TERMS OF SERVICE

Last Updated: January 3rd, 2022

Please read these Terms of Service (the “Terms”) and our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) carefully because they govern your use of our Site and provide terms applicable to your purchase of Products on the Site. To make these Terms easier to read, the Site and our e-commerce platform services therein are collectively called the “Services.”

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING ARBITRATION: WHEN YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS YOU ARE AGREEING (WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION) TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTE BETWEEN YOU AND ALPHA FOODS THROUGH BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION RATHER THAN IN COURT. PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY SECTION 19 “DISPUTE RESOLUTION” BELOW FOR DETAILS REGARDING ARBITRATION.

1.                   Agreement to Terms. By using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you don’t agree to be bound by these Terms, do not use the Services.

2.                   Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of the Services, for information on how we collect, use and share your information.

3.                   Changes to these Terms or the Services. We may update the Terms from time to time in our sole discretion. If we do, we’ll let you know by posting the updated Terms on the Site and/or may also send other communications. It’s important that you review the Terms whenever we update them or you use the Services. If you continue to use the Services after we have posted updated Terms it means that you accept and agree to the changes. If you don’t agree to be bound by the changes, you may not use the Services anymore. The only exception is for changes to the “Dispute Resolution” section, for which you have followed the process in Section 20(g). Because our Services are evolving over time we may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

4.                   Supplementary Terms. Certain services, promotions, software or content that we offer may be subject to additional terms and conditions or other agreements (“Supplementary Terms”) specified by us from time to time. In the event of a conflict between the Supplementary Terms and any provision in these Terms, the Supplementary Terms will prevail.

5.                   Who May Use the Services? You may only use the Services if you are 18 years or older and capable of forming a binding contract with Alpha Foods, and not otherwise barred from using the Services under applicable law. For certain features of the Services you’ll need an account. It’s important that you provide us with accurate, complete and current account information and keep this information up to date. If you don’t, we might have to suspend or terminate your account. To protect your account, keep the account details and password confidential, and notify us right away of any unauthorized use. You’re responsible for all activities that occur under your account, including, without limitation, all purchase transactions.

6.                   Product Purchasing

(a)                Ordering and Payment. You may purchase bundles of Products (each, a “Bundle”) via the Services either as a single-order, or as a regular subscription for delivery of Products (“Subscription”), as further described on the Site and selected by you via the Services. For more information on Bundles and Subscriptions, you can visit our FAQs and Buy Now page. The Services may not be currently available in all areas. Whether you purchase a single-order or a Subscription (a “Transaction”), you expressly authorize us (or our third-party payment processor) to charge you for such Transaction. We may ask you to supply additional information relevant to your Transaction, including your shipping address, phone number, credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card and your email and postal addresses for billing and notification (such information, “Payment Information”). You represent and warrant that you have the legal right to use all payment method(s) represented by such Payment Information. When you initiate a Transaction, you authorize us to disclose some or all of your Payment Information to third parties so we can complete your Transaction and to charge your payment method for the type of Transaction you have selected (plus any applicable taxes and other charges). Such disclosures of your Payment Information are governed by our Privacy Policy. You may need to provide additional information to verify your identity before completing your Transaction (such information is included within the definition of Payment Information). 

The e-commerce portion of our Services is hosted on Shopify Inc. You can visit our Privacy Policy for information on data sharing with Shopify in connection with your purchases of Products.

We reserve the right to not process or reject your order in certain circumstances, for example, if your payment method is declined, if we suspect the request or order is fraudulent, or in other circumstances Alpha Foods deems appropriate in its sole discretion. We may also limit the order quantity, extend the delivery timeline for any reason after the order has been placed and accepted, and/or refuse to ship a Product to you for any reason.

(b)                Subscriptions. The Subscription provides shipments delivered to you at different intervals elected by you (i.e. bi-weekly, monthly, every 6 weeks, or every 3 months) (such intervals, the “Subscription Interval”). When you purchase a Subscription, you will be charged the Subscription fee, plus any applicable taxes, and other charges such as customs or import duties (“Subscription Fee”), at the beginning of your Subscription and each Subscription Interval thereafter, at the then-current Subscription Fee. If you purchase a Subscription, we (or our third-party payment processor) will automatically charge you on the first day of each Subscription Interval using the Payment Information you have provided until you cancel your Subscription. By agreeing to this Agreement and electing to purchase a Subscription, you acknowledge that your Subscription has recurring payment features and you accept responsibility for all recurring payment obligations prior to cancellation of your Subscription by you or Company. Your Subscription continues until cancelled by you or we terminate your access to or use of the Services or Subscription in accordance with this Agreement. Please note that Subscriptions are only available within the United States

(c)                 Products. All Products are carefully crafted and produced; however, occasionally a Product you receive won’t look or taste exactly as it was described or depicted to you on the Site, or a Product may not include the exact contents described in its listing due to availability or market conditions beyond our control, for example. You understand that this is normal, and you agree to accept such Product, regardless of reasonable variation from its description or depiction. We can’t and don’t guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any description or depiction of any Product. All Products descriptions are subject to change at any time without notice, in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to discontinue any Product at any time. Any offer for any Product made via our Services is void where prohibited. All Product information presented by us is intended to be used for informational purposes only – it is your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable local, state, federal and international laws (including minimum age requirements) in regard to the possession, use and sale of any Product purchased through the Services. Please consult with your health care practitioner regarding the consumption of any Products or information purchased or received through the Services before using or relying on them

The Services are intended solely for the sale of our Products direct to end consumers, and therefore the purchase of our Products for resale is strictly prohibited. Purchase for resale means the purchase of a Product by someone that resells, or intends to resell, such Product to others (e.g., consumers, businesses or any third party). If we believe you are involved in purchase for resale, we reserve the right to take any action against you, including, without limitation, to restrict the sales of our Products to you, cancel your orders, and/or suspend or terminate your account.

(d)                Prices and Taxes. All prices for our Products displayed via the Services are in U.S. dollars and are subject to change at any time without notice. The prices displayed do not include shipping and handling charges or applicable taxes, which charges and taxes will be communicated to you at check out before you place an order and you are responsible for paying such charges and taxes to Alpha Foods.

(e)                Shipping and Refunds. All Products purchases via our Services are also governed by our shipping policies located in the FAQs, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Please review all such shipping policies before purchasing a Product from or entering into any such purchase transaction with Alpha Foods. Since the Products are perishable, Products cannot be returned or exchanged, and refunds will not be provided, except in the sole discretion of Alpha Foods.

7.                   Your Content.

(a)                Posting Content. Our Services may allow you to store or share content such as text (in posts or communications with others), files, documents, graphics, images, and video. Anything (other than Feedback) that you post or otherwise make available through the Services is referred to as “User Content”. Alpha Foods does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to your User Content.

(b)                Permissions to Your User Content. By making any User Content available through the Services you hereby grant to Alpha Foods a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services.

(c)                 Your Responsibility for User Content. You are solely responsible for all your User Content. You represent and warrant that you have (and will have) all rights that are necessary to grant us the license rights in your User Content under these Terms. You represent and warrant that neither your User Content, nor your use and provision of your User Content to be made available through the Services, nor any use of your User Content by Alpha Foods on or through the Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

(d)                Removal of User Content. You can remove your User Content by specifically deleting it. You should know that in certain instances, some of your User Content (such as posts or comments you make) may not be completely removed and copies of your User Content may continue to exist on the Services. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content.

(e)                Alpha Foods’ Intellectual Property. We may make available through the Services content that is subject to intellectual property rights. We retain all rights to that content.

8.                   Feedback. We value your feedback on the Services and our products, but please don’t send us suggestions for improvements, creative ideas, designs, pitch portfolios or other materials (collectively “Unsolicited Ideas”).  This policy is aimed at avoiding potential disputes or misunderstandings when our Services or products might seem similar to Unsolicited Ideas that people submit. We may currently be developing, have developed or in the future will develop ideas or materials internally or receive ideas or materials from other parties that may be similar to Unsolicited Ideas. If you ignore this policy and send us your Unsolicited Ideas anyway, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license under any and all intellectual property rights that you own or control to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, import and otherwise exploit your Unsolicited Ideas for any purpose, without compensation to you. 

9.                   General Prohibitions and Alpha Foods’ Enforcement Rights. You agree not to do any of the following:

(a)                Post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any User Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any person or entity; or (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances;

(b)                Use, display, mirror, extract, scrape, copy, index or frame the Services (including any content made available by us therein) or any individual element within the Services, Alpha Foods’ name, any Alpha Foods trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page, without Alpha Foods’ express written consent;

(c)                 Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Alpha Foods’ computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Alpha Foods’ providers;

(d)                Attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of any Alpha Foods system or network or breach any security or authentication measures;

(e)                Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Alpha Foods or any of Alpha Foods’ providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Services;

(f)                 Attempt to access or search the Services or download content from the Services using any engine, software, tool, agent, device or mechanism (including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like) other than the software and/or search agents provided by Alpha Foods or other generally available third-party web browsers;

(g)                Send any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, email, junk mail, spam, chain letters or other form of solicitation;

(h)                Use any meta tags or other hidden text or metadata utilizing an Alpha Foods trademark, logo URL or product name without Alpha Foods’ express written consent;

(i)                  Use the Services, or any portion thereof, for any commercial purpose or for the benefit of any third party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms;

(j)                  Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;

(k)                Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services;

(l)                  Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Services;

(m)              Collect or store any personally identifiable information from the Services from other users of the Services without their express permission;

(n)                Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;

(o)                Violate any applicable law or regulation; or

(p)                Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.

Alpha Foods is not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Services or to review or edit any content. However, we have the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Services, to ensure compliance with these Terms and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove or disable access to any content, including User Content, at any time and without notice, including, but not limited to, if we, at our sole discretion, consider it objectionable or in violation of these Terms. We have the right to investigate violations of these Terms or conduct that affects the Services. We may also consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the law. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site and Alpha Foods bears no responsibility for your interactions with other users of the Site. Further, Alpha Foods is not party to any disputes between you and other users.

10.               DMCA/Copyright Policy. Alpha Foods respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. It is Alpha Foods’ policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances account holders who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, Alpha Foods will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Site that are reported to Alpha Foods’ Designated Copyright Agent, identified in the sample notice below.  If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement (“Notice”) and delivering it to Alpha Foods’ Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of the Notice as described below, Alpha Foods will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Site. You may submit your Notice to us by providing the following written information:

1.      Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or - if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice - you may provide a representative list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.

2.      Identify the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site where such material may be found.

3.      Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.

4.      Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:

“I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).”

“I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”

5.      Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.

Deliver this Notice, with all items completed, to Alpha Foods’ Designated Copyright Agent:

By Mail:

529 Hahn Ave

Glendale, CA

91203

By Email: info@eatalphafoods.com (with DMCA Notice in the subject line.)

Please Note: The preceding information is provided exclusively for notifying Alpha Foods about claims of copyright infringement committed using the Site. All other inquiries, such as product or service related questions and requests will not receive a response though this process.

11.               Links to Third Party Sites or Resources. The Services may allow you to access third-party sites or other resources. We provide access only as a convenience and are not responsible for the content, products or services on or available from those resources or links displayed on such sites. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from, your use of any third-party resources.

12.               Mobile Program.  In connection with the Services, you may sign up for a mobile messaging service (the “Messaging Service”). We do not charge for the Messaging Service, but you are responsible for all charges and fees associated with text messaging imposed by your wireless provider. Message and data rates may apply. Text messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system or other technology. Your consent to receive autodialed marketing text messages is not required as a condition of purchasing any goods or services. If you have opted in, the Messaging Service provides updates, alerts, information, promotions, specials, and other marketing offers (e.g., cart reminders) from Alpha Foods via text messages through your wireless provider to the mobile number you provided. Message frequency varies. Text the single keyword command STOP in response to the Messaging Service to cancel at any time. You'll receive a one-time opt-out confirmation text message. If you have subscribed to other Alpha Foods mobile message programs and wish to cancel, except where applicable law requires otherwise, you will need to opt out separately from those programs by following the instructions provided in their respective mobile terms.

We may change any short code or telephone number we use to operate the Messaging Service at any time and will notify you of these changes. You acknowledge that any messages, including any STOP or HELP requests, you send to a short code or telephone number we have changed may not be received and we will not be responsible for honoring requests made in such messages.

The wireless carriers supported by the Messaging Service are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You agree to provide us with a valid mobile number. You agree to maintain accurate, complete, and up-to-date information with us related to your receipt of messages. 

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us harmless from any third-party claims, liability, damages or costs arising from your use of the Messaging Service or from you providing us with a phone number that is not your own.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable for failed, delayed, or misdirected delivery of any information sent through the Messaging Service, any errors in such information, and/or any action you may or may not take in reliance on the information or Messaging Service.

13.               Ratings and Reviews. You may provide reviews for our Site and certain products or services offered therein via third party tools. You represent that your use of the review tool, and any submissions you make are honest, personally made by you, are for non-commercial purposes only, and do not infringe or violate any applicable third party rights, rules, laws, or regulations. We have no control over such reviews. Please note that although we do monitor reviews of our Site and/or our products or services, we do not endorse any such review, nor can we verify the accuracy or authenticity of any reviews.

14.               Termination. We may suspend or terminate your access to and use of the Services, including suspending access to or terminating your account, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you. You may cancel your account at any time by sending us an email at info@eatalphafoods.com. Upon any termination, discontinuation or cancellation of the Services or your account, the following Sections will survive: 6 (only for payments due and owing to Alpha Foods prior to the termination), 7(b), 7(c), 7(e), 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21.

15.               Warranty Disclaimers. THE SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. We make no warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, timeliness, truthfulness, completeness or reliability of any information or content on the Services.

16.               Indemnity. You will indemnify and hold Alpha Foods and its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Services, (b) your User Content, (c) your purchase or consumption of any Products, or (d) your violation of these Terms.

17.               Limitation of Liability.

(a)                TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER ALPHA FOODS NOR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUES, LOST SAVINGS, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF DATA OR GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES OR PURCHASE OR CONSUME THE PRODUCTS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ALPHA FOODS OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

(b)                TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, IN NO EVENT WILL ALPHA FOODS’ TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, OR PURCHASE OR CONSUMPTION OF THE PRODUCTS, EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID OR ARE PAYABLE BY YOU TO ALPHA FOODS FOR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100), IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD ANY PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS TO ALPHA FOODS, AS APPLICABLE.

(c)                 THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN ALPHA FOODS AND YOU.

18.               Governing Law and Forum Choice. These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, federal arbitration law, and the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in Section 20 “Dispute Resolution,” the exclusive jurisdiction for all Disputes (defined below) that you and Alpha Foods are not required to arbitrate will be the state and federal courts located in the County of New York, and you and Alpha Foods each waive any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts.

19.               Dispute Resolution.

(a)                Mandatory Arbitration of Disputes. We each agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or the use of the Services (collectively, “Disputes”) will be resolved solely by binding, individual arbitration and not in a class, representative or consolidated action or proceeding. You and Alpha Foods agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of these Terms, and that you and Alpha Foods are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action. This arbitration provision shall survive termination of these Terms.

(b)                Exceptions. As limited exceptions to Section 20(a) above: (i) we both may seek to resolve a Dispute in small claims court if it qualifies; and (ii) we each retain the right to seek injunctive or other equitable relief from a court to prevent (or enjoin) the infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights.

(c)                 Conducting Arbitration and Arbitration Rules. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified by these Terms. The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. A party who wishes to start arbitration must submit a written Demand for Arbitration to AAA and give notice to the other party as specified in the AAA Rules. The AAA provides a form Demand for Arbitration at www.adr.org.

Any arbitration hearings will take place in the county (or parish) where you live, unless we both agree to a different location. The parties agree that the arbitrator shall have exclusive authority to decide all issues relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability and scope of this arbitration agreement.

(d)                Arbitration Costs. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA Rules, and we won’t seek to recover the administration and arbitrator fees we are responsible for paying, unless the arbitrator finds your Dispute frivolous. If we prevail in arbitration we’ll pay all of our attorneys’ fees and costs and won’t seek to recover them from you. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses to the extent provided under applicable law.

(e)                Injunctive and Declaratory Relief. Except as provided in Section 20(b) above, the arbitrator shall determine all issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted by either party and may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim. To the extent that you or we prevail on a claim and seek public injunctive relief (that is, injunctive relief that has the primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the public), the entitlement to and extent of such relief must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration. The parties agree that litigation of any issues of public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of the merits of any individual claims in arbitration.

(f)                 Class Action Waiver. YOU AND ALPHA FOODS AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, if the parties’ dispute is resolved through arbitration, the arbitrator may not consolidate another person's claims with your claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this specific provision is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Dispute Resolution section shall be null and void.

(g)                Effect of Changes on Arbitration. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 “Changes to Terms or Services” above, if Alpha Foods changes any of the terms of this Section 20 “Dispute Resolution” after the date you most recently accepted these Terms, you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email to info@eatalphafoods.com) within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the “Last Updated” date above or in the date of Alpha Foods’ email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Alpha Foods in accordance with the terms of this Section 20 “Dispute Resolution” as of the date you most recently accepted these Terms.

(h)                Severability. With the exception of any of the provisions in Section 20(f) of these Terms ("Class Action Waiver"), if an arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction decides that any part of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the other parts of these Terms will still apply.

20.               General Terms.

(a)                Reservation of Rights. Alpha Foods and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Services, including all associated intellectual property rights. You acknowledge that the Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services.

(b)                Entire Agreement. These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Alpha Foods and you regarding the Services, and these Terms supersede and replace all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Alpha Foods and you regarding the Services. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable by an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without Alpha Foods’ prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null. Alpha Foods may freely assign or transfer these Terms without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

(c)                 Notices. Any notices or other communications provided by Alpha Foods under these Terms will be given: (i) via email; or (ii) by posting to the Services. For notices made by email, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.

(d)                Waiver of Rights. Alpha Foods’ failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of such right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Alpha Foods. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise.

21.               Contact Information. If you have any questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact Alpha Foods at info@eatalphafoods.com.