Terms & Conditions

The Real Food Media Blog Network (“Real Food Media” or “the Network”) is operated by Real Food Media, LLC and its corporate affiliates (collectively, “us”, “we” or “the Company”). When you access or use our web site at www.realfoodmedia.com (the “Site”), you (the “User”) signify you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions (“Terms & Conditions”), regardless of whether you are a registered member.

Real Food Media reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms & Conditions, the Network, any Platform Applications and the Site Content at any time without notice. We will post the changes to these Terms & Conditions on this page and will indicate dates of revision. Your use of the Network or the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms & Conditions. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms & Conditions, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Network or the Site. It is your responsibility to regularly review these Terms & Conditions from time to time.

Please direct any questions regarding Real Food Media or these Terms & Conditions to support@realfoodmedia.com.

Privacy
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Registration
When registering to join Real Food Media, you agree to provide accurate and complete information (“Registration Data”), and to keep the Registration Data accurate by updating it when necessary. You also agree to maintain the security of your password and identification and to be responsible for all use of your account and all actions that take place using your account.

Limited License; Proprietary Rights
You are hereby granted a limited license to access and use the Site and the Site Content, provided you do so in accordance with these Terms & Conditions and all other Company policies. Except for User Content, all content on the Site and available through the Network, including designs, text, graphics, pictures, videos, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the “Site Content”), are the proprietary property of the Company, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved. You must obtain the Company’s prior written permission before you may modify, copy, distribute, frame, republish, download, display, post, transmit, or sell any Site Content in any form. Your access to the Network or the Site does not grant you any license in or to any of the Company’s intellectual property, unless we have made a specific grant to you in writing.

Eligibility
The Real Food Media Blog Site and Network are solely for users who are 13 years old or older. By using the Network or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the Terms & Conditions of this Agreement. If you are younger than 13, your use of Real Food Media is prohibited.

Contests and Giveaways
No purchase is necessary to enter any of the Real Food Media Contests or Giveaways. The odds of winning depend on the number of entries. Prizes may vary depending on sponsors availability. Prizes values vary depending on prize. Eligibility: Anyone may enter the contests and giveaways. Some contests and giveaways are open only to residents of the US and Canada. Refer to each contest and giveaway post for details on how many may enter, for details on when the contest or giveway starts and end. Refer to the individual contest or giveaway announcement for deadlines for receipt of entries. Winners are chosen randomly by a computerized algorithm which selects winners from the pool of eligible members. Winners are announced on the blogs holding the giveaway. Winners are responsible for all applicable taxes. Real Food Media will not be held responsible for awarding the winners with the prize or prizes in case of fraud or unforeseen technical glitches affecting the Site or Network. Any dispute arising from the Real Food Media contests and giveaways shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the State of California without regard to its choice of laws principles to the contrary. You agree that the state and federal courts of California shall have sole jurisdiction over any actions hereunder, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction in the state and federal courts of California. All contests and giveaways are void where prohibited by law.

Affiliate Programs
When you join the Real Food Media Blog Network, you are eligible for any and all of our house affiliate programs. These include affiliate programs for content sold by our Real Food Media bloggers, as well as affiliate programs with third parties companies. A list of approved affiliate programs is on our online forum. The approved list is availabe to you in our private online forum, which you have access to after you join. There are certain companies we do not work with due to contractual issues with existing sponsors (i.e. exclusive agreements) or other conflicts of interest. If a company is not on our approved list, please email us at support@realfoodmedia.com to request approval. If we do not include the company in question on our published list of approved affiliates, you agree not to work with that company as an affiliate. If you continue to work with a prohibited affiliate, you will be removed from the Real Food Media Blog Network and all of our affiliate programs.

Termination
The Company may terminate your membership, and/or delete your acount in whole or in part or prohibit you from using the Network or the Site (or any portion of the Network, the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including if it believes that you have violated any aspect of these Terms & Conditions, including for the reason that you are under 13.

Trademarks and Copyrights
Real Food Media and all other trademarks on this Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Company and its licensors and may not be copied in whole or in part without the prior written permission of the Company. In addition, all page headers and footers, scripts, graphics and button icons are trademarks, service marks, and/or trade dress of the Company and may not be copied in whole or in part without the prior permission of the Company.

All materials on the Site, including but not limited to, Real Food Media logo and other Company graphics, logos, designs, text, page headers and footers, button icons, scripts, and their selection and arrangement are either ALL RIGHTS RESERVED COPYRIGHT 2008 or are the proprietary property of the Company’s affiliates or licensors.

Under our Real Food Media Copyright Policy and in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers. If you believe that any material on the Site infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, please contact us at support@realfoodmedia.com.

User Conduct
You represent and warrant that all materials submitted through your account or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the Network will not violate any laws or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory material. In addition, you agree not to use the Network or the Site to:

• upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that the Company deems: to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, invasive of privacy or publicity rights or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; or would create liability;

• use the Network or the Site in any manner that could damage, disable or impair any computer software, hardware or telecommunications equipment, including the transmittal of any viruses;

• register for more than one User account, register for a User account on behalf of anyone else other than yourself, or register for a User account on behalf of any group or entity; impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity; negatively affect minors in any way;

• solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes; or harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information for unsolicited communications; or upload, post, transmit, share or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation; use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Network or the Site; or

• upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make publicly available on the Site any private information of any third party.
Third Party Websites, Content and References

The Site contains or provides access to links to other web sites (“Third Party Sites”) as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the “Third Party Applications, Software or Content”). Real Food Media does not check these sites for accuracy, appropriateness or for any other reason, and we are not responsible in any way for any Third Party Sites accessed through the Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed from the Site. Although our Site may include, link to or permit the use or installation of any Third Party Site or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, we do not give our approval or endorsement to them. If you decide to leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites or use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by Company.

DISCLAIMERS
THE SITE, THE NETWORK, ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS AND THE SITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS-IS”. YOU AGREE TO USE OF THE SITE, the Network, ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS AND THE SITE CONTENTS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE COMPANY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE COMPANY CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DOES NOT PROMISE ANY RESULTS WHATSOEVER FROM USE OF THE SITE AND/OR THE NETWORK AND/OR ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS. THE COMPANY DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT SOFTWARE, CONTENT OR MATERIALS ON THE SITE, THE NETWORK OR ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS ARE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, CURRENT OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE SITE OR NETWORK ITS SERVERS, OR ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE COMPANY SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION, FAILURE IN COMPUTER HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, IN TRANSMISSIONS OR IN COMMUNICATIONS LINES, OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF USER CONTENT OR COMMUNICATIONS. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU DOWNLOAD OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN CONTENT, MATERIAL, DATA OR SOFTWARE FROM OR THROUGH the Network AND ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE COMPANY IS NOT LIABLE IN ANY MANNER FOR ANY USER CONTENT, OR THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS, SOFTWARE OR CONTENT POSTED ON THE SITE OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE NETWORK. THE COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT USERS POST, TRANSMIT OR SHARE ON THE SITE, OR FOR ANY CONTENT YOU MAY ENCOUNTER ON THE SITE OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY USER CONTENT OR THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS, SOFTWARE OR CONTENT. THE COMPANY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE (INCLUDING TO USER CONTENT), PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH, RESULTING FROM ANYONE’S USE OF THE SITE OR NETWORK, ANY USER CONTENT OR THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS, SOFTWARE OR CONTENT, OR FROM ANY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN USERS OF THE SITE.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING FOR ANY LOSS OF USE, LOST PROFITS OR LOST DATA ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE NETWORK, ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS OR ANY OF THE SITE CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIALS ON, ACCESSED THROUGH OR DOWNLOADED FROM THE SITE, EVEN IF THE COMPANY IS AWARE OF OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE ACTION ARISES FROM CONTRACT OR TORT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE.

Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction
These Terms & Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the State of California without regard to its choice of laws principles to the contrary. You agree that the state and federal courts of California shall have sole jurisdiction over any actions hereunder, and you hereby consent to, and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction in the state and federal courts of California.
Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold the Company, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their directors, officers, agents, contractors, partners and employees, harmless from and against any loss, liability, claim, demand, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, arising out of or in connection with any User Content, any Third Party Applications, Software or Content you post or share on or through the Site (including through the Share Service), your use of the Network or the Site, your conduct in connection with the Network or the Site or with other users of the Network or the Site, any violation of this Agreement or of any law or the rights of any third party, including any claim by a third party that any User Content infringes such third party’s rights or interests.

Other
These Terms & Conditions, as amended from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you and Company regarding the use of the Site and/or the Network, and supersede any prior agreements between you and Company relating to your use of the Site or the Network. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms & Conditions shall not constitute a waiver thereof. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.