Fiber Atlantic Policy
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<<As of May 25th, 2018. this website uses a new policy. You can read this policy at the following link.>>
User Agreement, Copyright, Disclaimer & Privacy Policy
First of all; Fiberatlantic.com or any other website operating under the domains fibreatlantic.com, fiberatlantic.net and fibreatlantic.net (hereafter referred to as Service(s), Fiber Atlantic or (web)site(s)) are our properties. Information which you can find and read on these sites are provided as is and with no guarantee. Content found on our websites are offered to the Internet community under the User Agreement and Privacy Policy (hereafter collectively referred to as Policy) explained below.
General
This Policy governs each website, mobile site, application, webapp, and/or other service, regardless of how it is distributed, transmitted, published, or broadcast (each, a “Service”) provided by SemanticNet BV, its subsidiaries and/or affiliates (“we,” “us,” or “our”) that links to this Policy, which is binding on all those who access, visit and/or use the Service, whether acting as an individual or on behalf of an entity, including you and all persons, entities, or digital engines of any kind that harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, or mine digital content by an automated or manual process or otherwise (collectively, “you” or “your”). Please read this Policy carefully.
You can access this Policy any time in the footer of the Service's home page or initial screen.
The Policy may be modified from time to time; so check back often.
Your access, visitation and/or use of the Service, including without limitation any registration on any aspect of the Service, will constitute your agreement to this Policy. Continued access of the Service by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Policy. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Policy, you may not access, visit and/or use the Service.
Use of the Service by You
You shall ensure that all equipment, hardware, software, products and/or services you use to access, visit, or use the Service does not disturb or interfere with our operation of the Service, or impede or interfere with others' access, visitation and/or use of the Service. We reserve the right, in addition to our other remedies, with or without notice, to immediately disconnect from the Service any equipment, hardware, software, product and/or services causing interference with us, our licensors, vendors, service providers, the Service or any Content.
If you provide to us the number for a mobile or other device, or we obtain the device identifier for a device you are using, you agree, represent, warrant, and guarantee that such device is registered in your name and owned by you, or that you have permission of the device owner(s).
Unless otherwise specified, the Service is intended for your personal, non-commercial use only. You are solely responsible for all usage of, or activities on, the Service by you and by those you authorize or allow to use, or provide access to, the Service, for example, by authorizing or allowing access to any computer, mobile or other device on which the Service resides or is accessible.
You must comply with all local, state, federal, provincial, national, international, and foreign laws, rules, and regulations in accessing and using the Service, and will immediately notify us if you learn of or suspect a security breach or any illegal activity in connection with the Service.
You must comply with all applicable import and export control laws, rules, and regulations of the Netherlands and other countries, and you must not transfer, by electronic transmission or otherwise, any Content subject to restrictions under such laws, rules, or regulations to a site, application, destination, location, person or entity, or for an end use, prohibited thereby.
You will not post, upload, transmit, send or otherwise make available any Content on or through the Service that cannot be exported without prior government authorization or notification, including without limitation certain types of encryption software.
You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a Dutch Government embargo; and (ii) you are not listed on any Dutch Government list of prohibited or restricted parties .
If you breach, violate, fail to follow, or act inconsistently with the rules, restrictions, limitations, terms and/or conditions that apply to the Service, whether listed in this Policy, posted at various points in the Service, or otherwise communicated to users of the Service, we may terminate, discontinue, suspend, and/or restrict your ability to access, visit, and/or use the Service or any portion thereof, and/or the Policy, including without limitation any of our purported obligations hereunder, with or without notice, in addition to our other remedies. In addition, we may curtail, restrict, or refuse to provide you with any future access, visitation, and/or use of the Service.
We reserve the right, in addition to our other remedies, to take any technical, legal, and/or other action(s) that we deem necessary and/or appropriate, with or without notice, to prevent violations and enforce the Policy and remediate any purported violations.
You acknowledge and agree that we have the right hereunder to an injunction without posting a bond to stop or prevent a breach or violation of your obligations under the Policy.
In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Policy, and any rules, restrictions, limitations, terms and/or conditions that may be posted at various points in the Service or otherwise communicated to users of the Service, we shall determine which rules, restrictions, limitations, terms and/or conditions shall control and prevail in our sole discretion, and you specifically waive any right to challenge or dispute such determination.
Copyright
Among other things, the Agreement governs all text, articles, photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, creative, copy, artwork, video, audio, music, podcasts, ringtones, games, trademarks, trade names, service marks, and other brand identifiers, designs, plans, software, source and object code, algorithms, data, statistics, analysis, formulas, indexes, registries, repositories, and all other content, information, and materials (collectively, “Content”) available on or through the Service, whether posted, uploaded, transmitted, sent or otherwise made available through the Services, or by you, and/or other users or third parties, including any such Content uploaded manually or bookmarked by you and/or other users.
Content that is provided through the Services, including without limitation photos, images, text, music, audio, videos, podcasts, trademarks, trade names, service marks and other brand identifiers, the organization, design, compilation, and “look and feel” of the Service, and all advertising thereon, is protected by local, state, federal, provincial, national, international, and foreign copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws, rules, and regulations, and is the property of us or our licensors, vendors and/or service providers.
Certain Content may be made available to you on or through the Service for download, installation, and/or streaming on your computer, mobile or other device, such as photos, images, text, music, audio, videos, podcasts, ringtones, games, graphics, or software. Such Content is subject to the same terms, conditions, limitations and restrictions applicable to all Content provided by us.
Without written permission it is not allowed to use and/or reproduce any information of this website for purposes such as, but not limited to, commercial use. Information on this site has been posted with the intent that it be readily available for personal and public non-commercial use only. You must, in addition to all of your other obligations, use such Content only to the extent expressly authorized for the particular Content, and you may not use such Content in a manner that exceeds such authorization.
Disclaimer
The website is compiled with the greatest possible care. If the website should contain any errors or incorrect usage of information, we cannot be held responsible.
No rights can be derived from possible inaccuracies or errors. Furthermore we cannot be held responsible should a person making use of this site or the links contained in it suffers loss or damage of whatever type or extent.
Links
By accepting this Policy, you acknowledge that we have not reviewed and do not necessarily endorse the Content of sites, applications, destinations or services linked to or accessible from this Service and are not responsible for the Content or actions of any other sites, applications, destinations or services. Your linking to or accessing any other site, application, destination or service is at your sole risk. Such connections to other external sources of information are provided purely for purposes of information and no warranty is given as to the contents or existence thereof.
If you encounter any problems of a technical nature or regarding the content of these sites, we would be most grateful if you would let us know, so that we can take all necessary steps to remove these links. However, once you have used these links to leave the Service, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such websites. You shall ensure to exercise caution and look at the privacy statement and policies applicable to the website in question on your sole discretion.
Information and Security
First off all: this is a Services accessible through the public Internet!
We strive to provide an enjoyable online experience for our users, so we may monitor activity on the Service as well as protect our website(s), equipment, software and network infrastructure(s) with the help of (advanced) monitoring systems and monitor usage and security breaches.
When using forms on the Services all information put into the form(s) may be logged for verification and security purposes, this include, but is not limited to, search queries in the search fields and contact information from the contact forms(s).
In addition the server(s) perform web traffic monitoring as well as maintain log files from lower application and network layers for usage and security reasons.
What we do with the information
• Performance analysis
• Improve the Service
• Internal record keeping
• Security measures
On a general note:
No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. You always need to watch out for yourself! If you have no knowledge about the way the Internet works or computers in general; you might want to consider not using the Internet! Connecting with people and writing letters can then be far more creative and inspiring.
FYI: The Internet was part of a Department of Defense project (DARPA, etcetra) and, in some ways, it still is.
Cookies
The following aims at providing you with more information on what cookies are and how we use them on our Service(s) and websites. For general information about cookies and how to disable them, please visit All About Cookies.
TL:DR
Like most Internet websites, ours too uses cookies which store information on your computer to support your journey through our Service. Some of these are performance cookies that help improve the Service by giving insight into how the site is being used. They generally do not contain personal information. By continuing to use this site and various functionalities, you consent to the relevant cookies being set and/of information stored.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of information that is generated by a web server and send to the web browser on your computer in the hope that it saves it for future purposes. A primary objective of cookies is to improve your user experience while surfing the web, to help websites make your next visit easier, for instance by storing your user preferences such as your country or language, etc.
Opting Out and Disabling Cookies
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of desktop browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please note that if you chose to disable some cookies that our Services use, you may experience reduced functionality or be prevented from using parts of this and our other Services.
Cookies used on this web site
Like many other websites, our Service uses cookies for technical, functional and analytical purposes. There are (under Dutch-law) multiple kinds of cookies such as, but not limited to, First-party and Third-party cookies.
First party cookies
First party cookies are set by the website, you are visiting and they can only be read by that website.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are set by a different organization to the owner of the website you are visiting. For example, the website might use a third party analytics company who will set their own cookie to perform this service. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from, for example YouTube or Google, and these sites may set their own cookies.
Other cookies
Session cookies
Session Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are generally deleted from the user's device when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies
This type of cookie is saved on your computer for a fixed period (usually a year or longer) and is not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies are used when it is needed to know who you are for more than one browsing session.
Our Cookies Usage
We use our own cookies to allow certain functions to work as intended. Cookie banner, information windows and newsletter registration messages are a couple of examples of functions which use cookies to store information for current and/or future use of those functions. Some of the cookies are so-called session cookies, while most of them are persistent cookies.
We are also relying on third party software to drive certain parts of the Service. At the moment of writing, Fiber Atlantic uses Google Maps API to drive its Submarine Cable Map WebApp. Pages using the Google Maps services may present cookies from Google. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on the Service, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through.
Unfortunately, we do not control the dissemination of third party cookies and cannot block cookies from those websites. You should check the relevant third party website(s) for more information about these yourself.
Do Not Track (DNT) browser setting
DNT is a feature offered by some browsers which, when enabled, sends a signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked, such as by third party ad networks, social networks and analytic companies. Currently we do not respond to DNT requests. A uniform standard has not yet been adopted to determine how DNT requests should be interpreted and what actions should be taken by websites and third parties. However, our Services do provide you with the means to opt-out of our analytical system, which you can do here, below:
PiWik Opt-Out