Terms and Conditions

Thank you for visiting this website. Please read the Terms and Conditions contained in this document carefully since any use of this website constitutes your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions set out herein.

Throughout this site, the terms "we", "us", "our" "NNI" refer to the Nestlé Nutrition Institute and any of its affiliated companies as appropriate to the context. “You” refers to any person accessing and/or using this website.

Website Privacy Notice

Any personal information or material sent to this website are subject to the Nestlé Group policy on privacy and protection of personal data set out in the Privacy Notice located on this website.

Whilst we use all reasonable attempts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information on this website, we are not responsible if the information that we make available on this website is not accurate or complete. Any reliance upon the material on this website shall be at your own risk. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor any changes to the material and the information contained on this website.

Accuracy, completeness and timeliness of information

Funding Disclaimer

Nestlé is the chief contributor in terms of grants/funding which has resoluted in the creation and generation of the content available on this website.

Transmission

Any non-personal communication or material you transmit to this website by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post becomes the property of the Nestlé Nutrition Institute and may be used for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, the Nestlé Nutrition Institute is free to use for any purposes whatsoever any ideas, artwork, inventions, developments, suggestions or concepts contained in any communication you send to this website. Any such use is without compensation to the party submitting information. By submitting information, you are also warranting that you own the material/content submitted that it is not defamatory and that the Nestlé Nutrition Institute’s use will not violate any third party's rights or otherwise place us in breach of any applicable laws. The Nestlé Nutrition Institute is under no obligation to use the information submitted.

Intellectual property rights

All copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images and other materials on this website are the property of the Nestlé Group or are included with the permission of the relevant owner.
You are permitted to browse this website, reproduce extracts by way of printing, downloading to a hard disk or for the purposes of distribution to other individuals. This is only to be done on the proviso that you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices and that the above trademark notice appears on such reproductions. No reproduction of any part of this website may be sold or distributed for commercial gain nor shall it be modified or incorporated in any other work, publication or website.

Links to other websites

Links on the Nestlé Nutrition Institute website may take you outside the Nestlé Nutrition Institute network and systems and the Nestlé Nutrition Institute accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy or function of these other third party websites. The links are provided in good faith and the Nestlé Nutrition Institute cannot be held responsible for any subsequent change in other third party websites to which we provide a link. The inclusion of any link to other websites does not imply endorsement by the Nestlé Nutrition Institute. We highly recommend that you make yourself aware of and carefully read the legal and privacy notices of all other websites that you visit.

Warranties and Disclaimers

Your use of this website is at your own and exclusive risk.

Warranties

This website is provided to you on an "As Is" and "As Available" basis and, consequently, the Nestlé Nutrition Institute gives no warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise (including the implied warranties of merchantability or satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose) including warranties or representations that material on this website will be complete, accurate, reliable, timely, non-infringing to third parties, that access to this website will be un-interrupted or error-free or free from viruses, that this website will be secure, that any advice or opinion obtained from the Nestlé Group through this website is accurate or to be relied upon and any representations or warranties thereto are accordingly expressly disclaimed.

Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow exclusions of implied warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you. Please check your local laws.

We reserve the right to restrict, suspend or terminate without notice your access to this website or any feature of this website or any feature or part thereof at any time.

Nutrition and Health Information

Medical Content Disclaimer: The contents and information on this website are for your informational use only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Individuals should seek the advice of their physician or qualified healthcare provider with any questions they may have regarding a medical condition, illness or treatment. Do not delay or disregard professional medical advice because of the content included on this website.

Notice and Take Down Procedures and Copyright Agent

If you believe any Submission accessible on or from the Site infringes your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from this Site by contacting Nestlé Nutrition Institute for further details

Nestlé Nutrition Institute
Avenue Reller 22
1800 Vevey
Swizterland
Or e-mail: nni@nestle.com

In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, Nestlé Nutrition Institute maintains a policy for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of users of this website who are repeat infringers.

User Submissions

Nestlé Nutrition Institute does not claim ownership of any information or material you provide to Nestlé Nutrition Institute or post, upload, input, submit, or transmit to the Site (each a “Submission”). You agree that you will not make any Submission that is, discriminatory; defamatory; threatening; pornographic; invasive of another’s privacy; hateful or bashing; or that infringes on, or violates, any right of any party. Additionally, you agree that you will not: make any Submission that is an advertisement or solicitation of business or make a Submission unrelated to the topic being discussed

By making a Submission, you agree that such Submission is non-confidential, non-proprietary and Nestlé Nutrition Institute is free to use and reproduce such information freely, and for any purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Nestlé Nutrition Institute is not required to use any Submission.

Nestlé Nutrition Institute reserves the right (but is not obligated) to record the dialogue on the Site; investigate an allegation that a Submission does not comply with these Terms and Conditions and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the Submission.

Liability

The Nestlé Nutrition Institute and/or any other party involved in the creating, producing or delivering this site on our behalf shall have no liability or any responsibility whatsoever for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, special or punitive damages, costs, losses or liabilities whatsoever and howsoever arising out of your access to, use, inability to use, change in content of this website or arising from any other website you access through a link from this website or to the extent permitted by applicable law, from any actions we take or fail to take as a result of any electronic mail messages you send us.

The Nestlé Nutrition Institute and/or any other party involved in the creating, producing or delivering this website shall have no responsibility to maintain the material and services made available on this web site or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith. Any material on this website is subject to change without notice.

Further, the Nestlé Nutrition Institute shall have no liability or any responsibility whatsoever for any loss suffered caused by viruses that may infect your computer equipment or other property by reason of your use of, access to or downloading of any material from this website. If you choose to download material from this website you do so at your own risk.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly waive all claims against Nestlé Nutrition Institute, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers and programmers that may arise from your use or access of this website.

Prohibited Activity

You are prohibited from doing any act that the Nestlé Nutrition Institute in its absolute discretion may deem to be inappropriate and/or would be deemed to be an unlawful act or is prohibited by any laws applicable to this website including but not limited to:

Any act that would constitute a breach of either the privacy (including uploading private information without the concerned individual's consent) or any other of the legal rights of individuals;

Using this website to defame or libel the Nestlé Nutrition Institute, its employees or other individuals or acting in such a way that brings into disrepute the good name of the Nestlé Nutrition Institute;

Uploading files that contain viruses that may cause damage to the property of the Nestlé Nutrition Institute or the property of other individuals; and

Posting or transmitting to this website any non-authorised material including but not limited to material that is in our opinion likely to cause annoyance, detrimental to or in violation of Nestlé Group or third party´s systems or network security, defamatory, racist, obscene, threatening, pornographic or otherwise unlawful.

Jurisdiction and governing law

The Nestlé Nutrition Institute makes no representations that the material and information on this website are appropriate or available in all national locations or languages.

You and the Nestlé Nutrition Institute agree that any controversy or claim arising from or pertaining to the use of this website shall be ultimately governed by Swiss law and be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Switzerland.

Cookies

Nestlé Nutrition Institute does use tracking technology ("cookies"). The policy of Nestlé Nutrition Institute on use of cookies is set out in the Nestlé Nutrition Institute cookie policy located on this web page.

Legal notice update

We reserve the right to make any changes and corrections to this notice. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and new additional information.