Authors Guide

1. By submitting your articles or recipes you agree to the following:

   1. 1.1. All articles and recipes you submit are original and created by you and that you hold all copyrights to them.

   2. 1.2. We are a free service for authors and users. You will not be paid for submitting your articles or recipes and you will not be paid if and when your articles or recipes are published or reprinted. However, you will receive all credit for your work and your resource box will be left in place.

   3. 1.3. You grant unlimited permission for us and other users to publish or reprint your article or recipe without prior notice:

      1. 1.3.1 On our and any other website.

      2. 1.3.2. In RSS format for other websites to syndicate.

2. Without prior notice we may correct spelling and grammar, translate your article or recipe into various languages, and carry out other formatting and editing which does not alter the text or meaning of your article or recipe. Your article or recipe will remain complete with your resource box.

3. We may include advertising in any format deemed appropriate on pages with your articles or recipes.

4. You will not submit an article or recipe that either promotes, or links to Web Sites, Ezines, RSS Feeds or Newsletters that promote:

   1. 4.1. Illegal activity - including, but not limited to: Libel or Slander towards an individual or entity, Copyright infringement

   2. 4.2. Malicious activity - including, but not limited to: Warez, Hacking, Security Subversion

   3. 4.3. Offensive Content - including, but not limited to: Porn / Sexually Related, Racism / Hate / Otherwise Derogatory, Violation of Individual Rights, Gambling

   4. 4.4. Prescription drug sales

   5. 4.4. Tobacco related articles

Article Specification Guidelines

1. This website is editorially controlled: articles and recipes have to be approved by an editor before they go live on our site. There are no guarantees that your articles or recipes will be accepted for publication on our site. It is at our sole discretion whether or not to include your article or recipe.

2. We reserve the right to remove any article or recipe at any time and for any reason with or without notice or explanation. In cases where the guidelines are abused, authors will be banned.

3. Before submitting an article or recipe, please search the database to ensure your article or recipe has not already been added by someone else. Published articles and recipes can be deleted at the author’s request.

4. Article and recipe submissions that are plagiarized or in violation of another author’s copyright will be removed. Read the section below for more information on our copyright policy.

5. Articles and recipes must provide useful information and not merely be an advertisement. All submissions in the form of advertisements, testimonials or sales pitches will be rejected. If any article or recipe seems to be nothing more than an advertisement for a product or website, or only consists of a few lines of text with a link pointing to another site where the article or recipe supposedly resides it will be rejected.

6. Submit your article or recipe to one category only; submissions to multiple categories will be rejected. We reserve the right to choose a more suitable category for your article or recipe if we find them to be classified wrongly.

7. All article and recipe submissions must be written in fluent English or Afrikaans.

8. Title

   1. Minimum 6 characters and maximum 100 characters. Your title must be relevant to your article or recipe and may not contain contact information, your name, business name, any website name or otherwise. Titles must NOT be written in all CAPS. The first letter of each word must be capitalized, excluding common words (optional) like ‘the, and, are’ unless it is the first word of your title. An example of a perfect title would be: My Perfect Recipe

9. Summary

   1. This is not a required field, but it will help people find and understand your article or recipe more quickly. If you include a summary it should be no more than 4 sentences long and relevant to your article or recipe.

10. About Author

    1. Up to 400 characters or roughly 60 words. The About Author box can be used for biographical and copyright information as well as linking to relevant websites. You must include the necessary HTML tags to make any link included here active; simply placing ‘http://www.yoursite.com’ in the text will not generate a live link.

Copyright and Violations

1. We are a repository of free articles and recipes written by others without verification by us.

2. Our policy prohibits the use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates the copyright owner’s rights. In general, this means that authors should only submit their own original written work to which they have natural copyright.

3. In cases where copyright is disputed (usually as a result of plagiarism or unauthorized copying), please Contact Us and we will either, remove the article or recipe in question immediately upon proof of copyright, OR, ask you if we may use it and change the accreditation. Note: We will require proof of copyright based on previous dates and URL’s where the article or recipe in question was previously published by you.

4. Copyright resides with the authors who submit to our directory, not with us. As a consequence, we have no legal standing to enforce copyright on behalf of authors. If a user violates copyright, the ultimate responsibility and expense to take any action against that user will rest with the author.

5. In the event of copyright violation, we advise authors to exercise their rights under the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 by taking the following steps:

   1. 5.1. Contact the offending party directly asking them to rectify the copyright violation.

   2. 5.2. If the above fails, contact the ISP that hosts the offending website and the domain registrar that holds the registration for the website domain. (Information for the domain registrar and hosting service can generally be obtained by doing a lookup using any WhoIs service such as http://www.whois.net.)

   3. 5.3. Most Domain Registrars and ISPs will respond to a copyright enforcement request by warning or suspending the offending party. If they fail to do so, have a lawyer make the same request in writing. This last action rarely fails to produce results.

Disclaimer

1. We do not endorse any statements or claims made in any article or recipe on this site and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the use or misuse of the articles or recipe’s content on this site or reliance by any person on the site’s contents. By using this web site, you agree not to hold this website, its owner, it’s partner sites and/or any other affiliated sites or persons, liable for any damages that may occur from use of this web site.

2. Use of this web site is provided “AS IS” with no warranty whatsoever.

3. All terms and conditions are subject to change without prior notice.