Website Terms of Use
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This Website is owned and provided by General Mills (including its affiliates) and
is provided for your personal 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.
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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.
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United States only
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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.
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Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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User Submitted Content
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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.
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Notice for Claims of Intellectual Property Violations and
Agent for Notice
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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.
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General Mills’ Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property
infringement can be reached as follows:
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By Mail
Copyright Agent
c/o General Mills, Inc.
Number One General Mills Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55426
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By phone
(800) 248-7310
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By fax
(763) 764-2268
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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.
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Disclaimer
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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.
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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).)
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Links
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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.
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Submitted ideas
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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.
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Privacy Policy
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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.
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Choice of Law and Enforcement
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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.
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Agreeing to Terms
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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.
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Contact Information
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You may send your comments to us via this Contact Us form.
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