Terms and Conditions


This page and any pages it links to explains thegrumpywhale.com’s terms of use. By entering our website you agree to these to use thegrumpywhale.com website and hotchocolatereykjavik.com domain, products and services in the manner stated in thegrumpywhale.com’s terms of use.

Who we are
The thegrumpywhale.com website is owned and solely operated by The Grumpy Whale ehf. The Grumpy Whale ehf. is a private limited company registered in Iceland who manage all their own operations. Our Kennitala (Icelandic national ID number) is 6112200650.

Using The Grumpy Whale
You agree to use thegrumpywhale.com only for lawful purposes. You must also use it in a way that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of, this site by anyone else.

We update thegrumpywhale.com all the time. We can change or remove content, products or services at any time without notice.

Services and transactions
You can use thegrumpywhale.com to access online services and transactions managed by The Grumpy Whale ehf.. Some services or products have their own terms and conditions which also apply – read these before you use the service or product.

Linking to The Grumpy Whale Website
We welcome and encourage other websites to link to thegrumpywhale.com.

You must contact us for permission if you want to either:

-Charge your website’s users to click on a link to any page on thegrumpywhale.com or hotchocolatereykjavik.com.
-Say your website is associated with or endorsed by The Grumpy Whale ehf., thegrumpywhale.com or hotchocolatereykjavik.com.


Linking from The Grumpy Whale
thegrumpywhale.com links to websites that are managed by other service providers or organisations. We do not have any control over the content on these websites.

We’re not responsible for:

The protection of any information you give to these websites
Any loss or damage that may come from your use of these websites, or any other websites they link to
You agree to release us from any claims or disputes that may come from using these websites.

You should read all terms and conditions, privacy policies and end user licences that relate to these websites before you use them.

Using thegrumpywhale.com content

Most content on thegrumpywhale.com is subject to copyright protection.

We make some of the content on thegrumpywhale.com available through feeds for other websites and applications to use. The websites and applications that use our feeds are not our products, and they might use versions of our content that have been edited and stored for later use (‘cached’).

We do not give any guarantees, conditions or warranties about the accuracy or completeness of any content used by these products. We’re not liable for any loss or damage that may come from your use of these products.

The most up to date version of our content will always be on thegrumpywhale.com.

Disclaimer
While we make every effort to keep thegrumpywhale.com up to date, we do not provide any guarantees, conditions or warranties that the information will be:

We do not publish advice on thegrumpywhale.com. You should get professional or specialist advice before doing anything on the basis of the content.

We’re not liable for any loss or damage that may come from using thegrumpywhale.com. This includes:

This applies if the loss or damage was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you advised us that it might happen.

This includes (but is not limited to) the loss of your:

We may still be liable for:

You can ask for content to be removed from thegrumpywhale.com. We’ll remove content:

Contact us to ask for content to be removed. You’ll need to send us the web address (URL) of the content and explain why you think it should be removed. We’ll reply to let you know whether we’ll remove it.

We remove content at our discretion in discussion with the department or agency responsible for it. You can still request information under the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act.

Information about you and your visits to thegrumpywhale.com

We collect information about you in accordance with our privacy policy and our cookie policy. By using thegrumpywhale.com, you agree to us collecting this information and confirm that any data you provide is accurate.

Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test thegrumpywhale.com for viruses at every stage of production. You must make sure that the way you use thegrumpywhale.com does not expose you to the risk of viruses, malicious computer code or other forms of interference which can damage your computer system.

We’re not responsible for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system that might happen when you use thegrumpywhale.com.

Viruses, hacking and other offences
When using thegrumpywhale.com, you must not introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or any other material that’s malicious or technologically harmful.

You must not try to gain unauthorised access to thegrumpywhale.com, the server on which it’s stored or any server, computer or database connected to it.

You must not attack thegrumpywhale.com in any way. This includes denial-of-service attacks.

We’ll report any attacks or attempts to gain unauthorised access to thegrumpywhale.com to the relevant law enforcement authorities and share information about you with them.

Governing law
These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Iceland.

Any dispute you have which relates to these terms and conditions, or your use of thegrumpywhale.com (whether it be contractual or non-contractual), will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Iceland.

General
There may be legal notices elsewhere on thegrumpywhale.com that relate to how you use the site.

We’re not liable if we fail to comply with these terms and conditions because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

We might decide not to exercise or enforce any right available to us under these terms and conditions. We can always decide to exercise or enforce that right at a later date.

Doing this once will not mean we automatically waive the right on any other occasion.

If any of these terms and conditions are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions will still apply.

Changes to these terms and conditions


Please check these terms and conditions regularly. We can update them at any time without notice.

You agree to any changes if you continue to use thegrumpywhale.com after the terms and conditions have been updated.