Terms & Conditions

Acceptance of terms

By accessing or using [PLACEHOLDER: mediterraneancuisines.com] (the "Site"), you agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

Use of the site

You may use the Site for personal, non-commercial purposes — reading recipes, browsing content, subscribing to the newsletter, and contacting us. You may print or save recipes for your own personal, non-commercial use.

You must be of legal age in your jurisdiction to use the Site and to provide any personal information (such as your email). If you are not, please do not use the Site or provide personal information.

Intellectual property

All content on the Site — including original recipes, photography, writing, the logo, and design — is owned by or licensed to [PLACEHOLDER: legal entity or individual name] and is protected by applicable copyright and other laws.

You may not reproduce, republish, redistribute, or commercially exploit content from the Site without prior written permission, except for brief quotations with attribution and a link back to the source page. Recipe instructions and lists of ingredients have specific legal treatment in some jurisdictions (e.g., U.S. copyright does not protect mere lists of ingredients); however, the photographs, headnotes, stories, and other original expression on the Site are protected.

If you'd like to republish or license content, contact us.

User content & comments

If the Site allows comments or other user submissions, by submitting content you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, and display that content on the Site for the purpose of operating it. You retain ownership of your content.

You agree not to submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, infringing, misleading, spam, abusive, or otherwise objectionable. We may edit or remove user content at our discretion and without notice.

Prohibited uses

You agree not to:

• Use the Site in any way that breaches applicable law or regulation.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, its systems, or data.
• Interfere with or disrupt the Site or its servers (including scraping at scale, denial-of-service, or introducing malware).
• Use automated means to extract content in bulk without written permission.
• Submit misleading, infringing, abusive, or spam content.
• Use the Site to advertise or promote goods/services without prior written agreement.

Third-party links & ads

The Site contains links to external websites and displays third-party advertisements (including Google AdSense). We do not control and are not responsible for the content, products, services, or practices of third-party sites or advertisers. Your interactions with third-party sites and advertisers are solely between you and them. See our Disclaimer and Privacy Policy.

Disclaimers

The Site and its content are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components. Recipe instructions, nutrition information, and health-related content are not medical advice — see our Disclaimer.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, [PLACEHOLDER: legal entity or individual name] and its contributors will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Site or its content, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Governing law

These Terms & Conditions are governed by the laws of [PLACEHOLDER: jurisdiction], without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of [PLACEHOLDER: jurisdiction] for any disputes arising from these terms, except where local mandatory consumer-protection law gives you the right to a different forum.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms & Conditions from time to time. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date at the top. Continued use of the Site after a change means you accept the updated terms.