1. Introduction

Welcome to the Alfa Laval Product Guide, a website provided by Alfa Laval Corporate AB, 556007-7785, PO Box 73, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden (the “Website” and “Alfa Laval”, respectively) to customers of Alfa Laval products. Your use of the Website is subject to these terms and conditions (the “Terms”).

2. Access to the Website and acceptance

By registering your user credentials, you are granted access to the Website as a user and your personal profile is created.

By registering your user credentials, you acknowledge that you accept and agree to comply with the Terms.

If you register user credentials and create a profile on behalf of a company, you guarantee that you are authorised to register user credentials and create a profile on behalf of the company.

3. Personal profile and profile information

You must add your name and e-mail address to your profile. In addition to that you decide what information you will add to your profile. You may at any time change or remove information in your profile. You may also at any time de-register your profile (as described in Section 6 (De-registration) below).

If you register information concerning an individual (personal data) you must obtain such individual’s prior consent to (i) register the personal data on the Website, (ii) transfer the personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, and (iii) share the personal data with any of your preferred Business Partners.

Alfa Laval reserves the right to suspend or terminate your personal profile if activities occur which, in Alfa Laval’s sole discretion, constitutes or may constitute a violation of the Terms or of any applicable laws, rules or regulations.

4. Information sharing

You can choose to share certain personal information with an Alfa Laval Business Partner also connected to the Website. An Alfa Laval Business Partner is a legal entity that has an agreement with Alfa Laval AB or any of Alfa Laval AB’s subsidiaries for distribution of Alfa Laval’s products to end customers. The Alfa Laval Business Partners will only have access to such information that you explicitly agree to share.

5. Processing of personal data

By creating a profile on the Website certain personal data about you will be stored in the data base operated by Alfa Laval. By accepting the Terms you (a) confirm that the information you have provided in your profile is correct and (b) consent to the processing of your personal data as set out below, including the transfer of such data to (i) jurisdictions outside the EU/EEA where Alfa Laval conducts business through its subsidiaries and (ii) to jurisdictions outside EU/EEA where any Alfa Laval Business Partner that you have agreed to share personal data with is located.

The information in your profile can be viewed by Alfa Laval its subsidiaries. The information may be used by Alfa Laval and/or its subsidiaries to (i) contact you, (ii) to send information regarding products (including safety notices as well as marketing information), (iii) to collect information in relation to your geographical location and (iv) for administrative purposes. The personal data will be processed in accordance with the Swedish Personal Data Act.

The controller of the personal data is Alfa Laval Corporate AB, 556007-7785, PO Box 73, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. You may once a year free of charge receive a copy of the personal data held in the data base and information regarding the controller’s processing of such data by applying to the controller in writing using the address set out above. To update and/or remove information you have added manually to your profile please access the system and make the necessary changes. If any information on your profile, which is not manually added by you, is incorrect you may at any time request that the controller amends this information.

If you have any queries regarding the processing of your personal data, please write to ebusiness@alfalaval.com.

Please note that the Alfa Laval Business Partners that you have agreed to share personal data with will be deemed to be controllers of such personal data to the extent they process the information. Alfa Laval Business Partners will also be deemed to be controllers of personal data related to you registered by the Alfa Laval Business Partners in such partners’ own profiles on the Website. If you have any questions in relation to the Alfa Laval Business Partners’ processing of your personal data you should contact the relevant Alfa Laval Business Partner directly.

6. De-registration

You may at any time de-register, or request to de-register, your profile and cease using the Website. If you decide to de-register your profile you will no longer be granted access to the Website and all your profile information will be irretrievably deleted from the database. If you cannot de-register yourself, please write to ebusiness@alfalaval.com and request to de-register.

7. Disclaimer regarding information and material published by Alfa Laval

While Alfa Laval endeavours to ensure that the information on the Website published by Alfa Laval or any of its subsidiaries is correct, Alfa Laval does not make any warranties or undertakings of any kind in relation to the information and material, including but not limited to the accuracy and completeness of the information and the material. Alfa Laval may make changes to the information and material provided on the Website at any time and without notice. The information and material on the Website may be out of date, and Alfa Laval makes no commitment to update such information and material.

Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, Alfa Laval provides you with access to this Website on the basis that Alfa Laval excludes all representations and warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) in relation to the Website.

8. Availability

While Alfa Laval endeavours to ensure that the Website is normally available 24 hours a day, Alfa Laval shall not be liable if, for any reason, the Website is unavailable at any time for any period. Access to the Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for other reasons beyond Alfa Laval’s control.

9. Intellectual property rights

You are permitted to print or download extracts from the Website provided that the following provisions are complied with:

no documents or related graphics on the Website are modified in any way,
no graphics on the Website are used separately from accompanying text; and
Alfa Laval’s copyright notice appears in all copies.

The copyright and other intellectual property rights in the Website and all information and material provided on it (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by Alfa Laval or its licensors. For the purpose of this legal notice, any use of extracts from the Website other than in accordance with this Section 9 is prohibited.

Otherwise as explicitly provided for in the Terms, no part of the Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without Alfa Laval’s prior written permission.

10. Changes to the Terms

Alfa Laval may from time to time and in its discretion make changes to the Terms. The date of last modification is stated at the end of each Term document. It is your responsibility to check the Term document from time to time for updates.

When Alfa Laval makes revisions of a Term document that it considers material, Alfa Laval will inform you by way of a notification on the Website. You will have no obligation to continue using the Website following any such notification, but if you continue to use the Website after said notification it will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

11. Limitation of liability

In no event will Alfa Laval, any of its subsidiaries, their officers, directors, employees or shareholders, be liable for any amount or any kind of loss or damage that you or any third party may incur (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage, or any loss of income, profits, and whether in tort, contract or otherwise) in connection with your use of the Website in any way, or in connection with the inability to use or the results of the use of the Website, including any information received from the Alfa Laval Business Partners, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Website or your downloading of any material from the Website or any websites linked to the Website.

You agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any problems, losses, costs or dissatisfaction caused by the use of the Website is to de-register from the Website.

However, the foregoing does not apply to any loss or damage that you may incur due to Alfa Laval’s unlawful processing of personal data, for which Alfa Laval shall be liable under applicable law.

12. Applicable law and dispute resolution

The Terms are subject to the laws of Sweden, without regard to choice or conflicts of law principles, and you and Alfa Laval agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Sweden to resolve any dispute, claim or controversy that arises in connection with the Terms.

2018-03-15