All property rights (including but not limited to the Intellectual Property Rights) of the South China Sea Electronic Navigational Charts (hereafter called the Data) remains the property of the East Asia Hydrographic Commission (EAHC). No part of the Data may be reproduced either in whole or in part, without the prior permission of the EAHC. The Data may not be sold, hired, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the EAHC. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise reduce the Data to a human perceivable form for distribution to any third party. You may not modify, adapt the Data or create derivative works based on the Data.

The EAHC gives no warranty that the Data is error-free and the EAHC shall in no way be held liable for any loss or damage which may be suffered by the users for any damage or loss he may suffer in any use or attempted use of the Data. Except as expressly provided in this agreement, no warranty, condition, undertaking or term expressed or implied is given or assumed by the EAHC.

Users are allowed to use the Data as long as in accordance with the terms of this agreement or until notified by the EAHC. On termination the Data stored on ECDIS systems, computer or others storage media must be deleted.

The users shall keep their copy of Data up-to-date by obtaining the updating files, at regular intervals at the South China Sea Electronic Navigational Charts web site. Attention is drawn to the users that the issue of the new version of the Data by the EAHC will automatically render previous versions of the Data outdated.