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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

PLEASE READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE BEFORE USING THIS SITE. ShipwreckWorld.com ("ShipwreckWorld.com") maintains this site as a service to its customers, potential customers, and other interested parties. ShipwreckWorld.com reserves the right to amend, remove, or add to these terms and conditions at any time and you are deemed to be apprised of and bound by any changes to these terms and conditions by virtue of your use of the Content on the site. If, at any time, you do not wish to accept the terms and conditions of use, you may not use the site. ShipwreckWorld.com reserves the right to grant and terminate your access at will at any time for any violation of these terms.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
ShipwreckWorld.com provides a collection of online services and content on the site, ("Services"). Services may include, but are not be limited to, any service and content ShipwreckWorld.com performs for you, through the site, including, but not limited to text, messages, information, data, software, photography, graphics, images, illustrations, music, audio, video or other materials (the "Content"). Content posted, transmitted through, or linked from the Services, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. You must be at least 18 years of age or older to use the Services. By using the Services in any way, you consent and agree to comply with these terms and conditions.

DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES
THE WEBSITE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND YOU USE IT AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BY USING THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY SOFTWARE, AND CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN, YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE WEBSITES’ SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ShipwreckWorld.com EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, DATA, SERVICES, UNINTERRUPTED ACCESS, OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICE. SPECIFICALLY, THE WEBSITE DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES CONCERNED WITH THE AVAILABILITY, ACCURACY, USEFULNESS, OR CONTENT OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AS WELL AS, ANY WARRANTIES OF TITLE, WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. FURTHERMORE, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE WEBSITES’ SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY PROVICED FOR IN THESE TERMS OF USE. THIS DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, COMPUTER VIRUS, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORD, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTUOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION.

Limitations of Liability
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL THE WEBSITE OR ITS EMPLOYEES, ADVERTISERS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, SPONSERS OR CONTENT OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OR OTHER DAMAGES CAUSED BY YOUR RELIANCE ON CONTENT OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEBSITE. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO ASSESS THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS OR USEFULNESS OF ANY CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE.

THE WEBSITE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE, OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH ACCESS TO OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR USE OF THE CONTENT.

INDEMNITY
By using the Services and Content, you agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend ShipwreckWorld.com from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and all costs and expenses of defense, including but not limited to, attorneys' fees, resulting directly or indirectly from a claim by a third party that is based on your use of this Content or use from Your computer in violation of these terms.

Disclaimer
The content is for information purposes only. ShipwreckWorld.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any obligation, to correct any error or omissions in any portion of the Content. ShipwreckWorld.com does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the content contained on this site. You hereby acknowledge that any reliance upon any content shall be at your sole risk. ShipwreckWorld.com is not responsible for the content available on any other Internet sites linked to or from this site. Access to any other Internet sites linked to this site is at the user's own risk.

Copyright and Trademark Information

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The data, information, statements or other content that is provided on this site and created by ShipwreckWorld.com are the property of ShipwreckWorld.com and its affiliates and licensors, and are protected from unauthorized copying and dissemination by United States copyright law, international conventions and other intellectual property laws, unless otherwise noted.

The ShipwreckWorld.com™ marks, logo and icons identifying the ShipwreckWorld.com products and services are trademarks of ShipwreckWorld.com. The trademarks, logos, icons and service marks displayed on pages displaying ShipwreckWorld.com content are the property of ShipwreckWorld.com and/or other third parties. Users are prohibited from using any marks without the written permission of ShipwreckWorld.com or other third parties that may own the marks.

Restrictions
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, modify, distribute, publish, license, or create derivative works of any Content on this site, except for the downloading of small numbers of pages and printing of a single copy of those pages (not to be further reproduced) for purposes of off-line personal review. You agree not to remove any legal notices from downloaded pages.

Links to and from this Website
You recognize and agree that ShipwreckWorld.com has no responsibility for the accurateness or accessibility of information provided by linked sites. Links to external web sites do not constitute an endorsement by ShipwreckWorld.com or the content, products, advertising or other materials presented on such sites.

This website has an affiliate relationship with some of the products and services discussed on this website and may be compensated from purchases. This website may review the products it links to, recommends or endorses, however you should always perform your own due diligence before buying goods or services from any 3rd party via the internet or offline.

Information in the many web pages that are linked to ShipwreckWorld.com’s Website comes from a variety of sources. Much of this information comes from unofficial or unaffiliated organizations and individuals, both internal and external to ShipwreckWorld.com. ShipwreckWorld.com does not author, edit, or monitor these unofficial pages or links. You acknowledge and agree that ShipwreckWorld.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such external sites or resources.

CONTENT SUBMITTED TO THIS WEBSITE
You acknowledge that ShipwreckWorld.com does not pre-screen Content, and that the Company and its designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Services. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. As a user of the Content, you are responsible for your own communications and submissions and are responsible for the consequences of their posting.

By posting or otherwise transmitting any Content to the Services, you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) to the ShipwreckWorld.com a royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, perform, display and distribute such materials alone or as part of other works in any form or technology now known or later developed, (you waive any moral rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you) and to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees.

You warrant that any materials you upload, post, email or otherwise distribute, publish or transmit using the Services contains nothing that will give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or foreign law, including nothing that is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, invasive of another's privacy or publicity rights, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent, or that constitutes an infringement of anyone's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right, or derivative rights with respect thereto.

CONTENT RESPONSIBILITY
You acknowledge and agree that ShipwreckWorld.com neither endorses the contents of any User communications nor assumes responsibility for any threatening, libelous, obscene, harassing or offensive material contained therein, any infringement of third party intellectual property rights arising therefrom or any crime facilitated thereby.

USER CONDUCT
You are solely responsible for the contents of your transmissions through the Services. As a condition of use, you recognize and agree not to use the Services:

  1. to post, upload or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive to another's privacy, offensive or otherwise objectionable;
  2. to post, upload or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
  3. to post, upload or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party;
  4. to post, upload or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, affiliate marketing programs, "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
  5. to post, upload or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  6. to impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with ShipwreckWorld.com or any other person or entity;
  7. to solicit passwords or personal identifying information for unintended, commercial or unlawful purposes from any ShipwreckWorld.com user;
  8. for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
  9. to interfere with or disrupt the Services, servers or networks connected to ShipwreckWorld.com’s Services.

If ShipwreckWorld.com determines, in its sole and absolute discretion, that any user is in violation of the TOS, ShipwreckWorld.com retains the right to terminate such user's account at any time without prior notice. ShipwreckWorld.com may also remove any Content from the site at any time for any reason.

NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT

ShipwreckWorld.com respects the rights of all copyright holders, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe any content provided by ShipwreckWorld.com accessible on or from this web site infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from this web site by contacting ShipwreckWorld.com and provide the following information:

  1. An electronic or physical signature from the copyright holder or authorized representative;
  2. Your name, address, telephone number and (if available) email address;
  3. A description and identification of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized version of the work;
  4. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on this site;
  5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  6. A statement that the information that you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that "under penalty of perjury," You are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

Please send such notices to: info at ShipwreckWorld.com

Severability
If any part of these terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. ShipwreckWorld.com may, at its sole discretion and without notice, revise these terms at any time by updating this posting.





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