Terms & Conditions

All rights reserved. Access to and use of this www.thumb-vertising.co.uk and www.thumb-vertising.com, "the Site", is subject to the following terms and conditions.

This is a SPOOF website owned and managed by Douwe Egberts. It has been created to market Douwe Egberts Café Switch.

The information on this site is provided for entertainment purposes only. The information on this site is not reality based. It does not create a business, employment or professional services relationship between you and Douwe Egberts. Links on this site may lead to services or sites not operated by Douwe Egberts or Douwe Egberts companies. No judgement or warranty is made with respect to such other services or sites and Douwe Egberts takes no responsibility for such other sites or services. A link to another site or service is not an endorsement of that site or service. Any use you make of the information provided on this site, or any site or service linked to by this site, is at your own risk. All trademarks used or referred to in this site are the property of their respective owners.

General

These Terms and Conditions govern this Site, and those Sites of the Sara Lee group of companies (all subsidiaries of Sara Lee Corporation and/or Sara Lee/DE N.V., hereinafter referred to as "Sara Lee"), which are linked to this Site (collectively called the "Sites"). Your access or use of any of the Sites shall be deemed to be your acknowledgement that you agree with these Terms and Conditions. Do not access or use any of the Sites if you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions.

No warranties on completeness and accuracy

This Site and the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or related to Sara Lee and/or its products and services (further called "the Information") are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis only. Sara Lee does not make any representation or warranty of any kind, whether expressed or implied, such as fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability or completeness of the Sites nor does Sara Lee warrant that this Site or the server that makes it available are free of computer "viruses". This Site may include publications with technical or other inaccuracies or typographical errors that may be corrected at Sara Lee' sole discretion. Corrections and changes may be incorporated into this Site at any later date. Sara Lee may at any time make modifications, improvements and/or changes to the Terms and Conditions or the Information displayed on this Site or the products and services referred to within.

Liability disclaimer

In no event shall Sara Lee or any of its contractors be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, special, indirect or consequential damages, or any damages, whatsoever resulting from access or use, or inability to access or use the Site or arising out of any materials, qualifications or recommendations and any Information on this Site. Links to this Site may contain links to or references to other web sites. When you activate any of these you will leave the Sara Lee/DE web site. As the Internet is maintained, independently at thousands of sites around the world, the Information accessed may originate outside the boundaries of this Site on which information Sara Lee has no control. Therefore, Sara Lee shall have no obligation or responsibility regarding the content derived, obtained, accessed within, through or outside this Site. You agree not to add, alter, substitute or amend partially or in whole any Information displayed by Sara Lee on this Site.

Intellectual Property protection

The materials displayed on this Site, including without limitation all editorial materials, informational text, photographs, illustrations, artwork and other graphic material, names, logos, trademarks and other marks, are the property of Sara Lee or licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Any such content may be displayed and printed solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate any such material to any third party without the express prior written consent of Sara Lee. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring by implication or otherwise any licence or right under any patent, trademark, copyright or any other intellectual property right of Sara Lee or any third party, to any such information, data, products or services. Unless otherwise specified, the materials on this web site are directed solely at those who access this web site from the United Kingdom mainland. Sara Lee makes no representation that any product or services referred to in the materials on this web site are appropriate for use, or available, in other locations. Those who choose to access this site from other locations are responsible for compliance with local laws if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Comments and communications

Information delivered to the Sites (via posting, electronic mail or otherwise) should not be considered by you to be confidential. Sara Lee shall not be responsible to keep such information confidential nor shall Sara Lee be liable for any use or disclosure thereof. All such information is, and shall remain, the sole and exclusive property of Sara Lee and may be used for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation. Sara Lee would welcome your comments on the Sites or on our products, but Sara Lee is not seeking any unsolicited ideas, suggestions or materials relating to the development, design, manufacture or marketing of our products.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, unless otherwise indicated at one of the Sites. Disputes arising here from are in first instance exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of competent Courts of England, unless otherwise indicated at one of the Sites. These exclusions of liability shall not apply to any damages arising from death or personal injury caused by the negligence of Sara Lee or any of its employees or agents.

Contact Us

Please contact us with any queries, complaints or feedback regarding the website or our products through the contact us section of the site or alternatively the below addresses:

Postal Address:
Sara Lee Coffee & Tea UK, 225 Bath Road Slough SL1 4AU

E-mail:
Consumer.RelationsUK@saralee.com

Privacy Policy

Sites Covered

This Privacy Policy applies to this site, www.thumb-vertising.co.uk / www.thumb-vertising.com, those sites of the Sara Lee Group of Companies (all subsidiaries of Sara Lee Corporation and/or Sara Lee/DE N.V hereinafter referred to as "Sara Lee") which are linked to this site (collectively, the "Sites"). By viewing or using any of the Sites, you are agreeing to the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy. For other terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Sites, please review our Terms of Use.

Personal Information Collected

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "personal information" means any information by which you can be personally identified, and includes your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and similar information. Most Sites do not require that you submit personal information to Sara Lee; however, some Sites may request personal information in order to help Sara Lee serve you more effectively. Sara Lee generally collects personal information only when you voluntarily submit such personal information to us, for example by submitting a comment or inquiry or completing a registration form.

Use and Retention of Personal Information

It is Sara Lee's policy to maintain all personal information as confidential, regardless of the purpose for which it is submitted, and to use such personal information only for the following purposes:

• For the specific purpose for which it was volunteered (for example to submit a comment, receive account information, purchase products, apply for employment, enter a promotion or competition, etc.);
• To track our visitors' use of the Sites for internal market research; and
• To notify our visitors of updates to the Sites or promotional product opportunities.

From time to time we may send you information relating to products, offers or competitions offered by us where we have your consent. We will not pass on any Personally Identifiable Information we collect (including your email address) to third parties unless we have your consent. You may unsubscribe to receive communications from third parties or us at any time.

It is Sara Lee's policy to keep personal information only for so long as needed for such purposes. Sara Lee does not sell, rent or otherwise distribute to third parties personal information about visitors to the Sites, except as needed for Sara Lee to provide the services for which such information was volunteered. However, the Sites may contain links to sites controlled by, and pages maintained by, independent third parties. Sara Lee does not control use of information provided to such third parties. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will then be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

Authorized third parties may need access to some of your personal information to provide the services for which you provided such information. For example, if you purchase a product, we would use third party shippers to deliver the order to you and we would need to provide the shipper with your name and address. It is Sara Lee's policy to provide to third parties only that amount of personal information that they require to complete the requested service or transaction.

Given the global nature of both the Internet and Sara Lee, using the Internet to collect and process Personal Data usually involves the transmission of data on an international basis. By browsing the Site and communicating electronically with us, you agree that we may export Personal Data to one or more of our offices in other countries and process it there in accordance with this policy. Although data may be held in countries that do not have strict data privacy laws, we do take steps to maintain the privacy and security of your Personal Data.

Protection of Children's Privacy

Sara Lee does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If Sara Lee becomes aware that it has inadvertently gathered personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information from our system.

Access Rights

You have a right to review personal information about you that is held by Sara Lee. To obtain a copy of your personal information, or to request deletion of all personal information about you in Sara Lee's possession, e-mail us at cad@saralee.com.

Cookies

A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser that enables the server to collect information back from the browser. We use "cookies" to identify you when you visit the Site (our server recognizes information regarding your domain name or access provider and e-mail address) to understand how you and other visitors use the Site so that we can serve you better. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can usually change your browser to prevent this.

Policy Revisions

Sara Lee reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. You should check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes.