General Terms
Guess what? I know a lot of lawyers! And I do want to be clear—I’m sharing the best information I can on food safety and food science, but I can’t offer guarantees. Of course, there’s little that’s more personal and impacts our health more than the daily decisions we make about food. Anyway, here’s what the lawyers are making me say:
We’re thrilled that you chose to visit EatOrToss.com and we understand that you’re doing so of your own free will. By visiting EatOrToss.com, viewing, accessing or otherwise using any of the services or information created, collected, offered, compiled by, posted on, or submitted to EatOrToss.com/EatOrToss LLC, you agree to be bound by the following conditions of use (“conditions”).
Unless otherwise noted, EatOrToss LLC owns all rights to information and materials appearing on EatOrToss.com. Our content may not be sold, reproduced, or distributed without our written permission, though we’d be tickled if you linked to us. Any further rights not specifically granted herein are reserved. When you submit content to EatOrToss.com/EatOrToss LLC that means you are granting us license to publish, display, modify, distribute and syndicate your content.
You agree that all information provided on EatOrToss.com is offered for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not medical, legal, scientific or other professional advice. We do our best to post up-to-date and accurate information, but we cannot 100 percent warrant its accuracy or completeness….But, wow, if you find anything inaccurate on our website, please let us know ASAP.
You agree that EatOrToss LLC and its subsidiaries, affiliates, owners, employees and agents will in no event be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or exemplary damages. Except to the extent prohibited by law, this limitation on liability shall include, but not be limited to, damages for torts. In jurisdictions where the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages is not allowed, the liability of EatOrToss LLC is limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.
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Also, EatOrToss LLC is not responsible for republished content from EatOrToss.com or on other blogs or websites without EatOrToss LLC’s permission.
Privacy Policy
Welcome to EatOrToss.com’s privacy policy, which was last updated on May 21, 2023, and could change at any time. So if privacy policies are your thing, check back here sometime. You’re in for a real treat and some exciting reading coming up.
EatOrToss LLC does not share personal information with third parties or store any information about your visit other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies.
What are cookies? Cookies are delicious. “Cookies” also refers to small bits of data which save information when you visit websites. These morsels exist so you don’t have to re-enter the same info every time you return to the website. Here’s an example. Thanks to cookies, search engines are better equipped to record that you prefer your search results in, say, English. They also help merchants keep track of whatever you may have saved in your online shopping cart. Advertisers find cookies particularly delicious because they enable the delivery of ads that are a bit more useful to you. You can control your cookies to some extent using your browser’s privacy settings.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Anyway, third parties, such as advertisers, may be placing and reading cookies on your web browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads which appear on EatOrToss.com.
If you have any questions about about EatOrToss’s privacy policy, feel free to email us at [email protected].
And here’s some info straight from the ad network we work with:
Advertising
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy
Disclosure Policy
Okay, so why is there a disclosure policy on EatOrToss.com? It comes down to the same values that drive our posts about what food you can eat and what you should toss: we want you to know what’s up so you can make the best possible decisions. So, here’s our disclosure policy.
EatOrToss.com is a website written and edited primarily by Rachael Jackson and her minions of associate editors and collaborators. This project is a labor of love, but everyone has to eat (see what we did there?), so EatOrToss.com accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
But gosh, the compensation will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. We get our ideas from you (email ideas to [email protected]), from our own research, and from our own experiences when we wonder — eww, should I eat that?
All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements are identifiable as paid advertisements as they are in self-contained boxes, offset from the site’s main content.
We are not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites or various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely our own. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise and research, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. Do not rely on EatOrToss.com for medical, legal, or any sort of professional advice, as EatOrToss.com is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only.
EatOrToss.com does not contain any content that might present a conflict of interest. If you think there’s something we should be concerned about, let us know.
For more information, you can read more about the Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, codified at 16 C.F.R. Part 255 in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, on the FTC’s page on that topic. These guides are all about openness and fairness so that readers know what they’re getting. Check them out for yourself!
No Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The owner of this website does not consent to the content on this website being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of this website, including any third parties accessing the website through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content on the website for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered to have breached these Terms of Service.
This disclosure policy was last updated on May 19, 2023, and is subject to change without notice. For questions about our disclosure policy or if you just have a cool picture of some weird looking vegetable, email [email protected].
