TERMS OF USE OF THE PPF.CZ, PPF.EU AND PPFGROUP.NL WEBSITES

PPF Group a.s., Company ID No. (IČO): 24908487, with its registered office at Evropská 2690/17, 160 00 Prague 6 – Dejvice, Czech Republic, registered under file number B 30605 in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, Czech Republic.

 (hereinafter referred to as the “PPF”) provides, under the terms set out below (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms”), websites available on the Internet domains www.ppf.cz, www.ppf.eu or www.ppfgroup.nl (collectively referred to as the “Sites”).

Please read these Terms carefully before proceeding to use the Sites.

Sites‘ content

PPF declares that it has all the rights, including intellectual property rights, necessary for the operation of this Site, in particular the rights of its content, including texts, graphics, technical drawings or images displayed on the Site, as well as copyright to the selection and arrangement of files posted on the Site ("Content").

All Content is subject to legal protection, in particular pursuant to Act No. 121/2000 of the Collection of Laws of the Czech Republic, the Copyright Act, as amended, as well as other relevant legal regulations. The public is not entitled to use the Content other than expressly permitted by these Terms. The Content may only be used for personal and non-commercial purposes unless otherwise specified in these Terms.

The Media Content section, such as the PPF logo and photographs of PPF Group shareholders and management, may be offered to the public for free download at PPF's individual discretion upon requests made to the email address listed in the "PPF Group Logos and Images" HERE (hereinafter referred to as "Presentation materials"), however, it does not affect the subsequent use of such content. If PPF allows the applicant to download part of the Content as outlined above, the applicant is obliged to use the Content in accordance with the set conditions, and if they are not explicitly specified for the case, then according to these Terms.

PPF expressly declares that the public is allowed to use, in connection with PPF's activities, unmodified and untransformed Presentation materials in accordance with applicable legislation of the Czech Republic, good morals and in a manner (i) that will not damage PPF's reputation or the reputation of entities forming together with PPF a group within the meaning of § 74 of Act No. 90/2012 of the Collection of Laws of the Czech Republic, the Commercial Corporations Act, as amended (hereinafter referred to as this “Group”), and (ii) which will not interfere with rights and protected interests by the legal framework of PPF, the Group and third parties - especially the persons depicted in the photographs.

The use of Content and Presentation Materials is not permitted:

• for advertising and promotional purposes of any kind, including promoting political parties or movements;
• for inclusion in materials aggregating content that is capable of misleading false information, that would damage the reputation of PPF, the PPF group, or third parties - especially persons depicted in the Presentation materials, or that may violate the laws of the Czech Republic, threaten good morals or public order, including materials that discriminate primarily on the basis of religion, race, gender, or promote violence and other illegal activities;
• for sale to third parties;
• for further modifications and transformations and possible further use of such transformed and modified Presentation Materials and Content.

Furthermore, the following is not permitted within the legal framework:

• the redistribution, retransmission, or republishing of any Content, or the making of photocopies of the Content, or the storage of the Content on publicly available data repositories;
• the removal of the copyright or trademark notice and other similar rights from any copies of Content;
• the creation of a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content.

When using the Site, you must not interfere with the traffic of the Site, use the Site to transfer harmful files or attempt to penetrate any non-public parts of the Site, but must respect the intellectual property rights to the Site and the Content of the Site.Limitation of liability

Limitation of liability

The Content is only for your general information and does not constitute any form of advice, recommendation or arrangement by PPF and is not intended to be relied upon by users in making (or refraining from making) any specific investment or any other decisions.

Because of the number of sources from which PPF obtains Content and the nature of electronic distribution via the Internet, PPF does not give any safeguards in respect of the Sites, Content, software or services available through the Sites (collectively “Site Services”). In particular, Site Services are provided on an “as is”, and may contain errors.

To the extent allowed by applicable law, PPF hereby disclaims all safeguards, conditions or duties of any nature, including without limitation any safeguards of eligibility for a particular purpose, any explicit or legal safeguards, and any safeguards or duties regarding accuracy, timeliness and completeness of the Content and Site Services.

Links

The Site may contain links to other websites provided by third parties or other Group entities (collectively “Third parties” and “Third parties' websites”). PPF is not responsible, within the legal framework, for the rules and procedures, availability or content of Third parties' websites and will not be a party to, or in any way responsible for, any transaction concerning goods or services available from such Third parties' websites.

When visiting any Third parties' websites, you should comply by its terms of use.

Parts of the Sites may contain information from Third parties (“Contributors”). Contributors are responsible for ensuring that the material submitted for inclusion on the Sites complies with law. PPF will not be, within the legal framework, responsible for any error or inaccuracy in the material provided by the Contributors. If you find that there is illegal content on the Sites, you can contact PPF at the email address listed below.

Availability representation

PPF’s objective for the Sites is to ensure maximum availability of all of its content and features to all internet users. However, PPF reserves the right to restrict the access to certain information on the Sites and make it possible only to users meeting certain criteria, which PPF may specify on the Sites or which arise from relevant legal regulations.

Choice of law and jurisdiction

The use of the Sites and the present Terms, where permissible, are governed by the law of the Czech Republic. Any disputes arising in relation to the use of the Sites or in relation to the present Terms shall be resolved, where permissible, by the materially and locally relevant court in the Czech Republic in accordance with the law of the Czech Republic.

Cookies

Cookies may be used on this site, which are stored in your device. For more information on cookies, please, visit our Cookies Policy.

Contact

If you find that the Site contains content that is illegal in nature or interferes with third party rights, or you are interested in information about the Site, or interested in republishing or redistributing the Content, please, contact PPF at info@ppf.cz.

General

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid by any competent public authority and this indeterminate or invalid provision is separable from the rest of the provisions of the Terms, the valid and determinated provisions shall remain in full force

Failure by any party to exercise any right or remedy under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.

PPF reserves the right to change or modify these Terms without prior notice.

These Terms and Conditions are valid and effective from 17.8.2020. Previous versions of the conditions are available on the basis of a request delivered to the e-mail address info@ppf.cz.