Website hosting — rules & terms

Waypoint gives your virtual airline a free public website and crew centre under a waypoint-live.app address, and optionally your own domain. It's free, and it's meant for genuine Infinite Flight virtual airlines and the flight-sim community — your fleet, routes, events, roster, media, and the pages you build. It is not general-purpose web hosting: it's for your airline's site, not for file storage, redirects, proxies, or unrelated projects.

The service is provided as it is, for free. We may change, limit, or discontinue it, and we don't promise any particular uptime.

Waypoint provides the platform and the technical hosting. Your airline runs its website and crew centre, and its staff decide what goes on them. That means:

• Content and rights. Everything you publish on your website and crew centre — text, images, video, logos, forms, links, and anything your staff upload — is your content and your responsibility. You must hold the rights to the images, logos and texts you upload, or have permission to use them. Waypoint hosts it; we don't author it and we don't endorse it.
• Rules. You follow these rules, the law, the rules of Infinite Flight, and the rules of any airline brands you depict (see § 5).
• Legal notice. Where the law requires your site to show a legal notice (such as an Impressum) or contact details, you provide them on your site.
• Your members' data. Where your airline collects data from its members — applications, the roster, flight reports, e-mail addresses for mails you send with our mail tool — you handle it lawfully, tell your members what you collect and why, use it only for running your airline, and answer your members' requests about their data, for example to see or delete it. § 6 describes what Waypoint does with that data.
• Our role. We provide the platform and the hosting. Once we are told about unlawful content or content that breaks these rules — on the report page or with "Report content" in your site's footer — we may remove it or suspend the site, following the notice-and-action procedure of the EU Digital Services Act (see § 7).

Content about and for your virtual airline and the Infinite Flight community: your brand, fleet and liveries, routes and schedules, events and tours, staff and pilots, news, galleries, and ways for people to join or get in touch.

You may not use a Waypoint-hosted site to publish or do any of the following:

• Anything illegal, or content that promotes or facilitates illegal activity.
• Hateful, harassing, threatening, or violent content; content that sexualises or endangers minors; pornographic or sexually explicit material.
• Impersonation — passing yourself off as a real-world airline, company, person, another virtual airline, or as Waypoint or Infinite Flight, in a way meant to deceive.
• Malware, phishing, scams, fake stores, credential or payment harvesting, or anything designed to deceive or defraud visitors.
• Spam, misleading SEO tricks, cloaking, or bulk automated content.
• Content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other rights — only upload images, logos, video, and text you're allowed to use.
• Unlawful collection or handling of visitors' personal data.
• Using the hosting for anything other than your airline's website — no general file hosting, link shorteners, proxies, mining, or unrelated sites.
• Deliberately abusing resources: excessive uploads, automated hammering, or attempts to break, overload, or circumvent limits and security.

Respect trademarks and brands, including real airlines and Infinite Flight itself. Don't imply that your virtual airline is an official, endorsed, or affiliated part of a real-world company, of Infinite Flight, or of Waypoint unless that's genuinely true. Only upload logos and media you have permission to use.

If your site collects information from visitors — for example through an apply form or a contact form — you are responsible for how that data is used and for complying with applicable privacy law. Waypoint stores and delivers that data to you as part of running the service; you decide what you ask for and why. Don't collect sensitive personal data, and don't ask for passwords, payment details, or government IDs.

The same applies to your crew centre: the members' data you collect there (flight reports, applications, e-mail addresses your members give you for news, contact-form and newsletter sign-ups on your site) is processed by Waypoint on your instructions and on your behalf. You decide what you collect and how you use it; Waypoint stores it, delivers it to you and sends mails you write, and uses it for nothing else. Waypoint's sub-processors for this are Hetzner (hosting, Germany), Cloudflare (network, database and file storage) and Brevo (e-mail, EU). Addresses are confirmed by double opt-in before any mail is sent; every mail Waypoint sends carries an unsubscribe link, and when you mail an exported newsletter list with your own tool you must include the unsubscribe link the export gives you for each address. When a member leaves your airline, deletes their account or unsubscribes, their data is removed.

Anyone can report a hosted site with "Report content" in its footer, on the report page, or by e-mail to the address in the Impressum. A member of staff reviews every report. If content breaks these rules or the law, or if we're legally required to act, we may remove that content or suspend the site. Serious or repeated violations can mean permanent removal of the site and, where warranted, of the airline's access.

When we remove content or suspend or remove a site, we tell the airline's owner what we did and why — which content, and which rule or law it broke — wherever we have a way to reach them (their Waypoint account, Discord or e-mail). Where content is clearly illegal we may act first and explain straight after.

If you think a decision was wrong, you can object within six months by e-mail to the address in the Impressum. A person looks at it again and you get a reply. You can also turn to a certified out-of-court dispute settlement body under the EU Digital Services Act, or go to court. The details are in the terms of use (§§ 6–7). This isn't censorship of opinion — it's keeping a shared, free platform safe and legal.

You own your content. You can export everything — roster, routes, reports, events, and pages — at any time from the crew centre, and you can turn your website off whenever you want. There's no lock-in; that's a promise, not a feature. If we ever discontinue hosting, we'll give you a reasonable way to take your data with you.

The hosting is free and provided as it is; we don't promise any particular uptime or that features stay the same (§ 1). Waypoint's liability for the hosting is the same as for the rest of Waypoint, set out in § 5 of the terms of use: unlimited for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act and for guarantees; for simple negligence only where we breach an essential obligation, and then limited to foreseeable, typical damage.

Please keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose — the export tools are there for exactly that.

We may update these rules as the platform grows or the law requires. We announce a material change at least 30 days before it takes effect — with a notice in the crew centre and on Waypoint, and by e-mail to your airline's owner if we have an address. The notice says what changes and from which date, and it points out explicitly what your silence means: if you don't object before that date and keep hosting your site after it, your airline accepts the new rules.

If you don't agree, you can object before that date by e-mail to the address in the Impressum (or in the Waypoint Discord) and turn your website off — at any time and free of charge; you can export your data first (§ 8). If you object, the change does not apply to your airline, and we may end the hosting on the date it takes effect.

This procedure can't change the core of the hosting: a website and crew centre for your airline as described here, your ownership of your content and the full export (§ 8), and how moderation and objections work (§ 7). A change like that needs your airline's express agreement. Changes that are purely editorial (wording, typos, links), that a law, court or authority requires, or that are urgently needed for security can take effect sooner; we still announce them the same way, as early as we can. The date at the top shows the current version.

Reach us on the Waypoint Discord, use the report link in any hosted site's footer, or the report page. We read them.