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Terms of Service

Last updated: May 29, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of vinagallica.com (“Vina Gallica”, “the Platform”) and any services offered through it. The Platform is operated by Bogusław Siemiątkowski “Spiżarnia REGIO”, with its registered address at Napoleońska 49, 06-500 Mława, Poland, VAT-EU: PL5691729538.

By creating an account on Vina Gallica, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Platform.

For B2B and partnership enquiries: partners@vinagallica.com For legal, privacy, or data protection matters: privacy@vinagallica.com

Table of Contents

  1. Eligibility
  2. Nature of the Agreement
  3. The Platform — What Vina Gallica Provides
  4. Account Registration
  5. Listing Plans and Pricing
  6. Payment and VAT
  7. Listing Submission and Moderation
  8. Listing Standards
  9. Content and Intellectual Property
  10. Social Media and Marketing
  11. Account Suspension and Termination
  12. Limitation of Liability
  13. Indemnification
  14. Future Features
  15. Changes to These Terms
  16. Language
  17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
  18. Miscellaneous

1. Eligibility

1.1 Who may use Vina Gallica

At this stage, Vina Gallica is open exclusively to businesses registered in France that hold a valid French SIREN number. By registering, you confirm that your business:

1.2 Future expansion

Vina Gallica may expand eligibility to businesses in other countries in the future. These Terms will be updated accordingly before any such expansion takes place.

1.3 No consumer access

Vina Gallica does not offer services to individual consumers. All registered users are businesses acting in a commercial capacity.

Summary: Only French wine businesses with a valid SIREN number can register. This is a business-to-business platform, not a consumer service.

2. Nature of the Agreement

2.1 Business-to-business relationship

These Terms constitute a business-to-business (B2B) agreement between Spiżarnia REGIO and the registered business entity (“you”, “the Customer”, “the User”). Consumer protection laws and regulations that apply only to private individuals — including statutory rights of withdrawal under EU consumer law — do not apply to this agreement.

Summary: Because you are a business signing up — not a private individual — consumer protection rules don’t apply here. Any extra protections we offer you are voluntary, not legally mandated.

3. The Platform — What Vina Gallica Provides

3.1 Description

Vina Gallica is an online directory and interactive map of French wine businesses. It allows businesses to create listings that are visible to the public, helping wine enthusiasts and professionals discover French wine producers, retailers, and events.

3.2 No guaranteed outcomes

Vina Gallica is a visibility tool. We do not guarantee any specific number of page views, clicks, leads, customer enquiries, reservations, or commercial results of any kind. The effectiveness of a listing depends on many factors outside our control, including search engine behaviour, user preferences, and market conditions.

3.3 Platform availability

We aim to keep the Platform available at all times but do not provide any uptime guarantee. Scheduled maintenance, technical failures, or third-party service disruptions (including Cloudflare’s infrastructure) may cause temporary unavailability. We will make reasonable efforts to restore access as quickly as possible.

Summary: Vina Gallica lists your business so people can find it. We can’t promise you’ll get any specific number of visitors or customers — that depends on many things beyond our control.

4. Account Registration

4.1 Creating an account

To list your business on Vina Gallica, you must create an account. During registration, you must provide your French SIREN number, which is verified in real time against official French business registry data.

Upon successful validation of an active SIREN number, the Company Name and Company Address fields will be pre-filled automatically — both remain editable before you submit.

Account creation is only permitted once the SIREN number is confirmed as active.

During registration you also need to provide a valid business email address and accurate contact details for your business.

The registration form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile to prevent automated submissions and ensure the security of the registration process.

4.2 Accuracy of information

You are responsible for ensuring that all information you provide during registration and throughout your use of the Platform is accurate, complete, and kept up to date. Providing false or misleading registration information is grounds for account termination.

4.3 Account security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account login credentials. You must notify us immediately at privacy@vinagallica.com if you suspect unauthorised access to your account.

4.4 One account per business

Each business entity should maintain a single account. Multiple listings (locations, brands, or events) may be added under the same account. Creating multiple accounts for the same legal entity is not permitted.

Summary: Register once, keep your information accurate, and protect your login. You can add multiple listings (e.g. multiple locations) under one account.

5. Listing Plans and Pricing

5.1 Free Plan

The Free Plan is available permanently at no cost and with no time limit. A Free listing includes:

There is no obligation to upgrade to a paid plan at any point.

5.2 Premium Plan

The Premium Plan is available for €50 per year, excluding VAT, billed annually. It includes everything in the Free Plan, plus:

5.3 Multiple listings

A single account may hold any number of listings, each independently designated as Free or Premium.

5.4 When the Premium period starts

To access the Premium Plan, you must complete the Premium upgrade process from your account dashboard. This involves the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the Upgrade tab in your dashboard.
  2. Select your registration path based on your tax status and enter either your EU intra-community VAT number or your SIREN number. Both are validated in real time.
  3. Once validation is successful, a pre-filled order form appears. Complete the remaining fields and review the details.
  4. Tick the checkbox confirming your consent to receive invoices electronically by email.
  5. Submit the form. We will then send a pro-forma invoice to the email address indicated in the form, showing the exact amount due, inclusive of VAT where applicable.

Upon receipt of your completed form, we will grant you provisional Premium access for 33 days, pending receipt of payment. You will simultaneously receive the pro-forma invoice by email, payable by SEPA bank transfer within 30 days.

Your annual Premium subscription period begins on the date we record your payment against the pro-forma invoice. We will notify you by email and add a corresponding note to your account dashboard, showing both the start and end dates of your subscription.

5.5 No automatic renewal

The Premium Plan does not renew automatically. You will receive renewal reminders by email at the following intervals before your Premium period expires:

A pro-forma invoice will be included with these reminders. This pro-forma invoice is non-binding and does not constitute an automatic contract renewal or a demand for payment. It is provided for your convenience only.

5.6 Grace period and reversion to Free

After your Premium period expires, your listings will remain at Premium level for a 7-day grace period. If you have not renewed by the end of this grace period, all your listings will revert permanently to the Free Plan. You may upgrade back to Premium at any time from your account dashboard.

Summary: The Free Plan is yours forever at no cost. Premium costs €50/year and adds a full profile page, images, and more. It doesn’t renew automatically, but you’ll get reminders. If you don’t renew within the 7-day grace period, your listings drop back to the free level.

6. Payment and VAT

6.1 Payment method

Payments for the Premium Plan are processed in Euro (EUR) only. Payment is made by SEPA bank transfer. After you complete the Premium order form, we will send you a pro-forma invoice by email showing the exact amount due, including VAT where applicable. The pro-forma invoice is payable within 30 days.

Upon receipt of your order form, we may grant you provisional Premium access for 33 days while awaiting payment. We aim to record and confirm your payment within 2 business days of receiving the transfer.

Please note that a pro-forma invoice is not a VAT invoice and cannot be used for tax deduction purposes.

6.2 VAT and EU reverse charge

Vina Gallica is operated by a Polish entity (Spiżarnia REGIO, VAT-EU: PL5691729538).

6.3 Invoicing

The Premium order process may involve both a pro-forma invoice and a final VAT invoice. The pro-forma invoice is issued before payment and is for payment purposes only. Following confirmation of payment, we will issue and send the final VAT invoice by email.

7. Listing Submission and Moderation

7.1 How to submit a listing

Listings are submitted through the submit page on the Platform or through your account dashboard. You must complete all required fields in the submission form accurately and in full.

7.2 Review process

Free listings are subject to a standard review before publication. This review covers technical completeness, category relevance, and compliance with the Platform’s content standards.

Listings submitted under a Premium account are not subject to the standard review queue and are published without delay.

7.3 Review timeframe

For Free listings, reviews are typically completed within 3 business days of submission. During high-demand periods, this may take slightly longer.

7.4 Notification of outcome

You will receive an email notification when your listing is approved and published. If your listing is rejected, we will inform you of the reason and, where possible, invite you to correct and resubmit.

7.5 Vina Gallica’s editorial discretion

Vina Gallica reserves the right to reject, remove, or suspend any listing at any time if it does not comply with these Terms or the Platform’s editorial standards, or if circumstances arise that make the listing no longer appropriate for the Platform. Where possible, we will give you an opportunity to remedy the issue before removing a published listing.

Summary: Submit your listing through the website. Free listings go through a standard review before publication, while listings submitted under a Premium account are published without delay.

8. Listing Standards

8.1 Required accuracy

All information in your listing must be accurate, complete, and reflect the current state of your business. This includes your business name, address, contact details, opening hours, business category, and any certifications or awards displayed.

8.2 Category relevance

Your listing must be placed in the correct category (winery, wine shop, wine-related hospitality and experience, wine festival, or such other categories as Vina Gallica may introduce). Listings placed in an incorrect or misleading category will be rejected or recategorised at our discretion.

8.3 Images

Images submitted with your listing must meet the following standards:

8.4 Prohibited content

The following content is not permitted in any listing:

8.5 Ongoing compliance

You are responsible for keeping your listing up to date. If your business closes, relocates, or changes category, you must update your listing promptly. Listings that are found to be materially inaccurate or out of date may be suspended pending correction.

Summary: Keep your listing accurate and use only your own photos. Don’t exaggerate certifications or mislead visitors. If anything changes about your business, update your listing.

9. Content and Intellectual Property

9.1 Your content

When you submit a listing, you provide content including (but not limited to) text descriptions, photographs, logos, brand names, and other materials (“Your Content”). You retain all ownership rights in Your Content.

9.2 Your warranties

By submitting Your Content, you warrant that:

9.3 Licence grant to Spiżarnia REGIO

By submitting Your Content to Vina Gallica, you grant Spiżarnia REGIO a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, publish, display, reproduce, and promote Your Content for the following purposes:

This licence remains in effect for as long as your listing is active on the Platform. Upon deletion of your account or removal of a specific listing, the licence terminates for that content, except where content has already been incorporated into materials that are not reasonably retrievable (such as previously published social media posts).

9.4 Vina Gallica’s intellectual property

All Platform content not provided by users — including the Vina Gallica name, logo, design, software, editorial content, and the map and directory structure — is owned by or licensed to Spiżarnia REGIO. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any of this content without prior written permission.

9.5 Responsibility for your content

You are solely responsible for the accuracy and legality of Your Content. Spiżarnia REGIO does not verify the accuracy of listing content beyond the initial moderation review described in Section 7.

Summary: You keep ownership of everything you submit. By uploading it, you allow us to display it on the Platform and use it to promote your business. We won’t sell your content or misuse it.

10. Social Media and Marketing

10.1 Promotion on social media

Vina Gallica maintains a presence on social media platforms including YouTube and TikTok. As part of our editorial and marketing activities, we may feature individual listings or businesses in social media posts, videos, or other promotional content.

By submitting a listing and agreeing to these Terms, you consent to your business and listing content being featured in Vina Gallica’s social media and marketing activities. This is part of the promotional exposure the Platform is designed to offer.

10.2 Nature of social media features

Features on social media are at Vina Gallica’s sole editorial discretion. Not all listings will be featured, and featuring cannot be guaranteed as part of any plan. Features are undertaken as editorial content, not as paid promotion.

If you wish your business not to be featured on social media going forward, you may notify us at partners@vinagallica.com. We will honour such requests for future content. However, content already published on third-party platforms (e.g. YouTube or TikTok) may not be immediately removable due to the nature of those platforms.

Summary: By listing your business, you agree that we may feature it on our YouTube, TikTok, or other social media channels as part of our editorial activity. This is not a paid service — it is purely at our discretion. If you’d rather we didn’t feature your business, let us know at any time.

11. Account Suspension and Termination

11.1 Termination by you

You may delete your account at any time through the Settings section of your account dashboard. Following account deletion, your personal and business data will be deleted within 30 days, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. No refund will be issued for any remaining Premium period.

11.2 Suspension or termination by Spiżarnia REGIO

Spiżarnia REGIO reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account without prior notice if:

Where the violation appears capable of remedy, we will, where reasonably practicable, give you notice and an opportunity to correct the issue before taking action.

11.3 Effect of non-payment

Non-renewal of the Premium Plan does not constitute grounds for account termination. Your account will remain active, and your listings will revert to the Free Plan in accordance with Section 5.6. Termination by Spiżarnia REGIO is reserved for the situations described in Section 12.2.

11.4 Effect of termination

Upon termination of your account (for any reason):

Summary: You can close your account anytime from the dashboard. We can suspend or close accounts that violate our rules. Not renewing Premium just puts you on the free plan — it doesn’t close your account.

12. Limitation of Liability

12.1 Scope of the Platform

Vina Gallica provides a listing and mapping platform. It is not a booking engine, a sales platform, a review platform, or a marketing agency. We do not represent or warrant that listing on Vina Gallica will produce any particular commercial result for your business.

12.2 Cap on liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Spiżarnia REGIO’s total aggregate liability to you — whether in contract, for breach of statutory duty, or otherwise — arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Platform shall not exceed the total amount you have paid to Spiżarnia REGIO in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

12.3 Exclusion of indirect and consequential losses

Neither party shall be liable to the other for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential loss or damage, including loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, or damage to reputation, whether or not such losses were foreseeable or the party had been advised of their possibility.

12.4 Platform availability

Spiżarnia REGIO shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from temporary unavailability of the Platform, including where this results from maintenance, software updates, third-party infrastructure failures (including Cloudflare), or events outside our reasonable control.

12.5 Exceptions

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by French law.

Summary: We’re not responsible if your listing doesn’t generate the business results you hoped for. If something goes wrong on our end, our liability is capped at what you’ve paid us in the past year, and we’re never liable for lost profits or indirect losses.

13. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Spiżarnia REGIO, its proprietor, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to:

Summary: If your listing causes a legal problem — for example, because you used someone else’s photo without permission — you’re responsible for handling that, not us.

14. Future Features

14.1 Platform development

Vina Gallica is an actively developed platform. We are working on additional features, including a Cinema section featuring video content about French wine businesses and regions, as well as video partnership programmes for businesses that wish to commission or feature in Vina Gallica video content.

14.2 Updated Terms

When new features with material commercial or legal implications are launched, these Terms will be updated in advance in accordance with Section 16. You will be notified by email before any such changes take effect.

14.3 No current commitment

The mention of future features in these Terms does not constitute a commitment to deliver them by any particular date. Platform features may be introduced, modified, or discontinued at any time.

Summary: We’re building new features, including a video/cinema section. When those launch, we’ll update these Terms and let you know in advance.

15. Changes to These Terms

15.1 Right to update

Spiżarnia REGIO may update these Terms at any time to reflect changes in the Platform, applicable law, or our business practices.

15.2 Notice of material changes

For any material change — meaning a change that meaningfully affects your rights or obligations — we will notify you by email at least 30 days before the updated Terms take effect.

15.3 Acceptance

If you continue to use the Platform after the notice period has elapsed, you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Terms. If you do not accept the updated Terms, you may close your account before the new Terms take effect.

15.4 Minor changes

For minor or non-material changes (such as corrections of typographical errors, clarifications that do not alter the substance of any clause, or updates to contact details), we may update the Terms without the 30-day notice period, but we will always update the “Last updated” date at the top of this document.

Summary: If we make important changes, we’ll email you at least 30 days in advance. If you keep using the Platform after that, it means you agree to the new Terms.

16. Language

16.1 Language of the Terms

These Terms are available in English and in French. In the event of any conflict or ambiguity between the two versions, the French version shall prevail.

The French version is available at vinagallica.com/fr/conditions-generales.

16.2 Language of proceedings

Legal proceedings arising under these Terms shall be conducted in French, before the competent courts of France as identified in Section 17. An English translation of any procedural documents may be requested at the cost of the requesting party.

Summary: These Terms exist in both English and French. In case of any conflict between the two versions, the French version prevails. Any legal proceedings will be brought before French courts and conducted in French.

17. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

17.1 Governing law

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them — including non-contractual disputes — shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France, in particular the French Civil Code (Code civil) and applicable French commercial statutes (Code de commerce).

17.2 Good-faith resolution

Before initiating any legal proceedings, both parties agree to make a genuine effort to resolve any dispute by exchanging written communications by email (at the contact addresses set out in these Terms) over a period of at least 30 days. This is not a condition precedent to legal proceedings, but a mutual commitment to attempt a reasonable commercial resolution first.

17.3 Jurisdiction

If the dispute cannot be resolved by negotiation, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent commercial courts of Paris, France (Tribunal de commerce de Paris).

17.4 B2B context

As this is a B2B agreement, the parties acknowledge that no consumer arbitration schemes or consumer dispute resolution platforms (médiation de la consommation) apply to this relationship.

Summary: If there’s a disagreement, we’ll try to sort it out by email first over 30 days. If that fails, the Commercial Court of Paris will handle it under French law.

18. Miscellaneous

18.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Spiżarnia REGIO with respect to your use of the Platform, and supersede all prior agreements, representations, or understandings relating to the same subject matter.

18.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid under applicable law, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if modification is not possible, severed from the Terms. The remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

18.3 No waiver

Failure by either party to enforce any provision of these Terms at any time does not constitute a waiver of that party’s right to enforce the same provision in the future.

18.4 Assignment

Spiżarnia REGIO may assign its rights and obligations under these Terms to a successor in the event of a business transfer, merger, or acquisition, provided your rights under these Terms are not materially diminished. You may not assign your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

18.5 Force majeure

Neither party will be liable for any delay or failure to perform obligations under these Terms to the extent that such delay or failure results from circumstances beyond their reasonable control, including natural disasters, government action, widespread internet outages, or other events that could not have been reasonably anticipated or avoided.

18.6 Contact

For any questions about these Terms, please contact us:

Summary: These Terms, along with the Privacy Policy, are the full agreement between us. Individual clauses can be adjusted if a court finds them unenforceable, without affecting the rest.