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1. Scope of Technical Content

Geotechnical Insights Hub publishes educational calculators and engineering commentary. Simplified methods are intentionally used to support learning and early-stage screening.

Real projects require full ground investigation, laboratory and field testing, code-compliant calculations, and project-specific interpretation.

2. No Final Design Reliance

Outputs, charts, and equations on this site are not a substitute for formal design checks. They are not certified for direct use in construction, procurement, safety-critical decisions, or contractual deliverables.

3. Mandatory Independent Review

Before applying any site output to a project, a qualified engineer must independently confirm:

• - Input quality, unit consistency, and representative soil parameters.
• - Method applicability to ground profile, loading, groundwater, and construction sequence.
• - Compliance with governing design standards and contractual requirements.

Responsibility for this independent review lies entirely with the user and the appointed engineering team.

4. No Professional Duty of Care

Use of this website does not establish professional engagement, advisory duty, or consultant-client relationship between the operator and any user.

5. Warranty Disclaimer

Content is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of accuracy, completeness, currency, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

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To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law in the Republic of Türkiye (Turkey), the operator disclaims liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, financial, technical, professional, regulatory, and project-delay losses arising from use of this site.

This includes losses connected to parameter selection, incorrect assumptions, unsuitable method choice, software misuse, misinterpretation, omitted checks, or project implementation decisions.

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The website does not offer a general document or file upload feature. Information processed through the Service is what you type into forms and fields (and saved tool outputs you choose to store), not uploaded borehole logs, drawings, or attachments.

You must not enter confidential, privileged, classified, or contractually restricted information, nor use project or borehole name fields to encode real client names, exact site addresses, or proprietary identifiers. Those labels exist only for your convenience inside the application to keep records distinct. You accept full responsibility if you enter data you were obliged to protect.

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