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Terms of Use

Data on Beach Nearby is crowdsourced from lots of people's inputs, data sets and public APIs. By the nature of the data, it's impossible to get it completely accurate, and in some cases it might be completely innacurate. Therefore, we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience resulting from using Beach Nearby's websites and apps. Please make sure you verify all critical information and requirements with embassies before you travel.

Beach Nearby accepts no liability or responsibility to any person or organisation as a consequence of any reliance upon the information contained in its sites like Beach Nearby and any other of its sites and properties.

To the full extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that in no event shall Beach Nearby be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses (even if any Beach Nearby has been advised of the possibility of such damages) arising out of or in connection with (a) Beach Nearby or this Agreement or the inability to use Beach Nearby (however arising, including our negligence), or (b) any other matter relating to Beach Nearby. Our liability to you or any third parties in any circumstance is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount of fees, if any, you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action that may give rise to liability.

We collect data about your browser, IP, location for analytics purposes. If you contribute content data to the site, including but not limited to the crowdsourced beach list, you provide us with a perpetual license to broadcast, display, distribute, sell and produce derivatives from your contributions.

Every effort is made to provide information that is accurate. However, materials contained in Beach Nearby's websites, apps and its properties are subject to change at any time by appropriate action of Beach Nearby. We give no assurance or warranty that information on this site is current, and take no responsibility for matters arising from changed circumstances or other information or material which may affect the accuracy or currency of information on this site.

We reserve the right to permanently ban any user from our websites for behavior that goes against our guidelines. We will be the sole judge of guidelines violations and we do not offer appeals or refunds in those cases.

Many of our websites, apps and communities contain user generated data that is subjective, may not be accurate or may be offensive to you. We are not liable for any damages that result from using this data.

The information posted on our websites, apps and communities should not be considered legal, financial or other advice and is not intended to replace consultation with a qualified professional or specific written confirmation from Beach Nearby. We do not answer specific legal or financial questions.

Beach Nearby's websites, apps, communities and its properties is provided on an “as is”, “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, those of TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE or NON-INFRINGEMENT or any warranty arising from a course of dealing, usage, or trade practice. No advice or written information provided shall create a warranty; nor shall members or visitors to the site rely on any such information or advice. This publication is not intended to be a contract, explicit or implied, and Beach Nearby reserves the right to make changes to the information contained.

The user assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of Beach Nearby's websites, apps, communities and its properties and the Internet generally. We accept no liability or responsibility to any person or organisation as a consequence of any reliance upon the information contained in this site. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall anyone involved in creating or maintaining Beach Nearby's websites, apps, communities and its properties be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or loss profits that result from the use or inability to use the Website and/or any other websites which are linked to this site. Nor shall they be liable for any such damages including, but not limited to, reliance by a member or visitor on any information obtained via the Website; or that result from mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, viruses, errors, defects, or failure of performance, communications failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access. States or Countries which do not allow some or all of the above limitations of liability, liability shall be limited to the greatest extent allowed by law.

BEACH NEARBY'S SOFTWARE, APPS, WEBSITE, COMMUNITIES AND ANY OF ITS OTHER PROPERTIES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS, OWNERS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH BEACH NEARBY'S SOFTWARE, APPS, WEBSITE, COMMUNITIES AND ANY OF ITS OTHER PROPERTIES OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN BEACH NEARBY'S SOFTWARE, APPS, WEBSITE, COMMUNITIES AND ANY OF ITS OTHER PROPERTIES.

Visitors agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes and are prohibited from posting on the Website any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or obscene material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law. Although in the absence of a specific complaint the postings are monitored for compliance with this provision, in an effort to discourage such conduct, please note that all postings in any forum area will list the author’s name and institution - no anonymous postings will be permitted.

We may modify these terms from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version and revising the date at the top of this page. If we make any material change to these terms, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email or displaying a prominent notice on our Platform. By continuing to use the Platform after any changes come into effect, you agree to the revised terms. If you do not wish to accept the revised terms, you can close your account.

We are distributors (not publishers) of the content supplied by visitors and other third parties. Accordingly, we have no more editorial control over this content than does a public library. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers or other information or content made available by users, visitors and other third parties are those of the respective author(s) and we are not responsible for any material posted by third parties. We cannot and do not endorse it in any way, we expressly disclaim any liability associated with material posted by third parties.

Unless otherwise stated, reference to any products, services, hypertext link to the third parties or other information by trade name, trademark, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by us. Nor is endorsement of us implied by such links. They are for convenience only, as an index in a public library.

Any information on Beach Nearby's websites, apps and its properties may include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Beach Nearby reserves the right to make changes in the information contained on this site from time to time without notice.

You agree to link back with a web hyperlink or in-app hyperlink to our site on the page or app screen where you use the data from our site.

You shall not use any automated system or other software to extract any data, website code, files, images or videos from this website. "Scraping", "screen scraping", "data scraping", or "web harvesting" is strictly prohibited.

When providing feedback (e.g. by identifying any errors or problems in the operations of Beach Nearby and its services) through any medium (e.g. the feedback form, email or any other medium), you acknowledge and agree that all feedback will be the sole and exclusive property of Beach Nearby. You hereby assign to Beach Nearby and agree to assign to Beach Nearby all of your right and interesting in and to all feedback, including all intellectual property rights therein.

You agree to indemnify Beach Nearby (its employees and agents) for any loss suffered or liability incurred by Beach Nearby (its employees and agents) arising from any unlawful, unauthorised or improper access or use of the Website or any breach of these terms by you or your employees, contractors or representatives.

Beach Nearby does not guarantee constant availability of Website access and accepts no liability for down time or access failure due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control (including any failure by ISP or system provider).

The Site may contain links to other sites on the internet (“Linked Sites”). Beach Nearby is not responsible for the accuracy, legality, decency of material or copyright compliance of any Linked Site or services or information provided via any Linked Site.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed as totally secure. Whilst we strive to protect such information we do not warrant and cannot ensure the security of information which you transmit to us. Accordingly, any information which you transmit to us is transmitted at your own risk.

These terms and conditions will be constructed according to and are governed by the laws of Taiwan, regardless of where Beach Nearby operates or you use Beach Nearby from.