Ball Packaging Europe Disclaimer

Thank you very much for your visit. Ball Packaging Europe appreciates your interest in our company and our products.

Privacy Statement

ball-europe.de (together with ball.com and ball-europe.com, jointly referred to in the following as ball-europe.de) is the website of Ball Packaging Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Kaiserswerther Strasse 115, D-40880 Ratingen, Germany, and Ball Packaging Europe GmbH (also referred to in the following as the Company).

The Company takes data protection very seriously and always takes care to ensure that personal data is collected and used in compliance with prevailing data protection law. By using ball-europe.de, you agree to the data protection terms and conditions set out in the following. If you do not agree with these terms or conditions, you must refrain from using the website.

The Company collects personal data for a number of different purposes when you use ball-europe.de and its sub-sites. In this Privacy Statement, ball-europe.de would like to explain what data is needed, and how you can benefit by providing additional data voluntarily.

General
You do are not required to register or log in order to use ball-europe.de.

When you use the ball-europe.de website, the Company's web server requests general technical information for operation of the website, including information on your hardware and software, the IP address of your computer, the web pages you have requested and the time and length of your visit. This data is not linked to your identity.

Collection and use of data
Personal data requested on this website is used solely for providing personal support, for mailing requested publications, and for the provision of other services by the Company or by any service providers it may make use of for the purpose. There is no further disclosure to third parties except in the event of disclosure by judicial order or statute law to public authorities or state institutions subject to binding national legal requirements. All information is provided voluntarily, although certain information items may be needed in order to provide a requested service. Such items are indicated accordingly. The following are collected for such purposes: User name, title, forename and surname, and email address.

Finally, you may provide the Company with additional data when you complete separate contact forms.

The Company analyzes user behavior on the ball-europe.de website in connection with ball-europe.de's aim of continuously improving the service provided. Such analysis is done anonymously without using personal data in such a way that users cannot be identified.

Use of personal data
ball-europe.de does not transfer, sell or let personal data collected from users to any third party. If you agree to be contacted, you will be actively informed about the Company's products and services. You may also be contacted on behalf of the Company by external trading partners in order to suggest products and services that may interest you.

The website is jointly operated by the Company, its subsidiaries, and additional cooperation partners. Joint operation of the website requires that these share the collected data.

Use of cookies
ball-europe.de uses 'cookies' to facilitate the use of the website and provide additional features. A cookie is a text file that a web server copies onto your hard disk. Cookies cannot run programs on your computer or spread computer viruses. A primary purpose of cookies is to help users navigate a website and facilitate user input. In some cases, cookies may be used to retrieve settings saved in past sessions, enabling web pages to be personalized. You can accept cookies or refuse them. Most web browsers accept cookies automatically. You can modify your browser's cookie settings according to your needs. If you refuse cookies, you may not be able to make full use of all interactive features on ball-europe.de. In particular, applications that depend on the use of cookies for technical reasons may not work or may require new cookies to be saved.

Technical security
The Company works to protect the privacy of all users and updates technical and organizational security measures on an ongoing basis to protect the data entrusted to it. These measures help prevent unauthorized access, unlawful deletion and manipulation, and accidental loss of data.

Control of your personal data
You can cancel your permission for ball-europe.de to save your personal data at any time by letter mail or by email. You can also cancel your permission for ball-europe.de to collect and save additional data provided voluntarily. The postal address is as follows:

Company headquarters:
Ball Packaging Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Kaiserswerther Strasse 115
40880 Ratingen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 2102-130-0
Fax: +49 (0) 2102-130-130

Alternatively you can contact the Company by email at sylvia.bloemker@ball.com

The Company may no longer be able to provide certain services if you cancel your permission for ball-europe.de to save and process user data.

Right to information
The Company will be pleased to state free of charge on request what, if any, personal data relating to your own person or your pseudonym are stored. Incorrect data are corrected by the Company once known.

Amendment of this data privacy statement
The provider reserves the right to revise/amend the terms and conditions of use and the data privacy statement from time to time at its own discretion. Regularly checking of the provider's site for updates to the terms and conditions of use including this data privacy statement, which take effect immediately when posted, is the responsibility of the user. By continuing to use the site, you accordingly agree to be bound by the revised/amended terms and conditions of use and/or the revised/amended data privacy statement.

Contact
Please send all requests and questions on the collection of user data to:

Ball Packaging Europe Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Kaiserswerther Strasse 115
40880 Ratingen
Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 2102-130-0
Fax: +49 (0) 2102-130-130
Email: sylvia.bloemker@ball.com

Amtsgericht Düsseldorf - HRB 42541 - Registered Office in Ratingen
Managing Directors: Gerrit Heske, Frank Weekers
Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Hanno C. Fiedler
http://www.ball-europe.com

Copyright
© Copyright 2001 Ball Packaging Europe. All rights reserved. Text, images, graphics, sounds, animations and videos and their arrangement on this website are subject to copyright and other laws protecting intellectual property. The content of this website may not be copied, distributed, modified or made available to third parties. This website may contain pictures subject to third-party copyright.

Forward-looking statements
The information in this news release contains "forward-looking" statements. Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those expressed or implied. As time passes, the relevance and accuracy of forward-looking statements contained in this release may change. The company currently does not intend to update any particular forward-looking statement except as it deems necessary at quarterly or annual release of earnings. Please refer to the Form 10-Q filed by Ball Corporation on November 10, 2003, for a summary of key risk factors that could affect actual results or outcomes. Factors that might affect the packaging segments of the company are: fluctuation in consumer and customer demand; competitive packaging material availability, pricing and substitution; the weather; fruit, vegetable and fishing yields; company and industry productive capacity and competitive activity; lack of productivity improvement or production cost reductions; regulatory action or laws, including the German mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws and environmental and workplace safety regulations; availability and cost of raw materials, energy and transportation; the ability or inability to pass on to customers changes in these costs, particularly resin, steel and aluminum; pricing and ability or inability to sell scrap; international business risks (including foreign exchange rates and tax rates) particularly in the United States, Europe and in developing countries such as China and Brazil; and the effect of LIFO accounting on earnings. Factors that may affect the aerospace segment are: funding, authorization and availability of government contracts and the nature and continuation of those contracts; and technical uncertainty associated with aerospace segment contracts. Factors that could affect the company as a whole include those listed plus: successful and unsuccessful acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures and the integration activities associated therewith including the integration and operation of the business of Schmalbach-Lubeca AG, now known as Ball Packaging Europe; the inability to purchase the company's common stock; insufficient or reduced cash flow; regulatory action or laws including those related to corporate governance and financial reporting, regulations and standards; actual and estimated business consolidation and investment costs and the net realizable value of assets associated with these activities; goodwill impairment; changes in generally accepted accounting principles or their interpretation; litigation; antitrust, intellectual property, consumer and other issues; strikes; boycotts; increases in various employee benefits and labor costs, specifically pension, medical and health care costs incurred in the countries in which Ball has operations; rates of return projected and earned on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement plans; interest rates and level of company debt, including floating rate debt; terrorist activities, war or catastrophic events that disrupt or impact production, supply or pricing of the company's goods and services, including raw materials and energy costs, or disrupt or impact the credit and financing of the company's businesses; and U.S. and foreign economic conditions.

Trademarks
The website contains brands and trademarks that are protected on behalf of Ball Packaging Europe. This includes Schmalbach-Lubeca, Continental Can Europe, all model names and logos of the Company or product group.

Warranty
The information on Ball Packaging Europe website has been compiled with the utmost care. We are nonetheless unable to guarantee that the information contained is free of errors or inaccuracies. We give no warranty and accept no liability of any kind, including with regard to accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of the information contained.

Links
The Ball Packaging Europe website contains links to other websites. We accept no liability for the content of other websites that you may access by following a hyperlink from our website or that link to our website. Such other sites comprise third-party websites and information whose content is beyond our control. We are not responsible for third-party content.

If you gain knowledge of unlawful content on third-party websites that you are able to access by following a hyperlink from our website, please notify us so that we can remove the link to the site concerned.

Applicable law
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply.

Place of jurisdiction
The place of jurisdiction for any legal dispute arising in connection with the use of our website is Ratingen, Federal Republic of Germany.