Terms and Conditions of Membership with Oceantemp™ Satellite Imaging

Chart Usage…

Chart products purchased from Oceantemp™ are for the personal use of the purchasing member and cannot be shared, posted, republished, rebroadcast or resold without permission from Oceantemp™. Members username and password that allows admittance to Oceantemps website cannot be shared without permission from Oceantemp. Any violation of these rules is a US copyright violation and can result in civil and or criminal action along with cancellation of Membership rights and forfeiture of any membership fees paid to Oceantemp™.

Oceantemps charts and chart viewing software are intended for determination of approximate sea surface temperatures ONLY, and should NEVER be used as navigational charts, or for navigation purposes, or as aids to navigation! Positional data on the charts and software is approximate and may contain errors. Use current NOAA navigational charts and NOAA certified navigation software for any navigation purposes.

Oceantemp™ makes available to its members, a free chart viewing program that is specifically made to be used with our chart products. The "Oceanview" program provides approximate Latitude and Longitude coordinates along with sea temperature and other information. The program is only intended to assist the user in locating areas of desired temperature interest on the ocean and should never be used for navigation nor is it intended to be an aid to navigation. The program is not intended to be, and is not a certified navigational aid. Data displayed by the program may contain errors.

Membership

Membership with Oceantemp™ Satellite Imaging for the NE (North East) & MA (Mid-Atlantic) regions is SEASONAL and NOT yearly.  Membership starts from the time your payment is accepted until the service-end date displayed on the "sign-up" page. Both regions (NE & MA) are included in one (1) membership fee. The season coverage start date and season coverage "end" date are both displayed on the "sign-up" page. Visitors to the site may sign up any time in between and use the service to the end of the offered season coverage (displayed on the "sign-up"page) Late into the season membership fees may be lowered to reflect the coverage time remaining until coverage ends. The updated fee will always be posted on the "sign-up" page. Extensions of coverage are sometimes granted at Oceantemps discretion. (NOTE:The NE/USA membership fee will not allow members access to the Florida areas. Florida will have its own separate membership fee).

Membership for Florida & Bahamas region will include both regions and will be detailed once service is actually started.

As a member you are entitled to enter the members area to view and download current and archived charts. You are also entitled to use the use the "Oceanview" chart viewing program for no additional cost. Members, however, are not entitled to share their logon information with other parties without the permission of Oceantemp Membership usage is not "unlimited" and does in fact have certain limitations that are fully explained in the following section below.

For Our Protection and Member responsibility

Oceantemp has employed the use of a built in "security system" for our protection against "unauthorized use'. Our security system performs several functions including the recording of certain information such as user logon identity. location/address of the computer being used to logg-in, number of times logged in within a defined period of time and number of times logged in from different computer locations along with address for those computers. As a member you agree to Oceantemps recording of this information.

The security system is preset by us to "trigger" and activate when certain parameters and conditions are met. In short, the system is set so that one person using the service, even from multiple locations, will have no problem. However, if logon information is shared by more then one person the system will eventually be activated and will not allow further logon access by the identity who activated or "tripped" the system. We will then have to manually reset your user information. In this respect usage is not unlimited.

The Product…

The charts displayed on the samples are identical in scale and size to the actual real-time products. The actual real-time products however may have more or less clouds depending on the weather. Oceantemp™ will make every effort to post all individual area charts at least once per day (weather permitting). We have, on many occasions been able to post more then one chart set per day however this action should be considered an "added value" gift and not obligatory by Oceantemp. We double check all data and afterwards manually inspect each chart and provide enhancement if necessary. We will do our best to ensure that the charts are as accurate and useful as possible and to get you what you need at a price that is affordable.

Problems beyond our control and liability

Oceantemp™ depends on a chain of multiple sources and third parties for timely data content and data delivery including the NOAA satellites themselves. Although we have redundant equipment (on premises) and redundant data sources and our other sources and third parties have proven to be dependable, we still have no control over this (off premises) aspect of our business and cannot be held responsible for intermittent down time ,delays and/or periodic breaks in service caused by these third parties and data sources. If you feel that you cannot sustain any interruption of service we strongly recommend you subscribe to an "additional" service as a back up because some breaks and interruptions do occur. We strongly recommend that all commercial and "non recreational" customers follow this recommendation as well.  Oceantemp can™accept no liability for satellite malfunctions, delays or unavailability of data for any reason beyond Oceantemp's control.

Due to the unique nature of our product the membership fee is non refundable. Also, Oceantemp™ Satellite Imaging does not, and will not give refunds in the event of bad weather conditions that result in charts that are unusable due to cloud cover OR no charts being produced at all due to poor or bad weather conditions. Our experience has shown that clouds and poor weather conditions can prevent us from getting usable satellite data for days and even weeks at a time! It has happened before and will happen again, so we say now "we have no control over the weather" OTHER ISSUES---> In rare cases a refund may be granted for "other" reasons however the decision rests exclusively with Oceantemp™.  That said.... If you have a problem, call us or e-mail us and we will do our best to resolve the issue. We will not leave you stranded.

IF YOU ACCEPT THESE CONDITIONS AND TERMS PLEASE HIT THE “I ACCEPT” BUTTON TO PROCEED WITH MEMBERSHIP OR YOU MAY LEAVE BY HITTING THE “RETURN” BUTTON.