These Terms of Service (the “terms”) govern your use of Homirecipes at homirecipes.com (the “site”). Please read them carefully together with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Disclaimer and Acceptable Use Policy, which form part of these terms.
Summary
- The site is free to read. You may use our recipes and patterns for personal, non-commercial use.
- Please don’t copy and republish our recipes, patterns, photos or articles without permission. Sharing links and using the Pinterest “Save” button is welcome.
- Comments must follow our Acceptable Use Policy. You remain responsible for what you post.
- Our content is general information, provided “as is”. Cooking and crafting involve risks, so please read the Disclaimer.
Agreement to these terms
By accessing or using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the site. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the operator of Homirecipes identified in the Contact section, and “you” refers to anyone who uses the site.
About Homirecipes
Homirecipes publishes recipes, cooking ideas, crochet patterns and craft tutorials for free, and is funded by advertising. Visitors do not need an account to use the site. We may add, change or remove content and features, or stop operating the site, at any time.
Who may use the site
The site is intended for a general adult audience. If you are under the age of majority where you live, please use the site with the involvement of a parent or guardian, especially when cooking or using tools. You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the EEA and the UK) to post a comment.
Using our content
Subject to these terms, you may:
- read the site and print or save a copy of a recipe or pattern for your own personal, non-commercial use;
- make the recipes and the items in our patterns for yourself, your family and friends;
- share links to our pages, and save our images to Pinterest with the “Save” button, which links back to the original page; and
- quote short extracts with a credit and a link to the original page, where the law allows it.
Unless you have our prior written permission, you may not:
- republish, sell or distribute our recipes, patterns, photos, charts or articles, in full or in substantial part, on another website, in print, in an app, on social media or in any other format;
- remove credits, watermarks or copyright notices from our content;
- present our content as your own or suggest that we endorse you or your products; or
- copy content in bulk or by automated means, as described in our Acceptable Use Policy.
If you would like to use our content in another way, for example for commercial use of a pattern, please ask us first using the details in the Contact section.
Intellectual property
The site and its content, including text, recipes and pattern instructions as written, photographs, charts, graphics and the Homirecipes name, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Except for the limited permissions in Using our content, no rights are granted to you. Trademarks of other companies that appear on the site belong to their owners.
Comments and other contributions
- You keep ownership of the comments you post. By submitting a comment, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display and distribute it on the site and in related feeds, and to make formatting changes. This license lasts for as long as your comment remains on the site.
- You are responsible for your comments. You confirm that you have the right to post them and that they follow our Acceptable Use Policy.
- Comments may be held for moderation before they appear. We may refuse, edit for length or formatting, or remove any comment, and we are not obliged to publish or keep any comment.
- Comments express the views of their authors, not ours. We do not check the accuracy of tips or advice shared in comments.
- How we handle the personal information in comments is explained in our Privacy Policy.
Copyright complaints
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that content on the site infringes your copyright, please email us using the details in the Contact section and include:
- a description of the work you believe has been infringed;
- the address (URL) of the page where the material appears;
- your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
- a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law;
- a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner, or are authorized to act for the owner; and
- your physical or electronic signature.
We will review valid notices and may remove or disable access to the material. If we remove a comment you posted because of a complaint, you may contact us if you believe this was a mistake.
Advertising and third-party content
The site displays advertising served by Google AdSense and its partners, including links and units that Google generates automatically. We do not choose, endorse or guarantee the advertisers, products or services shown. Any dealings you have with an advertiser, including purchases, are solely between you and that advertiser. Please don’t click on ads unless you are interested in them.
The site also includes links to other websites and features provided by other companies, such as Pinterest and Gravatar. Those websites and features are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them.
Disclaimers
Our content is provided for general information and inspiration. It is not professional advice. Results depend on ingredients, equipment, materials, technique and other factors that we do not control. Please read our Disclaimer, which forms part of these terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. These include warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the site or its content. This includes any outcome of preparing a recipe or making an item from a pattern.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, liability for fraud, and your statutory rights as a consumer. If you live in a country whose laws do not allow some of the limitations above, those limitations apply only to the extent permitted there.
Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable costs (including legal fees) that result from comments you post or from your breach of these terms.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain how we and our partners collect and use personal information, including for advertising, and the choices available to you.
Suspension and termination
We may restrict or end your access to the site or its features, including your ability to comment, if we reasonably believe that you have broken these terms or the law, or that doing so is necessary to protect the site, its users or others. The sections of these terms that by their nature should continue to apply (such as intellectual property, disclaimers and limitation of liability) will continue to apply.
Changes to the site and to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. Changes apply from that date. If you continue to use the site after a change, you accept the updated terms. If a change is significant, we will make reasonable efforts to highlight it on the site.
Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of [TO COMPLETE: country or state whose law governs these terms], excluding its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be subject to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of that country or state.
If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of the country where you live. You may also be able to bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Before starting any legal proceedings, please contact us so we can try to resolve the issue informally.
General terms
- If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest will remain in effect.
- If we do not enforce a right under these terms, we have not waived it.
- These terms, together with the policies they refer to, are the entire agreement between you and us about your use of the site.
- We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms, for example if the site is sold. You may not transfer your rights without our consent.
- Headings are for convenience only.
Contact
Homirecipes is operated by:
- Website: Homirecipes (homirecipes.com)
- Operated by: [TO COMPLETE: full legal name of the person or company that runs Homirecipes]
- Postal address: [TO COMPLETE: postal address]
- Email for privacy and legal requests: [TO COMPLETE: contact email address]
