PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE
What’s in these terms?
These terms tell you the rules for using our services provided through our Website www.globalmaritimehub.com (“Website”).
Who we are and how to contact us
Global Maritime Hub is a news aggregation service we offer via the Website operated by Hub Point Media Ltd with registered address at Innishannon T12F59N Cork Ireland (“We”, “Our” “Us”) which allows users to read news from a variety of sources in one place, hereunder referred to as our “Services”. For the avoidance of doubt, we are solely a technology platform and we provide our users with an opportunity to use the Services where we solely collate content written by others in the internet and we do not in fact write any content ourselves.
To contact us, please email john(at)globalmaritimehub.com
By using our Website you accept these terms
By using our Website, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our Website.
Registration and Subscription
As a User of our Website, you will need to sign up and subscribe in order to use our Services. You will sign up with your email address and full name as well as your email address.
You will be prompted to make a user ID. Your user ID must not contain spaces, symbols, obscene or profane words, email addresses, website addresses or representations of email addresses or website addresses, or our name Website Name. You will be sent a verification email and once we are able to verify your email address, you will be bound by these terms until such time you delete your account with us.
You will also set up a password and you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose these to any third party. We are not liable for any security breach to your account.
During the registration process we allow Users to check and amend errors before submitting their details to us. The user should take the time to read and check their details are correct at each stage of the sign-up process.
Users should provide true, accurate and complete information and should not omit or misrepresent any information. Users should update their details, including but not limited to their email address, as soon as they can.
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you know your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at john(at)globalmaritimehub.com
Users will require internet connectivity and the necessary communication links in order to be able to use the Services.
Our subscription packages are listed on our Website and you will choose a subscription package as part of the registration. Once you have clicked accept, we will then charge you the subscription in accordance to what you have chosen.
If your subscription is on a monthly basis, you will pay the first installment on the date of registration and every consecutive month there after on the same date, unless you provide us with 10 days’ prior written notice that you wish to cancel your subscription.
If your subscription is on an annual basis, we will take the full year subscription fee on registration date. No cancellation or refunds shall be accepted for annual subscriptions. Your annual subscription shall terminate on the completion of the year unless you renew your subscription prior to this date.
All cancellations or renewals shall be sent to us in writing to john(at)globalmaritimehub.com
We may at our sole discretion offer a trial period for Users. Trials are strictly available for new Users only and are limited to one free trial per User.
User obligations
You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules and regulations, that may apply to your use of the Website, Services and Content. In connection with your use of our Website and Services, you may not and you agree that you will not:
- violate any local or other law or regulation, or any order of a court;
- use manual or automated software, devices, scripts robots, other means or processes to access, “scrape,” “crawl” or “spider” any web pages or other services contained in the Website, Services or Content;
- copy, store or otherwise access any information contained on the Website, Services or Content for purposes not expressly permitted by these Terms;
- infringe the rights of any person or entity, including but not limited to, their intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights;
- interfere with or damage our Website or 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;
- systematically retrieve data or other content from our Website or Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, in single or multiple downloads, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of bots, crawlers, or spiders, or otherwise;
- use, display, mirror or frame the Website, or any individual element within the Website, or use, Our name, any Our trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page, without Our express written consent; or
- advocate, encourage, or assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing.
Any content we upload on your behalf will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, distribute, display, modify and edit the content in connection with the Website.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our Website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.
We have the right to remove any posting you make on our Website if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in these terms.
We reserve the right to remove any post which breaches these terms and terminate the membership of the user.
Do not rely on information on this Website
This Website includes information and materials created by others and each piece of content will attribute the name of each author or creator. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The details uploaded and views expressed by other within the Content on our Website does not represent our views or values.
Our Website is provided for general information only and we take no responsibility for completeness or accuracy. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely in any way. We make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date at any time.
We take no responsibility for incorrect attribution for content. Our liability is limited to rectifying the author name on our Website if we are notified this is incorrect.
Ownership
The Website, Services, and Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of England and foreign countries. You acknowledge and agree that the Website, and Services, including all associated intellectual property rights is Our exclusive property or that of Our content partners.
Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of these Terms, We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, to access and view any Content solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes. You have no right to sublicense the license rights granted in this section.
We may make changes to these terms
We may amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our Website, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
We may make changes to our Website or Services
We may update and change our Website from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our Users’ needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
We may suspend or withdraw our Website
We do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may discontinue, suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
We may transfer this agreement to someone else
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.
Our Website and services are only for some users
Our Website and Services are only for user that are over the age of 18. If you are not 18, you will not be allowed to use our Website unless you have the consent of your guardian.
Our Website is directed to people residing in the United Kingdom. We do not represent that content available on or through our Website is appropriate for use or available in other locations.
You acknowledge and warrant that you are the individual you say you are and all information you provide to us is complete and correct.
Third party links on our Website
We may provide links on our Website to third party websites or Websites. By providing these links we do not endorse them nor are we affiliated with them and we cannot guarantee that services from these third parties will be of satisfactory quality.
How to complain about content uploaded by other users
If you wish to complain about content uploaded on our Website, please contact us on john(at)globalmaritimehub.com
Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you
We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
You agree not to use our Website for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
How we may use your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy, a copy can be found in our Website.
We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
We do not guarantee that our Website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Website. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our Website. You must not attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Website will cease immediately.
We cannot guarantee the service without any faults. If there is any problem with the Website, users should contact us, and we will try to rectify/fix the issue as soon as reasonably practicable.
Rules about linking to our Website
You may link to our Website, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our Website in any website that is not owned by you.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms.
Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?
Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operate separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction except that if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
