Safe harbors have been promoted by legal writers as reducing the uncertainty created by simply employing a vague standard (such as "recklessness").
Another common use of safe harbor is to protect management of a corporation from liability for making financial projections and forecasts in good faith.
[3] The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has notable safe-harbor provisions which protect Internet service providers from the consequences of their users' actions.
When the agreement expires, the property owner is permitted to return the landscape to its original baseline condition if they so desire.
It prohibits European firms from transferring personal data to overseas jurisdictions with weaker privacy laws.
Five years later, a decision created exceptions where foreign recipients of the data voluntarily agreed to meet EU standards under the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.