Terms of Use
The terms and conditions set forth in this terms of use notice (the "Terms of Use") shall govern your visit to and use of the Web site provided by us, as well as all services related to the Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use this Site.

General
We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. We will announce any changes by posting a revised draft of these Terms of Use on the Site. By continuing to use the Site following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes. You agree to review these Terms of Use periodically to be aware of any such changes. Your use of certain services on the Site may be governed by additional rules, which will be available on the Site. By using any service you acknowledge that you have reviewed all rules for the service in question and agree to be bound by them.

We also reserve the right, at any time, to: change or discontinue any content or feature of the Site and any services made available through the Site without notice; charge fees in connection with the use of the Site; modify and/or waive any fees charged in connection with the Site; and/or offer opportunities to some or all users of the Site. You agree that we will not be liable for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Site or of any service, content or feature offered through the Site. Your continued use of the Site after such changes will indicate your acceptance of such changes.

If you have any questions regarding the meaning or application of this Agreement, please direct your questions to info@foodartisan.net.

Member Sign In
In order to better use the Site, we encourage you to become a member of foodartisan.net. If and when you decide to become a Member, you agree to comply with these Terms of Use. You may review, correct, change, or update your membership information by visiting the User control Panel section of the Site.

As part of the membership process, you will be asked to select a Member name and password. You may not choose a Member name that impersonates someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may cause confusion. We reserve the right to reject any Member name in our sole discretion. You agree not to transfer or resell your use of or access to the Site or permit anyone else whose account or membership was suspended or terminated to use the Site through your account, Member name or password. If you have reason to believe that your password is no longer secure, you must promptly change your password by updating your Member information, and immediately notify us by emailing us at info@foodartisan.net. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Member name and password and for any and all activities that are conducted through your account.

The Community
We welcome you to visit and participate in the "Community" or "Forums" section of the Site. The community consists of a Bulletin Board service (such as message boards on the Site), and other interactive services we may offer from time to time. We value your participation in the community and ask you to please help us to maintain a friendly, safe and informative environment. Information provided in the community may be provided by our staff, special guest experts, or by contributors and users not connected with us, some of whom may use anonymous screen names. The opinions expressed in the the community are not necessarily those of Food Artisan. All statements, advice and opinions provided by Members in the community are those of such Member only, and we neither endorse nor shall we be held responsible for the reliability or accuracy of such postings. We are not responsible for information or materials made available in the community (including errors or omissions in the community postings, content or links and images embedded in the community postings and/or content) or results obtained by using such information or materials. Under no circumstances will we be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information or materials obtained through the content and/or any postings in the community and/or the Site.

Information, including Personally Identifiable Information (any information which can be used to identify a specific individual, such as a name, postal address, telephone number, or email address), which is posted in the community will be accessible to other Members participating in the community including people you may not know. Making this information available on the Site may result in a Member receiving "spam" or unsolicited e-mail. Members are encouraged to use discretion when communicating with others and/or disclosing Personally Identifiable Information online. In addition, Food Artisan has no control over, and shall have no liability for, any damages resulting from, the use or misuse by any third party of information that you voluntarily make public through the community or any other part of the Site. IF YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE ANY OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION PUBLICLY AVAILABLE IN the community, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Contests
From time to time, we may offer and/or co-sponsor contests on the Site. Each of these activities may be governed by specific rules accessible from the pages of the Site offering the content, which are separate from these Terms of Use. By participating in any such activities, you will become subject to those rules. Food Artisan urges you to read any applicable rules, which will be linked from the particular activity, and to review our Privacy Policy which, in addition to these Terms of Use, governs any information you submit in connection with such activities.

Site Conduct
The Site is intended to be used for lawful purposes only. You may have the opportunity to post, transmit or otherwise make available information, opinions, ideas, images or other content on the Site. We reserve the right to remove any content posted on our site for any reason. Decisions as to whether content violates our standards will be made in our sole discretion after we have actual notice of such posting. Without limiting our rights hereunder, we have attempted to provide guidelines to those posting on our site.

When using the Site:
You may not post or transmit any material or content on or through the Site:
that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others;
that solicits, encourages, or promotes the use of illegal substances or activities;
which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, derogatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, fraudulent or tortious, vulgar, obscene, bigoted or hateful, intimidating, profane, scandalous, pornographic, indecent or otherwise objectionable;
that is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other proprietary right;
that expresses or implies that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent; or that gives rise to civil or criminal liability, encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offense or otherwise violates any local, state, or federal law.

You may not post or transmit on or through the Site:
advertising or commercial solicitations;
software or other materials that contain so-called viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, or other harmful or disruptive component;
political campaign materials; chain letters; mass mailings; spam mail;
any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or their contents;

You may not:
engage in any activity on the Site that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site such as "hacking," "cracking," "spoofing," or defacing any portion of the Site;
harvest or collect information about Site visitors or Members without their express consent.
use the Site to defame, abuse, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others or for any fraudulent purpose;
reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Site;
create a database by systematically downloading and storing Site content;
frame or mirror any part of the Site without our prior written consent;

Copyright
Copyright 2006-2007 foodartisan.net, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright also extends to any and all content placed on our website with consent from the copyright holder excluding all member content posted in our community by users and from community based services.

This Site and the contents of the Site are intended for your personal use. The Site contains copyrighted material, including, without limitation, text, software, photos, audio and video clips, graphics, illustrations, images, logos, and music and sound (collectively, the "Site Content"). This Site is protected as a collective work pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions, and other copyright laws. Food Artisan and third party content providers also own copyrights in the original content on the Site. You may not modify, distribute, display, reverse engineer, perform, reproduce, create derivative works from or in any way exploit any of the Site Content. You acknowledge and agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.

Copyright Infringement Claims If you believe in good faith that any material or content posted on the Site constitutes a copyright infringement please forward the following information to info@foodartisan.net:
Your address, telephone number, and email address;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
A description of the alleged infringing material and of where the alleged infringing material is located;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by you, the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

License; Submissions Please note that, because we host the community and other forums on the Site and therefore redistribute materials you give us, we need to obtain certain rights in those materials. You hereby grant to us a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), irrevocable, transferable, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, digitally perform, publicly perform and publicly display and otherwise exploit in any manner any content, material and/or your name posted on the Site (collectively, the "Material"), and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to or prior approval by you. By submitting or sending Material to the Site you represent and warrant that (1) no other party has any rights to the Material or that you have all rights necessary to grant the rights granted hereunder, (2) the Material is not subject to any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution or otherwise, on our part and we shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Material, and (3) your provision of the Material to and through the Site, complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. You further irrevocably waive any "moral rights" or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of the Material that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory.

Third Party Sites We may, for your convenience, provide you with links to other Web sites from the Site ("Linked Sites"). You acknowledge and agree that we have no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of information provided by the Linked Sites. Links to Linked Sites do not necessarily constitute an endorsement by or association with us of such sites or the content, products, advertising or other materials presented on the Linked Sites. You acknowledge and agree that we do not control and are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on the Linked Sites.

Other web sites may provide links to the Site with or without our authorization. We do not endorse such sites, and are not and shall not be responsible or liable for any links from those sites to the Site, any content, advertising, products or other materials available on such other sites, or any loss or damages incurred in connection with such other sites.

Food Artisan shall have the right, at any time and in its sole discretion, to block links to the Site through technological or other means without prior notice.

Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SITE AND THE RELATED SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS", "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OTHER THAN THOSE WARRANTIES WHICH ARE IMPLIED BY AND INCAPABLE OF EXCLUSION UNDER LAW.
YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT Food Artisan, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, ADVERTISERS, SPONSORS, THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AND AGENTS, SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR INJURY ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR OUT OF THE BREACH OF ANY WARRANTY, OR CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO AND/OR ALTERATION OF THE SITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION EVEN IF Food Artisan OR SUCH PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Food Artisan NEITHER ENDORSES NOR IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY OPINION, ADVICE, OR STATEMENT ON THE SITE, NOR FOR ANY OFFENSIVE, DEFAMATORY, OR OBSCENE POSTING MADE ON THE SITE BY ANYONE.

While we try to maintain the integrity and security of the Site and the servers from which the Site is operated, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, completeness or correctness, or that access to the Site will be uninterrupted. The Site may include inaccuracies, errors and materials that violate or conflict with these Terms of Use. Additionally, third parties may make unauthorized alterations to the Site.

Monitoring We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content and use of the Site, including the community, to determine compliance with these Terms of Use and any other operating rules established by us. We may, in our sole discretion edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on the Site that we find to be in violation of these Terms of Use or otherwise objectionable or stale and disclose such materials and the circumstances surrounding their transmission to any third party in order to operate the Site properly; to protect ourselves, our sponsors, and our Members and visitors, and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests.

Permissions If you are interested in reproducing any Site Content, please e-mail your request, which we may approve or deny in our sole discretion, to info@foodartisan.net.

Linking To Our Site If you are interested in linking to our Site from your site, please e-mail your request, which we may approve or deny in our sole discretion, to info@foodartisan.net.