Marine‑Pilots.com
Terms of Use
Welcome to the Marine-Pilots.com website (the "Website").
Marine-Pilots.com provides this Website and Services (located at www.Marine-Pilots.com) to you subject to the notices, terms, and conditions set forth in these terms (the "Terms of Use"). In addition, when you use any of our Services, you will be subject to the rules, guidelines, policies, terms, and conditions applicable to such service, and they are incorporated into this Terms of Use by this reference.
These Terms of Use are effective as of February 1st, 2020.
Your eligibility for use of the Website is contingent upon meeting the following conditions:
- You use the Website and Services according to these Terms of Use and all applicable laws and regulations determined by the state and country of residence.
- You provide complete and accurate registration information with your real name and maintain accurate registration information on the Website. No Nicknames are allowed.
- You agree and understand that Marine-Pilots.com may, at any time, and without prior notice, revoke and/or cancel your access if you fail to meet these criteria or violate any portion of these Terms of Use.
Use of this Website
In connection with your use of our Website, you must act responsibly and exercise good judgment. Without limiting the foregoing, you will not:
- Violate any local, state, provincial, national, or other law or regulation, or any order of a court.
- Infringe the rights of any person or entity, including without limitation, their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights.
- Interfere with or damage our Services, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial-of-service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology.
- Use automated scripts to collect information or otherwise interact with the Services or the Website.
- Enter into this agreement on behalf of another person or entity without consent or the legal capacity to make such agreements as a representative of an organization or entity.
Rules of comment forum
There are some rules that all discussion participants must follow:
- Insults have no place in the discussions. If you disagree with an article or comment, criticize its contents and do not attack the author.
- Discrimination and defamation of other users and social groups on the basis of their religion, origin, nationality, disability, income, sexual orientation, age or gender is expressly prohibited.
- Defamation as well as statements damaging to business and reputation may not be distributed.
- We will remove any unverifiable allegations and suspicions that are not supported by credible arguments or sources. Please make every effort to obtain verifiable statements.
- Advertising and other commercial content has no place in the discussions. Also refrain from referring to your blog or website in any of your comments. - Your user profile is used for this purpose.
- Personal and personal data of others may not be published by you. Please also consider carefully which of your own data you make freely available on the Internet.
- You must own the rights to distribute the content you publish. If you reproduce third-party content, please ensure that it is released for distribution. - Poems are also generally protected by copyright. Therefore never publish more than short excerpts.
- Quotations must be clearly marked as such and should be used as sparingly as possible. Always indicate the source of your quotation. In addition, always use quotations to supplement your own statements instead of giving you a large part of your contribution.
- Links may be used in comments, for example to refer to further information on a topic. Marine-Pilots.com is not responsible for the linked contents and does not systematically check them. However, we reserve the right to remove links if the linked content violates the rules listed here.
- The moderators of Marine-Pilots.com may at any time delete comments that contradict any of the above rules or the general "Terms of Use".
- The opinions expressed by users of the forum are explicitly their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of the editorial staff of Marine-Pilots.com.
Intellectual Property
All code, text, software, scripts, graphics, files, photos, images, logos, and materials contained on this Website, or within the Services, are the sole property of Marine-Pilots.com.
Unauthorized use of any materials contained on this Website or within the Service may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and/or other regulations and statutes. If you believe that any of the materials infringe on any third party's rights, please contact Marine-Pilots.com immediately at the address provided below.
Third Party Websites
Our Website may link you to other sites on the Internet or otherwise include references to information, documents, software, materials and/or services provided by other parties. These websites may contain information or material that some people may find inappropriate or offensive.
These other websites and parties are not under our control, and you acknowledge that we are not responsible for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of such sites, nor are we responsible for errors or omissions in any references to other parties or their products and services. The inclusion of such a link or reference is provided merely as a convenience and does not imply endorsement of, or association with, the Website or party by us, or any warranty of any kind, either express or implied.
Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
THE WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL SERVICES, FEATURES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS AND MATERIALS PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEB SITE, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, DATA PROCESSING SERVICES, UPTIME OR UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, PLAYABILITY, DISPLAYABILITY, ACCURACY, PRECISION, CORRECTNESS, THOROUGHNESS, COMPLETENESS, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, AND ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND WE HEREBY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, EXPRESS AND IMPLIED. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEB SITE SERVICES, CONTENT, FUNCTIONS OR MATERIALS PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEB SITE WILL BE TIMELY, SECURE, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT THE WEB SITE OR THE PROVIDED SERVICES WILL MEET USERS' REQUIREMENTS. NO ADVICE, RESULTS OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR THROUGH THE WEB SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN. WE AND OUR AFFILIATES ALSO ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY, AND SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR, ANY DAMAGES TO, OR VIRUSES THAT MAY INFECT, YOUR EQUIPMENT ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR BROWSING IN THE WEB SITE OR YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIALS, DATA, TEXT, IMAGES, VIDEO CONTENT, OR AUDIO CONTENT FROM THE WEB SITE. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE WEB SITE, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE WEB SITE.
Changes to these Terms of Use
Marine-Pilots.com retains the right to, at any time, modify or discontinue, any or all parts of the Website without notice.
Additionally, Marine-Pilots.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify these Terms of Use at any time, effective by posting new terms on the Website with the date of modification. You are responsible for reading and understanding the terms of this agreement prior to registering with, or using the Service. Your use of the Website and/or Services after any such modification has been published constitutes your acceptance of the new terms as modified in these Terms of Use.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of, or related to them, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the de without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule.
Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of Germany.