BAT West and Central Africa - Conditions of use

Introduction

This website is operated by the registered British American Tobacco (BAT) entities that form the West and Central Africa Area (hereafter collectively referred to as “BAT WCA”). Please read these terms and conditions of use ("conditions of use") carefully. By accessing this website, you agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree to be bound by these conditions of use, you should not access or view this website.

To make these conditions of use easier to read, we use a few definitions. The terms “BAT WCA”, “we”, “us” and “our” are used to refer to registered British American Tobacco entities that form the West and Central Africa Area.

The terms “British American Tobacco”, “the Group” and “The British American Tobacco Group” are used to refer to British American Tobacco p.l.c. and the group of companies constituting its direct and indirect subsidiaries worldwide, including but not limited to the following: British American Tobacco (Nigeria) Limited; British American Tobacco Marketing Nigeria Limited; British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (Limited by Guarantee); British American Tobacco Ghana Limited; British American Tobacco RCI SARL; British American Tobacco Cameroon SA; British American Tobacco Mali SARL; British American Tobacco Benin SA; British American Tobacco Niger SARL; British American Tobacco Services Congo SARL; British American Tobacco Import SARL; Tobacco Marketing Company Burkina Faso.

These conditions of use contain six sections, including this introduction. Other sections below provide our privacy policy, our cookie policy, information about the external links that appear on this website, general provisions and company information.  These conditions of use are accessible from every page of this website.
Any enquiries or complaints which you have in relation to this website should be made either by using the Contact us facility or be addressed to the Area Head of Corporate Affairs, BAT WCA at 2, Olumegbon road, off Alfred Rewane road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

Cookie Policy

'Cookies' are small data files that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device's hard drive.  References in these conditions of use to ‘cookies’ also include other means of automatically accessing or storing information on your device.

When you accessed the website, you were presented with a message that notified you of the use of cookies on this website. We had to use a cookie to present you with that notice. If you continue to use this website, further cookies will be placed on your device as described in the table below. By continuing to use this website after we present that notice to you, you are agreeing to the use of the cookies described in this Cookie Policy.

We may use web beacons, which are transparent image files on web pages and are used to monitor your journey around British American Tobacco Group websites.

Otherwise, we do not ourselves use cookies on this website. However, some of the tools and content in the ‘Media’ section of our website are delivered by (and in some cases also hosted by) third party content providers. When you access this content, these third-party providers may set cookies on your computer or mobile device.

We allow third parties to set the following cookies on this website:

Cookie / technology	Google Analytics
Purpose	These cookies are used to collect information about how you and other visitors use our website, which we use to help improve it. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they have visited.
How to disable / enable this cookie	To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
Name	Expiry
_ga	Persistent cookie: 2 years from set/update
_gat	Persistent cookie: 1 minute from set/update
_gid	Persistent cookie: 24 hours from set/update
Cookie / technology	This website
Purpose	This cookie is used to store if a user has seen the cookie notification message on this website.
How to disable / enable this cookie	Disable cookies coming from the ‘www.batwca.com’ domain in browser.
Name	Expiry
cookieMessage	Persistent cookie: 180 days from set/update

For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org .

Links to external websites

This website includes links to external websites which are subject to their own terms and conditions and privacy policies. We are not responsible for the content of these external websites and we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the terms and conditions of such sites before you submit any information about yourself. These links are provided solely for convenience to you. No endorsement of any party, products or services is expressed or implied and accordingly WCA cannot accept any liability for the accuracy of, or otherwise in relation to, any content or the security of any activity carried out on such other websites. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage, loss or cost caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such linked websites. Your use of such websites is at your sole risk.

If you choose to access external websites using links provided on this website, these websites may set a cookie. British American Tobacco does not have any control over the use of such cookies, and you should refer to the terms and conditions of use and cookie policy of the particular third-party website for further information.

General provisions

1. This website is provided to you free of charge, without any warranties or guarantees unless specifically stated. The information contained in this website is intended for general information purposes only.
2. Except as expressly provided for on this website, BAT WCA is not responsible for the content or use of any web pages or any messages sent or received by you.
3. All copyright, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights used as part of this website are vested in BAT WCA and / or its licensors. You acquire no rights in the website other than the limited right to use the website in accordance with these conditions of use. You may not offer for sale or sell or distribute over any medium, any part of this website or its content.  However, you are permitted to print out or download information and content from this website for your own personal, non-commercial use only.  Other than as stated in these conditions of use, you may not make any part of the website available as part of another website, whether by scraping, crawling, hyperlink framing on the Internet or otherwise unless you have been authorised to do so in writing by BAT WCA.
4. You shall not use this website for any illegal purposes and in particular agree that you shall not send, use, copy, post or allow any posting which is defamatory or obscene or which is abusive, indecent or in breach of the privacy of any person. You agree not to send any unsolicited promotional or advertising material, spam or similar materials or any volume messages which may interfere with the operation of this website or with the enjoyment of this website by other visitors.
5. BAT WCA reserves the right at any time and without notice to enhance, modify, alter, suspend or permanently discontinue all or any part of this website and to restrict or prohibit access to it.
6. You hereby agree to indemnify BAT WCA against any costs, claims, losses and damages (including legal fees) incurred by or awarded against any entity in BAT WCA as a result of your misuse of this website or your breach of these conditions of use.
7. If you are in breach of these conditions of use BAT WCA may suspend or block your access to this website and refuse to provide you with any further access to it.
8. BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO, WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA PUBLISHES THIS WEBSITE “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES REFERRED TO ON THE WEBSITE (IN SO FAR AS SUCH WARRANTIES MAY BE EXCLUDED UNDER ANY RELEVANT LAW).  EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH CAUSED BY ITS NEGLIGENCE OR FOR FRAUD, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO, WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA NOR ANY OTHER COMPANY IN THE BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO GROUP SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR DAMAGE WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE AND WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT OR INDIRECT LOSS OF PROFITS), CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR SPECIAL THAT MAY RESULT FROM ACCESS OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, HOWSOEVER ARISING.  YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEBSITE.
9. If any part of these conditions of use is found to be unenforceable as a matter of law, all other parts of these conditions of use shall not be affected.
10. These conditions of use govern our relationship with you and represent our entire agreement with you.
11. The conditions of use and the content of this website are governed by the applicable laws in the entities that make up WCA and whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction as applicable.

Company information
British American Tobacco Marketing Nigeria (on behalf of the other entities that make up WCA) is incorporated in Nigeria.
2, Olumegbon road, off Alfred Rewane road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
RC 483119
Tax Identification Number: 01060923-0001
+234 (0) 704 600 2000

BAT entities in WCA

• British-American Tobacco Nigeria Limited
• British American Tobacco Marketing Nigeria Limited
• British American Tobacco RCI SARL
• British American Tobacco Ghana Limited
• British American Tobacco Cameroon SA
• British American Tobacco Benin SA
• British American Tobacco Mali SARL
• British American Tobacco Import SARL
• British American Tobacco Services Congo SARL
• Tobacco Marketing Company Burkina Faso

Please send legal notices to the Area Head of Legal, BAT WCA at British American Tobacco Marketing Nigeria Limited 2, Olumegbon road, off Alfred Rewane road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria. Please send all other correspondence in relation to this website (including any enquiries or complaints) to the Area Head of Corporate Affairs at 2, Olumegbon road, off Alfred Rewane road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

Last updated 12th May 2020