These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Heriteo, including its website, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Heriteo is currently a solo, pre-revenue side project operated by its individual developer in California ("we", "us", or "our"). It is not a corporation, limited liability company, or other separate legal entity. By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The Service

Heriteo is an organizational and informational tool that may help you catalog personal property, preserve memories and related information, organize family information, and record preferences or intentions. The Service does not verify facts, authenticate records, or act as a custodian, trustee, executor, agent, broker, or fiduciary.

2. No Professional Advice or Legal Effect

Heriteo does not provide legal, tax, financial, investment, estate-planning, fiduciary, accounting, or appraisal advice. You are responsible for obtaining advice from qualified professionals about matters that may affect you, your property, or your family.

Information or actions recorded through the Service—including ownership information, valuations, family relationships, intended recipients, assignments, wishes, sale, donation, disposition, or distribution decisions—are organizational records only. They do not create, amend, revoke, or substitute for a will, codicil, trust, beneficiary designation, deed, title transfer, power of attorney, contract, probate filing, or any other legally binding testamentary or property-transfer instrument. Use of the Service does not establish, determine, transfer, or modify ownership, inheritance, beneficiary, or other legal rights.

3. Ownership, Valuations, and Family Disputes

Heriteo does not determine who owns an item, who may inherit it, whether a person has authority to dispose of it, or the validity or priority of any claim. User-entered values and any values, suggestions, or information generated by the Service are estimates for organizational purposes only; they are not appraisals and should not be relied on for insurance, tax, sale, probate, legal, or financial purposes.

You are solely responsible for resolving disagreements concerning property, family relationships, inheritance, access, or distribution. We are not responsible for disputes among family members, heirs, beneficiaries, representatives, co-owners, or other third parties.

4. Accounts and Security

• You must be legally able to enter into these Terms and provide accurate, current account information.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your password and all activity under your account.
• Notify us promptly through our contact page if you suspect unauthorized access.
• Do not share your account credentials or allow anyone to use your account in a way that violates these Terms.

5. Your Content and Third-Party Information

"User Content" means the text, images, documents, data, item details, family information, and other material you submit to the Service. As between you and us, you retain any rights you have in your User Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, display, transmit, and adapt User Content solely as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, support, improve, and provide the Service to you and people you authorize to access it.

You represent and warrant that:

• You have all rights, permissions, and authority needed to submit User Content and grant this license.
• Your User Content and use of the Service do not violate law, privacy, publicity, intellectual-property, or other rights.
• You have an appropriate lawful basis and any required consent to provide information about family members or other third parties.
• You will not upload sensitive information unless you are authorized to do so and it is reasonably necessary for your use of the Service.

You decide which people you invite or authorize to access content. You are responsible for the access you grant, including the consequences of sharing information with family members or other collaborators.

6. Acceptable Use

You may not use the Service to:

• violate applicable law or another person's rights;
• submit fraudulent, defamatory, infringing, harmful, or misleading content;
• impersonate another person or misrepresent ownership, authority, or family relationships;
• interfere with, disrupt, probe, or circumvent the security or operation of the Service;
• copy, scrape, reverse engineer, or use the Service to build a competing service except where law prohibits that restriction; or
• resell, rent, or provide unauthorized access to the Service.

7. Intellectual Property

• Except for User Content, the Service, including its software, design, names, logos, and other materials, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
• Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for its intended purpose.
• No other rights are granted.

8. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal information and is incorporated into these Terms. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the Service and your submission of third-party information comply with laws that apply to you.

9. Availability, Backups, and Data Loss

The Service is provided on an experimental, pre-revenue basis and may change, be interrupted, or be discontinued at any time. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available at any particular time. Although we may use reasonable measures to operate the Service, you must keep independent, current copies of important records. Heriteo is not an archival, records-management, or backup service, and you should not rely on it as the sole source of important information.

10. Death, Incapacity, and Successor Access

Heriteo does not determine whether a user has died or become incapacitated, who is a successor, or who is legally entitled to account or property information. Any request for access by a family member, personal representative, fiduciary, or other person will be handled only after verification we consider appropriate and subject to applicable law, our privacy obligations, and any valid legal process. We may decline, limit, delay, or require additional documentation for any such request. Nothing in the Service creates a right of successor access or overrides a user's account settings, estate documents, or applicable law.

11. Termination and Deletion

You may stop using the Service or request account deletion through our contact page. We may suspend or terminate access, or remove content, if we reasonably believe it violates these Terms, creates risk or harm, is required by law, or the Service is being changed or discontinued. Following termination or a deletion request, we may delete User Content, subject to technical limitations, backup retention, and any legal obligation to retain information. Export or retain anything important before requesting deletion.

12. Future Paid Features

The Service is currently pre-revenue. If paid plans or features are offered in the future, the applicable price, payment terms, renewal terms, cancellation options, and any additional terms will be presented before you are charged and will apply only if you choose those paid offerings.

13. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, AND SECURITY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS OR THAT ANY CONTENT, RECORD, VALUE, OR RESULT WILL BE COMPLETE, ACCURATE, OR LEGALLY EFFECTIVE.

14. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) $100 OR (B) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including rights and remedies available to consumers.

15. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to your User Content, your use of the Service, your violation of these Terms or applicable law, or any dispute concerning ownership, privacy, intellectual property, family relationships, inheritance, access, or disposition of property. We may assume control of the defense of a claim at your expense, and you will cooperate with that defense.

16. Governing Law and Venue

California law governs these Terms and any dispute arising from them, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Except where applicable law requires a different forum or preserves rights that cannot be waived, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in California for any dispute arising from or relating to the Service or these Terms. Nothing in these Terms limits non-waivable consumer-protection rights or remedies available under the law that applies to you.

17. Changes to the Service or These Terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service, and may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms here and revise the "Last updated" date. If a change is material, we will use reasonable efforts to provide advance notice through the Service or another reasonable method. Your continued use after the revised Terms become effective means you accept them. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.

18. General and Contact

These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If any provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent; we may assign them in connection with a transfer of the Service or its assets. For questions about these Terms, contact us through our contact page.

By using Heriteo, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these Terms of Service.