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entertainment, information, and education. Your use of this Website is subject to the following terms
and conditions. Your use of the
Website constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions and your
agreement to be bound by them. If you do not agree to these terms or if you do not agree to our
Privacy Policy posted on this site, please do not use this Website or any
services offered by this Website.
We reserve the right to change these terms and
conditions at any time without notice. Please check back often to ensure you are aware of any
updates or changes to these terms.
Unless otherwise specified, the materials in
this Website are presented solely for the purpose of promoting products or
programs available in the United States, its territories, possessions, and
protectorates. We make no
representation that materials in the site are appropriate or available for use
in other locations. If you access
the site from locations other than the United States, you are responsible for
compliance with any applicable local laws.
Copyright and Intellectual
Property Policy
All names, logos, service marks, and trademarks
appearing in this Website, including the trademarks, service marks, brand
identities, characters, trade names, graphics, designs, copyrights, trade
dress, and all other intellectual property ("Content"), except as
otherwise noted, are protected intellectual property of, or used with
permission or under license by, General Mills and its affiliates. This includes the entire Content of the
Website, copyrighted and protected as a collective work.
The use or misuse of these trademarks or any
other content on this site, except as provided in these Terms of Use or in the
site content, is strictly prohibited. You may print copies of the information on this site for your
personal use, store the files on your computer for personal use, or reference
this server from your own documents. However, you may not distribute text or graphics to others
without our express written consent. Also, you may not, without our permission, copy and
distribute this information on any other server, or modify or re-use text or
graphics on this system or another system. We reserve all other rights.
Your use of the Website is limited to personal
and non-commercial use only unless other uses are granted expressly to you. You may not copy, distribute, modify,
transmit, reuse, re-post, or otherwise display the Website Content for public
or commercial purposes without our written permission for such use of Content.
General Mills respects the intellectual property
of others, and we ask our users to do the same. General Mills has no responsibility for content on other websites
that you may find or access when using General Mills' products or services. Material available on or through other
websites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of
the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those websites, and not this Website's
Terms of Use, govern your use of that material.
It is General Mills' policy, in appropriate
circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts
of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other
intellectual property rights of General Mills and/or others.
User Submitted Content
From time to time, this Website may allow users
to post text, images, audio, video, links to other sites, or other content to
the Website. As a consequence, you
may see materials that have been submitted to this site by individuals not
affiliated with General Mills. Neither
General Mills nor any of its affiliates endorses these individuals nor are we
in any way associated with any of the materials that they may post on this
Website or link to from this Website.
Neither General Mills nor its affiliates (nor their
respective officers, employees, or agents) shall have any responsibility
or liability of any nature whatsoever arising in connection with any materials
provided by these individuals or in connection with any conduct of these
individuals.
If you believe that your work has been
copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your
intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide General
Mills' Copyright Agent with the following information:
1. an
electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of
the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
2. a
description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you
claim has been infringed;
3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website, with enough detail that we may find it;
4. your address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;
6. a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.
General Mills' Agent for Notice of
claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached
as follows:
By mail
Copyright Agent
c/o General Mills, Inc.
Number One General Mills Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55426
By phone
(800)
248-7310
By fax
(763)764-2268
By email
Please note that, due to security
concerns, attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of
infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received
or processed.
Disclaimer
Without limiting the foregoing, everything on
the Website 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 TITLE AND
NON-INFRINGEMENT. ADDITIONALLY, WE
DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE(S) OR THE SERVERS MAKING THE SITE(S) AVAILABLE
ARE VIRUS FREE. We do not warrant
that the functions contained in these materials will be uninterrupted or error
free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that
makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. We do not warrant or make any
representations regarding the use or the result of the use of the materials in
this site in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise.
Your use of the Website is at your risk. Neither
General Mills nor any of its affiliates will be liable for any damages
including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages,
arising out of your access to or use of the Website and however caused, whether
in contract or tort. If you become
dissatisfied in any way with this Website or its Terms of Use or Privacy
Policy, your sole and exclusive remedy is to stop using this Website and its
services. (Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties or the
exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages, so these provisions may
not apply to you. If any portion
of these limitation on liability is found to be
invalid or unenforceable for any reason, then the aggregate liability of General
Mills and its affiliates shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100).)
This Website may contain Links allowing you to
leave this Website for other sites that are not under our control. We are not endorsing any such Linked
sites. We are not responsible for
the contents or transmission of any Linked Site or any Link contained in a
Linked Site or for ensuring that the Linked Sites are error and virus free. Nor are we responsible for the terms of
use or privacy practices of such sites.
We encourage you to carefully read the policies of each site you visit.
All comments, suggestions, ideas, notes,
drawings, concepts, recipes or other information disclosed or submitted to us
by you through this Website or in response to solicitations in this Website
("Submitted Ideas") shall be and shall remain our property. You understand and acknowledge that we
have both internal and external resources which may have developed or may in
the future develop ideas or other items identical to or similar to the
Submitted Ideas and that we are only willing to consider the Submitted Ideas on
these terms. In any event, no
Submitted Idea is submitted in confidence and we assume no obligation, express
or implied by considering the Submitted Idea. Without limitation, we shall exclusively own all now known
or hereafter existing rights to the Submitted Ideas of every kind and nature
throughout the Universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of the
Submitted Ideas for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise without
compensation to the provider of the Submitted Ideas.
We take your privacy and your privacy concerns
very seriously. That is why we
have adopted our Privacy Policy explaining our online information
collection practices and the choices you can make about the way information is
collected and used. Please read
and understand our Privacy Policy.
Your access to the Website as well as the terms
and conditions and the agreement they create are governed and interpreted by
the laws of the State of Minnesota without regard for conflict of laws
provisions.
If you do not agree to these Terms of Use or the
Privacy Policy posted on the Website, please do not use this site or any
services offered by this site. We
reserve the right to make changes to these terms at any time. Please check back from time to time to
ensure you are aware of any updates or changes. Your use of our Website indicates acceptance of all terms.
You may send your comments to us at
corporate.response@generalmills.com