Station Feed Licence

Licensor

Motto Marine International, the company that runs Gangway AIS ("we", "us"). Contact: hello@gangway.app.

1. What this licence covers

This licence governs the station feed: every message, frame, sentence, track and answer we deliver through a station feed key, by any of our interfaces, live or from our history. Every part of it is covered too. We call this the Feed.

The Feed comes to you because your station sends to us under the Station Agreement. That agreement decides when your account has a key. This licence decides what you may do with what the key delivers.

Parts of the Feed that a frame marks with another licence, for example an open government licence, stay under that licence for that part. Where you take a part under its own licence, you take on that licence's conditions and its credit. Everything else in the Feed is under this licence. So is the Feed as a whole as a collection.

2. Definitions

• You: the person whose account holds the key. A key belongs to one natural person, even when the account is a company's.
• Key: the station feed key of your account and any key that replaces it.
• Private use: use by you as a natural person, for your own purposes outside any trade, business or profession. Use for non-profit research or teaching also counts, as long as it brings in no money, directly or indirectly.
• Commercial use: any use that is not private use. In particular: use in the course of a business, a trade or a profession, including work that stays inside a company; use by or for a company; use in or for anything that is paid for, financed by advertising, sponsored or funded; use in work you do for someone else; and selling or licensing anything made from the Feed.
• Result: something you work out from the Feed that holds no position, track, message, identity paired with a position or time, or a substantial part of the Feed. A count of vessels, a monthly traffic chart or an average speed over an area are Results. A map of vessels, a list of arrivals with times or a track are not.
• Passing on: making the Feed, or any part of it that is not a Result, available to anyone other than you, except as section 5 allows, in any form, for payment or free.

3. What we allow

As long as you keep to section 4 and your key is active, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right, free of charge, to:

• receive the Feed with your key and store it on equipment you control or with a helper under section 5;
• process it and work out Results from it, for your private use;
• show the Feed on your own screens to yourself and to people physically with you, never through a public or shared page;
• show Results to others, as long as each carries the credit in section 6.

That is all. Any right not written here is ours. More, including commercial use, is available only under a paid Gangway plan that includes it or a separate written agreement signed by us.

4. What you may not do

4.1 No commercial use

You may not put the Feed or anything made from it to commercial use. A Result shown with our credit on a page that earns money, for example through advertising, counts as commercial use.

4.2 No passing on

You may not pass on the Feed. In particular not:

• as a file, dump, dataset, archive or backup that others can reach;
• through an API, a feed, a stream, a forward, a relay, a proxy or a mirror;
• on a website, app, map or screen that others can open, public or behind a login;
• to another network, aggregator or open data collection;
• by sale, licence, gift or publication.

4.3 No relay of the key

Only you use your key and only from equipment you control or a helper's equipment under section 5. Nobody else may receive the Feed through your key, your connection or a program you run for them.

4.4 No rebuilding

You may not take many small parts of the Feed, through any route, in a way that adds up to a substantial part of it. You may not publish Results so fine in place or time that positions or tracks can be read back from them.

4.5 Programs and models

You may use the Feed to test or train a program or model for your private use. The program or model must not be able to give back positions, tracks or messages from the Feed and must not be given to anyone else. A program or model that does either counts as the Feed itself.

4.6 No finding our stations

You may not use the Feed, or combine it with other data, to work out where our stations are, who runs them or which station heard what.

4.7 No tracking of people

You may not use the Feed to watch, follow, harass or track people.

4.8 No changing the Feed and passing it as ours

You may not change what the Feed says and present the result as Gangway AIS data.

5. Who else may handle the Feed

• Helpers. A hosting company, a computer service or a person who sets up your program may handle the Feed for you, only for your private use, only on your instructions and under duties at least as strict as this licence. They gain no rights in it. You answer for what they do.
• AI assistants. An AI assistant you ask questions about the Feed counts as a helper, as long as its provider does not use the Feed to train its models.
• People with you. People physically with you may see the Feed on your screens, as section 3 says. They gain no rights in it.
• No one else. This licence does not cover any company, family member or other person linked to you. Each needs its own key.

6. Credit

Wherever the Feed or a Result can be seen by others, on a screen, a map, a picture or a document, you show this credit:

AIS data from Gangway AIS (gangwayais.com), Station Feed Licence 1.0

• It is reasonably visible and readable where it is shown. Placing it only in code, settings or internal notes is not enough.
• Where the medium cannot show it, such as a voice answer or a machine-to-machine link, a mention in the documents that go with it or at a stated web address is enough.
• Where a Result is a set of figures from which no single report can be read, one credit for the whole publication is enough.
• Parts of the Feed under another licence (section 1) also carry the credit that licence asks for.
• The credit does not mean we approve of you or of what you made. You may not say or suggest that we do.

7. Your key

• Your key is personal. You may not share, lend, sell or give it.
• Keep it on equipment you control or a helper's equipment under section 5. Never put it in a web page, an app, a link, a shared document or public code.
• If it leaks or you think it may have, renew it on your station page at once and tell us.
• Its limits are shown on your station page. You may not get around them, for example with more accounts, more stations registered for the same receiver or someone else's key. We may change them to protect the service. We tell you when we do.
• One account holds one key, however many stations it runs.

8. Our checks

• We log the use of your key: when it connects, from where and what it receives. Each key's data carries its own trace. Data found elsewhere can be followed back to the key that received it.

9. Breaking this licence

• If you break section 4, 6 or 7, your rights under this licence stop at once.
• They stop for good if you broke section 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 or 4.6, or the same rule a second time. A person at Gangway decides this, not a machine. We write to you with the reason.
• For any other breach, your rights come back if you put it right within 30 days of noticing it or of our email, whichever comes first. If you do not, they stop for good.
• Only we can give back rights that stopped for good, in writing.
• When your rights stop for good, you stop using the Feed and delete the copies you hold. Results already shown with our credit may stay where they are.
• A breach also ends your key and may end your station's place in Station Reserve under the Station Agreement.
• Nothing here limits any other right we have under the law, including our rights as maker of the Gangway AIS database.

10. When your key ends

• Your key pauses when your Station Reserve plan pauses and ends when it ends. It also ends if you close your account or your station leaves.
• When your key has been paused or ended for 30 days, your right to keep and use what it delivered ends. You delete it by then. Results already shown with our credit may stay where they are.
• If your key comes back within those 30 days, nothing has to be deleted.
• We may also limit, pause or end your key to protect the service or when the law requires.

11. No warranty, not for navigation

• The Feed is free. We give it as it is and when it is there. It may be late, wrong, spoofed, incomplete or missing for any vessel or area at any time.
• It is not an aid to navigation. It must not be used for collision avoidance, search and rescue or any decision about the safety of people, vessels, property or the environment. It does not replace the equipment and procedures that SOLAS, COLREG or any other rule requires.
• It must not be the basis of sanctions screening, port or port state compliance, reports to authorities or other compliance decisions.

12. Liability

• We are fully liable for death or personal injury we cause, for fraud and for harm we cause on purpose or by gross negligence.
• Otherwise we are not liable for any loss from the Feed, its absence, its errors or its use, including lost profit, lost data and interruption. Where the law does not allow this, our total liability is limited to 100 euros.

13. Versions

• We may publish new versions of this licence. Each has its own number and date. We tell key holders by email before a new version takes effect.
• Feed data stays under the version in force when you received it. A new version applies only to data received after it takes effect.

14. General

• Two bases. This licence is a contract between you and us and a licence of our rights as maker of the Gangway AIS database under the French Intellectual Property Code (articles L341-1 and following) and Directive 96/9/EC. If one basis fails in a given case, the other still applies.
• No transfer. You may not transfer this licence or give anyone rights under it.
• Your station. This licence does not change the Station Agreement or the rights we hold in what your station sends.
• Language. The English text is the one that counts.
• Law. French law governs this licence. The courts of Dunkerque decide disputes, unless the law gives a consumer the right to go to the courts where they live.
• Parts. If one part of this licence is invalid, the rest stays in force.

15. Examples

These show how the rules work. They are not a full list. Where a case is not here, sections 3 and 4 decide.