Terms of Use

Effective date: April 22, 2026

This document is the agreement between you and Worldwide Yachtsman. It governs how you use worldwideyachtsman.com (the "Site") and what rights and responsibilities each side has. If you use the Site — to browse, to create an account, to post a listing, or to send an inquiry — this agreement applies to you.

Read it carefully. A few provisions meaningfully affect your legal rights, including a cap on the money we can owe you, a waiver of class actions, and a requirement that disputes be resolved in Ohio.

If you do not agree with anything in this document, the right response is to stop using the Site.

Part One — How Worldwide Yachtsman Works

The three-party relationship

Every interaction on the Site involves three parties whose roles stay distinct.

Sellers are the people and businesses who post listings. They own (or are authorized to sell) the vessels they advertise. They set the price, write the description, upload the photographs, and answer inquiries. They are responsible for the truth of what they publish and the legality of the sale.

Buyers are the people who browse listings and contact sellers. They decide which listings to pursue, what diligence to perform, and whether to complete any transaction.

Worldwide Yachtsman is the platform. We operate the Site. We provide the classified listing tools, the account system, the inquiry forms, and the infrastructure that makes the connection possible. We do not participate in transactions.

The distinction matters. A sale of a yacht that begins with a listing on the Site is a contract between a buyer and a seller. Worldwide Yachtsman is not a party to that contract, does not guarantee it, and does not supervise its performance. We do not hold funds, transfer title, deliver the vessel, or certify that anyone involved is who they claim to be.

What you can expect from us

We will make reasonable efforts to keep the Site available, responsive, and functional. We will enforce these Terms against users who violate them. We will respond to lawful process and to credible reports of fraud, infringement, or abuse. We will protect your personal information as described in our Privacy Policy.

We will not inspect vessels. We will not verify sellers. We will not mediate disputes. We will not recover your money if a transaction goes wrong. These are outside the scope of a classified listing service.

What we expect from you

That you are honest in anything you publish, respectful toward other users, and lawful in your conduct. That you rely on your own investigation rather than ours before any purchase. That you treat the Site as a tool for making connections, not a guarantee that those connections will work out.

Part Two — Your Account

You need to be at least eighteen years old and legally able to enter into contracts. One account per person. Real information when you register. Your password is yours to protect, and anything that happens under your account is your responsibility until you tell us otherwise.

Tell us immediately if you think someone else has used your account. We will act on credible reports of unauthorized access, but losses that occur before you tell us may be yours to absorb.

We may close an account at any time if we conclude it has been used in a way that harms the Site, other users, or us. We may also close inactive accounts after extended periods of disuse. You can close your own account whenever you want; listings and submitted content may persist in our systems for a reasonable period afterward for archival, legal, and operational reasons.

Part Three — Posting a Listing

This part applies only if you post listings. If you only browse or send inquiries, skip to Part Four.

What you promise when you post

Each listing you publish is a set of representations to us and to every person who sees it. Specifically, when you post, you are promising:

• You own the vessel, or you have clear authority from the owner to list it for sale.
• The description, specifications, photographs, and price are accurate and not misleading.
• You can transfer clean title. There are no liens, encumbrances, or legal claims that would prevent a sale and that you have not disclosed.
• You have the rights to every photograph, video, logo, and piece of text in the listing. Nothing in the listing infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property.
• The sale, and your efforts to market it, comply with all applicable laws — including consumer protection, advertising, maritime registration, tax, sanctions, and export controls.
• The listing is not a duplicate, a decoy, or a placeholder for an unrelated transaction.

If any of these turns out to be false, the listing may be removed without notice, and you accept the indemnification obligations in Part Seven.

What you may not post

Listings for vessels you do not have authority to sell. Fabricated specifications or doctored photographs. Hidden advertising for unrelated products, services, or websites. Links that redirect away from the Site or inject tracking. SEO keyword stuffing designed to game search. Contact information for third parties who have not consented. Pricing that exists only to bait inquiries. Content that is defamatory, harassing, or obscene. Anything that violates sanctions or export controls.

The license you grant us

We need certain rights to display your listing and to operate the Site. By posting, you grant Worldwide Yachtsman a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for formatting and display purposes), translate, distribute, and publicly display your listing and its contents. This license extends to syndication partners that republish Site listings, to marketing and promotional materials that feature Site inventory, and to search engines that index the Site. It continues for as long as your listing is published and for a reasonable window afterward to cover caches, archives, and partner systems.

You keep ownership of your photographs, descriptions, and the vessel itself. The license covers use, not transfer.

Our editorial discretion

We may, but are not required to, review listings before or after publication. We may edit typos and formatting. We may move a listing to a more appropriate category. We may remove a listing that appears to violate these Terms, that draws credible complaints, or that we believe is fraudulent. We may suspend sellers who repeatedly violate these rules.

We are not responsible if a listing is removed and we do not guarantee preservation of listing history, inquiry records, or message threads beyond what our retention practices ordinarily provide.

Part Four — Browsing and Contacting Sellers

Looking at a listing on the Site is not a recommendation, endorsement, or verification by us. A listing is the seller's representation, not ours.

Before you commit to any purchase — including before you send a deposit, sign any paperwork, or travel to inspect a vessel — you should independently confirm everything that matters to your decision. Hire a licensed marine surveyor. Review documentation and title history. Run the hull identification number through the Coast Guard or applicable registry. Verify the seller's identity. Get a sea trial. Use escrow for funds. None of these steps is optional, and none of them is provided by the Site.

When you send an inquiry through our contact forms, the message passes through our infrastructure and may be logged, stored, or reviewed for fraud prevention, abuse investigation, quality, and legal compliance. We do not promise delivery, read receipts, or any response. We are not responsible for what a seller says or does in reply, and we are not a party to any follow-on negotiation.

If an inquiry you receive (as a seller) or a response you receive (as a buyer) appears to be a scam, a phishing attempt, or unlawful, please report it.

Part Five — Things You May Not Do On the Site

A short list of absolutes.

No automated access. You may not use bots, crawlers, spiders, scrapers, harvesters, data-mining tools, headless browsers, or any other automated or semi-automated method to extract content, listings, user information, or any other material from the Site. This prohibition applies to every purpose, including AI and large language model training, competitive intelligence, aggregation, republication, and academic research. A narrow exception exists for general-purpose web search engines (the major ones — Google, Bing, and their direct equivalents) that crawl the Site from identifiable ranges, respect our robots.txt, and use the content solely to generate public search results linking back to us. Vertical search engines, classified aggregators, listing syndicators that have not contracted with us, and AI training crawlers are not covered by this exception.

No circumvention. You may not defeat, disable, or work around security features, access controls, rate limits, or technical measures that enforce these Terms.

No reverse engineering. You may not decompile, disassemble, or attempt to extract source code from the Site.

No cloning. You may not frame, mirror, wrap, or embed the Site. You may not create a derivative service built on scraped or copied Site data. You may not use the Site to train, fine-tune, or evaluate any machine learning model.

No misuse of user information. Contact information you obtain through the Site may be used for a legitimate inquiry about the specific listing it came from. It may not be used for marketing, solicitation, recruitment, political outreach, or any bulk communication.

No interference. You may not overload servers, inject code, distribute malware, run denial-of-service attacks, or otherwise interfere with the Site or other users' access to it.

No unlawful conduct. You may not use the Site in violation of any law that applies to you, your activity, or your jurisdiction.

Part Six — Our Legal Limits

This section is in all caps in places. That is a legal convention meant to draw attention, not to shout.

No warranties

THE SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WORLDWIDE YACHTSMAN MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE SITE, ITS CONTENT, ANY LISTING, OR ANY USER. THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, ALL OF WHICH ARE DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

In plainer language: we do not promise that the Site will always work, that it will be free of errors or security problems, that listings are accurate, that sellers are honest, that vessels are as described, or that any transaction will succeed. You use the Site at your own risk.

Cap on damages

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WORLDWIDE YACHTSMAN'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO ANY SINGLE USER, FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SITE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS OR THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT USER PAID TO WORLDWIDE YACHTSMAN IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES — INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION — EVEN IF WE KNEW SUCH DAMAGES WERE POSSIBLE.

Some jurisdictions do not permit these limitations in full. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the maximum extent their law allows.

Why these limits exist

A classified listing service cannot operate if the cost of every failed transaction can be passed to the platform. These limits keep the Site available to all users at no listing fee, rather than forcing us to price for litigation exposure from transactions we do not control. The limits are a core part of the bargain you accept by using the Site.

Part Seven — If Something Goes Wrong

You defend us against claims that arise from your conduct

If someone sues or threatens Worldwide Yachtsman because of something you did — a listing you posted, a message you sent, a transaction you were part of, a law you broke, a right you infringed — you agree to pay for the defense, cover the judgment or settlement, and keep us whole. This includes reasonable attorney's fees.

We will tell you promptly if a claim comes in. You may choose your own counsel, subject to our approval (which we will not withhold unreasonably). We may take over the defense ourselves if we conclude you are not handling it adequately, and if we do, you will cooperate with us.

Disputes between users

Any dispute between two users of the Site — over a vessel, a payment, a misrepresentation, a canceled transaction, a broken promise — is between those users. Worldwide Yachtsman is not an arbitrator and not a mediator. We will respond to valid legal process, but we will not act as referee.

Copyright complaints

If you believe content on the Site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our DMCA agent at the address at the bottom of this document. Your notice must include:

• Your signature (physical or electronic) as the rights holder or authorized agent.
• Identification of the copyrighted work.
• The location of the infringing material on the Site (a URL is best).
• Your contact information.
• A statement, in good faith, that the use is not authorized.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you have the right to act.

We will review valid notices, remove infringing material, and terminate accounts of repeat infringers.

Part Eight — Disputes Between You and Worldwide Yachtsman

Governing law

Ohio law governs these Terms and any dispute about them, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Where disputes are heard

Any lawsuit must be filed in the state or federal courts located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. You consent to the jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

Individual claims only

You agree that any claim will be brought only in your individual capacity, not as part of a class, collective action, or representative proceeding. A court may not consolidate claims from multiple users. This waiver is material to our willingness to operate the Site and to the price (nothing) we charge users for general access.

Time limit

Any claim arising out of or related to the Site or these Terms must be brought within one year after it arose, or it is permanently barred.

Part Nine — Intellectual Property in the Site Itself

The Site — its layout, design, graphics, code, logos, trademarks, organization, original text, and the selection and arrangement of listings — is owned by Worldwide Yachtsman or its licensors. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to access the Site for personal, non-commercial use, and, if you are a seller, to post listings for lawful purposes. Nothing else is granted. All rights not granted are reserved.

The trademarks, logos, and service marks on the Site are ours or our licensors'. You may not use them without written permission, and you may not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice on the Site or in content we provide to you.

Part Ten — Privacy, Cookies, and Data

How we collect, use, and share personal information is described in the Privacy Policy, which is part of this agreement. By using the Site you consent to the practices described there.

Part Eleven — Changes, Termination, and Housekeeping

Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will update the effective date at the top and post the new version on the Site. Material changes may be announced more prominently. Your continued use of the Site after changes take effect is your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not accept the revised Terms, stop using the Site.

Termination

Either of us can end this relationship. You can stop using the Site whenever you want and can delete your account. We can suspend or terminate your access at our discretion, with or without notice, if we conclude you have violated these Terms or if termination is necessary to protect the Site, other users, or us. The provisions that by their nature survive termination — the license you granted us in listings, the disclaimers, the liability cap, the indemnity, the dispute resolution rules — survive termination.

Sanctions and export controls

You represent that you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not on any U.S., UK, EU, or UN restricted-party list. You agree not to use the Site in violation of applicable sanctions or export control laws. We may remove listings and accounts that appear to violate this section.

Notices

We may send you notices by email, through the Site, or by any method we reasonably believe will reach you. Legal notices to us go to the address at the bottom of this document.

The fine print

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Worldwide Yachtsman about the Site. They supersede any prior understanding on the same subject.

If any provision is held unenforceable, it will be narrowed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, and the rest of the agreement will continue.

Our failure to enforce a provision in one instance does not waive our right to enforce it later.

You may not assign or transfer your rights under this agreement. We may assign ours, including to an acquirer or successor.

Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Worldwide Yachtsman. Neither side can bind the other.

Section and part headings are for navigation only and do not affect meaning.

Contact

Legal notices, DMCA complaints, and other formal correspondence:

Worldwide Yachtsman — jr@worldwideyachtsman.com