TERMS OF USE AND SALE
PREAMBLE
GLOBAL SAR HUB, a simplified joint-stock company (société par actions simplifiée) with share capital of EUR 100, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 928 618 776, whose registered office is located at 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France, represented by its President Ms Sarah LE COQ ZARANTONELLO (hereinafter the “Publisher” or “GLOBAL SAR HUB”), publishes and operates the mobile application named NAVLITE (hereinafter the “Application” or “NAVLITE”), available for free download on Apple Inc.’s App Store and on Google LLC’s Google Play Store.
The Application’s purpose is to provide the recreational boater, for informational and assistance purposes, with an aid to coastal recreational maritime navigation, by means of a marine map display, satellite geolocation features, tools for plotting routes, tracks and points of interest, an anchor alarm, a Man Overboard mode, measuring and sharing tools, as well as an offline navigation mode.
The NAVLITE Application is a mere navigation aid of an informational and convenience nature. It in no way substitutes for official nautical charts, sailing directions, or any regulatory or homologated navigation document or instrument. NAVLITE is neither certified, approved nor homologated by any maritime or governmental authority. The master of the vessel, captain or skipper, remains solely and fully responsible, in all circumstances, for the conduct of navigation, the continuous watch, the safety of the vessel, the crew and the passengers, in accordance with the applicable international conventions (in particular SOLAS and COLREGs), the rules of the flag State and the requirements of the local maritime authorities.
These Terms of Use and Sale (hereinafter the “Terms”) set out the terms and conditions under which the Application is made available to the User, as well as the respective rights and obligations of the parties in connection with its download, installation and use, whether free or paid.
The User expressly acknowledges having read these Terms prior to downloading and using the Application, having understood their scope, and having accepted them without reservation by expressly validating the statement “I accept the Terms of Use and Sale” displayed upon first opening the Application. The User further acknowledges having read and accepted the safety warning displayed upon first opening the Application. Failing acceptance, the User undertakes not to use the Application and to uninstall it immediately.
ARTICLE 1 – DEFINITIONS
In these Terms, the following capitalised terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall have the following meaning:
“Application” or “NAVLITE”: the NAVLITE mobile software application, in its iOS and Android versions, together with all components, content, features, databases, interfaces, graphics and related elements comprising it.
“Publisher”: GLOBAL SAR HUB, as designated in the preamble hereto.
“User”: any natural person, of legal age or a minor duly authorised by their legal representative, who downloads, installs, accesses or uses the Application, whether using the free version or having subscribed to a paid plan.
“Master” (chef de bord): the captain, the skipper or any person responsible for the conduct of navigation and for the safety of the vessel, its crew and passengers, within the meaning of the applicable international conventions and the law of the flag State.
“Stores”: the App Store operated by Apple Inc. and the Google Play Store operated by Google LLC, the platforms through which the Application is exclusively distributed.
“Map Data”: all base maps, overlays and imagery displayed by the Application, originating from community and open sources (in particular OpenStreetMap and OpenSeaMap) and from third parties (in particular the Sentinel-2 cloudless satellite imagery served by EOX IT Services GmbH), served directly by such third parties (OpenFreeMap, OpenSeaMap, EOX) or rendered from the device’s local tile cache in offline mode.
“GNSS”: any global navigation satellite system (in particular GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS or equivalent) by which the Application determines the position, the course over ground (COG) and the speed over ground (SOG) of the device.
“Anchor Alarm”: the feature monitoring a defined radius around an anchoring point, liable to issue a local notification when the device crosses that radius, including when the phone is locked.
“Man Overboard Mode” or “MOB Mode”: the feature recording locally the position of the device at the time of its activation and displaying the bearing and distance to return to it, together with a stopwatch and a sharing function, to the exclusion of any automatic transmission of an alert to a third party or to a rescue service.
“GMDSS”: the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System established by the International Maritime Organization within the framework of the SOLAS Convention, designating all regulatory maritime distress communication means and equipment.
“Paid Plan”: indifferently the Monthly Subscription or the Lifetime Purchase as defined in Article 8 hereof.
“Personal Data”: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person within the meaning of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (hereinafter the “GDPR”).
ARTICLE 2 – PURPOSE
The purpose of these Terms is to govern, exclusively and exhaustively, the legal relationship between the Publisher and the User in connection with:
2.1. the download, installation of, and access to the Application;
2.2. the use of the free features of the Application;
2.3. the subscription to, and performance of, the Paid Plans;
2.4. all rights and obligations arising therefrom for the parties.
These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the Application and prevail over any prior communication, statement, brochure, presentation page or correspondence.
ARTICLE 3 – ACCEPTANCE AND ENFORCEABILITY
3.1. Acceptance of these Terms is evidenced by the express validation of the checkbox “I accept the Terms of Use and Sale” upon first opening the Application.
3.2. Such acceptance is full, complete and unreserved. The User may not partially accept the Terms. Refusal to accept prohibits any use of the Application and requires its immediate uninstallation.
3.3. The User declares that they have the legal capacity required to enter into these Terms. Failing this, acceptance must be carried out by their legal representative.
3.4. These Terms are enforceable against the User from the time of their acceptance and throughout the period of use of the Application.
3.5. These Terms are accessible at any time, in their latest version in force, from the Application’s settings menu and from the Publisher’s website at https://www.globalsarhub.com.
ARTICLE 4 – PRESENTATION OF THE APPLICATION AND NATURE OF THE SERVICE
4.1. The NAVLITE Application is a mobile application providing an aid to coastal recreational maritime navigation, published by GLOBAL SAR HUB and intended for recreational boaters and any person engaged in leisure navigation.
4.2. The function of the Application is to make available to the User, for informational and assistance purposes, a marine map display, satellite geolocation features, tools for plotting routes, tracks and points of interest, an anchor alarm, a Man Overboard mode, measuring and sharing tools, as well as an offline navigation mode, under the conditions described in Article 11.
4.3. The Application is a private informational, assistance and convenience tool. It is not derived from any public service mandate or sovereign mission, and is not a product certified, approved or homologated by any maritime, governmental or intergovernmental authority, including the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOM), the International Maritime Organization and any official French or foreign hydrographic service.
4.4. The Map Data displayed by the Application originates from community and open sources, in particular the vector base map (OpenMapTiles schema) served by OpenFreeMap, built from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL licence) and rendered on the device by the MapLibre rendering engine, the OpenSeaMap maritime overlay indicating navigational marks (buoys, lights, beacons) (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence, CC-BY-SA 2.0), as well as the Sentinel-2 cloudless satellite imagery produced by EOX IT Services GmbH from modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (CC-BY 4.0 licence). This data is served directly by such third parties (OpenFreeMap, OpenSeaMap, EOX) or rendered from the device’s local tile cache in offline mode. The Publisher operates no map tile server. The Application reproduces this data for informational purposes and without any undertaking as to accuracy, completeness or up-to-dateness.
4.5. The User expressly acknowledges that the Map Data is liable to contain errors, omissions, inaccuracies and update delays, that it results from community contributions not verified by the Publisher, and that it in no way constitutes official navigation information. The User is invited to refer in all circumstances to official nautical charts and regulatory nautical documents.
ARTICLE 5 – ESSENTIAL WARNING: NON-SUBSTITUTION FOR OFFICIAL NAUTICAL CHARTS AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE MASTER
The User declares that they have fully understood and accept that NAVLITE is a mere navigation aid of an informational and convenience nature, which in no way substitutes for official nautical charts or for any regulatory or homologated navigation document or instrument, and that they use it under their sole and full responsibility.
5.1. NAVLITE in no way replaces the official nautical charts published by the SHOM in France and by the official foreign hydrographic services, nor the sailing directions, lists of lights, tide and current tables, notices to mariners, AVURNAV and BMS (special weather bulletins), nor any regulatory or homologated navigation instrument or document. The User undertakes to carry and use on board, in all circumstances, the official nautical charts and the regulatory nautical documentation required for their navigation area.
5.2. The Map Data displayed by the Application originates from community, open and third-party sources (in particular OpenStreetMap, OpenSeaMap and EOX). The Publisher does not warrant its accuracy, completeness, up-to-dateness, or the absence of errors. NAVLITE PROVIDES NO official or guaranteed bathymetric data (depths, soundings). The User expressly acknowledges that the absence of any indication of a danger (shoal, rock, wreck, obstacle, isolated danger) on the Application’s screen in no way means the actual absence of such a danger, and that the cartographic representation may differ from the actual ground situation and from the effective buoyage.
5.3. The Master remains SOLELY and FULLY responsible, in all circumstances, for the conduct of navigation, the choice and control of the route, the continuous watch, the safety of the vessel, the crew and passengers, compliance with the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs), the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the rules of the flag State to which the vessel belongs, the actual buoyage and the requirements of the local maritime authorities. The Application does not relieve the Master of any of these obligations.
5.4. The Anchor Alarm and the Man Overboard Mode are mere convenience aids whose operation depends on the GNSS signal, the state of the battery, the operating system, the system authorisations granted by the User and the maintenance of the Application in the background. The Publisher does not warrant their triggering, accuracy, availability or continuity. The User must not rely on them as a safety, alerting or rescue device, and remains under the obligation to maintain a continuous human watch and the regulatory safety equipment.
5.5. NAVLITE does not, by itself, send, transmit or receive ANY distress, urgency or safety communication. In any urgency or distress situation, the User must use exclusively the regulatory means, including without limitation: marine VHF on channel 16, 406 MHz distress beacons (EPIRB, PLB) connected to the Cospas-Sarsat system, and any other means provided for by the GMDSS or required by the competent maritime authorities. Position sharing and Man Overboard Mode do not constitute a means of alerting rescue services.
5.6. The User acknowledges having read and accepted the safety warning displayed upon first opening the Application on the acceptance screen, which remains accessible at any time from the Application, and which recalls the non-substitutive nature of NAVLITE with regard to official nautical charts and the exclusive responsibility of the Master.
ARTICLE 6 – ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS AND TECHNICAL PREREQUISITES
6.1. The Application is intended for any person, without geographical restriction, subject to compliance with the laws and regulations applicable in their country of residence and navigation.
6.2. The Application is listed on the Stores with a minimum age rating of 4 years. Minors do not, however, unless authorised by their legal representative, have the legal capacity required to subscribe to a Paid Plan.
6.3. The User shall ensure that their mobile device meets the minimum technical specifications required, in particular an operational GNSS receiver chip (GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS or equivalent), without which the geolocation, route-following, Anchor Alarm and Man Overboard Mode features cannot be performed.
6.4. The User acknowledges that certain features, and in particular the online loading of the Map Data, require an internet connection, and that the quality, availability and cost of such connection are the exclusive responsibility of the User and their carrier. The User is invited to download in advance the offline areas required for their navigation.
6.5. The User acknowledges that the geolocation, Anchor Alarm and Man Overboard Mode features require the granting of system authorisations (access to location, including in the background, and notifications) and that the withdrawal or restriction of these authorisations by the User or by the operating system is liable to impair or prevent the operation of these features.
ARTICLE 7 – DOWNLOAD, INSTALLATION AND ACCESS TO THE APPLICATION
7.1. The Application is distributed exclusively through the Stores. Any installation through another channel is prohibited and releases the Publisher from all liability.
7.2. The Publisher receives no sum upon the download or installation of the Application. The free version is accessible without financial consideration.
7.3. Upon first opening the Application, the User is invited, in order, to: review and accept the safety warning, accept these Terms, authorise or refuse access to geolocation data and notifications, and where applicable express their choices regarding consent to advertising trackers via the consent management platform (CMP).
7.4. Access to the Application in its advertising-free version remains subject to subscription to a Paid Plan as defined in Article 8.
ARTICLE 8 – BUSINESS MODEL AND PRICING PLANS
8.1 Free version
The free version of the Application is made available to the User without financial consideration. It grants access to all the navigation features described in Article 11. It is funded by the display of interstitial advertisements operated by the Google AdMob advertising network, under the conditions defined in Article 17. These advertisements are displayed upon launching certain tools (in particular Routes, Tracks, Anchoring and Measure), within a frequency cap defined by the Publisher. The map display, the position-sharing function and the Man Overboard Mode are not interrupted by advertising.
8.2 Monthly Subscription
The Monthly Subscription is offered at the price of EUR 0.99 including all taxes per month, charged monthly through the relevant Store. It benefits from a free trial of seven (7) days, at the end of which the subscription is automatically charged unless cancelled before the end of the trial period. The Monthly Subscription removes the display of advertisements. It renews automatically each month unless cancelled by the User from the subscription management interface of the relevant Store, at the latest twenty-four hours before the renewal date, in accordance with the Store’s general terms.
8.3 Lifetime Purchase
The Lifetime Purchase is offered at the single price of EUR 5.99 including all taxes, payable once upon subscription through the relevant Store. It permanently removes the display of advertisements and grants, on the same functional conditions as the Monthly Subscription, access to subsequent updates of the Application published by the Publisher.
The Lifetime Purchase is understood to last for the duration of the actual operation of the NAVLITE Application by GLOBAL SAR HUB, and not for the lifetime of the User. The User expressly acknowledges that the Publisher retains the right to suspend, modify or cease operation of the Application, under the conditions defined in Article 21. In the event of cessation of operation, the consumer User shall, under the conditions strictly defined in Article 21.5, be entitled to a pro-rata refund where the Lifetime Purchase was subscribed less than twelve (12) months before the effective cessation date.
8.4 Price changes
The Publisher reserves the right to change the prices of the Paid Plans at any time. Price changes are enforceable against new subscribers as from their publication on the Stores. Users who previously subscribed to a Paid Plan retain the price in force on the day of their subscription for the remaining term, subject to the rules applicable to automatically renewing subscriptions as imposed by the Stores.
ARTICLE 9 – SUBSCRIPTION AND PAYMENT TERMS
9.1. The Paid Plans are marketed exclusively through the Stores, which act as resellers and payment processors (merchant of record). The Publisher does not access any of the User’s banking or financial data.
9.2. Payment, invoicing, collection, the calculation and collection of value added tax and any other applicable tax, as well as the retention of transaction receipts, are the exclusive responsibility of the relevant Store, in accordance with its own general terms to which the User subscribed when creating their Apple ID or Google Account.
9.3. The management of subscription status and the identification of access rights to paid features are carried out by means of the RevenueCat platform, the Publisher’s technical service provider, which processes only pseudonymous technical identifiers that do not enable the Publisher to directly identify the User.
9.4. Any complaint relating to the payment, refund or invoicing of a Paid Plan must be addressed first to the relevant Store, in accordance with its internal procedure. The Publisher has neither the capacity nor the means to handle financial complaints directly.
ARTICLE 10 – RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL AND EXPRESS WAIVER
10.1 Existence of the right of withdrawal
Pursuant to Article L. 221-18 of the French Consumer Code, the consumer User residing in France or in another Member State of the European Union has, upon the conclusion of a distance contract, a right of withdrawal which may be exercised within a period of fourteen (14) days from the conclusion of the contract, without having to give reasons for their decision and without bearing costs other than those provided for by law.
10.2 Statutory exception applicable to Paid Plans
Pursuant to Article L. 221-28, 13° of the French Consumer Code, the right of withdrawal may not be exercised for contracts for the supply of digital content not provided on a tangible medium, the performance of which has begun after the consumer’s prior express consent and express waiver of their right of withdrawal, provided that the trader has supplied the confirmation provided for in Article L. 221-13 of the same Code.
10.3 Express request for immediate supply and waiver
By subscribing to a Paid Plan, the consumer User:
(i) expressly requests the immediate supply of the paid features, and in particular the removal of advertising, without waiting for the expiry of the fourteen (14) day withdrawal period;
(ii) acknowledges having been informed beforehand that they will lose their right of withdrawal as soon as they first actually use the paid features;
(iii) expressly waives their right of withdrawal as from actual access to the paid features.
With respect to the Monthly Subscription accompanied by a free trial of seven (7) days, the consumer User retains the right to cancel the subscription during the trial period, without being charged, from the subscription management interface of the relevant Store. Confirmation of the transaction and of the waiver is provided to the User by the operator of the relevant Store, by way of a recapitulative email sent upon completion of the subscription, in accordance with Article L. 221-13 of the French Consumer Code. This confirmation, enforceable against the User, constitutes the durable medium required by the Consumer Code.
10.4 Practical consequences
10.4.1. The consumer User who has accessed the paid features after subscribing to a Paid Plan has definitively waived their right of withdrawal. They may not, on that basis, claim a refund of the sums paid.
10.4.2. The consumer User who has subscribed to a Paid Plan but has not accessed any paid feature during the fourteen (14) day period following the subscription theoretically retains their right of withdrawal. The request to exercise this right must, in practice, be addressed to the operator of the relevant Store, in its capacity as account holder and payment processor (merchant of record), within the framework of its own refund procedures.
10.4.3. The refund procedures spontaneously offered by the Stores under their own general terms (in particular Apple’s Refund Request mechanism or Google Play’s refund procedure) remain applicable and are enforceable exclusively against the relevant Store.
10.5 Withdrawal form
In cases where the right of withdrawal remains exercisable, the consumer User may use the standard form set out in the annex to Article R. 221-1 of the French Consumer Code, or any other unambiguous statement expressing their wish to withdraw, to be sent to contact@globalsarhub.com or to GLOBAL SAR HUB, 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France. The Publisher will then, where applicable, forward the request to the operator of the relevant Store in its capacity as merchant of record.
ARTICLE 11 – FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS OF USE
11.1 Marine map display
The Application displays a marine cartography composed of a vector base map (OpenMapTiles schema) served by OpenFreeMap, built from OpenStreetMap data (ODbL licence) and rendered on the device by the MapLibre rendering engine, an OpenSeaMap maritime overlay indicating navigational marks (buoys, lights, beacons) (CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence) and Sentinel-2 cloudless satellite imagery produced by EOX IT Services GmbH from modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (CC-BY 4.0 licence). The map tiles are served directly by such third parties (OpenFreeMap, OpenSeaMap, EOX) or rendered from the device’s local tile cache in offline mode; the Publisher operates no map tile server. The Application offers day, night (in a red tint) and energy-saving display modes. The Map Data is provided for purely informational purposes, without any warranty of accuracy, completeness or up-to-dateness, and does not substitute for official nautical charts.
11.2 Geolocation and navigation instruments
Subject to the User’s prior authorisation, the Application accesses the geolocation data provided by the device’s GNSS chip in order to display the vessel’s position, the course over ground (COG), the speed over ground (SOG), a route prediction vector, as well as the follow modes (automatic recentring) and orientation modes (north up or course up). These indications are provided for guidance only and may contain inaccuracies inherent in the GNSS system and the device.
11.3 Routes, waypoints and tracks
The Application enables the User to plot itineraries composed of waypoints, to follow them, and to record the track of the route travelled. The plotting, choice and control of the route are the sole responsibility of the Master, who remains required to continuously verify the relevance and safety of the route with regard to official nautical charts, the actual buoyage and the navigation conditions.
11.4 Points of interest (POI)
The Application enables the recording of points of interest and the display of a homing arrow towards them. This feature is a location aid of an indicative nature.
11.5 Anchor Alarm
The Application enables the User to define an anchoring point and a monitoring radius. When the device crosses that radius, the Application is liable to issue a local notification, including when the phone is locked, by means of background location. The User expressly acknowledges that the operation of the Anchor Alarm depends on the GNSS signal, the state of the battery, the operating system, the system authorisations granted and the maintenance of the Application in the background, and that the Publisher does not warrant its triggering, accuracy or availability. The Anchor Alarm in no way relieves the Master of the continuous human watch.
11.6 Man Overboard Mode
Upon activation by the User of the Man Overboard (MOB) button, the Application records locally the GNSS position of the device at the time of activation, displays the bearing and distance to return to it, starts a stopwatch and provides a sharing function. The Application does not perform any automatic transmission of an alert to a third party, to a rescue service or to an emergency contact. Man Overboard Mode is a convenience aid intended to facilitate the return to the recorded position, and may not be equated with a safety, alerting or rescue device. In any man-overboard situation, the User is required to implement the recovery procedures and the regulatory means of alert, and in particular marine VHF on channel 16.
11.7 Measuring, information and sharing tools
The Application provides tools for measuring distances and bearings, a touch-information function (info-tap), a position-sharing function generating a map link transmitted via the operating system’s share sheet, a screen-locking function and a keep-screen-on function. The position-sharing function does not constitute a means of alerting rescue services; the delivery and receipt of the shared link depend on third-party services and the telecom operator, and are not guaranteed by the Publisher.
11.8 Offline areas
The Application enables the downloading of offline map areas (tile packs or cache) in order to navigate without a network connection. The User acknowledges that the offline areas reflect the state of the Map Data on the day of their download and are liable not to be up to date. It is incumbent upon the User to regularly update these areas and, in all circumstances, to refer to official nautical charts.
11.9 Notifications
Subject to the User’s prior authorisation, the Application sends notifications, in particular in respect of the Anchor Alarm. These notifications are delivered locally by the device and, where applicable, through the Apple Push Notification Service (Apple Inc.) and Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google LLC). The User may disable notifications at any time from their device settings, which is liable to impair the operation of the Anchor Alarm.
ARTICLE 12 – USER OBLIGATIONS AND UNDERTAKINGS
The User undertakes, on pain of incurring their civil and criminal liability, to:
12.1. use the Application in accordance with its purpose and in strict compliance with these Terms, the applicable laws and regulations, and the international conventions in maritime matters;
12.2. carry and use on board, in all circumstances, the official nautical charts and the regulatory nautical documentation required for their navigation area, and not use NAVLITE as the sole navigation support;
12.3. ensure at all times, in their capacity as Master or under the Master’s authority, the watch, the conduct of navigation and the safety of the vessel, the crew and passengers, and not rely on the Application to the detriment of the required vigilance;
12.4. not access or attempt to access the Application by means other than the interface made available, not attempt to disassemble, decompile, modify the source code, circumvent technical protection measures, or carry out any reverse engineering of the Application, subject to the mandatory exceptions provided for in Article L. 122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code;
12.5. comply with the licences and conditions of use of the Map Data provided by third parties, and in particular the ODbL licence applicable to OpenStreetMap, the CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence applicable to OpenSeaMap and the CC-BY 4.0 licence applicable to the EOX Sentinel-2 imagery, and not extract or massively re-use the map tiles outside the use of the Application;
12.6. not use the Application for unlawful or fraudulent purposes or in a manner that infringes the rights of third parties or public order;
12.7. bear all costs related to the internet connection, telephony subscriptions, equipment and software required to use the Application.
ARTICLE 13 – PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
13.1. The Publisher complies with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and of French Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, as amended, on data processing, files and individual liberties.
13.2. The Application is based on a principle of minimisation of Personal Data. The geolocation data, routes, tracks, points of interest, offline areas, anchoring point and the position recorded in respect of Man Overboard Mode are processed locally on the User’s device and are not retained by the Publisher in its own databases, subject only to the technical flows necessary to provide the features (in particular the loading of map tiles, subscription management via RevenueCat, audience and stability measurement via Google Firebase, and the display of advertising via Google AdMob).
13.3. The precise terms of Personal Data processing, the applicable legal bases, the recipients, the retention periods and the rights of the data subject are described in the Application’s Privacy Policy, accessible from the Application and from https://www.globalsarhub.com, which is expressly incorporated by reference into these Terms.
ARTICLE 14 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
14.1. The Application, in all its components (source code, object code, architecture, graphical interfaces, editorial content, sounds, images, animations, names, trademarks, logos, graphic charter, structure and content of the databases), is and remains the exclusive property of GLOBAL SAR HUB, in accordance with Articles L. 111-1, L. 112-2, L. 113-9 and L. 341-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code.
14.2. All elements comprising the Application are protected by copyright, database rights, trademark law, design law, and more generally by any intellectual property right recognised by French and European legislation and international conventions.
14.3. The Application and all its components are subject to the following copyright: © 2026 GLOBAL SAR HUB – All rights reserved.
14.4. The Publisher grants the User, for the duration of use of the Application, a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable and limited licence, worldwide, for the sole purpose of using the Application on a compatible mobile device, in accordance with its purpose and these Terms.
14.5. The Map Data displayed by the Application remains the property of its respective holders (in particular the OpenStreetMap contributors under the ODbL licence for the base map served by OpenFreeMap, the OpenSeaMap contributors under the CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence, and EOX IT Services GmbH and the European Union — Copernicus Sentinel-2 programme — under the CC-BY 4.0 licence for the satellite imagery) and is subject to their own licences and conditions of use. No provision hereof may be interpreted as conferring upon the User any right whatsoever in such data beyond its consultation within the Application.
14.6. Any other use, and in particular the reproduction, representation, adaptation, translation, distribution, making available to the public, integration into another product or service, as well as the extraction or re-use, qualitatively or quantitatively substantial, of the content of the Application, is strictly prohibited, save with the prior written authorisation of the Publisher. Any infringement of intellectual property rights will engage the civil and criminal liability of its perpetrator, in accordance with Articles L. 335-2, L. 335-3 and L. 343-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code.
ARTICLE 15 – TRADEMARKS
15.1. The names “NAVLITE”, “GLOBAL SAR HUB”, “GSH”, as well as the associated logos and distinctive signs, are trademarks of GLOBAL SAR HUB.
15.2. Any reproduction, imitation or unauthorised use of these trademarks engages the civil and criminal liability of its perpetrator, in accordance with Articles L. 713-2 et seq. and L. 716-4 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.
ARTICLE 16 – THIRD-PARTY MAP DATA AND ATTRIBUTIONS
16.1. The User acknowledges that the Map Data displayed by the Application is derived from third-party services over which the Publisher exercises no editorial control: the vector base map is served by OpenFreeMap from OpenStreetMap data, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL); the maritime overlay originates from OpenSeaMap (CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence); the satellite imagery originates from the Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaic produced by EOX IT Services GmbH from modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (CC-BY 4.0 licence).
16.2. The Application reproduces the attribution notices required by the licences and conditions of use of these third parties. The User undertakes to respect these notices and not to alter them.
16.3. The Publisher may not be held liable for the content, accuracy, completeness, up-to-dateness or availability of third-party Map Data, nor for any modification, interruption or cessation of the making available of such data by its respective suppliers.
ARTICLE 17 – ADVERTISING
17.1. The free version of the Application displays interstitial advertisements, operated by the Google AdMob advertising network (Google LLC), displayed upon launching certain tools (in particular Routes, Tracks, Anchoring and Measure), within a frequency cap defined by the Publisher. The map display, the position-sharing function and the Man Overboard Mode are not interrupted by advertising.
17.2. The display of advertising may involve the processing of Personal Data by Google AdMob, under the conditions defined in its own privacy policy, accessible at https://policies.google.com.
17.3. The Application implements a consent management platform (CMP) compliant with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework standard, by which the User residing in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom may accept, refuse or customise the placing and reading of advertising trackers. This choice may be changed at any time from the Application’s settings menu.
17.4. The User residing in the United States or in other jurisdictions recognising an equivalent right to opt out has the corresponding rights, as organised by the local legislation and by the settings made available by the Stores.
17.5. On iOS devices, the Application implements the Apple App Tracking Transparency framework by presenting the User with the dialog box requesting prior authorisation to use advertising identifiers.
17.6. Subscription to a Paid Plan removes the display of advertisements.
ARTICLE 18 – CONTRACTUAL WARRANTIES AND EXCLUSIONS
18.1. The Publisher undertakes to apply the care and diligence reasonably expected of a professional in the design, operation and maintenance of the Application. This obligation is expressly qualified as an obligation of means (best-efforts obligation).
18.2. The Application is made available “as is”, without any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose other than that described herein, and in particular without any warranty of fitness for regulatory or safety navigation use.
18.3. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher does not warrant, in particular:
(i) that the Application will be free from errors, bugs or interruptions;
(ii) that the Map Data, derived from community, open and third-party sources (in particular OpenStreetMap, OpenSeaMap and EOX), is accurate, complete, up to date or free from errors or omissions;
(iii) the absence of any danger not represented on the screen, it being recalled that the Application provides no official or guaranteed bathymetric data and that the absence of indication of a danger does not mean its actual absence;
(iv) that the geolocation, map display, Anchor Alarm or Man Overboard Mode features will be available, accurate, continuous or operative at every point and at all times, their operation depending on the GNSS signal, the battery, the operating system, the system authorisations and the maintenance in the background;
(v) that the downloaded offline areas will be up to date;
(vi) that the availability, quality or performance of telecommunications networks will allow access to the Application or its connected features, nor that the position-sharing links will be delivered or received;
(vii) that third-party services, and in particular the Stores, Apple Inc., Google LLC, OpenFreeMap, OpenStreetMap, OpenSeaMap, EOX IT Services GmbH, Google AdMob, RevenueCat, Google Firebase, the notification services or telecommunications operators, will perform their own services without failure.
18.4. The statutory warranties to which the consumer User may be entitled under mandatory provisions remain fully applicable and prevail over these provisions. In particular, for the supply of digital content within the meaning of Articles L. 224-25-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, the consumer User benefits from the statutory warranty of conformity provided for in Articles L. 217-3 to L. 217-20 of the same Code, for a period of two (2) years from the supply of the digital content. In the event of a lack of conformity, the consumer User has the right, under the conditions and within the time limits provided for by law, to request the bringing into conformity of the digital content free of charge, failing which a price reduction, or, in the event of a serious defect, the termination of the contract. These provisions may in no way be interpreted as excluding, limiting or deferring these mandatory warranties.
ARTICLE 19 – LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
19.1. Given the non-substitutive nature of the Application with regard to official nautical charts and the regulatory navigation documents and instruments, the User expressly acknowledges that the Application is an informational and convenience assistance tool, the use of which is left to their own discretion and sole responsibility, under the authority of the Master.
19.2. Subject to mandatory and public-policy provisions, and in particular the rules relating to bodily injury, the Publisher may not be held liable:
(i) for the decisions taken by the User or the Master as regards the conduct of navigation, the choice and control of the route, the watch and safety, which are the sole responsibility of the latter in accordance with the international conventions and the law of the flag State;
(ii) for the inaccuracy, obsolescence, incompleteness or omissions of the Map Data, which originates from community, open and third-party sources, and in particular for the absence of representation of a danger or of bathymetric data on the screen;
(iii) for the non-triggering, inaccuracy or unavailability of the Anchor Alarm or the Man Overboard Mode, which the User acknowledges do not constitute safety, alerting or rescue devices;
(iv) for the consequences resulting from the User’s use of the Application as the sole navigation support or as a means of alerting rescue services, in disregard of the express provisions of Article 5;
(v) for the failure to deliver or receive a position-sharing link;
(vi) for damage resulting from a connection failure, a malfunction or discharge of the device, the unavailability of a third-party service (in particular Apple Inc., Google LLC, OpenFreeMap, OpenStreetMap, OpenSeaMap, EOX IT Services GmbH, Google AdMob, RevenueCat, Google Firebase, telecommunications operators) or an event of force majeure;
(vii) for indirect or intangible damage, in particular loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of data, harm to image, that may arise from the use of, or inability to use, the Application.
19.3. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Publisher’s contractual liability in respect of the Application is capped, for all heads of loss combined, at the total amount actually paid by the User in respect of the Paid Plan subscribed during the twelve (12) months preceding the occurrence of the event giving rise to the damage.
19.4. The cap provided for in Article 19.3 does not apply to bodily injury, to loss resulting from wilful misconduct or gross negligence of the Publisher, or to damage the limitation of which is expressly prohibited by a public-policy provision. The consumer User retains, in all cases, the right to full compensation for their loss under the conditions in which such compensation is guaranteed by the mandatory provisions of the Consumer Code and the Civil Code, which prevail over these provisions.
19.5. These limitations, to the extent that they validly apply, are a determining element of the Publisher’s consent, failing which the Application would not have been made available on the pricing conditions agreed.
ARTICLE 20 – FORCE MAJEURE
20.1. Neither party may be held liable for non-performance or delay in the performance of its obligations resulting from an event of force majeure within the meaning of Article 1218 of the French Civil Code.
20.2. The following constitute, in particular, events of force majeure, without this list being exhaustive: natural disasters, earthquakes, storms, floods, fires, epidemics, pandemics, armed conflicts, acts of terrorism, breaches of public order, general strikes, administrative decisions, massive or prolonged interruptions of telecommunications or electricity networks, major failures of the Stores or of the Map Data suppliers, failure of positioning satellites.
ARTICLE 21 – SUSPENSION, TERMINATION AND DISCONTINUATION OF THE SERVICE
21.1. The User may cease using the Application at any time by uninstalling it from their device. Such uninstallation does not give rise to any refund of the sums possibly paid in respect of a Paid Plan.
21.2. The User may terminate their Monthly Subscription at any time through the subscription management channels offered by the relevant Store. Termination takes effect at the end of the current subscription period. Sums already paid in respect of elapsed periods do not give rise to any refund.
21.3. The Publisher reserves the right to suspend, without notice, access to the Application in the event of the User’s breach of these Terms, and in particular in the event of an attempt to circumvent the technical protection measures, unauthorised extraction of the Map Data, fraud, use manifestly contrary to the purpose of the Application, or infringement of the rights of the Publisher or third parties.
21.4. The Publisher retains the right to substantially modify, suspend or cease operation of the Application, in whole or in part, for reasons that are in particular commercial, economic, technical, regulatory or strategic, or by reason of the modification, interruption or cessation of the third-party Map Data services. This right is exercised in compliance with the consumer User’s rights as they result from the mandatory provisions of the Consumer Code and the Civil Code.
The Publisher will endeavour, to the fullest extent reasonably possible, to inform Users of a suspension or definitive discontinuation by an in-app notification or by publication on its website within an indicative minimum period of thirty (30) days before the effective date, save in exceptional circumstances beyond its control (in particular force majeure, compelling regulatory constraint, failure of a structuring partner, cessation of activity).
21.5. In the event of definitive discontinuation of the operation of the Application at the Publisher’s initiative:
(i) the User who has subscribed to a Monthly Subscription will no longer be charged in respect of periods after the effective discontinuation date;
(ii) the User who has subscribed to a Lifetime Purchase less than twelve (12) months before the effective discontinuation date may request, within three (3) months of notification of the discontinuation, a pro-rata refund based on a twelve (12) month amortisation period. The request is made by email to contact@globalsarhub.com, accompanied by proof of purchase. The refund is carried out through the relevant Store, to the extent of its available technical procedures;
(iii) beyond the twelve (12) month period from the subscription of the Lifetime Purchase, the User may not claim a refund, the Application being deemed to have delivered the essential part of its use value.
21.6. Definitive discontinuation of operation for reasons of force majeure within the meaning of Article 20 may not give rise to any compensation other than that expressly provided for in Article 21.5(ii). No other head of loss may be invoked by the User on this sole ground.
ARTICLE 22 – MODIFICATION OF THE APPLICATION AND OF THESE TERMS
22.1. The Publisher reserves the right to modify, at any time, the features, content, ergonomics and architecture of the Application, as well as these Terms, in order to take account in particular of regulatory, technical, economic or strategic developments, or of changes in the third-party Map Data services.
22.2. Any new version of these Terms is brought to the User’s attention by an in-app notification requiring them, in order to continue using the Application, to carry out a new express acceptance. Failing acceptance, the User may no longer use the Application.
22.3. The date of last update appearing at the head of these Terms evidences the applicable version. Earlier versions are retained by the Publisher for evidentiary purposes only.
ARTICLE 23 – ASSIGNMENT
23.1. The User may not assign, transfer or convey, whether free of charge or for consideration, in whole or in part, the rights and obligations that they hold under these Terms.
23.2. The Publisher may freely assign or transfer all or part of its rights and obligations under these Terms, in particular within the framework of a transfer, merger, demerger, partial asset contribution or group reorganisation, without the User’s prior consent. Such assignment will be notified to the User by way of in-app notification or by publication on the Publisher’s website.
ARTICLE 24 – SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR APPLE’S APP STORE
The following provisions apply to any User who has downloaded the Application from Apple Inc.’s App Store (hereinafter “Apple”). In the event of conflict with the other provisions of these Terms, the following provisions prevail for the Users concerned only.
24.1. Acknowledgement. The User acknowledges that these Terms are concluded exclusively between the Publisher and the User, and not with Apple. Apple is in no way responsible for the Application or its content.
24.2. Scope of the licence. The licence granted to the User is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the Application on any Apple product that the User owns or controls, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the App Store Terms of Service.
24.3. Maintenance and support. The Publisher is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services relating to the Application. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance and support.
24.4. Warranties. The Publisher is solely responsible for any express or implied warranty relating to the Application, to the extent that such warranty cannot validly be excluded. In the event of non-conformity of the Application with an applicable warranty, the User may notify Apple, which will refund, where applicable, the purchase price of the Application. Apple has no other warranty obligation.
24.5. Product claims. The Publisher is solely responsible for handling any claim of the User or a third party relating to the Application or to the holding and use thereof, in particular claims relating to product liability, non-conformity or regulatory matters.
24.6. Intellectual property rights. The Publisher is solely responsible for the defence, settlement and discharge of any claim of infringement of third-party intellectual property rights in respect of the Application.
24.7. Legal compliance. The User represents and warrants that they are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a country supporting terrorism, and that they are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
24.8. Third-party beneficiary. The User expressly acknowledges that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that, upon the User’s acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted that right) to enforce these Terms against the User as a third-party beneficiary.
ARTICLE 25 – SPECIFIC PROVISIONS FOR GOOGLE PLAY
The following provisions apply to any User who has downloaded the Application from Google Play operated by Google LLC (hereinafter “Google”). In the event of conflict with the other provisions of these Terms, the following provisions prevail for the Users concerned only.
25.1. These Terms are concluded exclusively between the Publisher and the User. Google is party neither to these Terms nor to the contractual relationship relating to the Application.
25.2. The Publisher is solely responsible for the Application, its content and user support.
25.3. The User acknowledges that the distribution of, and access to, the Application are further governed by the Google Play general terms, which they accepted when creating their Google Account.
ARTICLE 26 – EVIDENCE AGREEMENT
26.1. The computer records, connection logs, event logs and notifications retained by the Publisher in its information systems constitute an admissible means of evidence between the parties, without excluding or limiting the User’s right to provide evidence to the contrary by any means.
26.2. The User’s validation, through the double-click mechanism, checkboxes or acceptance buttons, of these Terms, of the safety warning and of the in-app disclaimers, as well as of any consent, constitutes an electronic signature within the meaning of Article 1366 of the French Civil Code. The probative force of this signature is assessed by the court, the User retaining the right to contest its attribution or integrity by any means.
26.3. These provisions do not affect the rights of the consumer User as they result from mandatory provisions, and in particular do not create any undue limitation of the means of evidence available to them within the meaning of Article R. 212-2 of the French Consumer Code.
ARTICLE 27 – INDEMNIFICATION
27.1. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the User undertakes to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Publisher, its officers, employees, service providers and assigns, against any action, claim, judgment and reasonable defence costs resulting from:
(i) a characterised breach by the User of these Terms;
(ii) fraudulent or improper use of the Application by the User;
(iii) use of the Application as the sole navigation support or as a means of alerting rescue services, in deliberate disregard of Article 5;
(iv) a wilful infringement by the User of the rights of third parties, and in particular of the intellectual property rights of the Publisher or of the licences of the Map Data suppliers;
(v) an unauthorised extraction or re-use of the Map Data or of the components of the Application.
27.2. This indemnification clause presupposes that the User’s liability is established. It does not apply in the event of mere uncharacterised negligence, nor in the event of a default attributable to the Publisher, to a third party or to an event of force majeure.
ARTICLE 28 – COMPLAINTS AND CONSUMER MEDIATION
28.1 Prior complaint
Prior to any referral to the consumer mediator or to any litigation, the User is invited to address their complaint to the Publisher’s customer service, which undertakes to provide a response as soon as possible:
By email: contact@globalsarhub.com.
By post: GLOBAL SAR HUB – NAVLITE Complaints Department – 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France.
28.2 Recourse to consumer mediation
In accordance with Articles L. 611-1 to L. 616-3 and R. 612-1 to R. 616-2 of the French Consumer Code, transposing Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes, the consumer User residing in France has, failing an amicable agreement with the Publisher, the right to have free recourse to a consumer mediation procedure. To this end, the Publisher has joined the following mediation scheme, whose details are reproduced below in accordance with Article L. 616-1 of the French Consumer Code.
In accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Code concerning the consumer dispute mediation process, after having contacted us and failing a response to your satisfaction, you have the option of having free recourse to a consumer mediation procedure with:
Centre de la Médiation de la Consommation de Conciliateurs de Justice (CM2C)
Association governed by the Act of 1901 – RNA No. W751237320 – SIRET No. 831 213 871 00021.
Registered office: 49 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France.
Telephone: +33 1 89 47 00 14.
Email for referrals: litiges@cm2c.net.
Online referral platform: https://www.cm2c.net/declarer-un-litige.php.
General website: https://www.cm2c.net.
CM2C is listed on the register of consumer mediators kept by the Commission for the Evaluation and Control of Consumer Mediation (CECMC) established within the French Ministry of the Economy.
28.3 Conditions of admissibility of the referral
In accordance with Article L. 612-2 of the French Consumer Code, the referral to the mediator is admissible only under the following cumulative conditions:
(i) the User can demonstrate that they first attempted to resolve their dispute directly with the Publisher by a written complaint under the conditions set out in Article 28.1;
(ii) the referral is made within a period of less than one (1) year from the written complaint previously sent to the Publisher;
(iii) either the Publisher has not provided a satisfactory response within a period of two (2) months from receipt of the complaint, or the Publisher’s response has not satisfied the User;
(iv) the dispute has not been previously examined, and is not being examined, by another mediator or by a court;
(v) the request is neither manifestly unfounded nor abusive.
The mediation procedure is entirely free for the consumer User. The mediator’s opinion is not binding on the parties, which remain free to accept or refuse the proposed solution and to refer the matter, in any event, to the competent courts.
28.4 Articulation with the Store operators
The User expressly acknowledges that the jurisdiction of the consumer mediator is exercised under the following conditions, having regard to the third-party status of the Store operators in the contract concluded with the Publisher:
(i) any dispute relating to the payment, invoicing, refund or termination of a Paid Plan, whether the Monthly Subscription or the Lifetime Purchase, must be addressed first to the operator of the Store through which the transaction was concluded, in its capacity as reseller and account holder (merchant of record), in accordance with its own general terms;
(ii) the jurisdiction of the CM2C mediator is exercised over disputes relating to the supply of the application service by the Publisher, its operation, its availability, its conformity, as well as the general performance of these Terms by the Publisher.
28.5 Cross-border mediation and consumers outside France
For the consumer User not residing in France, the remedies offered by the local legislation of their country of residence remain applicable, in accordance with the mandatory provisions of Regulation (EC) No. 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 (Rome I) and Regulation (EU) No. 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012 (Brussels I bis). The User residing in a Member State of the European Union may, where applicable, contact a mediation scheme recognised in their country of residence.
ARTICLE 29 – GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
29.1. These Terms are governed by French law, to the exclusion of any conflict-of-laws rule.
29.2. Subject to the mandatory provisions applicable to the consumer User and allowing them, where applicable, to bring proceedings before the courts of their place of residence pursuant to Regulation (EU) No. 1215/2012 of 12 December 2012, any dispute relating to the formation, interpretation, performance or termination of these Terms will be submitted to the competent courts within the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal.
29.3. For the User acting in a professional capacity, jurisdiction is expressly attributed to the Paris Commercial Court, including in the event of multiple defendants or third-party proceedings.
ARTICLE 30 – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
30.1. Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the Application and prevail over any other prior agreement, written or oral.
30.2. Severability. Should any of the provisions of these Terms be declared null, unlawful or unenforceable by a court decision having the force of res judicata, the other provisions would retain their full force and effect. The parties would endeavour to replace the offending provision with a valid provision reflecting as closely as possible their common intention.
30.3. No waiver. The fact that the Publisher does not, at a given time, avail itself of any of the provisions of these Terms may not be interpreted as a waiver of the right to avail itself thereof at a later date.
30.4. Forbearance. No forbearance, whatever its frequency and duration, may constitute a waiver of the Publisher’s rights.
30.5. Headings. The headings of the articles are indicative only and may not be used to interpret the content of the provisions.
30.6. Languages. These Terms are originally drafted in French. In the event of translation into another language for information purposes, only the French version is authoritative between the parties, except in cases where the law applicable to the consumer requires the language of their country of residence.
ARTICLE 31 – CONTACT
For any question, complaint, request to exercise rights relating to personal data, report of a cartographic anomaly or any other request relating to the Application, the User may write to the Publisher:
By email: contact@globalsarhub.com
By post: GLOBAL SAR HUB – NAVLITE Compliance Department – 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France
ARTICLE 32 – LEGAL NOTICE
In accordance with the provisions of Article 6-III of French Act No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy:
Publisher: GLOBAL SAR HUB, a simplified joint-stock company with share capital of EUR 100.
Registered office: 60 rue François 1er, 75008 Paris, France.
Registration: Paris Trade and Companies Register No. 928 618 776 – SIRET No. 928 618 776 00019 – NAF/APE Code 6201Z.
Intra-Community VAT number: FR 44 928 618 776.
Publication director: Ms Sarah LE COQ ZARANTONELLO, President.
Host of the Publisher’s website (www.globalsarhub.com): LIGNE WEB SERVICES (LWS), a simplified joint-stock company with share capital of EUR 500,000, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number B 851 993 683, whose Paris establishment is located at 10 rue Penthièvre, 75008 Paris, France – SIRET No. 851 993 683 00024 – APE Code 6311Z – Intra-Community VAT FR 21 851 993 683.
Distribution: Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California 95014, United States of America, and Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United States of America.
Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL licence), base map served by OpenFreeMap; © OpenSeaMap contributors (CC-BY-SA 2.0 licence); Sentinel-2 cloudless satellite imagery by EOX IT Services GmbH, from modified Copernicus Sentinel-2 data (CC-BY 4.0 licence).
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NAVLITE is a trademark of GLOBAL SAR HUB.