Terms and conditions

By entering the J. Cortès Cigars’ website, you consent to these Terms and Conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”). It is recommended to read these Terms and Conditions very carefully, as they indicate how to properly use the website http://www.jcortes.com/ (the “Website”) and all its content. The Terms and Conditions entail a privacy and cookie policy as well.

It is of the utmost importance that you exit this Website immediately if you are not of age or refuse to abide by these Terms and Conditions.

By accessing the Website and by verifying that you are 21 years of age, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms and Conditions. Please direct further questions concerning these Terms and Conditions, including privacy issues, to: info@jcortes.com

1. About J. Cortès Cigars

J. Cortès Cigars NV (“J. Cortès Cigars”), incorporated under the Belgian laws with its registered office at Pannebakkersstraat 1, 8522 Zwevegem, Belgium, registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 0405.450.102.

2. Access and use of the website

1. Content of the website

J. Cortès Cigars takes special care in maintaining this Website and its content. However, J. Cortès Cigars does not exclude the possibility of certain inaccuracies. If you were to find any of these inaccuracies, please contact us immediately. We will verify and change these inaccuracies as soon as possible.

J. Cortès Cigars is not liable for any direct or indirect damages resulting from the use of this Website and its content. We preserve the right to make changes or suspend access to this Website without any preliminary notification.

The Website may contain links to websites of third parties. Providing these links does not mean that J. Cortès Cigars represents or approves of the content of these websites. Nor has J. Cortès Cigars the ability to edit or to exercise influence on the content of these third party websites.

2. Changes to the Terms and Conditions

J. Cortès Cigars preserves the right to make changes to these Terms and Conditions. It is not the responsibility of J. Cortès Cigars to notify visitors of this Website about changes made. Changes to the Terms and Conditions are effective immediately. Continued use of this website implies your agreement with these changed Terms and Conditions.

3. Access and Use of this Website

J. Cortès Cigars is not responsible for temporary inaccessibility of the Website. Use of this website shall be solely restricted to lawful purposes. Prohibited use of this websites includes, but is not limited to: any manner of breaching applicable local, national or international law or regulation; transmitting data that contains viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, adware or other malicious code that could harm the Website or its users; a denial-of service attack.

J. Cortès Cigars preserves, in the light of the foregoing, the right to withhold access to the Website for any user at any time. We shall not hesitate to report this, when confronted with a case of unauthorized or unlawful use or access to the Website, to the competent authorities.

Linking to this Website shall be preceded by a formal request and permission, obtained from J. Cortès Cigars. Unless written permission is obtained, you shall not associate yourself with or claim endorsement from J. Cortès Cigars.

4. Disclaimer

The material contained on this site may contain inaccuracies and typographical errors. Although J. Cortès Cigars aims to provide correct information, imperfections or errors can always occur, for which J. Cortès Cigars cannot be held responsible. 

J. Cortès Cigars does not warrant that the Website is not subjected to potentially harmful viruses or similar threats. It is the sole responsibility of the user of the Website to provide its device, by which it accesses the website, with the necessary protection, as well to be on guard for any unusual activity.

J. Cortès Cigars is in no event responsible or liable for any direct or indirect damages or loss of any kind, arising out or in connection with the use of the Website. Visiting the Website is at your own risk.J. Cortès Cigars assumes no liability for the content of external links. Users are exclusively responsible for the content of the linked sites.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

All intellectual property and database rights on our Website, including but not limited to trademarks, text, logos, images, audio and video material (“Materials”) is owned by J. Cortès Cigars. The use of this Website does not entail any rights or license to the Materials available on the Website, save for non-commercial use or enforced by national law. The Materials available on the Website shall not be modified in any way that could harm J. Cortès Cigars. Commercial use shall be preceded by a formal request and license, obtained from J. Cortès Cigars.

6. Waiver

Any failure or delay in exercising any right under these Terms and Conditions, any single or partial exercise of any right under these Terms and Conditons and any partial reaction or absence of reaction by a Party in the event of a violation by the user of this Website of one or more provisions of these Terms and Conditions, shall not operate or be interpreted as a waiver (either express or implied, in whole or in part) of J. Cortès Cigar’s rights under these Terms and Conditions, nor shall it preclude any further exercise of any such rights. Any waiver of a right must be express and in writing. If there has been an express written waiver of a right following a specific failure by J. Cortès Cigar, this waiver cannot be invoked in favour of a new failure, similar to the prior one, or in favour of any other kind of failure.

7. Severability

Whenever possible, the provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted in such a manner as to be valid and enforceable under the applicable law. However, if one or more provisions of these Terms and Conditions are found to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part, the remainder of that provision and of these Terms and Conditions shall remain in full force and effect as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein.

8. Other

All issues, questions and disputes concerning the validity, interpretation, enforcement and performance of these Terms and Conditions, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Belgian law.

All disputes arising from the use of this Website or related to these Terms and Conditions shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the courts of West-Flanders, section KORTRIJK.