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Terms of Use
Last updated: November 9, 2026
These terms govern your use of PairingPlates (pairingplates.com), a site about cheese boards, wine pairings, and charcuterie hosting. By using the site, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
What this site is
PairingPlates publishes hosting guides and interactive tools — a cheese pairing generator, a wine pairing tool, and a charcuterie board builder — that turn guest counts and party types into quantities, pairings, and shopping lists. The serving math is our own, worked from party logs; food-safety limits and regulatory figures come from official sources named on each page, such as the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and FoodSafety.gov.
General information, not professional advice
Everything on this site is general information for home hosts. It is not professional food-safety, medical, dietary, or legal advice. Food-safety guidance here follows official sources, but conditions in your kitchen — temperature, time out of refrigeration, the health of your guests — are yours to judge. Perishable food should never sit out longer than two hours (one hour above 90 °F), per the USDA. If you serve someone with allergies, a medical condition, or a restricted diet, check with them directly and, where needed, with a qualified professional. Wine guidance concerns alcohol; drink responsibly and only where you are of legal drinking age.
Using the tools
The tools are provided free for personal, non-commercial use. Their outputs are estimates and suggestions, not guarantees: a board built from the quantities guide may still run out of brie, and a wine the tool recommends may not suit your taste. Use your judgement, and adjust quantities for your guests. Do not rely on a tool output as a substitute for checking a food-safety rule or a product label.
Content ownership and photographs
The text, tools, and layout of this site are the property of PairingPlates unless otherwise stated. You may link to any page and share short excerpts with attribution. Do not republish full guides, copy the tools, or present the site's content as your own. Food photography on this site consists of real, licensed photographs (Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Creative Commons, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA) — each image remains under its own licence, credited on the image credits page. No AI-generated imagery is used. If you are a photographer and believe a credit is wrong, or you would like a photo removed, contact us and we will correct it or remove the photo rather than argue about it.
Acceptable use
Use the site lawfully and do not interfere with its operation — no scraping at a rate that degrades the site for others, no attempts to break or bypass its protections, and no use of the site's content to mislead others. We may block access that abuses the site.
External links
Pages link to official sources (government food-safety resources, universities, regulators) for reader benefit. We are not responsible for the content of external sites, and a link is not an endorsement.
Advertising
The site does not currently display third-party advertising. If that changes, this page and the privacy policy will be updated, including how advertising cookies and data collection work.
Availability and liability
The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind. We aim to keep the guides accurate and the tools working, and we correct errors visibly when official sources change or a mistake is reported — but we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the site, its tools, or its guides, including spoiled food, an under-bought board, or a disappointing bottle. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms when the site changes. The "last updated" date above will change with each revision, and continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.
Contact
Questions about these terms: contact us or write to privacy@pairingplates.com.