Terms of Service - MealCraft

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you and MealCraft ("we," "our," or "us") governing your access to and use of our website at https://mealcraft.avrprogrammers.com and related digital content, features, and printable recipe cards.

By accessing or browsing MealCraft, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to all terms, you must immediately cease use of our platform.

2. Culinary, Food Safety & Health Disclaimer

Crucial Notice for Home Cooks

All recipes, cooking tips, nutritional calculations, and culinary techniques published on MealCraft are provided solely for informational, educational, and recreational culinary purposes.

Food Safety & Cooking Temperatures:You are solely responsible for ensuring proper food safety protocols in your own kitchen, including thorough handwashing, avoiding raw meat cross-contamination, proper refrigeration, and verifying that poultry, meat, and seafood reach safe minimum internal temperatures recommended by the USDA (e.g. 165°F for poultry, 145°F for beef and fish).

Food Allergies & Dietary Restrictions:MealCraft recipes may contain or come into contact with common allergens including dairy, eggs, wheat, gluten, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, and shellfish. Readers with food allergies, celiac disease, or specialized medical diets must carefully inspect ingredient packaging labels and consult certified medical professionals.

Nutritional Information Estimates:Any calories, macros, or nutritional figures displayed on our recipe cards are automated computer-generated estimates based on public USDA databases. Factors such as brand variations, cooking loss, natural moisture changes, and portion sizing will cause real nutritional values to vary. MealCraft makes no warranty of nutritional accuracy.

3. Intellectual Property Rights & Recipe Republishing Rules

Unless otherwise credited, all content on MealCraft—including written recipe narratives, editorial descriptions, step-by-step photography, layout design, branding, logos, and custom code—is the proprietary property of MealCraft and protected under United States and international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.

Permitted Personal Use:You may freely print individual recipe cards via our "Print Recipe" action for your personal, non-commercial home cooking. You may bookmark and share recipe links across social media platforms (Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp).

Prohibited Commercial Republication:Republishing full recipes, verbatim instructional steps, or high-resolution photography on other blogs, social feeds, syndicated feeds, print publications, or mobile apps without prior written authorization from MealCraft is strictly prohibited.

Automated Scraping Prohibition:Scraping, harvesting, crawling, or extracting MealCraft recipes or JSON-LD structured data using automated bots or AI scraping pipelines for commercial dataset creation is expressly forbidden.

4. User-Generated Submissions & Community Conduct

If you submit comments, recipe ratings, cooking adjustments, or contact form inquiries to MealCraft, you agree not to submit any defamatory, abusive, unlawful, or infringing materials.

By submitting feedback or recipe adaptations, you grant MealCraft a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to display, publish, or adapt your feedback for the benefit of our culinary community.

5. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, MEALCRAFT, ITS FOUNDERS, CHEFS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES RESULTING FROM:

Your reliance upon any culinary instructions, recipe cards, or ingredient advice;
Adverse allergic reactions, foodborne illness, kitchen fires, or culinary mishaps;
Inaccuracies in nutritional estimates or ingredient measurements;
Any interruption or cessation of website transmission.

6. Governing Law & Contact Information

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal action arising under these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco County, California.

MealCraft Legal & Editorial Affairs

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