Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of Parivault. They are written to be read, not to be skipped. By creating an account you accept them.

1. What the service does

You store documents and details in an encrypted vault and nominate receivers. You confirm you are alive on a schedule you choose. If you miss enough consecutive check-ins, and after a grace period during which we keep trying to reach you, Parivault emails your receivers a secure link to the vault contents you assigned to them.

2. Eligibility

You must be 18 or older and legally able to enter a contract. One account per person. You are responsible for everything done under your account.

3. Your master password

Your vault is encrypted on your device with a key derived from your master password. We never receive or store the password itself.

If you forget it, you can reset it with a code sent to your email. Your vault is encrypted with a data key belonging to your account rather than with the password itself, so resetting your password re-locks that key under the new one and your entries stay readable.

On the other side of that: Parivault does hold a copy of your encryption key, protected by a separate secret, because delivering your documents after you are gone is impossible otherwise. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what that means and what limits it.

4. Your responsibilities

• Keep your email address current — it is how we reach you to confirm you are alive.
• Keep receiver contact details current, and tell those people they are nominated.
• Do not store anything unlawful, and only store data you have the right to store.
• Do not attempt to breach, overload, reverse-engineer or abuse the service.

5. What we do not promise

Parivault depends on email delivery, hosting providers, storage providers and your own device — none of which we fully control. We work hard to make delivery reliable, but we cannot guarantee that a message will arrive, that a provider will not have an outage, or that a receiver will act on what they get.

The service is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent Indian law allows, our total liability to you for any claim relating to Parivault is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim — which, on the free tier, is nothing. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including assets your family could not locate.

This is the honest position for a free product handling important documents. Treat Parivault as one layer of your preparation, alongside a properly executed will and up-to-date nominations with your banks and insurers.

6. Delivery is automatic, and that is the point

Once triggered, delivery is intended to happen without a human gatekeeper — no death certificate, no support ticket, no waiting on us. It follows that a long enough period of genuine inactivity will cause delivery even if you are alive and simply not reading your email. Choose a check-in interval you will actually keep, and respond to reminders.

7. Price

Parivault is currently free. If we introduce paid plans, existing features you already rely on will not be moved behind a paywall without notice and a fair migration period. We will email you before anything about pricing changes.

8. Suspension and termination

You can delete your account at any time by emailing hello@parivault.in. We may suspend an account that is being used unlawfully or that threatens the service. If we ever discontinue Parivault, we will give you at least 60 days' notice and a way to export your data before anything is deleted.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes will be emailed to you before they take effect, and the date at the top will change. Continuing to use Parivault after that means you accept the new version.

10. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of Bengaluru, Karnataka have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.

11. Contact

Questions about these terms go to hello@parivault.in.