Terms of Use
These Terms of Use are effective on 1 March, 2018.
By accessing or using the Sorted Food website, the Sorted Food service, or any applications (including mobile applications) made available by Sorted Food (as defined below) (together, the “Service”), however accessed, you agree to be bound by these terms of use (“Terms of Use”). We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference. These Terms of Use affect your legal rights and obligations. If you do not agree to be bound by all of these Terms of Use, do not access or use the Service.
There may be times when we offer a special feature that has its own terms and conditions that apply in addition to these Terms of Use. In those cases, the terms specific to the special feature control to the extent there is a conflict with these Terms of Use.
Other terms which apply to the Service
These Terms of Use refer to the following applicable terms, which also apply to the use of the Service:
Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.
Information about Sorted Food
The Service is owned or controlled by Sorted Ventures Ltd (“Sorted Food”). Sorted Food is a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 06346718 and has its registered office at Stag House, Old London Road, Hertford SG13 7LA, United Kingdom.
Acceptable Use of the Service
1. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service.
2. You may only be a business user of the Services with Sorted Food’s express written permission.
3. You may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service.
4. You are responsible for any activity that occurs through your account and you agree you will not sell, transfer, license or assign your account, followers, username, or any account rights. With the exception of people or businesses that are expressly authorised to create accounts on behalf of their employers or clients, Sorted Food prohibits the creation of and you agree that you will not create an account for anyone other than yourself. You also represent that all information you provide or provided to Sorted Food upon registration and at all other times will be true, accurate, current and complete and you agree to update your information as necessary to maintain its truth and accuracy.
5. You agree that you will not solicit, collect or use the login credentials of other Sorted Food users.
6. You are responsible for keeping your user identification code and password secret and secure. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us by email using this link.
7. You must not defame, stalk, bully, abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate people or entities and you must not post private or confidential information via the Service, including, without limitation, your or any other person’s credit card information, or personal data (including phone numbers or email addresses).
8. You may not use the Service in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation. You agree to comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to your use of the Service and your Content (defined below), including but not limited to, copyright laws, database rights or trademarks.
9. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, files, information, usernames, images, graphics, photos, profiles, recipes, audio and video clips, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, links and other content or materials (collectively, “Content”) that you submit, post or display on or via the Service.
10. You must not change, modify, adapt or alter the Service or change, modify or alter another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Service or Sorted Food.
11. You must not create or submit or procure the submission of unwanted email, comments, likes or other forms of unsolicited advertising or promotional material or any similar commercial or harassing communications (a/k/a “spam”) to any Sorted Food users.
12. You must not use domain names or web URLs in your username without prior written consent from Sorted Food.
13. You must not interfere or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, including by transmitting any worms, viruses, spyware, malware or any other code of a destructive or disruptive nature. You may not inject content or code or otherwise alter or interfere with the way any Sorted Food page is rendered or displayed in a user’s browser or device.
14. You must comply with Sorted Food’s Community Guidelines, available here.
15. You must not create accounts with the Service through unauthorised means, including but not limited to, by using an automated device, script, bot, spider, crawler or scraper.
16. You must not attempt to restrict another user from using or enjoying the Service and you must not encourage or facilitate any breach of these Terms of Use or any other Sorted Food terms.
General Conditions
1. We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Service or your access to the Service for any reason, without notice, at any time, and without liability to you. You can deactivate your Sorted Food account by logging into the Service and selecting the DELETE PROFILE option under your profile settings. If we terminate your access to the Service or you use the DELETE PROFILE function above to deactivate your account, your photos, recipes, comments, likes, ratings, friendships, and all other data will no longer be accessible through your account (e.g., users will not be able to navigate to your username and view your recipes), but those materials and data may persist and appear within the Service (e.g., if your Content has been re-shared by others).
2. Upon termination, all licenses and other rights granted to you in these Terms of Use will immediately cease.
3. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change these Terms of Use (“Updated Terms”) from time to time. Unless we make a change for legal or administrative reasons, we will provide reasonable advance notice before the Updated Terms become effective. You agree that we may notify you of the Updated Terms by posting them on the Service, and that your use of the Service after the effective date of the Updated Terms (or engaging in such other conduct as we may reasonably specify) constitutes your agreement to the Updated Terms. Therefore, you should review these Terms of Use and any Updated Terms before using the Service. The Updated Terms will be effective as of the time of posting, or such later date as may be specified in the Updated Terms, and will apply to your use of the Service from that point forward. These Terms of Use will govern any disputes arising before the effective date of the Updated Terms.
4. We reserve the right to refuse access to the Service to anyone for any reason at any time.
5. We reserve the right to force forfeiture of any username for any reason.
6. We may, but have no obligation to, remove, edit, block, and/or monitor Content or accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion breach these Terms of Use.
7. You are solely responsible for your interaction with other users of the Service, whether online or offline. You agree that Sorted Food is not responsible or liable for the conduct of any user. Sorted Food reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor or become involved in disputes between you and other users. Exercise common sense and your best judgment when interacting with others, including when you submit or post Content or any personal or other information.
8. You agree that you are responsible for all data charges you incur through use of the Service.
9. We do not guarantee that the Service will be free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your own information technology computer programmes, platform and devices in order to access the Service. You should use your own virus protection software.
10. We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means, including but not limited to, user profiles and recipes (except as may be the result of standard search engine protocols or technologies used by a search engine with Sorted Food’s express consent).
11. You are responsible for choosing recipes appropriate for your own dietary requirements. Please take care to take account of any allergies or food sensitivities that you may have. Whilst Sorted Food tries to accommodate the preferences that you have indicated in the recipes that it shows or recommends, it cannot guarantee that it has done so and you are responsible for your own food choices and their safety for you.
Rights
1. Sorted Food does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, you hereby grant to Sorted Food a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide licence to use the Content that you post on or through the Service, subject to the Service’s Privacy Policy available here, including but not limited to sections 3 (“Sharing Your Information”), 4 (“How We Store Your Information”), and 5 (“Your Choices About Your Information”).
2. Some of the Service is supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions, and you hereby agree that Sorted Food may place such advertising and promotions on the Service or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising and promotions are subject to change without specific notice to you.
3. You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such.
4. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or through the Service or otherwise have the right to grant the rights and licenses set forth in these Terms of Use; (ii) such Content is accurate (where it states facts) or genuinely held (where it states opinions) and complies with the law in the country in which it is posted (iii) the posting and use of your Content on or through the Service does not breach, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights; (iv) you agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed by reason of Content you post on or through the Service; and (v) you have the legal right and capacity to enter into these Terms of Use in your jurisdiction.
5. The Service contains content owned or licensed by Sorted Food (“Sorted Food Content”). Sorted Food Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and, as between you and Sorted Food, Sorted Food owns and retains all rights in the Sorted Food Content and the Service. You will not remove, alter or conceal any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Sorted Food Content and you will not reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works based on, perform, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, sell, license or otherwise exploit the Sorted Food Content.
6. All page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts are owned by Sorted Food, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from Sorted Food.
7. Although it is Sorted Food’s intention for the Service to be available as much as possible, there will be occasions when the Service may be interrupted, including, without limitation, for scheduled maintenance or upgrades, for emergency repairs, or due to failure of telecommunications links and/or equipment. Also, Sorted Food reserves the right to remove any Content from the Service for any reason, without prior notice. Content removed from the Service may continue to be stored by Sorted Food, including, without limitation, in order to comply with certain legal obligations, but may not be retrievable without a valid court order. Consequently, Sorted Food encourages you to maintain your own backup of your Content. In other words, Sorted Food is not a backup service and you agree that you will not rely on the Service for the purposes of Content backup or storage. Sorted Food will not be liable to you for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Services, or the loss of any Content. You also acknowledge that the Internet may be subject to breaches of security and that the submission of Content or other information may not be secure.
8. You agree that Sorted Food is not responsible for, has no liability for and does not endorse, Content posted within the Service and we do not guarantee that the Content will be free from errors or omissions. Content is provided for general information only and is not intended to amount to advice on which you rely. Sorted Food does not have any obligation to prescreen, monitor, edit, or remove any Content. If your Content breaches these Terms of Use, you may bear legal responsibility for that Content. We expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of the Service by a user in contravention of our Content standards, whether the Service is moderated or not.
9. Except as otherwise described in the Service’s Privacy Policy available here, as between you and Sorted Food, any Content will be non-confidential and non-proprietary and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of Content. You acknowledge and agree that your relationship with Sorted Food is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other type of special relationship, and that your decision to submit any Content does not place Sorted Food in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public, including with regard to your Content. None of your Content will be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Sorted Food, and Sorted Food will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any Content you provide.
10. It is Sorted Food’s policy not to accept or consider content, information, ideas, suggestions or other materials other than those we have specifically requested and to which certain specific terms, conditions and requirements may apply. This is to avoid any misunderstandings if your ideas are similar to those we have developed or are developing independently. Accordingly, Sorted Food does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas, and takes no responsibility for any materials or ideas so transmitted. If, despite our policy, you choose to send us content, information, ideas, suggestions, or other materials, you further agree that Sorted Food is free to use any such content, information, ideas, suggestions or other materials, for any purposes whatsoever, including, without limitation, developing and marketing products and services, without any liability or payment of any kind to you.
Reporting Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Infringements
1. We respect other people’s rights, and expect you to do the same.
2. If you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights, we will disable your account when appropriate.
3. We have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any Content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a breach of their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
Third party links and resources and Applications
There may be links from the Service, or from communications you receive from the Service, to third-party websites or features. There may also be links to third-party websites or features in images or comments within the Service. The Service also includes third-party content that we do not control, maintain or endorse. Functionality on the Service may also permit interactions between the Service and a third-party website or feature, including applications that connect the Service or your profile on the Service with a third-party website or feature. For example, the Service may include a feature that enables you to share Content from the Service or your Content with a third party, which may be publicly posted on that third party’s service or application. Using this functionality typically requires you to login to your account on the third-party service and you do so at your own risk. Sorted Food does not control any of these third-party web services or any of their content. We will not be liable for any loss of damage that may arise from your use of them.
You may choose, at your sole and absolute discretion and risk, to use applications that connect the Service or your profile on the Service with a third-party service (each, an “Application”) and such Application may interact with, connect to or gather and/or pull information from and to your Service profile. By using such Applications, you acknowledge and agree to the following: (i) if you use an Application to share information, you are consenting to information about your profile on the Service being shared; (ii) your use of an Application may cause personally identifying information to be publicly disclosed and/or associated with you, even if Sorted Food has not itself provided such information; and (iii) your use of an Application is at your own option and risk, and you will hold the Sorted Food Parties (defined below) harmless for activity related to the Application.
Limitation of liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to the Services, the Sorted Food site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with (A) use of or inability to use the Service or (B) use of or reliance on any Content.
If you are a business user, please note that in particular Sorted Food will not be liable for (A) loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; (b) business interruption; © loss of anticipated savings; loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or (D) any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide the Service for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the Service for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programmes, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Service or to your downloading any content on it, or any website linked to it.
Please note that Sorted Food cannot warrant that your use of the Service is lawful in any particular jurisdiction.
Suspension and termination
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Terms of Use through your use of the Service. Where a breach has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, which may include any or all of the following: (A) immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use any or all of the Service; (B) Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any Content posted by you; © Issue of a warning to you; (D) Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including but not limited to reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach; (E) Further legal action against you; (F) Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response for breaches of these Terms of Use.
Applicable law
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are resident in Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland and if you are resident in Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non contractual disputes and claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Entire Agreement
If you are using the Service on behalf of a legal entity, you represent that you are authorised to enter into an agreement on behalf of that legal entity. These Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy and the Cookies Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Sorted Food and governs your use of the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Sorted Food. You will not assign or subcontract the Terms of Use or otherwise delegate any obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of Sorted Food. Sorted Food may assign these Terms of Use or any rights hereunder without your consent. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, the parties nevertheless agree that such portion will be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, and the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use remain in full force and effect. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice will act to modify the Terms of Use. These Terms of Use do not confer any third-party rights.
Territorial Restrictions
The information provided within the Service is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject Sorted Food to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. We reserve the right to limit the availability of the Service or any portion of the Service, to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction, at any time and in our sole discretion, and to limit the quantities of any content, program, product, service or other feature that Sorted Food provides.
The effective date of these Terms of Use is March 1, 2014.
Trademarks
SORTED is the registered trademark of Sorted Food, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Sorted Food.
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