The agreement for using The Last Relay.

01 What the Service is

The Last Relay is a configurable “dead-man’s switch.” You seal content, designate recipients and a trusted contact, and set the conditions — missed check-ins, a countdown, and a trusted-contact confirmation — under which we deliver that content. Everything we deliver, and everyone we deliver it to, is defined entirely by you. We never see the contents (see our Privacy Policy).

02 Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract, and you must not be barred from using the Service under any applicable law, sanctions, or export-control regime. By using the Service you represent that you meet these requirements.

03 Your account & security

Access is controlled by a passkey on your device. You are responsible for safeguarding your devices, your passkeys, and the cards or phrases you give to recipients. We cannot recover a lost phrase or decrypt your capsule. If you lose access to your passkeys, you may lose the ability to manage your capsule.

04 Your content & your responsibility

• You are solely responsible for the content you store, the recipients and contacts you designate, the accuracy of every address you enter, and the release conditions you configure.
• You represent and warrant that you have the right to store the content and to disclose it to your chosen recipients, and that doing so will not violate any law or any third party’s rights — including privacy, confidentiality, intellectual-property, and contractual rights.
• You are responsible for keeping your recipients, contacts, and schedule current. Out-of-date or incorrect information can cause delivery to the wrong person, non-delivery, or a release at the wrong time — and you accept responsibility for those outcomes.

05 How releases work — and the risks you accept

A release is the automated execution of instructions you set in advance. We do not review capsule contents (we cannot), and we do not decide when to release — your configuration and your own activity or inactivity do.

You understand and accept that automated systems are imperfect and that any of the following can occur. You assume the risk of each:

• Content is released when, in hindsight, you would not have wanted it released.
• Content is not released, or is released late, when you did want it delivered.
• Content reaches an unintended person — for example because of an address you provided, a compromised email account, or forwarding beyond our control.
• A recipient copies, shares, publishes, or leaks content after it is delivered.
• Delivery emails are delayed, filtered as spam, blocked, or fail to arrive.
• A trusted contact answers incorrectly, maliciously, or not at all.

Never the only copy. You agree not to use the Service as the sole repository of, or the sole delivery method for, wills or other testamentary instruments, medical directives, time-critical emergency instructions, evidence you are obligated to preserve, or anything whose non-delivery could cause death, injury, loss of legal rights, or substantial financial loss. Keep an independent copy and an independent path for anything in that category.

Keeping your switch from firing is your responsibility. If you become unreachable for reasons unrelated to incapacity — travel, a lost device, an ignored email — the switch may proceed as you configured it. Use the pause feature for planned unreachability.

The Service is not an emergency service. It is not a medical, security, life-safety, or 911-type service, and must not be relied upon for anything time-critical to anyone’s health or safety. Once content is delivered, it is beyond our control; we cannot recall, revoke, or delete it.

06 Not legal, financial, or estate advice

The Last Relay is not a substitute for a will, trust, power of attorney, beneficiary designation, or any other legal instrument, and a release does not constitute a legally effective transfer, gift, bequest, or notarized act. Delivering a credential or a document does not, by itself, grant anyone legal authority over anything. Consult a qualified professional for estate planning, and treat the Service as a way to convey information, not to create legal rights.

07 Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to store, deliver, or facilitate any of the following:

• Child sexual abuse material, or any content that sexually exploits or endangers a minor.
• Content that facilitates violence, terrorism, or serious physical harm.
• Stolen data, or credentials or secrets you are not authorized to possess or share.
• Content that infringes intellectual-property rights or violates another person’s privacy or confidentiality obligations.
• Malware, or anything designed to damage or gain unauthorized access to systems.
• Any use intended to harass, threaten, defraud, extort, stalk, or surveil another person.
• Anything that violates applicable law, export controls, or sanctions.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules, and where required by law we may report certain content to the authorities.

08 Legal process, subpoenas & government requests

• We may receive subpoenas, court orders, warrants, or other lawful demands. We will comply with valid legal process to the extent required by applicable law, and may preserve and disclose the data we hold — account and routing information, capsule configuration, timestamps, logs, and ciphertext.
• The system is designed so that we hold neither your keys nor your recipients’ phrases and are unable to decrypt capsule contents. We can produce only ciphertext and the metadata described in our Privacy Policy in response to any request.
• Where we are legally permitted to do so, we will make reasonable efforts to notify an affected user of a request — but we may be legally prohibited from giving notice.
• You agree that our good-faith compliance with legal process does not breach these Terms or any duty owed to you, and that we are not liable for it.

09 Availability & changes to the Service

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We may add, modify, or suspend individual features with or without notice, and we do not guarantee uptime, delivery, timing, or that the switch will operate exactly as configured in every circumstance. If we decide to discontinue the Service as a whole, we will make reasonable efforts to give you advance notice so that you can retrieve your data and make other arrangements.

10 Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT A RELEASE WILL OCCUR, OR WILL NOT OCCUR, AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME; THAT DELIVERY WILL SUCCEED; OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM US CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HERE.

11 Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE OPERATOR AND ITS PROVIDERS AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, PROFITS, REPUTATION, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO: (a) THE RELEASE OR NON-RELEASE OF ANY CONTENT; (b) CONTENT REACHING, OR FAILING TO REACH, ANY PERSON; (c) ANY PERSON’S USE OR MISUSE OF DELIVERED CONTENT; OR (d) YOUR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE — EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (ii) USD $100. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, willful misconduct, gross negligence, or, where the law does not permit its limitation, personal injury. If any limitation in this section is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, it will apply to the fullest extent permitted for that claim, and the remaining limitations will continue to apply to all other claims.

12 Indemnification

You will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Operator and its providers and agents from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: your content; your use of the Service; your violation of these Terms or of any law; or any dispute between you and a recipient, contact, heir, or other third party concerning content you stored or released.

13 Governing law & dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.

Talk to us first

Before filing any claim, you agree to first email info@ai-created.com with a description of your claim, and to give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. Many disputes can be settled that way.

Courts

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms that we cannot resolve informally will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Oregon, and you and the Operator consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts. Nothing in this section prevents either party from bringing an individual claim in a small-claims court that has jurisdiction, and nothing in these Terms limits any right you may have under the law of your state to seek public injunctive relief.

14 Subscription, lapse & capsule destruction

Operating a relay may require a paid subscription. Prices, billing periods, renewal, and cancellation are presented where you purchase. If you subscribe through the Apple App Store, Apple’s billing terms govern payment, automatic renewal, cancellation, and refunds, and you can manage or cancel the subscription in your App Store account settings.

What happens if your subscription lapses while a capsule is armed. Your switch does not stop the day a payment fails:

• We notify you when your subscription lapses. For a 180-day grace period your capsule stays armed and your switch keeps operating normally.
• If the subscription is still lapsed at the end of the grace period, we send a final warning, and 30 days after that warning the capsule is destroyed — never released — and your data is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.
• A release in progress always completes. If a final countdown is running or a release is underway when the destruction date arrives, destruction is deferred and the countdown or release completes first. If the countdown is canceled and the subscription remains lapsed, destruction may then proceed.
• Renewing at any time before destruction cancels it and restores normal operation.

Destruction for nonpayment is permanent. We cannot recover a destroyed capsule — and we will never release a capsule because of nonpayment.

15 Termination

You can delete your account at any time from within the app (Settings → Delete account). If you have no armed capsule, deletion is immediate and permanent. If a capsule is armed, deletion first enters a cancelable 7-day security window — described in the Privacy Policy — which exists so that no one can force you to destroy your switch under duress; after it, your capsule is destroyed (never released) and your account and data are erased, except the record of your acceptance of these Terms, which we retain as described in the Privacy Policy. One interplay is deliberate and mirrors Section 14: if a final countdown completes before the deletion window ends, the release proceeds and the pending deletion is canceled — a deletion cannot be used to suppress a release your own silence set in motion. To make a deletion win, cancel the countdown by checking in first. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or if we are required to by law. If we suspend your account under Section 7 while a capsule is armed, we pause the switch’s escalation and notify you; suspension by itself neither releases nor destroys your capsule unless we are legally compelled. If your subscription lapses, Section 14 governs what happens to an armed capsule. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13 — survive.

16 Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. For material changes — including any change to Sections 10 through 14 (warranties, liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, or subscription lifecycle) — we will notify you and ask you to affirmatively accept the updated Terms; until you do, the version you last accepted continues to govern. For non-material changes (such as clarifications or new features), we will revise the date above, and your continued use of the Service after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance.

17 Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email info@ai-created.com.