Terms of Use

Last Revised: August 07, 2023

Acceptance of These Terms of Use

These terms of use are entered into by and between you and Gateway Food Products Co. (we or us). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate herein (these Terms of Use) govern your access to and use of our website at www.gatewayfoodproducts.com (our website), including any content, functionality, and offerings offered on or through our website.

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use our website. By continuing to use our website or by clicking to accept or agree to these Terms of Use if and when such option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy (found at www.gatewayfoodproducts.com/privacy-policy and incorporated herein by reference), and applicable laws, rules and regulations. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and applicable laws, rules and regulations, you must immediately stop accessing or using our website.

Our website is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older. By using our website, you represent and warrant that you are 18 years of age or older. If you are not at least 18 years of age, you must immediately stop accessing or using our website.

Changes to These Terms of Use

We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes will become effective immediately when we post them at our website, and your continued use of our website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. Please check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.

Accessing Our Website/Modifications to Our Website

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend our website (including by removing content) in our sole discretion without notice. Additionally, from time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our website, or the entire website, to users. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of our website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We may also, in the future, offer new services, products and/or features through our website (including, the release of new tools and/or resources). Such new services and/or features will also be subject to these Terms of Use.

Intellectual Property Rights

Our website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by us, ours licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. No right, title, or interest in or to our website or any content on our website is transferred to you, and we, our licensors, or other providers of such material (as applicable) expressly reserve all rights in and to all content on our website. No license is granted to you in connection with any such content, and any unauthorized use or misuse of such content is prohibited as provided by these Terms of Use. You cannot reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, download, display, republish, store, transmit, or sell, in any form in part or in whole, any of the content on our website without express permission of the copyright owner prior to the action. Your personal and non-commercial use to display, copy, distribute, print and/or download the content will be granted but, you must not: (a) modify the content; or (b) delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from our website. If you do modify the content, you must have prior written permission to do so. You may print copies of the information for your personal use, store the files for your personal use, or reference our website for your own use/information. In its sole discretion, we or our licensors may seek to enforce their intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including through criminal prosecution.

Additionally, our name, trademarks, trade names, logos, and all related product names, design marks and slogans which appear on our website are the trademarks (registered or unregistered) of our company or our licensors, as applicable. You must not use such marks without our prior written permission. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on our website are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Reporting Claims of Copyright Infringement

We take claims of copyright infringement seriously. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. If you believe any materials accessible on or from our website infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access to them) from our website by submitting written notification to our copyright agent designated below. In accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), the written notice (the “DMCA Notice”) must include substantially the following:

Your physical or electronic signature
Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on our website, a representative list of such works;
Identification of the material you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material;
Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number, and, if available, email address);
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate; and
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Our designated copyright agent to receive DMCA Notices is Steve Walters, our Chief Executive Officer, who can be reached at swalters@gatewayfoodproducts.com. If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your DMCA Notice may not be effective.

Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on our website is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

Information About You and Your Visits to Our Website

All information we collect on or through our website is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using our website, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with our Privacy Policy.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites and resources not owned or controlled by us. This includes links contained in advertisements, including banner advertisements and sponsored links. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to our website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.

Optional Tools

We may provide you with access to third-party tools on or through our website that we do not monitor, and over which we do not have control and/or input. We provide access to such tools “as is” and “as available” without any warranties, representations or conditions of any kind and without any endorsement. We expressly disclaim all liability whatsoever arising from or relating to your use of optional third-party tools. Your use of optional tools offered on or through our website is entirely at your own risk and discretion and you should ensure that you are familiar with and approve of the terms on which tools are provided by the relevant third-party provider(s).

Geographic Restrictions

We are based in the United States. We provide our website for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that our website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to our website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access our website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

DISCLAIMER; LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or our Website will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our website for any reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WE COMPANY OR OUR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, OUR WEBSITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE. THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless our company, our affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and our and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of our website, including, but not limited to, any contribution you make to our website, any use of our website’s content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, or your use of any information obtained from our website.

Governing Law and Venue

All matters relating to our website and these Terms of Use, and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), will be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Illinois without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.

Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or our website will be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in St. Clair County, Illinois. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

Waiver and Severability

No waiver by us of any term or condition set out in these Terms of Use will be effective unless expressly consented to by us in writing, nor will any such waiver be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition. Our failure to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision will be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement

The Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and us regarding our website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding our Website.