Conditions of use
Welcome to our website ("www.gcds.com"). Access and use of www.gcds.com are activities regulated by these General Conditions of Use. Access and use of this website as well as the purchase of products on www.gcds.com, presuppose the reading, knowledge and acceptance of these General Conditions of Use. This website is managed and maintained by GCDS SRL, a company with registered office in Italy, Via Spartaco n.8, Milan 20135.
If you need assistance you can visit the Customer Service area. You will find informations about orders and shipments, refunds and returns of products purchased on www.gcds.com, the website registration form, suggestions and other general information about the services provided by www.gcds.com.
Remember that you can always contact www.gcds.com by e-mail: customercare@gcds.it
For any other legal information, please refer to the sections: "Terms and Conditions of Service for the online sale of products through the website" and Privacy Policy of www.gcds.com.
The Manager may modify or simply update all or part of these General Conditions of Use. Changes and updates to the General Conditions of Use will be notified to users on the Home page of www.gcds.com as soon as they are adopted and will be binding as soon as they are published on the website in this same section. We therefore ask you to regularly access this section to check the publication of the most recent and updated General Conditions of Use of www.gcds.com. Should you not agree, in whole or in part, with the General Conditions of Use of www.gcds.com. please do not use our website.
The access and the use of www.gcds.com. including the visualization of web pages, communication with the Manager, the possibility to download information on products and the purchase of the same on the website, constitute activities conducted by our users exclusively for personal use unrelated to any commercial, entrepreneurial and professional activity. Remember that you will be the one and only responsible for the use of www.gcds.com. and its contents. In fact, the Manager shall not be held liable for any use not in compliance with the laws in force, the website and its contents by each of its users, without prejudice to the Manager's liability for intent and gross negligence. In particular, you will be the sole and only responsible for the communication of informations fr and data that is incorrect, false or relating to third parties, without their consent, as well as in consideration of incorrect use of the same.
Finally, since any material will be downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service at the user's choice and risk, any liability for any damage to computer systems or loss of data resulting from the download operations shall fall on the user and cannot be attributed to the Manager. The Manager declines all responsibility for any damage deriving from the inaccessibility to the services present on the site or from any damage caused by viruses, damaged files, errors, omissions, service interruptions, deletion of content, problems connected to the network, providers or telephone and/or telematic connections, unauthorised access, data alterations, failure and/or malfunctioning of the user's electronic equipment.
The user is responsible for the safekeeping and correct use of his/her personal information, including the credentials that allow access to the reserved services, as well as any harmful or prejudicial consequences that may arise for the Manager or third parties as a result of the incorrect use, loss or theft of such information.
Please read carefully the Privacy Policy which also applies if the user accesses www.gcds.com. and uses the relative services, but does not purchase any products. The Privacy Policy helps you understand how www.gcds.com. collects and uses your personal data and for what purposes.
The contents of www.gcds.com, such as, by way of example, works, images, photographs, dialogues, music, sounds and videos, documents, drawings, figures, logos and any other material, in any format, published on www.gcds.com including menus, web pages, graphics, colours, patterns, tools, fonts and design of the website, diagrams, layouts, methods, processes, functions and software that are part of www.gcds.com , are protected by copyright and any other intellectual property rights of the Manager and other rights holders. The reproduction, in whole or in part, in any form, of the contents of www.gcds.com is prohibited without the express written consent of the Manager. The Manager has the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit the direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction, in any way or form, in whole or in part, of www.gcds.com and its contents. With regard to the use of www.gcds.com you are only authorized to view the website and its contents. You are also authorised to carry out all other temporary acts of reproduction, without any economic significance of your own, which are considered transient or accessory, an integral and essential part of the same display of www.gcds.com and its contents and all other navigation operations on the website that are carried out only for legitimate use of www.gcds.com and its contents. You are not authorised to reproduce all or part of www.gcds.com and its contents on any support. Any act of reproduction must be, from time to time, authorised by the operator or, if necessary, by the authors of the individual works contained in the website. Such reproduction operations must in any case be carried out for lawful purposes and in compliance with copyright and other intellectual property rights of the manager and the authors of the individual works contained in the website. The authors of individual works published on www.gcds.com have, at any time, the right to claim authorship of their works and to oppose any deformation, mutilation or other modification of the works themselves including any act that causes damage to the works or that is detrimental to their honor or reputation. You undertake to respect the copyright of the artists who have chosen to publish their works on www.gcds.com or who have collaborated with www.gcds.com in the creation of new expressive and artistic forms intended to be published, even if not exclusively on the website. Furthermore, you are not, in any case, authorised to use, in any way or form, the contents of the website and every single work protected by copyright and any other intellectual property right. By way of example, you may not alter or, in any other way, modify the contents and protected works without the consent of the Manager and, where necessary, of the individual authors of the works published on www.gcds.com.
All other distinctive signs that distinguish the products sold on www.gcds.com and present on the website are registered trademarks of their respective owners and are used within www.gcds.com for the sole purpose of distinguishing, describing and advertising the products for sale on www.gcds.com.
The Manager and all other owners of registered trademarks are entitled to make exclusive use of their respective trademarks. Any use of these trademarks not in accordance with the law, as unauthorised, is prohibited and has serious legal consequences. It is in no way allowed to use these trademarks and any other distinctive sign present on www.gcds.com to take undue advantage of the distinctive character or reputation of these trademarks or in such a way as to be detrimental to them and their owners.
www.gcds.com may contain hyperlinks (the "links") to other websites that have no connection with www.gcds.com. The Manager does not control or monitor such websites and their contents. The Manager cannot be held responsible for the contents of these sites and the rules adopted by them also with regard to your privacy and the processing of your personal data during your navigation operations. We therefore ask you to pay attention when you connect to these websites through the links on www.gcds.com. and to read their conditions of use and privacy regulations carefully. In fact, we remind you that these General Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy of www.gcds.com. do not apply to websites managed by parties other than the Manager. www.gcds.com. provides links to other websites solely to facilitate its users in the search and navigation and to facilitate hyperlinks on the Internet to other websites. The activation of links does not imply any recommendation or recommendation by the Manager to access and navigate these websites, nor any guarantee of their contents, services or goods supplied and sold by them to Internet users.
Anyone interested in activating links to the Home page and other web pages of www.gcds.com, which are publicly accessible, please contact the Manager at the following e-mail address: customercare@gcds.it. The contact is necessary to activate the request for consent to the hyperlink to www.gcds.com. The activation of links is granted by the Manager to the applicant, free of charge and on a non-exclusive basis. The Manager has the right to oppose the activation of direct links to its own website in the event that the requesting party, who intends to activate the link to www.gcds.com, has adopted unfair commercial practices in the past or actions of unfair competition against the Manager or when the Manager fears that such behaviour may be adopted, in the future, or when the requesting party has adopted, in the past or it is feared that it may adopt them in the future, actions that discredit the Manager, its website or its services. In any case, it is forbidden to activate deep hypertext links (such as deep frames or deep links) to www.gcds.com. or the unauthorised use of meta-tags, without the consent of the Manager.
The Manager has adopted all measures to prevent the publication on the website of content describing or representing scenes or situations of physical or psychological violence or such that, according to the sensitivity of www.gcds.com users, may be considered harmful to civil beliefs, human rights and dignity of persons, in all its forms and expressions. In any case, the Manager does not guarantee that the contents of the website are appropriate or lawful in other countries, outside Italy. However, if such content is deemed to be unlawful or illegal in some of these countries, please do not access our website and if you choose to access it, in any case, we inform you that the use you decide to make of the services provided by www.gcds.com will be your exclusive and personal responsibility. The Manager has also taken all useful precautions to ensure that the contents of www.gcds.com are accurate and do not contain incorrect or outdated information, with respect to the date of their publication on the website and, as far as possible, even afterwards. However, the Manager does not assume any responsibility towards users for the accuracy and completeness of the contents published on www.gcds.com, without prejudice to its liability for wilful intent and gross negligence and unless otherwise provided for by law. The Manager, moreover, cannot guarantee users that the website will operate continuously, without interruption and without errors or malfunctions due to Internet connection. For any problems encountered in using our website, please contact Customer Service or the following e-mail address: customercare@gcds.it. A responsible person will be at your disposal to provide you with assistance and to help you restore the functionality of your access to the website, if this is possible. Likewise, we recommend that you contact your Internet service provider or check that every device for connecting to the Internet and accessing web content is properly activated, including your Internet browser. Although the Manager will endeavour to do everything possible to ensure continuous access to its website, the dynamic nature of the Internet and its content may not allow www.gcds.com to operate without suspensions, interruptions or discontinuity due to the need to update the website. The Manager has adopted adequate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the security of its services on www.gcds.com and the integrity of data relating to traffic and electronic communications with respect to forms of use or knowledge not permitted, as well as to avoid the risk of dispersion, destruction and loss of data and confidential and non-confidential information relating to its users, present on www.gcds.com, or of unauthorised access, or not in compliance with the law, to the data and information.
The Manager has adopted its own commercial policy; its mission consists in selling products through its services and its website only to the "final consumer", meaning by this term a natural person acting, on www.gcds.com, for purposes unrelated to its commercial, entrepreneurial or professional activity. If you are not a final consumer, please do not use our services to purchase products on www.gcds.com. Otherwise, the Manager shall have the right not to take into consideration purchase orders from subjects who are not final consumers and any other purchase order that does not comply with the "Terms and Conditions of Service for the online sale of products through the website" and these General Conditions of Use.
These General Conditions of Use are governed by Italian law and in particular by Legislative Decree no. 206 of 6 September 2005, on the Consumer Code in Chapter I "Consumer rights in contracts". In the event of disputes arising from the General Conditions of Use between GCDS and each of its end users, GCDS guarantees, as of now, full adhesion and acceptance to the European platform for the on-line resolution of consumer disputes (so-called ODR platform). The ODR platform is available at http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. Through the ODR platform, you will be able to consult the list of ADR entities, find the link to the website of each of them and launch an online dispute resolution procedure in which you are involved.