Acceptable Use
These rules are part of the Terms of Service. They protect the people in your group and the people in other groups.
Condition reports
- Report only what you saw or measured yourself.
- Do not post a report you know is false, a guess presented as fact, or an old report presented as new.
- A false or careless report can mislead other skippers about the sea. Other people may act on it.
- If you find that your report was wrong, correct or delete it.
Other people's positions
A person chooses how much of their position others can see. That choice must be respected.
- Do not try to find out a position that a person's sharing mode hides. This includes working it out from other data, or using another account or tool.
- Do not take screenshots of other boats' positions, or copy them, and share them outside the group.
- Do not use the service to track, police or discipline a person against their sharing choice. A group may not make a person change their sharing mode as a condition of work, quota or discipline.
- Do not pass on a position you were shown to anyone who is not in that group.
Keeping the service working
- Do not scrape or copy data in bulk.
- Do not overload the service or run automated requests without our written permission.
- Do not try to break, probe or get around security, sign-in or access controls.
- Do not use someone else's account. Do not let anyone use yours.
- Do not upload anything harmful, such as malware.
The law
Do not use the service for anything unlawful, or to help someone else do something unlawful.
If the rules are broken
We may:
- warn you;
- limit what you can do, for example turn off posting;
- suspend or remove your account.
We pick the step that fits what happened. We may act at once if we believe someone is at risk or our systems are. We will tell you why when we can. Your fleet admin may also be told. If you think we got it wrong, write to [PRIVACY CONTACT EMAIL].
[LAWYER: confirm that the rules on sharing positions and on a group's use of the service are enforceable and consistent with the Data Ownership and Sharing Agreement and with employment or fishery rules that may apply.]