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Terms of use

The terms on which this site is made available to you

Version 1.0 · In force from 22 September 2026 · Operated by Callum Haywood · [email protected]

Gravypedia is a free encyclopaedia about gravy. These terms tell you the rules for using it. Please read them before you rely on anything here. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

Two things worth reading even if you read nothing else: this site gives general information and is not professional advice, and cooking carries real risks that are yours to manage.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

gravypedia.org (“Gravypedia”, “the site”, “we”, “us”) is operated by Callum Haywood, an individual trading in a personal capacity in the United Kingdom. We are not a company, and there is no company number or registered office to give you.

You can reach us at [email protected]. That address is the correct one for everything in these terms, including copyright complaints and legal notices. A postal address is available on request.

2. By using the site, you accept these terms

These terms are a legal agreement between you and us. By using Gravypedia you confirm that you accept them and agree to comply with them. They apply whether you arrive at the main page or land directly on an article from a search engine.

If you are using the site on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind that organisation to these terms.

3. We may change these terms and the site

We may amend these terms at any time. The version in force is always the one published on this page, with its version number and date shown at the top. We do not keep superseded versions online; if you need to know what these terms said on a particular date, ask us.

Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the amended terms. We may also change, correct, restructure, move or remove any part of the site's content at any time, for any reason. Nothing here is a promise that a given page will continue to exist.

4. The site is free, and we do not guarantee it will be available

Gravypedia is provided free of charge. We do not guarantee that the site, or any content on it, will always be available, uninterrupted or free of errors. We may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or any part of the site for business or operational reasons, without notice.

You are responsible for arranging your own access to the site, and for making sure that everyone who accesses it through your internet connection is aware of these terms.

5. Our content is information, not advice

The content on Gravypedia is provided for general information and interest only. It is not advice on which you should rely, and in particular it is not professional food-safety, nutritional, dietary, medical, allergy or veterinary advice.

Before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of anything on this site, you must obtain professional or specialist advice if the decision matters. In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency and the NHS are the authorities on food safety and on diet; where anything here differs from their guidance, follow theirs.

6. Cooking carries risks, and they are yours to manage

Recipes, methods, timings, quantities and temperatures on this site are a starting point written for a general reader. They cannot account for your ingredients, your equipment, your kitchen or your health. You are responsible for the safety of what you cook and serve. In particular:

  • Allergens and intolerances. Gravy routinely involves wheat flour, milk, butter, cream, celery, mustard, soy, yeast extract, alcohol, fish and shellfish derivatives, and stock cubes whose composition changes without notice. Always check the labels on what you are actually using. A page described as vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free reflects the recipe as written, not the products in your cupboard.
  • Meat, poultry and juices. Gravy made from roasting juices carries the hazards of the meat it came from. Cook meat and poultry thoroughly and follow current Food Standards Agency guidance on safe cooking temperatures.
  • Cooling, storing and reheating. Stocks and gravies left to stand warm are a known cause of food poisoning. Cool them quickly, refrigerate promptly, and reheat thoroughly and only once. Where a page gives a keeping time, treat it as an outside limit and not a guarantee.
  • Heat, fat and alcohol. Hot fat, boiling liquid, deglazing with spirits and flambéing cause serious burns and fires. Anything on this site involving them assumes an adult taking ordinary care.
  • Pregnancy, illness, age and vulnerability. If you are cooking for someone who is pregnant, very young, elderly, immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable, follow the relevant NHS guidance rather than a recipe page.

Use your own judgement and your own senses. If something looks, smells or tastes wrong, throw it away, whatever a page here says.

7. We do not promise the content is accurate

We take care over what we publish, and every change is recorded in a public revision history. Even so, the site is written and edited by a small number of people, it covers matters of history, etymology and regional practice on which sources genuinely disagree, and it will contain mistakes. We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content is accurate, complete or up to date.

If you find an error, please tell us — corrections are welcome at [email protected].

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the site and in the material published on it, except where a page says otherwise. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

The site name, the Gravypedia logo and the gravy boat device are ours and may not be used without our written permission.

Images are governed by our photo and licensing policy. Third-party images appear under their own licences, which are recorded against each image and are not overridden by these terms — a Creative Commons image stays available on its own terms regardless of what this page says about the rest of the site.

9. Quoting, linking and reuse

You may, without asking us:

  • link to any page on this site, provided you do so fairly and lawfully, do not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, and do not suggest any association, endorsement or approval that does not exist;
  • print or download extracts for your own personal, non-commercial use;
  • quote short passages, with attribution to Gravypedia and a link to the page quoted, as fair dealing for criticism, review, quotation or news reporting allows.

You may not, without our written permission:

  • copy, republish or redistribute any substantial part of the site, in any medium;
  • extract or re-use a substantial part of the contents of the site's database, or make repeated and systematic extractions of insubstantial parts — our rights include database right under the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997;
  • use any part of the site for commercial purposes, including republishing it on an advertising-supported page;
  • modify copies of anything you have printed or downloaded, or use any illustration, photograph or graphic separately from the text that accompanies it;
  • remove or obscure any attribution, credit or licence notice.

We are usually glad to say yes. Ask at [email protected].

If you print, copy, download, share or repost any part of the site in breach of these terms, your right to use the site ceases immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies you have made.

10. Text and data mining, scraping and AI training

We expressly reserve all rights in the content of this site for the purposes of text and data mining, web scraping, and the development or training of any machine learning, generative AI or large language model system. No such use is permitted, and this reservation is made for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any equivalent or successor provision in the United Kingdom.

Nothing in the site's robots.txt file, and no absence of a technical block, grants permission for such use. Licences for text and data mining are available from us on request.

11. Material you send us

You may send us corrections, suggestions, regional traditions or photographs. If you do:

  • you confirm that the material is yours to send, that you own it or have the necessary rights and permissions, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights, breach anyone's confidence or privacy, or break any law;
  • you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, edit, adapt and publish that material on Gravypedia and in material promoting it, including on pages other than the one you had in mind;
  • you accept that we are under no obligation to publish it, to keep it published, or to pay you for it;
  • you accept that we may edit it for length, accuracy, style and house conventions;
  • where you send a photograph, we will credit you as you ask us to, and record the licence you have given alongside it. If you would rather not be named, say so and we will publish it without a credit;
  • you accept that we cannot treat anything you send as confidential, and that we may publish your correction alongside the article it corrects.

If you later want a photograph you sent us taken down, ask us and we will remove it from the site within a reasonable time. We cannot recall copies that other people have already made, or pages that search engines and archives have already cached.

12. Acceptable use

You may use the site only for lawful purposes. You must not:

  • use it in any way that breaks any applicable local, national or international law;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, the server on which it is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to it — including attempting to sign in to the editors' area without authorisation;
  • knowingly introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other malicious material, or attack the site by means of a denial-of-service attack;
  • use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the site in a way that places an unreasonable load on it, ignores robots.txt, or is used to build a competing or derivative service;
  • use the site to transmit unsolicited advertising or promotional material;
  • misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person.

A breach of this clause may be a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will cooperate with them, including by disclosing your identity to them where we can.

13. Links to other sites

Where the site links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, those links are provided for your information only and do not signify that we approve of them. We have no control over their contents and accept no responsibility for them, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

14. Our liability to you

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for:

  • death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by the law of England and Wales.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations and other terms that might otherwise be implied into these terms by statute, common law or otherwise.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, arising under or in connection with your use of, inability to use, or reliance on any content of the site — including loss of profits, loss of sales or business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, or any indirect or consequential loss.

If you are a consumer, please note that we provide this site for domestic and private use only, and you agree not to use it for any commercial or business purpose. Nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights. If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or other digital content belonging to you, and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation — although we will not be liable for damage you could have avoided by following our advice, or for damage caused by your failure to follow installation instructions or to have the minimum system requirements advised by us.

We are not responsible for viruses, and you must not introduce them. You are responsible for configuring your own technology and anti-virus protection to access the site.

15. We may suspend your access

We may end or suspend your right to use the site, without notice, if you breach any of these terms — in practice, by blocking the address or network you are using. That may affect other people using the same connection, and we accept no liability for that.

16. Copyright complaints and takedown

We publish our own photography and properly licensed images only, and every image records its credit and licence. If you believe that anything on this site infringes your copyright or another right of yours, email [email protected] with:

  • the URL of the page and enough detail to identify the material;
  • an explanation of the right you hold and why you believe the use infringes it;
  • your contact details.

We will normally remove or hide the material while we look into it, and will respond within a reasonable time. Taking something down pending investigation is not an admission of liability.

17. General

  • Severability. If any provision of these terms is found to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, it will be severed and the remaining provisions will continue in full force.
  • No waiver. If we delay in enforcing any part of these terms, or do not enforce it at all, that is not a waiver of our rights, and we may still enforce it later.
  • No third-party rights. These terms are between you and us. No other person has any right to enforce any of their terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
  • Events outside our control. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by an event beyond our reasonable control.
  • Entire agreement. These terms, together with the privacy and cookies notice, are the whole agreement between us about your use of the site.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, their subject matter and their formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims arising out of them) are governed by the law of England and Wales.

We and you both agree that the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction — except that, if you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in the European Union, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the country in which you live, and you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections given by the law of that country. Nothing in this clause deprives you of a right you cannot be deprived of by agreement.

Version 1.0. In force from 22 September 2026. Operated by Callum Haywood, [email protected]. See also the privacy and cookies notice.