Last Updated: January 2025
Welcome to The Yum Recipes! We’re thrilled you’re here and want to bake along with us. These terms and conditions might seem formal, but they’re really just our way of making sure we’re all on the same page about how our website works and what you can expect from us (and what we need from you).
Think of this as the “house rules” for our online baking community. We’ve tried to write this in plain English because legal jargon helps nobody make better cookies.
Acceptance of Terms
By using theyumrecipes.com, subscribing to our newsletter, leaving comments, or interacting with our content in any way, you’re agreeing to these terms. If you don’t agree with any part of these terms, please don’t use our website.
Changes to Terms: We may update these terms occasionally. When we do, we’ll post the updated version here with a new date and notify our newsletter subscribers of any significant changes. Continued use of our site after changes means you accept the new terms.
Use of Our Content
What You CAN Do
Personal Use: Make our recipes for your family, friends, potlucks, bake sales, and personal enjoyment. That’s exactly what we want!
Share the Love: Share links to our recipes on social media, in emails to friends, or on your own blog. We love when you spread the cookie joy!
Print for Personal Use: Print out our recipes for your recipe box or to give to family members. We designed them to be printer-friendly for exactly this reason.
Adapt for Dietary Needs: Modify our recipes for allergies, dietary restrictions, or personal preferences. Food should work for your life!
Teaching: Use our recipes in cooking classes, scout meetings, or educational settings (just give us credit and include a link back to the original recipe).
What You CAN’T Do
Commercial Republication: Don’t copy our full recipes and publish them in cookbooks, magazines, other websites, or apps without written permission. This includes food blogs, recipe apps, and commercial publications.
Claim Our Work: Don’t present our recipes, photos, or writing as your own original work. That’s not cool, and it’s also copyright infringement.
Remove Attribution: If you share or adapt our content, please include a link back to the original recipe and mention The Yum Recipes as the source.
Sell Our Content: Don’t package up our recipes and sell them as part of meal plans, recipe collections, or other commercial products without permission.
For Food Bloggers & Content Creators
We love when fellow food bloggers share our recipes! Here’s how to do it properly:
The Right Way:
- Share 1-2 sentences describing the recipe
- Include 2-3 ingredients from the recipe
- Link to the full recipe on our website
- Use your own photos or ask permission to use ours
- Give clear credit to The Yum Recipes
Please Don’t:
- Copy the entire recipe text
- Use our photos without permission
- Rewrite our recipes and present them as your own
- Include our full recipe in Pinterest descriptions
User Contributions
Comments & Reviews
We love hearing from you in our comment sections! When you comment, you’re giving us permission to display your comment publicly and respond to it.
Comment Guidelines:
- Be kind and respectful to other bakers
- Stay on topic (recipe questions, baking tips, results you got)
- No spam, promotional content, or unrelated links
- No offensive language or personal attacks
- Keep it family-friendly
We Reserve the Right to Remove Comments That:
- Contain spam or promotional content
- Are abusive, offensive, or inappropriate
- Are completely off-topic or repetitive
- Contain false information that could mislead other bakers
Photos & Recipe Feedback
When you share photos of your baking results with us (via email, social media, or comments), you’re giving us permission to feature them on our website, social media, or newsletter (with credit to you, of course!). We love celebrating your successes!
Rights You Keep: You retain ownership of photos you share with us, but you give us a license to use them for promotional purposes related to The Yum Recipes.
Recipe Modifications & Suggestions
We welcome your recipe variations and improvement suggestions! When you share a successful modification in the comments, you’re helping the whole community. We may incorporate popular user suggestions into official recipe updates (with credit given where appropriate).
Intellectual Property
Our Content
All original recipes, photographs, blog posts, videos, and other content on The Yum Recipes are protected by copyright law. This includes:
- Original recipe development and instructions
- Food photography and styling
- Blog post writing and tutorials
- Video content and demonstrations
- Website design and layout
The Yum Recipes™ is our trademark. Please don’t use our name or logo for commercial purposes without permission.
Traditional Recipes
Some of our recipes are based on traditional or classic recipes (like chocolate chip cookies or sugar cookies). We don’t claim ownership of these traditional concepts, but our specific variations, instructions, and improvements are our original work.
User-Generated Content
When you submit comments, photos, or suggestions, you retain ownership