Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of Maritime Journal and any subscription you take out with us. By using the site you accept them.

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Accounts

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Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each term unless cancelled beforehand. You can cancel at any time from the Subscription section of your account, which takes you to our payment provider's billing portal. Cancelling stops the next renewal; access continues until the end of the period you have paid for.

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Content and intellectual property

Everything published on this site — articles, images, data and the archive — belongs to us or to our licensors and is protected by copyright.

You may read, print and share individual articles for your own use. You may not republish, redistribute, sell or systematically copy our content, or use it to train machine learning models, without our written permission.

The Buyers Guide

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• We review submissions before publishing and may decline, edit or remove a listing at our discretion.

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Acceptable use

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Availability and liability

We work to keep the site available but cannot guarantee uninterrupted access, and we may change or withdraw features.

Our content is published in good faith as journalism and general information. It is not professional, technical, legal or financial advice, and you should not rely on it as such.

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Changes

We may amend these terms. Material changes affecting subscribers will be notified by email or on the site before they take effect.

Governing law

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