European Quality Circle or any person or entity involved in creating, producing or distributing the European Quality Circle’s Websites be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the European Quality Circle’s Website or out of the breach of any warranty. The disclaimers of liability contained herein shall also apply to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, acts of hacking, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, misbehaviour, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

You specifically acknowledge that European Quality Circle is not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other Users or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with you. You hereby acknowledge that these disclaimers shall apply to all content on the European Quality Circle’s Websites.

Where links to external websites are created by European Quality Circle, it is not liable for and does not endorse any liability with respect to the contents or the existence of such websites.

Intellectual property:

European Quality Circle and/or its partners alone hold all intellectual property rights in respect of both the structure and the content of the websites www.eqc-worldwide.com and/or www.eqc-worldwide.com and/or www.eqc-antwerp.com throughout the world. The contents (text and images) of website the website www.eqc-worldwide.com and/or www.eqc-worldwide.com and/or www.eqc-antwerp.com are protected throughout the world, by national and international laws and regulations on copyright, trademark, and legal protection of databases.

Any copying, communication to the public, dissemination or sale of the websites’ contents, whether in full or in part, and irrespective of the form used, is forbidden, unless the information reproduced is intended exclusively for strictly personal use.

No part of our websites may be reproduced, transmitted or recorded on another website or any other type of electronic system or device without prior authorisation, save for the indexing and updating of search engines or similar services to facilitate control over the use of the Websites.

Any retrieval and/or reuse of all of, or a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial proportion of, the contents of the European Quality Circle database is forbidden. Likewise, any retrieval and/or reuse of a non-substantial proportion of the European Quality Circle database is not permitted if it conflicts with normal exploitation of the database or unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of European Quality Circle.

Without prejudice to any other legal action, European Quality Circle reserves the right to restrict, suspend or terminate its services; to prohibit access to its Websites; to delay the publication of hosted material or to delete it, in part or totally; also to take technical and legal measures to prevent Users from accessing its site if it considers that their acts may cause problems, that they may incur any party's liability, or that they are incompatible with these terms and conditions of use.

Any infringement to the above provisions shall expose the infringing party to legal, civil or criminal measures.

Links and hyperlinks:

European Quality Circle may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our Users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. The Privacy Policy of European Quality Circle applies solely to information collected by the same.

Any hyperlink between your own website and that of European Quality Circle is subject to prior and written authorization of European Quality Circle.

Privacy policy :

European Quality Circle may collect personal information from you such as: name, email address, country, location, occupation, schools attended etc. Such personal data will be processed in accordance with the Belgian law of 8th December 1992 on the protection of privacy in relation to the processing of personal Data.

If necessary, all personal data sent to or via our Website may be recorded in the databases of European Quality Circle for its communications with you (including marketing communications for our services). They will not be passed on to any other company or organisation.

Should you not wish, or no longer wish, to receive communications from European Quality Circle or if you wish to obtain further information relating to the protection of personal data about yourself, you may contact us at info@eqc-worldwide.com, or alternatively at the address of European Quality Circle BVBA, Privacy Policy Issues, Schupstraat 1-7, 2018, Antwerpen Belgium.

In accordance with the law, we advise you that you have the right to access information about yourself, and to have such information or any inaccuracies edited. Should you wish to exercise those rights, please contact us at at info@eqc-worldwide.com, or alternatively at the address of European Quality Circle BVBA, Privacy Policy Issues, Schupstraat 1-7, 2018, Antwerpen Belgium.

If you wish, you may also obtain additional information on the relevant law and regulations in respect of the protection of personal data from the Commission for the Protection of Privacy, Hoogstraat 139, 1000 Brussel.

Use of cookies:

Our websites may contain cookies (a cookie is a small file sent out by our server which is recorded on your computer's hard drive. It keeps a record of our Websites’ flow and contains various items of information on the visit). Our cookies serve mainly to make the websites function properly (i.e. technical cookies of sessions), also to produce statistics.

We have put suitable security measures in place to provide protection against loss, improper use or falsification of any information received on our Websites.

Revision of the terms and conditions of use

European Quality Circle reserves the right at any time to amend these terms of use without prior notice. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy.

Applicable law - disputes:

This Website is subject to the laws of Belgium. In the event of any dispute, the parties will make their best efforts to reach an amicable settlement. In the event of the failure of negotiations, the courts and tribunals of the legal district of Antwerp shall alone be competent.

Contact details

European Quality Circle
Company number: 0462.392.862
Schupstraat 1-7
2018, Antwerpen Belgium
Tel. : + 32 3 205 17 28
Fax : + 32 3 234 29 29
E-mail: info@eqc-worldwide.com

Effective 17-11-2009 revised on 30-11-2009