Terms and Conditions

YOUR USE OF THIS WEB SITE CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE FOLLOWING TERMS:

1. Ownership. Hormel Foods Corporation ("Hormel Foods") owns all of the material in this site. The material in this site is provided by Hormel Foods solely for the purpose of providing you with information about Hormel Foods. This material may include unintentional errors or inaccuracies and may be updated and/or corrected at any time.

2. Use. Except as otherwise expressly provided on this site, you may download one copy of the material for your own personal, noncommercial use on your own personal home computer. You may not copy or make any changes to downloaded materials. Downloaded materials remain the property of Hormel Foods. Except as provided above, you may not copy, distribute, or publish materials from this site without Hormel Foods' prior written consent. This site has been designed to comply with United States law. Hormel Foods does not represent that the content of this site is appropriate for locations outside the United States. If you access this site from locations outside the United States, you are responsible for complying with all applicable local laws.

3. Communications. Hormel Foods welcomes your remarks, suggestions, and ideas (Communications). All Communications made to Hormel Foods through this site shall become property of Hormel Foods, including its business units, divisions and wholly-owned subsidiaries, and may be used for any purpose at any time, commercial or otherwise. You will not be compensated for Hormel Foods' use of any Communications. Hormel Foods may publish any Communications to any third parties. You are responsible for the legality and appropriateness of all Communications you submit through this site.

Any comments, offers, suggestions, ideas, recipes, concepts, artwork or other information ("Submissions") disclosed to us using this site or in response to solicitations on this site are the property of Hormel Foods Corporation, including its business units, divisions and wholly-owned subsidiaries. Without limitation, Hormel Foods Corporation shall exclusively own all rights, known or hereafter existing, to the Submissions and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of same for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to the submitter. Hormel Foods Corporation will consider Submissions only on these terms.

4. Disclaimer. Although Hormel Foods strives to ensure that the content of this site is updated and correct, Hormel Foods makes no warranties as to its accuracy. ALL MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Hormel Foods does not warrant that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components.

5. Limitation on Liability. Hormel Foods and its affiliates and content providers are not responsible or liable to any person or entity for any direct or indirect loss, damage (whether actual, consequential, punitive, special or otherwise), or injury of any kind based upon or resulting from your use of or your inability to use this site, or from any information provided in this site. If you are in any way dissatisfied with this site or any of these Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this site.

6. Links. Links on Hormel Foods Web sites may take you to sites outside of the Hormel Foods Web sites. Hormel Foods does not endorse any such linked third party Web sites and is not responsible for the content of any third party Web sites. Your linking to third party Web sites is at your own risk.

7. Trademark Information. References in italic within this website represent valuable trademarks owned or licensed by Hormel Foods, LCC or its subsidiaries. All Hormel Foods trademarks used or which are planned to be used in this site, whether registered or unregistered, are owned or licensed by Hormel Foods or its affiliates, including but not limited to the following: VALLEY FRESH.

8. Disputes. If you have concerns about our site, we encourage you to contact us. You agree to bring any claims against Hormel Foods exclusively in the state or federal courts of Minnesota. Our agreement is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles. If any of the term(s) in these Terms of Use are unlawful or unenforceable, such term(s) shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms.

9. Modifications to Terms of Use. Hormel Foods reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time. Updated versions of the Terms of Use will appear in this site and are effective immediately. Continued use of this site after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for additional terms and conditions.

Last Updated October, 2007