Introduction

Welcome to TasteAtlas! These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations of use of our website.

By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website. Should you register with our website, submit any material to our website, or use any of our website services, we will explicitly ask you to agree to these terms and conditions. You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website. By using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

We employ the use of cookies. By using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy and Cookies Policy (link).

Copyright notice

Unless otherwise stated, TasteAtlas and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on this website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You are granted limited license only for purposes of viewing the material contained on this website and only for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

TasteAtlas does not hold the copyright ownership on all content whose authors are referenced/mentioned; such content belongs exclusively to the respective authors. The content in question includes, but is not limited to, all reviews of dishes and restaurants, images of dishes and restaurants, as well as all recipes that don't mention an author or a source.

License to use website

By using our website, you are allowed to:

• (1) view pages from our website in a web browser;
• (2) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
• (3) print pages from our website;
• (4) stream audio and video files from our website;
• (5) use our website services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

Acceptable use

You are not allowed to:

• (1) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
• (2) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
• (3) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other maliciouscomputer software;
• (4) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
• (5) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means without our express written consent;.

Registration and accounts

To be eligible for an account on our website, you must 18 years of age. You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that will be sent to you. You are not allowed to use any other person's account to access the website without that person's express permission to do so. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account or if you believe that your account might be in any way compromised.

By registering for an account with our website, you will be asked to choose a username and password. Your username must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out under the section “Your content: rules”. You are not allowed to use your account or your username for or in connection with the impersonation of any person. You must keep your password confidential.

You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

Cancellation and suspension of account

We may suspend your account, cancel your account, and/or edit your account details at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation. You may also cancel your account on our website by accessing your account settings on the website.

Your content: license

In these terms and conditions, "your content" means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or through our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, sub-license, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. You warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

Your content: rules

You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person, in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law.

Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

• (1) be libelous or maliciously false;
• (2) be obscene or indecent;
• (3) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
• (4) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
• (5) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
• (6) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity
• (7) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
• (8) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
• (9) be blasphemous;
• (10) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
• (11) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
• (12) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
• (13) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
• (14) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
• (15) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
• (16) constitute spam;
• (17) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory;

Limited warranties

We do not warrant or represent:

• (1) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
• (2) that the material on the website is up to date; or
• (3) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website, and the use of our website.

Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

• (1) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
• (2) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• (3) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law;
• (4) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

• (1) are subject to the previous statements;
• (2) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control. We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

• (1) send you one or more formal warnings;
• (2) temporarily suspend your access to our website;
• (3) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
• (4) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
• (5) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;
• (6) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or
• (7) suspend or delete your account on our website.

Should we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you are not allowed to take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

Variation

We may periodically revise these terms and conditions. We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website. If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions. If you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

Assignment

You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Third party rights

A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

Entire agreement

Subject to the section “Limitations and exclusions of liability”, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy and cookies policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

last modified: November 2017