Terms of use

Last modified: 11.01.2021.

Acceptance of the Terms of Use

Welcome to the website of Vastint Latvia SIA (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “we” or “us”).

The following terms and conditions (together with any documents referred to herein such as the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, collectively the “Terms of Use”) apply to your use of www.businessgarden.lv (the “Website”), including any content, features, items, functionality and services offered on or through the Website.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website to ensure that you are aware of our privacy practices and your rights and obligations as user of the Website. We recommend periodical renewing of your read of the Terms of Use, in order to be aware of potential changes.

Who we are

The Website is operated by Vastint Latvia SIA, a company duly registered and functioning under the laws of the Republic of Latvia, registered with the Commercial Register under no. 40003647511, having its registered office at Marupe, Malduguņu Street 4, LV-2167, Latvia.

Should you have any questions in relation to the use of the Website, your rights and obligations or any other related queries, should you wish to consult with the Company or to submit any other communication, kindly address your requests/ communications in writing to:

Vastint Latvia SIA, Marupe, Malduguņu Street 4, LV-1010, Latvia, every day from Monday to Friday between 9.00 – 17.00 or via e-mail at info.latvia@vastint.eu. The communications received via e-mail after 17.00 shall be considered to be received on the following business day.

Personal Data processing

Should you provide to us any personal data upon using the Website, the following provisions become applicable:

We collect and process your personal data in accordance with the data protection legislation applicable at the European Union level, as well as with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law.

Please be informed that you have the option to contact us by sending an e-mail to the address mentioned above or to any other address provided by us on the Website or any of its features. In this case, you will be required to provide us some of your personal data, such as: your name and surname and contact information (including phone number, e-mail address).

In case you specifically agree (when providing us with your personal data), we may use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, such as for providing information about our services, offers or various benefits or for communicating specific commercial offers, tailored based on your potential request or queries regarding the Company, our services or products.

The Company registers your IP address and collects information about you by using cookies. Cookies are text files placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit, after previously having obtained your permission thereto. Some of these cookies are essential to make the Website work properly, while others are used for gathering website statistics, analysing user behaviour and improvement of the site etc. Please read our Cookie Policy available below for further information.

We may use your personal data collected by cookies in order to improve your user experience on our Website, and for demographic and statistical purposes, and in general for meeting administrative, accounting or technical requirements.

The collected data is used solely for the purposes indicated above, and only for the period of time involved by the development and sale of our project. You have the right to request the deletion of your data at any time and/or termination of processing of your data. You have the right to request that your personal data is not used for marketing purposes.

The Company will not rent, sell or otherwise share or disclose your personal data, except as described herein or otherwise stated at the time the data is collected.

Persons involved in the business organization of our Website (administrative, commercial and marketing personnel, legal department, and system administrators), or external service providers who perform functions on our behalf may have access to your personal data while performing their tasks or providing the services contracted by us. Such persons or service providers do not have and will not gain any right to collect or process your data for any other purposes but to help us manage the Website properly. We may be required to disclose your personal data to comply with applicable legislation.

By reading these Terms of Use and continuing to use the Website, you give your consent and authorize the Company to process your personal data under the conditions stipulated herein and in compliance with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law.

According to the Personal Data Protection Law, you have the right of access, correct and supplement your data. You have the right, for legitimate reasons, to oppose to the processing of your personal data and to request the deletion of such data.

In exercising these rights, you may submit a written request to the attention of the Company’s legal department, to the address: Zaļā Street 1, Riga LV-1010, Latvia. You also have the right to address to the competent personal data protection supervisory authority (Data State Inspectorate of the Republic of Latvia) and/or courts of law.

Changes to the Terms of Use

We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our best judgment. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. Without prejudice to the above, you are expected to check this page each time you access the Website to take notice of any changes we made so that you become aware of such changes, as they are binding on you.

Accessing the Website and account security

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material uploaded on it at any moment in time, at our sole discretion and without notice. If you do not agree with such amendments, you may choose to cease the use of the Website. We will not be liable if (for any reason) all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to the Website (in whole or in part) to users.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.

You are responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use, and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

The Website and its entire contents, features and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection and arrangement thereof), are: (1) owned by the Company, its licensors, other companies within the Interogo Holding or other providers of such material; and (2) protected by Latvian and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade name and/or other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

You are permitted to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store or transmit any of the material on our Website, except to:

store copies of such materials temporarily in your computers Random Access Memory (RAM);
store files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display enhancement purposes; and/or
print a reasonable number of pages of the Website for your own personal, non-commercial use.

You are not allowed to:

modify copies of any materials from this Website;
use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from the accompanying text and/or for other purposes than your own personal, non-commercial use;
delete or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this Website.

You are not allowed to reproduce, sell or exploit for any commercial purposes any part of the Website, access to the Website or use of the Website or any services or materials available through the Website.

If you print, copy, modify, download or otherwise use any part of the Website in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must either return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. In case such event occurs, you may be notified of any actions taken by the Company pursuant to the above. No right, title or interest in or to the Website or any content on the site is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.

Company trademarks

The Company name, the term “Vastint”, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks or trade names of the Company. You are not allowed to use such marks, either registered or not, without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, brands and marks are used for identification purposes only and are the trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.

Prohibited uses

You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You are responsible for knowing the Latvian law and for being aware of the contents of these Terms of Use. Without being limited to the following actions, the Website must not be used as set out below:

in any way that violates any provisions of the applicable local and/or international law or regulation;
to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with the provisions stated hereunder;
to transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail”, “chain letter” or “spam” or any other similar solicitation;
to impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company or a Company employee, another user, or person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of e-mail addresses or screen names associated with any of the foregoing);
to engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company (including its associates or collaborators) or users of the Website or expose them to liability.

Additionally, Website users may not:

use the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party’s use of the Website, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Website;
use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Website for any purpose, including to monitor or copy any of the material on the Website;
use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Website or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior written consent;
use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website;
introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful;
attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website;
attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack;
otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.

Monitoring, enforcement and termination

We have the right to:

take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website;
obtain the full compensation for any and all damages that have been caused directly or indirectly by the improper use of the Website, including by the failure to observe the provisions of these Terms of Use;
terminate your access to all or part of the Website for any reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities and/or to comply with any court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. You agree to waive and hold the Company harmless against any claims resulting from any action taken by the Company during or as a result of its monitoring and enforcement actions.

Reliance on information posted

The information presented on or through the Website is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other user of our Website, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Changes to the Website

We may update the Website from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date at any given moment. Any of the material on the Website may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. We may change the Website at any time with or without notice. We may suspend access to the Website (in whole or in part), or close it indefinitely.

Provision of information and messages to us

Please note that the Company and its affiliates and related companies (the “Vastint group”), receive a large number of unsolicited messages and e-mails relating to commercial opportunities. Any message sent to us via the Website or via e-mail without any preceding request from the Vastint group is considered as unsolicited. Your message will not be considered as a formal introduction to a site or a project and the Vastint group does not agree to any fee arrangement, confidentiality undertaking or other agreement by receiving or reviewing your message. Further, the Vastint group cannot be bound by your email and/or its contents in any way or restricted from dealing with subject matter property as it sees fit.

By sending us an unsolicited e-mail, you explicitly confirm and agree to the above. If you do not agree to the above, please do not send us the message.

Information about you and your visits to the Website

All personal data we collect on this Website is subject to our Privacy Policy available below. By providing your personal data when using the Website you represent and warrant that all data provided by you is complete, accurate and up to date.

Linking to the Website

You may link to the homepage (www.businessgarden.lv), provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part without our express written consent.

You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

The Website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of the Website other than the homepage without the express written consent from the Company.

You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking to cease immediately. If you are the one responsible for such actions, we reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Links from the Website

If the Website contains links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.

Geographic restrictions

The Company is based in Latvia. Access to the Website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside Latvia, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws that apply to you when using our Website. If you are a user who interacts with the Company from a place located outside Latvia, when providing your personal data, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in Latvia.

Disclaimer of warranties

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining external means to our Website for any reconstruction of any lost data. We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or any services or items obtained through the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Your use of the Website, its content and any services or items obtained through the Website is at your own risk. The Website, its content and any services or items obtained through the Website are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Neither the Company nor any person associated with the Company makes any warranty or representation with respect to the completeness, security, reliability, quality, accuracy or availability of the Website. Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Company nor anyone associated with the Company represents or warrants that the Website, its content or any services or items obtained through the Website will be accurate, reliable, error-free or uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, that our Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components or that the Website or any services or items obtained through the Website will otherwise meet your needs or expectations.

The Company hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to any warranties of merchant-ability, non-infringement and fitness for particular purpose.

The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot be excluded or limited under the applicable law.

Limitation on liability

In no event will the Company, its affiliates or their licencors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, directors or shareholders be liable for damages of any kind, under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with your use, or inability to use, the Website, any websites linked to it, any content on the Website or such other websites or any services or items obtained through the Website or such other websites, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages, including but not limited to personal injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of business or anticipated savings, loss of use, loss of goodwill, loss of data, and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

The foregoing does not affect the liability which cannot be excluded or limited under the applicable law.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates and licencors and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licencors and suppliers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting out of or in relation to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website, including, without limitation, any use of the Website’s content, services and products or your use of any information obtained from the Website.

Governing law and jurisdiction

All matters relating to these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of, or related to, them, their subject matter or their formation (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Latvia without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.

You agree to submit any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Website exclusively in the jurisdiction of the competent courts located in Latvia.

Waiver and sever-ability

No waiver of these Terms of Use by the Company shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.

Entire agreement

These Terms of Use constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the Website.

Your comments and concerns

All your feedback, comments, requests for technical support and other communications relating to the Website should be submitted via info.latvia@vastint.eu.

This Website is operated by Vastint Latvia SIA, a company duly registered and functioning under the laws of Latvia, registered with the Commercial Register under no. 40003647511, having its registered office at Marupe, Malduguņu Street 4, LV-2167, Latvia. The Company is an affiliated company of Interogo Holding AG (Interogo Holding AG together with all its affiliates are collectively referred to as the “Group”).

Thank you for using our Website.