This website (our “Site”) is operated by a member of the Premier Foods group of companies, the ultimate holding company of which is Premier Foods plc (registered in England and Wales with company number 05160050 and registered address Premier House, Centrium Business Park, Griffiths Way, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2RE, United Kingdom).
All references to ‘our’, ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘company’ or “Premier Foods” within this policy are deemed to refer to Premier Foods plc, its subsidiaries, affiliates and associates.
This acceptable use policy (“Acceptable Use Policy“) sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our Site. This Acceptable Use Policy applies to any material you upload or share to our Site or generate on our Site (“User Content“) as well as any contact you make with links to our Site, and any other ways you use our Site. This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our Site.
This Acceptable Use Policy is subject to our Site’s Terms of Use. Your use of our Site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the provisions in this Acceptable Use Policy.
1. Prohibited Uses
You may use our Site only for lawful purposes and as permitted in this Acceptable Use Policy. You may not use our Site:
- In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
- In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
- For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
- For any commercial use without our prior written consent.
- To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our Content Standards (see paragraph 2 below).
- To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (e.g. spam).
- To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
- Not to access without our approval, interfere with, alter, modify, damage or disrupt:
- any part of our Site;
- any equipment or network on which our Site is stored;
- any software used in the provision of our Site; or
- any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
- Not to (or attempt to) circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security related features of our Site or features that:
- prevent or restrict use or copying of any User Content (as defined in paragraph 2 below) or any other content; or
- enforce limitations on use of our Site or the content accessible on our Site.
- Not to collect or harvest any personal data of any user of our Site (and agree that this shall be deemed to include account names (where relevant)).
- Not to use our Site and any services provided on our Site (including the contact us, social media feeds and email features in our Site) for the solicitation of business in the course of trade or in connection with a commercial enterprise.
- Not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of our Site.
- Not to upload, post, create on our Site or share content containing any advertising or promoting any services or web links to other sites.
- Not to otherwise misuse our Site in breach of our Site’s Terms of Use.
We grant the operators of public search engines permission to use internet bots to copy materials from our Site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. We reserve the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.
2. Content Standards
The following content standards apply to User Content.
You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any User Content as well as to its whole.
User Content must:
- Be accurate (where it states facts).
- Where it contains opinions, be genuinely held.
- Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted and to which our Site is targeted.
User Content must not:
- Contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
- Contain any material which is indecent, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
- Promote sexually explicit material.
- Promote or encourage violence or self-harm.
- Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Infringe any copyright, database right, trade mark or other applicable intellectual property rights of any other person.
- Be likely to deceive any person.
- Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
- Contain illegal content or promote any illegal content or activity.
- Be in contempt of court.
- Be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
- Be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm, cause distress, anxiety, offence or annoy any other person.
- Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person including the use of deepfakes referencing any third party without their written consent.
- Give the impression that it emanates from us, if this is not the case.
- Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
- Contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
- Be pornographic.
- [Include video content that has been or would be likely to give an R18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification (“BBFC“).
- Include video content not suitable for BBFC classification.
- Include material that might impair the physical, mental or moral development of persons under the age of 18.
- Defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks which could, in Premier Food’s reasonable opinion, adversely affect the name, reputation or goodwill of Premier Foods.
3. Consequences of Failing to Comply with this Acceptable Use Policy
We will determine, in our reasonable opinion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our Site.
Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of our Site’s Terms of Use and may result in the restriction, suspension or removal of your access to our Site (on a temporary or permanent basis), as set out in our Site’s Terms of Use. We may also take any of the following actions in our sole discretion, acting reasonably and proportionally:
- Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Site.
- Issue of a warning to you.
- Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from your breach of this Acceptable Use Policy.
- Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
The actions and responses described above are not limited, and we may take any other action which we reasonably deem appropriate.
4. Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy
We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time and each time you use the Site to take notice of any changes we make and ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time to your use of the Site, as they are legally binding on you.