TERMS OF SERVICE – MONDADORI DIGITAL S.p.A.

Recitals

The following general terms and conditions of use ("General Conditions") apply to the services provided by Mondadori Digital S.p.A., with registered office in Via Gian Battista Vico 42, 20123 Milan (MI) ("Publisher"), through this website and the related mobile applications, collectively hereinafter the "Site"), without prejudice to the fact that the user (i.e., any individual who accesses and uses the Site and the related Services as defined below, hereinafter the "User/Users"), must accept the relevant terms and conditions of sale, where permitted by the Site, in order to buy the products sold therein.

Access to, and actual browsing on, the Site requires the prior full reading, knowledge and acceptance of these General Conditions by any User. If the User does not agree, in whole or in part, with the provisions of these General Conditions, he or she is requested not to continue browsing the Site.

In accordance with Articles 7 and 12 of Legislative Decree No. 70/2003, Users are informed of the following information: the provider of the Services governed by these General Conditions is Mondadori Digital S.p.A., with registered office in Via Gian Battista Vico 42, 20123 (MI), Tax Code Companies Register of Milan-Monza Brianza-Lodi No. MI-2777805, and VAT No. 14371170961, E-mail condizioniduso@mondadori.it.

Where the User is an individual who requests the provision of the Service for purposes unrelated to his or her business or professional activity and is a "Consumer" for the purposes of Legislative Decree No. 206/2005 ("Italian Consumer Code"), the provisions contained in the Italian Consumer Code will be applicable to the same, in addition to any conditions generally applicable to the type of service provided by the Publisher through the Sites in accordance with Legislative Decree No. 70/2003 relating to information services companies and electronic commerce.

In accordance with the regulations set forth in Legislative Decree No. 206/2005 (as amended by Legislative Decree No. 21/2014), Users are hereby informed that the services offered by the Publisher through the Site include the publication of contents i.e. text, videos and pictures ("Services"). Special terms and conditions will be communicated to Users in case new and different services shall be provided by the Publisher before their use.

This introduction forms an integral and inseparable part of General Conditions.

Such Services may include features involving the monitoring of the User's behaviour. In this respect, reference is made to the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy of the Site, available at https://www.mondadorigroup.com/privacy-policy-eng.

Users are informed that, pursuant to Article 59, paragraph 1, letter (o) of the Italian Consumer Code, the right of withdrawal does not apply to the supply of digital content, a category which includes the Services provided through the Site. By browsing the Site, the any User therefore acknowledges and accepts that they will lose the right of withdrawal with respect to the Services.

In any event, the Publisher makes available to the User the email address privacy@mondadori.it, to which the User may submit a request for the deletion of their account. The deletion of the User's account shall be carried out in accordance with Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"), as further specified in Article 5 of these General Terms and Conditions.

These General Terms and Conditions shall also apply to any Services that may be provided to the User through the Site in the future, unless otherwise specified at User's registration or upon the first provision of the new Service. Certain Services, although governed by these General Terms and Conditions, may also be subject to specific terms and conditions (the "Special Conditions"), depending on their nature and/or characteristics. In such cases, the relevant Special Conditions shall be made available to the User and shall be deemed accepted upon access to and use of such Services.

1. Terms and conditions for the use of the Services

1.1 If required to access the Services, the User must complete the registration form on the Site and accept the General Terms and Conditions. The personal data provided by the User will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), as described in the privacy notice provided pursuant to Article 13 of the GDPR.

1.2 By accepting these General Terms and Conditions, the User confirms that the information provided is accurate, complete and up to date, and undertakes to keep it updated. Where permitted, the User may use a pseudonym or nickname linked to their true identity, which must be provided to the Publisher and may be disclosed to the competent authorities where required by law.

1.3 The right to use the Services is personal and non-transferable. The User may not resell or use the Services for commercial purposes.

1.4 The User is liable for keeping their access credentials confidential and for any use of the Services made through their account. The User agrees to indemnify the Publisher against any claims arising from the improper or unauthorised use of their credentials.

1.5 The Publisher may, at any time and without prior notice, verify compliance with the General Terms and Conditions and may suspend or permanently terminate the provision of the Services if the User:

1.6 Access to and browsing of the Site are available regardless of age of the Users, and the Services are available only to users aged 18 or over.

2. Suspension of the Service

  1. The Publisher reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to temporarily suspend or permanently interrupt the provision of the Services, including any individual Service, as well as the right to remove, including permanently, or modify at any time any Content (as defined below) or information available on the Site.
  2. The Publisher shall not be liable for any damages suffered by the User as a result of interruptions of the Services due to unforeseeable and uncontrollable events of force majeure, including, by way of example and without limitation, natural disasters, adverse weather conditions, acts of sabotage, fires, floods, earthquakes, nationwide strikes, as well as malfunctions of the Site or the Services resulting from interruptions or failures of web connections, telephone, electrical or global and/or national networks, including, by way of example, breakdowns, overloads, interruptions, blackouts or failures of the Site's servers or those of third-party suppliers of the Publisher.
  3. The Publisher reserves the right to suspend and/or interrupt the Services in order to carry out maintenance or updates to its own IT systems or those of third-party suppliers. In such cases, the Publisher shall keep Users informed through email communications, notices on the Site and/or messages within the Services.
  4. The Publisher shall not be liable in any way for any damages, claims or losses, whether direct or indirect, suffered by the User as a result of the failure and/or malfunction of the User's or third parties' electronic equipment, or of telephone and/or telematic connections not directly managed by the Publisher or its suppliers.

3. Hyperlinks

3.1 The Site may include hyperlinks (links) to other websites operated by third parties, including advertisements and other content providers. Such websites may collect the User's personal data and/or request additional personal information. In accordance with applicable data protection laws, the Publisher informs the User that:

The Publisher adopts appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect Users' data within its own Website, and it does not exercise, nor is it required to exercise, any prior control over the content or activities of third-party websites accessed via hyperlinks. Accordingly, the Publisher assumes no responsibility for:

3.2 The User acknowledges that access to and use of third-party websites are at the User's own risk and responsibility. The Publisher has no involvement in, or responsibility for, the relationship between the User and such third parties.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

4.1. The User expressly acknowledges that all industrial and intellectual property rights, which can be protected under the laws relating to copyright (Title IX of Book V of the Italian Civil Code, Articles 2575-2594 of the Italian Civil Code, as well as Law No. 633/1941, as amended by Legislative Decree No. 169/1999) and/or the Italian Industrial Property Code, approved by Legislative Decree No. 30/2005, or other provisions, for the protection, without limitation, of know-how, source code, software, hardware, projects, applications, patents, trade secrets, formulas, algorithms, models, databases and the like, relating to the Services, data and other materials coming from the Publisher or third parties, including Users, however made available on the Site or through the Services in accordance with these General Conditions (hereinafter, the "Content"), are and remain the exclusive property of the Publisher.

4.2. The Publisher grants the User a personal, non-transferable, and non-exclusive license to use the Content and the Services solely in accordance with these General Terms and Conditions. Except as expressly provided herein, it is strictly prohibited to download, copy, modify, sell, assign, sublicense, contribute, transfer to any third parties, or create derivative works from any industrial or intellectual property right of the Publisher, or to allow third parties to do so through the User or the User's devices. Products or services advertised on the Website are not Content: their related industrial and intellectual property rights belong to their respective owners.

4.3. The Content shall be downloaded and used for private purposes only. The User expressly acknowledges and agrees that the Content shall not be reproduced, copied, transmitted, sold, published, or commercially exploited, in whole or in part and in any manner or form.

4.4. All Content available on the Site (including the related Services) is the exclusive property of Mondadori Digital S.p.A., which reserves the right to:

4.5. Opt-out clause for data extraction by artificial intelligence systems. This clause constitutes an express prohibition on the use of the Content of this Website (and the related Services) for the purposes of training, developing, feeding, or otherwise creating artificial intelligence systems.

4.6. Prohibition of scraping and crawling. Any form of automated extraction, scraping, crawling, or other systematic collection of the Content available on this Website by artificial intelligence systems, large language models, generative models, or any other automated data processing system, without exception, is expressly prohibited.

4.7. Scope of application of Sections 4.5 and 4.6.

a. The prohibition applies to:

b. The prohibition includes:

c. Prohibited purposes. The use of the Content is expressly prohibited for:

4.8 Reservation of rights. The Publisher expressly reserves all rights to the Content pursuant to applicable copyright, database, and intellectual property laws. Any unauthorized use of the Content shall constitute an infringement of the Publisher's intellectual property rights and may be pursued before the competent authorities.

4.9 Technical measures. The Publisher reserves the right to implement technical measures to prevent and detect unauthorized extraction of the Content. Any circumvention of such technical measures shall constitute a violation of this clause.

4.10 Any violation of this clause shall result in:

4.11 The Publisher reserves the right to take legal action against any infringing party.

4.12 Any derogation from this clause may be granted only upon the Publisher's prior explicit written consent. Requests for authorization must be sent to [insert contact] and must specify:

5. Technological Protection Measures

The Content shall be protected by technological protection measures under applicable copyright law. Such measures may consist of devices and/or components designed to prevent or restrict acts not authorized by the relevant right holder(s). The Content may also include electronic rights management information identifying, among other things, the applicable terms, the Content owner, and other identifying codes or data.

6. Duration

6.1 The Services are provided indefinitely, except in cases of interruption provided for under these General Conditions.

6.2 The User may at any time request the deletion of their account and of the personal data provided upon registration by sending an email to privacy@mondadori.it, in accordance with the GDPR.

7. Changes to the General Conditions

The Publisher reserves the right to modify these General Conditions, as well as the terms and characteristics of the Services, at any time.

The continued use of even just one Service by the User after the term referred to in Section 7.1 above constitutes tacit expression of the willingness to accept the changes to the General Conditions.

These General Terms and Conditions became effective 01/01/2026. Earlier versions are available at: https://digital.mondadori.it/condizioni_di_partecipazione.html

8. Applicable law and jurisdiction

  1. These General Conditions are governed by Italian law.
  2. For any dispute concerning these General Conditions, if the User is a Consumer, the provisions of Legislative Decree No. 206/05 shall apply and the Court of the place indicated by the User at the time of registration (or subsequently modified) as his/her residence or domicile, if located in the territory of the Italian State, shall have jurisdiction; in any other cases, the Court of Milan shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
  3. The User may choose to resolve disputes through mediation under Legislative Decree No. 28/2010 or by using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) bodies via the European Commission's online dispute resolution (ODR) platform, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

9. Risk warnings for Users

  1. The Publisher declines all and any liability for any abuses committed by Users, or to which they are subjected as a result of the conduct of third parties, whether or not committed in violation of these General Conditions
  2. In their Content, the Site also deal with issues related to health, wellness, nutrition, diets, etc. Such topics may not be suitable for everyone; therefore, the User is advised to make sure that the Content of the Site being consulted meets his/her needs and is suitable for his/her age and/or specific health conditions and the like. The Publisher shall not be liable for any damages claimed by Users for any information and/or Content of the Site that may have been disturbing and/or offensive.
  3. Any data, whether their own or relating to third parties, submitted by the User on the Sites and made publicly available may be viewed by anyone accessing the Sites, including through internal search functions, and may be indexed by search engines, thus becoming accessible also to non-registered users.
  4. The Publisher does not automatically publish Users' contact details (such as, by way of example, email addresses) provided at the time of registration.
  5. Where permitted, the Publisher allows Users to use their chosen nickname.
  6. The User acknowledges that, through its Services, the Publisher provides tools designed to help prevent the disclosure of personal data, including sensitive data.
  7. The information published in the Site concerning nutrition, health, wellness, diets (or in any case topics related to these areas) are made available to Users for purely informational purposes (without prejudice to the provisions of Sections 11 and 12 below). This information cannot, and is in no way intended to, replace the relationship with a doctor or other health professional. Therefore, if the User considers that he/she needs advice concerning the topics dealt with on the Site, he/she is invited to directly contact a doctor and/or specialist or health professional for the indication of any proper therapeutic and/or dietary and/or training and/or lactation and/or rehabilitation and/or dietary supplement program.
  8. The information and content published on the Site are provided for general information purposes only. While the Publisher takes reasonable care to ensure that any information is accurate and up to date, it cannot guarantee that it is complete, error-free or fully accurate at all times. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher, the authors of the articles and other parties connected with the Site shall not be liable for any damage resulting from the use of the information or Content on the Site, nor for any improper use made by Users.
  9. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher shall not be liable for any distress or discomfort experienced by Users as a result of information or Content on the Site that may be perceived as offensive or upsetting to personal sensitivities.

10. Special Conditions - Health-Related Service

  1. The Publisher shall public certain content relating to health, well-being, nutrition and diets, diseases, maternity and sexuality (the "Health-Related Service"). The provisions of these General Terms and Conditions shall in any case apply to such content.
  2. Users of the Health-Related Service are also required to comply with the specific terms and conditions applicable to that Service, set out below (the "Special Conditions for the Health-Related Service"). Where applicable, upon registration or, in any event, upon first actual use of the Health-Related Service, the User declares to have read and fully accepted the Special Conditions for the Health-Related Service and, in particular, acknowledges that:
  3. (a) any related content is provided mainly for informational and educational purposes. Such content and the information published therein may not under any circumstances be considered as an alternative to, or a substitute for, professional medical advice or consultation.
  4. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher shall not be liable for any errors, inaccuracies or misunderstandings that may arise for the User.
  5. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher shall not be liable for the consequences of any actions taken by the User that are inconsistent with the purely informational nature of the content of the Health-Related Service, nor for any alleged direct or indirect damages suffered.
  6. Under no circumstances shall the Publisher be liable for any damages claimed by Users for any information or content on the Site that may be disturbing or offensive.

11. Web Push Notification Service

11.1 The Publisher offers a Web push notification service that allows Users to receive notifications through their browser, where supported, after completing the required acceptance process. Notifications may also include promotional content.

11.2 The Web push notification service needs specific consent and is provided through the User's browser, in accordance with the browser's own terms and conditions.

11.3 Users must complete the Web push notification subscription process to use the Service.

11.4 By enabling Web push notifications, the User confirms that they have read and accepted these General Terms and Conditions and understands that:

11.5 Any costs related to the User's device or internet connection required to receive Web push notifications are the User's responsibility.

11.6 Any browser or device updates needed to use the Web push notification service must be carried out by the User at their own expense.

11.7 The Web push notification service is provided free of charge and "as is". Notification delivery depends on the User's browser settings, the Publisher's activation of the service and the availability of an internet connection.

11.8 The Web push notification service may only be used for personal purposes. Any commercial use is not permitted.

11.9 To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher is not responsible for service interruptions caused by technical issues beyond its control, such as browser or network malfunctions.

11.10 The Publisher may modify, suspend or discontinue the Web push notification service, in whole or in part, at any time. The service may also be suspended if the User breaches these General Terms and Conditions, including this section.

11.11 Except as expressly stated in these General Terms and Conditions, no additional guarantees are provided. The User uses the service at their own responsibility and agrees to follow any instructions provided by the Publisher.

11.12 The service is intended for personal, non-commercial use only. The User is responsible for any unauthorised use.

11.13 The Publisher does not guarantee that the content sent via Web push notifications is always accurate or up to date and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, is not liable for any damages resulting from its use.

11.14 All trademarks, logos, images, videos, texts and other content sent via the Web push notification service remain the exclusive property of the Publisher. Users may only access, receive and store such content on their device for private, personal use. Any further use, including sharing, distribution or commercial use, is not permitted without the Publisher's prior authorisation.

11.15 Article 4 Intellectual Property Rights- applies to the content provided through the Web push notification service also.

12. Code of Ethics and Gender Equality Policy

Pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, Mondadori Digital S.p.A. undertakes to comply, in its relations with Users, with the principles set out in its Code of Ethics, which can be consulted at: https://www.gruppomondadori.it/content/uploads/2013/07/Code-of-ethics.pdf

Mondadori Group considers gender equality a fundamental element of its organisation and, in line with its commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion externally, actively works to ensure an equitable framework of opportunities within the organisation, fostering the professional and personal growth of all employees while respecting their individual uniqueness. In accordance with these principles, a Gender Equality Policy has been adopted and is available on the website https://www.gruppomondadori.it under the Governance and Diversity & Inclusion section. Compliance with this Policy forms an integral and essential part of the obligations undertaken under this Agreement.

Clauses Requiring Specific Approval pursuant to Articles 1341 and 1342 of the Italian Civil Code

The User expressly approves the following clauses: 1.6 – interruption of the Services; 2 – suspension of the Services; Article 4.10 – consequences of breach of Article 4; Article 7 – amendments to the General Terms and Conditions; Article 8 – applicable law; Article 9 – risks for Users.

Consult Privacy Notice for further information on the processing of personal data, your privacy rights and how to exercise them.