GlobalTuners rules and disclaimer

Rules and etiquettes - please follow these

When there are other members using the receiver, you have to ask before you tune! (if there is no reply from other users within 2 minutes, you can just start tuning)
Limit your tuning and invite others to try.
Do not keep the radios to yourself. Let other users have a try.
No scripts may be used in the chat or frequency fields..
Commercial advertisements are not allowed in the chats.
Do not share your account with others. It is personal.
Please pay attention to the chat and answer if someone speaks to you.
Commercial use of the system is not allowed.
We may send you a newsletter, unless you unsubscribe (to do so, open account page.
We always may send you an e-mail message to inform you about important changes to GlobalTuners. If you do not want this, please do not register (if you have already registered, ask support, support@globaltuners.com to delete your account).

During the first two weeks your account will be in a trial period. During this period you can only choose from a limited set of receivers and you can only tune when nobody else is using the receiver. This is to prevent abuse and to provide you with a safe environment to learn about the system.

Disclaimer

Warning! In certain countries it may be an offence to listen to frequencies you are not licensed to. Anything other than the following maybe an offence to listen to in some countries:

licensed broadcasting stations
amateur and citizens' band radio transmissions
weather and navigation transmissions

You must follow each country's "Wireless Telegraphy Act" or you may find yourself liable to prosecution in that country for incitement to contravene the Wireless Telegraphy Act. GlobalTuners merely provides access to on-line receivers around the world. Remember that it is you - the listener - who is responsible for the tuning and listening on our network. GlobalTuners subscriptions are for private use only.

IMPORTANT! Companies, enterprises or authorities may NOT use GlobalTuners, our receivers, our software or anything else we provide for commercial monitoring or any such related activity! If we suspect commercial use of the system, your account will be suspended immediately.

The GlobalTuners network is based on volunteer operators and therefore receivers may be taken offline at any time.

Due to the nature of the internet, neither the GlobalTuners crew, it's content providers or node operators can guarentee that it's web service will be uninterrupted or error-free at any time.

GlobalTuners reserves the right to deny access to any potential client at it's discretion. Services provided by GlobalTuners are used at your own risk. GlobalTuners cannot be held liable for any damage to hardware or software that may have been caused by the use of our website or software.

Legal aspects of GlobalTuners

We often get the question if the GlobalTuners concept is legal. And it is. We are allowed to put up a receiver in any country where receivers are allowed. Site operators present their receivers to the public "un-intentionally" for a non specific frequency. As the streaming is "not intentional" of a fixed service, the site operator is not viable for any copyrights or telegraph-acts as the tuning and listening is done by others and without his knowledge.

It is merely up to the listener to take responsibility of it's actions. It is the "telegraph act" in each country that applies. Almost all Telegraph acts have the same basic rule: You may not forward any messages heard on receivers to a third party.