User Agreement

This agreement governs your use of Direct Logbook. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

Your account

You must provide a valid email address when registering and keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorisation.

The service

Direct Logbook is a digital record-keeping tool for pilot logbooks. It is currently offered free for personal use. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

Your responsibilities as a pilot

Direct Logbook is a record-keeping aid, not a substitute for your regulatory obligations. You remain solely responsible for maintaining accurate flight records in accordance with CASA regulations and any other requirements that apply to you. Automated features, including EFL scanning, CSV import, and generated statistics, can make mistakes, and you should verify all extracted or calculated data before relying on it for currency, licensing, or compliance purposes.

Your data

You own the logbook data you enter or upload. By using the service you grant us permission to store and process that data as needed to operate the service, including sending EFL images you upload to Google Cloud Vision for text extraction. Our collection and handling of personal information is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.

If you record information about other people (for example, crew member names), you are responsible for ensuring you are entitled to do so.

If you use the Social features, you also give us permission to show the flights, photos, comments and other content you choose to share to the people you have chosen to share it with. You can withdraw that at any time by hiding a flight, removing a person, or turning Social off.

Social features and community guidelines

Social is an optional part of Direct Logbook that lets you share your flights with people you invite, follow flights shared with you, and react and comment. It only works if people are considerate of each other, so by turning it on you agree to the following.

• Be respectful. Keep comments friendly. Do not harass, bully, threaten, or demean anyone, and do not post content that is abusive, hateful, sexually explicit, or otherwise offensive.
• Only share what you are entitled to share. Before posting a photo or writing about a flight, think about the other people involved: passengers, crew, and anyone pictured. Do not share other people's personal information without their agreement.
• Follow your employer's and operator's rules. You are responsible for complying with any company photography, social media, confidentiality and security policies that apply to you, and with aviation security requirements. Do not post operationally sensitive or confidential information.
• Respect what others share with you. Flights and photos that another pilot shares are for you to view. Do not copy, publish or pass them on without that pilot's permission.
• Invite only people you know. Do not use invitations to send unsolicited or bulk email.
• Be yourself. Do not use a name or profile picture to impersonate someone else.

Reporting and moderation. You can report a comment using the flag next to it. We may review reported content and, where we think these guidelines have been breached or the feature is being misused, remove comments or other content, remove sharing connections between users, restrict an account's ability to invite people or comment, or suspend the account. We do not review content before it is posted and are not responsible for what users choose to share, but we will act on reports in good faith.

Acceptable use

• Do not attempt to access other users' data or any part of the service you are not authorised to use.
• Do not upload content that is unlawful, malicious, or infringes the rights of others.
• Do not use the Social features to harass, abuse, or spam other people (see the community guidelines above).
• Do not interfere with or disrupt the service, or use it in a way that places unreasonable load on our infrastructure.
• Do not use automated tools to scrape or bulk-extract data from the service other than the export features provided.

Availability and warranty

The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We do not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that data extracted by automated tools will be accurate. Nothing in this agreement excludes rights you may have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the service, including loss arising from inaccurate records, missed currency or licensing requirements, or loss of data. You should keep your own backups of important records, for example by using the export features regularly.

Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach this agreement or abuse the service, and we may restrict access to the Social features for accounts that misuse them. You may stop using the service and request deletion of your account and data at any time.

Changes to this agreement

We may update this agreement from time to time. If we make material changes we will update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised agreement.

Contact

Questions about this agreement can be sent to [email protected].