Terms & Conditions

Last Updated: 11th November 2021

 

1               The terms

1.1           This document (the Conditions) sets out the terms and conditions on which we provide services to you through our cloud-based menu, recipe and allergen & nutrition management solution, MenuIQ (MenuIQ).

1.2           Your use of MenuIQ is also subject to our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. Click here to view our Privacy Policy.

About MenuIQ

1.3           MenuIQ is a cloud-based complete recipe and menu management solution developed by us for the purpose of assisting you in cost management as well as your compliance with applicable UK laws and regulations as it pertains to the provision of food information to consumers and food safety and nutrition, including the Food Information Regulation 2014, Regulation (EU) 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers as it forms part of UK law and in force from time to time (Natasha’s Law) (together, Food Labelling Law).

1.4           If you are a member of the purchasing group set up by Regency Purchasing Group Limited, MenuIQ is made available to you at a reduced fee as part of your membership. If you are not a member of the aforementioned purchasing group, you may subscribe to MenuIQ by paying a usual weekly fee.

1.5           As part of its offering, MenuIQ allows you to:

(a)            access ingredients and pricing data provided by your suppliers, including alerts to you where existing ingredients have changed;

(b)            extract allergen information from the ingredients inputted by you or your supplier;

(c)            monitor and compare menu performance across different sites;

(d)            capture the reference intakes, nutrition and allergens of the ingredients;

(e)            build up recipes and menus;

(f)             generate and print labels of nutrition and ingredients with allergen information;

(g)            generate recipe cards with a recipe specification sheet; and

(h)            integrate with Regency IQ to deliver an end-to-end purchasing and menu management solution.

1.6           MenuIQ utilises ingredient data provided by you, your suppliers or manufacturers of products and data obtained from public databases or APIs to provide the service. As such, neither we nor any of our associated companies accept responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided or generated by MenuIQ.

1.7           By using MenuIQ, you accept that it is your responsibility to ensure the accuracy of any product information provided to your customers or consumers, including but not limited to allergen information and that you are responsible for your own compliance with Food Labelling Law and any other applicable food safety law.

Your use of MenuIQ

1.8           By using MenuIQ, you confirm that you have read and understood these Conditions and accept and agree to comply with them .

1.9           Please read these Conditions carefully before you use MenuIQ. These Conditions tell you who we are, how you may use MenuIQ, how we may change or end the provision of MenuIQ, what to do if there is a problem and other important information.

Changes to these Conditions

1.10         We may amend these Conditions from time to time. Please ensure that you check these Conditions every time you log in to MenuIQ to view any changes which may have been made. By continuing to use MenuIQ after these Conditions have been changed, you will be confirming that you have read and understood, and agreed to be bound by any revised Conditions.

2               who we are

2.1           We are Regency Purchasing Group Limited (“we”) (a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 13521388). Our registered office is at Regency House, 37-40 Alexandra Parade, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset BS23 1QZ.

2.2           You can contact us by telephoning our customer service team at 01934 646 135 or by writing to us at the address listed at Regency House, 37-40 Alexandra Parade, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset BS23 1QZ.

2.3           If we have to contact you we will do so by telephone or by writing (including by email) to you at the email address or postal address you provided to us. 

3               ACCESSING MenuIQ

3.1           MenuIQ is a paid service made available to you as part of your membership with us or our associated companies or by subscription.

3.2           [You may grant your suppliers access to your MenuIQ account in order to provide ingredient and pricing data to you. You shall be responsible to us for your suppliers’ use of MenuIQ and procure that they comply with these Conditions.]

3.3           We cannot guarantee to you that MenuIQ will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of MenuIQ.  If we do so, we will try to give you reasonable notice beforehand.

3.4           MenuIQ may be unavailable occasionally for maintenance, updating or otherwise. Where this happens we apologise for any inconvenience caused. However, we shall not be liable to you for any loss, damages or inconvenience resulting from such unavailability.

3.5           You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to, and make full use of, MenuIQ, for example access to the internet, hardware and all other equipment necessary to enable you to make full use of MenuIQ. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access MenuIQ through your internet connection are aware of these Conditions, and that they comply with them.

3.6           MenuIQ is directed at users based in the UK only.

3.7           If you have trouble using MenuIQ with certain web browsers or other software, or if you want to let us know how we can improve accessibility, please let us know by emailing us at info@menuiq.co.uk. We appreciate your feedback and your suggestions will help us to improve our service to you.

4               your account details

4.1           If you choose, or you are provided with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

4.2           We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Conditions.

4.3           If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us by emailing us at info@menuiq.co.uk .

5               Intellectual Property Rights

5.1           All text, graphics, audio, video or image files, content, software, applications and information displayed on or available from MenuIQ, and all copyright, trade mark rights, design rights and other intellectual property rights in them (together, the Proprietary Content ) are the property of us or our group companies, or the subcontractors, licensors or the suppliers thereof. This includes, without limitation, the organisation and lay-out of MenuIQ, and the underlying software that is owned by us, our subcontractors or licensors.

5.2           By using MenuIQ, you are agreeing that Proprietary Content is available for use within your business or by your authorised suppliers only and that you will not copy, reproduce, publish, distribute or dispose of in any way any Proprietary Content within any other parties outside of your business including sub-contractors or consultants.

5.3           Neither our or our group companies’ name, trade mark, logo or design may be used or copied in any manner.

5.4           Proprietary Content is protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

5.5           Our status (and that of any of our group companies or other identified contributors) as the authors, proprietor or licensee of material on MenuIQ must always be acknowledged.

5.6           You must not use any part of the Proprietary Content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. 

6               Linking to MenuIQ

6.1           You may link to our MenuIQ page app.menuiq.co.uk, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

6.2           You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

6.3           You must not establish a link to MenuIQ in any website that is not owned by you.

6.4           MenuIQ must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any other webpage operated by us or our group companies without our written consent.

6.5           We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

7               Third party links on MenuIQ

7.1           MenuIQ may contain links to other third party websites (such as those belonging to our suppliers), resources, advertisements or sponsorships.

7.2           If you choose to access any of these links, you will be leaving MenuIQ and since we don''t have any control over these websites, we are not responsible for the content, advertising, products or services available from them, or for any dealings or disputes that you may have in relation to those websites. We are not liable for any loss or damage which may be suffered as a result of the use of such links and third party websites. We would encourage you to review the terms and conditions and privacy policy on any new website you may choose to access because our terms and conditions and privacy policy will no longer be applicable.

7.3           We reserve the right to remove a link at any time.

8               Viruses

8.1           We do not guarantee that MenuIQ will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

8.2           You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access MenuIQ. You should use your own virus protection software.

8.3           You must not misuse MenuIQ or knowingly introduce viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to MenuIQ, the server on which MenuIQ is stored or any server, computer or database connected to MenuIQ. You must not attack MenuIQ via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 or, if you are not accessing MenuIQ from within the UK, the comparable legislation in the relevant jurisdictions. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them to the extent permitted by law. In the event of such a breach, your right to use MenuIQ will cease immediately.

9               Liability

9.1           You acknowledge that you have carried out all necessary due diligence into MenuIQ and have not relied on any statement, promise, representation, assurance or warranty made or given on behalf of us or our group companies which is not set out in these Conditions and that you shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation based on any statement in these Conditions.

9.2           MenuIQ is provided “as is” without warranties and all warranties, implied conditions, representations or other terms that may be implied by statute or common law or otherwise apply to MenuIQ, us or our group companies are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from these Conditions.

9.3           Nothing in this agreement limits any liability which cannot legally be limited, including but not limited to liability for:

(a)            death or personal injury caused by negligence;

(b)            fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and

(c)            breach of the terms implied by section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982.

9.4           We or our group companies will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

(a)            use of, or inability to use, MenuIQ;

(b)            use of or reliance on any content displayed on MenuIQ; or

(c)            the inaccuracy or incorrectness of any information displayed on or generated by MenuIQ.

9.5           In particular, we or our group companies will not be liable for:

(a)            loss of profits, sales, business or revenue;

(b)            business interruption;

(c)            loss of anticipated savings;

(d)            loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

(e)            any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

9.6           You agree to indemnify us in full against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with any claim brought against us or any member of our group arising out of, or in connection with, your use of MenuIQ to provide nutritional, allergen and other product information to your customers.

10             Severability

If any of these Conditions is held to be invalid, the remaining terms and conditions shall continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

11             Law and jurisdiction

These Conditions, each and every contract made on and subject thereto and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed in all respects by and construed in accordance with English Law and the English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

12             entire agreement

These Conditions constitute the entire agreement between us in relation to your use of MenuIQ, and you agree that these Conditions shall exclude any other terms that you may seek to impose or incorporate, or which are implied by trade, custom, practice or course of dealing.

13             third party rights

This agreement is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms. Neither of us will need to get the agreement of any other person in order to end the contract or make any changes to these Conditions.

14             assignment

14.1         We may transfer our rights and obligations under the Conditions to another organisation. We will contact you (including by email) to let you know if this happens.

14.2         You may only transfer your rights or obligations under these Conditions to another person if we agree to this in advance in writing.

15             talk to us for anything else

15.1         If you have any queries, comments or complaints regarding MenuIQ or these Conditions, just get in touch. You can write to us at info@menuiq.co.uk

15.2         MenuIQ is owned and managed by us or our group companies . Although reasonable care has been taken to ensure that the content of MenuIQ is not misleading, nothing in MenuIQ should be taken as being a statement of fact, nor be relied on in any way. Any facts or figures stated in MenuIQ may not be correct at the time of your reading. The copyright in the content of MenuIQ belongs to us, our group companies or suppliers and unauthorised copying is strictly prohibited.

16             DEFINITIONS

16.1         “group” means any of our subsidiary or holding company from time to time and any subsidiary from time to time of our holding company. A reference to a holding company or a subsidiary means a holding company or a subsidiary (as the case may be) as defined in section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006, as amended from time to time.

16.2         “group company” means a member of our group.