Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

This agreement governs your access to and use of PirateShipNames.com (the "Website"). By accessing, browsing, or using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you disagree with any part of these terms, please do not access or use our Website or associated tools. Please review our Privacy Policy for detailed information on how we collect, handle, and protect your data.

2. Description of Service

PirateShipNames.com provides free online tools designed to generate creative pirate names, ship names, and character concepts (the "Service") for use in fiction, tabletop RPGs, video games, and general creative projects. The Service is provided solely for entertainment and creative inspiration purposes.

3. User Conduct and Prohibited Content

You agree to use the Website and Service only for lawful purposes. You are strictly prohibited from using the Website or its generated outputs to:

• Generate, share, or promote names or content that are illegal, hateful, violent, discriminatory, harassing, defamatory, or deceptive.
• Infringe upon the intellectual property rights, trademarks, or copyrights of any third party.
• Engage in automated scraping, data extraction, harvesting, or indexing of our curated components, text descriptions, blog posts, or code structure for use in competing services or database replication.
• Deploy automated bots, scripts, spiders, or scrapers to perform high-frequency calls that manipulate our generator tools or degrade server performance.
• Attempt unauthorized access to our hosting systems, servers, or associated database networks.

We reserve the right to investigate and block access for any user found violating these conduct standards.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

Website Content: The design, layout, code structure, custom graphic elements, blog articles, editorial guides, database schema, and curated lists of name components are the exclusive property of PirateShipNames.com and are protected under United States and international copyright and trademark laws.

Generated Outputs: The individual names generated by our tools are provided under a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for both personal and commercial creative use (such as in novels, indie games, D&D campaigns, and other fictional works) without attribution. However, you acknowledge that because names are generated dynamically using pre-written structures, we do not guarantee that your generated output will be unique or exclusively yours.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website and Service are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. PirateShipNames.com does not warrant that generated names are trademark-free, legally registerable, or free from conflict with existing brand names. You are solely responsible for conducting your own due diligence (such as trademark searches) before using any generated name for commercial purposes.

6. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, PirateShipNames.com and its operators shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, the Service. This includes, but is not limited to, legal disputes arising from trademark conflicts, copyright infringement claims, or commercial naming decisions.

7. Third-Party Links and Ads

The Website displays advertisements served by Google AdSense and may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control, endorse, monitor, or assume liability for the content, products, services, or privacy practices of third-party advertisements or websites. Your interaction with any third-party ad or link is done entirely at your own risk.

8. Termination

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and without prior notice, to terminate or restrict your access to the Website or Service for any reason, including violation of these Terms of Use or behavior that disrupts our services.

9. Governing Law

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States and the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any legal actions arising from these Terms must be resolved in courts located in Delaware.

10. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to revise these Terms of Use at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Your continued use of the Website after such modifications constitute your acceptance of the revised Terms.

11. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us via our contact page or email us directly at support@pirateshipnames.com.