If you have ever visited our website or facebook posts, you will see the below mentioned disclaimer. Please read the last line clearly.
Note : Respect the Photographer. This photograph is only for sharing purpose and not for any commercial use. We take great care in ensuring that all credits are given to the right photographer. However, if you think this image belongs to you or someone else, please do let us know.
As mentioned earlier, we get more than 20 pics everyday from real seafarers, and we are very well aware of the possibility that there might be people who would send a pic which they found and liked from some other websites.
Now, please read the last line of the disclaimer again.
I would take this opportunity to ask you that if you know the real photographer of the pic your mentioned, let us know his details and we will contact him personally, and until then remove the pic totally from each and every platform of ours. That is also the reason we use the best services online to take down the pics as soon as possible if we find any copyrights attached with them.
We also take special permission from photographers who are more than willing to share their pics with fellow seafarers. Every single photographer we asked has said yes, one of the prime reason is we DONOT use the pics commercially.
If 1 out of 20 people (who are not just senders but their authors as well!) share a copyrighted image, we are sure you would agree that it's not fair to ignore the enthusiasm of the rest who are genuinely interested in sharing their hobby and the life they live at the sea. We also follow a proper procedure to verify every image we are send.
Anyways, we are sure you would understand If you have ever been a seaman. We do, cause every single person at Marine Insight is or has been a sailor.
I would request you once again, rather than posting misleading posts, please do let us know if you know the real photographer of the image. We would be more than willing to contact him and provide all his details with the pic and even take the pic down until it is totally confirmed.
Thank you