Last updated: June 6, 2004
Sherwin Food Safety and its affiliates provide their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit the Sherwin Food Safety Web site, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully.
Sherwin Food Safety is very sensitive to the issues of online privacy and electronic security. As we establish and maintain an online relationship with you, we want you to know we will always do whatever possible to ensure a secure and private environment to maintain your unquestioned trust. Additionally, we understand that you care about how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will treat that information sensibly and carefully.
Sherwin Food Safety is committed to honoring and respecting your individual privacy. The following paragraphs describe our privacy policies regarding the personal information you provide us as well as information we collect about how our visitors use our site. By visiting the Sherwin Food Safety Web site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected by Sherwin Food Safety — The information we collect from our visitors helps us personalize and continually improve your online experience at the Sherwin Food Safety Web site. We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can always choose not to provide information. We use the information that you provide us for such purposes as responding to your requests and communicating with you.
Sharing of Information — Information about our visitors is of the utmost importance to us, and we do not rent or sell it to others.
We believe that your email address is private information and you have our assurance that we will not rent or sell your email address to anyone. You will have the opportunity on our site and through occasional email invitations to opt in to our informative email newsletters as well as our periodic promotional mailings. You can easily opt out of our email list via links in emails or through our site.
For details about online privacy and other issues regarding Internet usage, read Site Seeing on the Internet, provided by the Federal Trade Commission on its own Web site.
Policy Revisions — If you choose to visit the Sherwin Food Safety Web site, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Maryland. If you have any concern about privacy at the Sherwin Food Safety Web site, please contact us, and we will try to resolve it. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you. We will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of visitor information collected in the past without the consent of affected visitors.
When you visit the Sherwin Food Safety Web site or send emails to Sherwin Food Safety, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on this site. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of Sherwin Food Safety or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Sherwin Food Safety and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Sherwin Food Safety or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
Sherwin Food Safety grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of Sherwin Food Safety. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of Sherwin Food Safety. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Sherwin Food Safety and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Sherwin Food Safety's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Sherwin Food Safety. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Sherwin Food Safety. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of the Sherwin Food Safety Web site so long as the link does not portray Sherwin Food Safety, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any Sherwin Food Safety logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.
Visitors may send communications and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of the content. Sherwin Food Safety reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content.
This site is provided by Sherwin Food Safety on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Sherwin Food Safety makes no representations or warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, as to the operation of this site or the information, content, materials, or products included on this site. You expressly agree that your use of this site is at your sole risk.
To the full extent permissible by applicable law, Sherwin Food Safety disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Sherwin Food Safety does not warrant that this site, its servers, or email sent from Sherwin Food Safety are free of viruses or other harmful components. Sherwin Food Safety will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of this site, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential 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 might have additional rights.
By visiting the Sherwin Food Safety Web site, you agree that the laws of the state of Maryland, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Sherwin Food Safety or its affiliates.
As our business changes, our Privacy Policy and the Conditions of Use will change also. You should check our Web site frequently for updates. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
©2009 Edward G. Sherwin Consultants, LLC [Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy]