USER SUBMISSIONS

Certain portions of the Website may invite or enable you to post, upload, embed, display or otherwise communicate text, messages, photos, videos, sound recordings, music (including lyrics), graphics, drawings, suggestions, ideas (including product and advertising ideas), your and/or other persons’ names, likenesses, voices, usernames, performances and other information, materials or content owned or created by you (collectively, "User Submissions"). If you are under 18, please request permission from your parent or guardian before submitting any User Submission.

UNILEVER WILL CONSIDER USER SUBMISSIONS AS NON-CONFIDENTIAL AND NON-PROPRIETARY AND SHALL BE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO MAINTAIN THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED IN YOUR USER SUBMISSION.

If you wish to submit information that is the subject of an issued patent or a published pending patent application, then please go to the Innovation section of the Unilever website (http://www.unilever.com/innovation/collaborating/workingwithus/index.aspx). This is the appropriate forum for technical product and technology ideas relating to our products and brands. If your User Submission is the subject of a pending or issued patent, you must disclose this fact to Unilever.

You warrant and represent that you have (and will continue to have during your use of the Website) all necessary rights, licenses, consents and permissions which are required to enable Unilever, Unilever Group companies and/or content providers to use your User Submissions for the purposes envisaged by the Website and these Terms of Use.

You further warrant and represent that you have the consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual in your User Submissions to use his or her name, username or likeness in the manner contemplated by the Website and the Products, Services or other materials on or available from the Website.

In connection with User Submissions, you agree and warrant that:

(i) you will not submit any User Submission that is subject to any right of a third party including, without limitation:

a. copyright, patent, trade mark, trade secret, or other proprietary or contractual right; b. right of privacy or publicity; or c. confidential information

unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from the rightful owner(s) to submit the User Submission and to grant the rights herein;

(ii) neither the User Submissions, nor the use of the User Submissions as permitted in these Terms of Use, will infringe upon or violate the rights of any person or entity or any applicable laws;

(iii) you will not submit User Submissions that are unlawful for you to possess in the country in which you are resident, or which it would be unlawful for Unilever to use or possess in connection with the provision of the Website or the Services; and

(iv) you will not submit a User Submission that:

a. is illegal or encourages or condones illegal acts or the discussion of illegal acts with the intent to commit them, including drug dealing, drug abuse, child pornography, physical or sexual assault, stalking, theft, fraud or conspiracy to commit a criminal act; b. is defamatory, threatening, abusive, harassing or an invasion of privacy; c. is discriminatory or prejudicial based upon race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or otherwise; d. is obscene, pornographic or otherwise sexually explicit; e. is dangerous, irresponsible or antisocial or encourages or condones dangerous, irresponsible or antisocial behaviour; f. contains a virus, spyware or other harmful component, or otherwise impairs, interrupts or damages the Website, the Services or any connected network, or otherwise interferes with a person’s use or enjoyment of the same; or g. contains any advertisement, solicitation, chain letter, pyramid scheme, investment opportunity or other unsolicited commercial communication.

(v) Unilever has no obligation to use your User Submission in any way and Unilever shall not be obliged to give reasons for rejecting your User Submission or to identify Unilever activities that relate to your User Submission in any way;

(vi) Unilever has no obligation to compensate you for any use of your User Submission as envisaged by the Website and these Terms of Use; and

(vii) Unilever may use your name to attribute your User Submission to you (although we shall not be obliged to do so).

You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of your posting or publishing them.

In addition, you understand and agree that when using the Website, you may be exposed to User Submissions posted and/or submitted by other users. Unilever is not in any manner responsible for User Submissions, and Unilever does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, quality or intellectual property rights of, or relating to, such User Submissions. In addition, Unilever cannot assure that harmful, inaccurate, deceptive, offensive, threatening, defamatory, unlawful or otherwise objectionable User Submissions will not appear on the Website.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that the information, materials and opinions expressed or included in any User Submissions are not necessarily those of Unilever or its affiliated or related entities or content providers and Unilever expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with any User Submission. You agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Unilever with respect to any User Submissions.

By uploading User Submissions you understand that they may be available to the public and you agree not to assert in any part of the world any claim for invasion of privacy, breach of your rights under the prevailing data protection and other privacy laws or appropriation of your right of publicity arising from or out of Unilever’s use of your User Submissions in accordance with these Terms of Use.