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A new free and amazing mobile experience to discover places you will love around the world.
Travel the world, discover new amazing places.
Don't loose time reading thousands of comments and reviews from people you don't know.
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- Pierre, Founder at EatLocal
Terms, Conditions & Privacy Policy
Version of 17 October 2016.
Section 0. Definitions
1. The User : all person, physically or morally, registered to use or access the site www.EatLocal.io and/or the mobile Application or to any information published on those media.
2. The Site : the website www.EatLocal.io
3. The Application: the official mobile application for Android or iOS you can download following the link on the home page of EatLocal.io
4. "Friends": Users declared by Facebook API as connected to each other.
5. "Places": addresses returned by Google Place API.
6. "EatLocal": The mobile application and/or website mentioned aboved.
Section 1. EatLocal Owner
EatLocal is managed by Pierre HALLEUX (hereafter referred to as "EatLocal"), whose head office is established in Belgium and known to the Register for Legal Entities by the number VAT 429.223.614. Reachable via hello@eatLocal.io
Section 2. Acknowledgement of the General Terms
All users acknowledge to be bound by the present general terms in their full and irrevocable way. EatLocal reserves itself the right to modify, at any moment, the present general terms of use. The new general terms will then be published on the website and will come into effect thirty (30) days after they are published on the website. The user who does not accept these new conditions will be expected to deactivate their account within 30 days after the publication of the general terms on the website and delete the application from their device.
In order to inform the user, they will be notified of the publication of the new general terms by email or notification inside the application.
Section 3. Purpose of the Services Offered
The services offered on EatLocal consist, in a limited manner, of flagging and sharing places user liked with their friends. User search places he liked around the world. Then, connected user on Facebook can see those places suggested by the friends in the city or current location on a virtual platform made to connect people who search great places. EatLocal will provide its best efforts to get results corresponding to the research criterias, or at the very least, corresponding to some of them, without obligation of results.
The services are free. By creating a user account, the user accepts however that commercial emails be sent to them on a database they will have completed, without prejudice on their right to oppose it simply by sending a written request conforming to section 12 of the present general terms of use.
The website is principally dedicated to a non professional, reasonable and normal usage. EatLocal does not profit from any transactions performed through the site and consequently cannot guarantee the requirements for a professional usage notably by the speed, accessibility and exactitude of the services or the data.
This application makes call to Google Service via the official API. By using this application, the user are bound by Google’s Terms of Service. API Used are Google Maps API(s). Please refer to Google Privacy Policy and Google API usage limit.
Section 4. Account Creation
4.1. The user desiring to benefit from the services offered by the site must create a user account.
4.2. As part of the creation of the account, the user commits to provide truthful, exact and complete information. The personal data provided by the user will be treated with the appropriate attention and security level. The user accepts nonetheless that commercial emails be sent to them on a database they will have completed.
4.3. EatLocal reserves itself the unilateral right to prohibit the access to all or a part of the website to all physical or moral person:
who violates the present terms of use ;
who uses the personal data to which they can have access via the website to propose paid products or services or to proceed to send in large numbers non-solicited messages to the emails of other web users ("spamming"), to any other commercial ends or in any other non-authorized manner ;
who places fake or illegal listings on the site ;
who attempts to negatively affect the reputation of the site ;
who violates the intellectual property rights of third parties ;
who uses the site for illicit purposes.
4.4. The password linked to a user account allows the user to identify itself to benefit from the site's services.
It is personal and confidential. The user commits to not divulging it to a third party, and not allowing a third party to use the user's account. The user also commits to not doing anything that could aid any person who is not a registered user to access a secured zone of the site, and to not creating any supplementary accounts in the goal of abusing the functions of the website or other users. The user also commits to not making others believe he is another user.
The user is entirely and solely responsible of all activity performed with his access code.
The user who believes a third party has obtained details about his account is responsible of immediately informing EatLocal, who will then close the account as soon as possible.
4.5. When creating account, user agreed to have their pictures and name used in EatLocal and it's promotional advertising. It means images and place liked could be published across digital medias. Without being exhaustive, user name and picture could be used in advertising on Facebook, eMail, TV, Youtube, Newspaper, flyers and any other medias. User has the right to request EatLocal to no use such information by sending email via the contact button inside the application.
4.6 It is only possible to register and connect using facebook acount
Section 5. User actions on EatLocal
5.1. The user guarantees the content is the only one responsible of the information, data and other elements that they publish/liking for a place/
EatLocal acts uniquely as a passive transmission line for the distribution and the online publication of the provided information, and cannot be responsible of other users’ listings’ content. It follows that :
EatLocal cannot be held responsible for future damage that could be caused by the information, data, pictures and other elements published by the user in a listing, a comment and in the user’s personal space on the website ;
The user will indemnify and guarantee EatLocal of any complaint from a third party in relation with the provided information, including, but not exclusively, the complaints of third parties based on infringements of their copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents and other intellectual property rights.
By the simple act of using the site EatLocal, the user commits to guarantee EatLocal, its managers, its employees, its partners and its representatives, of any liability claims and other legal actions brought by third parties against the user, following the placement by the User, of any content .
5.2. The provided information (or ant information taken from it) can not :
be false, inexact or misleading ;
constitute a breach of copyright , patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other intellectual property rights or rights to the image or personality ;
violate any law, ordinance or regulation (including, without limitation, those governed by consumer protection, unfair competition, non-discrimination (or misleading advertisement)) ;
be defamatory, libelous, illegally menacing or illegally harassing ;
be obscene, contain child pornography, be reserved to adults by nature or be damaging to minors ;
express a political opinion ;
have a connotation that is defamatory, racist, xenophobic or inciting to discrimination, hate or violence towards a person, a group, a community or of their members, because of an alleged race, color, ascendance or national or ethnic origin of the ones involved ;
contain viruses, Trojan horses, "worms", "time bombs", " cancel bots" or other computer routines with the goal to damage, interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information ;
send or have e-mails or instant messages sent to people who have not solicited them or without respecting their rights under the law, such as advertisements , chain letters or other unsolicited direct marketing ;
upload messages which promote the services ;
create liability on the part of EatLocal or result in the loss by EatLocal (in whole or in part) of its internet service providers (ISP) services or other suppliers.
The user guarantees EatLocal of all future third party actions concerning the places and or information wrote on EatLocal.
5.3. Even though EatLocal can in no way be held responsible of the content published by the user, EatLocal reserves itself the unilateral right to refuse or deactivate, without counter party in the following cases :
the descriptive text is contrary to the present general terms of use ;
exhaustive likes ;
fake account ;
one (or several) picture(s) does not explicitly represent the proposed good that is up for rent or makes it appear in the background ;
the listing mentions the address from another website ;
the listing is false, notably its location, or the listing is illegal.
In the case of a refusal or the deactivation of a listing, the user can address EatLocal to obtain the reasons of refusal or of the deactivation. However, after these reasons have been communicated, EatLocal will remain, in any case, the only decision maker whether or not to allow the listing to be published.
No compensation can be claimed by the user in the case of the refusal or the deactivation of their listing.
5.4. EatLocal reserve the right to periodically delete place likes or likes of innovative accounts after a 1 months delay.
5.5. Users explicitly agree EatLocal to share places they like and use this as input for advertising.
Section 6. User Account Closure
The user can, at all times, cancel their account to the site by connecting to their account and clicking the "Contact us button" requesting via the form the cancellation of the account.
Section 7. Availability of EatLocal
Even though EatLocal ensures the website's and mobile application disposal to the users 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, EatLocal reserves itself the right, at any given moment and without warning, to interrupt the access to the website and/or mobile application for technical or other reasons as well as terminating its services, without being held responsible of these interruptions and the consequences that could result for any user.
The EatLocal website and mobile application is hosted by Namecheap 11400 W.Olympic Blvd. Suite 200 Los Angeles , CA90064 USA
EatLocal will provide its best efforts so the website and its downloadable files be exempt of bugs, viruses, Trojan horses and non-authorised spyware. However, it cannot be ignored that these could be found on the website and or the mobile application.
In such a case, EatLocal cannot, in any way, be held responsible of all prejudice and/or loss that would result from it for the user or damage made to the phone.
Section 8. Links to Third Party Websites
The EatLocal may contain hyperlinks to content from third parties or to websites operated by third parties. EatLocal cannot be held responsible for the content or quality of these websites. The operators of these sites are solely responsible for compliance with the laws and regulations applicable to the products and services they sell on their website.
Data inside the application are coming from Google Service using this application, the user are bound by Google’s Terms of Service. API Used are Google Maps API(s). Please refer to Google Privacy Policy and Google API usage limit. Please refer to Google policy to know more about responsibility of content.
Section 9. Other Cases With Limited Liability
9.1. As mentioned in section 5, EatLocal will in no way be held responsible for any damage that would be caused by the information, data, pictures and other elements published by a user and or coming from Google service in a listing, a comment or in his personal space on this site.
9.2. EatLocal does not endorse any registration. It does not guarantee the relevance of place like by of users.
EatLocal cannot be held responsible for losses, bad experience, disappointment resulting from the use of EatLocal.
Unless otherwise indicated, EatLocal cannot be held liable for any incidental or consequential damages of any kind arising from the use of the service.
It is the user's responsibility to determine the character, quality and acceptability of places and or likes.
9.3. EatLocal will in no way be held responsible for the legality, accuracy and content of the listings published on the website, nor the quality of goods and/or the services praised in these listings.
9.4. Some of the places contain maps, phone, address, photos, advices to help the user to locate or get information about the places. Those data are the exclusive property of the company Google. Therefore these maps cannot be reproduced for purposes other than making copies for purely private use. They cannot be modified, translated, rented or published for commercial purposes without infringing copyright laws of Google. EatLocal can in no way be held responsible for any errors or inaccuracies that these plans or data may contain.
Section 10. Use by EatLocal of Information Posted by Users
The user acknowledges, agrees and warrant that EatLocal has the right to use, publish, exploit any text or information that would be posted or published on the EatLocal network.
Section 11. Intellectual Rights
All the content present on the EatLocal website is the intellectual property or EatLocal and is protected by intellectual property rights.
The shape of this website and mobile application (plan, layout of headings, data organisation,…) is protected by the legal regime of copyright. EatLocal prohibits the extraction and/or the use of all or a substantial part, qualitatively or quantitatively, of the website content.
EatLocal grants the user a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable at any time without cause license to gain access to EatLocal, view and download content with the only purpose being to inform the user, and this, on a single computer. The user may also print a copy of the content posted on the website solely for personal use, provided that it does not alter in any way the content of the website/mobile application.
Any and all copy, translation, adaptation, modification or use whatsoever, of the entirety or of one of the protected elements of the website, in any form or by any means, is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of EatLocal. Any request in this regard may be directed to (hello@EatLocal.io).
Some icons coming from the mobile application are made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
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12.1. The personal data processing related to this site are subject to Belgian law (Law of December 8, 1992 on the protection of privacy in respect of personal data processing, as amended by the Act of December 11, 1998, transposing Directive 95/46 / EC of 24 October 1995 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to personal data processing and on the free movement of such data).
12.2. When registering on the Site, the user is asked to answer questions about itself, its interests and ...
When the user chooses to provide personal data, he agrees for his data to be sent and stored on the EatLocal servers.
12.3. The information collected by EatLocal are for the following purposes :
to allow the user the full use of the website ;
to allow users interested by a listing published by another user to contact them ;
to establish statistics related to the visit frequency of different sections of the website ;
to send the user newsletters or other specific information involving the EatLocal website ;
to answer questions from users and manage subscriptions in a large sense ;
to quickly contact users ;
to facilitate the navigation of users and their research on the EatLocal website.
This information is also likely to be used and / or disclosed to business partners for marketing purposes. In this context, the user is informed that advertising e-mails can be sent to him. This use / disclosure of User's data for marketing purposes, however, is possible only to the extent that it has been expressly accepted by the User when registering on the EatLocal website.
When registering on the EatLocal website, it is asked of the User to expressly accept that their data be used/disclosed for marketing purposes. To implement this agreement and to keep the user fully informed, the user is asked to check the provided box for that purpose in the application form.
The user has the right to object at the same time, specifically to any use for marketing purposes. This request must be made in writing in accordance with the following paragraph. Users are informed of this possibility, and its terms, from the time of registration on the website.
12.4. In accordance with the Law of December 8, 1992, the user has the opportunity to object to the use of their data for marketing purposes at any time. He will have to do this by addressing an email to the controller of the data, to the email address help@EatLocal.be Such refusal shall be free and without any justification required.
12.5. In accordance with the Law of December 8, 1992, the User has a right of access to his data, as well as a right of rectification. If he wishes to make use of this right, the User must send a written request to the email address help@EatLocal.be.
12.6. The data provided by the user during registration will be retained by EatLocal for a maximum period of 12 months from the date of registration. Similarly, all personal data of users that would be disclosed to third parties for marketing purposes will be used for a limited time in the same period.
12.7. The controller of personal data collected on the EatLocal website is the EatLocal ASBL, the references are listed in Section 1 of these terms of use. This is the site manager who is responsible for all matters relating to the protection of users' privacy.
Section 13. Cookies
13.1 As almost all websites and mobile application,EatLocal website and mobile application uses cookies. Goal is to help provide you the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that stored on your device hen you browse our website. Cookies help us:
To manage login and connection to the website; make our website work as you'd expect; offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising); Improve the security of the site; allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook; continuously improve our website for you
By browsing website and using mobile application you explicitly agree to receive cookies.
14.1. The invalidity, lapse or unenforceability of all or part of one of the preceding clauses shall not result in the invalidity of all the present general terms of use. The clause shall be deemed unwritten and the user agrees that EatLocal replaces that clause by another that will fill to the extent of the possible, the same function. In case of dispute, it may be required to the competent court to substitute the unwritten deemed disposition by a clause which comes as close as possible.
14.2. For any disputes resulting from the use of the Site EatLocal, Belgian law will be applicable and only the courts of Brussels will be competent.