Terms of Use
Effective date: July 21, 2026
Last updated: July 21, 2026
These Terms of Use apply to the Food Foundations Project website, public forms, educational materials, and other online resources that link to these terms.
By using the website or submitting an inquiry, you agree to these terms. A parent, guardian, educator, or other authorized adult who submits information for a child confirms that they are authorized to do so.
About Food Foundations
Food Foundations Project is a student-led educational project that provides workshops and materials about food literacy, nutrition basics, cooking skills, food safety, and healthy habits.
Food Foundations is not a medical or healthcare provider, registered dietitian service, substitute for professional medical or nutritional care, licensed childcare provider, emergency service, or government agency.
Educational purpose
The website, workshops, and materials are provided for general educational purposes.
They are not intended to diagnose or treat a medical condition, replace medical care, provide an individualized diet, or respond to an emergency.
A participant with a serious allergy, medical condition, prescribed diet, eating disorder, or individualized concern should consult an appropriate licensed professional.
In an emergency, contact emergency services and responsible venue staff. Do not use the website, email, or workshop communications to seek emergency help.
Use by minors
The website’s general inquiry, workshop, volunteer, partnership, and registration functions are intended for adults.
Children under 13 should not independently submit personal information.
A parent, guardian, educator, or other authorized adult should handle registration, scheduling, participation permission, allergy information, dietary information, and media permission for a child.
Minors who use educational materials should have appropriate adult guidance.
Workshop requests and confirmation
Submitting a form, sending an email, requesting a date, or attending an introductory call does not confirm a workshop.
A workshop is confirmed only after the relevant parties agree on scheduling, location, staffing, supervision, program content, food rules, safety requirements, and required paperwork.
Food Foundations does not guarantee that a workshop request, volunteer inquiry, partnership proposal, or requested date will be accepted.
Participation and host responsibilities
Participation may depend on registration, parent or guardian permission, host approval, age or grade limits, attendance capacity, supervision, accessibility arrangements, food policies, and completion of required forms.
When a workshop is hosted by a school, museum, community center, or other organization, that organization may remain responsible for:
- Official attendance and participant rosters
- Parent or guardian consent
- Supervision
- Emergency contacts and procedures
- Allergy and health records
- Behavior policies
- Accessibility procedures
- Venue and food-service rules
Food Foundations facilitators provide educational instruction. They do not provide independent childcare.
Responsible host staff should remain present or available as agreed.
Accurate information and authorization
Information submitted to Food Foundations must be accurate and provided by someone authorized to submit it.
A person may not impersonate someone else, register a child without authorization, provide false consent, conceal relevant safety information, or submit another person’s confidential information without permission.
Do not submit sensitive information that a form does not request.
Food Foundations may disregard or reject information that appears incomplete, inaccurate, unauthorized, or unsafe.
Consent
Permission to participate does not automatically include permission for food tasting, photography, video, audio recording, testimonials, or public use of a person’s name or story.
Separate permission may be required for those activities.
A school or partner may administer its own consent process. Food Foundations may rely on the host’s documented confirmation that the required permission was obtained, subject to the applicable agreement.
Food activities, allergies, and safety
Some workshops may include food preparation or tasting.
Food is served only when approved through the applicable program or venue process.
Food Foundations may change an ingredient, remove an ingredient, substitute a non-food activity, ask the host to provide approved materials, postpone an activity, or avoid serving food.
Parents, guardians, participants, and host organizations are responsible for providing accurate and timely allergy, dietary, accessibility, and safety information.
Food Foundations cannot guarantee that any ingredient, product, surface, preparation area, or facility is completely free from allergens or cross-contact.
Parents, guardians, and responsible venue staff must decide whether a food activity is appropriate for a particular child.
Photos, video, recording, and testimonials
Virtual sessions are not recorded by default.
Workshop participation does not automatically authorize use of a participant’s name, image, voice, recording, testimonial, or personal story.
Identifiable media involving a child may be used only through an appropriate consent process involving a parent, guardian, authorized adult, or responsible host organization.
Declining optional media permission does not, by itself, prevent participation in an otherwise available workshop.
Participants and visitors may not record, photograph, publish, or redistribute workshop content in violation of privacy expectations, consent requirements, venue rules, or partner agreements.
Communications involving children
Food Foundations team members and volunteers should not use personal social-media or messaging accounts to establish private relationships with child participants.
Program communications involving a child should ordinarily include a parent, guardian, educator, school representative, or another responsible adult.
An exception may apply when immediate communication is reasonably necessary to address a safety concern.
Volunteer inquiries
Submitting a volunteer inquiry does not guarantee acceptance, placement, a particular assignment, direct work with children, or access to a partner location.
A volunteer may need to provide contact information, availability, experience, a résumé, references, identification, training records, or partner-required clearance documents.
Food Foundations or a partner may decline or end a placement when requirements are incomplete or continued participation would create a safety, conduct, scheduling, or operational concern.
Partner inquiries
Submitting a workshop or partnership request does not guarantee approval, a specific date, a particular facilitator, a certain attendance capacity, food preparation, food tasting, or a continuing relationship.
Program details depend on staffing, scheduling, venue approval, supervision, safety conditions, food rules, allergies, required paperwork, and available materials.
Changes, substitutions, and cancellations
Food Foundations may modify, substitute, postpone, or cancel an activity because of safety concerns, scheduling conflicts, staffing limitations, illness, weather, venue closure, missing paperwork, allergy concerns, food-policy restrictions, material availability, or partner instructions.
We will make reasonable efforts to notify the appropriate adult or partner contact of a material change.
Intellectual property
Original Food Foundations content may include website text, lesson plans, worksheets, presentations, graphics, workshop materials, branding, and other educational resources.
Unless otherwise stated, that material belongs to Food Foundations or is used with permission. Third-party material remains subject to the rights and licenses of its owner.
A person may view publicly available materials, download materials offered for download, share direct links, and use approved materials for personal or noncommercial educational purposes.
Copyright, attribution, trademark, and ownership notices must remain in place.
Without written permission, a person may not:
- Sell or commercially license Food Foundations materials
- Claim authorship of the materials
- Remove attribution or ownership notices
- Use Food Foundations branding to imply an unauthorized relationship
- Use the Food Foundations name or logo in a misleading way
- Copy substantial material into a commercial product
- Alter materials to make misleading medical, nutrition, or safety claims
Prohibited conduct
A person may not use the website, forms, or materials to violate the law, harass or exploit another person, collect children’s information without authorization, distribute malware, interfere with the website, gain unauthorized access, submit spam, impersonate Food Foundations, misrepresent a partnership, publish confidential participant information, or infringe another person’s rights.
Food Foundations may restrict access, disregard a submission, or end participation connected with prohibited conduct.
Third-party services and links
The website may link to or use third-party services for hosting, forms, email, file storage, scheduling, social media, video meetings, or educational resources.
Those services operate under their own terms and privacy policies. Food Foundations does not control their availability, security, accuracy, content, or independent information practices.
A link does not necessarily mean that Food Foundations endorses every statement, service, or product offered by the third party.
The current website at foodfoundationsproject.org is custom coded, its source code is maintained through GitHub, and it is deployed and hosted through Vercel.
Payments, donations, and accounts
The website does not currently accept donations or payments or allow visitors to create user accounts.
These terms should be updated before any of those features are introduced.
Website availability and accuracy
Food Foundations tries to keep its public information accurate and available, but it does not promise that every page, link, resource, date, or program description will always be current, complete, uninterrupted, or free from technical errors.
Food Foundations may change or remove website content and public materials when needed.
Disclaimer of warranties
To the extent permitted by law, the website and general educational materials are provided on an “as available” basis.
Food Foundations does not make warranties that are not expressly stated in writing.
Nothing in these terms excludes a right or warranty that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, Food Foundations is not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses resulting solely from access to, use of, or inability to use the public website.
This limitation does not excuse intentional misconduct or gross negligence, limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited, override a separate written agreement, or remove rights provided by applicable law.
Separate agreements
A separate written agreement involving Food Foundations and a school, museum, community center, parent, guardian, volunteer, or partner may include different or additional terms.
The separate written agreement controls when it conflicts with these general Terms of Use.
Governing law and enforceability
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without applying a rule that would require another jurisdiction’s laws to govern.
If a provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.
Nothing in these terms waives a right that cannot legally be waived.
Changes to these terms
Food Foundations may update these Terms of Use when its website, programs, forms, technology, or partnerships change.
The updated version will show a revised “Last updated” date and will apply to later use of the website.
Contact
Questions about these Terms of Use may be sent to:
Food Foundations Project
Email: thefoodfoundationsproject@gmail.com