Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of nordsignals.org (the "Site"), published by NORD SIGNALS DISPATCH INC. ("we," "us," "our"). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the Site.

1. License to Use Content

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and read the Site for personal, non-commercial use. This license does not include the right to:

• Copy, scrape, harvest, or systematically extract text, images, or video from the Site using bots, crawlers, or other automated tools, except as expressly permitted for standard search-engine indexing;
• Reproduce, republish, mirror, or re-upload any article, photograph, video, or other material to another website, platform, or publication without our prior written permission;
• Use any content from the Site commercially, in advertising, or to train, fine-tune, or evaluate an artificial intelligence or machine learning model, without a separate written license;
• Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright notice, watermark, or attribution.

2. Intellectual Property

All content published on the Site — including articles, photography, video, graphics, layout, and the NORD SIGNALS DISPATCH name and marks — is the property of NORD SIGNALS DISPATCH INC. or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. See our Copyright & DMCA Policy for how to request permission to use our content.

3. Technical Protection Measures

The Site may use technical measures — including disabled right-click/drag on media, image watermarking, hotlink protection, and encrypted video streaming — to help protect our content. Attempting to circumvent, disable, or interfere with these measures is a violation of these Terms.

4. User Conduct

You agree not to: use the Site for any unlawful purpose; interfere with the Site's operation or security; attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems; or access the Site by automated means at a volume or frequency a human reader could not replicate.

5. Newsletter & Communications

If you subscribe to our newsletter, that service is additionally governed by our Privacy Policy.

6. Disclaimer & Limitation of Liability

The Site is provided "as is." While we follow the standards set out in our Editorial & Fact-Checking Policy, we do not guarantee that all content is complete, current, or error-free. To the fullest extent permitted by law, NORD SIGNALS DISPATCH INC. is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of the Site.

7. Governing Law

8. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Site after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

9. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to our editorial team.