Terms & Conditions

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS carefully before using this website (‘the Site’). These Terms and Conditions apply to all visits and use of the Site, as well as to the Content (as defined hereafter), information, recommendations and/or services provided to you on or through the Site. By accessing and using the Site, you signify your consent to these Terms and Conditions in their entirety in addition to any other law or regulation that applies to the Site, the Internet, and/or the World Wide Web. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions in their entirety please leave the Site.

Ownership of content

The Site is owned and operated by adidas AG, a company registered in Germany the Commercial Register of the Fürth District Court (Amtsgericht): HRB 3868.
The Site is owned and operated by adidas AG. All of the content featured or displayed on the Site, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations and software ("Content"), is owned by adidas-Salomon AG and/or its group companies (hereinafter in this document ‘adidas’), its licensors and/or its content providers. All elements of the Site including, but not limited to, the general design and the Content, are protected by trade dress, copyright, moral rights, trademark and other laws relating to intellectual property rights. Except as explicitly permitted under this or another agreement with adidas, no portion or element of the Site or its Content may be copied or retransmitted via any means and the Site, its Content and all related rights shall remain the exclusive property of the relevant member of the adidas group of companies or its licensors unless otherwise expressly agreed.

Copyright and Trademarks

Copyright

The copyright in all Content is and remains owned by adidas. Except as may be otherwise indicated in specific documents within the Site, you are authorized to view, play, print and download documents, audio and video found on the Site for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes only. You may not modify any of the materials and you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any Content. Except as authorized under the law relating to copyright, you may not reuse any Content without first obtaining the consent of adidas. For purposes of these terms, the use of any such material on any other website or networked computer environment is prohibited. You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from material found on the Site.
In the event you download software (including but not limited to screensavers, icons, videos and wallpapers) from the Site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by adidas. adidas does not transfer title to the Software to you. You own the medium on which the Software is recorded, but adidas retains full and complete title to the Software, and all intellectual property rights therein. You may not redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-readable form.

Trademarks

All trademarks, service marks and trade names of adidas used herein (including but not limited to: the word mark "adidas", "the adidas logo", "the trefoil device", "the Globe", "the 3-Stripes device") are trademarks or registered trademarks of adidas or its affiliates, unless stated otherwise. Yohji Yamamoto is a registered trademark of Yohji Yamamoto. You may not use, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute, or modify adidas trademarks in any way, including in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of materials on the Site, without adidas' prior written consent. The use of adidas trademarks on any other website or network computer environment, for example the storage or reproduction of (a part of) the Site in any external internet site or the creation of links, hypertext, links or deeplinks between the Site and any other internet site, is prohibited without the express written consent of adidas

Disclaimer of Warranties

THE SITE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ADVICE.

ADIDAS DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE INFORMATION AND/OR FACILITIES CONTAINED IN THE SITE ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT, OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES THE SITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ADIDAS DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTEES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THE SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, IN EACH CASE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

ADIDAS RESERVICES THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR WITHDRAW THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THE SITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE WITHOUT INCURRING ANY LIABILITY.

Limitation of Liability

YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER ADIDAS, NOR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS NOR ANY OF ITS AGENTS OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THE SITE WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) WHERE:
(A) THERE IS NO BREACH OF A LEGAL DUTY OF CARE OWED TO YOU BY ADIDAS;
(B) THE LOSS OR DAMAGE IS NOT A REASONABLY FORESEEABLE RESULT OF ANY SUCH BREACH; OR
(C) ANY INCREASE IN LOSS OR DAMAGE RESULTS FROM A BREACH BY YOU OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.THIS INCLUDES ANY DAMAGE CAUSED BY VIRUSES OR ANY INCORRECTNESS OR INCOMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION ON THE SITE.

NOTHING IN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS OUR LIABILITY FOR FRAUD OR FOR DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE.

Links to third parties

For your convenience and to improve the usage of the Site, links to websites that are owned and controlled by third parties may be provided from time to time. These links take you outside adidas’ service and off the adidas Site and are beyond adidas’ control. This includes links to partners that may use adidas' logos as part of a co-branding agreement. The sites you can link to have their own separate privacy policy and although adidas seeks to protect the integrity of its Site, adidas is not responsible and cannot be held liable for the content and activities of these sites. You therefore visit/access these sites entirely at your own risk. Please note that these other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information, and you are therefore advised to check the terms of use and/or privacy policies on those websites prior to using them.

Misuse of the Site

You are prohibited from using the Site to post or transmit any material which is or may be infringing, threatening, false, misleading, inflammatory, libelous, invasive of privacy, obscene, pornographic, abusive, discriminating, illegal or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, violate the rights of any party or which may otherwise give rise to civil liability or violate any law. You are also prohibited from using the Site to advertise or perform any commercial solicitation

Participation Disclaimer

From time to time adidas makes it possible to view and distribute content generated by you, for instance through e-postings and sending postcards to others persons. If you make use of this you acknowledge that adidas only acts as a passive conduit for the distribution and is not responsible and liable for the content of the communications and materials generated by you or other users.
adidas reserves the right at its sole discretion to block or remove any communications and materials it believes is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, or otherwise unacceptable to adidas.

Children under 16

If you are under 16, you must ask the permission of a parent or guardian before you:

(a) email the Site, or ask us to email anything to you;
(b) send in any information to us;
(c) enter any contest or game that requires information about you or offers a prize;
(d) buy anything online.

By continuing to use the Site and any of the Services offered, you are confirming that you have obtained the permission of a parent or guardian to do so.

Miscellaneous

Unsolicited ideas

adidas maintains the policy of not reviewing or accepting any unsolicited submissions of ideas, inventions, designs and/or other materials whether consisting of texts, images, sounds, software, information or otherwise (the "Materials") from persons external to adidas. You should therefore not post any Materials on the Site or send these to adidas by e-mail or otherwise.

How you can contact us

If you have any questions or comments about the Site or any of our services, please click here or write to us: adidas AG, Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany.

Changes to the terms

Purchases

When we make it possible to order products via the Site, please also read the terms and conditions that will apply to those purchases. You can find these terms and conditions on the page where you can place your order.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and the parties hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. If any portion of these Terms and Conditions become void, it will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. The void part will be replaced by provisions that are valid and have legal effect.


Last revised June 2004

Information we collect from visitors

What kind of information do we collect?

There are cases where adidas may ask you for personal information, such as your name, address, date of birth, gender, email address, etc. We do this for instance when you register for contests/promotions, respond to communication such as e-mail, and for services that require registration or subscription. If you would like to be on our mailing list, we will ask you to actively opt-in. We might also collect personal information from you about a third party, for instance if the website allows you to sent an e-postcard, in which case we need to know the name and e-mail address of the recipient. That information will only be used for the specific purpose (delivering the e-postcard) and adidas will not further contact the third party unless the third party contacts us.
We use ‘cookies’ to gather information about your visits to our website and enhance your experience. You can find more information on how we use cookies in the section ‘Use of Cookies’. When you visit our website we collect so called ‘click stream’ data (server address, domain name etc). This information can be combined with information you have provided to us (for instance by registering), which will enable us to analyze and better customize your visits.

Use of Visitors’ Information

All personal information that we obtain about you will be recorded, used and protected by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this privacy policy. We will primarily use your personal information to provide products and services to you and, for example: To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature and to provide you with the relevant products or services (for instance to deliver a prize you may have won in a contest).
To send you information/materials via e-mail or sms-messages about products, offers and news we think could interest you. This information may relate to products, offers and news of adidas and/or its licensees or carefully selected commercial partners. We only send you this if you have opted-in to receive adidas e-mails and/or sms messages. In case you do not want to receive any e-mails and/or sms messages from us anymore, or if you want to modify you personal data or want your personal data to be deleted from our database, we refer you to the ‘Opt-out, delete or modify personal information’ section below To analyze visits to the website and learn about the interests of our visitors in aggregate and also on personal level to better understand your interest and need, so we can improve our products and services and deliver to you the type of content, features and promotions that you are most interested in.Who manages Visitors’ InformationThe global and local websites of adidas and the information collected, are managed and controlled by adidas AG (Adi-Dassler-Platz 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany. The servers that make the global and local websites of adidas available are located in the USA. If you are located outside the USA please note that the information you provide will be transferred to the USA and by submitting the information you authorize this transfer. adidas has entered into an agreement with the hosting company in the USA to provide sufficient safeguards for the protection of your data. Personal information will be handled in accordance with current data protection legislation and this Privacy Policy.Protection of visitors’ informationIn order to protect the information you provide to us by visiting our website we have implemented various security measures. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of people, who have special access rights and are required to keep the information confidential.

Please keep in mind though that whenever you give out personal information online there is a risk that third parties may intercept and use that information. While adidas strives to protect its user's personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

Children’s privacy

adidas encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the activities offered with the multitude of sites the World Wide Web (WWW) offers.

If you are under 16, you must ask the permission of a parent or guardian before you send in any information about yourself. By continuing to use the Site and any of the Services offered, you are confirming that you have obtained the permission of a parent or guardian to do so.

When a child tries to submit his/her registration he/she will be asked to submit the same kind of information as indicated in the above section ‘Information we collect from visitors’. Furthermore the information provided by the child and gathered (for instance through the use of cookies) during his/her visit may be used as indicated in the said above section.

adidas is committed to protect the privacy of children and has no intention of collecting personal data from children under the age of 13. If you are a child under the age of 13 and you try to submit your registration, the registration will be rejected and we will inform you that we do not accept registrations from children under 13. We encourage parents and guardians of children under 13 to regularly check and monitor their children’s use of e-mail and other activities online.

Third parties

Disclosing personal information to third parties

Other than to the companies belonging to the adidas Group for the purposes set out above, and except as described below we do not sell, trade or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties without informing you in advance and in accordance with applicable data protection law. All members of the adidas Group value the privacy and protection of your personal information and have similar privacy policies in place. Your data may be transferred to web site hosting partners and other parties who assist us in designing and operating the website, executing services (for instance prize fulfillment) or help us analyze collected data. These parties will only use your data for the purpose of carrying out the work as indicated and will be required to keep the information confidential. We will also release personal data if such is required by law.Links to Third PartiesFor your convenience and to improve the usage of the website we insert links to third parties, for which this privacy policy does not apply. These links take you outside our service and off the adidas site and are beyond our control. This includes links from partners that may use adidas' logos as part of a co-branding agreement. The sites you can link to have their own separate privacy policy and although we seek to protect the integrity of our site, adidas is not responsible and cannot be held liable for the content and activities of these sites. Your visit/access to these sites is therefore entirely at your own risk. Please note that these other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small string of information that the website that you visit transfers to your computer for identification purposes. Cookies can be used to follow your activity on the website and that information helps us to understand your preferences and improve your website experience. Cookies are also used to remember for instance your user name and password.
You can turn off all cookies, in case you prefer not to receive them. You can also have your computer warn you whenever cookies are being used. For both options you have to adjust your browser settings (like internet explorer). There are also software products available that can manage cookies for you. Please be aware though that when you have set your computer to reject cookies, it can limit the functionality of the website you visit and it’s possible then that you do not have access to some of the features on the website. For further information on cookies and how to switch them off see www.allaboutcookies.org

Opt-out, delete or modify personal information

You may cancel your registration at any time, and you can choose to opt-out of receiving any e-mails and/or sms messages from adidas. Additionally you can choose to have all your personal information deleted from our database.

If you want to opt-out, delete or modify your personal information, please visit the registration page. We encourage you promptly to update your personal information if it changes.

Changes to the policy and how to contact us

Changes to the policy

We may from time to time need to amend this policy, due to changes in regulations and to keep up with new developments and possibilities on the internet. We therefore reserve the right at our discretion to make these changes and ask you to check this page periodically, as you are bound by these changes when visiting our website.

How you can contact us

If you have any questions or comments relating to our website and/or the privacy policy, please click here or write to us: adidas AG, Adi-Dassler-Str. 1-2, 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany.

Your consent

By using the adidas websites you signify that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions please do not provide us with personal information and leave this website.

Online policy

The Privacy Policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the internet, and therefore beyond adidas control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation. This online privacy policy only applies to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Your right to access your personal information

You have a right to receive a copy of the personal information which we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any such request you make. The current fee is £10.00

Last revised June 2004

WARNING: Fake adidas mails

Currently, fake adidas emails are in circulation: The adidas Group would like to warn consumers that emails from the following email address adidas@adidas.org claiming that the recipient has won US$ 800,000 are fake and do not originate from the adidas Group. The adidas Group is in no way affiliated with the sender of the email. Therefore we ask all recipients of these false emails to delete them immediately and not to provide the sender of these emails with the information asked for.