Terms of Use

Last updated: October 5, 2026

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and [company legal name] ("Handed Down," "we," "us"). By creating an account or using Handed Down, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please don't use the service.

2. Who can use Handed Down

You must be at least 18 years old and able to make decisions about your own belongings. You are responsible for keeping access to your email account secure, because that is how you sign in.

3. What Handed Down does, and does not do

Handed Down lets you photograph belongings, choose who should receive them, record or write the stories behind them, and decide who can open your folder later. It can also produce a printable list for you to sign.

Handed Down is not a law firm and does not give legal, tax or financial advice. Nothing in the app is a will. Whether a signed list of belongings is legally binding depends on the laws where you live; some states accept a separate list referred to in a will, others do not, and the rules differ. Please speak with an estate attorney about your will and how to make your wishes count.

Your folder records your wishes. It does not by itself transfer ownership of anything, and it cannot override a will, a trust, a court, or the law.

4. Your folder belongs to you

You keep all rights to the photos, recordings, stories and other information you add. You give us permission to store, process and display them only to run Handed Down for you, including releasing them to the people you choose. We do not use your content for advertising or marketing, and we do not sell it.

You confirm you have the right to add what you upload, and that sharing it with the people you choose does not break anyone else's rights.

5. Release to your family

You choose a trusted person and how they prove it's time. We release your folder when those conditions are met, based on the information and documents we receive. We will take reasonable care, but we rely on what the people involved tell us, and we cannot guarantee that every situation will be handled perfectly.

We are not responsible for disagreements between family members or others about your belongings, and we do not decide who legally owns anything.

When your folder is released, it stays available to your family free of charge for at least [5] years, whether or not your plan was paid up.

6. Using Handed Down fairly

Please don't use Handed Down to break the law, upload something you don't have the right to share, harass or mislead anyone, try to access other people's folders, or interfere with how the service works. We may suspend accounts that do.

7. Plans and payment

• Free: up to 10 items, with all features.
• Yearly: $39 per year for unlimited items. It renews each year until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in your account; it then runs until the end of the paid year.
• Lifetime: $199 once (or a lower launch price). "Lifetime" means for as long as Handed Down operates, and your folder stays available under section 9 if we ever close.
• Refunds: if you're not happy, email us within [30] days of a payment for a full refund.
• Prices may change in the future. Changes never affect a plan you have already paid for, and we will tell you before a yearly renewal costs more.

Payments are processed by Stripe.

8. Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time in the app (Your account → Delete my account). This permanently removes your folder; please download a copy first if you want one. We may close an account that breaks these terms, and when we can, we will give you a chance to download your folder first.

9. If Handed Down closes

If we decide to close Handed Down, we will email you at least 6 months before it closes, and you will be able to download everything in your folder during that time.

10. Things we can't promise

We work hard to keep Handed Down available, safe and accurate, but the service is provided "as is." To the extent the law allows, we do not promise that it will always be available or error-free, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or $100, whichever is more. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

11. Changes to these terms

If we make an important change, we will email you before it takes effect. If you keep using Handed Down after that, the new terms apply.

12. Law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. [Attorney to confirm venue and any dispute-resolution terms.]

13. Contact

hello@handeddown.app
[company legal name], [mailing address]