Usage Agreement

Your Agreement
This Web site is owned and operated by Family Features Editorial Syndicate (FFES) and is made available to you for informational purposes. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, you may not use this Site.

Your Use of the Site
Unless otherwise specified, the Site is provided for your personal and noncommercial use. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, software, products or services obtained from the Site. You may display and electronically copy, download and print hard copy portions of the material contained on the Site for your own noncommercial use, provided that you do not modify or delete any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices. Any other use of materials on the Site, including but not limited to the modification, reproduction, distribution, republication, display or transmission of the content of this Site, without the prior written permission of FFES, is prohibited.

Any material you download, including but not limited to software, files, graphics, data or any other content, is owned by FFES or its licensors. When you download these materials, they are provided to you by FFES under a license that is revocable. FFES retains full and complete title to the software and to all of the associated intellectual property rights. You may not redistribute or sell the material, nor may you reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise convert it to any other form usable by humans.

Material You Submit
Except for any personally identifiable information we may collect from you in accordance with our Privacy Policy, all remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics or other information that you communicate to FFES through this Site will become the property of FFES, even if this agreement is later terminated. FFES and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the materials you submit for any and all commercial or noncommercial purposes, without any obligation to compensate you or others for the materials.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability
NEITHER FFES NOR ANY OF ITS LICENSORS OR CLIENTS MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE MATERIALS OR THE WEB SITE’S CONTENT.  THE WEB SITE AND THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SERVICES, AND PRODUCTS IN THE WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DATA, TEXT, GRAPHICS, AND LINKS, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.  TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, FFES DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, FREEDOM FROM COMPUTER VIRUS, AND WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR COURSE OF PERFORMANCE. FFES DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE WEB SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEB SITE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKES THE WEB SITE AVAILABLE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.  FFES DOES NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THIS WEB SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, USEFULNESS, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE.  IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER FFES NOR ITS LICENSORS OR CLIENTS MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE MATERIALS OR WEB SITE ARE NON-INFRINGING, AND YOU ASSUME ALL RISK IN USING ANY OF THE MATERIALS OR WEBSITES.  IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, YOU (AND NOT FFES) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.  IN CERTAIN STATES, THE LAW MAY NOT PERMIT THE DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL FFES, ITS LICENSORS OR CLIENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, EVEN IF FFES HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION UNDER CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR PERFORMANCE OF THE INFORMATION, SERVICES, PRODUCTS, AND MATERIALS AVAILABLE FROM THE WEBSITES. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless FFES, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors and suppliers from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, resulting from any violation of these Terms or any activity related to your use of the Web site or Materials (including, but not limited to, negligent or wrongful conduct or infringement of any party’s intellectual property rights), by you or any other person accessing the Web site using your Internet account, whether authorized by you or not.

Links to Other Sites
This Site may provide access to other World Wide websites. FFES does not control these sites, and you access them solely at your own risk. FFES also does not endorse or approve any products or information offered at sites you reach through this Site. Check the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address provided in your WWW browser to determine if you are still in this FFES Foods Site or have moved to another website.

Jurisdiction
FFES controls and operates the Web site from the company's headquarters in Mission, KS, in the United States of America.  FFES in no way warrants or implies that the Materials or the Web site are appropriate for use outside of the United States.  If you use the Web site from a location outside of the United States or publish Materials outside the United States, you are solely responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. You may not use or export the Materials or the Web site in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations. Any claim relating to the Web site, the Materials, or your use of the Web site or Materials shall be governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Kansas, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions, and you agree that jurisdiction and venue in any legal proceeding directly or indirectly arising out of or relating to the Web site or the Materials shall be in the state or federal courts located in Johnson County, KS.

Modification of the Website and these Terms of Use
By providing Material on the Web site, FFES does not promise that the Material will remain available to you.  FFES is entitled to terminate all or any portion of the Web site at any time, without notice to you.  FFES also reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Web site are offered, and your use of the Web site or downloading of Materials following any such changes shall be deemed to constitute your consent to those modified Terms of Use. You agree to regularly review these Terms of Use to verify whether they have been changed.

Miscellaneous
If any provision of this agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the agreement will remain in place. This is the entire agreement between you and FFES regarding all aspects of your use of the Web site.

All understandings, agreements, promises, and conditions previously made between the you and FFES with respect to the subject matter of this Agreement (including the Materials or  Web site) are merged and integrated in this Agreement, and all prior agreements between the parties with respect to that subject matter are superseded by this Agreement.  You acknowledge that neither FFES nor any person acting on behalf of FFES has made any promise, representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, oral or written, not contained in this Agreement.  No change, modification, or waiver of this Agreement shall be binding upon either party unless it is made by an instrument signed by an authorized representative of the party who is to be charged with the modification.  A waiver by either party of any provision of this Agreement in any instance shall not be deemed a waiver of that provision, or any other provision, as to any future instance or occurrence.  All remedies, rights, undertakings and obligations contained in this Agreement shall be cumulative, and none of them shall be in limitation of any other remedy, right, undertaking or obligation of either party at law or in equity.  If any provision of this Agreement or the application of it to any person or circumstance shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable to any extent: (i) that provision or portion shall be deemed to be severed or limited, and this Agreement shall be considered to be amended to give effect to the intention of the parties insofar as that is possible, and (ii) the remainder of this Agreement and its application shall not be affected and shall be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.  The captions of the sections in this Agreement are included for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of any provision. Either party may assign this agreement in whole or in part, so long as the assignee agrees to be bound by its terms.