Terms of Use

The Tea Guardian ( TeaGuardian.com ) is a self-financed, independent reference guide. While we gladly receive any forms of support — including advertisements and sponsorships, or works that support us such as publicity, links, contributions and voluntary works, etc — no such actions will in any way affect our editorial direction or its independence. However, all comments, opinions, and ideas concerning our editorial direction are most welcome. Please write to us at this <contact form>.

By using the Tea Guardian (TeaGuardian.com, known henceforth also as “this Site”) you agree to be bound by the terms listed in this page, which shall take effect immediately on your first access to this Site. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to this Site.

This Site may change these terms from time to time; therefore, you should check these terms regularly. Any continued use of this Site will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this Site.

You agree to use this Site only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of this Site. While using this Site, you agree to refrain from these behaviours: harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within this Site. Solicitation, spamming or promotional emails are prohibited.

User information ( confidentiality )

We do no use any of your registration details for any solicitations or self promotion purposes. Nor do we share the information with any other third parties. We send you newsletters ONLY when you subscribe to them using the newsletter subscription interface, which is different from user registration.

This applies to any information passed to us through either direct user registration or through social login such as Facebook or Twitter. However, the user has to understand that these giant social network companies do track their users’ online activities. This has nothing to do with us.

For this Site, all information given to this Site during registration or login is solely for security purposes to ensure a friendly environment for the readership community to use this Site. Information that the user fill out to share with other users is on a voluntary basis and each user is asked to do so sensibly.

Posting onto this site through any of the user interactive functionalities

User interactive functionalities where users can post contents onto this Site, including the comment function in any of the posted materials; all spaces where the user can submit contents and appear in this Site, such as in the Teashop Finder or your personal profile page; and any other similar functions that this Site may install.

You agree, through your use of these functionalities, that you will not post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you.

This Site also reserves the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. We log all internet protocol addresses accessing this website.

Please note that chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate in these functionalities, or through the contact possibilities of these functionalities. Promotions and any other advertising materials are prohibited.

We reserve the right to remove any content for any reason or no reason at all. We reserve the right to terminate any user access for any reason or no reason at all.

You must be at least 13 years of age to use these functionalities.

The email address you submitted for registration is not accessible by any other parties unless you choose to in your own personal profile page or present it publicly.

Please flag any inappropriate user content or report it to us.

Teashop Finder

Tea Guardian’s Teashop Finder (referred to as “this service” hereunder) is an open listing and review service. All information posted in this service are supplied by the user. In case you find inaccuracy or typo mistakes, please write to the listing owner for correction. You may also flag it and write a comment about the situation.

Please report to us any abuses or misuses by flagging any of the contents.

This service is intended for the betterment of all genuine entities involving in the use and understanding of tea. This Site reserves the rights to list, not list, or delist any entry by any user that to our absolute judgement does not fit that purpose. We also reserves the rights to invalidate the access of any user that to our absolute judgement is abusing or misusing this service.
This service is not responsible for the pricing, quality, or representation of products or services of any of the listed entities. The featuring of any listed entities does not mean the endorsement by this service nor by this Site.

The content of the linked sites, emails, services and products related to the listed entities are not the responsibilities of this service. This Site is not responsible for loss of any nature caused by any form of contact between the users.

The copyright or the content usage rights of the contents in each listing vest within the person, user or entity who has submitted the respective listing.

This is an imperfect world. While most readers of this site have genuine interest in tea, there may also be agents, cheaters, espionage or other smart spammers using this service to contact you through your listing here. Please respond to contacts with your common sense.

rights to intellectual properties

All copyrights, design rights, and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on this Site and all contents located on the site, including text, photographs, diagrams, drawings, designs, logos, symbols, videos and voice recordings, unless otherwise stated, shall remain vested in TeaGuardian.com and its creator Leo C.L. Kwan ( known henceforth as “the Site Owner). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use TeaGuardian.com content in any way in any context, including commercial, editorial, non-profit, educational, or any other purposes, except for your own personal reading. Any other use of the content on this Site requires the prior formal written permission from the Site Owner.

Works that are represented in this site but are not authored by the Site Owner or his associates, appointees, or staff members will be marked with the respective copyrights owners. Their copyrights should be legally respected.

Photographs or pictures which copyrights are in the public domain, such as those represented in WikiCommons, are presented in this site without the TeaGuardian.com watermark. The respective authors are credited in the captions immediately below or in the photographs or pictures.

Quoted works, quotations and citations are duly acknowledged in the text or in the footnotes.

Text, photographs, and any other contents posted onto this Site in any of the Site’s user interactive functionalities, such as in comments and in the Teashop Finder, are the responsibilities of the user who posted them. This Site does not own the respective copyrights of these contents unless they are quoted, extracted, or in any other way copied from this Site or any other sources representing that respective content from this Site.

disclaimer

Articles published by this Site

All opinions expressed in this sites represent those of the respective writers and do not necessarily represent the views and opinion of this Site or of the Site Owner.

All descriptions of the qualities of tea, teaware, plants and any other products in the writings by the Site Owner and appointed writers, but not including those by the users or other contributors of this Site, are based on the particular qualities available to the writers. These qualities represent to the writers the genuine products these names describe. Products of the same or similar names available otherwise by other individuals may or may not have the same qualities.

All writings about health are interpretation of personal experiences and readings. They reflect the understanding of the related topics by the respective writer and do not constitute any professional medical advise. A lot of the concepts and data represented in the writings are simplified for ease of reading and comprehension according to the judgement of the writers. Readers seeking more detail and precise information are advised to seek them in other appropriate channels. Readers needing health advise should consult professionals aptly qualified in the concerned topic.

All links to external websites are furnished for the reader’s reference. Posting them does not constitute any form of endorsement of the information they contain.

The reading materials listed in the bibliography may or may not be accurate in our opinion. Some are respectable scholarly works of useful references. We may or may not agree with the materials in some readings. They are part of the references that lead positively or negatively to our writers’ viewpoints. Listing them in this site does not necessarily constitute any form of endorsement or commendation.

Comments, reviews and any other contents posted by the users of this Site

Comments, reviews and any other contents posted by the users of this Site through user interactive functionalities, such as comments and postings in the Teashop Finder, represent only the views of the respective individual users. This Site or the Site Owner is not responsible in any measures any user’s views, opinions, statements, or any of their contents.

User Interface and Software updates

Tea Guardian may update the user interface and software of this service from time to time. It is possible that some or all information contained in any of the user interactive functionalities, including the data of individual users or listings, can be lost in an update. This Site is not responsible for perpetuating and retaining the said data for the users.

All other terms of this Site applies.

Please direct any correspondence concerning copyrights or usage by writing clearly your intention and scope of materials in this linked email form.