1. About these terms
These Terms of Use apply to your use of the YachtByte website, Knowledge Base, News Feed, subscriber features, and any related digital content made available through the site.
YachtByte is an independent and unofficial maritime technology information website. It is not a registered company, recruiter, yacht-management company, classification society, maritime authority, or representative of any vessel, manufacturer, or service provider.
If you have questions about these terms, contact info@yachtbyte.com.
2. Professional and business use
YachtByte is intended for maritime, superyacht, technical, operational, editorial, training, and professional information purposes. The site is not designed as a consumer advice service.
3. Access and accounts
Some content may be open to all readers. Other content may require email signup, subscriber access, member access, paid access, or staff-only access. YachtByte may change access rules, suspend access, or withdraw content where needed to protect the service, comply with law, or manage editorial and commercial decisions.
You are responsible for keeping access links and account sessions secure. Magic login links are personal, time-limited, and should not be shared.
4. Acceptable use
You must not misuse YachtByte. This includes attempting to bypass access controls, scrape substantial parts of the site, interfere with security, introduce malware, impersonate another person, submit unlawful or misleading material, or use the site in a way that disrupts its operation.
5. Content ownership
Unless stated otherwise, YachtByte owns or licenses the text, design, structure, branding, templates, graphics, and other content on the site. You may read and link to public pages for normal professional use, but you must not copy, republish, sell, repackage, or train systems on substantial YachtByte content without written permission.
6. Contributor and third-party material
YachtByte may later publish contributor content, source links, company references, course links, vendor references, or other third-party material. Third-party references do not automatically mean endorsement, approval, partnership, or warranty.
7. No guarantee of availability
YachtByte may change, suspend, remove, or discontinue parts of the website at any time. The site may occasionally be unavailable due to maintenance, hosting, security, or operational issues.
8. No warranties
YachtByte aims to provide useful and accurate information, but the site and its content are provided on an as-is and as-available basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, YachtByte excludes warranties, representations, or conditions that may otherwise apply to the site or its content.
9. Liability
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so. Subject to that, YachtByte is not responsible for loss arising from reliance on general content without appropriate professional judgement, vessel-specific checks, manufacturer guidance, class or flag requirements, or qualified technical advice.
10. Future paid products and services
YachtByte currently operates as an unofficial information site. It does not sell memberships, publish job advertisements, act as a recruiter, or provide paid courses through the website.
11. Privacy
Personal information is handled according to the Privacy Policy. The strictly necessary cookies currently used by the site are described in the Cookie Policy.
12. Governing law
YachtByte is operated internationally without a fixed business establishment. Nothing in these terms removes rights or remedies that cannot lawfully be excluded under the law applicable to a reader.
13. Changes to these terms
YachtByte may update these terms as the site develops. Continued use of the site after changes are published means you accept the updated terms.