Intellectual Property & Licensing

1. Written work and methodology

Every article, guide, checklist, calculator methodology, scoring model, worked example and piece of site copy published under Full Ahead Maritime.

• Protected by copyright automatically from the moment of publication under the Berne Convention — no registration is required for the work to be owned.
• Published with dated authorship and a verifiable revision history, so first publication can be evidenced.
• Distinctive marker phrases are embedded throughout the text and monitored automatically across the public web.
• Quotation of up to 100 words with attribution and a live link is permitted; wholesale reproduction, translation or republication is not.

2. The product, its logic and its interfaces

The Full Ahead platform: its source code, database design, prediction and calibration logic, remaining-useful-life scoring, audit-readiness scoring, fatigue and attention modelling, workflows, screen designs and the arrangement of information within them.

• Source code is copyright-protected and is never published, distributed or licensed for self-hosting.
• The scoring and calibration logic is held as a trade secret: it runs server-side only and is never shipped to the browser.
• Access is granted under a licence to use the hosted service — no rights in the software itself transfer to any customer, trial user or partner.
• Reverse engineering, decompilation, automated scraping of the application, and building a competing product from access granted during a trial or design-partner arrangement are prohibited by the Terms.
• Design-partner and evaluation access carries an explicit confidentiality obligation over unreleased functionality.

3. Brand, name and the Three Pillars seal

The name Full Ahead Maritime, the Three Pillars seal, the wordmark, the Arctic Frost visual identity and all associated get-up.

• Used continuously and consistently in trade, which establishes unregistered rights in the mark and its get-up.
• Brand usage rules are published so that permitted and prohibited uses are unambiguous and enforceable.
• The seal may not be reproduced, recoloured, redrawn, animated or used to imply endorsement, certification or partnership.
• Confusingly similar names, seals or maritime three-pillar devices used in the ship-management software field will be challenged.

4. Customer and fleet data

Nothing. Fleet data, maintenance records, certificates, crew records and evidence uploaded by an operator remain the operator's property at all times.

• No customer data is ever used to train models, sold, brokered or shared with other operators.
• Data is isolated per workspace at the database level, not merely in the interface.
• Any benchmark or aggregate figure is derived only from data that has been irreversibly aggregated so that no single vessel, operator or person can be identified.
• On termination, an operator can export their records and request deletion; the commitment survives the end of the contract.
• Records written to the tamper-proof ledger are hash-chained so an operator can prove to a class surveyor or auditor that their own history was not altered — including by us.

5. What you may do

• Quote up to 100 words from any article with clear attribution to Full Ahead Maritime and a working link to the original page.
• Link to any public page freely, including from commercial newsletters and industry press.
• Use the calculators and checklists in your own fleet's internal decision-making, including in documents shown to class, flag or charterers.
• Cite the methodology in academic or industry research with normal scholarly attribution.
• Reproduce the logo unmodified in press coverage that is about Full Ahead Maritime.

If your intended use is not on this list and is not obviously prohibited below, ask at hello@fullaheadmaritime.com. Reasonable requests from operators, class societies, academics and the industry press are normally granted, in writing, free of charge.

6. What you may not do

• Republishing articles, guides or checklists in whole or substantial part, on any site, in any language, with or without attribution.
• Ingesting site content into a commercial dataset, model or knowledge product that is then sold or licensed onward.
• Copying screen layouts, workflows, scoring outputs or report formats into a competing product.
• Reverse engineering, benchmarking for competitive purposes, or using trial or design-partner access to build or specify a rival system.
• Presenting the seal, the name or the visual identity in a way that suggests partnership, endorsement or certification that does not exist.
• Registering domain names, application names or social handles that are confusingly similar to the marks.

Access to the Service — including parallel reviews, demonstrations and founding-fleet arrangements — is a licence to use the hosted software for the operation of your own fleet. It transfers no ownership, grants no right to the underlying code or logic, and confers no right to reproduce the product's design or outputs in another system.

7. Automated text and machine learning

Site content remains open to crawlers, including AI crawlers, because visibility in search and in AI answers matters to this business. That openness is not a licence. Ingesting this material into a model or dataset does not transfer any right in it, does not permit its reproduction, and does not permit the resale of it — verbatim, paraphrased or synthesised — as part of a commercial dataset or knowledge product.

Operators of models and datasets that reproduce substantial parts of this work should treat this page as express notice of reservation of rights, including the reservation of text and data mining rights under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790.

8. Your data is not our intellectual property

A deliberate asymmetry: we assert ownership over our work and none whatsoever over yours. Fleet records, maintenance history, certificates, evidence files and crew information uploaded into the Service remain the operator's property. They are not used to train models, not sold, not brokered, and not shown to other operators. This survives the end of the contract.

9. How copying is detected and handled

This is monitored rather than merely asserted. Distinctive marker phrases are embedded throughout Full Ahead Maritime text, and an automated watch searches the public web for them every day.

1. Detection. An automated watch runs daily against the public web, searching for the marker phrases embedded in Full Ahead text and for imitation of the name and seal. Every hit outside our own domains is recorded with the URL, the phrase matched and the time it was first seen.
2. Evidence. On detection the offending page is captured and time-stamped alongside the first-publication date of the original, which together establish priority.
3. Notice. A takedown notice is sent to the operator of the site, and where they do not respond, to the host, the CDN and the registrar. Search-engine removal requests are filed in parallel.
4. Escalation. Unresolved infringement is escalated to counsel in the relevant jurisdiction. Copyright and unregistered mark rights are enforceable in every Berne and Paris Convention country without prior registration.

To report infringement of our work, or to tell us that we have infringed yours, write to security@fullaheadmaritime.com with the URL and the material concerned. Genuine complaints against us are acted on within five working days.

10. Relationship to other terms

This notice sits alongside the Terms of Service, the Privacy Notice, the brand and trademark rules and the security statement. Where the Terms of Service and this notice conflict, the Terms of Service govern the contractual relationship and this notice governs the interpretation of ownership.