Your family owns it.

What that means in practice

• The stories are yours.Every recording, transcript, photo, letter, chapter, and caption in your archive is your family’s property. We claim no ownership of any of it, now or later.
• We hold it, we do not own it. You grant us only the working permission we need to run the service: store your content, transcribe it, help write and lay out your book, and show it to the people you choose. Nothing more.
• No third party trains AI on your stories. We do not sell your content, license it, or allow any AI provider to train models on it. When AI helps write your book, it works for your family in that moment and keeps nothing.
• You can leave with everything. At any time you can export the whole archive: the book as text and structured data, every photo, every recording, every transcript. It is yours to keep, with or without us.
• The owner holds it for the family. The account owner manages the archive on the family’s behalf and can name a successor so the archive passes safely to the next keeper.

Why we put this in writing

A keepsake only works if the family trusts where it lives. We built Heirsake to be the safest place for the stories only your people can tell, and that starts with being plain about whose stories they are. The full agreement lives in our terms of service. If you are named in someone’s book and want something removed or corrected, use the takedown and correction path.