The following terms (“Terms of Use”) constitute an agreement between Cooking with Curls®/Lisa Johnson (“Company”), and you that governs your use of this website and all of its content and functionality. This policy applies to the website administered by Cooking with Curls (“Website”), located at https://cookingwithcurls.com/

Your use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, the following Terms of Use. Company reserves the right to modify, alter, amend or update its Website, policies, and these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change without notice. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use the Website or any of the content associated with it.

USE OF THIS WEBSITE

The information provided in or through my Website, Programs, Products and Services is for educational and informational purposes only and is made available to you as tools for your own personal use.

PROHIBITED USES OF THE WEBSITE

You must not use the Website in a way that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or impair the availability of access to the Website. You must not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Website, except to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law. You must not use the Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, and/or other harmful code or malicious software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities, including, but not limited to, scraping, data mining, data extraction, or data harvesting on or in relation to the Website without Company’s express written permission.

You must not use the Website to transmit or send any unsolicited commercial communications, including, but not limited to, spam comments.

You must not use the Website for any third-party marketing without Cooking with Curls® express written permission.

All photos and recipes are property of cookingwithcurls.com and are protected by United States and international copyright laws. Content should not be reused or republished without express written permission.

RECIPE POLICY

  • I would love for you to try out my recipes and even blog about them, but I would really appreciate it if you would do so in a kind, polite blogging way.
  • Please be sure to link back to me somewhere in your post. If you’re using my recipe verbatim, please do so in the recipe.
  • Please use your own photos unless you have my permission to use one of mine. But always, always add the source of photos that are not your own.
  • Please try to re-write the recipe in your own way. Please do not just copy and paste. Put it in your voice; your readers will prefer that anyway.
  • Please do not copy my written content in any way.
  • Please remember recipe etiquette: do not put an entire recipe in a pin, on Facebook, or on Instagram.
  • You are welcome to use one photo with a brief description, and a link back in any round up post as long as it does not include the recipe.
  • Republishing posts in their entirety is prohibited.
  • Please do not add your own watermarks to photos from cookingwithcurls.com, or remove existing watermarks.

TRADEMARKS

Cooking with Curls’ trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Company’s, in any manner likely to cause confusion among consumers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Cooking with Curls or Lisa Johnson. From time to time, the Website will legally utilize trademarks owned by third parties. These trademarks are the respective property of their owners and Cooking with Curls/Lisa Johnson makes no claim of ownership.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL I, LISA JOHNSON, BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCLUDING AND WITHOUT LIMITATION, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE, OR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM THE RECIPES OR COOKING DIRECTIONS ARISING OUT OF, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE.

CONTACT INFORMATION

This Website is a personal blog written and edited by me, Lisa Johnson. By using the Website you are agreeing to all parts of the above Terms of Use.

All notices with respect to the Terms of Use must be in writing and may be via email to lisa@cookingwithcurls.com for Company and to your email address.

Updated May 2023