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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 2026

1. Who We Are

Basalith is a family archive and digital legacy platform operated by Basalith Inc. We build permanent archives of human memory for families and individuals.

Contact: privacy@basalith.xyz

2. What We Collect

We collect information you provide directly, including:

  • ·Photographs and visual media you upload to your archive
  • ·Written stories, labels, and memories you submit
  • ·Voice recordings and video you deposit
  • ·Personal information including names, relationships, dates, and locations associated with archive content
  • ·Contact information for contributors you invite
  • ·Payment information processed through our payment provider
  • ·Communications between you and Basalith

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • ·Build and maintain your family archive
  • ·Train your personal AI entity on your authorized archive content only
  • ·Send photograph emails and digest notifications to contributors you have designated
  • ·Process payments for your plan
  • ·Communicate with you about your archive
  • ·Improve our services

We do not sell your personal information or archive content to any third party. Ever.

We do not use your archive content to train general AI models. Your data trains only your entity.

4. How We Store and Protect Your Data

Your photographs and archive content are stored in encrypted private storage. Photographs are never publicly accessible. Access requires authenticated credentials specific to your archive.

We use industry-standard encryption for data in transit and at rest.

5. Face Recognition

With your consent, we use face recognition technology to identify individuals across your archive. This technology:

  • ·Operates only within your archive
  • ·Is never used to identify individuals outside your family's photographs
  • ·Can be disabled at any time in your archive preferences
  • ·Face data is stored only within your archive and never shared

6. Data Retention

You own your archive, and you can export it in full, in open formats, at any time. If a payment is missed, your archive moves to Resting status. Your content is preserved and is never deleted for non-payment. Permanent deletion occurs only when you, or an executor with documented authority, make a verified written request. After that request is verified, we hold the archive for 12 months, then permanently delete it and confirm in writing.

Because you keep ownership and can export at any time, your archive does not depend on the continued existence of Basalith as a company. Basalith is the custodian, not the owner. Read our data ownership commitments →

7. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • ·Access all data in your archive
  • ·Export your complete archive at any time
  • ·Delete specific content from your archive
  • ·Designate or change your archive Custodian
  • ·Opt out of face recognition
  • ·Close your account and export your data

To exercise any of these rights: privacy@basalith.xyz

8. Cookies

We use essential cookies only, to maintain your authenticated session. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or share cookie data with third parties.

9. Children

Basalith archives are managed by adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 as primary account holders. Family members of any age may appear in archive photographs as subjects.

10. Changes to This Policy

We will notify active account holders of material changes to this policy by email with 30 days notice.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@basalith.xyz

Your Data. Your Archive. Your Heirs.

Ownership After Death

Your archive is your property. It does not become ours when you die.

Upon your death your archive transfers to your designated heirs or estate exactly as you would transfer any other private asset.

Heritage Nexus Inc. does not acquire any rights to your archive data upon your death. Your cognitive reference model — your deposits, voice recordings, and photographs — is a private digital asset that belongs to your estate.

We are the custodian. You are the owner. Your heirs are the beneficiaries. We are never the inheritor.

Company Dissolution

If Heritage Nexus Inc. ceases operations for any reason:

  • ·You will receive 90 days advance notice where possible.
  • ·During that period you can download your complete archive in full — all deposits, voice recordings, and photographs in standard open formats (JSON, MP3, JPEG).
  • ·Your archive data will never be sold to a third party as part of any asset sale, acquisition, or bankruptcy proceeding.
  • ·If we are acquired, the acquiring entity must honor these same commitments as a condition of the acquisition.

We are building the data export functionality to ensure this commitment is technically enforceable, not just contractually stated.

Data Use for Training

Your archive data is never used to train models for other users. Not now. Not ever.

Each archive is a closed system. What you deposit trains your entity. It does not train anyone else’s entity. It does not train Basalith’s general models. It does not leave your archive.

The Anthropic API, which powers entity responses, does not train on API submissions by default. Their data usage policy is available at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.

For security questions: security@basalith.ai