The Country Crisp Appreciation Society
They don't always make for the most appetizing mouthful, but we're a company that likes to keep everything nice and above board - which is why we need to include these necessary Terms & Conditions. But who knows? You might be a big fan of the small print and love nothing more than a portion of legal schmegal, while enjoying a delicious bowl of Jordan's muesli!
So here goes...
The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited (registered in England and Wales under company number 245345 and with its registered office at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QY) maintains www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk (the "Site") for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. You may download material displayed on the Site for non-commercial, personal use only provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials.
You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without written permission from The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited
Your access to and use of the Site is also subject to the following terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") together with the Site’s Privacy and Acceptable Use Policies and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that any other agreements between you and The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited are superseded and of no force or effect.
Terms and Conditions
1. You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms and Conditions or in the text on the Site without the written permission of The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited. The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited neither warrants nor represents that your use of materials displayed on the Site will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by or affiliated with The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited
2.While The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information in the Site, The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited makes no warranties or representations as to its accuracy. The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of the Site.
3. Your use of and browsing in the Site are at your risk. Neither The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Site is provided to you "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some jurisdictions may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of implied warranties. The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the Site.
4. Any communication or material you transmit to the Site by electronic mail or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Anything you transmit or post may be used by The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited or its affiliates for any purpose, including, but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure, transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
5.The trademarks, logos, and service marks (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on the Site, are registered and unregistered Trademarks of The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited and others. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Site without the written permission of The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited or such third party that may own the Trademarks displayed on the Site. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on the Site, or any other content on the Site, except as provided in these Terms and Conditions, is strictly prohibited. You are also advised that The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited will enforce its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including the seeking of criminal prosecution.
6. The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited has not fully reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.
7.The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound
8. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific terms appearing elsewhere on the Site then the latter shall prevail.
9. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
10. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
CCAS Membership Draw
1. The ‘Country Crisp Appreciation Society (CCAS)’ promotion closes at midnight on 31st December 2010. Entries received after that closing date will not be considered.
2. The prize draw is open to UK residents only, excluding employees and their immediate families of The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited (boo..), their agents, third parties, or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
3. To enter, simply visit www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk and register to become a member of The Country Crisp Appreciation Society (CCAS).
4. By entering the promotion you are accepting these terms and conditions.
5. The prize consists of a hamper of Country Crisp per month dawn randomly each month from people who have become CCAS members during that calendar month. The winner will be notified by the end of the current month. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
6. While we can take responsibility for making great cereal, we’re afraid we can’t take responsibility for entries that are lost, delayed, misdirected or incomplete, cannot be delivered or entered for any technical or other reason, we will not accept entries with lewd or rude language. Proof of delivery of the entry is not proof of receipt.
7. By entering this promotion all participants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by these terms and conditions.
8. We do not take any responsibility for prizes lost, damaged or broken in the post.
9. No cash or other alternative is available, but in the event of unforeseen circumstances the Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
10. Please allow 28 days delivery.
11. If a winner has not contacted us within 28 days of first email notification we reserve the right to re-draw the prize, in which case the original winner will forfeit any rights to the prize.
12. The name and county of residence for the winners will be available from Jordans after 1.3.2011
13. We hope you just enjoy your prize, winners will be asked to help promote the CCAS on behalf of Jordans.
14. Entries on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed.
15. No purchase is necessary.
Other rules
16. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury ior disappointment incurred or suffered by You as a result of entering the Competition to accepting any prize.
17. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily pr permanently, this Competition with our without prior notice e due to reasons outside its control (including without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud).
18. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations where the failure is caused by something outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane. Strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure
The promoter is The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited, Holme Mills, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 9JY – Tel: 0800 587 8901 or email us via www.jordanscereals.co.uk. Any complaints regarding this competition should be sent to this address.
Voice Your Appreciation Draw
1. The promotion closes at midnight on 31st August 2010
2. The prize draw is open to UK residents only, excluding employees and their immediate families of Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited, their agents, third parties, or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
3. To enter, simply ‘Voice your appreciation’ of Country Crisp on the CCAS microsite, www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk. Blog posts which are deemed suitable by Jordans to be posted onto the site will be entered into a prize draw each month.
4. The prize consists of 12 hampers containing one pack of each of the range of Country Crisp flavours; strawberry, raspberry, raisin, chocolate, honey and fournut. A winner will be chosen, as judged by Jordans, on the last day of each month.
5. The draws will be made by a panel of judges at Jordans and the winners will be notified by the 7th day in each new month.
6. While we can take responsibility for making great cereal, we’re afraid we can’t take responsibility for messages that are lost, delayed, or unable to be sent or delivered for any reason beyond our direct control.
7. By entering this promotion all participants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by these terms and conditions.
8. We do not take any responsibility for prizes lost, damaged or broken in the post.
9. No cash or other alternative is available, but in the event of unforeseen circumstances the Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
10. The winners will receive their first delivery of cereal within 28 days of notification and confirmation of their name and address details.
11. If a winner has not contacted us within 28 days of first email notification we reserve the right to re-draw the prize, in which case the original winner will forfeit any rights to the prize.
12. The name and county of residence for the winners will be available from Jordans after six months after each draw. To obtain a copy, please write to: The Voice Your Appreciation Draw (Winners' List), The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited, Holme Mills, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 9JY enclosing a stamped-addressed envelope.
13. We hope you just enjoy your prize and we will not require you to help Jordans with any publicity without your express permission.
14. Your contact details will not be used for any further marketing activity, but if you wish to receive regular updates from us in the future then please sign up to our newsletter at www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk
Other rules
16. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury ior disappointment incurred or suffered by You as a result of entering the Competition to accepting any prize.
17. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily pr permanently, this Competition with our without prior notice e due to reasons outside its control (including without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud).
18. The Jordans Ryvita Company Limited shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations where the failure is caused by something outside its reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane. Strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure
The promoter is The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited., Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QY - Tel: 0800 587 8901 or email us via www.jordanscereals.co.uk
Acceptable Use Policy
This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk (“our site”). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
By uploading material or content to our site you agree to be bound by all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our terms of website use, as shown above.
www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk is a site operated by The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited (“Jordans/Ryvita”, “we”, “us” or “our”), a limited company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 245345) whose registered office is at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QY.
If you feel that anything contained on our site infringes your rights or is in breach of this policy, then please contact ccas@jordans-cereals.co.uk.
1 PROHIBITED USES
1.1 You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
1.1.1 in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
1.1.2 in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
1.1.3 for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
1.1.4 to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards [INSERT AS LINK TO CONTENT STANDARDS AT CLAUSE 3 BELOW].
1.1.5 to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
1.1.6 to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
2 INTERACTIVE SERVICES
2.1 We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation:
facilities to add comments;chat rooms; and bulletin boards. (the “interactive services”).
2.2 Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
2.3 We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users (and in particular, for children) from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
2.4 The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian. We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that it is important that they communicate with their children about their safety online, as moderation is not foolproof. Minors who are using any interactive service should be made aware of the potential risks to them.
2.5 Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
3 CONTENT STANDARDS
3.1 These content standards apply to any and all material which you contribute to our site (“contributions”), and to any interactive services associated with it.
3.2 You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.
3.3 Contributions must:
3.3.1 be accurate (where they state facts);
3.3.2 be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and
3.3.3 comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
3.4 Contributions must not:
3.4.1 contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
3.4.2 contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
3.4.3 promote sexually explicit material;
3.4.4 promote violence;
3.4.5 promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
3.4.6 infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
3.4.7 be likely to deceive any person;
3.4.8 be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
3.4.9 promote any illegal activity;
3.4.10 be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
3.4.11 be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
3.4.12 be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
3.4.13 give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; and
3.4.14 advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
4 SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
4.1 We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
4.2 Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use (as shown above) upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
4.2.1 immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site;
4.2.2 immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
4.2.3 issue of a warning to you;
4.2.4 legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
4.2.5 further legal action against you; and
4.2.6 disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
4.3 We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
5 CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Privacy Policy
This site, www.welovecountrycrisp.co.uk (the "Website") is owned and operated by The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited (registered in England and Wales under company number 245345 and with its registered office at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QY) ("Jordans/Ryvita" or "we" or "us")
Jordans/Ryvita are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and complying with applicable laws for the protection of personal data. This policy sets out (1) the type of information we collect from you when you visit the Website; and (2) the way we treat any information we collect from you, or that you provide to us through the Website.
For the purpose of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (and equivalent legislation in other EC Member states) the Data Controller is The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited a company registered in England and Wales (Company No. 245345) whose registered office is at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4Q.
This Privacy Policy forms part of the Website Terms & Conditions and by submitting your personal information to the Website, you are confirming that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and are agreeing to the uses of your personal information described in it.
Before you start
Parts of our Website may contain links to third party websites for your convenience and information. When you access a third party website through such link please understand that we do not control the content and are not responsible for the privacy practices of that site even where they may contain Jordans/Ryvita or associated company logos. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of those websites linked from our site. These sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information.
Information collected through our Website
When you visit our Website, we may collect information on two different levels about your visit: (1) Statistical Information, collected as you browse the site, and (2) personal information which you knowingly give to us.
(1) Statistical Information
In general this Website automatically gathers certain usage information such as the number and frequency of visitors to our Website, very much like the television ratings that tell the networks how many people tune into the programmes. We may also invite you to interact with our Website by answering questions and selecting preferences as you move around the Website. We only use this data in an aggregated and non-personally identifiable way. The collected data helps us to determine our visitor's preferences, and to improve our Website so it is as appealing as we can make it for as many of you as possible.
Like many companies, we use "cookie" technology on our Website. These cookies are small text-only strings that store information in the memory of your browser. There are several reasons we may use cookies:
Persistent Cookies. These cookies contain only a unique number, so when you log in they can tell us whether you've visited us before or if you are a new visitor. These cookies do not obtain any personal information about you or provide us with any way to contact you, and they do not extract any information from your computer. We do use cookies to help us identify site features in which you have the greatest interest, so that we can provide more of what you may want.
Session Cookies. These cookies are used to store information about your current visit to our site, such as if you have logged in successfully or if you have entered information into an electronic form. We use these cookies to personalise information and to help with on-line services. They can also provide us with a quick and convenient means of keeping site content fresh and relevant to your interests. Our server uses cookies to help with back-end interaction as well, which improves the utility of our site by being able to securely store any personal data that you have shared with us. These cookies are deleted the moment you close your browser window.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually refuse cookies, or selectively accept certain cookies, by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our site that will not be available to you and some Web pages may not display properly.
We do not combine information collected through cookies with any personal information you tell us about yourself.
(2) Personal Information
(a) How we collect your personal information
The only personal information we collect from you is information you choose to provide us about yourself. Some services and facilities on our Website we will require you to provide us with a certain minimum amount of personal information such as your name and email address in order that we can provide those services to you or to fulfil our obligations to you ("Required Information"). Typical examples where this arises include entering one of our competitions, prize draws or promotions or registering as a user on our Website.
We may also ask you to provide additional information about yourself to assist in us contacting you or providing our services ("Voluntary Information"). We will make it clear what information is Required Information and what is Voluntary Information.
(b) How we use your personal information
We will use your personal information for the purpose it has been collected or any other purpose specified at the point of collection. For example, we will retain and use your personal information for the purpose of administrating and notifying you of the results of any competitions or prize draws you have entered.
(c) Direct Marketing
If you have agreed to receive direct marketing from Jordans/Ryvita we may from time to time contact you via phone, post, email or SMS text message in order to send you news and offers and to help formulate our marketing and business strategy for example, to ask your views on how we can improve our products and services, and for the purpose of analysing and researching our business, customers and products.
(d) Opting Out and Updating your personal information
Any time after you register your personal information with us you may (i) opt out of receiving any communications you have chosen to receive from us; and (ii) update your personal information by notifying us of changes to the information previously given to us.
All requests or notifications should be sent to ccas@jordans-cereals.co.uk
(e) Sharing your personal information
We will sometimes need to share your personal information with third parties who we contract to help us deliver services to you and to run and administer the Website and activities run through the Website such as competitions. The information shared with them will be limited to that necessary for them to perform the service. They will not be authorised to make any other use of that information and will treat it confidentially.
Except as described in the previous paragraph, we do not share your personal information with any third party which is not a subsidiary or parent company of Jordans/Ryvita other than: (i) where it is required by law; (ii) if you specifically authorised us to do so; or (iii) in the event that substantially all of the assets of Jordans/Ryvita are acquired by a third party in which case personal data held by it about its customers in its databases will be one of the transferred assets
Age restrictions
In some instances, it may not be possible to register for our services or products if you are under a certain age determined by the laws of the country where you are resident. In such cases we may ask you your age for the purpose of establishing your eligibility.
We do not intend to collect Personal Information relating to children through our website. Any person under the age of 16 who registers on our Website will be asked to provide a parent or guardian's e mail address where confirmation will be requested before any communication is made.
Transferring your information to other countries
If you are resident within the European Economic Area ("EEA") your Personal Information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and administered at, a destination outside the EEA which may have different levels of data protection law to the country from where you have submitted your personal information. By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent accidental or unlawful destruction or unauthorised disclosure, access or alteration to your personal information under our control.
We will only store your data for as long as reasonably necessary in the circumstance, after which your personal information will be deleted from our systems.
However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Accessing your personal information
Subject to some exceptions, you have a right upon written request and payment of a fee of £10, to have a copy of any of your personal information we hold.
Changes to the privacy policy
Any changes that we make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. Please regularly check the privacy policy for changes. Any changes that we do make to this privacy policy will apply to information provided through the Website following the revised privacy policy being posted. Regardless of any changes we make to our privacy policy, we will continue to use your personal information collected before the change in accordance with the version of the policy in place at the time you provided your information, unless you give your express consent for us to do otherwise.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or your privacy, you can contact us at The Jordans & Ryvita Company Limited Holme Mills, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 9JY.
