Disclaimer and Blog Comment Guidelines

Ship Notes Blog Disclaimer

This disclaimer applies to all content in the Ship Notes web site.

The Ship Notes web site is for informational, educational, and discussion purposes only. Ship Notes provides information, advice and content based on professional and personal experiences by various authors as it relates to the shipping industry.

Ship Notes takes care to see that the information it posts on the Ship Notes web site is accurate and truthful. However, Ship Notes does not expressly or impliedly warrant or guarantee the accuracy of its contents and the information others post through article submissions and blog comments.

No reader should act in reliance on anything discussed in the Ship Notes web site without prior consultation with a professional who is qualified to evaluate the reader’s individual facts, findings, and circumstances and offer informed professional opinion with respect thereto. If any reader takes action or makes decisions based solely on the information contained on the Ship Notes web site, the reader does so at his or her own risk and agrees that Ship Notes shall have no liability resulting from such unilateral action or decisions by the reader.

Authors by default are submitting content based on their personal opinions and are solely responsible for the content. The content does not represent the view of their respective employer, volunteer group, membership organization, or other agencies except where noted.

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Ship Notes reserves the right to remove any and all comments that do not comply with the Ship Notes Blog Comment Guidelines. These include comments that use profanity, make personal attacks, or contain other inappropriate comments or material. Without notice to the reader or author, Ship Notes may, but has no obligation to, remove or edit content that Ship Notes determines in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property. Additionally entries that are unsigned or contain “signatures” by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Ship Notes may take necessary action to block users who violate any of the posting standards, terms of use or any other policies governing the Ship Notes web site.

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The names, trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing on this site may not be used in any advertising or publicity, or otherwise to indicate Ship Notes sponsorship of or affiliation with any other company, product or service, without Ship Note’s prior express written permission.

Ship Notes assumes no liability for the use, translation, or interpretation of any of its content or comments posted within the Ship Notes web site as it relates to other languages, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Ship Notes is not responsible for defamatory statements bound to government, religious, or other laws from the reader’s country of origin. The Ship Notes web site is provided “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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Now that you have read and understand the “legal” jargon for Ship Notes, we want you to enjoy reading the content, commenting when you feel a need (of course following our Blog Comment Guidelines), and if you have something intelligent to say on shipping submit an article!

Ship Notes Blog Comment Guidelines

We welcome your participation in blog comments. In order to keep the experience a positive one for all of our readers, Ship Notes requests that you follow the blog comment guidelines below. By submitting comments on the Ship Notes web site, you are consenting to the following rules:

1.) You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. Furthermore, you may not post content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. Language intended to intimidate or to incite violence will not be tolerated. In addition, by posting material on the blog comments, you represent that you have the legal right to reproduce, adapt, display, and distribute this material to others. Ship Notes will not be held responsible for posted information that may infringe on a third party's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights.

2.) You understand and agree that Ship Notes may modify the content of your comments. Ship Notes may monitor user-generated content as it chooses and reserves the right to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that it deems inappropriate for any reason.

3.) You understand and agree that the blog is to be used only for non-commercial purposes. This blog prohibits any actions to solicit funds, promote commercial entities or otherwise engage in commercial activity through the blog comment function.