Legal Notice and Project TermsThalassic Risk Intelligence™ is an early-stage, pre-incorporation maritime and supply-chain risk-intelligence research project led by Apostolos I. Kaltzidis for non-commercial market-feedback, research and project-development purposes.
This notice is intended to clarify the limited research-only status of the project, avoid misunderstandings, protect all parties, and prevent any unauthorised use, misrepresentation or reliance.1. Project Status
Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ is a pre-incorporation research project. It is not presently incorporated, trading, providing services, accepting clients, selling products, offering subscriptions, conducting pilots, entering commercial engagements, seeking investment through this website, or operating as a regulated professional-services business.
Apostolos I. Kaltzidis is not trading, carrying on business, operating as a sole trader, providing commercial services, or engaging in commercial activity through Thalassic Risk Intelligence™, this website, or any related project communication.
All references to Thalassic Risk Intelligence™, the project, project materials, research materials, proposed features, possible future use cases, market sectors, risk-intelligence concepts, feedback requests or potential applications are exploratory only.2. Research-Only Purpose
This website and any related communication are provided solely for limited, non-commercial research, correspondence, project-development, concept-validation, market-feedback and record-keeping purposes.
Nothing on this website or in any related communication constitutes a service, pilot, consultancy, advisory engagement, monitoring arrangement, subscription, product sale, commercial proposal, retainer, mandate, tender, request for proposal, investment opportunity, employment opportunity, agency arrangement, partnership, joint venture, supplier relationship or other commercial relationship.
No person or organisation is under any obligation to respond, provide feedback, review materials, continue discussions, make introductions, preserve materials, enter negotiations or consider any future engagement.3. Limited Permission to Review Materials
Project materials are provided only for private, limited, lawful, non-commercial review, discussion, internal assessment, feedback, legal/compliance escalation, governance review and record-keeping.
No licence or permission is granted to copy, reproduce, publish, quote, circulate externally, upload, scrape, commercialise, sell, train models on, reverse-engineer, imitate, adapt, benchmark, build from, or use the project materials competitively without prior written authorisation.
Passive receipt of an email, passive browsing of this website, internal legal/compliance review, or internal escalation for governance, audit, risk, record-keeping or professional-advice purposes does not, by itself, create contractual obligations beyond those arising under applicable law.4. No Client, Adviser or Professional Relationship
No solicitor-client, barrister-client, adviser-client, consultant-client, investigator-client, fiduciary, agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, supplier, customer, investor, or other professional or commercial relationship is created by this website, any email, call, meeting, feedback exchange, project material, sample output or discussion.
Any communication is informal, voluntary and non-commercial unless a separate written agreement is expressly entered into by the relevant parties in the future.5. No Legal Services or Reserved Legal Activities
Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ is not a law firm, legal practice, regulated legal-services provider, claims-management business, investigation firm, insurance intermediary, sanctions adviser, compliance consultancy, financial adviser or regulated professional-services business.
Nothing on this website or in any related communication constitutes legal advice, reserved legal activities, legal representation, litigation support, claims advice, sanctions advice, regulatory advice, compliance advice, insurance advice, financial advice, tax advice or professional advice.
Recipients should obtain independent professional advice before acting on, relying on, circulating or making decisions based on any matter referred to in project materials.6. No Financial Promotion, Investment Offer or Fundraising Solicitation
Nothing on this website or in any related communication constitutes, or is intended to constitute, a financial promotion, investment advertisement, offer of securities, invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity, fundraising solicitation, loan request, crowdfunding offer, share offer, token offer, partnership investment or invitation to invest.
No investment opportunity is being offered, marketed, negotiated or accepted through this website or through any related communication.
Any future fundraising, if ever pursued, would be conducted separately and only through appropriate legal, regulatory and professional channels.7. No Procurement, Tender or Vendor Relationship
Any communication, feedback request, review, internal escalation, call, meeting or response is informal, voluntary and non-commercial.
It does not constitute a procurement process, tender, request for proposal, supplier assessment, vendor onboarding, pilot negotiation, proof of concept, pre-contractual negotiation, exclusivity arrangement, preferred-supplier process, commercial evaluation or formal due-diligence process.
No recipient, company, institution or organisation is treated as having participated in, endorsed, approved, tested, trialled, purchased, adopted or commercially engaged with the project unless that is expressly agreed in writing.8. No Allegation and Source-Limitation
Any reference to risk indicators, vessel-level information, supply-chain concerns, open-source material, public records, sanctions exposure, IUU indicators, forced-labour indicators, ownership links, counterparty risk, traceability concerns or similar matters is provided only for research, discussion and concept-validation purposes.
Nothing in any project material constitutes an allegation of unlawful conduct, regulatory breach, criminality, dishonesty, sanctions breach, forced labour, IUU fishing, fraud, misconduct, negligence, breach of contract, breach of duty or wrongdoing by any person, vessel, company, supplier, owner, operator, insurer, certifier, authority or other third party.
Public, open-source and third-party information may be incomplete, outdated, inaccurate, misattributed, duplicated, mistranslated, decontextualised or subject to later correction. No conclusion should be drawn without independent verification.9. No Reliance
This website, any project material, sample output, email, call, discussion, note, presentation or related communication is provided for general research and feedback purposes only.
No person should rely on it for commercial, operational, legal, regulatory, compliance, sanctions, procurement, sourcing, investment, insurance, employment, disciplinary, reputational, contractual, litigation or safety-critical decisions.
No duty of care is accepted in respect of any reliance placed on this website or any related communication, to the fullest extent permitted by law.10. No Warranties
Project materials are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.
No representation, warranty or undertaking is given that any information, concept, method, source, sample output, risk indicator, website content, communication or related material is accurate, complete, current, reliable, lawful for any particular use, commercially useful, technically functional, suitable for any purpose, free from error, or capable of supporting any decision.
The project is exploratory and may change, be withdrawn, paused, abandoned, restructured, incorporated, renamed, transferred or developed differently at any time.11. Confidentiality and Restricted Use
Unless otherwise stated in writing, project materials and related communications are provided privately and for limited review only.
Recipients must not publish, quote, forward externally, circulate outside their organisation, disclose to third parties, upload to public systems, post online, identify the project externally, identify themselves or their organisation as participating, or use the materials in any public, commercial, competitive, reputational or adverse manner without prior written consent.
Internal circulation is permitted only where reasonably necessary for lawful review, feedback, legal advice, compliance review, governance, risk assessment, audit, record-keeping or decision-making by the recipient organisation.12. No Request for Confidential or Sensitive Information
Nothing in this website or any related communication requests or requires any non-public, confidential, commercially sensitive, price-sensitive, inside, proprietary, privileged, personal, operationally sensitive, security-sensitive or restricted information.
Recipients should not provide trade secrets, confidential supplier information, non-public vessel data, internal compliance findings, personal data, privileged material, regulated information, unpublished allegations, commercial terms, pricing, customer lists, employee information, security procedures or any information they are not authorised to disclose.
Any feedback should be general, non-confidential and non-proprietary unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing before disclosure.13. Use of Feedback and Suggestion
Feedback is voluntary.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ may use, analyse, retain and develop non-identifiable feedback, comments, suggestions, questions, criticisms, workflow observations and general market insights for internal research, project-development, product-development, concept-validation, record-keeping and future planning purposes.
No recipient, organisation or third party will be identified, quoted, attributed, referenced, described as participating, or used externally in an identifiable manner without prior written consent.
Nothing in this clause assigns to Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ any recipient’s pre-existing intellectual property, confidential information, trade secrets, proprietary data, internal processes, know-how or independently developed materials.14. Intellectual Property and Brand Protection
All project names, branding, website content, written materials, research concepts, sample structures, analytical frameworks, methodologies, layouts, wording, designs, compilations, taxonomies, project descriptions and related materials are owned by or reserved to Apostolos I. Kaltzidis, except where third-party rights are expressly acknowledged.
“Thalassic Risk Intelligence™” and related branding are used as project identifiers. No permission is granted to use, copy, imitate, register, challenge, reproduce, adapt, commercialise or create confusingly similar names, brands, domains, materials, methods or derivative works.
No recipient acquires any intellectual-property right, ownership interest, licence, commercial right, database right, goodwill, priority, expectancy or entitlement by reviewing materials, providing feedback, discussing the project, corresponding, or retaining project communications.15. Third-Party References and No Endorsement
Any reference to a company, organisation, authority, regulator, vessel, dataset, certification scheme, public source, industry body, legal concept, market sector or third-party material is for contextual, descriptive, research or discussion purposes only.
Such references do not imply endorsement, approval, affiliation, authorisation, sponsorship, partnership, participation, verification, criticism, allegation or commercial relationship.
No third party should be understood as having reviewed, approved, adopted, supported, funded, participated in or endorsed Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ unless expressly stated in writing by that third party.16. Public Sources, Open-Source Material and Data Limitations
The project may consider or refer to public, open-source, third-party or externally available information in a research context.
Such information may be incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, duplicated, mistranslated, mislabelled, inconsistent, removed, corrected, disputed or subject to access restrictions. Vessel names, ownership structures, flags, operators, beneficial ownership, sanctions exposure, fishing authorisations, labour-risk indicators and supply-chain connections may change over time.
No public-source reference should be treated as verified fact, definitive due diligence, proof of wrongdoing, regulatory advice or a substitute for independent investigation.17. Automated, Analytical or Experimental Methods
Any analytical method, categorisation, risk-indicator structure, sample output, workflow concept, model, database concept or intelligence format referred to by the project is experimental and exploratory.
No representation is made that any method is technically complete, operational, validated, independently audited, free from bias, suitable for production use, compliant with any specific regulatory standard, or appropriate for any particular organisation.
Any future product, service or incorporated business, if ever developed, may differ materially from the concepts described on this website or in related communications.18. Privacy, Business-Contact Data and Correspondence
Business-contact details, correspondence, feedback, meeting notes, email records and related communications may be processed and retained for non-commercial research, correspondence, project-development, relationship-management, record-keeping, legal-protection and administrative purposes.
Personal data will not be sold, brokered or made available to third parties for third-party marketing.
A person may request correction, deletion, objection to further contact, or removal from future correspondence by contacting [email protected]. Where a person objects to further contact, limited details may be retained on a suppression list to ensure that the objection is respected.19. Legal Preservation and Disclosure
Project materials, correspondence, feedback records and related information may be retained where reasonably necessary for legal protection, dispute prevention, regulatory compliance, audit, record-keeping, evidence preservation, enforcement of rights, response to legal process, or protection against misuse, misrepresentation or unauthorised attribution.
Information may be disclosed where required by law, court order, regulatory obligation, legal process, professional advisers, hosting providers, technical service providers, or where reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, confidentiality, intellectual property or legal interests.20. Website Security and Technical Integrity
No person may misuse this website or related systems by knowingly introducing viruses, malware, malicious code, scraping tools, automated extraction tools, denial-of-service activity, unauthorised access attempts, security testing, reverse-engineering, data harvesting or interference with technical infrastructure.
Access to the website may be restricted, suspended, blocked, logged or investigated where misuse, abuse, scraping, security risk, unauthorised access, harassment, impersonation or unlawful activity is suspected.21. No Obligation to Continue the Project
Apostolos I. Kaltzidis may pause, withdraw, amend, restructure, rename, transfer, incorporate, discontinue or abandon Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ or any related project materials at any time without notice.
No person has any right, expectation or entitlement to continued access, updates, discussions, feedback opportunities, future services, commercial launch, incorporation, investment participation, employment opportunity, partnership or engagement.22. Future Incorporation and Project Transfer
Thalassic Risk Intelligence™ and any related project, materials, goodwill, research, correspondence, records, domain names, branding, intellectual property, know-how and project assets may in future be assigned, transferred, licensed, contributed or otherwise made available to an incorporated entity, successor vehicle, affiliate, or project company.