Policy Effective Date: Updated June 1, 2019
These Terms of Use (”Terms”) govern your use of Cooklist and provide information about the Cooklist Services, outlined below. When you create a Cooklist account or use Cooklist, you agree to these terms.
These Terms of Use apply to all users of Cooklist’s website as published at www.cooklist.co (and any other websites with "Cooklist" branding that link to this Privacy Policy), and any mobile-device applications we offer, such our iOS and Android applications, that are branded "Cooklist" and link or reference this Terms of Use (collectively, the "Service").
For the purpose of these Terms, a User is an individual who uses our Service.
Subject to these Terms, we agree to provide you with the Cooklist Service. The Service includes all of the Cooklist products, features, applications, technologies and software that we provide to advance Cooklist’s mission: To help you eat intelligently.
Cooklist helps you discover recipes you can cook and buy the groceries you need. To do that, we show you things we think will be relevant, interesting and personal to you based on your onsite and offsite activity. To provide our Service, we need to be able to identify you and your interests.
The Service is made up of the following aspects:
People are different, and so are the things we eat. We want to strengthen your relationship with food through personalized experiences you actually care about. So we build systems that try to understand who and what you and others care about, and use that information to help you create, find, cook, and share in experiences that matter to you. Part of that is highlighting content, features, offers, and accounts you might be interested in, and offering ways for you to experience Cooklist, based on things you and others do on and off Cooklist.
We develop and use tools and offer resources to our users that help make their experiences positive and inclusive, including when we think they might need help. We have systems that work to combat abuse and violations of our Terms and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behavior. We use all the information we have-including your information-to try to keep our platform secure. We also may share information about misuse or harmful content with law enforcement. Learn more in the Privacy Policy.
Organizing and analyzing information for our growing community is central to our Service. A big part of our Service is creating and using cutting-edge technologies that help us personalize, protect, and improve our Service on an incredibly large scale for a broad community. Technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning give us the power to apply complex processes across our Service. Automated technologies also help us ensure the functionality and integrity of our Service.
We may use data from Cooklist, as well as from third-party partners, to show you ads, offers, and other sponsored content that we believe will be meaningful to you. And we try to make that content as relevant as all your other experiences on Cooklist.
We use the information we have to study our Service and collaborate with others on research to make our Service better and contribute to the well-being of our community.
In return for our commitment to provide the Service, we require you to make the below commitments to us.
We want our Service to be as open and inclusive as possible, but we also want it to be safe, secure, and in accordance with the law. So, we need you to commit to a few restrictions in order to be part of the Instagram community.
Providing a safe and open Service for a broad community requires that we all do our part.
Anything that you post or otherwise make available on Cooklist (like photos, videos, music, or directions) is referred to as "User Content." You retain all rights in, and are solely responsible for, the User Content you post to Cooklist.
You grant Cooklist and our users a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute your User Content. Nothing in these Terms restricts other legal rights Cooklist may have to User Content, for example under other licenses. We reserve the right to remove or modify User Content, or change the way it’s used in Cooklist, for any reason.
You give us permission to show your username, profile picture, and information about your actions (such as
likes) or relationships (such as follows) next to or in connection with accounts, ads, offers, and other
sponsored content that you follow or engage with that are displayed on the Service, without any compensation
to you. For example, we may show that you liked a sponsored post created by a brand that has paid us to
display its ads on Cooklist. As with actions on other content and follows of other accounts, actions on
sponsored content and follows of sponsored accounts can be seen only by people who have permission to see that
content or follow. We will also respect your settings.
Following termination or deactivation of your account, or if you remove any User Content from Cooklist, we may keep your User Content for a reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes. Cooklist and its users may retain and continue to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute any of your User Content that other users have stored or shared on Cooklist.
We value hearing from our users, and are always interested in learning about ways we can make Cooklist better. If you choose to submit comments, ideas or feedback, you agree that we are free to use them without any restriction or compensation to you. By accepting your submission, Cooklist doesn’t waive any rights to use similar or related feedback previously known to Cooklist, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
As part of our agreement, you also give us these permissions that we need to provide the Service.
We care about the security of our users. While we work to protect the security of your content and account, Cooklist can’t guarantee that unauthorized third parties won’t be able to defeat our security measures. We ask that you keep your password secure. Please notify us immediately of any compromise or unauthorized use of your account.
Cooklist may contain links to third party websites, advertisers, services, special offers, or other events or activities that are not owned or controlled by Cooklist. We don’t endorse or assume any responsibility for any such third party sites, information, materials, products, or services. If you access any third party website, service, or content from Cooklist, you do so at your own risk and you agree that Cooklist has no liability arising from your use of or access to any third party website, service, or content.
Cooklist may provide tools through the Service that enable you to export information to third party services, including through use of an API or by linking your account on Cooklist with an account on the third party service. By using these tools, you agree that we may transfer such User Content and information to the applicable third party service. Such third party services are not under our control, and we are not responsible for the contents of the third party service or the use of your User Content or information by the third party service.
Some features of the Service enable us to tailor your experience on the Service based on your location. If you decline to provide location information, or in our judgment, we cannot verify your location, you will be unable to utilize some or all features of the Service.
Ratings and reviews posted by Users on our Service are User Content that is not endorsed by Cooklist and does not represent the views of Cooklist. Cooklist does not assume liability for ratings and reviews or for any claims for economic loss resulting from such ratings and reviews. Because we expect Users to maintain a high level of integrity with respect to ratings and reviews posted through the Service, you agree: (i) to base any rating or review you post only on your first-hand experience with the applicable recipe, author, user, business, product, or service; (ii) you will not provide a rating or review for any recipe, author, user, business, product, or service with respect to which you have a competitive, ownership or other economic interest, employment relationship or other affiliation; (iii) you will not submit a rating or review in exchange for payment or other benefits from any individual or entity; and (iv) your review will comply with these Terms. If we determine, in our sole discretion, that any rating or review could diminish the integrity of the ratings and reviews, we may exclude such User Content without notice.
You are solely responsible for the content that you post, including any music that features in that content. Nothing in these terms constitutes any authorization by us with respect to any use of music in our of our Service.
If you post content that contains music owned by someone else, your content may be blocked, or may be reviewed by the applicable rights owner and removed if your use of that music is not properly authorized.
Use of music for commercial or non-personal purposes in particular is prohibited unless you have obtained appropriate licenses.
We may charge fees for the use of certain portions or aspects of our Service. Fees are subject to change at any time. You agree that we may charge fees to your credit card or other payment account for such Services and that you will pay all applicable fees assessed to your Account. Our fees do not include charges and rates charged by your mobile carrier, including for data and messaging plans that may be required to use the mobile features of the Service, and you are responsible for the payment of those charges and rates.
Certain distribution options may be provided by licensed money transmitters authorized by Cooklist to operate in connection with the Service (e.g., PayPal, Inc.) (“Authorized Money Transmitters”) and are subject to additional terms and conditions associated with your account with such Authorized Money Transmitter (the “Payment Provider Terms”). When you elect to distribute money through an Authorized Money Transmitter, you further agree (i) that Cooklist is acting as your agent with respect to the payment processing and (ii) that you are bound by the applicable Payment Provider Terms made available by that Authorized Money Transmitter, as such Payment Provider Terms may be modified by the Authorized Money Transmitter from time to time.
Cooklist shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform resulting from causes outside its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, war, terrorism, riots, embargos, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, strikes or shortages of transportation facilities, fuel, energy, labor or materials.
Cooklist may terminate or suspend your right to access or use Cooklist for any reason on appropriate notice. We may terminate or suspend your access immediately and without notice if we have a good reason. Upon termination, you continue to be bound by Sections 3 and 12 of these Terms.
Notice Regarding Apple. This only applies to the extent you are using our mobile application on an iOS device.
You acknowledge that these Terms are between you and Cooklist only, not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”), and Apple is not responsible for the Service or the content thereof. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the Service. If the Service fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund any applicable purchase price for the mobile application to you; and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the Service. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the Service or your possession and/or use of the Service, including: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Service fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; or (c) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any third party claim that the Service and/or your possession and use of the Service infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights. You agree to comply with any applicable third party terms when using the Service. Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these Terms, and upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third party beneficiary of these Terms.
You hereby represent and warrant that: (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government “watch list” of prohibited or restricted parties, including the Specially Designated Nationals list published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury or the Denied Persons List published by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not want to agree to these or any updated Terms, please contact us by email at hello@Cooklist.co or by mail at:
Cooklist Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Operations
8631 Angora St
Dallas, TX 75218
