Terms & Conditions

Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the collegefooddish.com website (the “Website”).  This Website is provided solely to assist customers in gathering information about food offered on college campuses and in their surrounding communities and posting opinions about that food.  The terms “we”, “us”, “our” and “collegefooddish.com” refer to collegefooddish.com, LLC, a Massachusetts corporation. The term “you” refers to the customer visiting the Website and/or contributing content on this Website.  The term “Website” refers to the website located at collegefooddish.com as well as online services that include, but are not limited to, our archives and our email newsletters.

You agree to use this Website only if you agree to accept and be bound by the following Terms and Conditions, which may be modified at any time without prior notice.  Please do not use this Website if you do not accept all Terms and Conditions.  We retain the right at our sole discretion to deny access to anyone to this Website, at any time and for any reason, including, but not limited to, for violation of these Terms and Conditions.

Reviews, Comments, and Other User Generated Content

We welcome user participation in this Website.  We provide users with an opportunity to submit content to the Website, including restaurant or cafeteria and food reviews, comments, ideas, or questions.  We do not necessarily support, agree, encourage, or endorse such content.  You, and not collegefooddish.com, are solely and entirely responsible for all content that you submit, post, or otherwise transmit through the Website.  The Website may contain discussion forums or other forums in which you or third parties may post reviews of food experiences or other content.  You are solely responsible for your use of such forums and use them at your own risk. By using the Website you agree not to post, upload to, or otherwise transmit to or publish through the Website any of the following:

1.    Any content that is abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, harassing, threatening, fraudulent, pornographic, profane, or otherwise objectionable.
2.    Any content that encourages or constitutes conduct that would be a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate the rights of any party, violate any local, state, national, or international law, or violate a trademark, patent, copyright, or intellectual or proprietary right of any party.
3.    Any content that impersonates another person or entity, or misrepresents your affiliation to another person or entity.
4.    Private information about another party or entity, including, without limitation, phone numbers, addresses, last names, social security numbers, or credit card information.
5.    Viruses or destructive data.
6.    Any content which is unrelated to the topic of the post area.
7.    Any content or link that in the sole judgment of collegefooddish.com, violates any part of the Website’s Terms and Conditions, or which may subject collegefooddish.com or its users to any liability or harm of any kind.

By using the Website you warrant that
1.    all information supplied by you on this Website is true, accurate, current and complete, and
2.    if you have a collegefooddish.com account, you will be completely responsible for any use of your account by anyone other than you, and
3.    if you have a collegefooddish.com account, you are 13 years of age or older, and
4.    you will not use the Website or its contents for any commercial purpose.

Please be aware that content submitted by you to this Website by any means, including any food service or restaurant reviews, questions, comments, or ideas, grant collegefooddish.com a nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to
1.    use, reproduce, modify, or create derivative works from and publicly display it in any media, now known or hereafter devised, and
2.    use the name that you submit in connection with it.

Collegefooddish.com may choose to provide attribution of your comments or reviews at our discretion. You acknowledge and agree that content submitted by you is not confidential or proprietary.

In order to cooperate with legitimate governmental requests, subpoenas or court orders, to protect our customers and systems, or to ensure the integrity and operation of our website, we may disclose any information we consider necessary or appropriate, including, without limitation, user profile information, IP addressing and traffic information, usage history, and posted content.

Liability Disclaimer

We do not guarantee the accuracy of and we disclaim all liability for the information on the Website.  We assume no responsibility for errors or omissions in the content of the Website, and we make no representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the Website, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of text, graphics, links, products and services, and other items accessed from or via the Website, including but not limited to any information or opinion of any food or food service provider.  Collegefooddish.com is not liable for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter and is not liable for any statements, representations or content provided by its users in any public forum, personal home page or elsewhere on the Website. You understand that all information of any kind posted in a collegefooddish.com forum is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated.  We do not and cannot review the content posted by users and we are not responsible for such content.  Collegefooddish.com has no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any of the content posted to or distributed through the Website, but we reserve the right, and have absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit without notice any content posted or stored on the Website at any time and for any reason. We do not control, and we are not responsible for, any third-party site to which the Website links.

Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify collegefooddish.com from and against any claims, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of:
1.    your breach of these Terms and Conditions or the documents referenced herein;
2.     your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or
3.    your use of this Website.

Copyright

All materials published on the Website are protected by copyright laws, and may not be reproduced, republished, distributed, transmitted, resold, displayed, broadcast, or otherwise exploited in any manner without the express written permission of collegefooddish.com. You may download freely accessible material (one copy per page) from this Website for your personal and noncommercial use only, without altering or removing any trademark, copyright, or other notice from such material.
In the event you believe that any content posted on the Website infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, you may notify collegefooddish.com by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Jurisdiction

You agree that any claim, action, or proceeding arising out of these Terms and Conditions, or your use of the Website, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and any action based on or alleging a breach of these Terms and Conditions must be brought in a court in Massachusetts. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.