Terms and Conditions
Last Updated: September 29, 2026 | Effective Date: September 29, 2026
Welcome to Ocean Archive. These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Ocean Archive’s Website, located at https://oceanarchive.xyz.
By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions in full. Do not continue to use Ocean Archive if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.
1. Intellectual Property Rights & Fair Use
Unless otherwise stated, Ocean Archive and/or its content licensors own the intellectual property rights for all original historiographical articles, curated technical treatises, editorial commentary, and design elements on Ocean Archive. All intellectual property rights are reserved.
Permitted Academic & Educational Fair Use:
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from Ocean Archive for your own personal, educational, and non-commercial academic research, subject to the restrictions set out below:
- You must not republish substantial or complete articles from Ocean Archive without express written consent.
- You must not sell, rent, or sub-license material from Ocean Archive.
- You must not duplicate, reproduce, or systematically scrape content for commercial publication.
- Scholarly excerpts and citations are permitted provided proper attribution is given to Ocean Archive (
https://oceanarchive.xyz) and author Mr. Leon Wisoky.
2. User Conduct & Acceptable Use Policy
When interacting with Ocean Archive, including submitting forms, commenting, or engaging in reader forums, you agree not to:
- Use this website in any way that impacts user access, damages site integrity, or causes service disruptions.
- Engage in any data mining, automated harvesting, data extracting, or scraping tools without prior authorization.
- Transmit any defamatory, offensive, obscene, or unlawful materials.
- Attempt unauthorized access to our administrative servers, databases, or user accounts.
3. Hyperlinking to Our Content
Educational institutions, historical societies, maritime museums, academic search engines, and news organizations may link to our home page, publications, or other website information without prior written approval, provided the link:
- Is not in any way deceptive;
- Does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and
- Fits within the context of the linking party’s site.
4. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Ocean Archive, nor any of its officers, directors, historians, or editors, be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this website, whether such liability is under contract, tort, or otherwise. Ocean Archive, including its officers and contributors, shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential, or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this website.
5. Indemnification
You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent Ocean Archive from and against any and/or all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages, and expenses arising in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.
6. Severability & Variation of Terms
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein. Ocean Archive is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this website you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis.
7. Contact Information
If you have any queries regarding any of our terms, please contact us at contact@oceanarchive.xyz.