By accessing and using the Routres.com website (the “Site”) and any associated Services, applications, or products (the “Services”) offered by Routres International SA. (“Routres.com,” “Routres”, “we,” “us,” or “our”), you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions without limitation or qualification.
1. General
These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Routres. They govern your access to and use of the Routres.com Site and any related Services, information, or functionalities (collectively, the “Services”). By accessing or using our Site or Services, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you must not use our Site or Services.
2. Company Identity and Operations
This Site is owned and operated by Routres International SA, a company registered in Rue Robert Ceard 6, Geneva, Switzerland 1204 with its principal place of business in Switzerland; any other Services may be operated by affiliated companies together with links to third party sites. Routres controls and maintains this Site and any Routres Services from Switzerland and makes no representation that the information provided on or via this Site or any Services is appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you use this Site or any Routres Services from other locations, you do so by your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws and regulations.
3. Nature of Services and Information Accuracy
Routres operates as a commodities trading company, striving to connect producers and buyers of raw materials globally. The information provided on this Site pertains to our mission, Services, and general market insights.
While Routres will use reasonable efforts to provide accurate information on this Site or any Routres Services; however, certain information is provided by third parties and as such Routres cannot warrant the accuracy or completeness of information supplied. Accordingly, it is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any opinions, advice, Services or other information provided. All information contained on any page created by an entity of Routres is distributed with the understanding that the authors, publishers and distributors are not rendering legal, accounting or other professional advice or opinions on specific facts or matters and accordingly assume no liability whatsoever in connection with its use. You should consult your own legal or tax advisor with respect to your personal situation. You shall be solely responsible for any decisions based on the information contained on such information.
By submitting any material to us via the Site or any Services, via email or otherwise, you do so in the knowledge that Routres may copy, modify, distribute or create a derivative work from that content in any form. You warrant that the material is fit for publication and agree to indemnify us if any third party takes action against us in relation to the material that you submit. You agree that we shall have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to the Site or any Services constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or of their right to privacy.
4. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Routres shall not be liable for any injury, loss, damage or expense arising out of any access to or use of or inability to use this Site or any Services or any site linked to it or use of the information contained therein, including, without limitation, any loss of profit, indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss. In no event shall Routres be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of the Site or any Services or information herein.
5. Intellectual Property
Copyright © Routres.com 2025. All copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images, sound, software and other materials on this Site or any Services are owned by Routres or are included with permission of the relevant owner. All rights reserved.
Routres, its licensors or the relevant owner, retains all rights (including copyrights, trademarks as well as any other intellectual property rights) in relation to all information provided on or via this Site or any Services (including all texts, graphics, button, layout and logos). You may not copy, download, (re)publish, distribute, modify, post, transmit or reproduce any of the information contained on this Site or any Services in any form or by any means including but not limited to electronic, mechanical photocopying or recording without the prior written consent of Routres or the relevant owner. You agree that the material and content contained within or provided by Routres on this Site or any Services may be printed out and/or downloaded for your own personal use only but may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed commercially outside of your organization without explicit permission.
6. B2B Relationships and Specific Contracts
The information on this Site serves as an introduction to Routres’ capabilities and Services. Any actual commodities trading, partnership, or specific business engagement with Routres will be governed by a separate, specific contractual agreement (e.g., Sales Contract, Purchase Agreement, Partnership Agreement) negotiated and executed between the parties. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between these website Terms and Conditions and any specific contractual agreement, the terms of the specific contractual agreement shall prevail with respect to that particular transaction or relationship.
7. Access to Online Applications Hyperlinks
The service is accessed via the World Wide Web which is independent of this Site or any Services and Routres. Your use of the World Wide Web is solely at your own risk and subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations. Routres has no responsibility for any information or service obtained by you on the World Wide Web. Routres cannot guarantee that the hyperlinks set out on the sites will be accurate at the time of your access. Moreover, the sites pointed at by hyperlinks are developed and possibly maintained by persons over whom Routres has no control. We cannot and do not monitor the sites linked to our pages on the Internet. Accordingly, Routres assumes no responsibility for the content of any sites referenced to by any hyperlink or otherwise. Routres believes that making hyperlinks available to publicly accessible Web pages and newsgroups is legally permissible and consistent with the common, customary expectations of those who make use of the Internet. Links to Routres sites, including the Site or any Services, are not permitted without the prior written consent of Routres.
8. Privacy Policy and Data Protection
When you use our Site or interact with our Services, Routres processes certain personal data. Our Privacy Policy details how we handle the information you provide to us when you use our Site and Services. You understand that our Privacy Policy applies to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the sharing of this information with our affiliates and subcontractors, consistent with our business operations and legal obligations.
Where you provide Personal Data to Routres
When you use our Site or any of our Services, Routres processes certain of your personal data. Our Privacy Policy applies to processing of your personal data when you make use of our Site and our Services. Our Privacy Policy describes how we handle the information you provide to us when you use our Site and our Services. You understand that our Privacy Policy applies to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the sharing of this information with our affiliates and subcontractors.
Where Routres provides Personal Data to You
You acknowledge and agree that information provided by Routres through the Site or any Services may contain personal data of third parties, such as of buyers. You warrant that Customer shall have appropriate operational and technological processes and procedures in place to safeguard against any unauthorised or unlawful access, loss, destruction, theft, use or disclosure of the personal data made available by Routres through the Site or any Services. On behalf of Customer you warrant that it will process the personal data obtained via the Site and the Services in accordance with all applicable and relevant laws and regulations regarding data protection. You agree that Customer will promptly and properly assist Routres with all notices, requests or other enquiries relating to the individual rights or any of the personal data which may be received by Routres from any authority. You will deal promptly and properly with all inquiries from Routres relating to your processing of personal data of third parties.
9. Lawful Use and Website Integrity
While Routres employs reasonable efforts to maintain a secure website, we exclude any liability for persons, property damage or especially direct, indirect, immediate or subsequent pecuniary loss which may result from transmission or downloading of computer viruses or other malicious software. Routres cannot be held liable for hardware damage, loss of data, alteration of data, or downtime resulting from such incidents.
You agree to use the Site or any Services in a lawful manner only and further agree not to cause, nor knowingly allow others to cause, any nuisance, annoyance, or inconvenience, whether to Routres or any of its customers or users of the Site or any Services by any means, including without limitation by a denial of service attack, knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful, harassment, impersonation of another person or entity. You also agree not to use the Site or any Services to transmit or post any material which is fraudulent, defamatory, offensive or which may in our judgement cause nuisance, annoyance, inconvenience to Routres, or any other person or which is illegal. You will not use the Site or any Services such that you would cause the whole or part of the Site or any Services (including the server on which it is stored or any server, computer or database attached to it) to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or impaired in any way. In such circumstances your right to use the Site or any Services will cease immediately.
You furthermore expressly agree not to: (i) use or attempt to use any “deep-link,” “scraper,” “robot,” “bot,” “spider,” “data-mining,” “computer code” or any other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, process, or methodology or manual process having similar processes or functionality, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Site or any Services, any data or content found on or accessed through the Site or any Services or any other content without the prior express written consent of Routres; (ii) obtain or attempt to obtain through any means any materials or information on the Site or any Services that have not been intentionally made publicly available either by their public display on the Site or any Services or through their accessibility by a visible link on the Site or any Services; (iii) violate the restrictions in any robot inclusion headers on this Site or any Services or in any way bypass or circumvent any other measure employed to limit or prevent access to the Site or any Services or its content; (iv) violate the security of the Site or any Services or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site or any Services, data, materials, information, computer systems or networks connected to any server, through hacking, password mining or any other means; (v) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any Services or any activities conducted on or through the Site or any Services, including accessing any data, content or other information prior to the time that it is intended to be available to the public on the Site or any Services; (vi) take or attempt any action that, in the sole discretion of Routres, imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load or burden on the Site or any Services or Routres’ infrastructure.
10. Security of Communications
Routres takes reasonable steps to safeguard the security of any information you input or send to us in connection with the Site or any Services by using secure Services and encryption technology where we deem appropriate, however, given the risk inherent in electronic communication, especially over the internet, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your transmissions to our Site. We accept no responsibility for any damages that you may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.
11. Account Security (if applicable)
If you are provided with or choose or are issued with a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of any registration or security procedures, for accessing restricted areas of the Site or Services, you must treat such information as confidential and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password and account. You agree to immediately notify Routres of any unauthorised use or breach of security. We cannot be held liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this term. We reserve the right to disable any user identification code or password at our sole discretion.
12. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Routres, its licensors and suppliers, all of its affiliated companies and subsidiaries and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders, legal representatives, agents, successors and assigns, from and against any damages, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ and professionals’ fees and court costs) arising out of any third party claims based on or related to your use of the Site or any Services or any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
13. Technical access and Site Availability
While Routres will use its reasonable endeavours to maintain the Site or any Services in a fully operating condition; it is not responsible for the results of any defects that exist in the Site. Routres does not assume any liability for timely, trouble-free and uninterrupted access to the Internet or arising from your use of, or inability to use or access or a failure, suspension or withdrawal of all or part of the service at any time Routres excludes any liability (including any liability for negligence) for persons, property damage or especially direct, indirect, immediate or subsequent pecuniary loss. Routres may suspend or vary the whole or any part of the service(s) offered on the Site or any Services for any reason, at any time at our sole discretion without liability to you.
14. Severability
If any article, section or provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of them shall continue in full force and effect. Any Conditions which are null or void are in this case to be understood such that their intended purpose is still fulfilled as far as possible. Any invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision shall be replaced with a valid, legal, and enforceable provision that most closely approximates the intent of the original provision.
15. Cookie information
Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies on our Site to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer or mobile device. Learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies in our Cookie Statement.
16. Term, Termination, and Amendments
Your access to the Site and Services is at the sole discretion of Routres. Routres reserves the right at any time and for any reason to deny you access to the Site or Services. Termination will be effective without prior notice.
Routres reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of these Terms and Conditions at any time. Notice of such changes may be given by Routres posting them on this Site, by e-mail, or by any other reasonable means. A change shall be deemed to take effect when the relevant notice is sent or issued by or on behalf of Routres. Your continued use of the Site or Services following notice of such amendments will be deemed acceptance of any changes to these Terms and Conditions.