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Copyright
Notice, Privacy Policy and Conditions
of Use
COPYRIGHT
All
trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners. Unless
identified
with the designation "COPY FREE", the contents of this website is
copyrighted by "The Homestead Chef" or
its
respective owners. "The Homestead Chef" hereby authorizes you to copy
documents published by "The
Homestead
Chef" on the World Wide Web for non-commercial use within your
organization only. In consideration
of this
authorization, you agree that any copy of these documents you make shall
retain all copyright and other
proprietary notices contained herein. This authorization does not extend
to the use of the wheat sheaf logo.
You may not otherwise copy or transmit the contents of this website either
electronically or in hard copies. You
may not
alter the content of this website in any manner. If you are interested in
using the contents of this website in
any manner except as described above, please contact "gord@thehomesteadchef.com"
for information on licensing.
Individual documents published by "The Homestead Chef" on the World Wide
Web may contain other proprietary
notices
and copyright information specific to that individual document. Nothing
contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel
or otherwise any license or right under any patent, trademark or other
property right
of "The
Homestead chef" or any third party. Except as expressly provided above
nothing contained herein shall be
construed
as conferring any license or right under any copyright or other property
right of "The Homestead Chef" or
any third party. Note that any product, process, or technology in this
document may be the subject of other intellectual property rights reserved
by "The Homestead chef" and may not be licensed here under.
PRIVACY
NOTICE
The Homestead Chef knows that you care how information about you is used
and shared, and we appreciate your trust and want you to feel confident in
our services and security as it relates to your personal information. This
notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting The Homestead Chef, you
are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does The Homestead Chef
Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and
continually improve your shopping experience at The Homestead Chef. Here
are the types of information we gather.
Information You Give Us:
You provide most such information when you search, buy, order, post
reviews, or other methods of communication via our website or email to The
Homestead Chef. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with
such information as your name, address, and phone numbers, and credit card
information.
We receive and store any information you
enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to
provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take
advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide
for such purposes as responding to your requests, fulfilling orders,
customizing future shopping for you, improving our store features, and
communication with you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of
information whenever you interact with our website. For example, like many
web sites, we sometimes use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of
information when your Web browser accesses our website.
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mail more productive, to
improve service, and to improve your shopping experience, we sometimes send you
newsletters of our services and products, notifications of changes to our
policies, and order confirmations. If you do not want to receive e-mail
from us, other than order notifications and receipts, please adjust your
preferences by contacting us.
What
About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifier text files that we transfer to your
computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to
recognize your browser and to provide additional features.
Does The Homestead Chef Share the Information It Receives?
We respect your privacy and appreciate your business. At no time do we
ever provide your account contact or payment information to any third
party vendor, associate or service provider unless absolutely necessary in
order to complete your transaction and order.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We work to protect the security of your information you provide to us for
purchasing of our products or services. Of course, we transmit the entire
credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order
processing.
Which Information Can I Access?
The
Homestead Chef gives you access to a broad range of information about your
account and your interactions with us for the limited purpose of viewing
and, in certain cases, updating that information.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit The Homestead Chef, your visit and any dispute over
privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including
limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the
law of the Province of Alberta. If you have any concern about privacy of
your personal information as used and collected within our website, please
send us a thorough description by contacting us and we
will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions
of Use will change also. We may email periodic reminders of our notices
and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check
our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise,
our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about
you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and
will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less
protective of customer information collected in the past without the
consent of affected customers.
Automatic Information
For security purposes The Homestead Chef sometimes collects and analyzes
the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the
Internet, and to our website.
Questions
Questions regarding our Conditions of Usage, Privacy Policy, or other
policy related material can be directed to our support staff by clicking
on the "Contact" link. Or you can email us at:
info@thehomesteadchef.com
CONDITIONS OF USE
Welcome to our website! The Homestead Chef and its associates provide
their services to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit or
shop within this website, you accept these conditions. Please read them
carefully.
PRIVACY
Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your visit to our
website, to understand our practices.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
When you visit The Homestead Chef or send e-mails to us, you are
communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive
communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by
e-mail 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.
COPYRIGHT
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 The Homestead Chef or its content suppliers
and protected by international copyright laws. The compilation of all
content on this site is the exclusive property of The Homestead Chef, with
copyright authorship for this collection by The Homestead Chef, and
protected by international copyright laws.
TRADEMARKS
The Homestead Chef's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in
connection with any product or service that is not The Homestead Chef's,
in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any
manner that disparages or discredits The Homestead Chef. All other
trademarks not owned by The Homestead Chef or its subsidiaries that appear
on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may
not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by The Homestead Chef
or its subsidiaries.
LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS
The Homestead Chef 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
The Homestead Chef. 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 The Homestead Chef. 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 The
Homestead Chef and our associates without express written consent. You may
not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing The Homestead
Chef's name or trademarks without the express written consent of The
Homestead Chef. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license
granted by The Homestead Chef. You are granted a limited, revocable, and
nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of The Homestead
Chef so long as the link does not portray The Homestead Chef, its
associates, or their products or services in a false, misleading,
derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any The
Homestead Chef logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of
the link without express written permission.
YOUR MEMBERSHIP ACCOUNT
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the
confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to
your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities
that occur under your account or password. If you are under 18, you may
use our website only with involvement of a parent or guardian. The
Homestead Chef and its associates reserve the right to refuse service,
terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in their sole
discretion.
REVIEWS, COMMENTS, EMAILS, AND OTHER CONTENT
Visitors may post reviews, comments, and other content: 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 a card or other content. The Homestead Chef
reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such
content, but does not regularly review posted content.
If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate
otherwise, you grant The Homestead Chef and its associates a nonexclusive,
royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to
use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any
media. You grant The Homestead Chef and its associates and sublicensees
the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content,
if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise
control all of the rights to the content that you post, that the content
is accurate, that use of the content you supply does not violate this
policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity, and that you
will indemnify The Homestead Chef or its associates for all claims
resulting from content you supply. The Homestead Chef has the right but
not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content.
The Homestead Chef takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for
any content posted by you or any third party.
RISK OF LOSS
All items purchased from The Homestead Chef are made pursuant to a
shipment contract. This basically means that the risk of loss and title
for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
The Homestead Chef and its associates attempt to be as accurate as
possible. However, The Homestead Chef does not warrant that product
descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete,
reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by The Homestead
Chef itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in
unused condition.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY THE HOMESTEAD CHEF ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS
AVAILABLE" BASIS. THE HOMESTEAD CHEF MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS 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, THE HOMESTEAD CHEF
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE HOMESTEAD CHEF DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS,
OR E-MAIL SENT FROM THE HOMESTEAD CHEF ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER
HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE HOMESTEAD CHEF 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 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.
APPLICABLE LAW
By visiting The Homestead Chef, you agree that the laws of the Province of
Alberta, Canada, 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 The Homestead Chef or its associates.
DISPUTES
Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to The Homestead Chef or to
products you purchase through The Homestead Chef shall be submitted to
confidential arbitration in Alberta, Canada, except that, to the extent
you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate The Homestead
Chef's intellectual property rights, The Homestead Chef may seek
injunctive or other appropriate relief in any provincial or federal court
in the Province of Alberta, Canada, and you consent to exclusive
jurisdiction and venue in such courts. The arbitrators award shall be
binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent
jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no
arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration
involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class
arbitration proceedings or otherwise.
SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY
Please review our other policies posted on this site. These policies also
govern your visit to The Homestead Chef. 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.
QUESTIONS: Questions regarding our Conditions of Usage, Privacy Policy, or
other policy related material can be directed to our support staff by
contacting us. Or you can email us at: info@thehomesetadchef.com
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