Terms & Conditions

ATTENTION: Please read these terms and conditions of use carefully before using this website. Using The Forest Spirits Store and clicking on the “Place Order” button when you actually place an order, represents your acceptance of these terms and conditions of use. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, then we urge you not to use The Forest Spirits Store.

The Forest Spirits Store is the online home of La Hanoudière SARL (the Company) – SIRET: 853 323 335 00010. The Company operates at 899 Route de la Hanoudière, 14140 Heurtevent- Livarot, France. The Company makes no representations that materials contained on The Forest Spirits Store are appropriate for use in other locations. If you use this Web Site (https://Forest Spirits.com) from other locations than Belgium, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

The Company reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to revise these Terms and Conditions of Use at any time by updating this posting. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Web Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes and that they apply to you. These Terms and Conditions of Use apply to every Web Site maintained by the Company, including https://Forest Spirits.com. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not use this Web Site. If you breach any of these Terms and Conditions of Use your right to use this Web Site will terminate automatically.

Changes to Terms and Conditions:

La Hanoudière SARL may, at any time, for any reason and without notice, make changes to (i) this Website, including its look, feel, format, and content, as well as (ii) the products and/or services as described in this Website. Any modifications will take effect when posted to the Website. Therefore, each time you access the Website, you need to review the Terms of Use upon which access and use of this Website is conditioned. By your continuing use of the Website after changes are posted, you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.

The Sale of Alcoholic Beverages:

The Company does not sell alcohol to persons under the age of 18. By using this site you are representing that you are over the age of 18. The Company makes every effort to ensure that alcoholic beverages are not delivered to anyone who is under the age of 18. By using this site you are representing that the person receiving a shipment of alcoholic beverages from the Company is over the age of 18. You also agree that any alcohol purchased from the Company  is intended for personal consumption and not for resale. If you do not agree with these conditions of use, please do not use this site or accept these conditions.

Shipping to:

We deliver to any location in Belgium, France, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Denmark & Finland. If you submit a delivery address outside of this country, we reserve the right to decline your order.

Receiving Merchandise and Passage of Title:

By arranging for transportation of the alcoholic beverages, The Forest Spirits Store is providing a service to, and acting on behalf of you. By utilizing this service from The Forest Spirits Store you are representing that you are acting in compliance with your local and state laws regarding the purchase, transportation and delivery of alcoholic beverages. You further represent that you have obtained any required permission, paid any required fees, are working through properly licensed intermediaries where required, are legally entitled to take possession of the alcoholic beverages, are legally entitled to take quantities ordered and that you and the person accepting delivery of the alcoholic beverage products are at least 18 years of age.

How to get your product from The Forest Spirits Store:

  1. You can ship your products to yourself or another recipient via common carrier. Any recipient of alcoholic beverages must provide proof of age (over 18 years of age).
  • All orders are shipped as soon as possible (no shipping on Holiday’s). All Orders placed before during working hours (CEST) will be shipped within 48 hours, but can take up to 5-8 business days to get to your location.
  • In the event that we are out of a product(s), we will make an attempt to contact you, to resolve the issue.  If we are unsuccessful in contacting you, we have the right to refund part of an order, or the entire order, a 5% charge will apply.
  • Some item(s) have these or similar wording (When ordering this product please make sure that you order at least X items! If you don’t order at least X item(s) we will cancel your order. There is a 10% charge if this applies to you. (X being the value)

Use of Site Content:

The Company maintains The Forest Spirits Store and its contents for your personal information, entertainment and education. Please feel free to browse the web site. You may view and download material displayed on the Web Site for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you retain all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices contained within the materials. You may not distribute, retransmit, republish, reuse, repost, or use the contents of this web site for public or commercial purposes, without the Company’s prior written permission. You may not alter or interfere with the content or functioning of the Web Site, or “mirror” any content contained on this Web Site on any other server. The materials on this Web Site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. If you breach any of the terms of conditions of use, your right to use this Web Site will terminate automatically.

Disclaimers of Warranties:

The material contained in this Web Site has been checked for accuracy; however, there may be inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors. The Company expressly disclaims all liability for errors or omissions in, or the misuse or misinterpretation of, any information contained on this Web Site. Information published on this Web Site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country. Without limiting the foregoing, the web site is provided “AS IS” and without warranty of any kind, either express of implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

Limitation of Liability:

Neither the Company nor any third party involved in creating or delivering the Web Site will be liable under any theory (including negligence) for any incidental, consequential, indirect, special, or punitive damages arising out of your access to or use of the Web Site, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. The Company may change information contained on the Web Site at any time. All users of the material agree that access to and use of the material is subject to the terms and conditions stated in this legal notice, as well as all applicable laws. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE USE OF THIS WEB SITE. If you are dissatisfied with the Web Site or any content on the site, your remedy is to discontinue using this site.

Copyrights, Trademarks and other Proprietary Rights:

The contents of this Website, such as information, images, photographs, music, video, trademarks, products, advertising, trademarks, designs, text, logos, and icons, or other intellectual property are proprietary to The Forest Spirits Store. You may not display, reproduce, distribute, modify, transmit, or otherwise use the contents of the Web Site in any way for any public or commercial purposes, without the company’s written permission. You are authorized to use this material only for personal, non-commercial purposes. You may print or download information on our site for your own personal, non-commercial use.Said material is protected against unauthorized use by copyrights and trademark laws. No right, title and/or interest in any material or software may be deemed assigned to you as a result of any such download or copying. You may not reproduce, totally or in part (except for private, personal and not commercial use), distribute, publish, transmit, modify totally or in part, or sell any of such information, images, photographs, trademarks, products and in general elements and material contained in this Site.

Links

As a convenience to you, our Web Site may display links to other sites which are not maintained by the Company. The Company is not responsible or liable for the content or operation of third-party sites, and the presence of such links does not imply that the Company is affiliated with such sites or third parties. We try to include only links to those sites which are in good taste and safe for our visitors.

Spamming

Gathering email addresses from La Hanoudière SARL through harvesting or automated means is prohibited. Posting or transmitting unauthorized or unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or any other forms of solicitation to other Users is prohibited. Inquiries regarding a commercial relationship with La Hanoudière SARL should be directed to: store@Forest Spirits.com

Applicability of Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions will govern all contracts between you as a consumer and La Hanoudière SARL.

E-mail: info@Forest-Spirits.com

Offer & Acceptance

When you place an order to purchase a product by clicking the order button, we will send you an e-mail confirming receipt of your order and containing the details of your order. Your order represents an offer to us to purchase a product which is accepted by us when we send an order confirmation within 3 days via e-mail to you that we’ve accepted your order or dispatched the product to you. This will only happen if we have confirmed that you have paid for the order.

The contract can be concluded in either Dutch, French or English.

Right of Withdrawal

If you buy goods from us, you have the right to decide that you do not want to keep the goods for 14 days from the delivery or the conclusion of the contract. You can then return your order without penalty and without giving any reason (the cost hereof is to be paid by you). Within 14 days after reception of your returned order or your indication that you wish to forgo the agreement, we will pay you back the full purchase price, by the same means of payment which you utilised for the purchase.

The direct costs of the return of the goods will thus be at your expense. We will indicate the costs of the return or make an assessment of the costs, if it is not reasonably possible to calculate them in advance. Should it be impossible to return the goods by postal service, we will pick up the goods from you without charging you additional costs.

We can refuse repayment as long as we have not received the returned goods or until you have shown you have returned the goods, depending on which event occurs first.

We expect you to handle the order as well as the packaging with the utmost care during the first 14 days after delivery. If you want to return the goods as described above, you may only unpack or use them to the extend needed to assess whether or not you wishes to retain them. Returned goods may be tested, but not used. When returning the goods, you will also have to return all delivered accessories and – if reasonably possible – return the goods in their original condition and packaging as well as taking in account our instructions as listed below.

You can return you package through post or courier.

In order to exercise your right to withdrawal quickly and correctly, both in case of delivery of services as in the case of delivery of goods, you can fill out the form below and send it to store@Forest Spirits.com. We will send you an acknowledgement of your withdrawal by email.

“MODEL WITHDRAWAL FORM”

 (Only fill out and sent this form if you wish the withdrawal the agreement) – To [here the trader’s name, geographical address and, where available, his fax number and e-mail address are to be inserted by the trader]:

I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/We (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract of sale of the following goods (*)/for the provision of the following service (*),

  • Ordered on (*)/received on (*),
  • Name of consumer(s),
  • Address of consumer(s),
  • Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper),
  • Date

(*) Delete as appropriate.

Prices and Delivery Costs

All prices are in EURO and include the VAT at the appropriate rate. Delivery charges are not included in the prices quoted.

  • The contract price is the current price at the moment when an order is placed with the web site.
  • The prices quoted in the web site are exclusive of postage and administration costs.
  • La Hanoudière SARL is not bound by the terms of its offer in the event that there is any printing, typesetting or programming fault on its website.

Delivery

  • We will ship all goods with BPost (Belgium) and DHL (international).
  • By placing an order, you confirm that you are at least 18 years of age and the minimum legal age for purchasing alcohol products in your country of residence.

Payment Methods

We only accept advance payment through our website using the payment methods indicated there. In order to guarantee safe online payment and the safety of your personal data, the transaction data will only be wired while encrypted with SSL technology. In order to make payments with SSL no special software is required. You recognize a safe SSL-connection by the “lock” in the bottom status bar of your browser.

Taxes & Duties

All products sold at Forest Spirits.com are subject to French taxation. Prices are subjected to Value Added Tax (VAT).

Retention of Title

The goods shall remain the sole and absolute property of La Hanoudière SARL until all goods are paid in full by the customer.

After-Sales Services

Any complaint regarding the goods or services supplied should be made to:

La Hanoudière SARL,  E-mail: info@Forest Spirits.com

Storage and Accessibility of the contract

The contract´s content will be stored. You may store the general terms and conditions and readily look them up. For safety reasons your order data are not available via internet. We keep these data in confidence according to our privacy policy.

Force Majeure

In case of force majeure, we are not obliged to fulfil our obligations. In that case we may either suspend our obligations for the duration of the state of force majeure or definitely repudiate the agreement.

Events of force majeure are all circumstances external to our will and control that render the respect of our obligations completely or partly impossible. Such events include amongst others strikes, fire, disruption of energy supplies or telecommunication networks or communication systems and/or the temporary down-time of the webshop, late delivery or absence of delivery by suppliers or other third parties,…

Intellectual Property

Our website, logos, texts, photographs, names, and in general all our communications are protected by intellectual property rights either belonging to us or our suppliers or other claimants.

It is forbidden to use and/or change any of the intellectual property rights as described in the present clause. So you may not copy nor reproduce for example drawings, photographs names, texts, logos, colour combinations, etc. …without our prior written and explicit consent.

ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE ONLY TO REGISTERED USERS

Accounts and Security

La Hanoudière SARL does not warrant that the functions contained in the service provided by the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that this service or the server that makes it available will be free of viruses or other harmful components.

As part of the registration process, each user will select a password and Login Name. You shall provide La Hanoudière SARL with accurate, complete, and updated Account information. Failure to do so shall constitute a breach of this Terms of Use, which may result in immediate termination of your Account.

You may not:

  1. select or use a Login Name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person;
  2. use a name subject to the rights of any other person without authorization;
  3. use a Login Name that Website, in its sole discretion, deems inappropriate or offensive.

You shall notify La Hanoudière SARL of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your Account, or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password. You shall be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.

Any fraudulent, abusive, or otherwise illegal activity may be grounds for termination of your Account, at La Hanoudière SARL sole discretion, and you may be reported to appropriate law-enforcement agencies.

Contact us: If you would like to request additional information regarding these Terms of Use, please contact us at info@Forest Spirits.com