Terms & Conditions

1. Acceptance of these terms

By browsing this website or submitting an enquiry or quote request through it, you agree to these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. We may update these terms from time to time; the version published here at the time you use the site is the version that applies.

2. Use of this website

You may use this site to learn about our services, review our portfolio and contact us about a project. You may not:

• Use the site for any unlawful purpose, or in a way that damages or disrupts it
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site, its server or its database
• Scrape, harvest or systematically extract content from the site without our written consent
• Submit false information, malicious code, or automated or bulk form submissions

We aim to keep the site available at all times but do not guarantee uninterrupted access, and we may suspend, withdraw or change any part of it without notice.

3. Intellectual property

All content on this website — text, photographs, maps, graphics, the Sealmatics name and logo, and the underlying code — is owned by or licensed to Sealmatics Surveys Consultants Ltd and is protected by Nigerian and international copyright law.

You may view, download and print pages for your own reference or to evaluate our services. You may not reproduce, republish, sell or commercially exploit any part of the site without our prior written permission. Project photographs and survey extracts shown in our portfolio remain the property of Sealmatics or the relevant client.

4. Quotes and enquiries

Information on this website, including any indicative figures, is provided for general guidance and does not constitute an offer to contract.

A quote issued in response to your request is based on the scope, location and conditions you describe to us. Unless it states otherwise, a quote is valid for 30 days from issue and is subject to a site inspection where one is needed. Where actual site conditions, access, security requirements or scope differ materially from what was described, we will issue a revised quote before proceeding.

5. Engaging our services

A binding engagement is created only when both parties sign a written proposal, contract, work order or letter of engagement setting out the scope, deliverables, programme and fee. Where there is any conflict between that signed document and these terms, the signed document prevails for that project.

6. Your obligations as client

To allow us to deliver on time and to standard, you agree to:

• Provide safe, lawful and timely access to the site, including any permits, escorts or community clearance required
• Supply accurate background information — existing plans, deeds, title documents, utility records, coordinates and datum requirements
• Disclose any known hazards on site, including buried services, unstable ground, marine traffic or security risks
• Confirm that you own the property or have the authority of the owner to instruct a survey of it
• Nominate a single contact authorised to approve scope changes and sign off deliverables
• Respond to requests for instruction or approval without undue delay

We are not responsible for delays, additional cost or errors in a deliverable that result from information you supplied being inaccurate, incomplete or provided late.

7. Professional standards

Our work is carried out by qualified personnel in accordance with the Surveyors Council of Nigeria framework, the standards of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, and the relevant international standards for the discipline concerned — including IHO standards for hydrographic work. Where a survey requires lodgement, endorsement or certification by a State Surveyor-General's office, that is carried out by a registered surveyor.

8. Accuracy and reliance

Every survey is performed to a stated accuracy specification, which is recorded in the deliverable. Accuracy figures quoted on this website are typical instrument or method capabilities under favourable conditions; the accuracy achieved on a given project depends on terrain, satellite visibility, sea state, control availability and other site conditions, and is stated in the project report.

Deliverables are prepared for the specific purpose, site and date stated in them. They are provided for your use and the use of your named professional advisers on that project. If you rely on a deliverable for a different purpose, a different site, or after ground conditions have changed, you do so at your own risk, and we accept no liability for that reliance. Third parties acquire no rights under our reports unless we agree in writing.

9. Deliverables and ownership

Copyright in survey plans, drawings, reports, datasets and other documents we produce remains with Sealmatics. On full payment of our fees, you are granted a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use those deliverables for the project they were prepared for.

Raw field data, instrument records, calculation files and working notes remain our property and are not part of the deliverable unless the engagement expressly includes them. Deliverables may not be altered, and any altered version must not be presented as our work.

10. Fees and payment

• Fees, the payment schedule and any mobilisation advance are set out in the accepted proposal
• Unless stated otherwise, quoted fees exclude VAT, withholding tax, and third-party statutory or lodgement charges
• Invoices are payable within the period stated on the invoice, in Nigerian Naira unless agreed otherwise
• We may suspend work or withhold deliverables where undisputed invoices remain unpaid
• Costs arising from standby, remobilisation or access being denied on an agreed mobilisation date are chargeable

11. Variations and delays

Any change to scope, area, accuracy specification, deliverable format or programme must be agreed in writing and may affect the fee and the delivery date. Programme dates assume continuous access and workable conditions. Delays caused by weather, sea state, access refusal, community disruption, third-party approvals or client instruction will extend the programme accordingly.

12. Limitation of liability

We maintain professional indemnity cover and stand behind the quality of our work. Where an error in our work is identified, our first remedy is to re-survey or correct the deliverable at our own cost.

Subject to the paragraph below, our total liability arising out of or in connection with a project, whether in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise, is limited to the total fees paid to us for that project. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including loss of profit, loss of opportunity, delay costs on a construction programme, or loss arising from decisions taken by you or third parties on the basis of our deliverables.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded under Nigerian law.

13. Confidentiality

Each party will keep confidential any non-public information received from the other in the course of a project and use it only for that project. This does not apply to information that is already public, is received lawfully from a third party, or must be disclosed by law or by a regulator. Our obligations of confidentiality continue after the project ends. Handling of personal data is covered by our Privacy Policy.

14. Suspension and termination

Either party may terminate an engagement by written notice if the other commits a material breach that is not remedied within 14 days of being notified of it. You may also terminate for convenience by written notice, in which case you remain liable for work properly carried out up to the termination date, together with any unavoidable committed costs and demobilisation expenses.

15. Force majeure

Neither party is liable for failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including extreme weather, flooding, civil unrest, industrial action, epidemic, government restriction, or failure of public infrastructure. The affected party will notify the other promptly and both will agree a revised programme.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms and any engagement are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Both parties will first attempt to resolve any dispute by good-faith discussion between senior representatives. Failing that, the dispute may be referred to mediation or arbitration in Lagos, or to the courts of Lagos State, which have jurisdiction.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms, or about a specific engagement, can be sent to: