Terms of service

sailed.at is a planning service for sailors: you can browse, generate, edit and publish sailing trails, read reference guides, and (for invited users) plan voyages with a crew. It is a planning aid, not a navigation instrument. Routes, distances, weather, tides and safety information are for reference only and may be incomplete or wrong. You remain solely responsible for the safe navigation of your vessel: use up-to-date official charts, pilot books and forecasts, and your own seamanship.

• You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
• Give accurate information and keep your sign-in secure. You are responsible for activity under your account.
• Browsing and a limited number of AI generations are available without an account.

The service is currently free of charge. We may change, limit or discontinue features. If we introduce paid features, we will tell you before you can buy them and provide the legally required consumer information, including any right of withdrawal. Some features, such as Voyages, are in a private beta that is available by invitation only and may change or end.

You keep the rights to what you create. You confirm that you created it or have the right to publish it, that it does not infringe anyone's rights, and that it is lawful.

Published trails. When you publish a trail you license it to everyone under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Anyone may copy, adapt and use it, including commercially, as long as they credit you (your handle and a link to the trail). This keeps the trail library a commons that other sailors can build on. The licence is irrevocable for copies already made, but you can unpublish or delete a trail at any time. If you delete your account, trails you published remain available, shown as by "Former member", unless you choose to delete them too or ask us to remove them later. Private drafts are not licensed to anyone.

Everything else you publish (recipes, ratings, profile details, photos) is yours; you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display and distribute it as part of the service for as long as it is published.

Third-party data. Maps, place data and photos shown with trails come from other sources under their own licences (see Data sources and attribution). The CC BY licence covers what you created, not that third-party material.

AI-assisted content. If you publish a trail that an AI helped draft, you are responsible for reviewing it. Publishing means you stand behind it.

AI output can be wrong, outdated or unsuitable for your boat and crew. Check it before relying on it. Do not enter personal data about other people into prompts. Free AI generation is limited per day and may be paused to prevent abuse. Automated access to the service (scraping, bots, scripted generation) is not allowed without our written permission.

Do not use the service to:

• publish unlawful content, or content that infringes others' copyright, privacy or other rights;
• harass or defame others, or publish other people's personal data without their permission;
• spam, impersonate others, or try to gain unauthorised access to the service or other users' data;
• interfere with the service, bypass its limits or security, or overload it.

If you see content that you believe is unlawful or breaks these terms, use the report form or write to humans [at] sailed.at. Please tell us where the content is, why it is a problem, and how to reach you. We review reports without undue delay and may remove or restrict content, or suspend an account, if it is unlawful or breaks these terms. When we do, we tell the affected person the reason and how to object, unless the law prevents it.

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or end an account for serious or repeated breaches of these terms, after warning you where reasonable.

We are fully liable for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee. For slightly negligent breach of an obligation that is essential to the purpose of the contract (a cardinal duty), our liability is limited to the damage that is typical and foreseeable. Otherwise our liability for slight negligence is excluded. This does not limit mandatory rights of consumers.

Because sailed.at is a free planning aid, we do not guarantee that routes, distances or any other information is accurate, complete or fit for navigation, or that the service is always available. Sailing involves risk; you decide whether and how to sail.

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence. We may change these terms for valid reasons, such as new features or legal changes; we will notify you before changes that matter to you take effect, and you can delete your account if you do not agree. If a clause is invalid, the rest stays in force.

Questions: humans [at] sailed.at. Provider details are in the Impressum; how we handle personal data is in the privacy policy.