Last updated: April 15, 2026
By accessing or using the DIVR platform ("Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not use the Service. DIVR reserves the right to update these Terms at any time. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
You must provide accurate information when creating an account. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.
DIVR collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your personal data (name, email, profile information) is used solely to provide the Service and is never sold to third parties. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time by contacting us.
When you delete your account, all personal data is permanently removed from our systems. Any data that was previously anonymized and shared for research purposes (see Section 4) cannot be traced back to you and remains in the public research record.
You retain ownership of all content you create on DIVR, including dive logs, photographs, species sightings, coral health assessments, and comments ("Your Content"). By posting Your Content on DIVR, you grant DIVR a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display, distribute, and promote Your Content within the Service.
You are responsible for ensuring that Your Content does not violate the rights of others, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights. DIVR reserves the right to remove content that violates these Terms or applicable law.
Nothing you record on DIVR is shared with third parties unless you affirmatively opt in. In your Settings, you can enable "Contribute to Marine Science" to allow your species observations from public dives to be included in Darwin Core Archive exports to international research databases (EMODnet Biology, EurOBIS, OBIS, and GBIF). This setting is off by default and you can withdraw at any time.
If you opt in, exports replace your identity with a random anonymous research ID; recipients see coordinates, dates, species, and images but not who recorded them. Data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), the standard license used by OBIS and GBIF for open biodiversity data. Taxonomic identifications are linked to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) so records remain scientifically comparable over time.
Your lawful basis: your opt-in is explicit consent under GDPR Article 6(1)(a). We record the time, version of this text, IP address, and user-agent of each grant or withdrawal so we can demonstrate consent to regulators (GDPR Art 7(1)). You can view this history and export a full access report from Settings.
Withdrawal and erasure. When you turn the setting off, or invoke erasure (GDPR Art 17 / CCPA §1798.105), future exports exclude you immediately, and we notify data stewards at OBIS/EMODnet/GBIF to remove your previously published records from active archives. Archives already downloaded by third parties under CC-BY cannot be recalled; this is an inherent property of open-licensed data, not a DIVR limitation.
California residents. DIVR does not sell your personal information. If you do not want your observations shared with research databases even while consenting to use DIVR socially, enable "Do Not Share My Info" under California Privacy Rights in Settings. CCPA delete requests are fulfilled within 45 days (§1798.105).
The DIVR platform, including its design, code, algorithms, branding, and documentation, is the intellectual property of DIVR and its founder. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or reverse engineer any part of the Service without prior written consent.
The DIVR data quality pipeline (plausibility screening, spatiotemporal clustering, consensus verification, and AI confidence scoring) is proprietary technology developed by DIVR.
DIVR is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. DIVR does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any data displayed on or exported from the platform, including species identifications, dive site information, and environmental measurements.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, DIVR and its founder shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service.
Dive safety is your responsibility. DIVR does not provide dive planning advice, and information on the platform (depth data, conditions, site descriptions) should never substitute for proper dive training, planning, and judgment.
For questions about these Terms, your data, or anything else, contact us at:
joep@divr-connect.com