Terms of Use
1. What this site is
The Tide Engine Archive is a free educational publication about the history of mechanical tide prediction, written and illustrated by Daniel.
2. Permitted use
You may read, quote (with attribution and a link), and share links to any page for personal, educational, or scholarly purposes.
3. Intellectual property
Text and hand-coded SVG diagrams are original works by Daniel and may not be republished in full, resold, or used to train machine-learning datasets without written permission. Short excerpts (under 150 words) with clear attribution and a link are welcome. Historical facts, dates, and physical principles themselves remain free for anyone to use.
4. No warranties
Content is provided "as is" for education. While I check primary sources carefully, I make no warranty of completeness or fitness for navigation or engineering use — see the Disclaimer.
5. Acceptable conduct
Do not scrape the site aggressively, attempt to disrupt it, submit spam through the contact form, or misrepresent the content as your own.
6. Advertising
This site may display advertising served by Google AdSense now or in the future. Ads are clearly distinguishable from editorial content, and advertisers do not influence what I research or write. Data handling around advertising cookies is described in the Privacy Policy.
7. Children's use
This is a general-audience history of science publication, not directed at children and not designed for classroom data collection. Young readers are welcome; no accounts, profiles, or tracking of minors are operated here.
8. Changes
These terms may be updated; continued use after changes constitutes acceptance. Questions: contact me.