1. The deal
These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are an agreement between you and Dockd ("Dockd," "we," "us"). They cover your use of the Dockd reader at dockd.io, the Dockd iOS app, the browser extensions, and any related services (together, the "Service"). If you don't agree to these Terms, don't use the Service.
2. Your account
You need an account to use the Service. You must be at least 13 years old (and old enough to enter into a contract where you live). Keep your password — or your Apple/Google sign‑in — safe. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us if you think someone else is using it.
3. What you can and can't do with Dockd
Dockd is a place to save, read, annotate, and share reading. You may use it for that. You may not:
- Use it to break the law or infringe someone else's rights.
- Republish entire copyrighted works that you don't have the right to distribute. Saving for your own reading is fine; turning Dockd into a piracy site is not.
- Scrape, crawl, or otherwise pull data out of Dockd in bulk without our written permission.
- Probe, attack, or otherwise interfere with the Service or the people using it.
- Use Dockd to send spam, harass anyone, or post hateful, threatening, or sexually explicit content involving anyone who hasn't consented.
- Resell the Service or use it to run a competing reader product.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules. We try to be reasonable; we reserve the right not to be when the situation warrants it.
4. Your content
You keep ownership of the URLs you save, the highlights you make, the lists you build, and the bio you write. You grant us a worldwide, non‑exclusive, royalty‑free license to host, store, copy, transmit, process, and display that content for the purpose of running the Service for you and (for content you've marked public) for showing it to anyone else as part of the Service. That license ends when you delete the content or your account, except as needed for backups and legal obligations.
Some content you put on Dockd is intentionally public —
published lists, your @handle profile, and any
public‑profile stats you've turned on. Anyone can read those,
and search engines may index them.
5. Third‑party content
Dockd fetches articles, RSS feeds, and other content from third‑party sites so you can read them in a reader‑mode view. That content belongs to whoever published it. Saving and annotating in Dockd is for your own use; if you want to re‑publish it elsewhere, you need permission from whoever owns it. We respect publisher requests to remove or restrict content — contact us at support@dockd.io.
6. AI features
Dockd uses AI to produce your Daily Signal, article summaries, tags, and ask‑the‑article answers. AI output is generated by models — it can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Don't rely on it for medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice. When the article matters, read the article.
See the Privacy Policy for which data is sent to AI providers and how it's handled.
7. Subscriptions, trials, and billing
Dockd is sold as a subscription. Pricing and the trial length are shown at signup. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel.
- Web subscriptions are billed through Stripe. Manage or cancel them from Settings.
- iOS subscriptions are billed through Apple In‑App Purchase. Manage or cancel them from your Apple ID subscriptions (Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions). Apple's terms apply to those purchases.
If you cancel during a free trial, you won't be charged. After the trial, you'll be charged at the start of each billing period unless you've cancelled. Refunds are at our discretion (or Apple's, for iOS) — email us if something went wrong and we'll try to do the right thing. We may change pricing for future billing periods; we'll give you notice before we do.
8. Our stuff
The Dockd name, logo, designs, and the software running the Service are ours. We grant you a limited, non‑transferable, revocable license to use the Service while these Terms apply. Nothing here transfers ownership of any of that to you.
9. Termination
You can stop using Dockd and delete your account at any time from Settings. We can suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if continuing to serve your account creates an unreasonable burden or risk for us or for other users. We'll try to give you notice when we can.
10. Service "as is"
The Service is provided as is and as available. We make no warranties — express or implied — about it being uninterrupted, error‑free, secure, accurate, or fit for any particular purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all such warranties.
11. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Dockd will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenues, data, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you've paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) US $100.
Some jurisdictions don't allow some of these limits, so they may not all apply to you.
12. Indemnification
You agree to defend and indemnify Dockd against claims and costs arising out of your misuse of the Service, your content, or your violation of these Terms.
13. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to its conflict‑of‑laws rules. Any dispute that the parties can't resolve informally will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Ohio, and you and Dockd consent to personal jurisdiction there.
14. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes we'll tell you in‑app or by email before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after that means you accept the new Terms.
15. Miscellaneous
These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and Dockd about the Service. If a court finds any part of them unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of it. You can't assign these Terms; we can.