Terms and Conditions

Agreement between User and www.kaizensantacruz.com

Welcome to www.kaizensantacruz.com. The www.kaizensantacruz.com website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages operated by Kaizen Kitchen. www.kaizensantacruz.com is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of www.kaizensantacruz.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

www.kaizensantacruz.com is a Blog and Restaurnat Site.

The website for Kaizen Kitchen is designed to encapsulate and communicate the essence of the restaurant’s culinary philosophy, offerings, and spirit of continuous improvement, blending Japanese and Hawaiian cuisines to create a unique dining experience. It aims to inform visitors about the innovative menu, featuring high-quality ramen and poke bowls, and to invite them to experience the flavors that embody the fusion of tradition with a modern twist. Additionally, the site serves as a hub for engaging with the community through essential visiting information and extends its reach by monetizing through a blog, integrating affiliate links and ad space for related content and products. This multifaceted approach not only enriches the visitor’s experience with valuable content but also contributes to the restaurant’s revenue, marrying passion with pragmatism in a digital space.

Privacy

Your use of www.kaizensantacruz.com is subject to Kaizen Kitchen’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting www.kaizensantacruz.com or sending emails to Kaizen Kitchen constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Children Under Thirteen

Kaizen Kitchen does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use www.kaizensantacruz.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.

Cancellation/Refund Policy

At Kaizen Kitchen, ensuring our guests’ satisfaction is paramount, and we recognize that sometimes, despite our best efforts, there might be aspects of your dining experience that don’t meet expectations. If you find yourself less than satisfied with a meal purchased directly from us, we encourage you to discuss this with our staff immediately. We are keen to address your concerns promptly, offering a meal replacement or a refund where appropriate, to ensure your dining experience aligns with our high standards of quality and service.

For refunds, we request that this is brought to our attention before you leave our premises to allow us the opportunity to rectify the situation on the spot. Refunds will be processed in the original method of payment, and the time frame for this to reflect in your account will depend on your bank’s policies.

We also understand that our guests might choose to order our food through third-party delivery services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats. Should there be any issues with orders placed through these platforms, we advise our guests to take up their concerns directly with the respective service provider. These platforms have their own support teams and policies to address and resolve any issues that may arise.

Additionally, for guests who have purchased Kaizen Kitchen branded merchandise and wish to inquire about refunds, please reach out to us at info@kaizensantacruz.com. Our team will assist you with the refund process for any merchandise concerns.

Please note that our refund policy does not extend to items purchased through affiliate links on our website. These transactions are subject to the terms and conditions of the third-party vendors. Should there be any issues with products or services acquired through these links, it is best to contact the vendor directly for resolution.

At Kaizen Kitchen, our guest-first philosophy guides everything we do, from the meals we craft to the policies we implement. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation, and we look forward to w

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

www.kaizensantacruz.com may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Kaizen Kitchen and Kaizen Kitchen is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Kaizen Kitchen is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Kaizen Kitchen of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via www.kaizensantacruz.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the www.kaizensantacruz.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Kaizen Kitchen may share such information and data with any third party with whom Kaizen Kitchen has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of www.kaizensantacruz.com users and customers.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property

You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use www.kaizensantacruz.com strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Site, you warrant to Kaizen Kitchen that you will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Kaizen Kitchen or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.

You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site. Kaizen Kitchen content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Kaizen Kitchen and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Kaizen Kitchen or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Third Party Accounts

You will be able to connect your Kaizen Kitchen account to third party accounts. By connecting your Kaizen Kitchen account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with your privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Kaizen Kitchen from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the Kaizen Kitchen Content accessed through www.kaizensantacruz.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Kaizen Kitchen, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Kaizen Kitchen reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Kaizen Kitchen in asserting any available defenses.

Arbitration

In the event the parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these Terms and Conditions, or any provisions hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relief, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator’s award shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding or arbitration arises out of or concerns these Terms and Conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney’s fees. The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these Terms and Conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including Tort claims that are a result of these Terms and Conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions.

Class Action Waiver

Any arbitration under these Terms and Conditions will take place on an individual basis; class arbitrations and class/representative/collective actions are not permitted. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT A PARTY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN EACH’S INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PUTATIVE CLASS, COLLECTIVE AND/ OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, SUCH AS IN THE FORM OF A PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION AGAINST THE OTHER. Further, unless both you and Kaizen Kitchen agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. KAIZEN KITCHEN AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

KAIZEN KITCHEN AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. KAIZEN KITCHEN AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL KAIZEN KITCHEN AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF KAIZEN KITCHEN OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.

Termination/Access Restriction

Kaizen Kitchen reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of California and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in California in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Kaizen Kitchen as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Kaizen Kitchen’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Kaizen Kitchen’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Kaizen Kitchen with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Kaizen Kitchen with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Kaizen Kitchen with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.

Changes to Terms

Kaizen Kitchen reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.kaizensantacruz.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Kaizen Kitchen encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Contact Us

Kaizen Kitchen welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:

Kaizen Kitchen

256 Potrero St.

Santa Cruz, California 95060

Email Address:

info@kaizensantacruz.com

Telephone number:

8315762775

Effective as of January 01, 2024