Terms of Use
Use of foodCompliance.com (the "Website") is subject to these Terms of Use. Please take a moment to review these Terms before using any features of the Website.

Terms of Use

foodCompliance.com is an Internet-based source for research and information tools to assist in complying with food industry regulations. Through the Website, we provide users with a variety of services related to the food industry, such as: Use of this Website is subject to your agreement with these Terms of Use, which may be modified at any time without notice to you. You may use various services on this Website as an unregistered guest, as a paid registered user, or (as with some of the calculators) on a per-use basis.

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, with or without notice, the Website or any of the services on the Website.

User Registration

As part of the user registration process, you may be asked to provide a user name, password or other registration information. As a registered user, you agree: You are responsible for all usage or activity on your account. You must notify us of any suspected unauthorized use of your account, or any suspected breach of security, including loss, theft, or unauthorized disclosure of your password. The contents of the Website (such as articles, bulletin boards, software, calculators, directories, databases and editorial information) are the property of FoodCompliance.com, Inc., and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

Except as permitted by these Terms of Use, you agree not to modify, copy, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Website, in whole or in part.

You may display and print contents from the Website for your own use only. In this case, permission to use documents from this Website is granted, provided that all copyright notices and other proprietary rights notices appear. Any other copying, modification, redistribution, publication or retransmission is strictly prohibited without our prior written consent.

You acknowledge that foodCompliance.com is a trademark of FoodCompliance.com, Inc., and that you may not use it without our prior written consent.

License to Use Calculators

foodCompliance grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use calculators on the Website to carry out functions such as, without limitation, producing food nutrition labels, provided that you pay any required fees and comply fully with these Terms of Use. You may download, display, print, modify and reproduce the labels or other results produced by a calculator, but only for your own personal use or use within your organization. Apart from any other use permitted under the applicable copyright laws, all other rights are reserved.

Fees and Payments

As a registered user, you agree to pay all fees and charges incurred through your account at the rates in effect for the invoicing period in which such fees and charges are incurred. All fees and charges shall be billed to and paid for by you. You also agree to pay all applicable taxes. We reserve the right to cancel your account immediately if you do not make a payment when due.

You may use a calculator and the information or labels it produces only after paying any required fee. We reserve the right to set and change our fees at our discretion, without notice.

Disclaimer of Warranties

You agree that your use of the Website is at your sole risk and responsibility. The Website is provided on an "as is" basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied. This includes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

You agree that in no event shall foodCompliance be liable for any incidental or consequential damages resulting from use of the Website. That includes damages for loss of use, data or profits - whether or not you advise us of the possibility of such damages. That also includes damages arising from your use of any information or label produced by a calculator.

You agree that foodCompliance's liability, no matter what the reason, shall not exceed the fee you paid for use of the Website or any calculators or other services available on it.

Any material downloaded or obtained through the use of the Website is done at your own discretion and risk. In particular, foodCompliance disclaims any responsibility for any damage to your computer system or loss of data resulting from the download of such material.

We make our calculators available on the understanding that users exercise their own skill and judgment with respect to their use. foodCompliance makes no warranty that the results generated by a calculator will be free from error, or if used will ensure compliance with the relevant food laws. Before relying on the calculator's results, you should carefully evaluate their accuracy and completeness for your purposes, and obtain appropriate expert advice.

Please note the inherent limitations in any calculator. For example, food composition tables used in a calculator may contain nutrient data that is an average of nutrients in a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially over different batches, and between brands because of a number of factors including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source.

Given these limitations, the results generated by the calculator will be approximate in nature, rather than exactly reflect your product's average nutrient composition. Nutrient data from analyzing a representative sample of your product will often more exactly reflect its average nutrient composition.

We provide third-party links on the Website only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by us. Any hyperlink, association, connection or reference made by third party sites or any other commercial or non-commercial organizations to foodCompliance.com is strictly prohibited without our prior written consent.

Confidentiality

We will generally store the data you enter into a calculator for your own later use. You may access your data for up to one year from initial entry into the calculator. After that time, we may, at our option, delete the data or charge a fee for continued storage.

Privacy Statement

We take your privacy seriously. In order to develop relationships with our users and to continually enhance the Website, we collect information from our visitors during the registration process. We hold our users and your privacy concerns in the highest regard. Maintaining your privacy is critical to us.

During the various registration processes we may ask you to supply personal information such as your name, email address and title as well as general information such as your industry, company or country. We collect this information to know our users better, with the goal of providing you with the best possible services. This information is strictly confidential and will only be used by foodCompliance and it partners for use in conjunction with the Website.

We may automatically collect IP addresses and Website usage information when you visit our Website. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate the Website on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their visits. We do not monitor usage on an individual basis.

We may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your login name so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the District of Columbia. You also agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Website will be barred unless filed within one year after the claim or cause of action arises.