Conditions governing the use of this website

It is a condition that those using this site only do so if they accept the following conditions and any specific conditions associated with the spreadsheets, Ebooks or subscription services.

I have included a range of calculators e.g. aids for determining yield, milk component retention in cheese manufacture, ice-cream mix composition and the F-value of thermal processes. Wizards to help students produce correctly cited references have also been included. These aids are included for the use of students and trainees and are not intended for commercial use or to replace support from lecturers and tutors.

It is a condition of using this website that you accept that you use all software and educational material at your own risk including any that you obtained after donation and download.

I accept no liability and cannot be held accountable for any losses/damages/problems/consequences arising from the use or interpretation of any material that I have provided for educational use including any errors made by me or others.

The general conditions concerning donation and use of spreadsheet and subscription services are given at https://www.dairyscience.info/index.php/technology/181-spreadsheets.html .

If you do not accept these, and the conditions below, please do not use this site.

PRIVACY  AND COOKIE POLICY

Dairy Science and Food Technology (DSFT) does not collect personal information, with the exception of Email addresses, of people using subscription services. E-mail data will be kept securely in accordance with UK-data protection legislation until deleted.  This data will not be sold, given or shared with anyone unless required by law enforcement agencies.

Cookie policy
We use cookies on this site. These include cookies that are required to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features in accordance with current EU and UK legislation. In addition, we also use cookies provided by Google (Google Analytics and the Google DoubleClick cookie).

The Google Analytics cookie collects information about how people use DSFT so that we can provide a better service to users.

The DoubleClick cookie is used by Google to serve adverts on this site that they consider may be of interest to you. DSFT uses this Google service to help defray operating costs through Google-generated advertising. If the site moves to a subscription-only service this facility will not be required and will be removed.

For information on Google's privacy policy please refer to "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services – Privacy & Terms – Google". 

What is a cookie?
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You can delete or block most cookies by following the instructions given in your browser's operating instructions, usually accessed using the help button or link. The "About Cookies organisation" provides detailed instructions on how to manage cookies for many browsers working on PCs and Macs.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR VIEWS EXPRESSED ON THE DSFT WEBSITE

The views expressed are either mine or those of the other contributors. Note contributing authors, including those posting in the forum, are solely responsible for the content of their articles including all views and statements made. 

 Where I have listed URLs of other sites no guarantees are made that any of the links on these pages still work, or are appropriate for your intended use. Site URLs change and others sometimes use these previously appropriate links for purposes that may be offensive or illegal. It is not my intention to direct anyone to sites other than those that contain academically relevant 'food-related content. If you find a broken link or that a link has been changed please let me know and I will modify the link or remove the reference to that link on this site.

 I am not medically qualified and this site is not intended to be a source of medical or nutritional advice for anyone. If you read material that you consider to have health or nutritional significance to you, please discuss any action that you are considering with a qualified medical practitioner.

 I am not responsible for the views and statements in articles written by site contributors other than me.

 USERS' CONDUCT ON THIS WEB SITE

While using this website, you should not: post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, or objectionable information of any kind, including encouraging unlawful conduct; post or exploit any information, software or other material obtained through this website for commercial purposes (other than as expressly permitted by me and where I am the copyright holder); upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, or distribute, information, software or other material obtained through this site without my permission; or upload, post, publish, reproduce, transmit or distribute any element or part of this web site since the web site is copyrighted to me.

ACCESS FOR USERS WHO ARE BLIND, HAVE IMPAIRED VISION OR HAVE DIFFICULTIES WITH PARTICULAR COLOURS

 I have tried to make this site as accessible as I can for people who are blind or have difficulty with particular colours. Most pages have been viewed using a text-based browser called Lynx and should meet the requirements of several software packages that translate text to speech. Any problems please Email me and tell me what is wrong. I will try to change the site coding to help you.

 

Dr Michael Mullan, FIFST
Dairy Science and Food Technology website