GivePeace Trustee & Recipient Terms

Version 1.0 — Effective July 30, 2026

These Trustee & Recipient Terms ("these Terms") are an agreement between you and Give Peace Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Give Peace," "we," "us," or "our"). They are written for people who may not have a GivePeace account: the trustees and recipients a GivePeace member chooses. You never need an account to decline, to stop hearing from us, or to ask us to delete what we hold about you. Taking up the trustee role, or claiming a message left for you, does require a free sign-in, so that we can be sure who you are.

If you are reading this, it is probably because someone who loves or trusts you named you. A member is a person with a GivePeace account. GivePeace lets members record private video messages that are delivered to the people they choose only after the member passes away. Members may also name trustees — people they trust to tell us when they have passed away — and recipients — the people they choose to receive a specific message.

We talk about death plainly in this document. Plainness here is kindness: it is how we make sure nothing important is hidden from you in vague wording.

If anything in these Terms is unclear, write to us at support@givepeace.co. A real person reads that inbox.

1. When These Terms Apply to You

1.1 Your own agreement — never the member's. The member accepted our Terms of Service. That acceptance binds the member, not you. Nothing a member tapped, signed, or agreed to can bind you to anything. These Terms apply to you only if and when you accept them yourself.

1.2 When we ask for your acceptance. We present these Terms at two moments, and only then do we ask you to agree: (a) if you were invited to be a trustee — on the screen where you accept the invitation, before you take up the role; and (b) if a message has been released to you — in the claim flow, before you verify your identity. In both places, acceptance is an explicit action of your own, and we record when you accepted and which version of these Terms you accepted.

1.3 If you never accept. If you never accept these Terms, you are not bound by them. Even so, the commitments we make in Sections 2, 3, 4, and 12 — about why we contacted you, the information we hold about you, your rights over it, and the honest limits on what we can promise you — are promises we hold ourselves to whether or not you ever agree to anything.

1.4 Where these Terms live. These Terms are published at givepeace.co on a page you can read without an account or a login, and every trustee invitation and every claim page links to them. Our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and other policies are published the same way.

1.5 If you are a member too. If you have your own GivePeace account and also serve as a trustee or recipient for someone else, these Terms govern that role, alongside the Terms of Service that govern your own account.

2. Why You Are Hearing From Us

2.1 A member directed it. We contact people without accounts for one reason only: a member directed a specific communication to you. That means one of three things — an invitation to serve as their trustee, a request to confirm or contest a report that a member has passed away, or a notice that a message was released to you. We are not building a contact list, and we will never use your details to advertise anything to you.

2.2 Every genuine message says who it is from and who it is about. Every genuine email or text from us identifies GivePeace as the sender and names the member concerned. If you receive a message claiming to be from GivePeace that names no one, links anywhere other than givepeace.co, or asks you for a password or a payment, do not tap it — forward it to support@givepeace.co so we can investigate.

2.3 No marketing, ever. The promise we make about text messages is the same for everyone we text, member or not:

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.

The same is true of the emails we send you: they carry the news they exist to carry, and nothing else. Our SMS & Communications Terms describe our texting practices in full.

3. The Information We Hold About You, and Why

3.1 What we hold. If a member named you as a trustee or recipient, we hold what the member gave us about you: your name, and an email address, a phone number, or both. You did not give us this information — the member did, so that we could carry out what they asked of us.

3.2 What we use it for. Three things, and only three: to send you the invitation or notice the member set up; to run the verification and delivery steps described in these Terms; and to honor requests you make yourself. We do not sell your information, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not use it for marketing. We make money from the things we sell to members — never from selling anyone's data or attention.

3.3 The full picture. Our Privacy Policy describes our data practices in detail — including what we hold about people without accounts, how long we keep it, and every right you can exercise.

4. Your Rights — No Account Required

You never need an account, a login, or a code to exercise anything in this section.

4.1 Stop our texts. Reply STOP to any text from us and we will stop texting you. We also honor plain words — "please stop texting me," "wrong number," "leave me alone" — because you should not need to know a keyword to be left alone. You may also text HELP for assistance.

4.2 Stop our emails. Write to support@givepeace.co and tell us to stop, or use any opt-out link an email carries. Telling us in any reasonable way is enough.

4.3 Ask us to delete what we hold about you. Email support@givepeace.co with the subject "Privacy Request" and ask. We may need to confirm the request really comes from the person the information is about; we will never require you to create an account or enter a code to be heard. You can also decline a trustee invitation, or resign the role, at any time (Section 6) — that too is a right, not a favor.

4.4 The honest consequence. We will honor a stop request or a deletion request even though it may cost you something real: if we delete your contact details, or you have opted out of the channels we have for you, a message a member left for you may become undeliverable. If you have opted out of texts but we hold your email address, we will use email instead. If we are left with no way to reach you, a message meant for you may never reach you. We tell you this plainly so the choice is truly yours.

5. Trustees: What the Role Is — and Is Not

5.1 The role, in our standing words:

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.

5.2 Plain language on the word "trustee." Despite the word, a GivePeace trustee is not a trustee in the legal sense. The role is not a fiduciary position. It does not make you an executor, a personal representative, or a manager of anyone's affairs. It carries no compensation — the role is unpaid — and it gives you no right to inherit or receive anything. Being named a trustee also tells you nothing about whether any message exists for you (Section 12.1).

5.3 What a trustee can see. Only the state of the process the role needs: for example, that a countdown is running, or that the member has paused their plan. Never the member's recipients, messages, or sealed collection.

5.4 What the role never includes. A trustee has no authority to delete or manage the member's account, to direct or redirect messages, to approve their own claim to a message (Section 9.4), to act for the member's estate, or to act in a copyright dispute about the member's messages. Estate representatives should read our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy; copyright matters are governed by our Copyright & DMCA Policy. Trustee status confers standing under neither.

5.5 Voluntary, always. You may decline the invitation, and you may resign at any time after accepting, without giving a reason and without penalty. The member may also remove you at any time. This role only works if it is freely held.

6. Invitations

6.1 Consent is the only path. Being named does nothing by itself. You become a trustee in one of two ways. The first is your own acceptance: you open your unique invitation, sign in — creating a free GivePeace account if you do not have one — confirm your identity, and explicitly accept, including accepting these Terms. The second can happen only if you already use GivePeace: when the name and phone number on your account match the details a member entered for their trustee, we may link the two — but that link is inert and gives you no role and no authority unless and until the member personally confirms you are the person they meant. A match alone — appearing in a member's contacts, sharing an email address or phone number, or a similar name — never makes anyone a trustee. Until you accept, or the member confirms a linked match, you hold no role and owe nothing; and either way, Section 5.5 lets you step away at any time.

6.2 Invitations expire after 30 days. If you do not accept within 30 days, the invitation lapses and nothing happens. Lapsing is not rudeness; it is the default.

6.3 Declining is okay — and reversible. You can decline, and if you change your mind you can still accept using the same invitation until it expires. We tell the member whether you accepted or declined, because they need to know who is actually watching over their plan. Declining is a complete answer.

6.4 We reveal nothing about accounts. When a member enters an email address or phone number, we do not tell them whether it belongs to a GivePeace account, and the invitation you receive looks and behaves the same either way. Whether you use GivePeace is your business.

6.5 Trustees must be adults. You must be at least 18 years old to serve as a trustee.

7. Reporting, Confirming, and Contesting a Death

7.1 The duty is honesty. If you accept the trustee role, you agree to one duty: act honestly. Report a death only when you genuinely believe the member has passed away. If we ask you about a report someone else made, answer truthfully — and if you believe a report is wrong, say so. Contesting a report you doubt is one of the most valuable things a trustee can do.

7.2 Your report alone never releases anything. GivePeace is built so that no single person — including you — can cause a member's messages to be released. A first trustee report starts a 60-day waiting period during which we contact the member directly. If a second trustee independently confirms, the waiting period shortens to 30 days; if three or more confirm, to 14 days. If the member has only one active trustee, the waiting period can never become shorter than 30 days, no matter how many times that one trustee confirms. Faster timelines exist only where multiple people independently agree.

7.3 The member always wins. At every stage, the member can stop everything by confirming they are alive — one response cancels the entire process. And before any release, without exception, we send the member a final 48-hour notice on every contact channel we have for them. We check the member's alive status again at the moment of release itself. "I'm alive" beats everything, always.

7.4 Delays are the design. We treat releasing a living person's messages as the worst thing this service could do — worse than any delay. If the process feels slow to you while you are grieving, that slowness is deliberate, and we ask for your patience with it. The full process is described in our Death Verification & Posthumous Release Policy.

7.5 Nothing becomes public because of you. Reporting or confirming a death publishes nothing. GivePeace does not announce deaths; whether and when anything becomes publicly visible is a separate choice that belongs to the family.

7.6 False reports. Knowingly reporting the death of a living person is a serious violation of these Terms. It ends your trustee role, may end any GivePeace account you hold, and may expose you to real legal consequences — falsely telling people someone has died is treated seriously by the law, not just by us.

8. Death Certificates

8.1 Trustees only. Only a trustee may upload a death certificate. Recipients are never asked for one, and we will not accept one from a recipient in the claim flow.

8.2 Which copy to upload. Upload the informational, "fact of death" certified copy — the version that confirms a person passed away. Do not upload the confidential version that includes the cause of death. We do not need it, most states restrict who may even obtain it, and we do not want to hold it. If a document containing cause-of-death information reaches us anyway, we treat those portions as extra-sensitive and may redact or delete them.

8.3 What a certificate does — and never does. Our team reviews every uploaded certificate by hand. Even a reviewed and approved certificate, by itself, never releases anything and never accelerates a release. A certificate can shorten a waiting period only when the process is already corroborated another way — the member's own inactivity check-in countdown is already running, or at least two different trustees have independently reported. And nothing ever skips the 48-hour final call. We also notify the member the moment a certificate about them is uploaded, before we have reviewed it — a living member should never be the last to know.

8.4 How we store it. Certificates are kept in a restricted storage area that only our review team can open, through time-limited access. They are never shown to other trustees, to recipients, or on any public surface.

9. Recipients: Claiming a Message

9.1 What "claim" means. On GivePeace, a claim is one thing only: the act of retrieving a message a member left for you. Nothing we send will ever ask you to "claim" a prize, an offer, or anything for sale.

9.2 You learn at release. Members' arrangements are private while they live. Recipients are not told in advance that a message exists; the first you learn of one is when the release notice reaches you, after the member has passed away and the full verification process has run.

9.3 Verifying it is you. Before a message unseals, we check that you are the person the member chose. We send a one-time code to the contact details the member gave us for you, and we ask you to confirm your name, which we match against the name the member gave. These checks exist to protect the member's words — they were recorded for you, and only you.

9.4 If the match is not clear. If the name or details you provide do not match well enough, your claim may need the approval of one of the member's active trustees before the message unseals. The trustee sees only what is needed to decide that request — never the message itself. No one may approve their own claim, and every approval decision is recorded.

9.5 The 30-day claim window. The claim link in a release notice works for 30 days. If it expires before you use it, write to support@givepeace.co.

9.6 No price of admission. Viewing a message left for you never requires you to buy anything or hand over more information than the identity checks above need. You will need the free GivePeace app and a free sign-in so we can be sure you are the person the member chose — that is an identity check, never a purchase. A grieving person will never find an upsell or a data grab between them and a loved one's words. Choosing not to claim is also yours to choose.

9.7 Take your time. A released message often arrives alongside hard news. The message waits for you — there is no pressure to view it the moment it arrives, and our claim flow uses no urgency tricks, no countdowns designed to rush you, and no pressure tactics of any kind, at any age. If you are struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available around the clock in the United States — call or text 988.

9.8 Viewing, not posting. Claiming lets you receive and view what was left for you, and asks nothing more of you. Posting to public memorial surfaces — comments, prayers, tombstone videos — requires a GivePeace account and is governed by the Terms of Service and our Community Guidelines.

10. If a Message Was Not Meant for You

10.1 It can happen. Phone numbers get reassigned, email addresses get recycled, and names repeat. If you receive a trustee invitation or a release notice concerning someone you do not know, this message is not for you — and we want to know.

10.2 What to do. Reply "wrong number" to a text (we treat that as a stop request), or forward the message to support@givepeace.co. We will investigate, correct our records, and stop contacting you.

10.3 What not to do. Do not try to claim a message you know was meant for someone else, and do not accept a trustee invitation meant for another person. Words recorded for one person belong with that person.

11. Age

11.1 By age band, plainly:

• 18 and over. Everything in these Terms is open to you, including serving as a trustee.
• 13 to 17. You may receive, view, and claim a message left for you. We do not require a parent's consent to deliver a message a loved one recorded for you — grief does not check ID, and we will never lock a young person out of a message left for them. You may not serve as a trustee until you are 18. We process your information only as strictly needed to deliver what was left for you.
• Under 13. A message left for you still reaches you — receiving and viewing a loved one's words is never age-gated, at any age. We collect from a child only what is needed to show them their message. A member can, and often should, address a message for a young child to a trusted adult in that child's life instead; that choice belongs to the member.

11.2 We do not use a child's tap against them. If you are under 18, we do not treat your acceptance of these Terms as giving up any right the law gives you. The promises we make in these Terms bind us regardless of your age; the obligations that could bind you, we do not enforce against a minor on the strength of their acceptance alone (see Section 14.9).

12. What We Cannot Promise You

12.1 No promise that a message exists. Until a release actually reaches you, we will not confirm or deny that any message exists for you — and no informal request will change that. Only valid legal process can require us to say more; when and how we respond to legal demands is described in our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy. A trustee invitation is not a sign that a message exists for you or that one ever will. This silence protects every member's privacy, including from the people closest to them.

12.2 Delivery is never guaranteed.

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.

12.3 How messages are protected — and the honest limit. This is the encryption disclosure every member sees, reproduced word for word (here, "you" and "your" mean the member who recorded the messages):

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.

We show you the same words because you deserve the same honesty: a message delivered to you was held under keys we control, and we can be required to produce messages in response to valid legal process. When and how we respond to such demands is described in our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy.

13. What These Terms Do Not Do

13.1 They do not make you a party to the member's agreement. The Terms of Service remain between the member and us. These Terms give you no rights over the member's account, messages, tokens, or anything the member owns. A message released to you is yours to keep and view through the Service; nothing else of the member's becomes yours through GivePeace.

13.2 They are not an estate document. GivePeace messages are not a legal will, and neither the trustee role nor receiving a message transfers property, appoints anyone to anything, or affects any legal document. If you are a member's executor or personal representative, our Legal Process & Estate Requests Policy explains what you can request and how. If you have a copyright concern, our Copyright & DMCA Policy explains the process, including the legal consequences of filing a counter-notice.

13.3 They do not override the member. We follow the member's recorded choices about who receives what. Nothing in these Terms lets you — or us — redirect, unseal, or suppress a message contrary to the member's directions.

14. If We Have a Dispute

14.1 Who this section covers — honestly. This section is between you and Give Peace Inc. only, and it applies only if you accepted these Terms. It binds no one who has not accepted them. It does not reach the member's separate agreement with us, and it does not limit the independent rights of anyone who never agreed to anything.

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

14.3 Arbitration. If we cannot resolve it informally, you and Give Peace Inc. agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your role as a trustee or recipient will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, conducted by videoconference or telephone or, if you prefer, in the county where you live. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. AAA's rules and forms are at adr.org.

14.4 Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and 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.

14.5 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.

14.6 Individual basis. If you accepted these Terms, you and we each waive the right to a jury trial and to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action for disputes between you and us. Disputes are resolved one at a time. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim (and only that claim) proceeds in court.

14.7 Coordinated filings. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us in coordination, the parties agree that the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules will apply.

14.8 Your right to opt out. You may reject this entire arbitration section, with no penalty and no effect on the rest of these Terms, by emailing support@givepeace.co (subject "Arbitration Opt-Out") within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name, your contact details, and that you opt out of arbitration.

14.9 Minors. We will not rely on an acceptance given by a person under 18 to compel arbitration or to enforce the waivers in this section against them.

14.10 Governing law and venue. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules — except that Section 14 is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of mandatory consumer protections of the law of the place where you live. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and we consent to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware, except that you may bring an individual claim in small-claims court where you live.

15. Changes to These Terms

15.1 The version number and effective date appear at the top of this document. If we change these Terms in a way that matters, we will publish the updated version at the same public web address and notify active trustees by email. Anyone accepting after a change accepts the new version; the version you accepted, and when, stays on record.

16. Contact Us

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

Useful subject lines: "Privacy Request" (data deletion and rights), "Legal Dispute" (Section 14.2), "Arbitration Opt-Out" (Section 14.8), "Attn: Legal" (legal notices).

Someone chose you. Whatever you decide to do with that — accept, decline, claim, or simply ask us to leave you alone — we will treat you with the care that choice deserves.

Trustee & Recipient Terms v1.0 — Effective July 30, 2026