Terms of Service
Effective Date: January 1, 2026. Governing access to rankpantryroms.rest.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or utilizing any resource, guide, map, or telemetry data on rankpantryroms.rest (the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to every clause herein, you must immediately cease accessing and utilizing the platform.
The Service is operated by Rankpantryroms Speleo Media Ltd. (Registration No: SI-84920194, Sežana, Slovenia). These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the company.
2. Permitted Use and Speleological Safety Disclaimer
The materials published on Rankpantryroms—including cave depth profiles, stratigraphic analyses, passage diagrams, and hydrological evaluations—are provided strictly for scientific, cultural, educational, and general reference purposes.
CRITICAL SAFETY NOTICE: Speleology, subterranean caving, and subterranean diving are inherently hazardous activities involving risks of flash flooding, rockfall, atmospheric hypoxia, disorientation, hypothermia, and death. Nothing published on this website constitutes a formal cave-diving plan, structural safety guarantee, or substitute for official accredited speleological guides (such as members of the Speleological Association of Slovenia / Jamarska zveza Slovenije).
Under Slovenian legislation, unauthorized entry into non-tourist wild caves without statutory municipal or environmental agency permits is prohibited by law. You assume full personal responsibility for your physical safety during any outdoor field activities.
3. Intellectual Property Rights
All content on this website—including text, layout designs, diagrams, SVG graphics, code, and curated metadata—is the exclusive intellectual property of Rankpantryroms Speleo Media Ltd. or used under lawful license.
You are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to view and print pages for personal, non-commercial educational study. You may not reproduce, syndicate, scrape, republish, or adapt any portion of this website for commercial distribution without our explicit written permission.
4. Prohibited User Conduct
When utilizing the Service, you expressly agree not to:
- Deploy automated scrapers, bots, or extraction scripts against our web endpoints.
- Attempt to breach server infrastructure, inject malicious code, or conduct denial-of-service attempts.
- Submit false, defamatory, or abusive inquiries through our contact forms.
- Misrepresent your identity as an official speleological inspector or employee of Rankpantryroms Speleo Media Ltd.
5. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, Rankpantryroms Speleo Media Ltd., its directors, employees, and scientific contributors shall not be held liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from:
- Any errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in hydrological, elevation, or dimensional measurements published on the site.
- Any personal injury, physical harm, or property loss sustained during speleological excursions or visits to karst features discussed herein.
- Any temporary unavailability, technical downtime, or data transmission failures of the website.
6. Termination of Access
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to our online resources at our sole discretion, without notice, if we reasonably determine that you have violated these Terms of Service or engaged in abusive network behavior.
7. Governing Law and Dispute Jurisdiction
These Terms of Service shall be governed by, construed, and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Slovenia, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.
Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to this agreement shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in Koper, Slovenia.