Ball Packaging Europe Disclaimer

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Privacy Statement

We take the protection of your private data very seriously. The personal data that is collected during a visit to our website is processed by us in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany. The personal details requested on this website are used for the sole purposes of personal assistance, sending publications, and other services from Ball Packaging Europe and its service providers who may have been entrusted with these tasks. Any other disclosure to third parties does not take place. The exception to this is the disclosure to authorities and government institutions due to judicial order or other legal order under compulsory national provisions of law. All information is voluntary, however, certain information may be necessary for a service to be fulfilled. In these cases, the information is identified accordingly.

We would like to emphasize that data transmitted over the Internet is currently in essence unprotected. The possibility that unauthorized persons may become aware of or even falsify the transmitted data cannot be ruled out. In connection with your access to our site, data which may allow for identification is temporarily stored on our server for purposes of data security. This data includes IP addresses, the date, the time, the pages viewed, the duration of your visit, the website from which you came to us, and technical details such as the browser used and the platform. This data is not analyzed, other than in anonymous form for statistical purposes. We are not in a position, and it is also not our intention, to retrieve personal data such as your e-mail address.

Copyright

© Copyright 2003 Ball Packaging Europe. All rights reserved. Text, images, graphics, sounds, animations and videos, as well as their arrangement on this website, are subject to copyright law and other laws for the protection of intellectual property. The content of this website may not be copied, distributed, changed or made available to third parties. The site may contain images which are subject to the copyright of third parties.

Forward-looking statements

The information in this website 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 aluminium; 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, authorisation 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 realisable 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 labour 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 which are protected for Ball Packaging Europe. This includes but is not limited to the trademarks Schmalbach-Lubeca, Continental Can Europe as well as all model name logos of the company or the product group.

Guarantee

The information on the Ball Packaging Europe website was compiled with the greatest possible care. Nonetheless, we cannot guarantee the correctness or accuracy of the information contained therein. There is no guarantee or responsibility of any type, for instance for the correctness, reliability, completeness and up-to-dateness of the information.

Ball Packaging Europe uses links to other websites on its own website. We accept no responsibility for the content of external websites among them to Ball Corporation that you can arrive at via hyperlinks from our Internet pages or that link to our website. These are external offers and information over which we have no influence as regards content. We are not responsible for external content.

If you become aware of illegal content on websites from other providers which can be reached from our website via hyperlinks, please report this to us so that we can delete the link to the corresponding site.

Choice of law

This disclaimer is governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Court of jurisdiction

The court of jurisdiction for legal disputes arising in connection with the use of our websites is Ratingen, Federal Republic of Germany.