1. Introduction

 The Exploring Flavours website (the “Website“) is the author/writer’s property (“we”/“our”/“us”). We own and operate the Website.

Through the Website, you (“you” or “your”) have access to a variety of content. These include, but are not limited to, the following:

• web pages, recipes, bog posts, reviews, data, messages, text, images, photographs, graphics, audio and video such as podcasts and webcasts, and documents such as articles and newsletters (“Materials“); and
• forums, discussion groups, chat areas, blogs, e-mail functions, and other services in connection with which you can download, share, email, post, publish, transmit or otherwise access or make available Content (“Community Services” and together with Materials and other information are collectively referred to as “Content“).

The following are terms and conditions which shall govern your use of the Website. By accessing and/or using the Website or the Content provided on or through the Website, and/ or submitting any information to or through our Website, you agree to follow and be bound by these terms and conditions concerning your access to and use of the Website and the Content (“Terms of Use“). You must be at least 18 years of age to use the Website. By using the Website, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

2. Copyright and Trademark notice

Subject to these Terms of Use, we own and control all the copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in the Website and the Content; and

• all the copyright, trademarks, domain name(s) and other intellectual property rights on the Website and the Content are reserved;
• the names, logos, trademarks, and service marks that appear on the Website and/or in the Content may not be used in any advertising, publicity, promotion, or in any other manner implying the endorsement or sponsorship by us, or affiliation with any product or service, without our prior express written permission;
• you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any and all of our intellectual property by downloading copyrighted material.

3. Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy

We may revise these Terms of Use at any time, without notice. The revised Terms of Use will be effective when posted/ published on the Website. Accordingly, if you disagree with and do not want to accept the Terms of Use, as these have been revised, you must discontinue to use the Website.

The Privacy Policy sets out our privacy practices, how we will respect your privacy and how we use data collected by the Website. Before we collect any basic personal information via the Website (i.e. any names and email addresses etc), we will obtain your clear and affirmative consent. For additional and detailed information, please see our Privacy Policy.

4. License to use our Website

You may, subject to these Terms of Use:

• view pages from the Website in a web browser;
• print pages from the Website;
• download pages from the Website;
• stream audio and video files from the Website (if any);
• store, display on your computer, listen to and play material that we publish, broadcast on the Website or make available for download through the Website,

Except as expressly permitted, you must not download any material and/or Content from the Website or save any such material and/or Content to your computer. You may only use the Website for your own personal, informational and / or non-commercial purposes and you must not use the Website for any other purposes. Except as expressly permitted by the Terms of Use, you must not edit or otherwise alter or modify any material, information and/or Content or any other item of the Website.

Unless you own or control certain relevant rights in the said material and/or Content, you must not:

• republish any material and/or Content;
• sell, rent, license or sub-license any material and/or Content;
• use or exploit any material and/or Content for a commercial purpose; or
• redistribute any material and/or Content for any purpose.

Notwithstanding the above paragraph, you may only redistribute our newsletters and/ or articles from the Website, in print and electronic form to any person that are intended for such purpose.

We reserve the right to restrict access to certain sections/ parts of the Website, or our entire Website as a whole, at our discretion. Pursuant to this paragraph, you must not circumvent or evade, or attempt to circumvent or evade, any restriction of access measures on the Website.

5. Acceptable use

You must not:

• use the Website or Content in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage or impairment of the performance, availability, visibility or accessibility of the Website and/ or the Content;
• use the Website and/ or Content in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
• use the Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
• conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation to, scraping, data mining, extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the Website without our clear and express written consent;
• access or otherwise interact with the Website using any robot, spider or other automated means;
• use data collected from the Website for any direct marketing activity (including but without limitation to email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing);
• use the Website and/ or Content in any way that is false or misleading;
• use the Website and/ or Content in a way or take any action that is defamatory, degrading or derogatory of another;
• use the Website in any way or take any action that violates or disrespects another person’s privacy or includes any copies of another person’s confidential, sensitive or personal data.

You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through the Website, and/ or in relation to the Website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

6. User details on Website

If you submit your message via the Contact Us section on the Website, you are responsible to ensure that the information you submit (including but not limited to, your full name and email address) are accurate, current and true.

Our Privacy Policy sets out in detail how we will respect your privacy and how we will process your personal data collected via the Website in accordance with applicable data privacy laws.

7. Your content: license

For the purpose of these Terms of Use, “your content” means any information and/ or materials (including and without limitation to text, graphics, images, scripts, software and files) which are not “personal information” as defined and identified in the Privacy Policy, which you submit or forward to us or the Website for storage or processing by, or transmission via, the Website.

To the extent permissible by law, you grant to us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, modify, store, adapt, publish, transmit, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media and/ or in relation to the Website and/ or any successor website, for any purpose and in any form, medium or means of technology. You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed pursuant to this paragraph. You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under this paragraph.

You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on the Website.

Without prejudice to our other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

You hereby warrant that:

• you have the authority and right to grant this license; and
• our exercise of the rights granted pursuant to this license will not infringe or otherwise violate any third-party rights.

8. Your content and personal information: general rules applicable

You warrant and represent that your content and your personal information will comply with the Terms of Use. Your content and your personal information must not be illegal or unlawful and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law). Your content and your personal information, and the use of your content and your personal information by us in accordance with the Terms of Use, must not:

• be libelous, untrue, inaccurate, misleading or maliciously false;
• be obscene or indecent or not in good taste;
• infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or any other intellectual property right;
• infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;
• constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
• constitute an incitement to commit a crime;
• be in contempt of any court or in breach of any court order;
• be in violation of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
• be blasphemous;
• be in breach of official secrets legislation;
• be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
• depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;
• consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
• constitute spam; and
• be offensive, deceptive, racist, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory.

9. Limited warranties and Termination of use

We do not warrant or represent:

• the completeness, reliability or accuracy of the information published on the Website;
• that the material or Content on the Website is up to date;
• that the Website or any service on the Website will remain available;
• to monitor the Website or screen the Content that is shared or submitted on or through the Website [notwithstanding the fact that we reserve the right to review the Website and Content and to monitor all use of and activity on the Website and to remove or choose not to make available on or through the Website any Content in our sole discretion);
• that the Website or Content therein will meet your requirements;
• that the Website will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free basis; and
• that the quality of any information or Content, viewed, read or obtained by you on or through the Website will meet your expectations.

We reserve the right at any time without notice or explanation at our sole discretion, to discontinue or modify any or all of our Website Services, to stop publishing the Website, to discontinue providing or limit access to the Website and to discontinue or modify or stop publishing any material or Content on the Website.

To the extent expressly provided otherwise in this Terms of Use, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any Website Services, or if we stop publishing the Website.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the paragraph below on Limitations and exclusions of liability, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of the Terms of Use, the Website and the use of the Website and we expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties regarding merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement with respect to the Website all Content provided on or through the Website.

We may at our sole discretion terminate or limit your access to or use of the Website if we determine that you have infringed the copyrights of a third party.

We may remove Content that is confidential and/ or proprietary to a third party without that third party’s permission.

Except where expressly provided otherwise, the Website and all Content provided on or through the Website, are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

10. Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in the Terms of Use will:

• limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
• limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
• exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and exclusions of liability set out here and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

• are subject to the paragraph above; and
• govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

To the extent that the Website and the information and Services on the Website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or damage of any nature.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential business losses, including (without limitation to) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

We will not be liable to you in respect of any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

11. Breach of Terms of Use and Indemnity

Without prejudice to our other rights under the Terms of Use, if you breach the Terms of Use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached the Terms of Use in any way, we may at our sole discretion, to the extent permissible by law:

• send you one or more, formal warnings;
• temporarily suspend your access to our website;
• permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;
• block computers or other electronic devices using your IP address from accessing the Website;
• contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to the Website;
• commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise;

In any event that we may suspend or prohibit or block your access to the Website or a section of the Website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking.

You hereby confirm and agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs, due to or arising out of Content or information that you share/ submit/ provide to us, your violation of these Terms of Use or any other or additional rules, regulations, guidelines or terms of use posted for a specific section of the Website or Content provided on or through the Website or your violation or infringement of any third party rights, including intellectual property rights.

12. Variation

We reserve the right to revise these terms and conditions from time to time, without notice or explanation.

13. 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.

14. Waiver and Severability

If a provision of the Terms of Use (including provisions in relation to certain disclaimers and/ or exclusion or limitation of certain warranties and/ or liabilities) 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 of Use 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.

If any part or provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable, such part or provision may be modified or adjusted to make the Terms of Use as modified legal and enforceable.

Our failure or omission to exercise or enforce any rights or provisions in these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

15. Third party rights

An agreement under these Terms of Use is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

The exercise of our and your rights under a contract under these Terms of Use, is not subject to the consent of any third party.

The Website provides links to websites and access to content, products and services of third parties.

We are not responsible for third party content provided on or through the Website or for any modifications or updates to such third-party sites and you bear all risks associated with the access to, or use of, such websites and third-party content, products and services.

16. Entire agreement

Subject to paragraph above on Limitations and Exclusions of Liability, these Terms of Use, together with the Privacy Policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the Website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of the Website.

17. Law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Cyprus.

Any disputes, claims or obligations (whether contractual or non-contractual) arising out or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by the laws of the Republic of Cyprus and subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Cyprus.

18. Our contact details

You can contact us by using our Contact Us section on our Website.