TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
Welcome to Syngenta! This website offers general information on Syngenta’s products, services, projects, and partnerships.
By using this website or any information about our products or services presented in any webpage, you indicate you are aware of, accept and agree to comply with and submit yourself to the current Terms of Use, as well as to our Privacy Policy or any other notices posted in our website. In case you do not agree with such terms, please do not use our website.
You are responsible for adopting all the measures deemed necessary to ensure adequate access to our website. We reserve ourselves the right to fully or partially suspend any access to our website at any time without previous notice, or to close it for an indeterminate period of time. We will not be responsible if, for any reason, the Website is not available.
1. UPDATE OF THE TERMS OF USE
We would like to remind you that the Terms of Use, as well as the website’s contents and functionalities, might be updated at any time for legal reasons, due to the use of new technologies and functionalities, and/or whenever Syngenta understands that alterations are necessary. By continuing to access our website after such alterations, which will be timely published, you will also agree with any such alteration.
2. SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
In addition to the current Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, some Websites to which you may be redirected might include specific services and functionalities and additional terms and conditions for their use, whether they belong to a third-party or to any other Syngenta Group company. In such case, the additional terms will be available in the abovementioned Websites and will be applicable as you use their services and functionalities. We thoroughly recommend that you take care and carefully read the legal and privacy notifications related to all the websites you may visit.
3. FORMS OF USE AND LIMITED LICENSE
By accessing this website you receive a non-exclusive license to use it, and are able to browse any available webpage, as well as to print or download parts of any webpage for personal reference, or to promote any negotiation with the Syngenta Group companies, in addition to referring other people to access the material published in the website.
With the exception of that exposed above, you may not copy, download, photocopy, publish, display, execute, distribute, transmit, transfer, translate, modify, add, update, compile, summarize or in any other way transform or adapt any and every part of this website’s content without firstly asking for Syngenta’s written authorization.
Likewise, no right, title or interest over the content is transferred to you when you download any material from Syngenta’s website. With the exception of the abovementioned non-exclusive license, nothing contained in the current terms and conditions and in our websites shall be understood as a license or as any other right acquired over any copyright, patent, registered trademark, or any other right related to the Syngenta’s or a third party’s intellectual property.
In case you breach the current terms, your right to utilize the websites shall immediately cease, and you must, at our own discretion, return or destroy any copy of the materials you may have created. We reserve ourselves the right to seek all the remedial measures eventually available to us.
The practice of any act contrary to our terms of use is also forbidden, such as, and without being limited to: (i) the practice of any unlawful or harmful act, regardless of any guilt or willful misconduct, including any act that may breach the rights of Syngenta, of other Users, and/or of any third party, as well as to breach any legislation or treaty in force; (ii) to upload, send or transmit any erotic, pornographic, obscene, scurrilous, or defamatory content, or containing physical or moral violence, advocating crime, pedophilia, drug use, the consumption of alcoholic beverages and tobacco, as well as that promotes or instigates hatred, illegal activities, any form of prejudice, or any other form of discrimination for any reason whatsoever; (iii) any invasion, including any attempted invasion, of the website and/or any computer device owned by Syngenta; (iv) practice acts that may harm any website or equipment owned by Syngenta, other Users, and third parties.
4. USERS, PASSWORDS AND SECURITY
You are responsible, without any prejudice to the remaining provisions of the current instrument, for all of your actions or omissions while accessing this website, and for saving and protecting your login information and password, as well as for the veracity of the provided information. You are also responsible for the contents you may send and/or transmit using the Website, and for remedying any damage you may cause to Syngenta, to third parties, or to other Users, derived from any improper access and use of our Websites.
Syngenta shall not be responsible for the abovementioned items, as well as for any and every content sent and/or transmitted by any User and/or third party, which, as of now, it declares do not represent Syngenta’s opinion or view. Syngenta also refrains from providing any guarantee against any eventual Website downtime and/or technical failure, while being obliged, however, to apply its best efforts to solve it within reasonable time when any such problem has been identified.
5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT
All the registered trademarks, service brands and logos displayed in this Website are either registered trademarks or not of the companies that comprise the Syngenta Group in Brazil, in the world, or of the third parties that have licensed those brands. Except for that disposed in the current Terms and Conditions, it is expressly forbidden to reproduce, display or use any Registered Trademark without the previous written consent of the respective owning company.
6. SPONTANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS
Any communication or material that is not of a personal nature that you send to this website by electronic mail, or in any other way, including data, questions, comments, suggestions or similar information will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Any information that you transmit or post will become the property of Syngenta Group and may be used for any purpose, including, but without being limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, dissemination and posting. In addition to that, the Syngenta Group may freely utilize for any purpose whatsoever (including, among other things, the development, manufacturing, advertising or commercialization of products) any idea, final art, invention, development, suggestion or concept contained in any communication that you may send to this website. Such use shall not give the right to any kind of remuneration to the party that may have submitted such information. By submitting a piece of information, you are also declaring to be the owner of the submitted material/content, that that material/content is not defamatory, and that, by using the same, the Syngenta Group will not be violating any right of any third party, or any applicable law. The Syngenta Group shall not have any obligation to use the submitted information.
7. THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION
Third parties provide some of the information, articles, and other materials made available in the Website. Whenever possible, the source of such materials will be identified. Those materials are only made available for your own interest and convenience. Syngenta does not guarantee that those materials will be up to date, exact, complete or reliable, and shall not be responsible for the use of any information provided by a third party.
8. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
This website contains hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by Syngenta, and that may direct you outside Syngenta’s network and systems. Such hyperlinks are only offered for your reference and convenience, and in good faith, and do not imply any endorsement to the material provided by third-party websites, or any association with their operators. Syngenta has no control over such websites and shall not be responsible for their content, accuracy, or performance. You may access such websites at your own exclusive account and risk. We thoroughly recommend that you take care and carefully read the legal and privacy notices related to any website you may visit.
9. INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Any information contained or referenced in this website is exclusively offered as an introduction to Syngenta and its products and services. For further recommendations and more specific instructions on our products and services, please contact Syngenta’s customer service channels displayed in the footnote of each one of our websites.
10. GLOBAL AVAILABILITY
Considering that different countries around the world have enacted different laws and regulations, some products may be available in some countries but not in other ones. This Website may contain references or cross-references to Syngenta products, programs and services that may not be available or be announced in your country. These references do not mean Syngenta intends to announce such products, programs and services in your country. For further information on the products, programs and services available in your country, please contact your local Syngenta representative, or contact Syngenta through our customer service channels.
11. GUARANTEES AND DISCLAIMER
The website is provided "as is”. We do not claim to offer any security, guarantee, nor make any declaration of any kind regarding the validity, accuracy, correction, adequacy, availability or timeliness of the Website or of the herein displayed materials. In case Syngenta provides in the Website links to other websites operated by third parties, the same shall apply to those websites and to any material displayed in such websites. Any and every use of the same will be at your own account and risk and shall not serve in any whatsoever to make Syngenta legally accountable for them.
To the maximum extend allowed by law, Syngenta expressly exempts itself from any responsibility for any direct, indirect or consequent loss or damage, including, among other things, loss of profit, loss of sales, loss of business, business disruption, data or information loss or corruption, loss of any business opportunity, loss of goodwill and/or reputation, derived from or in any way related to the use, inability to use, or resulting from the use of the Website and of any herein published material. In case Syngenta provides in the Website links to websites operated by third parties, the same shall apply to those websites and to any material displayed therein.
Observe that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, and therefore some exclusions may not apply to you. Please, check your local legislation.
We reserve ourselves the right to fully or partially restrict, suspend or prevent your access to this website, at any time, without any previous notice.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Syngenta and/or any other party involved with the creation, production or management of this website on our behalf shall not have any responsibility for any direct, incidental, consequent, indirect, special or punitive damage, cost, loss or responsibility of any nature and in any way whatsoever derived from your access, use, impossibility to use, or for any change in the contents of this website or of any other website that may be accessed through a link displayed in this website, or also, as allowed by the applicable laws, for any other measure we may adopt or fail to adopt as a consequence of any electronic message you may send to us.
Syngenta and/or any other party involved with the creation, production or management of this website shall not be responsible for the maintenance of the materials or services made available herein, or for any correction, update or release related to the same. Any material contained in this website is subject to change without previous notice.
In addition to that, Syngenta shall not have any responsibility for any loss suffered due to any virus that may infect your computer or any other asset, as a consequence to your use, access or download of any material contained in this website. If you decide to download any material from this website, you will be fully responsible for it.
13. GOVERNING LAWS AND JURISDICTION
If any court of competent jurisdiction judges that any provision of the current Terms of Use is invalid or unenforceable in any regard, such provision shall be applicable up to the limit allowed by law, and the remaining provisions of the current Terms of Use shall remain in full force.
The current Terms of Use shall be ruled and construed according to the Brazilian laws. Both parties agree to elect the forum of the city of Sao Paulo, capital of the State of Sao Paulo, to solve any and every conflict related to the current Terms of Use or to the utilization of this website.
These terms and conditions were revised for the last time on March 06, 2021.