Last updated: 2026-10-19
These terms apply when you create a DockSkill account or use the site. By creating an account or continuing to sign in, you agree to them and to the Privacy policy.
These terms are a contract between you and the operator of DockSkill. The operator's name, address and contact details are published on the operator notice; that page, not this one, identifies who you are dealing with. "DockSkill", "the site" and "the service" mean this website and everything you reach through it: the courses, the animations, the quizzes, the interview preparation material and your account.
The terms cover anyone who visits the site, and they bind you from the moment you create an account or sign in. The Privacy policy forms part of these terms and explains what the site stores about you and why.
You must be able to enter into these terms under the law that applies to you. If you are a minor, a parent or guardian must agree on your behalf and is responsible for your use of the site.
The operator may update these terms as DockSkill grows. The current version is always on this page, with the date of the last change at the top. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the changed terms; if you do not, stop using the site and ask for your account to be deleted as described in section 2.
Every learner has an account so that progress is saved. An account is for one person: do not share it or transfer it, and do not create an account for someone else. Give accurate details when you register and keep them accurate afterwards; the email address on your account is where service messages go.
You can sign in with email and password or with a connected provider (Google, GitHub, Apple or LinkedIn). That provider's own terms cover your account with them. Keep your password private and your provider account secure; you are responsible for what is done with your account until you tell the operator that it has been misused. If you think someone else has used your account, change your password and write to the contact address on the operator notice straight away.
You can stop using the site at any time. You can edit or clear your profile fields on your account page, and you can ask for your account to be deleted as described in the Privacy policy: there is no self-service delete button yet, so the request goes by email from the address on your account. Deleting the account removes your progress with it.
The operator may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that is used to harm the site or other learners, or that has to be closed to comply with the law. Where reasonable, the operator will tell you why. The operator may also close the whole service with reasonable notice.
DockSkill is an online learning service: courses that teach by showing code as it runs, with lessons, animations, quick checks and interview preparation material. It is delivered online and needs nothing shipped; it is available as soon as you create an account and sign in.
The Beginner tier is free and includes every beginner course. The paid tiers (Intermediate, Advanced, Unlimited) are announced on the site but are not yet on sale: nothing on DockSkill currently requires payment, and no checkout is open. Features described for a paid tier are plans, not promises, until that tier is on sale.
When paid tiers open, the price, the billing period, whether and how a plan renews, how to cancel, the refund terms, how price changes are announced and how tax is handled will all be shown before you pay, and these terms and the operator notice will be updated first. Payment, when it exists, will be taken by a payment provider named on the checkout page; the operator will not store your card details itself. Until then there is no subscription, no renewal and nothing to refund.
Signed-in learners may read a preview of a paid course; the rest of its lessons require the tier the course belongs to. The operator may give an account access to courses outside its tier, for example for testing or review, without that creating a right to keep it.
Your progress is saved per account: your answers to the quick checks, the days you were active and the review state of interview questions you study. Lessons, animations and quizzes may be revised, replaced or retired as the courses develop; your progress is kept where a lesson continues to exist, and the operator will try to carry it over when a lesson is reorganised, but cannot promise that every record survives every change.
Where certificates are offered, a certificate records that an account completed a particular DockSkill course or specialization at a particular time. It is issued by the operator, not by a university, a vendor or an examining body; it is not an accredited qualification, a professional certification or a licence, and the operator makes no claim about how any employer or institution will treat it. Do not present a certificate as something it is not.
DockSkill is a learning resource provided as is. The operator does not promise that any course will make you proficient, employable or ready for a particular examination, and may change which courses, specializations and tiers exist.
The interview questions, flashcards and any automated feedback on your answers are study aids. They are written to help you practise; they may be incomplete, out of date or simply wrong, and the questions real interviewers ask will differ. Any automated feedback, where offered, is produced by software, not by a person reviewing your answer, and it does not judge your abilities.
Nothing in the interview material is career, legal, immigration or hiring advice, and no hiring outcome is promised or implied. Decisions about your career are yours, and you should check anything that matters against a current source before relying on it.
The operator gives you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the site for your own learning, under these terms. Everything not expressly granted stays with the operator.
Do not, and do not help anyone else to:
The operator may limit or suspend access that breaks these rules, and may change, add, withdraw or retire any feature, course or part of the site at any time. Where a change affects something you have paid for, the paid-tier terms published when that tier opens will say what happens.
The only content you add to DockSkill is what you put on your account page: a display name, headline, country, language, bio, a chosen avatar, a specialization and a lesson goal, plus the answers you give in quick checks and interview practice. All of it remains yours.
You grant the operator a licence to store, process and show that content, only as needed to run the service and to show it in your own account. The licence ends when the content or the account is deleted, except where a copy must be kept for backup or legal reasons for a limited time.
You confirm that you have the right to add whatever you add, that it is accurate where it describes you, and that it does not break the law or infringe anyone's rights. The operator may remove or hide content that breaks these terms and may close the account that posted it.
Course text, animations, quizzes and interview material are original DockSkill material, owned by the operator, as are the site itself, its design, its code, the DockSkill name and logo. You may use the material for your own learning while you have an account; do not copy, resell, republish or redistribute it, remove notices from it, or use the DockSkill name or logo without written permission. Open-source components used in the site keep their own licences, which apply to those components alone.
Terraform, Python, Go and other product names are trademarks of their owners. DockSkill is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them; the courses teach these tools, they do not represent them.
If you send the operator feedback, suggestions or bug reports, the operator may use them to improve the site without any obligation to you and without payment, and you do not acquire any right in what is built from them. The operator may also use aggregated, de-identified data about how the site is used (for example, how many learners finish a lesson) to improve it; such data does not identify you.
While using the site you may come across information that is not public: other learners' details, security details of the site, or courses, tiers or features shown to you before release. Keep that information confidential, use it only as the site intends, and do not pass it on.
If you find a security problem, please report it responsibly to the contact address on the operator notice rather than publishing it or exploiting it, and give the operator a reasonable time to fix it.
The operator does not use your name, display name, avatar, profile or words in marketing or testimonials without your permission. You may say, truthfully, that you learn on DockSkill, but you may not suggest that the operator endorses you or your work.
The Privacy policy explains what the site stores, why, and how to have it deleted. Your password is stored only as a hash; sessions are stored as hashed tokens with an expiry; the site does not keep the access tokens of connected sign-in providers. The operator takes reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, but no online service can promise that it will never be lost, intercepted or accessed without authorisation, and the operator does not give that guarantee.
Your cookie choice is made through "Your Privacy Choices" at the bottom of every page. Analytics (Performance cookies) and any advertising cookies run only with your consent. Email updates are marketing messages sent only to addresses that opted in, with an unsubscribe link in every one. The other optional third-party feature is the page translation described in section 12.
Where the site lets you see your own data, such as your profile and progress, keep your own record of anything you would not want to lose, and where the site offers an export, use it.
DockSkill relies on services run by others, and their terms and privacy policies apply to the parts they provide. The operator is not responsible for those services, for their availability or for what they do with data under their own policies:
Links from the site to other websites are given for convenience; the operator does not control them and does not endorse what they contain.
If you have a dispute with a sign-in provider, with Google over translation, or with any other third-party service you use in connection with DockSkill, that dispute is between you and them. To the extent the law allows, you release the operator from claims, demands and damages arising from such disputes. This release does not cover anything the operator itself did or failed to do.
If a third party makes a claim against the operator because of your breach of these terms, the content you added to the site, or your unlawful use of the service, you will cover the operator's reasonable costs and losses arising from that claim, including reasonable legal fees. This indemnity does not apply where you use the site as a consumer and the law that protects you forbids such a clause; in that case, you remain responsible for your own breaches to the extent the law allows.
DockSkill is learning material. Courses, interview material and any automated feedback are study aids, may contain mistakes, and are not professional career, legal, financial, hiring or technical advice. Completing a course or holding a certificate, where offered, is not a certification of competence and is not represented as one. The operator does not promise any outcome from using the site, whether a job, an interview, a passed examination or a working deployment.
The site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law permits, the operator disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. The operator does not promise that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that lessons will be accurate or current, or that defects will be fixed. Where the law gives you a warranty that cannot be excluded, it applies and these disclaimers do not reduce it.
To the extent the law permits, the operator is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunities or the cost of substitute services, arising from your use of or inability to use the site, however caused. To the same extent, the operator's total liability to you for all claims arising from the site in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount you paid the operator for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose; while the service is free, that amount is nil.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for intent or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under the law that applies to you. Nothing in these terms limits rights that consumer law gives you and that cannot be excluded.
These terms are entered into with the operator of DockSkill, whose name, address and contact details are published on the operator notice. The law and courts of the operator's place of business, as stated there, govern these terms and any dispute about them unless the law that protects you as a consumer says otherwise; where it does, you keep the right to rely on the law of, and to bring proceedings in, your own country of residence.
Before starting any court proceedings, please write to the contact address on the operator notice describing the problem, and give the operator thirty days to respond and try to resolve it informally. Most problems can be sorted out that way. This step does not stop you from exercising any right that must be exercised sooner, and it does not apply to disputes the law lets you take straight to a consumer body or small-claims court.
You confirm that you are not located in, or ordinarily resident in, a territory subject to a comprehensive embargo, that you are not on any government list of sanctioned or restricted persons, and that you will not use the site or its material in breach of export-control or sanctions law. The operator may refuse or close an account where providing the service would break such law.
Entire agreement. These terms, the Privacy policy and the operator notice are the whole agreement between you and the operator about the site, and replace any earlier version of them.
Assignment. You may not transfer your account or your rights under these terms to anyone else. The operator may transfer them to a successor on a transfer of the DockSkill business, and will tell you on this page or by email when that happens.
Severability. If any part of these terms is found invalid or unenforceable, that part is applied to the extent allowed and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. If the operator does not enforce a term on one occasion, it may still enforce it later.
Notices and language. The operator sends notices to the email address on your account or publishes them on the site. You send notices to the contact address on the operator notice. These terms are written in English; any translation, including one produced by the Google Translate feature, is for convenience only, and the English text prevails.
Survival. Sections that by their nature should continue after your account closes, including those on intellectual property, confidentiality, release, indemnity, disclaimers, limitation of liability and governing law, survive the end of these terms.
Contact. Questions about these terms go to the contact address on the operator notice. Where the operator has not yet published that address, it will appear there as soon as it is set.
The current version of these terms is always on this page. Return home.