last updated on May 24th 2018

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains the what, how, and why of the information we collect when You visit or use our website - www.metaldetectingworld.com, or when You use our Products and Services. MetalDetectingWorld ("we") are committed to protecting and respecting Your privacy and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Definitions

These definitions should help You understand this policy:

When we say "we", us", "our", we refer to MetalDetectingWorld - the owner and publisher of this website. When we say "Site" and "Website", we are referring to MetalDetectingWorld.com - an informative web resource for detectorists and treasure hunters worldwide.

When we say "You" we are referring to the person or entity that visit our website or that is registered with us to use our Product (s) or Services.

When we say "Content" and "MetalDetectingWorld Content.", we are referring to both FREE and PREMIUM Content (Paid Content) comprising all articles, tutorials, guides, stories, their PDF copies, designs, materials, information, communications, text, photos, images, reviews, ideas, graphics, links, illustrations, artwork, and other data or copyrightable materials or content, including the selection and arrangements thereof.

Where MetalDetectingWorld.com provides Content to You in connection with the Premium Products and Services, including, without limitation, the Products and the Site, it is "Paid Content."

Content transmitted to us by a User/visitor is "Submitted Content."

"Product" means 1) the gated web content such as technical articles, tutorials and guides that can be accessed only by those visitors who acquire an Access Plan, and 2) PDF copies of articles, tutorials and guides listed in the Premium Content section.

"Services" means paid consulting on any subject related to the hobby of metal detecting and treasure hunting.

"Personal Information" means any information that identifies or can be used to identify You directly or indirectly, including, but not limited to, first and last name, date of birth, email address, gender, occupation or other demographic information.

We offer our Products and Services on our website - www.metaldetectingworld.com, to which this Privacy Policy applies.

The "Website" includes the Website itself, and any web pages, interactive features, applications, widgets, social networks, or other online, mobile, or wireless offerings that post a link to this Privacy Policy, whether accessed via computer, mobile device, or other technology, manner or means. Since our gated Products and Services can be accessed only by the Access Plan purchasers via a login procedure, we may collect some Personal Info such as a User's Name, passkey, and Email Address.

All payment transactions are processed by the Third Party credit card processing vendor - Stripe, and the process of making donations is powered by Donorbox - the fundraising software website. We do NOT collect and store Credit / Debit card information. Our Third Party partners fully comply with all the rights described by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for MetalDetectingWorld.com and its members and donors. For more information please see Stripe Privacy Policy for US Customers
Stripe Privacy Policy for European Economic Area Customers
and Donorbox Privacy Policy

All users must provide consent if their personal information is to be collected, processed, and/or used in any way. If consent has not been expressed, processing personal data is prohibited.

2. Information We Collect

Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us

When You purchase an Access Plan to use our Products and/or Services, send us an email to the email address displayed on our website, consult with us or communicate with us in any way, You are voluntarily giving us information which we do not have to collect or use rather than for responding to inquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence. That information may include Your name, physical address, email address, IP address, phone number and the information contained in any signature block in Your email.

Transfer and Storage of Your Information

We use a third party email provider - Google Mail (gmail) to store emails You send us. The Google email provider is based in the USA (and is fully in line with data protection standards of GDPR); therefore, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), emails You send us may be stored outside the EEA on our third party email provider's servers in the US. For more information, see Google Data Center locations

When You purchase an Access Plan to get access to paid content on our website, we collect the following information: Your name (or nickname), company name (if applicable), Your email address and passkey.

We do NOT obtain and store credit card information, as well as details including gender, occupation, and other demographic information. By giving us any information, You consent to this information being collected and used. This information is NOT disclosed, transferred to anywhere, or stored by us, as described in this Privacy Policy. We take Your privacy extremely seriously, and we never sell lists or email addresses.

Information We Collect Automatically

By means of the Third Parties providing their services to us, we may collect information about Your visit to our Website, Your usage of our Products or Services, and Your web browsing when You browse our Website or use our paid Products or Services.

That information may include Your IP address, Your operating system, Your browser ID, Your browsing activity, other information about how You interacted with our Website, and some Personal information described above. We may gather this information in form of email notifications we receive from the Third Parties mentioned above, in form of a summary posted on the Third Party's website, as well as through the use of THEIR cookies or other tracking technologies. Our use of cookies is discussed more below, and in more detail in our Cookies Policy

Our third party hosting provider - Bluehost, is also based in the US. The Bluehost provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) stores server logs to ensure network and IT security and so that the server and website remain uncompromisable. This includes analyzing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorized access to our gated content, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks, by detecting unusual or suspicious activity. for more information, see BlueHost Privacy Policy

We do NOT collect any "sensitive" information as defined, for example, by the British Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) about any of the following: race, ethnic origin, politics, religion, trade union membership, genetics, biometrics (where used for ID purposes), health, sex life, and sexual orientation

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our Third Party partners may use various technologies to collect and store information when You use our Website, Products or Services. And this may include using cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Website, such as web beacons and pixels, to analyze our website, track users' movements around the website, analyze trends, serve generic and targeted advertising, and gather demographic info about our visitor base as a whole.

Our visitors can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. We partner with the Third Parties to create an overall picture of our website use and display advertising on our website. Our third party partners use cookies or similar tracking technologies in order to provide You advertising or other content based upon Your browsing activities and interests.

If You wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, please read this web article - Your Advertising Choices

If You are located in the European Union, read A Guide to Online Behavioral Advertising and Online Privacy
Please note that You might continue to receive generic ads. For more information about our use of cookies, as well as how to opt out of the use of cookies, please refer to our Cookies Policy

Information from Other Sources

As mentioned above, from time to time we may obtain information about You from Third Party sources such as the data providers - Google Analytics and Google Adsense, the online payment processor - Stripe, and Donorbox - a crowdfunding website providing fundraising software. These third parties are legally permitted or required to disclose such information to us. Examples of the information we may receive from these sources include: demographic information, user's name and address, email address, device information (such as IP addresses), location, and online behavioral data (such as page view information and search results and links). We may use this information, alone or in combination with other Personal Information we receive, to enhance our ability to administer our website and to provide more sought-for and helpful content, products and services to You.

Web Beacons

Web beacons are single pixel gifs (images of '.gif' format) included in emails. Many commercial and marketing websites use them to track behavior such as who opened the emails and who clicked the links, and to measure the performance of their email campaigns. We do NOT use web beacons or any other tracking tools in our emails.

3. Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use and disclose Personal Information only for the following purposes:

• 1) To improve our visitors' usage of our products or services by You and others. For example, if we collect Your Personal Information when You purchase an Access Plan to access any of our Product, we may communicate with You via an email which may include a 'Welcome' statement, the info on Your Access Plan, and possibly our recommendation for other Products or Services of ours, that You might consider using. We may also provide customer support via emails.
• 2) To send to You Products (e.g. PDF copies of articles, tutorials, stories and guides) that You separately request and purchase from us.
• 3) To enforce compliance with our Privacy Policy and applicable law. This may include usage of tools and applications that help us prevent violations including any copyright infringement.
• 4) To protect the rights and safety of our website visitors, members and third parties, as well as our own.
• 5) To meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms.
• 6) To provide information to attorneys and advisors to help us comply with legal, or security requirements.
• 7) To prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar legal proceeding.
• 8) To respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
• 9) To provide, support, and improve the Products and Services we offer.

Third Parties – We do not intentionally disclose Personal Information to any of the following types of Third Parties:

Service Providers

Our third party Service Providers help us provide and support our Services, and they, on the contrary, share some of Your information with us for those purposes. Examples of Service Providers include Stripe - the payment processor, Donorbox - a fundraising website, hosting service - Bluehost, and Google Analytics which uses the audience measurement services to generate useful statistics attendance to improve the site. Since all our Third Party partners are all based in the US, and if You reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), some of the information that You provide to us may be transferred outside of the EEA.

Advertising partners

We partner with the third party advertising network - Google Adsense (and its advertising platform DoubleClick - doubleclick.net), to display advertising on our Website. Google Adsense uses its cookies and tracking technologies to automatically collect and store Personal Information for this purpose. We do not share any information with Google Adsense; however, Google Adsense is required to use Your Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with this policy. Google Adsense uses cookies to gather information about Your activities on our Website in order to provide You with targeted advertising based on Your browsing activities and interests. For more info, please see How Google uses cookies and other technologies in advertising

And again, since Google Adsense is based in the US, some EEA audience-activity-measuring information will be transferred outside the EEA; therefore, depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. For more information, see Google Data Center locations

Google Adsense fully complies with data protection standards at the same level as the GDPR. For more information about Google's and other cookies, please see our Cookies Policy

4. Safeguarding Your Information

We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. Our credit card processing vendor - the Stripe payment processor, uses strong security measures to protect Your information both during the transaction and after it is complete. Donations to our website are powered by the crowdfunding website - Donorbox, which is compliant with the GDPR.

The MetalDetectingWorld.com donation page is PCI-compliant, secured by SSL/TLS, as well as our entire website (a secure internet connection is confirmed by HTTPS appearing in the URLs of all our pages and a lock icon or a green bar positioned next to it on Your browser address bar), and has a simple form to fill out. Donorbox does not store any card or bank data. Credit / Debit card information is encrypted and tokenized by the Stripe payment processor.

The Premium Content (Paid Content) on our website requires a username and passkey to access it. You must keep Your username and passkey secure, and never disclose it to a third party.

5. Accuracy and Retention of Data

For the time duration of Your Access Plan, we do our best to keep Your data accurate and up to date, to the extent that You provide us with the information we need to do so. If Your data changes, for instance, if You change Your email address, then You are responsible for notifying us of those changes. Upon request, we will provide You with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of Your Personal Information. We will retain Your information for as long as Your Access Plan is active or as long as needed to provide You with our Products and/or Services. We may also retain and use Your information in order to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements with users.

Terms of Use

1. Introduction

This agreement ("Agreement") binds You or the organization/company You represent ("You" or "Your") to the terms and conditions set forth herein in connection with Your use of MetalDetectingWorld 'Free' or 'Premium Content' (collectively, "Content" and "MetalDetectingWorld Content") in forms of articles, tutorials, guides, stories and their PDF copies as well as images or photographs (collectively, "Products"), and Services on MetalDetectingWorld.com ("our", "us", "we", or "Site" and "Website"). By accessing the Site, using any of our Products or clicking on "Get a Plan" and "Get a PDF" buttons, You signify that You have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"). If You do not agree to these Terms of Use, then You must not use our Site.

2. Additional Terms

Any personal information submitted in connection with Your use of the Product(s) or the Site is subject to our privacy policy.

3. Privacy Policy

By using our website, You are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy above
Your privacy matters to us and we promise to guard Your personally identifying information from any third party. MetalDetectingWorld does not share Your email address or personal information with any Third Party except with those service providers (partners and payment processors) who may need this information to perform their work. These service providers are not permitted to use or share such information for any other purpose.

4. General

MetalDetectingWorld reserves the right to revise these Terms of Use in its sole discretion at any time by posting the changes on the Site. Your continued use of our Website, Product(s) and Services after change becomes effective will mean that You accept those changes. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that You are happy with any changes. No revisions to these Terms of Use will apply to any dispute between You and MetalDetectingWorld that arose prior to the date of such revision. This policy is effective from 24th of May, 2018.

MetalDetectingWorld may modify the Products or discontinue their availability at any time. You are solely responsible for all service, data charges and/or other fees and costs associated with Your access to our Website and use of our Product(s), as well as for obtaining and maintaining all computer hardware, and other equipment required for such access and use. If You elect to access or use Product(s) that involve payment of a fee, then You agree to pay, and will be responsible for payment of that fee associated with such access or use.

If Your payment method fails, then we reserve the right to block Your access to our paid-content Products. All of Your use, access and other activities relating to the Site and the Products must be in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitations, laws relating to Copyright and other Intellectual Property use, and to privacy and personal identity.

In connection with Your use of our Products and Site, You must not provide incorrect or knowingly false information; copy, distribute, modify, hack, or interfere with the Products or operation of the Site; frame or embed the Site or Products; impersonate another person or gain unauthorized access via another person's username and pass key; introduce any virus, worm, malware, spyware or any other computer code, file or program that may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of any hardware, software or telecommunications equipment, or any other aspect of the Products or operation of the Site; scrape, spider, use a robot or other automated means of any kind to access the Products.

5. Proprietary Rights

The name, design, look and feel of the Website, Products and Services is copyright © www.MetalDetectingWorld.com (All rights reserved), and is exclusive property of MetalDetectingWorld. Any copy or reproduction in any form of any content on this website will amount to infringement of copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, Javascript, or visual design elements or concepts without express written permission from MetalDetectingWorld.

All Content on our website is protected and monitored 24/7 by copyright infringement detection software, document tracking and Copyscape. Any unauthorized copying or use of our website content and Products is prohibited. All MetalDetectingWorld.com content and images may not be used without a prior written permission from Us.

6. Content, Licenses & Permissions

Trademarks and Ownership of Material on MetalDetectingWorld.com

MetalDetectingWorld.com is a trademark of MetalDetectingWorld. The word MetalDetectingWorld may not be used, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of MetalDetectingWorld.

All trade marks, service marks, trade names, logos, copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Website and its content are either owned by us or licensed to us. All such rights are protected by intellectual property laws around the world and all rights are reserved. Any use of the website and its contents, other than as specifically authorized herein, is strictly prohibited. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by us.

The trade marks, service marks, trade names, logos and other branding owned by third parties and used or displayed on or via our website (collectively, "Third Party Mark(s)") may be trade marks of their respective owners who may or may not endorse or be affiliated with or connected with us. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, or in terms provided by the owner of a Third Party Mark, nothing in this Agreement or on or via the Website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use our Trademark or any Third Party Marks that are used or displayed on the website, without the respective owner’s prior written permission, in each instance. All goodwill generated from the use of our Trademark will benefit us exclusively.

We own MetalDetectingWorld.com, MetalDetectingWorld Content, Products and Services. In order for You to use our content, we give You certain rights to it, but You may only use our content in the way we have allowed.

MetalDetectingWorld Original Content

MetalDetectingWorld Content that appear on MetalDetectingWorld.com domain (the "Site" and the "Website") that is created by MetalDetectingWorld is the exclusive property of MetalDetectingWorld ("Content" and "MetalDetectingWorld Content") and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws and treaties, and all rights are reserved. Such MetalDetectingWorld Content includes all designs, articles, tutorials, guides, stories, their PDF copies, materials, information, communications, text, photographs and logos, images, reviews, ideas, graphics, links, illustrations, artwork, and other data or copyrightable materials or content, including the selection and arrangements thereof. Where MetalDetectingWorld.com provides Content to You in connection with the Products and Services, it is "Paid Content." Content transmitted to us by a User/visitor is "Submitted Content."

Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a license to the MetalDetectingWorld Content, and You agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from the MetalDetectingWorld Content. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, MetalDetectingWorld provides You with a license to use the MetalDetectingWorld Content for Your personal, noncommercial use only. MetalDetectingWorld may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason. Use of MetalDetectingWorld Content for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

MetalDetectingWorld may also provide links to articles on third party websites from the MetalDetectingWorld.com site. As set forth below under Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability, because MetalDetectingWorld has no control over such third party websites, MetalDetectingWorld is not responsible for the availability of such websites and is not responsible for any content on such websites.

Submitting Content to MetalDetectingWorld and Copyrights

The MetalDetectingWorld.com users may post and/or contribute content to the Site, including pictures and text ("Submitted Content"), which MetalDetectingWorld may approve or deny in its sole discretion. You represent that You have the right to post any content in the 'Reviews Section' of the Website and contribute any Submitted Content via email, and that such Submitted Content, or its use by us as contemplated by this Agreement, does not violate this Agreement, applicable law, or the intellectual property rights of others. If such original Submitted Content is accepted by MetalDetectingWorld, it will appear on the MetalDetectingWorld.com site and shall be subject to the rules for MetalDetectingWorld Content that are set forth above and that a contributor may agree to as part of the submission process.

By submitting Your content to MetalDetectingWorld, You grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display such Content in visual and textual medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so. You agree that You have the right to submit any Content, and that such Submitted Content does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary right of any other party.

MetalDetectingWorld shall not need to obtain any licenses, rights, consents, or permissions from, or make any payments to, any third party for any use or exploitation of Your Submitted Content as authorized in this Agreement or have any liability to You or any other party as a result of any use or exploitation of Your Submitted Content as authorized in this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, You have the right to remove all or any portion of Your Submitted Content from the Site at any time. MetalDetectingWorld respects all copyright, privacy, defamation and other laws relating to content and information and will not tolerate violation of such laws.

You are solely responsible for all Your Submitted Content, including but not limited to photos, profiles information, messages, comments, and other content that You submit to us via email or through the Site. You may not submit content to MetalDetectingWorld, that You did not create or that You do not have the right to submit. You may not submit content that is not compatible with the license used by the applicable part of MetalDetectingWorld.com to which You are submitting content.

You understand and agree that we may, but are not obligated to, edit, delete or remove (without notice) any Submitted Content from the Site, for any reason or no reason, including but not limited to, Submitted Content that, in MetalDetectingWorld's sole discretion, violates these Terms of Use. MetalDetectingWorld may take these actions without prior notification to You. Removal or disabling of access to Submitted Content shall be at our sole discretion, and we do not promise to remove or disable access to any specific Submitted Content. You also represent and warrant that You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, releases, consents, and permissions to permit the MetalDetectingWorld to copy, store, publish, display, and distribute Your content via the Site, in accordance with the rules that are applicable to Submitted Content.

You agree that We may record and/or edit all or any part of any Article and/or Image for quality control and delivering, promoting, demonstrating or operating the Site and the Services. You hereby grant MetalDetectingWorld permission to use Your nickname (or Your full name if You wish) in connection with offering, delivering, promoting, demonstrating, and selling the MetalDetectingWorld Content, Products, Services, Paid Content and Submitted Content and waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection therewith, to the extent permissible under applicable law.

No review or appearance of the submitted content on the site or through the Products is intended to act as an endorsement or representation that any submitted content is free of violation of any copyright, privacy or other laws or will suit a particular purpose or be accurate or useful. If You believe that submitted content of Yours violates any law or regulation or is inaccurate or poses any risk whatsoever to a third party, it is Your responsibility to take such steps You deem necessary to correct the situation. If You believe that submitted content of a third party or any company content violates any laws or regulations, including, without limitation, any copyright laws, You should report it to MetalDetectingWorld. All rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use are retained by the Submitted Content owners and these Terms of Use do not grant any implied licenses.

MetalDetectingWorld is not responsible for Submitted Content nor does it endorse any opinion contained in Submitted Content. If You believe that any Submitted Content infringes Your intellectual property rights, or if You believe that any Submitted Content does not comply with the User Guidelines (Clause 7 below) or that Your rights under applicable law have been otherwise infringed by any Submitted Content, please contact us at mdw2sergei@gmail.com.

The Site is not and shall not function as an archive. We have no liability to You or any other person for loss, damage, or destruction to Your content. You are solely responsible at Your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any content You provide to us.

7. Guidelines for User Conduct

Permitted Use of MetalDetectingWorld.com

All content on the MetalDetectingWorld.com site is intellectual property of MetalDetectingWorld.com, protected by Copyright Laws and international treaty provisions, and provided for Your personal, private and non-commercial use only. You may print or share the FREE content from our website for lawful personal purposes, private or non-commercial purposes, and You may also make others within Your family/organization aware of the content on our website. You may not otherwise extract, reproduce or distribute the FREE content of our website without our prior written consent.

Whenever You print, download, share or pass on FREE content from the Website to others, You must not make any additions or deletions or otherwise modify any text from MetalDetectingWorld.com, You must not alter or change in any way any images or graphics from our website in any way, You may not remove any accompanying text (e.g. Watermarks) from such images or graphics, and You must ensure that all content passed on to any third party is an accurate representation of the content as it appears on our website.

Whenever You pass on any FREE content or materials from our website to anyone, You must give credit to our website and acknowledge us as the authors of such content or materials (or any other authors wherever credited by us) at the time when You pass on such content or materials. For permitted use of our PREMIUM Content and purchased PDFs, please refer to Clause 8 and Clause 9 respectively.

Prohibited Uses of MetalDetectingWorld.com

You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy or resell any part of our website or any content from or of our website, save and except to the extent expressly permitted in this Agreement.

You must not, without our prior written consent, access, interfere with, damage or disrupt in any way our website or any part of it, our systems, any of our hardware or equipment or any networks on which our website is hosted, any software that we use to create or modify the website or to make the website available to You, or any hardware, equipment, network, server, software or technology owned or operated by us or any third party.

You are prohibited from using any robots, spiders, data mining or scraping technology or any similar third party tools for the extraction or reproduction of any data or content from MetalDetectingWorld.com without our prior written consent.

You must use our website for lawful purposes only and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You must NOT use our website:

• (1) for any purpose that is unlawful or that in any way breaches any applicable laws or regulations, whether local, national or international;
• (2) for any fraudulent purposes whatsoever;
• (3) to conduct any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or direct or indirect marketing to anyone by any means, or to otherwise spam, communicate with or market to anyone any goods, services or business not authorized by us;
• (4) to attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Site;
• (5) to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to computer systems, materials, or information made available on or through the Site through any means;
• (6) to intentionally block, remove, or otherwise obstruct the proper functioning and view of advertisements, and/or user interface and functionality;
• (7) to forge headers, or manipulate source identifiers or otherwise attempt to disguise the origin of any content made available via the Site;
• (8) to take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our hosting web server's infrastructure;
• (9) to upload, host or transmit any viruses, malware, adware, spyware, worms, Trojan horses, keystroke loggers, spyware, logic bombs, time bombs or any other harmful programs or code which could adversely affect the use or operation of the website, our hardware or systems, or the computers, tablets, phones or other devices of any users or other third parties, or to upload any content or materials containing any such content;
• (10) to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the Site
• (11) to relay email from a third party’s mail servers without the permission of that third party;
• (12) to provide Your paid Access Plan passkey to any other person or using any other person’s user name and passkey.
• (13) to use automated means to artificially promote content;
• (14) to involve the transmission of unsolicited mass mailing ("spam"), junk mail, chain letter, or similar, including through the MetalDetectingWorld inbox;
• (15) to interfere with the MetalDetectingWorld.com Service, tamper with or attempt to probe, scan, or test for vulnerabilities in the Service or MetalDetectingWorld.com's computer systems or network, or breach any of MetalDetectingWorld.com's security or authentication measures;
• (16) to attempt (or encourage or support anyone else's attempt) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with the Site or the Services, or any content thereof, or make unauthorized use thereof;
• (17) to use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Site;
• (18) in any way or for any purpose that breaches this Agreement or the terms of any of the documents this Agreement refers to.

Your responsibility for others who access our website using Your device(s) or internet connection

You must ensure that any persons who access MetalDetectingWorld.com on Your computer(s) or device(s), or who are permitted or able to access our website on Your computer(s) or device(s) or using Your internet connection, are aware of these Terms of Use and all other documentation referred to in them, and that such persons also agree to be bound by and to comply with these Terms of Use. If for any reason whatsoever, such persons do not agree to these Terms of Use or do not wish to be bound by them, they must not access or use our website.

You must not submit to us any personal information about You if You are under the age of 18 or about any other person who is either:

• (a) under the age of 18; or
• (b) if they are aged 18 or above, where You have not received their prior written consent to submit personal information about them to us.

8. Purchasing an Access Plan to View Premium Content

To view Premium Content (Paid Content) on MetalDetectingWorld.com, You will need to purchase any of available Access Plans, and obtain a username and a pass key. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your username and passkey (collectively, Your "Login") and for all activities associated with or occurring under Your Login. If Your username or passkey is lost or stolen, or if You believe there has been unauthorized use of Your username and passkey by third parties, please notify us immediately to change Your passkey as soon as possible.

You may not transfer Your Login info to any other person and You may not use anyone else's username or passkey at any time. In cases where You have authorized another individual, including a minor, to use Your Login, You are fully responsible for (a) the online conduct of such User; (b) controlling the User's access to and use of the Paid Content; and (c) the consequences of any misuse.

Purchasing any of available Access Plans will give You full access to all Paid Content on MetalDetectingWorld.com for a time duration ('lifetime') defined by the chosen plan. By purchasing an Access Plan, You agree that:

• There is no warranty or in any other way any form of liability on the side of MetalDetectingWorld.
• MetalDetectingWorld reserves the right to offer discounts or permanent price changes at any moment, without prior notice.
• Although the number of MetalDetectingWorld's Products is not limited, an Access Plan purchase, e.g. the Login info, cannot be shared. Sharing or other methods which allow for multiple users to access our Premium Content are strictly forbidden and may result in termination of the Access Plan of the initial user.

The Paid Access Plan is intended solely for users who are:

• In the EEA (excluding the UK) - 16 or older; or
• In the rest of the world (including the UK) - 13 or older;

Any purchase by anyone under those ages in the applicable jurisdictions is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of this Agreement. By purchasing the Access Plan, You represent and warrant that You meet the age requirement set forth above and that You agree to and will abide by all of the Terms and Conditions stated herein.

Payments

Payments can be securely made by credit/debit card via Stripe - our payment service provider. You do not need to have a Stripe account to pay with Your card. All payments are certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant and secured by SSL/TLS. Credit card information is encrypted and tokenized by the Stripe payment processor. We do not store or share any personal information associated with a payment (like Credit/Debit Card number, owner or expiration date). As part of transaction history, such information may be stored on Stripe servers. More info on Stripe payment-processing system is given above

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use of Premium Content

As a condition of use of any MetalDetectingWorld products, You agree to not use the Premium Content for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, or by any applicable laws or regulations. You are solely responsible for the knowledge of and adherence to any and all laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to Your use of the MetalDetectingWorld Premium Content. If You are to be a User of the Premium Content, and You represent, warrant and covenant that:

• You have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the pricing information before purchasing the Access plan or using the paid content;
• You agree to access the Premium Content by only the means MetalDetectingWorld provides. You must follow the process specified by MetalDetectingWorld inthe purchase confirmation email to access the product(s) purchased.
• You may not use anyone else's username and pass key at any time or furnish to other persons usernames and pass keys that You are provided to access a MetalDetectingWorld Premium Content.
• You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Premium Content either through hacking, password mining, or any other means. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally specified in the access provisions of this agreement.
• You are over the age of 18, or, if not, You will only use the Premium Content with the involvement, supervision, and approval or a parent or legal guardian.

MetalDetectingWorld takes all violations of these Terms of Use seriously and will respond appropriately when required by law, or when there is clear evidence of possible copyright infringement.

Personal and Non-Commercial Use Limitation

The MetalDetectingWorld Premium Content is for Your personal and non-commercial use only. It is intended for You alone, and You may access the MetalDetectingWorld Premium Content on Your personal devices only. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any Premium Content, in parts or in whole, available on the MetalDetectingWorld.com website.

9. Purchasing a PDF Copy of Any Article, Tutorial or Guide

A PDF copy of any article is available for the price indicated on the article's first page, which is followed by a "Get a PDF" button. Clicking on the button will take You to a page powered by Stripe payment-processing system. That page has a simple form to fill out. You do not need to have a Stripe account to pay with Your card. All payments are certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant and secured by SSL/TLS. Credit card information is encrypted and tokenized by the Stripe payment processor. More information is given here

A PDF file will be sent to You via email as soon as Your payment is cleared by the bank (3-4 days). The free Adobe's Acrobat Reader or any similar application is required to read the PDF file.

By purchasing and using our PDFs, You agree that:

• There is no warranty or in any other way any form of liability on the side of MetalDetectingWorld.
• MetalDetectingWorld reserves the right to offer discounts or permanent price changes at any moment, without prior notice.
• Although the number of MetalDetectingWorld's PDFs is not limited, any purchased PDF document cannot be shared. Sharing or other methods which allow for multiple users to view same PDF file(s), are strictly forbidden and may result in using the contact information of the original purchaser for pursuing copyright infringement action.

Use of PDF documents is intended solely for users who are:

• In the EEA (excluding the UK) - 16 or older; or
• In the rest of the world (including the UK) - 13 or older;

Any purchase by anyone under those ages in the applicable jurisdictions is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of this Agreement. By purchasing the PDF copies of both Premium and Free articles, You represent and warrant that You meet the age requirement set forth above and that You agree to and will abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use of PDFs Purchased from MetalDetectingWorld

As a condition of use of any MetalDetectingWorld products, You agree to use the PDFs for lawful purposes only. You are solely responsible for the knowledge of and adherence to any and all laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to Your use of the PDFs obtained from MetalDetectingWorld. By purchasing our PDF document(s), You confirm that:

• You have read, understood, and that You agree to the Terms and Conditions stated herein;
• You have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the pricing information before purchasing the PDF Copies of Articles, Tutorials, Guides and Stories;
• You may not share, transmit, transfer, edit, modify, reproduce, publish, license, make derivative works of, copy, distribute, and sell any PDF document(s), in parts or in whole, obtained from MetalDetectingWorld;
• You may not upload the MetalDetectingWorld's PDFs to file-sharing networks or any websites;
• You may not obtain or attempt to obtain the MetalDetectingWorld's PDFs through any means other than the means MetalDetectingWorld provides.
• You are over the age of 18, or, if not, You will only use our PDF document(s) with the involvement, supervision, and approval or a parent or legal guardian.

MetalDetectingWorld discourages all unlawful activities listed above, takes all violations of these Terms of Use seriously, and will respond appropriately when required by law, or when there is clear evidence of possible copyright infringement.

Single User License Limitation

The MetalDetectingWorld's PDF documents are for Your personal and non-commercial use only. They are intended for a single user (single user license), and You may view the PDF document(s) on Your personal devices only.

A purchaser of the MetalDetectingWorld's PDFs is granted the right to:

• make two copies of the purchased PDF, for personal and private use;
• print two times the total number of pages in the PDF document;

10. Disclaimer

While MetalDetectingWorld makes every effort to ensure that the content of this website is accurate, the website is provided 'as is' and 'as available'. By using the MetalDetectingWorld.com website, You understand and agree that MetalDetectingWorld makes no representations or warranties in relation to the accuracy or completeness of the information found on it or any website we link to. While the content of MetalDetectingWorld.com is provided with the utmost care and attention, we do not warrant that the information will meet Your needs or requirements, always be up to date, be uninterrupted, timely, free from errors, true and not misleading, or that this site will always (or ever) be available for use. This also includes any legal information related to cookie usage on websites.

Great efforts have been made to keep the website free from viruses, adwares or other malicious program. However we make no guarantee/warranty that the servers that make this website available, the website MetalDetectingWorld.com itself and other websites linked to it are free from errors, viruses, adware or other malicious programs, and You accept that it is Your responsibility to make adequate provision for protection against such threats. We recommend scanning any files before downloading.

Nothing on this website should be taken to constitute legal advice or a formal recommendation and we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the content and use of this site. In no event will MetalDetectingWorld be liable for any incidental, indirect, consequential or special damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, those resulting from loss of profit, loss of contracts, goodwill, data, information, income, anticipated savings or business relationships, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damage, arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or any linked websites. This disclaimer is applicable to all visitors or users of this website.

11. Links to Other Websites

The MetalDetectingWorld.com website contains links (both advertising and non-advertising) to other websites of interest. However, once You have used these links to leave our site, You should note that we do not have any control over those other websites, and are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which You provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Social media platforms and widgets

Our Website includes social media buttons which, however, do NOT collect information about Your IP address and which page You are visiting on our Website. They also do not set any cookies on Your computer or device. These social media buttons are only links to the social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest on which our Website is represented. For more information, please refer to our Cookies Policy

We maintain presences on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and Reddit. Any information, communications, or materials You submit to us via any social media platform is done at Your own risk without any expectation of privacy. We cannot control the actions of other users of these platforms or the actions of the platforms themselves. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.

12. Refunds for Product(s) and Services

All payments made to access our Premium Content, obtain PDF copies of both FREE and PREMIUM articles, and/or receive our Services are final. You are not eligible for refund.

13. Lifetime Access

The word 'lifetime' in lifetime access refers to the lifetime of Your Access plan (not You, the viewer of Paid Content). Lifetime Access means that for a single payment, You can access our paid-content product(s) for a duration of time specified in Your Access plan.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, neither party shall be liable hereunder under any theory of liability, including, without limitation, contract, tort or negligence, for any losses, unless such losses were reasonably foreseeable at the time You agreed to this terms. MetalDetectingWorld's total liability hereunder shall be limited to the amounts paid in connection with the Access plans under which such liability arose. This clause does not exclude or limit either party's liability for fraud, for death, or for personal injury resulting from negligence, or from any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

15. Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, defend and hold harmless MetalDetectingWorld, and its partners and third party providers from and against all reasonably foreseeable losses, expenses, damages, costs, claims and demands, including reasonable attorneys' fees and related costs and expenses, due to or arising out of Your breach of any representation or warranty hereunder. We reserve the right, at Our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by You under this Clause, and in such case, You agree to fully cooperate as reasonably required with such defense and in asserting any available defenses.

16. Termination

We may terminate Your use of the Products or Site immediately without notice for any breach by You of these Terms or any of Our applicable policies, as posted on the Site from time to time. We may discontinue offering any Product or Content at any time. You may terminate Your use of the Site or the Products at any time by ceasing to access them. We have no obligation to retain any of Your personal data or Submitted Content for any period of time beyond what may be required by applicable law. Upon termination, You must cease all use of the Site, Products and Content.

17. Electronic Notices

By using the Products or communicating with MetalDetectingWorld, You agree that we may communicate with You electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to Your use of the Products, Services or these Terms. If we learn of a security system's breach, we may attempt to notify You electronically by sending an email to You. You may have a legal right to receive this notice in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach, or to withdraw Your consent from receiving electronic notice, please contact us.

18. Availability of MetalDetectingWorld.com

We make no representations and provide no warranties that:

• (a) the website MetalDetectingWorld.com will be made available at any specific time or from any specific geographical location;
• (b) Your access to the website MetalDetectingWorld.com will be continuous or uninterrupted; or
• (c) the website will be accessible or optimized on all browsers, computers, tablets, phones or viewing platforms.
• (d) all pages, parts and sections of MetalDetectingWorld.com will be displayed in proper form on all browsers, computers, tablets, phones or viewing platforms, considering that not all pages, parts and sections of the website are mobile compatible yet.

We reserve the right to suspend access to all or part of the website for any reason, including for business or operational reasons, such as improving the appearance or functionality of the website, content updates, periodic maintenance, or to resolve any issues that we become aware of. Wherever we anticipate that we need to suspend access to the website for a considerable period of time, we will try to provide You with prior notice via a specific page - Visitor Corner (it displays notifications where reasonably practicable).

19. Miscellaneous

• Entire Agreement
  These Terms of Use and any policies applicable to You posted on the Site constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter.
• Severability
  If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be illegal, void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions of these Terms of Use.
• Waiver
  A provision of these Terms of Use may be waived only by a written instrument executed by the party entitled to the benefit of such provision. The failure of MetalDetectingWorld to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
• Notice
  Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be given by electronic mail and in writing upon request.
• Nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed as making either party the partner, joint venture, agent, legal representative, employer, contractor or employee of the other. Neither MetalDetectingWorld nor any other party to this Agreement shall have, or hold itself out to any third party as having, any authority to make any statements, representations or commitments of any kind, or to take any action that shall be binding on the other except as provided for herein or authorized in writing by the party to be bound.
• These Terms of Use and Your use of the Site and the Products shall be governed by the US laws without reference to its choice or conflicts of law principles.
• This Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted according to the US law and all disputes arising under the Agreement (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the US courts.

Changes to This Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Our policies are under continual review. We may, from time to time, update our Privacy Policy & Terms of Use. Any such changes will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy & Terms of Use should be addressed to mdw2sergei@gmail.com.