Publisher and contact
Jean-Luc Delon owns dive.explo360.fr. The association “L’équipe Dive.Explo360”, governed by the French Act of 1 July 1901, publishes the website, sells the licences available on it and collects the licence fees. Jean-Luc Delon is the publication director. To get in touch, use the contact form on this page. OVH hosts the website at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France.
Jean-Luc Delon has granted the association “L’équipe Dive.Explo360”, a separate entity, the right to use the site under its statutes. Jean-Luc Delon retains ownership of the site and his original work. The association’s use remains subject to the terms of that grant and the rights of third-party authors. These terms govern use of the site. Licensed access and personal services are also subject to the applicable service terms and the terms of the plan you signed up for. Separate pages explain our privacy and cookie policies.
What the resources are for
The site offers resources for exploring and learning about marine life, including dives, species guides, articles, learning paths, games and search tools. What you can access depends on what we have published for each sea, language and level. A plan only gives access to resources once they are available.
Check the information and suggested identifications before relying on them. They may contain errors or change over time. They cannot replace scientific expertise, qualified instruction, medical advice or safety guidance. The site is unsuitable for planning or carrying out dives, decompression or rescues.
Use your own judgement, dive within your qualifications, follow local rules and your instructor’s guidance, and respect the marine environment. Using the site gives you no permission to touch, collect or disturb any organism. Automated answers and suggestions carry no professional endorsement.
Diving and contributions
The association does not organise diving outings.
It shares material that authors contribute voluntarily. The authors retain their rights.
Content rights and permitted uses
Jean-Luc Delon owns the Dive.Explo360 website and the original work he created for it. This includes the site’s design and implementation, software architecture and code, visual identity and graphic layout, illustrations, infographics, educational content and materials, and his work on related tools, modules and services such as Explorarium, Station, Académie, Immersion, trouve-MOI, dis-MOI and clic-MOI. These rights cover elements eligible for protection and their original expression. Ideas, general teaching methods and scientific knowledge remain outside that claim. The respective authors or rights holders retain ownership of third-party material, including certain video clips and clic-Bleu images. The site displays that material with the applicable credits and permissions. Its inclusion transfers no rights to Jean-Luc Delon or to “L’équipe Dive.Explo360”. You retain the rights to your own logbooks, observations and contributions.
Unless you have specific permission, you may browse the site for personal, private use only. Group screenings, professional use, training and integration into another website require an appropriate licence. The plan you accept sets out what you can do, for how long and under what limits.
Without permission, you must not redistribute, resell, scrape in bulk, extract or rehost resources, bypass protections or remove credits or watermarks. Mandatory legal rights and exceptions still apply, including the right to quote short passages where the law allows it.
The general technical restrictions make exceptions for features the service expressly provides. These include sharing a logbook in line with its author’s settings, downloading your own data, authorised offline preparation and student materials created in Académie. Any wider permission to copy the site’s library or use its resources must be requested in writing.
Licences and plan terms
Explorer Premium, Pro and Solidaire, Académie, Station, TV and Immersion serve different needs. The licence catalogue and the agreement you accept specify which resources, users, devices, domains or installations the licence covers. Access to a tool transfers no rights in the resources.
The terms you accept for a plan set out the rights that come with it. These website terms cover other matters, subject to mandatory law. If you hold several licences, access to personal note-taking features under one licence does not extend those features to the others.
Personal contributions and observations
You can contribute through features such as logbooks, stories, notes, captions, profiles and permitted personal materials. The service’s sharing controls determine whether a contribution is public.
A note records someone’s observation, interpretation, impression or point of view. It may be subjective, incomplete or open to question. Treat it as a personal account rather than verified scientific or educational information. You are responsible for what you enter, edit, share or show at a screening.
Respect copyright, image rights, privacy and applicable law. You must have an appropriate basis for sharing information about someone else. Unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory or threatening content is prohibited. These rules apply whether your contribution is private or public.
Dive.Explo360 does not endorse or verify contributions by storing or displaying them. To the extent the law allows, Dive.Explo360 accepts no liability for personal content written by users or for the consequences of using it. Dive.Explo360 remains responsible for meeting its own legal obligations, including handling reports.
External links and videos
Third-party websites and platforms, including YouTube, operate independently. If you add a video to a logbook, you choose the video and caption and must check that you have the necessary rights and permissions. The service stores the link or identifier and the caption. The video file remains external and is neither downloaded nor hosted by the service.
Embedding a video does not mean Dive.Explo360 endorses or verifies it. The platform and rights holder determine its availability, advertising, restrictions and how it plays. Dive.Explo360 gives no guarantee that the content is accurate, lawful or available. Any limit on liability applies only to the extent permitted by law.
Loading a third-party thumbnail or player may send technical information, including your IP address, and involve tracking. Data may be sent outside the European Union. The provider’s privacy policy and settings also apply. Data may still be sent whichever embed mode is used.
Security and availability
Do not try to access any account, installation or resource without permission, disrupt the service, overload its systems or bypass its limits. Keep your sign-in details secure and report suspicious access promptly. Never include codes or passwords in your report.
The site may be unavailable during maintenance or outages. Content may change, and networks or third-party services may fail. Dive.Explo360 does not guarantee uninterrupted access. Your rights under a paid plan and any statutory guarantees still apply during an outage.
Dive.Explo360 may restrict access or content to the extent necessary to protect security, protect rights, keep the service running or meet a legal obligation. We will explain the reason and give you a chance to respond unless the matter is urgent, the law prevents us from doing so or notice would risk circumvention. Any effect on a paid contract depends on its terms and the law. A restriction does not automatically cancel all your rights.
Responsibilities and limits on liability
Dive.Explo360 takes reasonable steps to provide its resources and address reported problems. You decide whether the resources suit your needs and are responsible for how you use them, including in teaching or underwater activities.
These terms preserve any liability that the law prohibits us from excluding or limiting, as well as mandatory guarantees, consumer rights and any compensation the law requires for a breach attributable to the site. Data protection obligations continue to apply. Any limit on liability negotiated between professionals must appear in their agreement. A general disclaimer does not establish such a limit.
Report content or a problem
Use the contact form on this page. To report potentially unlawful content, include its exact web address, the facts and reasons for your report, and a way to contact you. Never include a password, a pairing code or a private link that is unnecessary for your request.
We review reports and take the steps the law requires, including removing content or restricting access where appropriate. The rights of the person affected, any available remedies and the obligations of external platforms continue to apply. You can challenge a decision through the same contact form. Include the relevant reference details.
Records of permissions and evidence
We may keep versions of the terms, licence agreements, confirmations and other relevant records to establish what was authorised and resolve disputes. We do so in line with the privacy policy and applicable retention periods. Watermarks and signatures help establish where resources came from. Permission to use them must come from the relevant rights holder.
Electronic records may be used as evidence where the law allows. Their evidential weight can be challenged. Mandatory rules of evidence still apply, and a disputed transaction can still be contested.
Changes, complaints and governing law
Each version of these terms is dated. The version on the site applies to current browsing. Changes do not affect rights you have already acquired. Where a change affects a contract, its notice requirements and any mandatory rights apply.
You can use the contact form to make a complaint and seek an amicable resolution. For consumer contracts, you can still contact the competent mediator and use any legal remedies available to you. The contractual documents for the plan must give the mediator’s contact details.
French law applies, and consumers retain any mandatory protections that apply to them. The law determines which courts can hear a dispute. These terms impose no exclusive jurisdiction on consumers.