Terms of Use
July 2026
Acceptance of terms
Browse freely, be decent, don't steal the photographs, and know that trips and sessions have their own booking terms — shown to you before you pay, not hidden after. The ocean parts of what we do carry real-world rules; the honest version of all of them is below. By using this website you accept these terms. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the site — though we'd rather you emailed us with what bothers you: hello@sinaritter.com. These terms cover the website run by Sina und Fabian Ritter GbR (see Impressum). Bookings and stays at Liquid Shark Divers in Fuvahmulah are contracted with Liquid Shark Divers Pvt Ltd, Maldives, under its own terms — a separate company, a separate contract, separate law.
Use of the site
The site is yours to browse for personal, non-commercial purposes. What's not okay: disrupting its operation, breaking the law through it, or scraping it with automated tools without our written permission. That includes bots harvesting content for datasets — see the next section, which we mean.
Intellectual property
Every photograph, every text, every design element on this site is the intellectual property of Sina Ritter / Sina und Fabian Ritter GbR and protected by copyright. Each frame took patience, salt water, and an animal's decision to stay — so no copying, reproducing, distributing, or derivative works without prior written consent. Express reservation against AI training and data mining: We expressly reserve all rights under § 44b UrhG (and equivalent laws) against text and data mining. No image or text from this site may be used to train, develop, or improve machine-learning or AI systems. Not because we fear the future — because nobody taught a model patience at 30 metres, and the work isn't free raw material. The legitimate ways in are easy: fine art prints are in the shop, licensing runs through Work With Me — we answer within 5–7 days. Private, non-commercial downloads (a wallpaper for yourself) are also not permitted.
Bookings & payments
Expeditions, mentorships, coaching sessions, and prints each have their own booking, deposit, and cancellation terms — always shown to you before you commit, never after. Line-item clear is how we run everything. A few principles that hold across all of it: Application first. Most offers are application-based. An application costs nothing and commits you to nothing — it starts a conversation. A contract exists once we've confirmed your spot and you've paid the deposit stated in the offer. Deposits and cancellation follow the terms of your specific booking (typically: 50% deposit to confirm, balance due 60 days before start, tiered refunds after that). For package trips, your payments are protected by statutory insolvency protection — you'll receive the corresponding certificate with your booking confirmation. No withdrawal right for dated trips and sessions — expeditions, mentorships, and scheduled coaching are leisure services with fixed dates and are exempt from the 14-day distance-selling withdrawal right (§ 312g (2) No. 9 BGB). Our cancellation tiers exist precisely to keep that fair. Print purchases DO carry the statutory withdrawal right, except custom-made orders. Prices and availability can change until your booking is confirmed. After that, your price is your price. Honesty requirement — both directions. You're responsible for meeting the stated certification, swimming, and health requirements of your trip, and for telling us the truth about them; our safety planning is built on your answers. In return we're honest with you: wildlife is wild. Tiger sharks, whales, and everything else appear on their terms, not ours — no sighting is ever guaranteed, and no refund arises from nature's schedule. We put this in writing because we'd rather lose a booking than pretend the ocean takes orders. Travel insurance is mandatory on all multi-day trips. Book it before you book us.
Limitation of liability
For injury to life, body, or health, and for damage caused by intent or gross negligence, we are liable without limitation — as German law rightly demands of anyone who takes people into open ocean. For simple negligence, we are liable only for breach of essential contractual duties (the ones that make the contract possible at all), limited to the typically foreseeable damage. The website itself and its content are provided with care but without warranty of completeness or accuracy — conditions, dates, and prices live on the booking documents, not the marketing pages. Following anything on this site is no substitute for your own judgment, training, and insurance.
Dispute Resolution
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). Our actual dispute resolution mechanism: hello@sinaritter.com, a human, usually within 72 hours. It has an excellent settlement rate.
Governing Law
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you're a consumer in the EU, this choice doesn't take away the mandatory protections of the country you live in — those stay yours.
Changes to these terms
We update these terms when the business or the law changes. The current version lives on this page with the date above; material changes to booking terms never apply retroactively to confirmed bookings.