Terms of use
Supplier portal of H. & J. Brüggen KG
Welcome to the supplier portal of H. & J. Brüggen KG!
Please read the following terms and conditions of use applicable to all visitors to the www.brueggen-supplier.com website. The owner of the website reserves the right to change, delete or supplement the information on this website at any time without prior notice.
1. Scope of application
- The following terms and conditions apply to the use of the supplier portal provided via the website www.brueggen-supplier.com. In order to use the portal, it is important that you as a user accept the following terms and conditions.
- By using our supplier portal, you agree to these terms of use. By agreeing, you warrant to us that you will not take any action in breach of the Terms of Use.
- The subject of the supplier portal is as follows:
- File exchange via upload and download function for suppliers
- Communication of news from the purchasing department of H. & J. Brüggen KG
- Exchange of information through questionnaires
2. Contact details and legal information
If you have any questions regarding the supplier portal, you can reach us using the following contact details:
H. & J. Brüggen KG
represented by the personally liable partner
Gertrudenstraße 15
23568 Lübeck
Managing directors: Hanno Brüggen, Jochen Brüggen, Johannes Brüggen
3. Availability of the website/supplier portal
- The supplier portal is available 24 hours a day. However, there may be interruptions in availability due to maintenance work required for the system. Interruptions to availability may also occur due to force majeure or other causes for which H. & J. Brüggen KG is not responsible, such as wilful intent or gross negligence.
- H. & J. Brüggen KG points this out,
- that it is technically impossible to make the website available free of errors of any kind and that H. & J. Brüggen KG accepts no responsibility for this;
- that errors and their rectification may lead to the temporary shutdown of the website;
- that the availability of this website is dependent on conditions and services beyond the control of H. & J. Brüggen KG, such as transmission capacities and Internet connections between the individual parties. H. &. J. Brüggen KG is not responsible for disruptions in this area.
4. Electronic communication
When you use a service of the H. & J. Brüggen KG Supplier Portal or send e-mails, text messages or other messages to us from your computer or mobile device, you are communicating with us electronically. We will communicate with you electronically in various ways, e.g. via e-mail, text messages or by publishing electronic messages or other communication on this supplier portal. For contractual purposes, you agree to receive electronic communications from us and that all consents, notifications, publications and other communications that we communicate to you electronically do not require written form, unless mandatory legal provisions require a different form of communication.
5. Copyright and database rights
- All content included in this H. & J. Brüggen KG supplier portal or provided by us, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads and data collections, is the property of H. & J. Brüggen KG or third parties who supply content or make it available on the website, and is protected by German copyright and database right laws.
- The entire content contained in or provided by a service of H. & J. Brüggen KG is also the exclusive property of H. & J. Brüggen KG and is protected by German copyright and database law.
- You may not systematically extract and/or re-utilise parts of any H. & J. Brüggen KG Service without our express written consent. In particular, you may not use data mining, robots or similar data collection and extraction programmes to extract any substantial parts of a H. & J. Brüggen KG service for reuse (whether once or repeatedly) without the express written consent of H. & J. Brüggen KG. You also may not create and/or publish your own database that incorporates substantial parts of a H. & J. Brüggen KG service without the express written consent of H. & J. Brüggen KG.
6. Your account
- Access to the supplier portal requires the creation of an account.
- Only persons of full legal capacity who have successfully completed the registration process are permitted to create an account.
- The user undertakes not to provide any false information about himself/herself. Furthermore, the user undertakes to check his/her details regularly to ensure that they are correct and complete.
- If you use the H. & J. Brüggen KG Supplier Portal, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer and/or mobile device. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to be responsible for all activities that occur under your account and/or password. You should take all steps necessary to ensure that your password is kept confidential and secure. If you have reason to be concerned that a third party has obtained knowledge of your password or that the password is being or is likely to be used in an unauthorised manner, you should notify us immediately. You are responsible for ensuring that the information you provide to us is accurate and complete and that you notify us of any changes to the information you have provided.
- You may not use the Supplier Portal in any way that is likely to interrupt, damage or otherwise impair the service or access to the Supplier Portal.
- Furthermore, you may not use the Supplier Portal for fraudulent or in connection with a criminal offence, unlawful activity, harassment or inconvenience.
- We reserve the right to withhold the services on the website from you or to close member accounts. This applies in particular in the event that you violate applicable law, contractual agreements or our guidelines.
- Users of this website can send a request to delete their account at any time using the contact form.
7. Liability
- We always endeavour to ensure that the services provided on the supplier portal are available without interruption and that transmissions are error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Your access to the services of the H. & J. Brüggen KG Supplier Portal may also occasionally be interrupted or restricted in order to enable repairs, maintenance or the introduction of new services. We endeavour to minimise the frequency and duration of any such temporary interruptions or restrictions.
- The liability of H. & J. Brüggen KG is generally excluded. Excluded from this are wilful or grossly negligent breaches of duty.
- Insofar as the liability of H. & J. Brüggen KG is excluded or limited, this also applies to the personal liability of employees, representatives and vicarious agents.
8. Links to other websites
- For links that are not operated by H. & J. Brüggen KG and are located on their website, we have no way of controlling the content of these websites, as they are completely independent of us.
- For this reason, we accept no responsibility for the content of other linked websites and the consequences of their use. Users access all websites accessible via links at their own risk. No separate notice is given when users leave the website. We therefore ask you to notify us immediately of any illegal or dubious content on the linked website.
- Other websites may have a link to the websites of H. & J. Brüggen KG. Such a link requires our prior consent.
9. Data protection
- User data and information (date, time, page accessed) may be stored on the server. We would like to point out that - without consent - no personal data (e.g. name, address or e-mail address) is stored.
- If personal data is collected, we undertake to obtain the prior consent of the user of the supplier portal. We undertake not to pass on any data to third parties unless the user gives their prior consent.
- We would like to point out that the transmission of data on the Internet may be subject to security vulnerabilities. Accordingly, error-free and fault-free protection of third-party data cannot be fully guaranteed. Our liability in this respect is excluded.
- Third parties are not authorised to use contact data for commercial purposes.
- The user has the right to information. You have the right to receive complete information from us about the data concerning you at any time and free of charge. You also have the right to have data corrected/deleted.
- Further information is provided separately in the privacy policy.
10. Amendments to the terms of use; final provisions
- If you breach these Terms of Use and we do nothing about it, we will still be entitled to exercise our rights on any other occasion on which you breach these Terms of Use.
- We reserve the right to make changes to the Supplier Portal, rules, terms and conditions, including these Terms of Use, at any time. If any provision of these Terms of Use is held to be invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
- The invalidity of a provision shall not affect the validity of the other provisions of the contract. Should this be the case, this provision shall be replaced by another legally permissible provision that corresponds to the meaning and purpose of the invalid provision.