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Copyright

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Materials obtained through these web sites belong to the respective owners of such materials and are also protected by national and international intellectual property laws, conventions and treaties and may only be used for your personal non-commercial purposes, single copy only. 

Educational, institutional or other "fair use" (not for profit) is permitted, provided that a mention of the source, Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, is associated with the piece. In the picture archive area of the website, pictures which are our original work, have a "www.dieselduck.net" tag on the picture. You may use these pictures unadulterated; or mentioning the source if "cropping out" the "www.dieselduck.net" tag.

Please contact us for any other uses or clarification.

We believe in the Golden Rule and with as many files as people have sent us, it's entirely likely that there are copyrighted files in our archives which are not freely distributable. It is NOT our intention to pirate copyrighted works. If you spot a page on our web site that is copyrighted and not freely distributable, please contact Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, and include the URL of the page in question. Just copy and paste the file name into the message you send. Without the file name, we cannot track the file down and correct the problem. 

If you personally are the holder of the copyright in question and can prove it, we offer the following remedies:

We can remove the page in question. 

Or, if you are willing to send us an email or letter authorizing our use of your words, we will provide a link from our copy of your copyrighted work to your home page. Since Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net gets many hits per day, this may help to increase traffic at your site as well. Send letters to the address found on the contact page.

If you are not the holder of the copyright in question, we will simply remove the page once we've established that it is indeed copyrighted material and is not freely distributable.

Government publications are not eligible for copyright protection under law. Works by agents, representatives or members of federal, provincial / state or local governments, whether paid or unpaid, are therefore in the public domain. This includes the legislative, judicial or executive branches, the military, all law enforcement agencies and all other agencies or divisions which are supported by taxpayer dollars, such as the Center for Disease Control and other quasi-governmental organizations.

All works produced under sponsorship, subsidy, direction or control of the Government, their agents or representatives, whether classified or unclassified, including all works produced by independent organizations receiving direct funding from the Government for such works are ineligible for copyright protection.

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Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net holds a belief that what you do is your business. As such, Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net does not collect, distribute or store any data pertaining to its visitors.

When you donate money to, or email Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, or post your comments on the Galley Wireless, ME Jobs, the Guest Book, and the Ship's Canteen, your email address or other info is not gathered except to answer your direct queries or comments.

Links to Web sites Owned by Third Parties

We are not responsible for any information: (a) you disclose to a Web sites that you access through a link on Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net web site; or (b) the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any linked Web sites before you use them or disclose your personal information online.

Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net encourages and appreciates links in your own Web pages to Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net. Permission is expressly granted to any person who wishes to place a link in his or her own web site to Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net or any of its pages with the following exception: the page must not be "framed" by yours or another site frame set, and permission to link is explicitly withheld from any web site the contents of which may, in the opinion of Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, be damaging or cause harm to the reputation of, Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net. 

In the event we contact you and request the link be removed, you agree to comply with that request promptly. As a courtesy, if you link to or otherwise include Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net on your website, please let us know and create any link to our home page only ( http://www.dieselduck.net).

Your Responsibility When Using Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net

We strive mightily to provide useful and accurate information. But information and procedures change frequently and are subject to differing interpretations. Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net makes no claim that all information on this site is up to date and that it is "100% the truth". 

Having said that, should you find something which is questionable, let me know.  Don't hesitate to contact me, just remember that I am a sailor and I am away from home for months on end, but I reply to all emails, sometimes it late; currently - April 2008 - you can expect an answer within one week, usually a day or two, but one month maximum. 

Any questions or comments are always welcomed, contact us.