Last Updated: March 19, 2025
Welcome to TheKitcheen!
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of www.thekitcheen.com (“the Website”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website. Please read these Terms carefully before using our Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Website.
1. Who May Use the Website
This Website is offered and available to users who are 13 years of age or older. By using this Website, you represent and warrant that you meet this eligibility requirement.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
2.1 Our Content
The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all recipes, photographs, information, text, graphics, logos, and design) are owned by TheKitcheen, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
2.2 Limited License
We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Website, except as follows:
- Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
- You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.
- You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Website for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
- If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are enabled by such features.
2.3 User Content
By posting, uploading, or otherwise making available any content on our Website (including comments, recipes, photos, or other submissions), you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.
You represent and warrant that:
- You own or control all rights in and to the content you post.
- All of your content is accurate and does not violate these Terms.
- Your content does not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party.
3. Prohibited Uses
You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to:
- Use the Website in any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
- Use the Website to transmit or send unsolicited advertising or promotional material.
- Impersonate or attempt to impersonate TheKitcheen, a TheKitcheen employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
- Engage in any conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Website.
- Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.
- Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other malicious or technologically harmful material.
4. User Contributions and Content Standards
Any user contribution you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any user contribution on the Website, you grant us and our affiliates and service providers the right to use, reproduce, modify, display, distribute, and disclose to third parties any such material.
All user contributions must comply with the following content standards:
- Must not be defamatory, obscene, invasive of privacy, or otherwise objectionable.
- Must not promote discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, or physical harm against any group or individual.
- Must not violate the legal rights of others, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property right.
- Must not contain any material that is false, fraudulent, or misleading.
- Must not involve commercial activities or sales without our prior written consent.
- Must not be likely to deceive any person.
5. Links to Third-Party Websites
The Website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by TheKitcheen. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. We do not warrant the offerings of any of these entities/individuals or their websites.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties
Your use of the Website is at your own risk. The Website and its content are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Neither TheKitcheen nor any person associated with TheKitcheen makes any warranty or representation with respect to the completeness, security, reliability, quality, accuracy, or availability of the Website.
The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7. Limitation of Liability
In no event will TheKitcheen, its affiliates, or their licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, or directors be liable for damages of any kind, under any legal theory, arising out of or in connection with your use, or inability to use, the Website, any websites linked to it, any content on the Website or such other websites, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages.
8. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless TheKitcheen, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your use of the Website.
9. Changes to the Terms of Service
We may revise and update these Terms from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms means that you accept and agree to the changes.
10. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website, without notice, for any conduct that we, in our sole discretion, believe is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of another user, a third-party, or us.
11. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of [Your State/Country], without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any dispute arising from these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in [Your Jurisdiction].
12. Waiver and Severability
No waiver by TheKitcheen of any term or condition set forth in these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of TheKitcheen to assert a right or provision under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
If any provision of these Terms is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms will continue in full force and effect.
13. Entire Agreement
These Terms, our Privacy Policy, and any other terms and conditions or policies referenced herein constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and TheKitcheen with respect to the Website and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the Website.
14. Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Email: contact@thekitcheen.com
TheKitcheen