Effective date: September 29, 2026
These Terms of Service govern your use of the Docked mobile app, websites, and related services (the "Service"), operated by Michael Dawson, operating as Docked ("Docked," "we," "us," or "our"). By accepting these Terms when you create an account, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Service.
Our Privacy Policy at https://s.dockedapp.io/privacy explains how we handle your information. Accepting these Terms does not replace any separate privacy permission the law or an app platform requires.
You must be at least 16 years old to use Docked. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms.
Provide accurate account information, keep your credentials secure, and tell support promptly about any suspected unauthorized access. Do not impersonate anyone or create accounts to get around a restriction. You may not transfer or sell your account.
Docked helps people organize a cruise with their group and connect with other travelers on the same sailing. Features include itineraries, cabin coordination, excursion proposals and votes, polls, attendance responses, messaging, and shared photos.
Docked is an independent planning and community service. It is not operated by, endorsed by, or affiliated with any cruise line or excursion provider. Docked is not a cruise operator, travel agent, excursion operator, or insurer for anything discussed in the Service.
Proposing an excursion, voting, adding an item to an itinerary, or marking that you are going does not book anything, secure a place, or pay anyone. Any "booked" status is a note entered by a user, not a confirmation from a provider. Make all bookings and payments directly with the cruise line or operator. Docked does not process payments.
Schedules, ports, venues, ship information, and user-created plans may be incomplete, out of date, or changed without notice. Verify departure and all-aboard times, time zones, meeting places, excursion requirements, and travel documents with the cruise line or provider. Instructions from the ship and the authorities always take precedence over anything in Docked.
You decide whether to attend a meetup or activity and are responsible for judging whether it is suitable and safe for you. A profile, a trip membership, or an organizer label is not an identity check, a background check, or an endorsement. Do not share sign-in details, travel documents, or more cabin information than you need to with people you do not know.
Docked is not an emergency service. If you need urgent help, contact ship security, crew, or local emergency services. Connectivity and notifications may be delayed or unavailable, especially at sea.
Organizers and co-organizers can manage a trip's members and plans using the tools in the Service. They are responsible for communicating changes accurately, using members' information only for the trip, and getting permission before sharing someone else's information or photos.
Organizers act for their own group, not for Docked. Do not present an unofficial activity as sponsored by a cruise line or by Docked. Membership in a trip does not establish that a person has booked the sailing.
You must not use Docked to:
You are responsible for making sure the content you post follows these rules and that you have the rights and permissions needed to share it. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users.
Use the Report option on any post, comment, chat message, or profile, or email support@dockedapp.io, to report content or behavior that may break these Terms. Use Block to stop someone from contacting you. Reporting is not an emergency channel.
We review content and reports with automated tools, Google's moderation services, and human review, as described in the Privacy Policy. We may remove content, limit features, suspend or terminate accounts, or take other proportionate action for violations, abuse, security risks, or legal requirements, and may do so without advance notice when needed to protect users or comply with law. Reports are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours.
Automated decisions can be wrong. To ask for a review, email support with your username and the details. We will consider what you send and let you know the outcome. We do not guarantee that every violation is caught before someone sees it.
You own the content you post. You grant Docked a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, resize, transmit, and display it, and to let our service providers do the same, only as needed to run the Service, deliver your content to the audience you chose, provide support, and enforce these Terms.
This license does not let us sell your photos, use your private content in advertising, or use your content to train AI models. Any additional use would be asked for separately. The license ends when the content is deleted from our systems, except for the limited retention described in the Privacy Policy. Copies that other users have already saved are outside our control.
Docked's software, name, logo, and other materials we supply are owned by or licensed to us. Subject to these Terms, you may use the Service for its intended purpose. No ownership in the Service passes to you. Open-source components remain under their own licenses.
Links, booking providers, cruise lines, and other external services have their own terms and privacy practices. Docked is not responsible for their bookings or payment disputes, except where the law makes us responsible for our own conduct.
Your carrier, internet provider, or cruise line may charge for data. Docked is free. If we ever offer a paid feature, we will show its price, billing terms, and cancellation or refund terms before you agree to pay; these Terms alone do not authorize any charge.
You may stop using Docked at any time and delete your account from Profile → Settings → Delete Account, at https://s.dockedapp.io/delete-account, or by emailing support@dockedapp.io. Uninstalling the app does not delete your account.
When you delete your account: your profile, posts, messages, photos, and memberships are removed; a trip you organize together with other members passes to a co-organizer, or otherwise to the longest-standing member; a trip where you are the only member is deleted; and excursion proposals, itinerary items, and polls you added to a shared trip stay with that trip, no longer attributed to you. The app tells you this before you confirm. Retained records are handled as described in the Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate access as described in Section 7. Provisions that by their nature should continue — content-retention permissions, intellectual-property terms, disclaimers, limitations, and dispute terms — survive termination to the extent the law permits.
To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We do not guarantee uninterrupted operation, error-free content, delivery of every notification, or that a meetup, booking, or plan will happen as expected. To the same extent, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing here removes consumer protections that cannot lawfully be excluded.
To the extent permitted by law, Docked is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits or opportunities, arising from use of the Service, and is not responsible for a third party's conduct just because people met through Docked.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability the law does not allow us to limit. Mandatory consumer rights are unaffected.
If you have a dispute, email support@dockedapp.io with the details so we can try to resolve it. This does not stop you from exercising your legal rights or seeking urgent relief.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where the mandatory laws of your place of residence apply. Subject to those rights, disputes will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Broward County, Florida. Nothing here limits a small-claims remedy or a consumer's mandatory right to use their local courts.
We may update the Service and these Terms. We will give notice of material changes in the app or by email and say when they take effect. Changes apply going forward, and we will ask for renewed agreement where the law requires it. If you do not accept an update, stop using the Service and delete your account.
If any provision is unenforceable, the rest continue to apply. Not enforcing a provision once is not a waiver. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement about your use of the Service, subject to applicable law.
Operator: Michael Dawson, operating as Docked
Support, reports, privacy, and account-deletion requests: support@dockedapp.io