Terms and Conditions

Introduction

Welcome to CaffeAtlas! These terms and conditions explain the rules for using our website.

By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions completely. If you disagree with any part, please do not use our website. If you register, submit material, or use our services, we will ask you to agree to these terms again. You must be at least 18 years old to use our website. By using our website or agreeing to these terms, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.

We use cookies on our website. By using our website or agreeing to these terms, you consent to our use of cookies according to our Privacy and Cookies Policy.

Copyright Notice

Unless stated otherwise, CaffeAtlas and/or its licensors own the rights to all material on this website. All rights are reserved. You are given a limited license to view the material on this website for your personal use, following the rules in these terms and conditions.

CaffeAtlas does not own the copyright for content created by other authors. This content belongs to the respective authors and includes, but is not limited to:

  • Reviews of dishes and restaurants
  • Images of dishes and restaurants
  • Recipes that do not mention an author or source

License to use website

By using our website, you can:

  • View pages from our website in a web browser.
  • Download pages from our website for offline viewing.
  • Print pages from our website.
  • Stream audio and video files from our website.
  • Use our website services through a web browser, as long as you follow these terms and conditions.

Prohibited Actions

  • Causing harm or damage to our website.
  • Using our site for unlawful activities.
  • Engaging in automated data collection without permission.

Cancellation and suspension of account

We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these terms. You may also cancel your account anytime through account settings.

Your Content: License

In these terms and conditions, "your content" refers to all works and materials you submit to us through our website. This includes text, graphics, images, audio, video, scripts, software, and files. By submitting your content, you give 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 allow us the right to take action if your rights are infringed. You give up all your moral rights in your content as much as the law allows. You confirm that all other moral rights in your content have also been waived as much as the law allows.

You can edit your content using the editing features available on our website. However, if you break any of these terms or if we reasonably think you have, we may delete, unpublish, or edit any or all of your content.

Your content: rules

Your content, and how we use your content according to these terms, must not:

  • Be libelous or maliciously false;
  • Be obscene or indecent;
  • Infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, or any other intellectual property right;
  • Infringe any rights of confidence, privacy rights, or rights under data protection laws;
  • Constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statements;
  • Encourage criminal activity or provide instructions to commit a crime;
  • Disrespect any court or violate a court order;
  • Violate laws against racial or religious hatred or discrimination;
  • Be blasphemous;
  • Violate official secrets laws;
  • Break any contracts owed to any person;
  • Show violence in an explicit, graphic, or gratuitous way;
  • Be pornographic, lewd, suggestive, or sexually explicit;
  • Be untrue, false, inaccurate, or misleading;
  • Contain any advice or instructions that could cause illness, injury, or death, or any other damage;
  • Be considered spam;
  • Be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, antisocial, menacing, hateful, discriminatory, or inflammatory.

Limited Warranties

We do not guarantee or represent:

  • The completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;
  • That the material on the website is current;
  • That the website or any services on the website will always be available.

We reserve the right to change or stop any or all of our website services and to stop publishing our website at any time, without notice or explanation. Unless otherwise stated in these terms, you will not be entitled to any compensation or payment if we discontinue or change any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, we exclude all representations and warranties related to these terms, our website, and your use of our website.

Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

  • Limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
  • Limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • Limit any liabilities in any way that is not allowed under applicable law.
  • Exclude any liabilities that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

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

  • Are subject to the previous statements;
  • Cover all liabilities that arise under these terms or relate to the subject matter of these terms, including liabilities arising from contracts, torts (including negligence), and breaches of statutory duty, unless stated otherwise.

Since our website and its information and services are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any losses or damages of any kind.

We are not responsible for losses from events beyond our reasonable control. We also will not be liable for any business losses, including but not limited to:

  • Loss of profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, contracts, commercial opportunities, or goodwill.
  • Loss or corruption of data, databases, or software.
  • Special, indirect, or consequential losses or damages.

You acknowledge that we aim to limit the personal liability of our officers and employees. Thus, you agree not to bring any personal claims against them for losses connected with the website or these terms. This does not limit the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the actions 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 or if we reasonably suspect that you have done so, we may take the following actions:

  • Send you one or more formal warnings;
  • Temporarily suspend your access to our website;
  • Permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
  • Block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;
  • Contact any or all of your internet service providers to request that they block your access to our website;
  • Commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise;
  • Suspend or delete your account on our website.

If we suspend, prohibit, or block your access to our website or any part of it, you are not allowed to take any action to circumvent such suspension, prohibition, or blocking, including creating or using a different account.

Variation

We may update these terms, and changes will apply once posted. If you disagree with the changes, please 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 updated: October 2024