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LANCE® WEBSITE TERMS OF
USE
Overview
This
website is owned and operated by Lance, Inc.
("Lance"). It is provided and maintained by Lance
for the entertainment, education and information
of Lance customers, investors and those interested
in Lance products.
Agreement to Terms
Any and all use of or access
to this website shall be governed by this Terms of
Use agreement, which may be changed from time to
time without notice. This Terms of Use agreement
was last modified on April 12, 2005. By using or
accessing this website, you expressly agree and
acknowledge that you have read, understand, accept
and agree to be bound by this Terms of Use and any
and all other policies, rules or terms of use,
including but not limited to the Lance Website Privacy Statement
and the rules covering any and all contests or
sweepstakes that may be available at or through
this website from time to time. If you do not
accept and agree to these terms, please
immediately discontinue any and all use of this
website. Your continued use of this website will
indicate your agreement with any changes in this
Terms of Use or any other policies, rules or terms
on this website.
Intellectual Property/Content
Ownership and Use
Unless otherwise noted, all
of the content of this website (including, without
limitation, the text, images, information,
trademarks, trade dress, data and other materials
found on this website) is the property of Lance
and/or one of its affiliates, subsidiaries,
licensors or licensees; and is protected by the
copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, patents
and/or other proprietary rights of Lance and/or
one of its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors or
licensees, all rights reserved. Any use
(including, without limitation, viewing, copying,
printing, modifying, transmitting, transferring,
downloading, adapting, linking to and/or
exploiting) of this website or any of its content,
that is not expressly permitted by this Terms of
Use or by the express written consent of Lance, is
prohibited. You are hereby expressly permitted to
download and print out for your own personal use
or as a record of correspondence (and no other
commercial use) one copy of any of the viewable
content of this website. No right, title, license
or interest in any downloaded content is
transferred to you as a result of any such
downloading or copying. Any unauthorized use,
copying, alteration or display of the content
found on this website is strictly prohibited. You
are hereby advised that Lance and/or its
affiliates, subsidiaries, licensors or licensees
will aggressively enforce all of its intellectual
property rights to the fullest extent of the law,
including seeking any appropriate civil or
criminal penalties. For inquiries about
downloading or printing content, or about linking
to this website, please contact Lance at the
address below.
Please be specifically
advised that the content of this website includes,
without limitation, the names, logos, images,
slogans, product designs, packaging and trade
dress of the Lance products displayed on this
website. Many of the names, slogans and/or marks
are Registered Trademarks ® of Lance Mfg. LLC;
while others are subject to other trademark,
service mark, trade dress, copyright © and/or
other intellectual property rights of Lance Mfg.
LLC, Lance, Inc. and/or the affiliates,
subsidiaries, licensees or licensors of Lance Mfg.
LLC or Lance, Inc. No unauthorized use may be made
of this content.
Prohibition on
use/Enforcement of terms
Lance may at any time, for
any reason, prohibit your further use of this
website or its content. We may also take any
action that we deem necessary to enforce this
Terms of Use agreement and to protect against
unlawful or improper use of this website. These
actions include, but are not limited to,
terminating or suspending your purchase order or
registration for a service through this website,
blocking the display of some or all of the content
of the website, contacting and cooperating with
the police or other authorities (including, but
not limited to, providing information in response
to requests for information and subpoenas), and
taking legal action against you. You hereby
expressly agree to waive any and all claims you
may have (whether currently in existence and/or
arising hereafter) against Lance for any failure
by us to enforce this Terms of Use. Lance's
failure to act in a particular circumstance does
not waive its right to act with respect to that
circumstance or other circumstances.
Purchases
When
you place orders through this website, you will be
asked to provide certain information about
yourself, such as your name, address and credit
card information. You may not provide incomplete
or inaccurate information (the purchase form will
indicate what information is required, and what is
optional, and you may also check Lance's Website
Privacy Statement
for further information on the collection and
distribution of information by Lance). You are
responsible for any use of this website by anyone
using your credit card number, password or other
identifier. You are also responsible for
activities that occur within your Lance account.
Thus, if for any reason you suspect that your
credit card, password or other identifying
information has been compromised, you should
contact Lance immediately.
Contests, Sweepstakes and
Promotional Games and Activities
From
time to time, this website may host or include
notices of promotions, contests, sweepstakes or
other activities Lance or its affiliated companies
are conducting. Any and all contests or promotions
referenced or conducted via this website are
subject to the terms and conditions of each
individual contest or promotion. Please review the
official contest rules carefully. In the event
there are any differences between the rules or
policies governing the individual contest or
promotion and the general rules and policies
contained on this website (including, for example,
this Terms of Use and this website's Privacy Statement,
the rules or policies specific to the contest or
promotion shall control.
Disclaimer of Warranties and
Limitation of Damages
YOUR
USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS
WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, LANCE (including,
for purposes of this "Disclaimer of Warranties and
Limitation of Damages" section of the Terms of
Use, Lance Inc. and its officers, directors,
employees, agents, affiliated companies,
successors, assigns, third-party service providers
and any other party involved in creating,
producing or delivering this website or any of the
content, products or services available on or
through this website) DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
WITHOUT LIMITING THE
FOREGOING, LANCE MAKES NO AND DISCLAIMS ANY
REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED: (I) AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS WEBSITE,
OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, SERVICES
OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE
SITE; (II) THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED
OR ERROR-FREE; (III) AS TO THE ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY OR CURRENCY OF ANY INFORMATION,
CONTENT, SERVICE OR MERCHANDISE PROVIDED THROUGH
THIS WEBSITE; AND/OR (IV) THAT THE WEBSITE, ITS
SERVERS OR E-MAIL SENT FROM OR ON BEHALF OF LANCE
ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL
COMPONENTS.
LANCE DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE
CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO THIS
WEBSITE OR ANY RELATED SERVICES. THE OPERATION OF
THIS WEBSITE MAY BE INTERFERED WITH BY NUMEROUS
FACTORS OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF LANCE.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL
LANCE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM
THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO RELIANCE BY A USER ON
ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THIS WEBSITE OR THAT
RESULT FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS,
DELETION OF FILES OR E-MAIL, ERRORS, DEFECTS,
VIRUSES, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, OR
ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, WHETHER OR NOT
RESULTING FROM ACTS OF GOD, COMMUNICATIONS
FAILURE, THEFT, DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS
TO LANCE'S RECORDS, PROGRAMS, OR SERVICES. YOU
HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL APPLY
TO ALL CONTENT, MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES AVAILABLE
THROUGH THIS WEBSITE.
LANCE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR
ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR
THE PURCHASE OF ANY PRODUCT THEREFROM, EVEN IF
LANCE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT
ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE
EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF
THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE
DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT
APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
Disclaimer With Respect to
Other Internet Sites
Lance has not reviewed all of
the sites, or content of sites, that may be
accessed by or linked to this website. Lance is
not responsible for the content of any pages or
Internet images, information, or data, which are
not contained on this website. Viewing of any and
all other websites shall be at your own risk.
Severability
The
provisions of this Terms of Use are intended to be
severable. If for any reason any provision of this
Terms of Use shall be held invalid or
unenforceable in whole or in part in any
jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such
invalidity or unenforceability without in any
manner affecting the validity or enforceability
thereof in any other jurisdiction or the remaining
provisions hereof in any jurisdiction.
Indemnification
You
agree to defend, indemnify, release and hold
harmless Lance, including, but not limited to, the
officers, directors, members, shareholders,
employees, licensors, agents, licensees,
contractors, attorneys, subsidiaries, affiliates
and third-party content providers of Lance from
all liabilities, claims and expenses, including
attorney's fees and costs, that arise from,
concern, or are connected with your use or misuse
of this website or its content. Lance reserves the
right to assume the defense and control of any
matter otherwise subject to indemnification by
you, in which event you will cooperate with Lance
in asserting any available defenses.
Submission of Information and
Other Content
1.
License: To the extent
that portions of this website permit you to send
e-mails, submit information for contests or other
promotions, or otherwise submit content
(including, without limitation, questions,
requests, comments, recipes, suggestions, stories,
ideas, inventions, information, data, images,
likenesses or text) to Lance and/or this website,
whether or not such content is viewable in chat
rooms or otherwise on this website, please be
advised that by submitting such content you grant
Lance a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide,
royalty-free, irrevocable, fully and freely
assignable license to any rights you have in the
content submitted, including, but not limited to,
the rights to use, display, reproduce, distribute,
modify, prepare derivative works based upon, and
perform publicly your content (or any part
thereof) online and offline. Lance may treat any
communication between you and Lance as
non-confidential and non-proprietary. Lance is
free to use any ideas, techniques, inventions,
concepts, recipes, know-how or other information
that you provide to Lance for any purpose
whatsoever, including but not limited to any
development of products or methods, manufacturing
and marketing activities, sales material or
efforts, or any other business use, without
compensation or remuneration.
2.
Standards: You agree
not to submit any content to Lance that: (a)
infringes on any third-party intellectual
property, publicity, privacy, moral (droit moral)
or other legal rights; (b) violates any applicable
law or regulation; (c) is defamatory, threatening,
harassing, obscene, harmful to minors or child
pornographic; (d) contains any viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other
harmful components, including, but not limited to,
computer programming routines that may damage,
detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously
intercept or expropriate any system, data or
personal information; (e) constitutes unsolicited
junk or bulk e-mail ("spam"); or (f) is otherwise
tortious or criminal.
3. Warranty / Indemnity: You
warrant and guarantee that you own all
intellectual property, proprietary, privacy,
publicity, moral (droit moral) and other rights to
any content that you submit to us. You further
agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless
against: (a) any and all claims to the rights to
content that you provide to us, (b) any and all
claims that someone's rights were violated by our
display or other use of the content that you
provide to us.
4. Monitoring of Content /
Removal: You agree that Lance has no
responsibility to monitor, review, edit or control
any content or other information that you or
others submit to the website. You further agree
that Lance may modify, remove or refuse to accept
any content on this website for any reason. In
certain cases, your access to the website may
permit you to modify or remove content that you
previously submitted. At your request, Lance may
also modify or remove content that you submitted.
Please note that we may also decline to modify or
remove content that you submitted, despite your
request. In addition, we may not be able to modify
or remove certain content, including without
limitation content that has been distributed to or
relied on by another person or entity.
5.
Privacy: The privacy
of any information that you submit to Lance
through this website will be governed by the Lance
Website Privacy
Statement, which is incorporated by reference
into this Terms of Use. In the event of a conflict
between the language of this Terms of Use and the
Lance Website Privacy Statement, the Privacy
Statement controls.
6. No
Endorsement / Recommendation: You agree that
by displaying the content that you or others
submit to this website, Lance does not endorse or
recommend any of the information submitted by you
or others. In fact, Lance does not endorse,
recommend, or take any responsibility for any
content submitted to this website by any third
party.
Access Limits
Without Lance's express
consent, you may not: (a) link to this website;
(b) use any automated means to access the website
or collect any information from the website,
including without limitation robots, spiders or
scripts; or (c) frame the website, place pop-up
windows over its pages or otherwise affect the
display of its pages. Under no circumstances may
you: (a) derive or attempt to derive the source or
object code, source files or structure of this
website or its content by reverse engineering,
disassembly, decompilation or any other means; (b)
attempt to access the accounts of others or
attempt to penetrate security measures of the
systems of Lance or its affiliates ("hacking"),
whether or not the intrusion results in corruption
or loss of data; or (c) transmit to Lance or by
means of this website unauthorized or unsolicited
advertising, junk or bulk e-mail ("spam"), or any
other form of unauthorized or unsolicited
transmission.
Governing Law and
Jurisdiction
You agree that the laws of
the State of North Carolina will govern any action
relating to this Terms of Use and/or your use of
this website. By using the website, you agree to
the jurisdiction of and venue in the state and
federal courts of the State of North Carolina,
County of Mecklenburg, for any litigation that may
arise out of, or be related to, these Terms of Use
and/or your use of the website. You agree to waive
any objection based on forum non conveniens or any
objection to venue in Charlotte, North Carolina,
of any such action.
International Use
Lance makes no representation
that this website or its content are appropriate
for or available to locations outside the United
States of America, and using this website from
territories where it is illegal to do so is
prohibited. Such is done at your own risk and you
are responsible for compliance with all local
laws.
Forward Looking Statements
Disclosure
This website contains certain
statements regarding Lance, Inc. (NASDAQ symbol
LNCE) including statements regarding the financial
position and cash flows, financial trends,
reported financial results, trends, forecasts and
other information that may constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of
the federal securities laws. These forward looking
statements may be based upon assumptions and
estimates made by Lance, each of which are subject
to risks and uncertainties. You can identify such
forward-looking statements by use of words such as
"estimates," "plans," "believes," "expects,"
"hopes," "will," "intends," "targets,"
"objectives," "goals," "forecasts, " and other
words of similar meaning or certainty.
Forward-looking statements may also be identified
by the fact that they do not strictly relate to
historical or current facts. For each such
statement Lance claims the protection of the safe
harbor for forward-looking statements provided by
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995.
Demand for Lance's products
and services are subject to intense competition,
changes in consumer preferences and economic
conditions. Actual results could differ materially
from the forward-looking statements found on this
website. Factors that may cause actual results to
differ materially from the forward-looking
statements include price competition, industry
consolidation, raw material costs, effectiveness
of sales and marketing activities, effective
development of new products, brands, and markets
and the operation of a leveraged business as
described in Lance's filings with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission. We
caution you that the above list of important
factors and forward-looking statements are not
exclusive. We refer you to the filings that Lance
has made with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission. They may discuss new or
different factors that may cause actual results to
differ materially from those forecast. All
forward-looking statements and information
included in this website speak only as of the date
the information is posted on the website, and we
do not undertake any obligation to update such
information after it is posted to the website or
to remove such information from this website if it
is no longer accurate or complete.
This
website may also contain information concerning
the stock of Lance and other companies. That
information may include stock quotes. The Lance,
Inc. stock price and other stock prices which may
be found on or accessed from this website are
delayed a minimum of twenty minutes, and are
provided for informational purposes only. The
information contained or made available on or
through this website is not intended for trading
purposes. All such stock information is provided
on this website by a third-party information
provider. Lance, Inc. and its stock information
provider(s) make no warranties as to the accuracy
or timeliness of the information found on this
website or its suitability for any particular
purpose and shall not be liable for any
inaccuracies or delays in the stock quotes or
other information or for any actions you might
take in reliance thereon.
Notice/Contact
Please address any questions
or correspondence to:
Lance, Inc. Attn: Consumer Affairs P.O. Box 32368 Charlotte, NC 28232 1-800-99-LANCE
To
contact Lance by email, please use the form on the
Contact
Us page in our website.
Legal notices must be sent to
Lance's postal mail address, with "Attention:
Legal Department" substituted for "Consumer
Affairs" in the mailing address. Notice will be
considered given upon receipt. Lance may contact
you and communicate official notices to you at
your e-mail address, postal mail address, home or
work address, telephone number or fax number.
Lance is entitled to assume that any address
information that you provide to us is correct.
Notice to you will be considered given when
sent.
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