GivePeace Terms of Service

Version 3.0 — Effective July 30, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Give Peace Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Give Peace," "we," "us," or "our"). They govern your use of the GivePeace iOS application, the givepeace.co website, and everything we provide through them (together, the "Service").

Please read these Terms. We have written them in plain language because you should actually understand what you are agreeing to — especially here. GivePeace holds some of the most personal words you will ever record, and it delivers them after you pass away. That is the heart of this agreement, so these Terms talk about death plainly throughout. Plainness here is kindness: it is how we make sure nothing important is hidden in vague wording.

If you have questions about anything in these Terms, write to us at support@givepeace.co.

1. Accepting These Terms

1.1 Acceptance. By creating a GivePeace account, or by using the Service, you accept these Terms, our Privacy Policy, and the additional policies listed in Section 25. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

1.2 Version on record. When you create an account, you will be asked to accept the version of these Terms and the Privacy Policy in effect at that time. Our servers record which version you accepted. This document is Terms of Service version 3.0, effective July 30, 2026. It replaces version 2.0 (June 20, 2026).

1.3 Authority. You confirm that you are legally able to enter into this agreement and that you meet the eligibility requirements in Section 3.

1.4 Words we use. In these Terms, a "member" is a person with a GivePeace account — that is you. A "trustee" is a person a member appoints for death notification and confirmation only (Section 6). A "recipient" is the person a member chooses to receive a specific message (Section 7). An "armed message" is a recorded message set to be released after the member passes away. A "release" is our delivery process after death verification completes, including the 48-hour final call. "Tokens" are the prepaid credits described in Section 12. To "claim" means only one thing on GivePeace: a recipient retrieving a message left for them.

2. What GivePeace Is

2.1 The Service. GivePeace lets you record private video messages for the people you love, sealed until after you pass away. When we determine — carefully, and through the process described in Section 5 — that you have passed away, we deliver your messages to the recipients you chose. We call this death-activated delivery.

2.2 Memorial features. GivePeace also offers public memorial features: tombstone videos, a memorial feed, prayers, and wildflowers (a real, physical seed-planting service in memory of someone). Private messages and public memorial features are separate; what you seal privately stays private.

2.3 The one thing you must understand before relying on us. Determining that someone has passed away is inherently uncertain. We have built our process to make a false alarm — releasing a living person's messages — as close to impossible as we can, because we treat that as the worst outcome the Service could produce. The cost of that protection is time: delivery is deliberately slow, with long waiting periods, repeated check-ins, and a final notice before anything is ever released. Delays are not a malfunction; they are the design. We do not and cannot guarantee that your messages will be delivered at any particular time, or, in some circumstances described in these Terms, at all. Section 5 explains exactly how the process works, and Sections 18 and 19 explain the legal consequences of this uncertainty.

2.4 Not an emergency or advisory service. GivePeace is not an emergency service, a medical or mental-health service, or a source of legal or financial advice.

2.5 Offered in the United States. The Service is offered for use in the United States. We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use anywhere else.

3. Who Can Use GivePeace

We apply these rules by age band, and our servers enforce them.

3.1 Under 13: no accounts. You must be at least 13 years old to create a GivePeace account. The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly allow them to use it. If we learn an account belongs to a child under 13, we will close the account and delete its data.

3.2 13 to 17: receiving yes, arming no. If you are 13 to 17 years old, you may use GivePeace, and you may always receive, view, and claim messages that someone left for you — grief does not check ID, and we will never lock a young person out of a message a loved one recorded for them. However, until you turn 18 you may not: (a) record or arm death-released messages; (b) name trustees; or (c) serve as a trustee for anyone else. These limits protect minors from making binding end-of-life arrangements before adulthood; they never block what a minor can receive.

3.3 18 and over: everything. At 18 you may use every part of the Service, including recording and arming messages, naming trustees, arming the inactivity switch, and serving as a trustee for someone else.

3.4 Your date of birth. We ask for your date of birth on every sign-up path — including sign-up with Apple or Google — and we use it to apply these age rules. You must provide accurate information when you sign up, including your real date of birth. Misstating your age to bypass these limits is a violation of these Terms. If your date of birth is recorded incorrectly, write to support@givepeace.co; corrections are identity-checked and logged.

4. Your Account

4.1 Credentials. You sign in with an email address and password through Firebase Authentication, or, where offered, with Google or Apple sign-in. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in method secure and for all activity on your account.

4.2 Keep your contact details current. This matters more on GivePeace than on most apps. We use your email address — and your phone number, if you choose to add one — to ask you to confirm you are alive before anything is ever released. If your contact details are stale, you may miss those check-ins. Keep them current.

4.3 One person, one account. Accounts are personal to you. You may not transfer your account or let someone else operate it as you.

4.4 If you lose access. Contact support@givepeace.co. We will verify your identity before restoring access; given what your account protects, we would rather be slow and certain than fast and wrong.

4.5 How we contact you. We reach you by push notification and email, and by text message if you have added and verified a phone number. A phone number is optional, and text-message life checks are optional: you never have to give us a phone number, and every check-in and safety notice works fully over email and push notifications. A verified phone number simply adds one more channel through which "I'm alive" can reach us. Our text messages are transactional only — codes, life-check confirmations, safety alerts about your account, and message-delivery notices. We do not send marketing texts, and messages sent when someone passes away never contain anything promotional. Text messaging is governed by our SMS & Communications Terms.

5. How We Determine Death, and How Messages Are Released

This section describes the process honestly and completely, because you are trusting us with it. It is a faithful summary; the complete description is our Death Verification & Posthumous Release Policy, which is part of these Terms.

5.1 Nothing releases instantly. There is no path through GivePeace by which your messages release the moment someone says you have passed away. Every path runs through a waiting period, repeated chances for you to stop it, and a final notice.

5.2 Trustee reports start a countdown. If a trustee (Section 6) reports that you have passed away, a 60-day countdown begins. If a second trustee independently confirms, the countdown shortens to 30 days. If three or more trustees confirm, it shortens to 14 days. If you have only one active trustee, that person's reports and confirmations alone can never shorten the countdown below 30 days — no matter how many times they report or confirm. Among trustee reports, faster timelines exist only where multiple people independently agree; the one other thing that can shorten a countdown is a reviewed death certificate with independent corroboration, described in Section 5.6.

5.3 The optional inactivity switch. You may choose to arm an inactivity switch (sometimes called a dead-man's switch). If you do, and we then see no activity from you for approximately six months, we begin asking you directly to confirm you are alive — by push notification and email, and by text message if you added a phone number (Section 4.5). If you do not respond, a 60-day countdown begins. As an absolute backstop, this path cannot result in release earlier than day 240 from when the inactivity process started. The switch is optional: it does nothing unless you arm it, and you can pause or disarm it at any time.

5.4 The 48-hour final call. When any countdown ends — trustee path or inactivity path, no exceptions — we still do not release your messages. We first send a final notice through every contact channel you have given us: your messages will be released in 48 hours unless you respond. Only if that window passes without a word from you do we deliver.

5.5 "I'm alive" always wins. At every stage — first report, mid-countdown, final call — one tap on "I'm alive" cancels the entire process and resets it. We check your alive status again at the moment of release itself, so a confirmation from you cannot lose a race against a scheduled delivery. And every pause, hold, or stop in this system works in one direction only: pauses and safety stops can defer a release, and nothing about pausing, resuming, or system recovery can ever make a release happen sooner.

5.6 Death certificates never act alone. Only your trustees may upload a death certificate — never a recipient. Every certificate is reviewed by a person on our team, and we notify you the moment a certificate about you is uploaded, before we have even reviewed it. Here is the rule that matters: a death certificate alone never accelerates release. Documents can be forged too easily for paper to be the only voice we listen to. A reviewed and approved certificate can shorten a countdown only when something independent of the document corroborates it — either your proof-of-life countdown is already running because you have not answered our check-ins, or at least two different trustees have independently reported that you passed away. An approved certificate without that corroboration is recorded, and it waits. And no certificate — corroborated or not — ever skips the 48-hour final call.

5.7 Our guiding rule. We treat releasing a living person's messages as the worst thing this Service could do — worse than any delay. Where we must choose between delivering quickly and being sure, we choose being sure. By using GivePeace you acknowledge and accept this asymmetry.

5.8 No guarantee of delivery or timing. We work hard to deliver every message, and we cannot promise delivery or delivery timing. Delivery can fail or be delayed for reasons that include: no trustees were named and the inactivity switch was never armed (the process may never start); a trustee is unreachable or declines to act; a recipient has opted out of text messages; an email address or phone number has been deactivated, reassigned, or has stopped working; a private-relay email address stops forwarding; phone carriers or platforms fail to deliver a message (carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages); a message is not claimed; or the service winds down under the commitments described in our Terms of Service. Delays are part of the design: we wait and re-check before releasing anything, because releasing a living person's messages by mistake is the one failure we refuse to risk. You are responsible for setting up the triggers that fit your life and for telling your trustees what you expect of them. If we fail to deliver a message you sealed, Section 19.2 provides your remedy: a refund or credit of the tokens you spent on it.

5.9 False reports. Knowingly reporting the death of a living person is a serious violation of these Terms (Section 10) and may lead to immediate termination of the reporter's account, in addition to any legal consequences.

6. Trustees

6.1 What a trustee is. A trustee's only role is to tell us a person has passed away, and to confirm or contest what others have reported. A trustee is not a fiduciary, does not hold or inherit anything, and can never see who a person's recipients are, which messages exist, or what any message says. Trustees are not executors, do not manage your account, and have no power over your messages.

6.2 What trustees can see. Trustees see only the state of things they need for their role — for example, that a countdown is running, or that you paused your switch. Your messages are intimate; your trustee's job does not require reading them, so they cannot.

6.3 Trustee authority requires acceptance. Naming someone as a trustee gives them no authority by itself. Apart from a match you personally confirm under Section 6.4, a person becomes your trustee only after receiving the invitation we send (by email or text message), opening their unique invitation link, signing in, and explicitly accepting. Invitations expire after 30 days if not accepted. A person who merely shares the email address or phone number you entered is not, and never automatically becomes, your trustee. When you give us a person's name, email address, or phone number, you confirm that you actually know them, that your relationship gives you a genuine basis to involve them, and that you are authorized to give us their details so we can contact them for this purpose.

6.4 Automatic matches stay inert until you confirm. Sometimes we notice that a person you named appears to already be on GivePeace — for example, a matching name and phone number — and we link the records so acceptance is smoother. An automatic link like this grants nothing. An auto-linked trustee is inert: they are not your trustee, cannot report or confirm anything, and gain no role of any kind unless and until you personally confirm the link — we ask you directly, by push notification, whether this is the right person. Your confirmation is what gives an auto-linked trustee their role; if you say no, the link is removed. A confirmed trustee may decline or resign at any time.

6.5 Declining and resigning. An invitee may decline, and may change their mind and accept with the same invitation until it expires. A trustee may resign at any time. We notify you when an invitation is accepted or declined.

6.6 Removing trustees. You may remove a trustee at any time while you are alive. Keep your trustee list current — these are the people who can start the process in Section 5.

6.7 Serving as a trustee. You must be 18 or older to serve as a trustee. Serving has its own agreement — the Trustee & Recipient Terms, presented when an invitee accepts — under which a trustee agrees to act honestly: report a death only when they genuinely believe the person has passed away, and answer truthfully when asked to confirm or contest a report.

7. Recipients and Receiving Messages

7.1 Recipients. A recipient is a person you choose to receive a specific message after you pass away. Recipients are not notified of your arrangements before release; the first they learn of a message is when it is delivered to them. When you give us a recipient's name, email address, or phone number, you confirm — just as with trustees — that you know them, that your relationship gives you a genuine basis to reach them this way, and that you are authorized to give us their details for this purpose.

7.2 Claiming a message. To protect your words, recipients may be asked to verify who they are before a message unseals — for example, through a claim code sent to the contact details you gave us, or other identity checks. We may decline or delay a claim that we cannot verify.

7.3 Minors as recipients. A person under 18 — including a child under 13 — may receive and view a message left for them. Receiving a loved one's words is never age-gated.

7.4 Recipients' own agreement. Messages delivered to you were recorded for you. When you claim a message, you will be shown the Trustee & Recipient Terms and asked to accept them; they govern your use of the Service as a recipient. If you go on to create a full account, these Terms apply to your account like anyone else's. Your rights and obligations come from the terms you accept — not from the terms someone else accepted.

8. Your Messages Are Not a Legal Will

8.1 In the app we sometimes call your collection of sealed messages your "will." That word is used in its everyday, heartfelt sense — the things you want said and done — not its legal sense. GivePeace messages are not a legal will, trust, or testamentary instrument. They do not dispose of property, appoint guardians, or override any legal document, and a message that attempts to do those things has no legal effect through us. GivePeace is not a law firm and provides no legal advice. If you want a legal will, please see an attorney or a service built for that. We would genuinely rather you have both.

9. Your Messages: Ownership and License

9.1 You own your words. You keep full ownership of everything you create on GivePeace — your videos, recordings, text, prayers, tombstone videos, and anything else you make or share (together, "Your Messages"). Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership to us.

9.2 The license you give us. So that we can actually do what you are asking of us, you grant Give Peace Inc. a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, encrypt, decrypt, transmit, reproduce, process, display, and deliver Your Messages — solely to operate, secure, and improve the Service and to deliver Your Messages as you directed. This license includes the right to use trusted service providers (such as our cloud-storage and encryption providers) to do these things on our behalf.

9.3 The license survives you. Because the entire point of GivePeace is delivery after your death, you agree that this license continues after you pass away, to the extent needed to complete the deliveries you set up, maintain memorial features you chose, and honor the choices you made in life. It is not a license for us to exploit your words; it is the legal permission we need to keep our promise to you.

9.4 How your messages are protected. Your videos and messages are encrypted in transit and at rest. Each account has its own encryption key, protected by a hardware-backed key management service, and every video is sealed with authenticated AES-256 encryption derived from that key, with an additional layer of server-side encryption on our storage. Give Peace holds and controls these keys — that is what makes it possible for us to deliver your messages after you pass away. It also means Give Peace is technically able to access encrypted messages, and can be required to produce them in response to valid legal process. GivePeace is not end-to-end encrypted. Sealed private messages are not reviewed by moderation and are accessed only where the law requires; our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy explains how we handle demands for them.

9.5 Public memorial features. Anything you choose to make public — a tombstone video, a prayer on a memorial, a post to the feed — will be visible to others as that feature describes. Private messages stay private; only what you explicitly make public becomes public.

9.6 Feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you. (We read everything; this app is shaped by the people who use it.)

10. Acceptable Use

10.1 The spirit of the rule. GivePeace exists for love, memory, and grief. Treat it — and the people on it — accordingly. On our public surfaces we have zero tolerance for objectionable material and abusive behavior; our Community Guidelines, which are part of these Terms, spell out the standard in plain words.

10.2 You may not use the Service to create, share, or send:

(a) harassment, threats, hate, or abuse directed at any person, living or deceased; (b) anything that impersonates anyone — including, and especially, impersonating a deceased person or fabricating messages "from" them; (c) false death reports, or manipulation of the death-determination process in any way; (d) anything that exploits or endangers minors in any form; (e) sexually explicit material on public memorial surfaces; (f) material that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or privacy rights; (g) spam, scams, commercial solicitation, or deceptive practices — including exploiting grieving people; (h) instructions or encouragement for self-harm, or anything weaponizing the Service to distress someone (for example, fake "goodbye" messages sent to torment a living person's family); (i) malware, or anything designed to disrupt the Service; (j) anything that violates any applicable law.

10.3 You also may not:

(a) probe, scan, or breach the Service's security, or access another person's account, messages, or data; (b) attempt to discover whether someone has passed away through the Service before their family has shared that news; (c) scrape, harvest, or index the Service or its users; (d) reverse-engineer the app except where the law gives you that right; (e) resell or commercially exploit the Service; (f) misstate your age or identity to bypass eligibility rules.

10.4 Consequences. We may filter, quarantine, remove, or restrict material, restrict features, and suspend or terminate accounts for violations (see Section 24). For anything touching the death-determination process or the safety of a person, we act first and discuss second.

11. Reporting, Blocking, and Moderation

11.1 Reporting and blocking. Every piece of public material on GivePeace can be reported in the app, and you can block an abusive member so their words and posts no longer reach you. Reports about memorial pages are treated with particular care, because the people they reach are often grieving. If you need a person rather than a button, write to support@givepeace.co.

11.2 Quarantine. Reported material may be quarantined — hidden from public view — while we review it. We aim to review quickly; memorial pages of the recently deceased get priority.

11.3 Our decisions. We decide in good faith whether something violates Section 10 or the Community Guidelines, and we may remove it, restore it, or restrict the account that posted it. We are not obligated to pre-screen what members post, but we may.

11.4 Appeals. If we removed something of yours and you believe we got it wrong, write to support@givepeace.co and we will take a second look with fresh eyes.

11.5 Sealed messages are different. Moderation applies to public surfaces. Sealed private messages are not reviewed by moderation and are accessed only where the law requires (Section 9.4).

12. Purchases, Tokens, Wildflowers, and Refunds

12.1 What we sell. GivePeace sells: (a) tokens — consumable credits, sold individually and in bundles, that you spend to seal a private video message or publish a tombstone video, and which pay for the real-world service behind them (verifying death, notifying, storing securely for years, and delivering to your people); and (b) wildflowers — a physical service in which real wildflower seeds are planted in memory of someone.

12.2 How purchases work. Purchases are processed through our payment processor, Stripe; we never see or store your full card number. Every purchase is made directly with Give Peace Inc. Apple and other app platforms are not parties to these purchases, do not process them, and cannot refund them — for any purchase question or refund, contact support@givepeace.co, not the app store. We may change how, where, and at what prices purchases are offered.

12.3 Tokens. A token is spent when you use it (for example, when you seal a message or publish a tombstone video). Spent tokens are not returned if you later delete the message. Unspent tokens stay on your account and do not expire. Tokens have no cash value, are not transferable — to another person, to another account, or by inheritance — and are not redeemable for money except where the law requires. If you delete your account, your tokens are deleted with it (Section 13); if the law of your state treats an unspent balance as unclaimed property, we follow that law.

12.4 Refunds. Our refund policy is simple and human:

(a) Unused tokens: full refund on request within 14 days of purchase — email support@givepeace.co. (b) Spent tokens: not refundable once spent, because the service they pay for has begun. But if the failure is ours — we failed to deliver a message you sealed — Section 19.2 provides a refund or credit of the tokens you spent on it. (c) Wildflowers: a wildflower is placed on the memorial — its digital tribute is live — at the moment of purchase, so wildflowers are not refundable once placed. If a placement fails or you are charged in error, write to us and we will make it right. (The real wildflower seeds behind each purchase are planted in the next seasonal batch.) (d) Mistakes: duplicate charges, billing errors, and purchases by a child without permission — write to us and we will make it right. (e) Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable refund rights you have under the law of your place of residence.

12.5 Prices and taxes. Prices are shown before you pay and may change for future purchases. Prices may not include applicable taxes, which are calculated at checkout.

12.6 One-time purchases only. Everything we sell is a one-time purchase. We offer no subscriptions, no automatic renewals, no free trials, and no automatic reloading of tokens. Nothing charges you again unless you choose to buy again.

12.7 No advertising, no data sales. We make money from the things we sell — never from selling your data or your attention. (Our Privacy Policy says this bindingly.)

13. Deactivation and Deletion

13.1 Deactivation — you choose what stays armed. If you deactivate your account, we will ask you a direct question, because only you know the answer: do you want to keep your switch armed (check-ins continue, and if you pass away your messages still go out) or pause it (the inactivity clock freezes, any countdown is cancelled, your trustees are told your plan is paused, and nothing can be released while paused)? We will never guess on this.

13.2 Deletion — 30-day grace period. You can delete your account in the app; we confirm it is really you with a verification code, and the flow completes in the app. Deletion starts a 30-day grace period during which your account is deactivated but recoverable — sign back in within 30 days and choose to restore it, and everything is back. After 30 days, deletion becomes permanent: your profile, relationships, tokens, and unreleased messages are permanently removed.

13.3 What survives deletion. A few narrow things outlast a deletion, and only for as long as they must: (a) if, during deletion, you confirm that you want the armed messages you already set up to still be delivered after you pass away, we keep a minimal delivery archive — the encryption key and the references to those messages, nothing else — solely so that delivery can still happen; (b) messages already delivered to recipients, which became theirs to keep when we delivered them; (c) records we are legally required to keep, such as payment and tax records; and (d) audit logs of security and death-verification events. The Privacy Policy owns the full retention story — what survives, why, and for how long — and it controls if anything here reads differently.

13.4 Deleting individual messages. You can delete any unreleased message at any time while you are alive. Deleted means deleted: the encrypted video and its keys are removed, and no one — including us — can get it back.

13.5 If you pass away during the grace period. Deletion and death can cross paths. If you pass away during the 30-day grace period, the deletion still completes — except for the messages you had armed and confirmed for delivery, which still deliver through the delivery archive described in Section 13.3(a). Your instruction to deliver them was already standing when the deletion began, and we honor it.

13.6 Accounts of people who have passed away. Once a death is confirmed, we preserve the account rather than delete it — keeping the promises made on it is the product. Our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy explains what family members, executors, and courts can and cannot ask of us.

14. If Give Peace Inc. Ever Has to Shut Down

We hope never to need this section. But you are trusting us across decades, and trust on that timescale deserves a real commitment, not silence. So: if Give Peace Inc. decides to cease operating the Service, or is compelled to wind down, we bind ourselves to the following.

14.1 90 days' notice. We will give you at least 90 days' advance notice by email to the address on your account before the Service shuts down (the "Wind-Down Period"). We will also post notice prominently in the app and at givepeace.co.

14.2 Your three choices during the Wind-Down Period. During the Wind-Down Period, you may:

(a) Export. Download your own unreleased videos and messages through an export tool we will provide at no charge; (b) Continue through a successor, if one exists. If a successor custodian has been named under Section 14.4, elect to have your sealed messages, their encrypted contents, and the delivery schedule you set transfer to that successor so that release-on-schedule continues; or (c) Delete everything. Elect immediate, permanent deletion of all your messages, videos, and keys, effective without waiting for the wind-down to end.

14.3 Deliveries in flight complete first. If a member has passed away and their messages are in an active release pipeline when wind-down begins, we will complete those deliveries before shutdown. A wind-down will not be used to abandon a delivery already owed to the people a deceased member chose.

14.4 Successor custodian. We may name a successor custodian — an entity that agrees in writing to assume our delivery obligations on terms no less protective than these Terms and our Privacy Policy. Transfer to a successor happens only for members who elect it under Section 14.2(b); it is opt-in, never automatic.

14.5 The default is destruction. If no successor custodian exists, or for every member who makes no election, all encrypted messages and videos and all encryption keys are permanently destroyed at the end of the Wind-Down Period. Destruction — not transfer, not sale, not retention — is the default fate of your data at wind-down. Your most private words will never become an asset in someone else's hands by our inaction.

14.6 Erasure rights honored throughout. Throughout any wind-down we will continue to honor deletion and erasure rights, including Article 17 of the GDPR for those it covers, without delay or precondition.

14.7 Survival and successors. This Section 14 binds Give Peace Inc. and any successor, assignee, or acquirer of the Service, and survives any termination of these Terms. Any sale or transfer of the company or the Service is conditioned on the acquirer assuming these wind-down commitments.

15. Our Intellectual Property

15.1 The Service itself — the website, software, design, text, graphics, logos, and the GivePeace name — belongs to Give Peace Inc. or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. Your license to the iOS app itself is separate: it comes from Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Section 17.2), and nothing in these Terms expands or modifies it. We reserve all rights not expressly granted. Your Messages remain yours (Section 9); this section is about our work, not yours.

16. Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

16.1 We respect copyright and respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Our full procedures — takedown notices, counter-notices, and our repeat-infringer policy — are in our Copyright & DMCA Policy, which is part of these Terms. In short: if you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to our DMCA Agent at Give Peace Inc., DMCA Agent, support@givepeace.co (subject line "DMCA Notice"). Your notice must include: (a) identification of the copyrighted work; (b) identification and location of the allegedly infringing material; (c) your contact information; (d) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized; (e) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and you are authorized to act; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.

16.2 We may remove or disable access to material identified in a valid notice, notify the member who posted it, and accept counter-notices as the DMCA provides. Acting in good faith on a report or notice — ours or yours — is never a breach of these Terms. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

17. Third-Party Services and App Platforms

17.1 Providers we rely on. The Service is built on trusted providers — including Firebase (authentication and database), Amazon Web Services (encrypted video storage and key management), Stripe (payments), and others listed in our Privacy Policy. Their processing of your data on our behalf is governed by our contracts with them and our Privacy Policy.

17.2 Apple App Store. The app is distributed through Apple's App Store, and your license to the app software itself is governed by Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the "Apple EULA"), not by these Terms. These Terms govern the Service — everything we provide through the app — and nothing in them modifies, replaces, or expands the Apple EULA, including its governing-law terms; Section 22 of these Terms applies to the Service, not to the app license. These Terms are between you and Give Peace Inc., not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app and gives no warranty for it; Give Peace Inc., not Apple, is solely responsible for the app and the Service, including maintenance, support, and addressing any claim relating to them — product liability, legal compliance, IP claims, and everything else. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, may enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo and are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

17.3 Google Play. If you ever obtain the app through Google Play, the same structure applies: these Terms are between you and Give Peace Inc., not Google; Google has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, or any warranty for the app or the Service and is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to them; and Google is a third-party beneficiary of this Section with the right to enforce it.

17.4 Links. The Service may link to third-party sites or services we do not control. We are not responsible for them.

18. Disclaimers

18.1 Plain version first. We will care for your messages with everything we have. But we are a service run by people and computers, depending on signals about life and death that no one on earth can make perfectly certain. The law requires the next paragraphs to be loud; the loudness does not change how seriously we take this.

18.2 As is. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE.

18.3 Death determination is inherently uncertain. WITHOUT LIMITING THE ABOVE: WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT DEATH WILL BE DETECTED, THAT MESSAGES WILL BE RELEASED AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR AT ALL, OR THAT A RELEASE WILL NEVER OCCUR IN ERROR. THE DETERMINATION PROCESS DEPENDS ON TRUSTEE REPORTS, YOUR RESPONSES TO CHECK-INS, DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY OTHERS, AND SIGNALS THAT ARE INHERENTLY UNCERTAIN. DELIBERATE DELAY IS A DESIGNED SAFETY FEATURE OF THE SERVICE, AND YOU ACCEPT IT AS SUCH. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF AN ERRONEOUS, DELAYED, OR MISSED RELEASE, AND YOU AGREE THAT THE OCCURRENCE OF SUCH AN EVENT IS NOT, BY ITSELF, A BREACH OF THESE TERMS BY US.

18.4 Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

19. Limitation of Liability

19.1 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, GIVE PEACE INC. AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, GOODWILL, OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE — INCLUDING DAMAGES ARISING FROM DELAYED DELIVERY, NON-DELIVERY, OR ERRONEOUS DELIVERY OF MESSAGES — EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

19.2 Your remedy if we fail to deliver. If we fail to deliver a message you sealed, your exclusive remedy — to the extent the law permits an exclusive remedy, and subject always to Section 19.4 — is a refund or, at your choice, a credit of the tokens you spent to seal that message. Ask at support@givepeace.co and we will make it right without argument.

19.3 TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL OTHER CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (US $100).

19.4 What this section never limits. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — including, where applicable, liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct or willful injury, violation of law, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

19.5 Each provision of Sections 18 and 19 allocates risk between us and is an essential basis of the bargain — the Service's pricing reflects it. Each provision is severable: if any part of this section is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, the rest of the section still applies, and it applies in full to every other claim.

20. Indemnification

20.1 You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Give Peace Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of: (a) Your Messages; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or any third party's rights — including supplying us a trustee's or recipient's details without the authority to do so; or (d) a knowingly false death report you make. This obligation binds you and, for claims that arise from your own acts, your estate. It does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own breach of these Terms or our violation of law.

21. Dispute Resolution: Arbitration and Class-Action Waiver

Please read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to go to court. You can opt out — Section 21.8 tells you how, and opting out costs you nothing.

This section is an agreement between you and Give Peace Inc. It does not bind your trustees or your recipients; they take on their own dispute terms only if and when they accept the Trustee & Recipient Terms.

21.1 Talk to us first. Before filing any claim, you agree to email support@givepeace.co (subject "Legal Dispute") with your name, account email, and a description of the issue, and to give us 60 days to try to resolve it informally with you. Most things can be fixed by people talking. The statute of limitations is paused during this 60-day period.

21.2 Agreement to arbitrate. If we cannot resolve it informally, you and Give Peace Inc. agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your use of the Service — including disputes about your account, your messages, the death-verification and release process, trustees, delivery or non-delivery, purchases and refunds, and moderation decisions — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, rather than in court, except as Section 21.3 provides. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

21.3 Exceptions. Four things stay out of arbitration:

(a) Small claims. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court. (b) IP and unauthorized access. Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement or misuse of intellectual property, or for unauthorized access to the Service. (c) Public injunctive relief. Nothing in this section limits your right to seek public injunctive relief where the law provides it. Any claim for public injunctive relief will be decided by a court, while the remainder of the dispute proceeds in arbitration. (d) Sexual assault or sexual harassment. If a dispute involves sexual assault or sexual harassment, you may choose to bring it in court instead of arbitration, and no class or joint-action waiver applies to it. That choice is yours alone, as federal law provides.

21.4 How arbitration works. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator. It will be conducted by videoconference or telephone, or, if you prefer, in the county where you live. AAA's rules and filing forms are at adr.org. If your claim is for US $10,000 or less, you may choose whether the arbitration proceeds on documents only, by phone or video, or in person.

21.5 Fees. We will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees beyond US $25, unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous. We will not seek our attorneys' fees from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous.

21.6 Class-action waiver. YOU AND GIVE PEACE INC. EACH WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. Disputes are resolved one at a time, individually. This waiver binds you and — only to the extent they assert claims derived from your own rights — your estate, personal representative, heirs, and successors in interest. It does not reach claims the law gives another person independently of you. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) shall proceed in court rather than arbitration.

21.7 Many similar filings. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us in coordination, the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules and its published fee schedules will apply as written. We adopt AAA's own procedures; we impose none of our own.

21.8 Your right to opt out. You may reject this entire arbitration section, with no effect on any other part of these Terms and no penalty of any kind, by emailing support@givepeace.co (subject "Arbitration Opt-Out") within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, your account email, and that you opt out of arbitration. No form, no reasons required. If you opt out, disputes proceed in court under Section 22.

21.9 Survival. This Section 21 survives termination of these Terms and your account.

22. Governing Law and Venue

22.1 These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules — except that Section 21 is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, and nothing in this section deprives you of mandatory consumer protections of the law of the place where you live. This governing-law clause applies to the Service; your license to the iOS app itself is governed by the Apple EULA, including its own governing-law terms (Section 17.2).

22.2 For any dispute not subject to arbitration (including if you opt out), you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, except that you may also bring an individual claim in small-claims court where you live.

23. Changes to These Terms

23.1 We may update these Terms as the Service and the law evolve. Version and effective date appear at the top.

23.2 Notice you can act on. For material changes, we will give you at least 30 days' advance notice by email and in the app before the new terms take effect. For changes to Section 21 (arbitration), your 30-day opt-out window restarts when the change takes effect.

23.3 If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, the new Terms apply to you. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and, if you wish, delete your account under Section 13. You can request a full export of your data at any time by emailing support@givepeace.co (subject "Privacy Request"), as our Privacy Policy describes.

23.4 We archive prior versions and will provide them on request to support@givepeace.co.

24. Suspension and Termination

24.1 By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your account as described in Section 13.

24.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially violate these Terms (especially Sections 5.9 and 10), if we must do so by law, or if we discover you are ineligible under Section 3. Where the violation is not dangerous to others or to the integrity of the death-determination process, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix it.

24.3 What termination means for sealed messages — read this. If we terminate your account for a material violation, your account is deactivated — it is never left armed: any running countdown is cancelled, and nothing can be released from a terminated account. Your sealed, unreleased messages will not be delivered. Where lawful, we will notify you at your account email and give you 30 days to export your own videos before deletion. We will never keep your messages and deliver them anyway against a terminated account; cancellation of future delivery, plus your chance to export, is the complete consequence.

24.4 Appeals. If you believe a termination was a mistake, write to support@givepeace.co. We retain your account data during the appeal window — as our Privacy Policy describes — so that a successful appeal can restore your account whole.

24.5 Survival. Sections 8, 9.3, 13.3, 14, 15, 16, and 18 through 26 survive termination.

25. Additional Policies

25.1 Policies that are part of these Terms. The following policies are incorporated into these Terms by reference. Each covers its own ground; together with this document they are the rules of the Service:

(a) Privacy Policy — what data we collect, why, how long we keep it, and your rights over it; (b) Community Guidelines — the plain-language standard for everything public: the memorial feed, comments, prayers, and tombstone videos; (c) Copyright & DMCA Policy — takedown notices, counter-notices, and our repeat-infringer policy; (d) SMS & Communications Terms — how text messaging works, consent, opt-out, and carrier disclosures; (e) Trustee & Recipient Terms — the agreement trustees accept at invitation and recipients accept at claim; (f) Death Verification & Posthumous Release Policy — the complete description of how we verify a death and release messages, of which Section 5 is a summary; (g) Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy — how we respond to subpoenas, court orders, executors, and family requests; (h) Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy — additional disclosures for residents of states with consumer health data laws.

If these Terms and one of these policies say different things about that policy's own subject, the policy controls for that subject.

25.2 The Digital Legacy Designation Agreement is separate. Who receives your messages, and who serves as your trustee, is governed by the Digital Legacy Designation Agreement — a separate agreement with its own acceptance, which you enter when you record those designations, and which you can change or revoke at any time while you are alive. It is not part of these Terms, and nothing in these Terms overrides, narrows, or redirects a direction you record there.

25.3 If you never record a direction. If you pass away without recording any direction in the Digital Legacy Designation Agreement, the default is simple and protective: messages you did not arm for anyone are not released to anyone, and no one gains access to your account or your sealed messages except as the Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy describes.

26. Everything Else

26.1 Entire agreement. These Terms — together with the policies incorporated in Section 25.1 — are the entire agreement between you and Give Peace Inc. about the Service, and they supersede prior agreements about it. The Digital Legacy Designation Agreement stands beside them as its own agreement (Section 25.2).

26.2 Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest remain in force.

26.3 No waiver. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.

26.4 Assignment. You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets — but only to a party that assumes our obligations, including the wind-down commitments in Section 14.

26.5 Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Even then, Section 5's protections against wrongful release continue to apply to any release we are able to control.

26.6 Notices. We send notices to your account email and in the app. You send notices to support@givepeace.co. Legal notices to Give Peace Inc. should state "Attn: Legal" in the subject line.

26.7 No third-party beneficiaries except as stated in Section 17 (Apple, and Google where Section 17.3 applies) and Section 14.7 (successor obligations).

26.8 Export compliance. You agree to comply with U.S. export laws applicable to the app.

27. Contact Us

Give Peace Inc. support@givepeace.co givepeace.co

To make sure the right person sees your email quickly, use these subject lines: "DMCA Notice" for copyright, "Legal Dispute" for the Section 21.1 informal-resolution step, "Arbitration Opt-Out" to opt out under Section 21.8, "Privacy Request" for privacy rights and data export, and "Attn: Legal" for formal legal notices.

If something in these Terms worried you, write to us. The answer to "what does this mean for me?" should never be a mystery on an app like this.

Terms of Service v3.0 — Effective July 30, 2026