The copy of Dive Data 2000 which you have installed is fully-functional, however unless you have paid for the program you will be restricted in the number of Divers who can be added to the database and the number of Dives each can log. This gives you the opportunity to try out all of the features of Dive Data 2000 before you buy. When you register Dive Data 2000 you will be given a unique license number, linked to your name and branch, which will remove the restrictions.

The database used by Dive Data 2000 is secured in such a way that you can only add data to it using the Dive Data 2000 program. You can read your data using any program that can read Microsoft Access 97 format databases.

The license entitles you to create a single updateable installation of Dive Data 2000, but you can make as many read only backup copies as you wish providing that they are all used with a single branch database. The intention is that one person, perhaps the membership secretary, has the master copy of the database and makes all updates. If you want to install copies of Dive Data 2000 on other branch officers’ PCs (perhaps the Training Officer’s and Diving Officer’s) so that they can refer to it this is allowed. Every now and then they are given a new copy of the master database containing recent updates. This provides them with a convenient reference copy of your branch data, and the main licensee with an off-site backup of the data.

What you are not allowed to do is create more than one installation of Dive Data 2000 to be used with independent databases. For example you are not allowed to make more than one installation so that people can keep their own dive logs, and you are not allowed to keep different types of record in separate installations (e.g. the training officer keeping training records in one copy, the membership secretary keeping membership records in another copy). In short, you need a license for each copy of the database that can be updated.

Network installations are treated in the same way; you may install Dive Data 2000 on a network and allow several people to use it providing they are all updating the same database.