Terms of use & Linking

Linking to us

We welcome links to us from third party websites. If you do decide to link to this website, please feel free to use the following explanation of our services:

"The PYA’s mission is to represent the interests of Professional Yachtsmen and to encourage and maintain the highest professional standards."

Do not use a link to us to state or imply a relationship with us that does not exist, especially where it could be taken to be a PYA recommendation of goods or services on offer, unless specific authorisation has been given.

Website terms of use

www.PYA.org is operated by Professional Yachtsmen’s Association (PYA).

Use of the Site is on the terms contained in this document (Terms of Use). If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, stop using the Site immediately. By accessing and using the Site you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by these Terms of Use. They are a legal agreement between you and us and can only be amended with our consent. They should be read in conjunction with any details provided on the Site about how the Site operates and the services which are available.

We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time without prior notice by changing them on the Site. Your continued use of the Site after these Terms of Use are amended will indicate your acceptance of those Terms of Use in regard to your use of the Site.

Accessing the Site

We cannot guarantee that the Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or be errorfree. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt the Site or any computer system, server, router or any other internet-connected device. You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the Site and is compatible with the Site. You also understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that any content of the Site will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties.

You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the safety and reliability of data input and output. From time to time, we may restrict access to certain features or parts of the Site, or the entire Site, to users whose membership has lapsed. When you are provided with a username, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

We reserve the right, in our discretion, to withdraw, suspend or modify the Site or certain features or parts of the Site with or without notice to you, where we have reason to do so. There may also be times when the Site or certain features or parts of the Site become unavailable, whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any withdrawal, modification, unavailability, suspension or discontinuance of the Site or any service available on or through the Site.

Using the Site

You must use the Site and the information available from the Site responsibly. No such information may be used for or in connection with any unlawful, immoral or anti-social purpose, or in a manner which is or may be damaging to our name or reputation.

The Site is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of users wishing to interrogate our information online. Due to limitations of IT equipment and bandwidth, the Site is not intended to be a source for bulk downloads. Accordingly, users, IP addresses or blocks of IP addresses who deny or degrade service to other users by generating unusually high numbers of database accesses, whether generated manually or by automated means, may be denied access to the Site’s services without notice.

Accuracy of information

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that information on the Site is accurate, but commentary and other material posted on the Site are not intended to amount to advice or authority on which reliance should be placed. We make no representation or warranty that any information is accurate, complete or up-to-date and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we accept no liability for any loss or damages or expenses of any kind including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property, or claims by third parties howsoever arising in connection with your use of this Site, the copying or use of any information or material contained in or referred to in this Site.

The PYA cannot monitor the content not produced by us and has not reviewed all the third party material linked to this Site and the PYA accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to the content of third party material placed on these pages.

If you find any inaccurate information on the Site please let us know and we will endeavour to correct it, where we agree, as soon as reasonably practicable.

Intellectual property rights

All content on the Site including but not limited to text, software, photographs and graphics is protected by intellectual property rights, including copyright, database rights and trademarks. We, or our licensors, own intellectual property rights in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the original content. Except as expressly set out in these Terms of Use, nothing in these Terms of Use shall give you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors. You shall not assert or attempt to obtain any such rights and you shall not use, copy, reproduce, modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, or in any way exploit, our name, intellectual property rights, or those of any affiliated companies within our group, or any of the content of the Site, in whole or in part, except as provided in these Terms of Use.

You may download information from the Site for your own personal non-commercial use. Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material will be permitted without our express permission and that of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trade mark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyright material.

The material on this Site or any part of it is not to be incorporated or distributed in any work or in any publication in any form without the permission of the PYA. To request permission please contact us at info@pya.org.

The rights granted to you under these Terms of Use shall terminate immediately upon your breach of any of these Terms of Use.

Links to this and other websites

We may provide hyperlinks from the Site to other internet sites which are operated by other organisations. We are not responsible for external websites that link to the Site or which are linked from it. That we include these hyperlinks does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites or any association with their operators.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to prohibit any link from another internet site to materials or information on the Site. Without prejudice to that right, if you wish to link to the Site, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of the Site, and subject to the conditions set out in the following conditions:

• The link is neither misleading nor deceptive and must fairly indicate the Site as the destination of the link, using this explanation: "The PYA’s mission is to represent the interests of Professional Yachtsmen and to encourage and maintain the highest professional standards."
• you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of our logo;
• you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around the Site, or in anyway conceal that visitors are leaving your site;
• you do not in any way imply that we endorse any products or services other than our own;
• you do not misrepresent your relationship with us nor present any other false or misleading information about us;
• you do not otherwise use any of the trade marks displayed on the Site without our express written permission;
• you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;
• you do not use the PYA logo as a linking image;
• you do not hold us liable for any broken links produced on your site as a result of our moving or deleting pages on our Site; and
• any website from which you link to the Site does not contain any content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

Our liability

Although we hope the Site will be of interest to users, we accept no liability and offer no warranties or conditions in relation to the Site or its content, to the fullest extent such liability can be excluded by law.

If you are a consumer and not a business user, we shall not be liable to you for any business losses and shall only be liable for any losses which are reasonably foreseeable.

If you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, revenue or goodwill arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Site or information on the Site. Except as provided in these Terms of Use, all terms implied by law are excluded.

General

The professional Yachtsmen’s Association is an association registered in France and comes under the law of 1901. Our address is 8 Av Mirabeau, 06600 Antibes, France. Any formal legal notices should be sent to us at this address. Failure by us to enforce a right does not result in waiver of such right. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms of Use. If any part of these Terms of Use is found to be unenforceable as a matter of law, all other parts of these Terms of Use shall be unaffected and shall remain in force. You and we agree that French law applies to these Terms of Use and that any dispute between us regarding the Site or arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use will only be dealt with by the French courts.

How to contact us

If you experience problems with the Site or would like to comment on it then please email: info@pya.org, telephone us on +33 93 34 91 16 or write to us at The Professional Yachtsmen’s Association, 8 Avenue Mirabeau, 06600 Antibes, France.

We keep our terms and conditions under regular review and we will place any updates on this
webpage. These Terms of Use were last updated on 13/03/2010.