These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of darkoslivar.com (the "Website"). The Website presents the work of Darko Slivar, including cookbooks, recipes, cooking workshops, media appearances, collaborations, and related projects.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the Website.
1. About the Website
The Website is operated by Darko Slivar in Split, Croatia.
Contact details
Email: contact@darkoslivar.com
Telephone: +385 91 504 5497
Location: Split, Croatia
The Website is primarily an informational and promotional website. Unless clearly stated otherwise, it does not directly process cookbook payments or automatically confirm workshop bookings, collaborations, or other professional engagements.
2. Using the Website
You may browse and use the Website for lawful, personal, and informational purposes in accordance with these Terms.
Your responsibilities
When using the Website, you agree to:
Provide accurate information when submitting an enquiry or joining a waitlist.
Use the Website in a lawful and respectful manner.
Respect the intellectual-property rights connected to the Website and its content.
Avoid conduct that could damage, disable, overload, interfere with, or compromise the Website or its security.
You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Website complies with the laws that apply to you.
3. Informational Content
The Website may contain information about food, cooking, ingredients, culinary techniques, workshops, cookbooks, wellness, or future projects. This content is provided for general information and inspiration.
No medical or nutritional advice
Nothing on the Website is intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent a medical condition. References to nutrition, wellness, ingredients, or dietary practices are not a substitute for advice from a qualified doctor, registered dietitian, nutrition professional, or other appropriate healthcare provider.
You should seek professional advice before making decisions that may affect your health, particularly if you have an allergy, intolerance, medical condition, take medication, are pregnant, or have specific dietary requirements.
Accuracy and updates
We aim to keep the Website useful and accurate, but culinary information, availability, external links, event details, and project plans may change. We do not promise that every item of information will always be complete, current, or free from minor errors.
4. Recipes, Allergies, and Food Safety
Recipes and cooking information can be affected by ingredient brands, substitutions, equipment, altitude, oven differences, portion sizes, storage, and individual technique. Your results may differ from those shown or described on the Website.
Allergies and dietary requirements
You are responsible for checking every ingredient and product label for allergens and suitability. An ingredient described as suitable for a particular diet may still be produced, stored, or served in an environment where cross-contamination can occur.
If you have a serious allergy, intolerance, or dietary restriction, obtain appropriate professional advice and verify ingredients directly with the relevant manufacturer, retailer, venue, or workshop organiser.
Safe preparation
You are responsible for following safe food-handling, storage, hygiene, and cooking practices. Use appropriate care with heat, knives, appliances, raw ingredients, and other kitchen equipment, and follow applicable public-health guidance and manufacturers’ instructions.
5. Cookbooks and External Purchases
The Website may display Darko Slivar’s cookbooks and provide links to bookshops, publishers, marketplaces, or other external sellers.
Third-party retailers
Unless the Website expressly states otherwise, purchases are completed on the external retailer’s website. The external retailer, rather than this Website, is responsible for its prices, taxes, stock, payment processing, delivery, cancellation rights, returns, refunds, warranties, customer service, and purchase terms.
Please review the retailer’s product details, terms, and privacy policy before completing a purchase. A link from this Website does not guarantee that an item is currently available or that the external information is accurate.
Consumer rights
Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory consumer right available to you under applicable Croatian, European Union, or other consumer-protection law. Questions about an external purchase should normally be directed to the retailer that accepted the order and payment.
6. Cooking Workshops
The Website may describe cooking workshops or allow you to submit a workshop enquiry.
Enquiries are not confirmed bookings
Submitting a form, email, or message does not create a confirmed booking or require either party to proceed. A workshop is confirmed only when the essential details have been agreed and you receive express confirmation from Darko Slivar or an authorised organiser.
Separate booking terms
A confirmed workshop may be subject to separate terms covering the date, location, number of participants, accessibility, dietary requirements, price, payment schedule, cancellation, rescheduling, photography, and venue rules. Where separate written terms are supplied for a workshop, those terms apply to that booking in addition to these Website Terms.
You must provide relevant allergy, accessibility, and dietary information requested for a workshop. We cannot guarantee an allergen-free environment unless this is expressly confirmed in writing.
7. Collaborations, Media, and Professional Enquiries
The Website may allow visitors to propose media appearances, podcasts, television work, partnerships, brand collaborations, events, or other professional opportunities.
Submitting a proposal does not create a partnership, agency, employment, confidential, or contractual relationship. An arrangement exists only after the relevant parties agree to its essential terms.
Confidential information
Please do not send trade secrets, embargoed material, or other highly confidential information through a general website form. If confidential information is required for a potential collaboration, appropriate confidentiality arrangements should be agreed first.
8. Waitlists and Email Updates
You may be able to join a waitlist or request updates about a forthcoming project. Joining a waitlist does not guarantee access, availability, a particular launch date, pricing, or acceptance into a future service.
You can stop receiving optional updates by using an unsubscribe method provided in the message or by emailing contact@darkoslivar.com. The collection and use of your personal information is described in the Website’s Privacy Policy.
9. Intellectual Property
The Website and its original content are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
Protected material
Unless otherwise indicated, Darko Slivar or the relevant rights holder owns or controls the rights in the Website’s original written content, cookbook excerpts, recipe presentation, photographs, videos, graphics, artwork, branding, logos, downloadable materials, and overall design, to the extent those elements are legally protected.
Third-party names, photographs, book covers, retailer marks, and other third-party materials remain the property of their respective owners.
Personal use
You may view the Website and make reasonable personal, non-commercial use of its publicly available content. You may share an ordinary link to a public page, provided you do not suggest an endorsement, partnership, or affiliation that does not exist.
Uses requiring permission
Unless permitted by law or authorised in writing, you may not:
Reproduce, republish, sell, license, or commercially exploit substantial Website content.
Copy photographs, branding, videos, book material, or original editorial content for another website, publication, product, advertisement, or social-media account.
Remove or alter copyright, attribution, trademark, or other ownership notices.
Present Website content as your own or use it in a misleading context.
Systematically collect Website content or data through scraping or automated extraction, except for ordinary search-engine indexing or another use permitted by law.
To request content permission, contact contact@darkoslivar.com and identify the material and intended use.
10. Information You Submit
You retain ownership of the original content you send through an enquiry, including the text of your message and any materials you are authorised to provide.
By submitting information, you confirm that you have the right to send it and that it does not unlawfully infringe another person’s rights. You permit us to receive, store, review, copy, and use the submitted information only as reasonably necessary to respond to your request, evaluate a proposal, provide an agreed service, maintain records, or comply with legal obligations.
Do not submit unlawful, abusive, defamatory, fraudulent, malicious, or rights-infringing material.
11. Prohibited Conduct
You must not use the Website to:
Break any applicable law or encourage unlawful conduct.
Impersonate another person or misrepresent your identity or authority.
Transmit malware, harmful code, spam, or deceptive messages.
Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, its hosting environment, forms, accounts, or connected systems.
Interfere with security features, rate limits, access controls, or the normal operation of the Website.
Harvest personal information about other people without a lawful basis.
Use Website content in a way that infringes intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights.
We may restrict access or disregard submissions where reasonably necessary to protect the Website, its users, or our legal rights.
12. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may link to external bookshops, publishers, social-media platforms, event providers, media outlets, maps, or other services. These links are provided for convenience and information.
We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their availability, security, content, products, pricing, data practices, or terms. A link does not necessarily mean that we endorse every statement, product, or service offered by the third party.
Your use of an external service is governed by that service’s own terms and privacy policy.
13. Website Availability and Security
We may update, change, suspend, or remove Website content or functionality when reasonably necessary. We do not guarantee that the Website will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, compatible with every device, or free from technical errors.
You are responsible for using appropriate device security and for maintaining your own backups of any information you consider important. You must not rely on the Website as the sole storage location for information.
14. Disclaimers
The Website and its general informational content are provided on an “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not make warranties that the Website will meet every user’s requirements or that every external link, event detail, recipe outcome, or third-party offer will remain available or unchanged.
These disclaimers do not override any express promise made in a separately agreed contract and do not limit rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
15. Liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Darko Slivar is not responsible for loss or damage caused by:
Misuse of the Website or failure to follow these Terms.
Reliance on general culinary, wellness, or nutritional information as a substitute for professional advice.
Unsafe food preparation, undisclosed allergies, unsuitable substitutions, or failure to follow product and equipment instructions.
The acts, omissions, products, services, content, or systems of an independent third party.
Events outside reasonable control that affect Website availability.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. If you are a consumer, these Terms do not remove any mandatory legal remedy or protection available to you.
16. Privacy
The Website’s Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected and used when you browse the Website, submit an enquiry, or join a waitlist. Please read it together with these Terms.
17. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms when the Website, its services, or applicable legal requirements change. The revised version will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
Changes apply from the date they are posted. Any separate agreement already entered into will continue to be governed by the terms applicable to that agreement unless the parties lawfully agree otherwise.
18. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Croatia, subject to any mandatory rules that apply.
Consumers
If you are a consumer living in another country, this choice of law does not deprive you of mandatory protections provided by the law of your country of residence. You may also have the right to bring a claim in a court available to you under applicable consumer law.
Resolving concerns
If you have a concern about the Website, please contact contact@darkoslivar.com first so we can try to resolve it. If a dispute cannot be resolved informally, it may be submitted to the competent courts or another dispute-resolution body available under applicable law.
19. Severability
If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that part will be interpreted or limited only as far as necessary. The remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.
20. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
Darko Slivar
Email: contact@darkoslivar.com
Telephone: +385 91 504 5497
Location: Split, Croatia