Hormel Foods Corporation Web Site Privacy Policy

This web site is owned and operated by Hormel Foods Corporation (“Hormel Foods”). As a visitor to our web site, we recognize that you may be concerned about any uses that we may make of the information that you provide to us or that we may be collecting about you. To address your concerns, Hormel Foods has developed this Web Site Privacy Policy (“Policy”) which is intended to inform you of the guidelines that we follow in this sensitive area. Of course, it may be necessary for us to update our Policy as changes are made in and to our web site. Therefore, we recommend that you check the Policy from time to time.

Hormel Foods does not collect from our web site visitors’ information that personally identifies them, unless they provide the information to us voluntarily and knowingly. We do not require that our visitors register with our site, apart from our Fan Club pages, or that they provide us with personal information in order for them to view our site, apart from our Fan Club pages.

We only collect the voluntary submission of your name and e-mail address for the following reasons:

• For internal recordkeeping;

• To allow us to post your comments on our web site; and

• To send you updates on (SPAM™) brands and products,
  but only if you have registered to receive such information.
  

Hormel Foods will not transfer, disclose, sell, distribute or lease your name, e-mail address, or any other personal information that you choose to disclose to any third party, other than those agencies contracted to us in the performance of this website, unless we have your permission or are required to by law.

If you are an individual 17 years of age or under, please obtain your parent’s or guardian’s consent before submitting any information on this web site. If you are 17 years or under, please so indicate when providing any personal identifying information. No information collected from individuals 17 years of age or under is disclosed to any third parties for any purposes, unless we specifically state otherwise.

We may link to other web sites that are not within our control. Once you have left our web site, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the web site in question.

The author of any message posted here implicitly gives Hormel Foods the right to quote that message in whole or part, in any form or medium, as long as such content contains nothing identifying the author. Hormel Foods never discloses identifying information unless an author has been directly provided prior opportunity to decline that disclosure.

CONTACTING HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION

If you have any questions about Hormel Foods Corporation Web Site Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Tulip Ltd
Caxton Way
Thetford
Norfolk
IP24 3SB

Tel: 01842 851600
Fax: 01842 851703

We would be happy to answer your questions and to address your concerns.

Terms of Use
(Last Revised March 2005)

Nothing in this web site is intended to be nor should be construed as an offer to enter into a contractual relationship with you or anyone else, except that together with Hormel Foods Corporation’s (“Hormel Foods”) Privacy Policy, the following Terms of Use govern Hormel Foods’ relationship with you in relation to this web site.

YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

1. Ownership. Hormel Foods or its affiliates either owns or has the right to use all material in this site, including any and all intellectual property rights therein. The material in this site is provided by Hormel Foods solely for the purpose of providing you with information about SPAM®. This material may include unintentional errors or inaccuracies and may be updated and/or corrected at any time.
   
   

2. Use. Except as otherwise expressly provided on this site, you may download one copy of the material for your own personal, non-commercial use on your own personal home computer, provided that no graphics are used separately from accompanying text, that Hormel Foods’ copyright and trademark notices appear in the copy, and that you acknowledge this site as the source of the material. You may not copy or make any changes to downloaded materials. Downloaded materials remain the property of Hormel Foods. Except as provided above, you may not copy, distribute, or publish materials from this site without Hormel Foods’ prior written consent. You may not distribute a copy or copies of any materials downloaded from this site to any third party by any means without the prior written consent of Hormel Foods.
   
   

3. Communications. Any comments, offers, suggestions, ideas, recipes, concepts, artwork or other information (“Submissions”) disclosed to us using this site or in response to solicitations on this site are the property of Hormel Foods Corporation, including its business units, divisions and wholly-owned subsidiaries. Without limitation, Hormel Foods Corporation shall exclusively own all rights, known or hereafter existing, to the Submissions and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of same for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitter. Hormel Foods Corporation will consider Submissions only on these terms.
   
   

4. Disclaimer. Although Hormel Foods strives to ensure that the content of this site is updated and correct, Hormel Foods makes no warranties as to its accuracy. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Hormel Foods does not warrant that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. Hormel Foods does not guarantee that this site will be compatible with all or any hardware or software which you may use. Hormel Foods does not guarantee that this site will be available all the time or at any specific time.
   
   Product images – where these images are available, they are for illustration only and do not necessarily represent the actual article for sale.
   
   

5. Limitation on Liability. Hormel Foods and its’ affiliates and content providers are not responsible or liable to any person or entity for any direct or indirect loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive, special or otherwise), or injury of any kind based upon or resulting from your use of or your ability to use this site, or from any information provided in this site. If you are in any way dissatisfied with this site or any of these Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this site.
   
   

6. Links. Links on Hormel Foods’ web sites may take you to sites outside of Hormel Foods’ web sites. Hormel Foods does not endorse any such linked third party web sites and is not responsible for the content of any third party web sites. Your linking to third party web sites is at your own risk.
   
   You may link to this web site from another web site if you comply with the following guidelines:
   
   Links must be to the home page of the web site at www.spam-uk.com
   You may not create a frame or any other border around the web site;
   The site from which you wish to link must comply with all relevant laws and regulations and must not contain content which may be considered distasteful or offensive; and
   You must not imply that we endorse or are associated with any other web site, product or service.
   
   

7. Trademark Information. The following trademarks used or which are planned to be used in this site, whether registered or unregistered, are owned or licensed by Hormel Foods or its affiliates: SPAM; SPAMBURGER; SPAM SPREADERS. You may only use the trademarks featured in this site when downloading the material in accordance with paragraph 2 above. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you a license to use the trademarks featured on this site for any purpose other than as permitted in paragraph 2.
   
   

8. Disputes. If you have concerns about this site, we encourage you to contact Hormel Foods. The formation, existence, construction, performance, validity, terms, and all aspects whatsoever of these Terms of Use will be governed by the laws of England and Wales. The English and Welsh courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise out of or in connection with these Terms of Use or the use of this web site. If any of the term(s) in these Terms of Use are unlawful or unenforceable, such term(s) shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms.
   
   

9. Modifications to Terms of Use. Hormel Foods reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time. Updated versions of the Terms of Use will appear in this site and are effective immediately. Continued use of this site after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.