Rules, disclaimers, and liability limits

These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of Caffe Atlas, including the website, listings, maps, city guides, editorial content, account features, and related services made available through the platform.

By accessing or using the website, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the website.

Caffe Atlas is an informational and discovery platform. Cafe details, rankings, hours, menus, images, prices, amenities, routes, map positions, editorial opinions, and local recommendations may change, become outdated, contain errors, or become unavailable without notice.

Content on the website is provided for general information only. It is not legal, financial, medical, travel, safety, professional, or business advice, and it should not be relied upon as a guaranteed statement of fact or current availability.

You may use the website only if you can form a binding agreement under applicable law and your use is not prohibited in your jurisdiction. If you create an account, you are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide and for all activity under your account.

You must keep your login credentials confidential and notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access or misuse. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts that create risk, violate these Terms, or interfere with the platform.

Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the website for personal, lawful, non-commercial use unless we expressly agree otherwise in writing.

No ownership rights are transferred to you. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

You may not copy, scrape, frame, republish, reverse engineer, decompile, mirror, distribute, resell, exploit, or systematically extract content or data from the website except as expressly permitted by law or by our prior written permission.

You may not use the website to violate any law, infringe rights, harass others, submit false or misleading material, interfere with security, introduce malicious code, overload infrastructure, circumvent access controls, automate abusive traffic, or attempt to access data or systems you are not authorized to access.

Automated collection of our database is expressly prohibited. This includes crawling, scraping, spidering, harvesting, or mining the website; bulk downloading of café listings, city guides, editorial articles, rankings, map data, or images; and any extraction of platform data through scripts, headless browsers, third-party scraping services, or commercial data providers.

You may not defeat, bypass, or exhaust the technical measures that enforce this prohibition. That covers our robots.txt directives, the crawler allowlist, request rate limits, bot challenges, and any IP, user-agent, or account based access control. Requests that exceed the published rate limit, attempts to obtain a successful response while posing as a permitted crawler, and resuming a blocked crawl through rotating proxies are each a breach of these Terms.

The prohibition does not apply to the crawlers we have deliberately permitted in the policy published at /robots.txt, which covers the major search engines and answer or citation crawlers so that our pages can be indexed and cited. Any access outside that published policy requires our prior written permission, which may be requested through the contact address below.

We monitor automated traffic and may block it at the network edge, return rate-limited responses, or challenge requests that exceed our limits. Where the law permits, we may also pursue available remedies, including injunctive relief and recovery of the cost of technical countermeasures, for scraping that breaches these Terms.

References to cafes, bars, products, neighborhoods, cities, businesses, and destinations are provided for discovery and editorial purposes only. Inclusion on the website does not create a partnership, endorsement, warranty, agency relationship, or guarantee of quality, legality, ownership, safety, service level, or continued operation.

The website may link to third-party websites, booking tools, menus, social profiles, map providers, advertisers, and embedded services. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, policies, products, availability, transactions, or damages arising from your dealings with third parties.

The website, including its design, layout, text, graphics, branding, compilations, code, and original editorial materials, is owned by Caffe Atlas or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property and unfair competition laws.

Third-party trademarks, names, logos, images, and other materials remain the property of their respective owners. Their appearance on the website does not imply affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement unless expressly stated.

If you send us corrections, messages, feedback, suggestions, submissions, images, reviews, or other materials, you represent that you have the right to provide them and that they do not violate any law or third-party rights.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publish, display, and use those submissions for operating, improving, promoting, defending, or documenting the website. We may remove or refuse submissions at our discretion.

We may modify, suspend, limit, or discontinue any part of the website at any time, with or without notice. We are not liable for unavailable pages, broken links, removed features, changed rankings, deleted content, map issues, interrupted access, or discontinued services.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. The updated version is effective when posted unless a later effective date is stated. Continued use of the website after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

The website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, representations, and conditions, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and uninterrupted availability.

We do not warrant that the website will be secure, error-free, complete, current, accurate, uninterrupted, or free of viruses or harmful components, or that defects will be corrected.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Caffe Atlas and its owners, operators, affiliates, contractors, service providers, licensors, and representatives will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, punitive, or lost-profit damages, or for loss of data, goodwill, business opportunity, anticipated savings, or reputation, arising out of or related to the website or these Terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the website or these Terms will not exceed the greater of one hundred euros (EUR 100) or the amount you paid us, if any, for use of the specific service giving rise to the claim during the twelve months before the event giving rise to liability.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Caffe Atlas and its owners, operators, affiliates, contractors, service providers, licensors, and representatives from and against claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or related to your use of the website, your submissions, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

If you breach these Terms or we reasonably believe your conduct creates legal, security, or reputational risk, we may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate, including warnings, content removal, access restrictions, account suspension, or legal action.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Questions, legal notices, and content-related requests may be sent to hello [at] aviani [dot] org.