Welcome to the American Culinary ChefsBest^TM (ChefsBest^TM) website. We offer you this website based on the terms, conditions and notices contained below, so please take the time to review them.

Terms of Use
When you access, use or view this website, you thereby agree to be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement (“Terms of Use”). Please note that ChefsBest^TM may revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this posting. If you access, use or view this website after such revisions have been made, you will be bound by them; therefore, we advise you to periodically review this page for such revisions. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please exit this website.

Privacy Policy
Please review our Privacy Policy to understand our practices regarding your privacy in connection with our website.

Security
We take reasonable precautions to insure that the information you submit to us online is as secure as possible from unauthorized use or access.

You are advised that information sent via email, or by other methods across the world wide web to ChefsBest^TM are not secure transmissions, and ChefsBest^TM makes no guarantees regarding the privacy of such submissions while they are in transit.

Third Party Content
This website contains links to other Internet sites (“third-party sites”) that are not owned or maintained by ChefsBest^TM. This website may also contain content provided by our licensees. Links to third-party sites and information provided by our licensees are included for your convenience and do not imply approval of or endorsement by ChefsBest^TM of those sites or such content. ChefsBest^TM makes no warranties or representations and disclaims any responsibility for the content of and products or services offered by third-party sites. Further, ChefsBest^TM makes no warranties and disclaims any responsibility for the content, products or services offered or provided by our licensees and contained on this site.

License and Website Access
ChefsBest^TM hereby grants you a limited, revocable and nonexclusive license to access and make personal use of this website. You may not, however, download this website (other than page caching) or modify it in whole or in part unless you have first received express written consent from ChefsBest^TM. Furthermore, this limited, revocable license does not include the right to: any resale or commercial use of this website or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this website 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 website (or any portion thereof) may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent from ChefsBest^TM. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including, but not limited to, images, text, page layout, and/or form) of ChefsBest^TM and/or our licensees without express written consent from ChefsBest^TM. You may not use any metatags or any other “hidden text” utilizing ChefsBest^TM’s name or trademarks without express written consent from ChefsBest^TM. You may not create hyperlinks to this website, or use any ChefsBest^TM logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission from ChefsBest^TM.

Any unauthorized use automatically terminates the licenses and permission granted above by ChefsBest^TM. ChefsBest^TM and its affiliates reserve the right to block access, refuse services, or remove or edit content in connection with this website.

Copyrights, Trademarks & Trade Dress
All content included on the site, the compilation of all content on the site and all software used on the site are the property of ChefsBest^TM, its licensees or its content suppliers, and are protected by U.S. and international copyright and trademark laws. Furthermore, ChefsBest^TM, AMERICAN CULINARY CHEFSBEST, the gold medal symbols, as well as other marks on the site including graphics, logos, images, page headers and titles, button icons, scripts and trade and service names, are the copyrights, trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual property of ChefsBest^TM and its licensees in the U.S. and other countries.

Except as provided in the “Licensing and Website Access” section above, unless you receive ChefsBest^TM’s prior express written consent, you may not: (1) copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, create derivative works of, sell, transfer, display, transmit, compile or collect in a database, or in any manner commercially exploit, any copyright or trademark-protected element of the site, including its content; (2) make any use of ChefsBest^TM’s trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual property; (3) frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including, but not limited to, images, text, page layout, and/or form) of ChefsBest^TM; or (4) use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing ChefsBest^TM name or trademarks. Permission requests may be sent to clientservices@chefsbest.org

Alleged copyright, trademark and trade dress violations should be reported to the ChefsBest^TM Webmaster in care of this site. ChefsBest^TM makes no representations concerning, and assumes no liability for, any infringing or non-infringing nature of any trademarks which appear on the site but are not owned by ChefsBest^TM.

Warranties & Disclaimers
While ChefsBest^TM’s website endeavors in good faith to provide useful, beneficial information about our company and the products featured on our website, we provide this information with the expectation that those who receive it will independently investigate its usefulness to their own purposes. The information provided on this website is for general informational purposes and is not intended to be a complete description of the products discussed herein. As such, you assume risk for any and all use of this website.

FURTHER, THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED BY CHEFSBEST^TM ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. CHEFSBEST^TM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED; AS SUCH CHEFSBEST^TM ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN, OR RELIANCE UPON, THE INFORMATION IN THIS SITE.

ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (1) ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR AVAILABILITY OF CONTENT, (2) NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

CHEFSBEST^TM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT FROM CHEFSBEST^TM OR ITS AFFILIATES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

Limitations of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CHEFSBEST^TM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE DAMAGES, PERSONAL INJURY, MENTAL ANGUISH, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR WRONGFUL DEATH THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE OR THE MATERIALS PROVIDED ON THIS SITE, OR THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED FROM THIS SITE. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ACTIONS TAKEN BY YOU OR OTHERS IN RELIANCE ON INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS SITE. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT CHEFSBEST^TM IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY OFFENSIVE, DEFAMATORY, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY VISITOR TO THIS SITE, OR USER OF INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THIS SITE. YOU AGREE THAT CHEFSBEST^TM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES UNDER ANY INDEMNITY OR ANY THEORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT, PATENT OR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

Applicable Laws
The laws of California govern this agreement. You agree that any legal action between you and ChefsBest^TM shall be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in San Francisco, California.

General Information
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and ChefsBest^TM and govern your use of this website. This agreement supercedes any prior agreements between you and ChefsBest^TM. A waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any repetition of such breach or in any manner affect any other terms or conditions of these Terms of Use. The failure of ChefsBest^TM to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Use is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of this website or the Terms of Use must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

All Rights Reserved
All rights not expressly granted herein are hereby reserved.

Thank you for taking the time to visit our website and to review this Agreement.