Terms of Service — Sortscoutroms

1. Agreement to Terms

By accessing or browsing the website located at sortscoutroms.sbs (the "Site"), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy. If you do not accept these Terms in their entirety, you must discontinue use of this Site immediately.

These Terms constitute a legally binding contractual agreement between you ("User", "You", or "Specifier") and Sortscoutroms Atelier BV ("Company", "We", "Us", or "Our"), a Belgian private limited liability entity registered under enterprise number BE 0849.392.814, with its registered corporate seat at Avenue Louise 240, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

2. Architectural Information and Advisory Disclaimer

All technical monographs, photometric performance tables, optical cutoff schematics, wiring guidance, and acoustic coefficient analyses published on this Site are compiled strictly for general architectural reference, educational evaluation, and preliminary design scoping.

While we strive for technical precision, the content does not constitute formal electrical engineering sign-off, structural load certification, or site-specific construction drawings. Every building project involves unique structural tolerances, mains voltage variations, local fire codes, and electrical compliance regulations. You must verify all physical clearances, beam angles, driver loads, and mounting details with licensed electrical contractors and registered professional engineers prior to site procurement or plaster installation.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

All content published on this Site—including but not limited to technical editorial copy, architectural monographs, layout frameworks, SVG graphics, icons, custom CSS styling, typography pairing rules, and digital photographic curations—is the exclusive intellectual property of Sortscoutroms Atelier BV or its licensors, protected by Belgian, European, and international copyright and trademark laws.

You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access the Site and view materials for internal project specification and educational review. You may not republish, mirror, scrape, systematically extract via automated scrapers or artificial intelligence training crawlers, sell, or commercially license any monograph content without our express prior written authorization.

4. Acceptable Use and User Obligations

When accessing our Site and submitting technical project inquiries via our contact forms, you agree to:

Provide truthful, accurate, and current contact details and project scopes.
Refrain from introducing harmful code, malware, viruses, trojans, or automated scripts designed to disrupt server operations.
Not attempt to bypass, circumvent, or probe security headers, authentication layers, or digital access boundaries.
Not use our communication channels to transmit unsolicited marketing broadcasts, commercial spam, or defamatory material.

We reserve the right to restrict or terminate your access to the Site without prior notice should you violate any provision of these Terms.

5. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted under applicable Belgian and European law, Sortscoutroms Atelier BV, its directors, officers, engineers, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to:

Loss of business profits, project revenue, or anticipated design commissions;
On-site labor delays, plaster cracking, drylining re-work, or structural retrofitting costs;
Loss of digital data or business interruption arising from site downtime;
Errors, inaccuracies, or omissions within published photometric tables or product specification guides.

The materials on this Site are provided strictly on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without express or implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular architectural purpose, or non-infringement.

6. Third-Party Links and External References

Our articles and legal documentation may contain hyperlinks to independent third-party websites, including statutory authorities, trade standards organizations, and technical institutions. These external references are supplied for context only. We exercise no supervisory control over external web platforms, and we disclaim all responsibility for their content, accuracy, or privacy practices.

7. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Sortscoutroms Atelier BV, its affiliates, officers, and employees from and against any third-party claims, liabilities, losses, damages, judgements, costs, and legal fees resulting from your misuse of the Site or your breach of these Terms.

8. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms of Service and any contractual or non-contractual disputes arising from them shall be governed by, construed, and enforced exclusively in accordance with the substantive laws of the Kingdom of Belgium, excluding its conflict of law principles.

In the event of any controversy, claim, or dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the parties agree to first seek an amicable settlement through formal good-faith negotiation. If such dispute cannot be resolved amicably within forty-five (45) business days, it shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent commercial courts of Brussels, Belgium (Tribunal de l'entreprise francophone de Bruxelles / Nederlandstalige ondernemingsrechtbank Brussel).

9. Severability and Entire Agreement

If any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable by an authorized court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full legal force and effect. These Terms constitute the complete agreement between you and Sortscoutroms regarding the use of this Site.

Inquiries regarding these Terms should be directed to our legal department at [email protected].