Acceptable Use Policy

Last updated: October 16, 2026

This Acceptable Use Policy explains what is and isn’t allowed when you use Homirecipes, including when you post comments. It forms part of our Terms of Service.

Scope

This policy applies to everyone who visits or uses homirecipes.com, and to everything you submit to the site, such as comments, pingbacks and trackbacks.

Commenting guidelines

We welcome questions, tips and honest feedback about our recipes and patterns. Please:

• keep comments relevant to the post and respectful toward others;
• share your own experience and be clear when you change a recipe or pattern;
• use a name you are comfortable having published. Never include sensitive personal information about yourself or anyone else; and
• remember that comments are public and may be indexed by search engines.

Prohibited content

You must not post or link to content that:

• is illegal, or promotes or facilitates illegal activity;
• infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark or other rights, for example by copying another creator’s pattern, recipe text or photos without permission;
• is spam or advertising, including unsolicited promotions, link-dropping, search-engine manipulation, affiliate links, and promotions for gambling, betting, streaming services, cryptocurrency or similar offers;
• is generated in bulk or by automated tools to post repetitive or unrelated messages;
• harasses, threatens, bullies or intimidates anyone;
• promotes hatred or violence, or attacks people because of characteristics such as race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation;
• is sexually explicit, or sexualizes minors in any way;
• shares someone else’s personal information (such as their address, phone number or email address) without their permission;
• impersonates another person or organization, or misrepresents your connection to them;
• contains malware, phishing links or other harmful code, or links to websites that do; or
• gives dangerous advice, such as unsafe food-safety or preserving practices, or is designed to deceive or defraud others.

Prohibited conduct

When using the site, you must not:

• try to gain unauthorized access to the site, its administration area, servers or accounts, or probe, scan or test the site’s vulnerabilities;
• interfere with or disrupt the site, for example by overloading it, sending excessive automated requests or attempting to bypass its security protections;
• use bots, scrapers or other automated means to copy content in bulk, including to build datasets or to train artificial intelligence models, without our written permission. Search engines that follow our robots.txt file are allowed;
• frame the site or republish its content in a way that suggests it belongs to you or someone else; or
• use our content in breach of the Terms of Service.

Advertising integrity

The ads on Homirecipes are served by Google, which actively detects invalid traffic. To protect advertisers and the site, you must not:

• click on ads, or repeatedly view pages, to generate revenue or other artificial activity;
• use bots, scripts, click farms or any other automated or deceptive means to view or click ads; or
• encourage, pay or ask anyone else to click on ads or to generate artificial impressions.

Please click on an ad only if you are genuinely interested in what it offers. You may use ad blockers and the privacy choices described in our Privacy Policy.

How we moderate

• A first comment from a new commenter is held for review before it appears. Comments from people with a previously approved comment may appear straight away.
• We may approve, decline, delete or mark as spam any comment, pingback or trackback that breaks this policy or that we reasonably consider inappropriate for the site. We may also remove links or personal information from comments.
• Comments are reviewed by a person. We may also use the comment moderation tools built into WordPress.
• We are not obliged to monitor all content, and the presence of a comment does not mean we agree with it.

Reporting illegal or abusive content

If you see content on the site that you believe is illegal or breaks this policy, email us using the details in the Contact section. Please include:

• the address (URL) of the page and enough detail to identify the content;
• why you believe it is illegal or breaks this policy;
• your name and email address, so we can reply. You may leave these out if you are reporting child sexual abuse material; and
• a statement that the information in your report is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge.

We will review reports promptly and act on them where appropriate. Where we can, we will let you know what we decided. If we remove or restrict your content and we have your email address, we will normally tell you why, unless the law prevents us or it would put others at risk. You can reply to ask us to reconsider. For copyright complaints, please follow the process in our Terms of Service.

Consequences of breaking this policy

If you break this policy, we may remove your content, stop publishing your comments, block your access to the site or parts of it, and, where appropriate, report illegal activity to the relevant authorities.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date it was last updated.

Contact

Reports and questions about this policy can be sent to:

• 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]

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