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The fine print...

Copyright

This work by "Martin's Marine Engineering Page" "www.dieselduck.net" "Martin Leduc" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License

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, unless used under the terms of our Creative Commons License defined above.

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. Pictures with a tag of "more at www.dieselduck.net" (or the likes) are exclusive submissions to Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, but we are not the copyright holder, although we may be able to assist you in obtaining permission to use. Images without specific tags, or tags other than previously mentioned are not ours and are believed to be in the public domain, and therefore we cannot pass on copyright for them.

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 will remove the page in question.
Or, if you are willing to send us an email or letter authorizing our use of your works, 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 visitors, this may help to increase traffic at your site as well.

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 and your business alone. As such, Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net does not collect, distribute or store any identifiable data pertaining to its individual visitors. We do collect data from your visit, as most website do, through Google Analytics which helps us get a general picture of our visit types.

When you donate money to, email Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net, 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:

(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 (www.dieselduck.info/index.html).

Cookies, beacons or other "tracking" on Martin's Marine Engineering Page - www.dieselduck.net

Martin's Marine Engineering Page generates "cookies" on our forum and blog area only. This allows for a smoother experience for users, when logging on and browsing these areas. No information from these cookies is harvested, used or accessed other than to make your visit easier. Keeping you logged in, showing which topic you've seen or not seen, etc. The only cookies I personally like from you, is the one I eat, preferably fresh out of the oven.

Third party service providers use tracking measures during your visit to this domain - www.dieselduck.net, .info .ca. They include...

Google Analytics which provides us with visitor statistics, such as where visits are from, along with many other criteria's which are not personally identifiable to you or your visit. The service exists and is used to provide us, various statistic on how the website is used, not who the user is. You can read Google's Analytics privacy policy here.

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 an active seafarer and I am away from home for months on end, but I reply to all emails, sometimes it late; currently - March 2017 - you can expect an answer within two week, usually a day or two, but one month maximum.

Questions, or comments, are always welcomed, contact us.