Last Updated: Q4 2017

1. GENERAL

Thanks for visiting More Than Food. By using our site, you agree that the content you are engaging with is owned by More Than Food or its clients and partners and you have no rights to the content contained on the site for personal use without crediting morethanfoodmag.com as the original source. For example, if you see an amazing image you would like to use, we’re happy for you to do so with the proper accreditation to the source as More Than Food.

You additionally agree that any content you submit to More Than Food or share with More Than Food via email, our web site, Facebook or Twitter becomes the property of More Than Food and we reserve the right to share, post, publish and re-use the content as we see fit. This includes both written, audio and photographic content unless otherwise specified. For example, if you submit a photo for a contest we’re hosting or for publication, we reserve the right to use that photo on our web site and other mediums to promote and share with others.

More Than Food is a collaborative effort of more than 30 different contributors with very different viewpoints and perspectives. You will not always agree with all of the content on the site but we do ask you to think critically about what we’re presenting you with and to digest the information carefully. The opinions presented are those of our individual contributors and may not represent the specific point of view of our business. We reserve the right to allow these contributors to speak freely and openly and will not censor their voices.

2. PRODUCT AND SERVICE REVIEWS

More Than Food is open to receiving products and merchandise for review by our team of contributors and managing editors. There is no guarantee, assumed or explicit, that a product will be reviewed by More Than Food when we receive the product and we reserve the right to use our discretion in selecting the products and services that we share and promote with our audience. The guiding principle behind our decisions is simple: is this a product or service that we believe our audience will benefit from and be interested in learning about. Finally, if we do write a review of your product, we will disclose that the product was received as a gift for review consideration purposes. We reserve the right to publish our genuine experience with the product or service and to share our genuine experience at all times with our readers. If you would like to send us something, shoot us an email at hello@morethanfoodmag.com and we’ll go from there.

More Than Food will conduct and share service-related reviews of travel, accommodation, health/wellness facilities, restaurants, bands/concerts and cultural experiences. These reviews will be conducted at our own discretion and will be posted only if there is a genuine interest and application to our audience. These reviews will be based on genuine experiences at these establishments and will not be a result of a paid endorsement. If you would like to invite a member of our team to come and review your establishment, we will graciously reply to and accept each individual request where appropriate. If you are inviting us as a complimentary guest, we reserve the right to disclose this to our readers if there is an article that results from our visit. We do not, however, guarantee that there will be a story on every place we visit. If our experience with your establishment is not a positive one, we will give you an opportunity to respond and rectify the situation but we reserve the right to share our genuine experience at all times with our readers. If your establishment is not within driving distance of one of our contributors, we will not be able to attend and review unless travel expenses are being covered for the experience.

3. EVENTS

More Than Food is happy to attend your event if we deem it to be interesting to our readers and demographic. We are interested in events ranging from food and wine to fashion, finance, technology and more so please do not hesitate to enquire. We’ll let you know if we’re able to join or if we’re not interested. When a member of our team joins your event, please understand that it is not a guaranteed endorsement or an article on the site. The event and any corresponding story shared with our readers will be at our own discretion and based on our personal, honest, genuine experience at the event. If your toilets have no toilet paper and are a complete disaster, that’s the truth and that’s what we need to honour when and if we communicate back to our readers.

4. COMPETITIONS

More Than Food reserves the right to run competitions from our partners and sponsors to our readers. Each individual competition will have a specific set of terms and conditions but overall the competition is facilitated through More Than Food for the benefit of our readers. More Than Food accepts no responsibility or liability for the partner or sponsors failure to deliver or execute on a specific competition but will, of course, vet the partner thoroughly before agreeing to any competition or partnership. There will never be a cost or purchase required to participate in one of our competitions and the focus will be on social media and sharing the contest and the partner/sponsor. We also assume no responsibility for technical failures or glitches by the user when attempting to engage in a competition on morethanfoodmag.com.

More Than Food is not in the business of running competitions and we do this only as an added benefit to our readers. We will consider any offer from a partner/sponsor for a competition but reserve the right to be selective in deciding which partners and sponsors to engage with for these purposes. As stated above, our guiding principle in making these decisions is simply if we believe that our readers will enjoy and benefit from the use of your product and we deem your company to be legitimate, reliable and trustworthy.

5. PARTNERSHIPS/SPONSORSHIPS

From time to time, More Than Food may partner or endorse a specific product or brand. Believe us, we are not doing this lightly and we take this endorsement very seriously. You, our readers, are the number one priority and we will only ever endorse or support products we whole-heartedly believe in. We will never endorse or promote a product that is not in line with our brand and philosophy and reserve the right to remove/revoke an kind of endorsement without notice if there is a change in the quality of the product or service or based on feedback from our users.

More Than Food is all about real people sharing real points of view, perspectives and opinions. We reserve the right to do so at all times and believe this to be our guiding mantra in selecting our contributors and our partners/sponsors.