Terms & Conditions

Saltlog is a personal logbook: a tool for recording your own boating trips — dates, hours, distance, vessel, crew, and conditions — and for tracking your own progress toward a boating qualification you are working on.

Saltlog is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any qualification awarding body. It is an independent record-keeping tool. Whether your logged hours or trips are accepted toward any qualification is entirely a matter for the awarding body and your instructor or examiner — Saltlog makes no representation that logging a trip here satisfies any requirement.

Saltlog is a record-keeping app. It is not a navigation aid, a safety device, or a source of reliable real-time weather, tidal, or charting information, and must never be relied upon as one.

• Weather shown in the app is pulled automatically from a third-party forecasting service at the time you start logging a trip. It reflects a general forecast for a location, not verified real-time conditions, and may be wrong, delayed, or unavailable.
• GPS tracking (in Quick Log and Saltlog Persist) is provided for building your own trip record. Device GPS accuracy varies and can be lost entirely, especially with a weak signal, low battery, or the app backgrounded. It is not a substitute for a proper chartplotter, compass, or paper chart.
• We do not provide tidal data, navigational warnings, collision avoidance, or any output that should inform a real-time decision made while underway.

You are solely responsible for your own passage planning, safety equipment, and decisions at sea. Never use Saltlog, or any data it displays, as a basis for a safety-critical decision on the water.

• You must be at least 16 years old to create an account.
• A paid Premium subscription is a contract, and you must be legally able to enter into one (in England, generally 18 or over) to subscribe.
• You are responsible for keeping your login details (or passkey) secure, and for all activity under your account.
• The information you enter — trips, hours, crew, vessel details — is self-reported by you. We do not verify its accuracy.

Saltlog offers a free tier (unlimited trip logging, one vessel, a headline dashboard, full profile, and free unlimited crew logging) and a paid Premium tier (currently £2/month or £20/year) adding features such as live GPS tracking, additional vessels, bulk import, and expanded dashboard analytics. Current pricing and the full feature comparison are always shown on our Pricing page, which takes precedence over any older figure quoted elsewhere.

Premium subscriptions are billed in advance, monthly or yearly as you choose, and renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account’s billing settings; cancelling stops future renewal but does not refund the period already paid for, since each payment only ever covers service already provided for that period.

If you downgrade or your subscription lapses, your data (extra vessels, crew, and Premium-only features) is not deleted — it is simply not accessible until you resubscribe.

You agree not to:

• use the Service for any unlawful purpose;
• attempt to access another user’s account or data without authorisation;
• use the crew-logging or invitation features to contact people without a legitimate reason to do so;
• attempt to disrupt, reverse-engineer, or interfere with the Service or its underlying infrastructure.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms.

You retain ownership of the trip data, photos, and other content you add to Saltlog. You grant us the licence needed to store, process, and display it back to you in order to provide the Service (for example, generating your Dashboard and Log Book from your own trips).

The Service is provided “as is”. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties, and we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or for any loss or damage arising from your use of the Service at sea, including reliance on weather data, GPS tracking, or any other information the Service displays. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, such as liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.

Our total liability to you for any claim arising from your use of the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

We may update these terms from time to time; the “last updated” date above will change when we do. Continued use of the Service after an update means you accept the revised terms. We may also add, change, or discontinue features of the Service at our discretion.

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any dispute is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Questions about these terms: hello@boatbouy.co.uk