Terms of use

1. Description of Services

‍The Site contains material about Steakholder Foods and its various technologies, services or products. Certain sections of the Site may be intended for particular audiences, including Steakholder’s employees, customers and shareholders, as well as members of the general public.  Please feel free to browse the Site, as appropriate.  Your access to and use of the information on the Site is subject to these Terms and all applicable laws. By accessing this Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these Terms and acknowledge that it supersedes any other agreement between you and Steakholder Foods with respect to access and use of this Site.​

2. Changes to the Terms

We will notify users of any changes to these Terms. Notification will either be made by way of an e-mail or by posting of the changes on the Site. Changes to these Terms will be effective 30 days following notice. Your continued use of the Site after any change has become effective will constitute your acceptance of those changes.

III. Third-Party Content

This Site may contain links or references to other Internet sites or products or services of third parties over whom neither we or nor our affiliates have control (“Third-Party Content”). Third-Party Content may include information related to the medical conditions and their treatment available on this Site.

Steakholder Foods does not verify, and is not responsible for, the accuracy, authenticity, appropriateness, completeness, reliability, safety, or privacy practices of Third-Party Content. Steakholder Foods makes no representation concerning, and is under no obligation to prevent, the downloading, distribution, linking to, or re-posting of Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use of any Third-Party Content does not imply our approval, sponsorship, or endorsement thereof. Steakholder Foods does not make any representations or warranties as to the security of any information (such as medical and other sensitive information) you might give on any third-party site.

Steakholder Foods will not, in any manner, be liable for or responsible for any loss or damages that may arise from your dealings or interaction with third parties, including your use or reliance on any Third-Party Content found on our Site. You expressly waive any and all claims you may have against Steakholder Foods and release Steakholder Foods from any and all liability arising from or related to the Third-Party Content, whether or not authorized by Steakholder Foods.

If you decide to leave this Site and access or use third-party sites, you do so at your own risk, and you should be aware that our Terms of Use no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data-gathering practices, of any third-party website to which you navigate from this Site.

3. Prohibited Use of the Site

You agree to not use this Site in the following ways:

• for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms;
• to conduct yourself in any way that may be construed as threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing, stalking, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, profane, obscene, offensive, objectionable, pornographic, obscene, unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, tortuous, giving rise to civil or criminal liability, invasive or in violation of another’s right of privacy or publicity, hateful, bigoted, racially or ethnically offensive, or in violation of an applicable local, national or international law, including, but not limited to, laws related to copyrights, trademarks, patents, or trade secrets, or otherwise objectionable as determined by us in our sole discretion;
• to promote information that is known to be inaccurate, misleading, or false;
• to advertise or otherwise solicit funds, goods, or services, such as through contests, sweepstakes, barter, pyramid schemes, or other forms of unauthorized advertising or commerce, without our prior written consent;
• to express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by Steakholder Foods without our specific prior written consent;
• to send unsolicited email or other communications, including, without limitation, junk mail, spam, and chain letters;
• in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair our (or our third-party providers’) server or the networks connected to our server;
• to collect or harvest any information about other users or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, computer systems, or networks associated with any Steakholder’s servers, data not intended for you, or otherwise violate any security features of this Site, through hacking, password mining, or any other means;
• to distribute or facilitate the distribution of viruses, corrupted data, trojan horses, bots, keystroke loggers, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines or computer code that are intended to and/or actually damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or mine, obtain unauthorized access to, scrape or expropriate any system, software, data or personal information;
• to attempt to modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to human-perceivable form any of the source code used by Steakholder Foods in providing this Site; and
• to adversely affect the enjoyment and availability of Site resources to other users (e.g., excessive shouting (use of all caps), flooding (continuous posting of repetitive text), or excessively large embedded images).

Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.​

4. Feedback Submission

We welcome your feedback regarding Steakholder Foods and this Site. However, any comments, notes, suggestions, review, ideas, suggestions, concepts, services, feature, program, product, software, applications, tools, or other communications (“Feedback”) sent to Steakholder Foods shall be and remain the exclusive property of Steakholder Foods. Your submission of any such Feedback shall constitute an assignment to Steakholder Foods of all worldwide rights, titles and interests in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Feedback. Steakholder Foods will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, publish, and distribute any material you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you in any way. Steakholder Foods will be under no obligation to keep your Feedback confidential or to otherwise protect your Feedback.

For this reason, we ask that you not send us any comment that you do not wish to assign to us, including any confidential or proprietary information or any original creative materials such as stories, product ideas, computer code, or artwork.

5. Minors

If you are under the age of 13 years old, you may use the Site only under the supervision of a parent or guardian. This Site, through use of a third-party vendor for credit card transactions, may offer for sale or sell products or services to adults who are capable of making purchases with a credit card. If you are a parent or guardian who is supervising a minor’s use of the Site, please be aware that you are fully responsible for his or her use of and conduct on the Site, including all financial charges and legal liability that he or she may incur. We reserve the right to refuse service or cancel orders in our sole discretion.

VII. Limitations of Liability

You acknowledge that your use of this Site is at your sole risk, and that we will not be held liable in any way. Under no circumstance and under no legal or equitable theory, whether in tort, contract, strict liability, or otherwise, shall Steakholder Foods or any of its employees, OWNERS, SHAREHOLDERS, staff, directors, officers, consultants, agents, suppliers, contractors, or representatives be liable to you or any other person for any direct, indirect, general, special, incidental, compensatory, consequential, or exemplary damages, injury, or losses of any nature arising out of or in connection with the use of this Site. This includes, but is not limited to, bodily injury, emotional distress, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, personal property, or other intangible losses, accuracy of results, computer failure or malfunction, even if an authorized representative of Steakholder Foods has been advised of, or should have known, the possibility of such damages, resulting from (i) the use of, or the inability to use, this Site; (II) your communications or dealings with other users of this site or persons you meet through this site; (Iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your data transmissions; (iv) statements, representations, or conduct of any third party using this Site; or (v) any other matter relating to this Site.

VIII. Disclaimer of Warranty

this site, all content made available on it and the service are provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis. we disclaim all warranties and representations of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability, title, fitness for a particular purpose, custom, trade, quiet enjoyment, system integration, freedom from computer virus, and non-infringement of rights. we make no warranty or representation that any part of the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, safe to download, timely, secure, accurate, complete, adequate, useful, reliable, physically safe, or of any quality or that the defects will be corrected. in addition we make no representation as to the accuracy completeness or relevance of the content provided on the site. any reliance on the content on the site is made at the user’s own risk. we strongly encourage you to reach out to us for additional and up-to-date information which you may seek, need or require so as to ensure competency, accuracy and relevancy.​

6. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Steakholder Foods and any other party involved in creating, producing, delivering, or maintaining this site and each of their respective owners, representatives, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, shareholders, contractors, advertisers, partners, related parties, licensors, licensees, suppliers, and co-branders from and against all claims, demands, damages, costs, losses, and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to (i) your use of this site; (ii) your breach of these terms of use; or (iii) any claim that user content or third party content, or any reliance thereof, caused damage to you or a third party.

7. Use License

Subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms, Steakholder Foods hereby grants to you, and you accept, a personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable, non-sublicensable, revocable, limited license to access and make non-commercial use of the Site only according to the terms and conditions of these Terms to temporarily download one copy of the content (information or software) on this Site for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only.  You may not: (1) modify or copy the content, translate, disassemble (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such restriction), make any attempt to discover the source code of the Site and/or any other software available on the Site or create derivative works thereof; (2) remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the content; (3) use the content for any commercial purpose; (4) publish, publicly display, or otherwise distribute, copy all or any part of the Site and/or the Steakholder Foods IPR (as defined below) or the content, including via the Internet, any social media platform or network, or any intranet or extranet side, for any commercial or non-commercial purpose; (5) attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on this Site; (6) access the Site through or use with the Site any unauthorized means, services or tools including without limitation any data mining, robots, scraping, or any  other automated means or data-gathering and extraction methods or tools, including without limitation in order to extract for re-utilization of any parts of this Site or to obtain the content; (7) transfer the content to third party or “mirror” the materials on any other server; (8) sell, license (or sub-license), lease, assign, transfer, pledge, or share any of your rights under these Terms with/to any third party; (9) transmit or upload any viruses, spyware or other harmful, infringing, illegal, disruptive or destructive content, messages or files; (10) use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use the Site for any illegal, harmful or offensive use; (11) perform any act that destabilizes, interrupts or encumbers the Site or its servers or use automatic means,  robots or crawlers, that enable sending more request messages to the servers of the Site, in a given period of time, than a human can reasonably send in that time period by using the Site; or (12) penetrate or circumvent or attempt to penetrate or circumvent any technical restrictions or limitations included in the Site or its servers. No right, title or interest in any downloaded materials is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions. We reserve the right to suspend or deny at any time, in our sole discretion, your access to all or any portions of this Site.

8. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise explicitly specified, all materials that are included in or are otherwise a part of the Site are copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual property enhancements and derivatives thereof and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto (“Steakholder Foods IPR“) are the exclusive property of Steakholder Foods and/or its licensors who retain all right, title and interest in connection therewith . No transfer or grant of any rights by Steakholder Foods is made or is to be implied by any provision of these Terms or by any other provision contained in the Site with respect to the Steakholder Foods IPR or otherwise, except for the limited license as expressly set forth herein. You may not reproduce or use Steakholder’s trademarks or trade dress without the prior written permission of Steakholder Foods. Nothing contained on this Site should be understood as granting you a license to use any of the trademarks, trade names, trade dress, service marks, taglines, or logos owned or licensed by Steakholder Foods or by any third party.

If you believe that your intellectual property has been used in any way that could be considered a copyright infringement or a violation of your intellectual property rights, please contact us in writing at privacy@steakholderfoods.com. You agree that, in the event we receive a written demand from a third party alleging that any User Content infringes upon, dilutes, tarnishes or otherwise violates its trademark or trade secret rights, we may, in our sole discretion, remove or disable access to such User Content. In an effort to protect the rights of intellectual property owners, we maintain a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of user accounts of this Site who repeatedly infringe the copyright and other intellectual property rights of others.

“Intellectual Property Rights” means worldwide, whether registered or not (a) rights associated with works of authorship, designs, mask works and photography including copyrights; (b) trademarks, service marks, domain names, logos, trade names, trade dress, the right to publicity and goodwill rights; (c) patents, patent applications and industrial designs; (d) trade secrets; (e) rights analogous to those set forth herein and any other proprietary rights relating to intangible property; (f) divisions, continuations, renewals, reissues and extensions of the foregoing (as applicable) now existing or hereafter filed, issued, or acquired.

XII. Reservation of Rights

All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to Steakholder Foods and its licensors. The use of our rights and property requires our prior written consent. By making this Site available to you, we are not providing you with any implied or express licenses or rights, and you will have no rights to make any commercial use of this Site without prior written consent.

XIII. Termination and Investigation

Steakholder Foods reserves the right to suspend or terminate your use of this Site. You agree that Steakholder Foods or its representatives may access your account and records on a case-by-case basis to investigate complaints or allegations of abuse, infringement of third-party rights, or other unauthorized uses of this Site. Steakholder Foods does not intend to disclose the existence or occurrence of such an investigation unless required by law, but Steakholder Foods reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account or your access to this Site immediately, with or without notice to you, and without liability to you, if Steakholder Foods believes that you have violated any of the Terms of Use, furnished Steakholder Foods with false or misleading information, or interfered with the use of this Site by others.

you waive and hold harmless Steakholder Foods from any claims resulting from any action taken by Steakholder Foods during or as a result of its investigations and/or from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either Steakholder Foods or law enforcement authorities.

XIV. Accuracy and Completeness

Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of published information on or through this Site, you understand that the materials appearing on this Site could inadvertently contain technical, typographical, or photographic errors or may expose you to content that you find undesirable, objectionable, or offensive. Neither Steakholder Foods nor any author or supplier contributing to this Site is responsible to you in any way for any content displayed on this Site, nor for any error, revision, or omission in any information provided or the results obtained from your use of such information.

Steakholder Foods may make changes to the materials contained on its Site at any time without notice. While we will make every effort to keep content on this Site current, we do not guarantee it is the most up-to-date information available. For up-to-the-minute information on contact information and any other information regarding Steakholder Foods, its operations, programs, and offers, please contact Steakholder Foods at privacy@steakholderdoods.com.

Certain portions of the Site may be subject to additional terms and conditions specified by Steakholder Foods from time to time. Your use of the Site is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into these Terms by this reference.

9. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed under the laws of New York, without regard for conflicts of law principles. You agree that jurisdiction over and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or related to this Site or the use or access thereof shall be in the state or federal courts located in New York. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly disclaimed.

XVI. Severability/Waiver

If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid, void, unlawful, or for any reason unenforceable by any court having competent jurisdiction, then the provision shall be deemed severable from the Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of these Terms of Use.

The failure of either party to assert any right under these Terms of Use will not be considered to be a waiver of that party’s right, and the said right will remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such terms and conditions or any other term or condition. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify the Terms.

XVII. Statute of Limitations

You agree that, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may wish to assert related in any manner to this Site or its services must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause arose, or the said claim or cause will be forever barred, without regard to any contrary legislation.

XVIII. Assignment

We may assign our rights and obligations under these Terms of Use, without notice, to one or more third parties. In this event, Steakholder Foods will be relieved of any further obligation. You may not assign these Terms without Steakholder’s prior written consent.

XIX. Privacy Policy

Please refer to our Privacy Policy at https://steakholderfoods.com/legal/privacy-policy/, which is incorporated herein by reference. Your assent to these Terms of Use includes your assent to our Privacy Policy.