Terms of use

1. What this site is

Brinewater Taffy Journal is an independent editorial publication about salt water taffy, candy-counter culture and home confectionery craft. It is a reading experience, not a shop. We do not sell candy, take orders, process payments, or ship anything, and no page on this site forms an offer of sale.

2. Editorial content and ownership

All written copy, layout, illustration and code on this site were produced for this publication. The text and the original SVG artwork are ours. You are welcome to quote a short passage with clear attribution and a note that the piece first appeared here, but wholesale republication, scraping for content farms, and rehosting of the illustrations are not permitted.

• Quoting a paragraph with credit: fine.
• Republishing an article in full, on any platform: not fine.
• Using our illustrations in a product listing or advertisement: not fine.
• Printing a page for your own kitchen folder: obviously fine.

3. Acceptable use

Use the site as a reader. Do not attempt to disrupt it, probe it for vulnerabilities, mirror it automatically, or present it as your own publication. Do not use automated tools to harvest contact details. Do not frame these pages inside another site in a way that suggests our writing endorses something it does not.

4. Accuracy and changing circumstances

Confectionery technique, ingredient availability and product labeling change. We check our guidance when we publish and revise pages when something important shifts, but we cannot promise that every detail remains current or that a given technique will behave the same way in your kitchen, at your altitude, in your weather.

Your own judgment governs. If a batch smells scorched, if a sugar syrup looks wrong, or if a piece has been in a cupboard since a previous decade, trust your senses over an article.

5. No professional advice

Nothing here is nutritional, dietary, medical or food-safety advice. Our editorial disclaimer covers this in more detail. If you have dietary restrictions or an allergy concern, read the label of the product you actually bought — not a magazine.

6. Third-party destinations

This site deliberately contains no outbound commercial links. The only links present point to other pages of this publication or open your own email program via a mailto: address. If a future edition ever links outward, that destination's own terms and privacy practices will apply once you leave our pages.

7. Availability

We host these pages as a static site and keep them online when we can. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, and we may revise, retitle, expand or retire sections as the journal develops.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brinewater Taffy Journal and its contributors are not liable for losses arising from your use of this site or from decisions you make after reading it — including, but not limited to, a batch of taffy that seized, a party that ran out of favors, or a guest who did not appreciate licorice.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the publication grows. The date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision, and continuing to read the site after a change means you accept the revised version.

10. Getting in touch

Questions about reuse, corrections, or anything in these terms: desk.brinewater@gmail.com, or by post at Brinewater Taffy Journal, 18 Harbor Lane, Camden, ME 04843.

Read alongside our privacy policy and editorial disclaimer.