Terms & Conditions

Last Updated: August 2025

The Short Version: Use our recipes and enjoy them! Share them with friends, adapt them for your family, even use them in your own kitchen business (with proper credit). Just don’t steal our content wholesale or claim you created our recipes. We want you to succeed with salads, these terms just protect our work so we can keep creating for you.

Acceptance of Terms

By using Green Salad (www.green-salad.net), you’re agreeing to these terms. If you don’t agree with any part of these terms, please don’t use our website.

We might update these terms from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the date at the top and notify our email subscribers of any major changes. Your continued use of the site means you accept the updated terms.

Legal Note: These terms create a legal agreement between you and Green Salad. While we’ve written them in plain English, they’re still legally binding.

Use of Our Content

What You Can Do With Our Recipes

We want you to use our recipes! Here’s what’s totally fine:

  • Personal Use: Make our recipes for yourself, your family, and friends as much as you want
  • Adaptation: Modify our recipes to suit your taste, dietary needs, or available ingredients
  • Sharing: Tell people about our recipes, link to them on social media, recommend them to friends
  • Small Business Use: Use our recipes in your restaurant, catering business, or food service (see details below)
  • Educational Use: Teachers and cooking instructors can use our recipes in classes

Commercial Use Guidelines

Food entrepreneurs, we support you! Here’s how you can use our recipes commercially:

  • Restaurants & Cafés: You can serve our recipes with attribution (“Inspired by Green Salad’s Mediterranean Chickpea Salad”)
  • Catering: Use our recipes for events with proper credit
  • Meal Prep Services: Include our recipes in your meal plans with attribution
  • Cooking Classes: Teach our techniques and recipes with credit to Green Salad

Attribution Made Simple: Just mention “Recipe adapted from Green Salad (www.green-salad.net)” somewhere customers can see it on your menu, website, or verbally in classes. That’s it!

What You Can’t Do

These things are not okay and could get you in legal trouble:

  • Republish Wholesale: Don’t copy our entire recipes and publish them elsewhere as your own
  • Claim Authorship: Don’t present our recipes as your original creations
  • Remove Attribution: If you share our content, don’t remove our name or website info
  • Mass Commercial Distribution: Don’t include our recipes in cookbooks, apps, or large-scale commercial products without permission
  • Automated Scraping: Don’t use bots or automated tools to copy our content

Photos and Images

Daniel works hard to create beautiful food photography for Green Salad:

  • Personal Sharing: Share our photos on social media with credit and links back to us
  • Commercial Use: Contact us before using our photos in commercial contexts
  • No Modification: Don’t edit, crop, or alter our photos without permission
  • Always Credit: Include “Photo by Daniel Whitmore, Green Salad” when sharing

User Contributions

Comments and Reviews

We love hearing from our community! When you comment or review recipes:

  • Your contributions help other home cooks succeed
  • Be honest about your experience with the recipes
  • Share constructive feedback – it helps us improve
  • Keep comments family-friendly and relevant to the recipe
  • Don’t post spam, offensive content, or unrelated links

Recipe Modifications and Tips

When you share your adaptations and improvements:

  • We might incorporate your suggestions into official recipe updates (with credit!)
  • Other readers benefit from your creativity and problem-solving
  • You retain ownership of your original contributions
  • We reserve the right to moderate comments for quality and relevance

Community Guidelines: We’re building a supportive community of salad enthusiasts. Be kind, be helpful, and remember that everyone’s skill level and taste preferences are different.

Submitted Content

If you email us photos of your salad creations or recipe variations:

  • You give us permission to share them on our website and social media (with credit)
  • You confirm you have the right to share the content with us
  • You retain ownership of your photos and content
  • We’ll always credit you when we share your contributions

Intellectual Property

What We Own

  • “Green Salad” Brand: Our name, logo, and branding materials
  • Original Recipes: The specific combinations, techniques, and presentation in our recipes
  • Photography: All photos taken by Daniel Whitmore for Green Salad
  • Written Content: Our articles, tips, and instructional content
  • Website Design: The layout, functionality, and user experience of our site

What We Don’t Own

We respect that food is cultural heritage and cooking techniques are shared knowledge:

  • Basic Techniques: We don’t own general cooking methods like “how to chop vegetables”
  • Common Ingredients: We don’t own ingredient combinations that are widely used
  • Traditional Recipes: We don’t claim ownership of traditional dishes from any culture
  • Your Adaptations: When you modify our recipes, your changes belong to you

Respect for Food Culture: When we adapt traditional recipes, we always acknowledge their cultural origins and the communities that created them. We expect the same respect from our users.

Recipe and Food Safety Disclaimers

Recipe Results

We test every recipe extensively, but cooking involves variables we can’t control:

  • Ingredient Variations: Produce varies by season, region, and supplier
  • Equipment Differences: Different stoves, knives, and bowls affect results
  • Skill Levels: Techniques that seem simple might need practice
  • Personal Taste: What tastes perfect to us might need adjustment for your preferences

Food Safety Responsibilities

Food safety is ultimately your responsibility:

  • Wash Everything: Always wash produce, hands, and equipment thoroughly
  • Check Expiration Dates: Use fresh ingredients and check dates on packaged items
  • Storage Guidelines: Follow safe food storage practices for leftovers
  • Temperature Control: Keep cold foods cold and don’t leave perishables out too long
  • Trust Your Senses: If something looks, smells, or tastes off, don’t eat it

Food Safety Warning: Green Salad provides recipes and techniques, not food safety guidance. Follow established food safety practices from sources like the FDA and CDC. When in doubt, throw it out!

Allergies and Dietary Restrictions

We try to identify common allergens, but you must take responsibility for your safety:

  • Read All Ingredients: Check every ingredient for allergens that affect you
  • Cross-Contamination: Consider how ingredients were processed and stored
  • Hidden Ingredients: Packaged foods may contain allergens not obvious from their names
  • Severity Matters: If you have severe allergies, consult medical professionals about new foods

Limitation of Liability

We work hard to provide accurate, tested recipes, but we can’t be responsible for every possible outcome:

What We’re Not Liable For

  • Recipe Results: If a recipe doesn’t turn out as expected
  • Ingredient Costs: Price variations or ingredient availability
  • Equipment Damage: Issues with kitchen equipment while making our recipes
  • Food Safety Issues: Problems from improper food handling or storage
  • Allergic Reactions: Adverse reactions to ingredients in our recipes
  • Business Decisions: Commercial outcomes from using our recipes in your business

Maximum Liability

If we were somehow legally liable for something related to Green Salad, our maximum liability would be limited to the amount you’ve paid us (which for most users is $0, since our content is free).

Why These Limitations? We provide free recipes and content to help people cook better. These limitations let us continue providing free resources without taking on unlimited liability for how people use them.

External Links Policy

Green Salad sometimes links to other websites for ingredient sources, equipment recommendations, or additional information:

  • We Don’t Control Other Sites: We can’t guarantee the accuracy, safety, or policies of external websites
  • Affiliate Links: Some links might earn us a small commission if you make a purchase (at no extra cost to you)
  • Endorsement Limits: Links don’t necessarily mean we endorse everything about that website or company
  • Check Before You Buy: Always verify prices, policies, and product details on the actual merchant site

Affiliate Link Disclosure: We only link to products we actually use and recommend. Any affiliate earnings help support Green Salad’s free content, but they don’t influence our recommendations.

Website Availability and Changes

We work to keep Green Salad available 24/7, but sometimes things happen:

  • Maintenance: We occasionally need to update or maintain the site
  • Technical Issues: Server problems or other technical difficulties can cause temporary outages
  • Content Updates: We regularly improve and update our recipes and content
  • Feature Changes: We might add, remove, or modify website features over time

We’ll do our best to minimize disruptions and notify users of planned maintenance when possible.

Termination

Either of us can end this agreement at any time:

How You Can End It

  • Stop Using the Site: Simply don’t visit Green Salad anymore
  • Unsubscribe: Remove yourself from our email list
  • Delete Your Data: Request deletion of any personal information we have

How We Might End It

We reserve the right to terminate access for users who:

  • Violate these terms repeatedly
  • Use automated tools to scrape our content
  • Post spam or abusive content
  • Engage in illegal activities using our platform

We’d much rather work with you to resolve issues, but we need to protect our community and content.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Oregon, United States, where Green Salad is based. Any legal disputes would be resolved in Oregon courts.

If you’re located outside the United States, you still agree to these terms when using our website, but we respect that your local laws might provide additional protections.

Contact Information

Questions about these terms?
Email: [email protected]
Subject Line: “Terms & Conditions Question”

Legal or copyright concerns:
Email: [email protected]
Subject Line: “Legal Matter”

Commercial licensing inquiries:
Email: [email protected]
Subject Line: “Commercial License Request”

Final Thoughts

We created these terms to protect Green Salad while supporting our community of home cooks and food entrepreneurs. We want you to use our recipes, adapt them, share them, and build amazing meals with them.

If you ever have questions about what’s okay or need clarification on any of these terms, please reach out. We’re much more interested in helping you succeed with salads than in legal complications.

Most importantly: cook with confidence, experiment freely, and enjoy every delicious salad you create!

Thanks for being part of our Green Salad community and for respecting the work we put into these recipes.