Terms of Service for Site Visitors and Users

Last updated: 15 January 2025

This is a food and cooking site built around Maltese family recipes, Mediterranean cooking, baking, and a fair bit of Melbourne eating. The terms below cover how the site can be used and what you can reasonably expect from us in return. They are kept deliberately readable. If a sentence sounds like legal fog, that was not the intention.

Acceptance of Terms

By visiting or using this site, you agree to these terms. That applies whether you are quietly reading a recipe at midnight or leaving a comment with your own twist on a pastizzi filling.

The terms apply to everyone — casual visitors, regular readers, and anyone who interacts with the site in any way. If you do not agree with something here, the simplest answer is not to use the site.

Acceptable Use

Most of this comes down to good manners and common sense.

When you submit anything — a comment, a question through the Contact page, or feedback on a recipe, the information should be accurate and offered in good faith. No impersonating other people, no fraudulent details.

Please do not interfere with how the site runs. That means no attempts to break its security, overload it, scrape it at scale, or disrupt access for other readers. Anything unlawful, abusive, or harassing toward other users is off the table.

Use License

You are welcome to read, print, and use the recipes and articles here for your own personal, non-commercial cooking. Make the timpana for Sunday lunch. Print the gelato method and stick it on the fridge. That is exactly what this site is for.

What you cannot do is republish or redistribute the content as your own — copying articles wholesale onto another website, packaging recipes into something you sell, or reposting photos without permission. The text, images, and recipe write-ups remain the intellectual property of the site or its licensors.

If you want to share something more formally — feature a recipe in a newsletter, quote a longer passage, reproduce a photo, just ask. Reasonable requests usually get a yes.

No Warranties

The site and everything on it are provided on an “as available” basis. The recipes are tested in a home kitchen and shared with care, but ovens vary, ingredients vary, and your kitchen is not mine.

So while we aim for accuracy, we do not guarantee that every detail is error-free or that results will be identical in your hands. Cooking is forgiving, but it is not a science with one fixed answer.

Where it actually matters — allergies, dietary restrictions, food safety for vulnerable people, anything with health implications, please rely on qualified professional advice rather than a blog post. A recipe site is not a substitute for a doctor or a dietitian.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the site and its operator are not liable for damages arising from your use of the site or your reliance on its content.

This covers indirect, incidental, and consequential losses — the kind of knock-on costs that are hard to foresee. If a dish does not turn out, or a link leads somewhere unexpected, that risk sits with you as the reader. None of this is meant to dodge genuine responsibility; it simply reflects the limits of what any publisher can sensibly promise.

Applicable Law

These terms are interpreted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the site is operated. Any dispute that cannot be sorted out amicably falls under the competent courts of that jurisdiction.

If a single clause here turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stand. One faulty paragraph does not collapse the whole document.

Modifications to Terms

These terms may be revised from time to time — when the site changes, when something needs clarifying, or when the law moves. When that happens, the revision date at the top of the page is updated.

Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. It is worth a glance at this page now and then, particularly if you visit often. We will not bury anything material in the fine print.

Questions About These Terms

If anything here is unclear, or you want to ask about permission to use content, get in touch through the Contact page. For how your personal information is handled, the Privacy Policy explains that side in the same plain-language spirit.

You are also welcome to learn more about who is behind the recipes on the About Nanette page — it gives a sense of where this kitchen, and these terms, come from.