Terms and Conditions

The information contained on CookingTF.com and its forum is meant for educational and informational purposes only. Statements on this website have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products and/or information are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent any disease. Readers are advised to do their own research in partnership with your chosen health care provider. If you are pregnant, nursing, have a medical condition or are taking any medication, please consult your physician. Nothing you read here should be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis or courses of treatment.

Limitation of Liability

Your use of and browsing in the Cooking Traditional Foods web sites, subscription email messages and forum is at your own risk. Cooking Traditional Foods, its employees, or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the web sites, forum and membership email messages are not liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or inability to access or use the Cooking Traditional Foods  web site and email messages. We also assume no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to your computer, or viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other codes that may infect your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Cooking Traditional Foods websites or forum or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, from the web sites, forum and membership email messages.

In no event shall the owners and/or administrators of Cooking Traditional Foods, its suppliers, or any third parties mentioned be liable for any damages or injuries however caused, occurring during or after altering any nutritional or lifestyle program.  This site and its owner(s) does not assume any responsibility for any aspect of health care administered with the aid of content available on the site. User understands all advice concerning lifestyle and nutrition are for educational purposes only. User understands content contained on this site is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Blog Comments and Forum Postings

You are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in the Public Areas.  Cooking Traditional Foods is not responsible for the consequences of any communications in the Public Areas. In consideration of being allowed to use the Public Areas, you agree that the following actions shall constitute a material breach of these Terms and Conditions: Posting anything in violation of local, state, national, or international laws; material that infringes on the intellectual property rights; material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity; advertisements or solicitations of business; spamming; improper conduct or anything that Administrators feel is inappropriate as they have final decision and sole discretion.

Coking Traditional Foods reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following: remove communications which are abusive, illegal, or disruptive, or that otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions; terminate a user’s access to any or all Public Areas and/or the Site upon any breach of these Terms and Conditions; monitor, edit, or delete any communication posted anywhere on the site.  Cooking Traditional Foods reserves the right to take any action it deems  necessary to protect the personal safety of our guests or the public. The Site/Administrators have no liability or responsibility to users of the Site or any other person or entity for performance or nonperformance of the aforementioned activities.

Submissions

Any communication or material, including recipes, data, questions, comments, products, materials, or suggestions you transmit to Cooking Traditional Foods and its web site by electronic mail or otherwise, will become the exclusive property of Cooking Traditional Foods and may be used for any future purpose including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing, and marketing products using such information. We will not review or consider any unsolicited creative submissions. Please understand that this is to avoid the chance of future misunderstandings in the event that ideas, products, or projects created by Cooking Traditional Foods might seem to others to be similar to their own ideas or creative work. Therefore we ask that you do not send us any unsolicited creative ideas, products, or suggestions. If, despite our request, you do send us an unsolicited submission electronically or by any other means, it shall become the property of Cooking Traditional Foods. No unsolicited submission will be subject to any obligation of confidence by us, and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any submission. We will exclusively own all known or later-existing rights to the Submission worldwide, and will be entitled to the unrestricted use of the Submission for any purpose without compensation to the provider of the Submission.

Purchases

The purchase of a Cooking Traditional Foods Menu Mailer subscription, Recipe Archive subscription or individual back/special issues, books, eBook and other electronic material is for your personal use only.  Sharing the e-mails, PDF files, plagiarizing any portion of the mailer, or otherwise sharing it with anyone outside of your household or violating other forum rules is grounds for immediate suspension of your subscription without a refund and refusal of future subscription services.  In addition, no portion of this website of forum in any form may be reproduced without permission.  You may be subject to legal action.  We appreciate your honesty.

Cooking Traditional Foods offers a free sample menu that is representative of the regularly published menus delivered with a subscription to the Menu-Mailer. Purchases are non-refundable.  Subscriptions are transferable to another person &/or e-mail address by e-mailing us at subscriptions@cookingTF.com.  If you decide after trying the service that you would like to change to a different subscription package, please e-mail us at subscriptions@cookingTF.com and we will happily assist you in changing your subscription.

Cooking Traditional Foods offers free sample recipes that are representative of the available recipes with a subscription to the Recipe Archive. Purchases are non-refundable.  Subscriptions are transferable to another person &/or e-mail address by e-mailing us at subscriptions@cookingTF.com.  If you decide after trying the service that you would like to change to a different subscription package, please e-mail us at subscriptions@cookingTF.com and we will happily assist you in changing your subscription.

Communications

It is your responsibility to ensure that we have a working e-mail address.  Please be aware that the Weekly Menu Mailer is an automatically renewed subscription via Paypal.  To cancel the auto-renewal, contact us at subscriptions@cookingTF.com or use the link provided in the Paypal receipt to cancel your subscription.  We process all cancellation requests within 48 hours.  Back Issues and Special Issues are one-time purchases that do not renew.

Disclaimers

Articles on the website or forum written by people other than those employed by Cooking Traditional Foods are copyrighted by the authors, who wholly own and retain that copyright.  We are not responsible for the content or usage of such articles.  Individual articles and information from other websites are based upon the opinions of the respective authors.

We reserve the right to edit, delete, or add to any content on our web site or forum at any time, without prior notice to users and members.

All services, including, but not limited to, this web site, forum and the membership email messages are provided on an “AS IS” basis WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, CONSTRUCTIVE, or STATUATORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONFRINGEMENT OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this exclusion may not apply to you in full.

To enhance Cooking Traditional Foods’s services to its members, advertisements and sponsorships may appear on the web site, Menu Mailer and forum  without prior notice. As a convenience to you, we may provide links to third party’s web sites. Cooking Traditional Foods is not responsible for the content at these sites or their accuracy.  Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites.  Those web sites and parties are beyond our control. We make no representations as to the content, quality, suitability, functionality or legality of any sites to which we may provide links, and you hereby waive any claim you might make against us with respect to such sites and their operators. You may order services or merchandise through links on our sites from persons not affiliated with us. All matters concerning the merchandise or services, including but not limited to purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery, are solely between you and the merchants with whom you chose to do business. We make no warranties or representations whatsoever with regard to any goods or services provided by those merchants. You will not consider us – nor will we be construed as – a party to such transactions, whether or not we may have received some form of revenue or other remuneration in connection with the transaction. Nor will we be liable for any costs or damages arising out of any transaction (whether directly or indirectly) between you and any other person.

You should also note that although many of the links out of the site are purely for informational purposes, Cooking Traditional Foods may earn a small commission or advertising revenue on some links.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely our own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for information on how we protect your personal privacy.

Cooking Traditional Foods may at any time revise these Terms & Conditions by updating this posting. Please revisit this page to review the then Terms & Conditions. Your use of this web site reaffirms your continuing agreement to the then-current Terms & Conditions.