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Welcome to
the website of Summit Food Service Distributors (“Summit”).
Summit recognizes your right to privacy and is strongly committed
to protecting the privacy of all visitors to this website.
The intent of this Privacy Statement is to detail our policies
and procedures regarding the collection, use or disclosure
of personal information of visitors to the Summit website.
This Statement also lets you know what to do if you do not
want your personal information collected when you visit our
website and how you can change or delete information you have
already provided us.
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| Your
Consent |
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By using
our website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure
of your information by Summit in accordance with the terms
of our Privacy Statement. If we change our Privacy Statement,
we will post those changes on this page so that you are always
aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances we disclose it. Any changes to our
Privacy Statement will be effective and binding on you immediately
following the posting of such changes to this website. You
agree to review our Privacy Statement from time to time.
This Privacy Statement was last modified on January 16, 2004.
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| Definitions |
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“Cookies” means small files sent to your browser from a
web server and stored in your computer.
“Information of a Non-Personal Nature” means any non-confidential,
non-proprietary information derived from your connection
to this website, such as your Internet browser, domain name
and referrer link.
“Personal Information” means personally-identifiable information
including, without limitation, your name, street address, telephone
number, e-mail address, credit card information and food preferences. |
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| Information
of a Non-Personal Nature |
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| As a general
policy, with the exception of IP addresses, no Personal Information
is automatically collected from visitors to the Summit website.
Summit may gather and analyse IP addresses and certain Information
of a Non-Personal Nature regarding website usage by visitors
to the Summit website. Such data is used in an aggregate form
to assist Summit in determining general usage patterns and
to administer, diagnose problems with, and fine tune the layout
of the Summit website. We may share non-personal, summary,
or aggregate customer data with partners and other third parties
at our discretion. |
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| Collection,
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information |
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In certain
portions of the Summit website, certain Personal Information
may be voluntarily and knowingly provided to us by visitors
to the Summit website.
Summit shall only collect Personal Information of visitors
to the Summit website with prior notification and shall use
all commercially reasonable efforts to protect your Personal
Information. If you do not want us to have access to your
Personal Information, please do not provide it while using
this site. When you do provide Personal Information, you
are authorizing us to use it in accordance with the terms
of the Privacy statement, including your right to limit our
use of the Personal Information (see “Who to Contact” below).
Summit may use Personal Information for editorial, feedback
or other fully disclosed purposes, such as to enter you into
a contest, respond to a future on-line order or respond by
e-mail to an inquiry that you posed on-line, to the extent
such use by Summit is explained to visitors when the information
is voluntarily and knowingly provided to Summit. We may also
match your Personal Information that you provide to us on
this website to information contained in our delivery database.
Your Personal Information may also be used by Summit, or
any other division of Cara Operations Limited, to contact
you regarding other products or services which may be of
interest to you (including those that we may offer jointly
with other companies).
We will not give, sell, rent, or loan any of your Personal
Information to any third party (with the exception of third
parties performing functions on our behalf who have an obligation
to keep your information completely confidential or a third
party who buys our business) unless you have authorized us
to do so.
Summit reserves the right to access and/or disclose Personal Information where
required to comply with applicable laws or lawful government requests or, in
Summit's reasonable opinion, to operate the Summit website properly and securely,
or to protect Summit or visitors to this website. To the extent reasonably possible,
Summit shall attempt to obtain the prior consent of the individual to whom such
Personal Information relates prior to disclosure to third parties. |
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| Legal
Statement |
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| By accessing
any area of Summit, (the "Web Site") the user acknowledges
this notice, and agrees to the terms and conditions, set out
below. Except where stated otherwise, the term "SummitFoods.com" used
on the Web Site shall be deemed to include Summit and its respective
affiliates, subsidiaries, successors and assigns. |
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| Trademarks
and Copyrights |
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Summit owns
and operates the Summit Web Site. Summit and related words,
domain names and logos are trademarks and the property of
Summit. All other trademarks, product names and company names
or logos cited herein are the property of their respective
owners.
The material contained on the Summit web site, including all
portions of the Web Site, content, site design, text, graphics
and the selection and arrangement thereof are Copyright © Summit.
All Rights Reserved.
No material from the Web Site or any web site owned, operated, licensed or controlled
by Summit or its licensors may be copied, reproduced, republished, posted, transmitted
or distributed in any way. The user may print, in hard copy, portions of the
Web Site only for the purpose of referencing the information off-line. The use
of any such material for any other reason, on any other web site, or the modification,
distribution or republication of this material without prior written permission
from Summit is strictly prohibited. |
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| Disclaimer
and Limitation of Liability |
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| The web site
and the information or materials herein are provided on an "as
is, where is" basis. Summit makes no representations or
warranties, either expressed or implied, of any kind with respect
to the web site or its contents. Summit disclaims all warranties,
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose. By using or attempting
to use the web site, the user expressly acknowledges that Summit
makes no warranties or representations regarding the content
of the web site: (i) There are no warranties or representations
made regarding the content of the web site in terms of how
current it is, its accuracy, or its completeness; and (ii)
as a service to users of the web site, Summit may include links
to other web sites over which Summit has no control. Summit
provides no endorsement or representation of any kind regarding
the products, services, content or appropriateness of content
of such web sites, and the user hereby irrevocably waives any
claim against Summit with respect to such web sites. |
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| Users |
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The user
acknowledges that any content, offers, information, opinions
(including without limitation, reviews) ("Content")
he or she may provide to the Web Site becomes the property
of Summit, including all copyright, without reservation,
and user waives in favour of Summit any and all moral rights
in such Content. The user acknowledges and agrees that all
or any portion of the Content may be used, edited, reproduced,
published, translated, sublicensed, copied and distributed
and/or incorporated into other works in any form, media,
or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full
term of any copyright that may exist in such Content, without
compensation of any kind to the user.
By submitting Content to Summit, the user automatically
warrants that he/she has the full right and authority to
submit such Content, and that none of such Content is subject
to any copyright or other proprietary right of a third party.
Any Content expressed or made available by third parties,
including any other user of the Web Site, are those of the
respective third parties and not of or its licensors, or
any of their officers, directors, employees or agents.
The owners and operators of the Web Site reserve the right
to not publish, or to remove any Content that they deem in
their sole discretion, to be inappropriate for the Web Site,
for any reason whatsoever. |
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| Governing
Law and Jurisdiction |
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| The Web Site
(excluding linked web sites) is controlled by Summit from its
offices within the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Web Site
can be accessed from all provinces and territories of Canada,
as well as from other countries around the world. As each of
these jurisdictions has laws that may differ from those of
the Province of Ontario, by accessing the Web Site, the user
agrees that all matters relating to access to, or use of, the
Web Site, or any other hyperlinked web site, shall be governed
by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws
of Canada applicable therein. The user also agrees and hereby
submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of
the courts of the Province of Ontario and acknowledges that
the user does so voluntarily and is responsible for complying
with local laws. |
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| No
Solicitation |
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| The Web Site
and the information contained herein does not constitute an
offer or a solicitation of an offer for the purchase or sale
of any securities. |
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