Rules of the road for reading and adding menus

These rules apply to mymenuarea.com and its restaurant menu pages, run by My Menu Area ("we", "us"). The menus are here to help you pick a place to eat. Please read the parts on prices, allergies and hours before you rely on a page. Using the site means you accept these rules; if you do not, please do not use it.

What is My Menu Area, and what does it cost?

My Menu Area gathers restaurant menus and files them by area. Each menu page carries prices, photos, opening hours, the location and reviews from guests, and owners pay nothing for their listing or for the design of their page. Using the site costs nothing. We do not take orders, bookings or payments; for those, deal with the restaurant directly.

What may you do with the pages?

Read them, share them and use them privately, for anything that is not commercial. Please do not:

• copy, scrape or republish menu pages in bulk unless we have agreed to it in writing;
• disrupt the site's security or speed, or try to reach parts of it that are not public;
• send false, misleading or unlawful information through a form;
• pose as a restaurant owner, or as anyone else, when you are not.

What happens to the menus and photos you send?

When you send restaurant details, menus, logos or photos, you are telling us that you are entitled to share them. You also let us use, edit, format and display that material on the site while the listing stays up, with no fee owed to you and no exclusive right for us. Ask us at any time to update or remove it, and we will do so within a reasonable time.

We may turn down, edit or remove any listing, for example when its details cannot be confirmed or its content breaks these rules.

Who can post a review, and what gets held back?

Anyone who has eaten at a restaurant can review it through the Share Your Visit form at the bottom of its menu page. A review has to describe a real visit and give your honest opinion. We read every review before it goes up, and we hold back or remove anything offensive, discriminatory, defamatory or promotional, anything that shares other people's personal details and anything that is plainly not about a real visit. Beyond those cases, we may still turn down or take down any review. Posting a review gives us permission to publish it on the site.

Is a menu page the restaurant's own website?

No, unless the page clearly says its content came from the owner. The restaurants we list do not own My Menu Area, and showing a restaurant's name, logo or trademarks does not mean that it endorses us or works with us.

My Menu Area owns the site's design, wording and code. Restaurant names, logos, menus and photos stay the property of whoever owns them, and they appear here only to help diners find the place and recognize it. Nothing here gives you a right to use those marks.

How far can you trust a typed price?

We keep menus, prices, hours and other details as correct as we can, but restaurants change them without telling us. Our menus and prices arrive in two ways: restaurants send them to us, or we take them from public sources like printed menus, photos of menus and the restaurants' own websites. Dishes and prices change often, a price can differ between editions of a menu or between locations, and taxes, service charges or delivery fees may not be part of it.

Everything on the site is general guidance and may be incomplete or out of date. Read a price as a guide and confirm it with the restaurant before you order. The Menu Decoder explains how units and printed prices are shown.

What about allergies and diets?

Menu pages carry no allergen or nutrition information, and we give no allergen advice, even when a dish sounds suitable. If you have an allergy, an intolerance or another dietary need, talk to the restaurant staff before you order.

How current are the hours?

Opening hours are the latest we have. The open or closed status on a menu page is worked out from them at the restaurant's own local time, and it only knows the weekly hours, so a holiday or a one-off closure will not show. If your plans hang on it, phone the restaurant first.

Do the photos show exactly what you will get?

Not always. Photos on menu pages are sent by restaurants, taken from public sources or picked to illustrate the page, and dishes and rooms may look different when you visit.

Whose views are the reviews?

Each review is one guest's personal opinion, not the view of My Menu Area, and we cannot vouch for every detail in it.

Where do outside links lead?

Some pages link out to, or embed, services we do not run, such as maps and the restaurants' own websites. What those services publish, whether they stay online and how they treat your data is up to them, and we take no responsibility for it.

What if something on a page is wrong?

If you run a listed restaurant and something on its page is wrong, or you want the page gone, use the Claim This Listing link on the page, the owner form on Add to an Area, or write to support@mymenuarea.com. We will correct or remove it as fast as we are able. Guests who spot a mistake can send a note through the same page.

Can the site change or go offline?

Any part of the site, down to a single listing, may be changed, paused or shut down whenever we decide and without warning, and we accept no liability if your access is interrupted or lost.

What does the site promise, and what not?

The site and everything on it are provided "as is" and "as available". Within the limits the law sets, we make no promises of any kind about them, including that they are accurate, complete, uninterrupted or free of errors.

What are we not liable for?

Within the same limits, My Menu Area accepts no liability for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, nor for losses that follow from relying on what the site says, such as where you chose to eat and what you ordered. You use the site at your own risk.

Who pays if these rules are broken?

You agree to cover any claims, losses or costs that come from your breaking these rules or from content you sent us.

How will you know these rules changed?

These rules can be revised. The date under the title always names the version in force, and carrying on with the site once a new version applies counts as agreeing to it.

Where do questions about these rules go?

Send them to support@mymenuarea.com.