Paatti's Kitchen

Terms of Service

Effective Date: May 2, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Paatti’s Kitchen (the “Site”), reachable at paattiskitchen.com. By visiting, browsing, or otherwise using the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

1. About the Site

Paatti’s Kitchen publishes original South Indian and broader Indian recipes, cooking notes, ingredient guides, and related editorial content. The Site is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial use, supported by third-party advertising.

2. Acceptable Use

When you use the Site, you agree that you will not:

  • Copy, mirror, scrape, or redistribute the recipes, photographs, or written content in bulk without prior written permission.
  • Republish full recipe text or images on another website, app, social account, cookbook, recipe aggregator, or AI training corpus.
  • Use any automated system (bots, crawlers, scrapers, harvesting tools) to access the Site beyond what a normal browser would request, except for publicly-documented search engine and AdSense crawlers operating within the rules in our robots.txt.
  • Attempt to interfere with, disable, overload, or breach the security of the Site or any related infrastructure.
  • Use the Site or its content to promote illegal activity, hate speech, harassment, or to mislead readers about food safety, nutrition, or health.

You may, of course, cook from these recipes, share them with friends and family, print them for personal use, and link to individual recipe pages from your own site, social media, or messages. That is what the Site is for.

3. Intellectual Property

All recipes, written instructions, photographs, illustrations, page layouts, typography, branding, and source code on the Site are the original work of Paatti’s Kitchen and are protected by copyright, trademark, and related laws, except where third-party material is explicitly identified.

You may quote a single recipe step, ingredient list, or short excerpt with a clear, visible link back to the original page on paattiskitchen.com (a typical “fair use” recipe attribution). Wholesale reproduction of a recipe page, the hero photograph, or the recipe schema data is not permitted without written permission.

If you believe that any content on the Site infringes your copyright, please contact us at [email protected] with the URL of the page in question and a description of the work you believe has been used without authorization.

4. Recipes and Health Disclaimer

The recipes and cooking notes published here are written from a home-cooking perspective. We are not registered dietitians, allergists, or medical professionals, and nothing on the Site is intended as personalized nutrition, medical, or food-allergy advice.

Cooking carries inherent risks: hot oil, sharp knives, raw ingredients, and potential allergens. You are responsible for assessing whether a given recipe is suitable for you and anyone you cook for. If you have a food allergy, a medical condition, are pregnant, or are cooking for very young children or the elderly, please consult an appropriate professional and verify any ingredient or step with an authoritative source before proceeding.

Calorie counts, serving sizes, and other nutrition figures, where shown, are estimates produced from generic ingredient databases. They will vary with the exact brands, cuts, and quantities you actually use.

The Site displays advertising served by Google AdSense and may link to third-party websites, products, or services. We do not control and are not responsible for the content, privacy practices, or availability of those external sites or for the products or services advertised. Visiting an advertised site or following a third-party link is at your own discretion.

How advertising cookies work, how to opt out of personalized advertising, and your rights under GDPR and CCPA are described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Site and all content on it are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or that any recipe will produce a particular result in your kitchen.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Paatti’s Kitchen, its operators, and its contributors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your access to or use of the Site, your reliance on any recipe or piece of information published here, or your inability to access the Site, regardless of the legal theory under which the claim is brought.

In jurisdictions that do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, our liability is limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

8. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in the Site, in applicable law, or in our editorial practices. The updated Terms will be posted on this page with a revised “Effective Date.” Your continued use of the Site after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.

9. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States and, where applicable, the state in which the Site’s operator resides, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising from your use of the Site will be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in that location.

10. Contact

Questions about these Terms, content licensing, or copyright concerns can be sent to [email protected].