IALA-NET:General disclaimer

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Liability

All IALA-NET participants take part in IALA-NET at their own risk and cost.

Everyone utilizing data or services from IALA-NET do so at their own risk and liability.

IALA, DaMSA and any IALA-NET participants are not in any way liable for any consequences of any usage (and/or omitted usage) of IALA-NET and associated IALA-NET services.


Reliability of service

IALA-NET is provided on a BEST EFFORT BASIS. The operational availability of IALA-NET and associated IALA-NET services is not guaranteed in any way.

Outages in data streams and web based services may be expected, however those hosting IALA-NET components (servers etc) will put in a fair effort, during normal working days and working hours, to restore the IALA-NET and the associated services.

IALA-NET participants that choose to utilize IALA-NET and associated services for any type of critical applications, do so at their own risk and liability.


Data quality

The data provided by IALA-NET and associated services are provided without any quality assurance. The data is provided "as is", i.e. IALA is not in any way responsible for any quality aspect of the data provided. IALA-NET is just a data exchange mechanism.

If data users are in any way concerned about data quality, they are obliged to carry out their own quality assurance.


Limited AIS data storage

In order to keep costs down and performance up, the IALA-NET database can only be expected to contain data for the last few preceding weeks. This helps keeping IALA-NET free of charge.