PORTVOLUTION VMPC

Terms & Conditions and End User License Agreement (EULA)

Effective Date: November 10, 2026
Version: 2026.11.10_v1.2
Contact: support@portvolution.com

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS & TARGET AUDIENCE

These Terms & Conditions and End User License Agreement ("Terms", "Agreement") govern your download, installation, access, and use of the Portvolution VMPC application across all supported operating systems (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web). By downloading, installing, or accessing the application, you enter into a legally binding contract with the developers of Portvolution VMPC.

Portvolution VMPC is a specialized software utility engineered for maritime professionals, seafarers, logistics coordinators, and maritime students. The application is intended solely for individuals 18 years of age or older; it is not directed at, and must not be used by, minors. By using the app, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old and are using the software solely for lawful professional logistics, nautical analysis, or personal career tracking purposes.

2. USER ACCOUNTS & SECURITY OBLIGATIONS

To utilize cloud synchronization and multi-device persistence, you must register for a Portvolution account via Supabase Authentication. You are solely responsible for maintaining the strict confidentiality of your login credentials, authentication tokens, and access to your physical devices. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities, data entries, and modifications that occur under your account. You must notify us immediately at support@portvolution.com of any unauthorized use of your account or any suspected security breaches.

3. CRITICAL MARITIME DISCLAIMER — LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

PORTVOLUTION VMPC IS AN ANALYTICAL, LOGISTICAL, AND CAREER-TRACKING AID. IT IS EXPRESSLY NOT AN ELECTRONIC CHART DISPLAY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (ECDIS), NOR IS IT AN OFFICIAL MARITIME NAVIGATION TOOL.

The interactive route visualizations, UN/LOCODE terminal mappings, distance calculations, port coordinates, and statistical estimations provided within the application (including those rendered via flutter_map, latlong2, and fl_chart) are for informational and logistical planning purposes only. They must never be relied upon for primary vessel navigation, route plotting, pilotage, draft calculation, or collision avoidance.

The developers of Portvolution VMPC disclaim all express or implied warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or real-time precision of the maritime data displayed. Under no circumstances shall the developers be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or operational damages—including but not limited to vessel delays, grounding, commercial cargo losses, routing errors, or regulatory fines—resulting from the use of or reliance upon any data, estimation, or visualization within the application. Always consult official admiralty charts, authorized ECDIS installations, published nautical notices, and official port authorities for maritime navigation and operational decision-making.

4. AI-GENERATED CONTENT DISCLAIMER ("BOTVOLUTION")

Portvolution VMPC includes automatically generated port guides, presented under the "Botvolution" label on port detail pages — a short overview, logistics tips, welfare information, and status indicators (e.g. Wi-Fi, shore leave, transport availability) for a given port.

This content is generated using Google Gemini, an AI model with web search capability, researched and published periodically by the developer. It is not submitted by users, and — like any AI-generated output — it is not independently verified against official sources at the time of publication.

AI systems, including the one used to generate this content, can make mistakes. Botvolution guides may be incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate, particularly regarding fast-changing information such as regional security conditions, port regulations, or shore leave restrictions. This content is provided for general informational purposes only.

Botvolution content does not constitute official, legal, operational, or company guidance, and must never be relied upon as a substitute for official sources — including your employer or shipowner, the port agent, port or flag state authorities, and official maritime security advisories (e.g. UKMTO, BIMCO). Always verify time-sensitive or safety-critical information directly with these sources before acting on it.

The developers of Portvolution VMPC disclaim all liability for decisions made, or damages incurred, in reliance on Botvolution-generated content.

5. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & LICENSE GRANT

The codebase, software architecture, user interface design, branding, logo (assets/logo_old.png, launcher icons), compiled binaries, and analytical algorithms of Portvolution VMPC are the exclusive intellectual property of the developers and are protected by international copyright and intellectual property laws.

Subject to your continuous compliance with these Terms, you are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable license to install and execute a copy of Portvolution VMPC on compatible devices that you own or control, strictly for its intended professional and personal utilities.

User-Generated Content: You retain full legal ownership of all personal career statistics, contract terms, notes, and voyage histories that you input into the application. By enabling cloud synchronization, you grant us a secure, encrypted, and limited license solely to host, transmit, and process that data across our database infrastructure for the exclusive purpose of providing the service to you.

6. ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY & RESTRICTIONS

You strictly agree not to execute, attempt, or facilitate any of the following prohibited actions:

• Decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, decrypt, or attempt to derive the source code, underlying algorithms, or security mechanisms of Portvolution VMPC.
• Modify, adapt, translate, or create derivative works based upon the application or any of its proprietary components.
• Use automated scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or bots to extract UN/LOCODE port databases, community reviews, terminal insights, or aggregated statistics from the platform.
• Transmit malicious code, inject unauthorized SQL/NoSQL payloads, interfere with the Supabase API endpoints, or attempt to bypass Row Level Security (RLS) policies to gain unauthorized access to other users' maritime contract records.
• Use the application to generate, store, or submit false, fraudulent, or forged maritime records, sea time certificates, or contract logs for illegal commercial gain or regulatory misrepresentation.

7. COMMUNITY GUIDELINES & CONTENT MODERATION

This section applies to all community content you may post or view within Portvolution VMPC — port reviews and ratings ("insights"), Port Chat messages, and your displayed nickname.

Prohibited content. You must not submit content that constitutes, or that a reasonable person would recognize as:

• Spam — promotional or commercial content unrelated to port conditions, irrelevant links, or repeated gibberish.
• Hate speech — discrimination or slurs based on nationality, race, religion, or similar characteristics.
• Threats — content that threatens or intimidates.
• Sexual content — explicit sexual material.
• Harassment — targeted insults, demeaning language, or unverified serious accusations (e.g. corruption, theft, fraud) directed at an identifiable individual, role, or company tied to a specific real interaction.
• Illegal activity — content that facilitates or encourages illegal acts, including the solicitation of paid sexual/escort services.
• Profanity — vulgar or crude language, insults, or slurs directed at a person.

How this is enforced. Community content is subject to two layers of moderation:

1. Automated moderation: submitted content is screened by an AI model (see the Third-Party Processors table in our Privacy Policy). Port Chat messages are screened before they become visible to other users; port insights become visible to other users only after the automated check. If an insight is not published, you are told why — which passages were flagged and what to change — and you can edit and resubmit it up to 3 times within 30 days of the first decision, or keep it unpublished (see Section 9 of the Privacy Policy).
2. User reporting: any user can report a specific message, insight, or another user directly within the app. A port insight reported by several users may be hidden automatically until it is reviewed. Reports are reviewed by the developer/administrator, who may hide the reported content, restrict the reported account from specific features (e.g. Port Chat or posting insights), or take no action if the report is unfounded. When an account is restricted, its owner is told the reason and when the restriction ends.

Asking for a decision to be reviewed. If you think a moderation decision about your content or your account is wrong, email support@portvolution.com with the details. A person will review the decision and reply.

Consequences. Depending on severity and recurrence, a violation may result in the content being hidden, a temporary restriction on specific features, or account suspension/termination under Section 8 (Termination of Service).

Contact for notices. To report illegal or policy-violating content, use the in-app reporting feature, or email support@portvolution.com — our designated point of contact for content-related notices.

8. TERMINATION OF SERVICE

We reserve the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to our cloud synchronization services immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you violate any provision of these Terms, engage in API abuse, compromise system security, or act in a manner detrimental to the platform or other maritime users. Upon termination, your cloud license will cease immediately, and you must cease all use of the cloud-enabled features of the software.

9. GOVERNING LAW & DISPUTE RESOLUTION

These Terms and any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to your use of Portvolution VMPC shall be governed by and construed in accordance with standard European Union commercial and digital service regulations, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal actions, disagreements, or procedural disputes shall be resolved amicably through good-faith professional negotiations by contacting our legal and support team at support@portvolution.com.

10. LOCAL STORAGE & TECHNICAL PERMISSIONS MANIFEST

In the interest of full technical transparency, below is the exact mapping of device permissions requested by Portvolution VMPC across operating systems and their functional justifications:

End of Terms & Conditions and EULA — © 2026 Portvolution VMPC. All Rights Reserved.