Last Updated: April 14, 2025
Welcome to Pure Cooking Joy (purecookingjoy.com)! We’re delighted you’re here to explore our recipes and cooking content.
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our website and its content. By accessing or using Pure Cooking Joy, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy (which you can find linked in the footer). Please read them carefully.
If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must stop using this website immediately.
1. Using Our Website
- Who Can Use It: You must be at least 13 years old to use this website.
- What You Can Do (Permitted Use): We grant you a limited permission (a license) to access and use Pure Cooking Joy for your personal, non-commercial enjoyment. This means you can:
- Read, view, and print recipes and articles for your own use.
- Prepare the recipes in your own kitchen.
- Share links to our website pages on social media or via email.
- What You Cannot Do (Prohibited Use): Your permission to use the site is limited. You agree not to:
- Copy, republish, distribute, or share large portions of our content (like entire recipes, articles, or multiple photos) on other websites, blogs, social media, apps, or in print without getting our explicit written permission first.
- Use any of our content (recipes, photos, text) for commercial purposes (e.g., selling them, using them in your own business, putting them in a cookbook you sell) without a separate written agreement with us.
- Remove or hide any copyright or trademark notices from our content.
- Use automated tools (like scrapers, bots, or spiders) to copy content from our site (except for standard search engine indexing).
- Interfere with the proper working of the website or try to access restricted areas.
2. Our Content & Intellectual Property
- Ownership: All content on Pure Cooking Joy – including the text, recipes (as expressed in the instructions and descriptions), photographs, videos, graphics, our logo, the name “Pure Cooking Joy,” and the overall design – is owned by us or used with permission, and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
- Recipes & Photos: While basic ingredient lists might not be copyrightable, our specific recipe instructions, descriptions, tips, and especially our photographs are our original creative work and are protected. Please respect this. If you adapt one of our recipes and share it online, please give clear credit to Pure Cooking Joy with a link back to the original recipe page. Do not republish our photos without permission.
3. Your Comments (User Content)
- Your Responsibility: You are responsible for any comments you post on Pure Cooking Joy.
- Rules for Commenting: Please be respectful and constructive! You agree not to post comments that are:
- Spammy, promotional, or irrelevant.
- Illegal, hateful, abusive, defamatory, obscene, or harassing.
- Infringing on someone else’s rights (like copyright or privacy).
- Impersonating someone else.
- Our Rights: We reserve the right (but don’t have the obligation) to monitor, edit, or remove comments at any time, for any reason, without notice. Comments do not necessarily reflect our views.
- License to Us: By posting a comment, you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide right to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your comment on our website or related promotional materials.
4. Important Disclaimers
- Use at Your Own Risk: You use our website and follow our recipes entirely at your own risk. The website and content are provided “as is.”
- Recipe Results: Cooking results can vary widely based on ingredient variations, substitutions, equipment used, altitude, humidity, and your individual cooking skills. We cannot guarantee that your results will be the same as ours.
- Nutritional Information: If we provide nutritional information, it is an estimate only, calculated using standard online tools. It is not verified by a nutritionist or dietitian and should not be considered professional dietary advice. Accuracy is not guaranteed. Please calculate nutritional information independently if you have specific dietary needs or health concerns.
- Allergies & Dietary Needs: You are solely responsible for ensuring that any ingredients you use are safe and appropriate for your specific allergies, intolerances, or dietary requirements. Always double-check ingredient labels.
- Food Safety: Please follow standard food safety practices when handling ingredients, cooking, and storing food. We are not liable for any issues arising from improper food handling or preparation.
- General Information: The content on this site is for general informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not professional advice of any kind (medical, nutritional, legal, etc.).
5. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Pure Cooking Joy (and its owners, operators, and affiliates) will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising from or related to:
- Your use of (or inability to use) this website.
- Following any recipes, advice, or information found here (including, but not limited to, cooking failures, kitchen accidents, allergic reactions, or foodborne illness).
- Your reliance on any content, including nutritional estimates.
- The conduct or content of other users (like comments) or third parties.
6. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites (like affiliate product pages, other blogs, or social media sites). We don’t control these sites and aren’t responsible for their content, privacy policies, or practices. Clicking on these links is at your own risk. We recommend you read their terms and policies.
7. Affiliate Disclosure
Pure Cooking Joy participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may include links to products, and if you click on those links and make a purchase, we might earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the blog. Our editorial content is not influenced by advertisers or affiliate partnerships. (See our full Disclosure Policy, if separate, for more details).
8. Termination of Use
We reserve the right to block or terminate your access to Pure Cooking Joy at any time, without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms.
9. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wyoming, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
10. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time. We will post the updated Terms on this page and change the “Last Updated” date at the top. Your continued use of the website after any changes means you accept the new Terms. Please check this page periodically for updates.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us at:
[email protected]