Applicability

Access to and use of this website are subject to the following terms of use and all applicable legal provisions. This website is operated by Melchers China, NORQAIN’s exclusive distributor in China Mainland and Hong Kong. By accessing this website, you automatically declare that you have understood and agree with the terms of use.

The conclusion and processing of purchasing agreements are subject to the general terms and conditions of NORQAIN available on this website as last updated. For data processing (including but not limited to personal data), please refer to the privacy policy also available on this website as last updated.

Use of this website

This website can be used with or without registration. However, the use of certain services and products (e.g. ordering watches, NORQAINER Club, newsletter) requires a registration. To register with NORQAIN, you have to be at least 18 years of age. NORQAIN reserves the right to restrict registration to specific countries.

For NORQAIN, the customer is the person using the user identification and password, regardless of whether such person actually has a right to access the user account. The person registering for this website shall be responsible for handling of the user identification and password in due form.

Management and development of the website

The website is managed and operated by NORQAIN or commissioned third parties. NORQAIN strives to offer the operation of the NORQAIN website with as little disruptions as possible and to keep disruptions for the purpose of rectifying malfunctions, servicing, introduction of new technologies, etc., as short as possible but cannot rule them out completely.

Intellectual property
All rights to information, elements and content of the website (hereinafter jointly referred to as “content”), including but not limited to copyright, patent, design, naming and company rights contained therein, are the intellectual property of NORQAIN or third parties having granted a corresponding license to their use to NORQAIN.

The content of this website may be downloaded, displayed and/or printed for private, non-commercial use exclusively. The user does not acquire any right to the content made available on the website.

Links to and from other websites

NORQAIN provides the user with hyperlinks to third-party websites which are reviewed for their legality at the time of linking. However, third-party website legality cannot be reviewed continuously. Therefore, NORQAIN does not accept any responsibility for the content of linked websites.

Hyperlinks to this website may be provided for private, non-commercial purposes only. “Deep linking”, “framing”, “in-line linking” or other types of embedding of parts of this website of NORQAIN in third-party websites is prohibited. NORQAIN refuses to accept any liability for any infringement on these terms and reserves all legal rights available to it.

Liability

NORQAIN is liable for wilful intent or gross negligence with regard to the use of this website only. NORQAIN will not accept any liability for consequential damages and lost profit.

NORQAIN does not accept any liability for the misuse of the internet and associated damage to the user by third parties, for security gaps and disruptions of third-party telecommunication networks and the internet and for business interruptions and disruptions of the website and third-party websites.

Severability clause

If individual provisions of these terms of use are or become ineffective, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. Rather, the ineffective provision shall be replaced by an effective provision coming as close to its economical purpose as possible. The same shall apply in the event of a gap in the provisions.