Legal

Terms of Service

Effective date: 12 July 2026

Last updated: 12 July 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Shaun Holman, an individual resident in Ireland ("Ancora", "we", "us", "our"). They govern your use of the Ancora Vessel Management desktop application, the Ancora Vessel Management mobile app, and the ancora-yacht.com website (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, signing into the Service, or using it in any way, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What the Service is

Ancora is an operational tool for organising vessel management information — maintenance, defects, inventory, tasks, checklists, certificates and voyage records. It is designed to help you keep track of the work being done onboard, not to replace it.

Ancora is not a safety-critical system. It does not substitute for professional judgment, formal risk assessment, SOLAS compliance, class-society requirements, flag-state rules, or the instructions of any manufacturer, surveyor, superintendent or authority. Decisions about vessel operation, seaworthiness, maintenance intervals, or safety of life and property remain the responsibility of the captain and the vessel operator.

2. Accounts

To use most features you need an account. Accounts are typically created when a vessel's captain invites you.

You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secret and for any activity carried out under your account. Notify us at hello@ancora-yacht.com if you believe your account has been compromised.

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service.

3. Roles and permissions

The Service uses role-based permissions. In particular:

• Captains and administrators can invite and remove crew, change department settings, export the vessel's full dataset, and permanently delete all vessel data.
• Crew members can view and edit operational records for the vessel and close their own account association from the mobile app ("Leave vessel").

Destructive vessel-wide actions are only available to captains and administrators via the desktop application.

4. Fees

During the current early-access period, the Service is provided free of charge. No fees are being invoiced, and no payment details are collected or processed.

We may introduce paid subscription plans in the future. If we do, we will provide at least 30 days' notice by email before any charge takes effect. You will always have the option to stop using the Service and export your vessel data before any fee applies to your account.

Provision of the Service free of charge does not create any additional warranty or obligation on our part. The disclaimers in Section 10 and the limitation of liability in Section 11 apply in full.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any unlawful purpose;
• Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service or another vessel's data;
• Interfere with the security or integrity of the Service, or with other users' use of it;
• Upload malicious code, false information, or content you do not have the right to share;
• Reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive the source code of the desktop or mobile applications, except to the extent applicable law expressly permits;
• Resell or sublicense access to the Service to another vessel or operator without our written agreement.

6. Your data

You retain ownership of all data you enter into the Service ("Customer Data"). We claim no rights to your Customer Data other than the limited licence needed to store, process and display it back to you and your crew.

Captains can export the full vessel dataset at any time from Settings › Data & Privacy in the desktop app. Deletion is described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Intellectual property

The Service — including its design, source code, look and feel, and the Ancora name and logo — is owned by Shaun Holman and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service for the operational management of the vessel(s) associated with your account.

8. Third-party services

The Service relies on infrastructure operated by third parties (Supabase, PowerSync, Apple, Google, GitHub — see the Privacy Policy for detail). We are not responsible for the acts or omissions of these third parties, but we choose reputable providers and hold them to Data Processing Agreements where personal data is involved.

9. Availability and support

We aim to keep the Service available and working correctly, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The Service is offline-first: routine sync interruptions should not disrupt onboard work.

Support is provided by email at hello@ancora-yacht.com on a best-efforts basis. There is no formal service-level agreement during the early-access period.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free, or that any data or reminders produced by the Service are accurate or complete. The Service is a productivity tool. It is not a substitute for the captain's judgment or for compliance with maritime law and regulation.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall Shaun Holman be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, including without limitation loss of profit, revenue, data, goodwill, use, or business opportunity, arising out of or in connection with the Service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service, however caused, shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount of fees you have paid to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred euros (€100).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Irish law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Shaun Holman harmless from any claim, liability or expense arising out of your breach of these Terms or your misuse of the Service.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. Individual crew can leave a vessel via the mobile app's "Leave vessel" action. Captains can email hello@ancora-yacht.com to request full closure of a vessel account and export of vessel data.

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service if you materially breach these Terms or if we are required to do so by law. On termination, provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive (including Sections 6, 7, 10, 11 and 14) will survive.

14. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ireland. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts, save that we may bring proceedings for injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be notified by email to active users at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of a revised version constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to hello@ancora-yacht.com.