Copyright Policy

All user-submitted public content on WhatYouAte, including your public submissions and the publicly-visible metadata about them (such as your username and the date and time when you submitted each piece of content), is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

By submitting any publicly visible content to the site, including but not limited to discussions and shared content, you hereby grant WhatYouAte a non-exclusive license under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Publicly visible content includes the metadata (the information about the content you submitted) as well. This metadata includes but is not limited to: your username on the site, the date and time you made the submission, the relationships between your submissions and other content on the site, and the total catalog of content that you have submitted.

Because of the food-related focus of the site, we remind you that recipes are copyrightable works. This means that a full recipe that someone else created and has copyrighted cannot be submitted by you to WhatYouAte, without the express written consent of the original copyright holder. However, U.S. FL-122 states that "Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds, or prescriptions are not subject to copyright protection."

You represent and warrant that you own the content that you post on the site, or otherwise have the right to grant this license to us. You further represent that the content you post does not violate the privacy rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by any reason of any content posted by you on the site.

We also comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If you need to make a DMCA claim then read our DMCA Compliance page.