The Maritime Brotherhood

Terms of Use

Last updated: September 23, 2026

1. General Purpose

The Maritime Brotherhood provides peer community support, educational information, resources, self-reflection tools, entertainment features, and links to third-party services. The website is not a medical clinic, counselling service, emergency service, or substitute for professional care.

2. Emergency Use

Do not use this website, community chat, contact form, AI feature, or other site tool for an emergency. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. In Canada, if you are thinking about suicide or are worried about someone who may be, call or text 988.

3. No Professional Relationship

Using the website does not create a doctor-patient, psychologist-client, therapist-client, lawyer-client, or other professional relationship with The Maritime Brotherhood, its administrators, volunteers, contributors, or community members.

4. Educational and Peer-Support Content

Information on this website is provided for general educational, informational, peer-support, and self-reflection purposes. It should not be used as the sole basis for medical, psychological, legal, financial, employment, disability, insurance, or other consequential decisions.

5. User Accounts

If you create an account, you are responsible for providing accurate information, keeping your login credentials secure, and notifying the site if you believe your account has been compromised.

You must not attempt to access another person's account or interfere with the security or operation of the website.

6. Community Conduct

When using community features, you agree not to post or transmit content that is unlawful, threatening, harassing, hateful, exploitative, intentionally deceptive, invasive of another person's privacy, or intended to harm another person or the operation of the website.

Peer-support discussions are not confidential professional communications. Other users may see, copy, or share information that you choose to post.

7. AI-Generated Content

Some features may use artificial intelligence. AI-generated responses may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or inappropriate for your situation. AI output should be independently checked before you rely on it.

AI features are not healthcare providers and must not be used as emergency services or as a substitute for qualified professional advice.

8. Self-Reflection and Wellness Tools

Website activities, questionnaires, games, breathing exercises, attention tasks, sound tools, frequency tools, and similar features are provided for general educational, recreational, or self-reflection purposes unless a page clearly states otherwise.

These tools do not diagnose, screen for, treat, cure, prevent, or rule out a medical or mental health condition.

9. Third-Party Links and Services

The website may contain links, embeds, APIs, or content from third-party services. The Maritime Brotherhood does not control those third parties and is not responsible for their availability, privacy practices, terms, accuracy, or content.

10. User-Submitted Content

You remain responsible for content you submit. Do not submit content that you do not have the right to share. By voluntarily submitting content for public display, you grant The Maritime Brotherhood permission to display and operate that content as needed for the feature in which it was submitted.

11. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, original website design, text, graphics, branding, code, and other original materials created for The Maritime Brotherhood remain protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. Third-party trademarks and content belong to their respective owners.

12. Availability and Changes

The website and any feature may be changed, suspended, restricted, or discontinued without guarantee of uninterrupted availability. Information, resource links, phone numbers, and third-party services may change over time.

13. Acceptable Use

You must not intentionally overload the website, bypass security controls, scrape protected user information, distribute malware, impersonate others, abuse APIs, or use the website for unlawful activity.

14. Limitation of Responsibility

To the extent permitted by applicable law, The Maritime Brotherhood does not guarantee that the website, tools, content, community posts, AI output, third-party information, or external resources will be accurate, complete, continuously available, error-free, or suitable for a particular purpose.

15. Privacy

Your use of the website is also subject to the Privacy Policy.

16. Changes to These Terms

These Terms of Use may be updated when the website or its services change. Continued use of the website after an updated version is posted means you are using the site under the current terms.

17. Governing Law

These terms are intended to operate under applicable Canadian law and any provincial law that applies to the website or the parties involved. Nothing in these terms removes rights that cannot legally be waived.

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