Tastevella publishes recipes, cooking guides, and food and drink content for home cooks. This page sets out the rules that apply when you visit the site, what you’re free to do with what you find here, and where responsibility begins and ends on both sides. It’s written to be read rather than skimmed past, and it applies to every visitor.
Agreeing to These Terms
By accessing or using Tastevella, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and by all applicable laws in your own country and locality. If you don’t agree with any part of what follows, please stop using the site. Continued use of Tastevella is treated as acceptance of these terms as they stand at the time of your visit.
What Tastevella Is
Tastevella is a food and drink website offering recipes, cooking guides, technique explanations, and related written and visual content. It is an information resource for home cooks. It does not sell food, prepare meals, or provide any service beyond publishing content on this website.
Who May Use This Site
Tastevella is intended for visitors aged 18 and over. Visitors aged 13 to 17 may use the site with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. The site is not directed at children under 13, and anyone under that age should not use Tastevella or submit any information through it.
Cooking involves heat, sharp tools, and equipment that can cause injury. Younger readers should always have adult supervision when following any recipe published here.
What You May Do With the Content
Tastevella grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view and access the materials on this site for your own personal, non-commercial use. You’re welcome to cook from the recipes, print a page for your own kitchen, and share a link with a friend.
This license is permission to view, not a transfer of ownership. It ends automatically if you breach any of the restrictions below, and Tastevella may end it at any time.
What You May Not Do
Under this license, you may not:
- Modify, adapt, or copy the materials published on Tastevella
- Use any material from Tastevella for commercial purposes or public display
- Republish recipes, text, images, or guides on another website, in print, or on social media as your own
- Attempt to decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software used on the site
- Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice
- Transfer the materials to another person or mirror them on any other server
- Scrape, harvest, or extract content using automated tools, bots, crawlers, or data collection scripts
- Frame or embed Tastevella within another website without written permission
Adapting a recipe for your own kitchen is expected and welcome. Republishing it is not.
How Visitors Are Expected to Behave
When commenting or otherwise interacting on Tastevella, you agree not to:
- Harass, threaten, insult, or abuse other visitors or the site’s author
- Post content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or invasive of another person’s privacy
- Post spam, unsolicited commercial messages, or promotional links unrelated to the discussion
- Upload anything containing viruses, malicious code, or corrupted data
- Interfere with or disrupt the site, its servers, or its security features
- Use Tastevella to violate any law or regulation that applies to you
- Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone
Comments and Anything You Submit
If you leave a comment, submit a photo of something you cooked, or send in any other material, you grant Tastevella a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, display, and distribute that content in connection with the site and its promotion. You keep ownership of what you submit.
By submitting, you confirm that the content is yours to share and that it doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights. Tastevella may moderate, edit, or remove any comment or submission at its discretion, including anything off-topic, promotional, or in breach of the conduct rules above, and is under no obligation to publish or retain anything submitted.
Ownership of the Content Here
All content published on Tastevella, including recipes as written, articles, guides, photographs, graphics, logos, page design, and any software used to run the site, is the property of Tastevella or its licensors and is protected by copyright and trademark law.
Reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of any of it without express written consent is prohibited. Where third-party material appears on the site, it is used under license, in the public domain, or as permitted by law, and remains the property of its respective owner.
Links to Other Websites
Tastevella links to external sites, whether for a source, a tool, a technique, or a place to buy an ingredient. Those sites are not controlled or reviewed by Tastevella, and a link is not an endorsement of their content, products, or practices.
Tastevella accepts no responsibility for the content, accuracy, or availability of any linked site. Visiting them is at your own risk, and their own terms and privacy policies apply once you leave this site.
Affiliate Links and Commercial Arrangements
Tastevella participates in affiliate programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, and may earn a commission when you buy something through a link on the site.
This never costs you anything extra. Sponsored content may also appear from time to time and is disclosed clearly wherever it does. A fuller explanation is published on the site’s separate Affiliate Disclosure page.
Your Privacy
Your use of Tastevella is also governed by the site’s Privacy Policy, which explains what information is collected, how it’s used, and what rights you have over it. The Privacy Policy is available on this site and forms part of these Terms by reference.
Content Provided As Is
All materials on Tastevella are provided “as is”. Tastevella makes no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property.
No representation is made that the content is accurate, complete, current, reliable, or free of error, or that the site will be available without interruption.
General Information Only
Recipes, guides, and other content on Tastevella are published for general informational purposes. Results vary depending on your equipment, your ingredients, your altitude, and your own technique, and no particular outcome is promised.
You are responsible for your own safety in the kitchen, for handling food properly, and for checking ingredients against any allergy or dietary requirement that applies to you or the people you cook for. Anything touching on nutrition or diet is general information, not professional advice, and should not replace guidance from a qualified professional.
Scope of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Tastevella, its owner, and its contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising out of the use of, or the inability to use, this site or anything on it. This applies even if Tastevella has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
Your Responsibility to Us
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Tastevella, its owner, and its affiliates from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the site, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any third-party right.
Errors and Changes to Content
The materials on Tastevella may contain technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Tastevella does not warrant that any of its content is accurate, complete, or current, and may change any material at any time without notice. There is no obligation to update anything published here, though the site does review and revise content as a matter of practice.
Ending Access
Tastevella may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the site at any time, without notice, for any reason, including breach of these Terms. When access ends, your permission to use the site and its materials ends immediately.
Events Beyond Control
Tastevella is not liable for any failure or delay in operating the site caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labour disputes, power failures, internet or hosting outages, and government action.
Changes to These Terms
Tastevella may revise these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice. The version published on this page is the one in force. Continued use of Tastevella after a revision means you accept the revised Terms, so it’s worth checking this page occasionally.
Applicable Law
Any claim relating to Tastevella or these Terms is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the website owner is established, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located there for the resolution of any dispute.
If Part of This Is Unenforceable
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision is severed and the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.
The Whole Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other notices published on Tastevella, make up the entire agreement between you and Tastevella regarding your use of the site, and supersede any earlier understanding or agreement on the subject.
Questions
For any question about these Terms and Conditions, email contact@tastevella.com.
