Terms of Use: Access Conditions and Liability Limits

Last Updated and Overview

Last updated: July 7, 2026

These Terms of Use apply to the YSATT website and to every person who visits, reads, submits information through, or otherwise uses the site. They cover access conditions, permitted use of content, user responsibilities, disclaimers, liability limits, applicable law, and changes to these terms.

We write for people who work with real coastal schedules, marina arrangements, clearance questions, repair planning, and cruising decisions. A website can help you prepare, but it cannot stand in for direct confirmation with the harbour office, service provider, vessel professional, or public authority responsible for the matter in front of you.

Your Acceptance

By accessing or using YSATT, you confirm that you accept these Terms of Use. This applies whether you are reading destination notes before a passage, checking a service category, reviewing environmental programme information, or using a contact form.

The terms cover all users of the website. That includes casual visitors, boat owners, skippers, crew, shore-side service providers, association members, and anyone submitting details for publication, correction, or enquiry.

If you access the site on behalf of a company, association, yacht, crew, or other organisation, you are responsible for making sure your use of the site is authorised by that party. Do not rely on someone else’s account, name, or vessel details unless you have permission to do so.

If any part of these terms does not work for you, the proper response is simple: do not use the site. We would rather lose a visit than have a reader assume rights or protections that are not being offered.

License to Use

YSATT grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive licence to access and view the website for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes. In plain terms, you may browse the site, read pages, and use the information to orient your own planning.

All rights in text, page structure, categories, names, graphics, marks, and other site materials are reserved unless we state otherwise in writing. A link to a YSATT page is usually fine. Rebuilding our pages inside another website or system is not.

Where third-party names, places, authorities, businesses, or programme references appear, they remain the property or responsibility of their respective owners. Mentioning them does not create an endorsement, agency relationship, or permission to use their materials.

Your Responsibilities

Use the site lawfully and with the same care you would bring to a shared noticeboard at a working marina. The information here may be read by visitors trying to make decisions with limited time, weather windows, and local knowledge.

Information you submit

If you send us details through a contact form or published contact method, keep them truthful, current, and relevant. Do not submit someone else’s private information without permission. Do not send false business details, misleading vessel claims, abusive messages, or material that infringes another person’s rights.

Technical conduct

You must not attempt to hack, probe, disrupt, overload, bypass, scrape at scale, reverse engineer, or interfere with the website, its hosting, forms, security controls, or normal availability. A single reader loading a page is expected. A bot copying the whole site every hour is not.

Lawful purpose

You may use the site only for lawful purposes. Do not use YSATT to plan, support, conceal, or promote unlawful conduct, including fraud, harassment, unauthorised commercial harvesting, intellectual property misuse, or activity that breaches applicable maritime, customs, immigration, environmental, or safety rules.

Disclaimer

YSATT provides content on an “as is” and “as available” basis for general information. We aim to publish useful, practical material, but we do not warrant that the website will always be accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, or suitable for your particular purpose.

Maritime information changes quickly. Clearance procedures, berth access, yard availability, safety notices, service hours, environmental requirements, and local operating practices can shift with weather, staffing, legislation, infrastructure work, or public authority instruction. For this topic, harbour and agency confirmation should take priority over website text.

The site is not a substitute for professional advice. Do not treat anything here as legal, customs, immigration, financial, medical, engineering, survey, insurance, navigation, or safety advice. If a decision affects vessel seaworthiness, crew welfare, regulatory status, contract terms, or liability exposure, confirm it with the appropriate qualified person or competent authority.

We may link internally to resources such as the Privacy Policy or relevant site categories, but those materials do not remove your responsibility to verify what applies to your own circumstances.

Limited Liability

You use YSATT at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, YSATT and the people involved in operating, writing, maintaining, or supporting the website will not be liable for losses arising from your access to, reliance on, or inability to use the site.

This includes indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages. It also includes loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, business interruption, reputational harm, delay costs, travel disruption, vessel scheduling impacts, missed service appointments, or expenses linked to decisions made after reading the site.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations. Where a rule of law prevents us from excluding a liability, our responsibility is limited only as far as that law allows. Nothing in these terms is intended to exclude liability that cannot legally be excluded.

Applicable Law

These Terms of Use are interpreted under the laws of the operating jurisdiction of the site, without applying conflict-of-law rules that would point the matter somewhere else.

Any dispute connected with the website, these terms, or your use of YSATT falls within the competent local courts for that operating jurisdiction, unless applicable law requires another forum.

If one term is found unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining terms stay in force. The affected term should be read as narrowly as needed to make it enforceable, while keeping the rest of the terms working as intended.

Modifications

We may revise these Terms of Use from time to time. Changes may reflect site updates, new content formats, operational changes, legal requirements, or clearer wording where users have asked sensible questions.

When we update the terms, we will change the revision date shown near the top of this page. We are not required to notify every visitor individually, so it is worth checking the date when you return after a gap.

Your continued use of the website after an update means you agree to the revised terms. If you do not agree with the updated version, stop using the site from that point forward.

Getting in Touch

If anything in these Terms of Use is unclear, contact us through the site’s published methods. The best starting point is the Contact page, where current contact options are kept in one place.

Please include enough context for us to understand the question, such as the page involved, the wording you are asking about, and whether the issue concerns access, content use, a submitted detail, or a correction request.

For version control, the operative date is the one printed at the top of this page: July 7, 2026.