Terms of Use

1. Using Netwatch

These terms govern use of the Netwatch website, directory, listings, and data endpoints. Netwatch helps amateur radio operators find and participate in nets. You may browse listings, follow links, and use schedule and connection information for your own lawful radio participation. You may link to our pages. Ordinary browser caching needed to view the site is permitted.

2. Permission required for data reuse

Unless we have given you prior written permission, you may not scrape, harvest, bulk download, systematically extract, copy for redistribution, republish, mirror, sell, sublicense, or redistribute the Netwatch directory or its content, including through another website, application, database, feed, or API.

This policy applies to automated collection and systematic manual copying, whether your project is commercial or noncommercial. Attribution or a link back does not substitute for permission. Access to a public page or an unauthenticated endpoint does not itself grant a reuse license. Our data endpoints support Netwatch’s own functionality; they are not an unrestricted public data feed.

Any approved integration must follow the scope, attribution, refresh interval, retention requirements, and other conditions stated in our written permission. You must not bypass access controls, rate limits, or restrictions.

3. Ownership and third-party information

Rights in Netwatch’s original content and any protectable selection, coordination, or arrangement of directory information are reserved to their respective rights holders. Contributors retain rights in the material they submit. Viewing a listing does not grant a license to reuse its protected content.

Netwatch also displays information from identified third-party sources, including NetLogger. Those sources retain their own rights, and their applicable licenses and terms remain in effect. We cannot grant permission for rights we do not control, or withdraw permissions independently granted by another rights holder.

These terms do not claim exclusive ownership of underlying facts, public-domain material, or independently obtained information, and do not restrict uses that applicable law permits notwithstanding these terms. Obtain third-party data directly from its source under that source’s applicable terms.

4. Accounts and contributions

Provide accurate account and listing information, use only callsigns you are authorized to use, and keep your sign-in credentials private. Do not impersonate a net organizer or submit content that infringes another person’s rights.

When submitting or editing a listing, you must be authorized to provide it and grant Netwatch a nonexclusive, royalty-free permission to store, review, edit, publish, and redistribute those submitted listing details as part of Netwatch’s directory and services, including its data endpoints. This permission does not transfer ownership or independently authorize other visitors to reuse the listing. Keep private contact information and other sensitive information out of public listing fields.

Submissions require administrator approval. We may correct, reject, merge, archive, or remove listings and retain revision records for administration. Account creation, publication, or an approval label does not independently verify a contributor’s callsign, identity, or ownership of a net.

5. Schedule accuracy and radio operation

Schedules can change or be canceled. Estimated listings are inferred from historical session openings and are not organizer-confirmed schedules. A session shown as open in NetLogger does not establish that RF activity is occurring. Timezone conversions, daylight-saving changes, source delays, and incomplete information can affect listings.

Verify details with the organizer. You are responsible for your operating privileges and compliance with applicable radio rules. Netwatch is not an emergency communications or dispatch service.

6. Acceptable use and access

Do not disrupt the service, overload its endpoints, attempt unauthorized access, evade restrictions, submit spam or malicious content, or use the service unlawfully. We may restrict automated access or suspend accounts for misuse or violations of these terms, subject to applicable law.

7. Availability and liability

The service and its information are provided as available, without a guarantee of accuracy, completeness, continuous availability, or fitness for a particular purpose. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Netwatch’s operators disclaim warranties and liability for losses arising from use of, or inability to use, the service. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

8. Permission requests and corrections

Use the website contact page to request written permission to reuse Netwatch data, report a rights concern, or request a listing correction. Identify Netwatch in your message. For reuse requests, include your project, intended audience, requested fields, collection method, refresh interval, retention period, and proposed attribution. Wait for written approval before beginning restricted reuse. No response is not approval.

9. Changes

We may update these terms by publishing a revised version and effective date here. Approved integrations remain subject to their written agreements; changes to those agreements must follow their own terms. These terms apply only to the extent enforceable under applicable law.