RateTea Terms of Use
RateTea is owned and managed by Merit Exchange LLC.
By using the RateTea website, you consent to our use of your information as described in our privacy policy, you agree to respect our copyright notice, and you agree to these terms of use:
- You agree that you will only create one account on this site, and to use a valid email address that is used solely by yourself and that you actively check.
- You agree to post only honest reviews of tea based on your own personal experiences. Reviews without any verbal explanation of the numerical rating, reviews containing advertising or promotional language, unbacked assertions about health effects (cautiously sharing personal experiences can be okay), or reviews/ratings that show little regard for the flavor, aroma, and other characteristics of the tea are not considered honest reviews.
- You agree to be respectful towards all other users on the site, and to the companies whose teas you are reviewing. Respectful reviews may offer constructive criticism and specific criticism, but rants, personal attacks, and sweeping negative generalizations about a company are considered disrespectful.
- You agree to identify any relationship you have with any tea manufacturer or distributor. If you or someone in your immediate family is employed by or has an interest in such a company, you agree to refrain from rating the teas of any brand you are associated with. Although it is acceptabel to offer free samples to people in exchange for reviews, you agree not to offer any incentives or compensation to anyone in exchange for favorable reviews.
- You agree to contact RateTea and obtain explicit consent on a case-by-case basis before engaging in any attempts at hacking or exploiting security vulnerabilities in the website.
- You agree not to hold RateTea (Merit Exchange LLC) liable for any effects caused by drinking tea or herbal tea, any effects caused by the functioning or malfunctioning of this website, or any effects related to any information and content on this website.
- You agree to abide by the law in your use of RateTea.
- You agree not to post any advertisement for any website or product (spamming) in any of your reviews or anywhere on RateTea, except where allowed in your profile, or when linking to extended reviews on a blog or website. (Comparisons by analogy to other teas are ok, when they are descriptive and relevant to the review at hand.)
Foreign (non-English) languages
We are an English-language website, and we do not yet have support for other languages. As such we currently only accept content in English. We will, however, list companies and teas whose websites and marketing material is in other languages, translating it into English to whatever degree possible.
If you wish to publish reviews here, your options are to publish reviews in English, or wait until we add support for other languages. We do not have any estimated date of when we would do this, however. Non-english reviews will currently not be published.
Deletion of material
We reserve the right to delete any material for any reason and at any time.
We will delete material and cancel accounts that we find to be in violation of these terms of use.
We may share or publicly display personally-identifiable information associated with violation of these terms of use. See our privacy policy for more information.
