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Terms of Service

Last updated: 18 August 2026

LightVow is operated by Ravid Zer, a sole trader registered in Israel ("we", "us"). By creating a vow you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

1. What the service does

You record a message — text, a photo, a voice note, a video — choose who it is for and the date it should open, and seal it. We keep it, and on that date we deliver a private link to your recipient.

2. Sealing is final

Once sealed, a vow cannot be edited and cannot be opened early — not by your recipient, and not by you. That is the point of the product, and our systems enforce it rather than merely promising it.

You can always delete a vow you created. A seal locks against changing and peeking; it is not a lock against withdrawing something you wrote. Deleting removes the message and its media from our storage and cancels the delivery.

3. What we ask of you

  • You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live — at least 16, and 18 where your local law requires it.
  • Send only what is yours to send. Do not use LightVow to harass, threaten, deceive or abuse anyone, and do not upload content you have no right to share. Our Acceptable Use Policy sets this out in full, says how to report something, and explains what we do when we are told. It is part of these terms.
  • Name someone who would want to hear from you. A recipient can ask us to stop a delivery, and we will honour that.
  • Keep the recipient's contact details accurate. A vow addressed to an inbox nobody reads cannot arrive.

4. Delivery — what we promise, and what we cannot

We promise to try on the date you chose, and to keep trying: the delivery engine retries with increasing gaps, records every attempt, and raises an alarm to a human if a vow fails permanently.

We cannot promise that an email address still works years from now, that a mail provider will not treat our message as spam, or that a recipient will open it. Nobody can. What we can promise is that a failure will be visible rather than silent, and that the vow stays in your vault either way.

5. A vow is not a will, and has no legal effect

Nothing you send through LightVow is a will, a codicil, a trust, a power of attorney, a deed, a contract, or any other legally operative document. A message delivered by us does not transfer property, money, or rights of any kind. It does not appoint a guardian or an executor. It does not vary, revoke, interpret, or add to a will you have made elsewhere, and it cannot create one.

This matters because of what our own product invites. We let you write to someone twenty years from now, and we are building features about being reached when you no longer can. That is a natural place to write "I want my sister to have the house" — and if you write it here, it has no legal force whatsoever.

Almost every country requires a will to meet strict formalities: writing, signature, witnesses who are present at the same time and take nothing under it, and in some places notarisation or registration. A message stored on a server and emailed years later satisfies none of them, in any jurisdiction we know of. Some places recognise a handwritten (holographic) will, or an oral one in narrow emergencies — a LightVow message is neither.

If you want something to happen to your estate, see a lawyer and make a will. Use LightVow for the part a will was never for: telling someone what they meant to you. Those are different documents doing different jobs, and the second one is the one people actually keep.

We do not check whether a vow contains something you may have intended as testamentary, and we will not act as an executor, a trustee, a witness, or a custodian of your estate. If a court, an executor, or a legal representative asks us for a vow, we will respond as the law requires — but nothing we hold gains legal effect by being held here.

6. Long horizons

You can schedule a vow far into the future, and we take that seriously: the database schema, storage layout and delivery contract are documented so the vault could be operated by someone other than us if it ever had to be.

We will not pretend that is a guarantee against every possible future. If LightVow ever has to stop operating, we will give notice, let you export everything you have stored, and publish what a successor would need.

7. Paying

Many vows are free. Video, voice, documents, more than a few attachments, and horizons beyond about two years require a paid plan or a single-vow purchase. The app tells you which before you seal, never after.

Purchases made on this website are sold by Paddle.com Market Ltd, our authorised reseller and merchant of record — Paddle's name, not ours, appears on your statement. Purchases made inside our mobile apps are sold by Apple or Google, under their terms and their refund rules. See our refund policy.

Subscriptions renew until you stop them

Every plan renews automatically at the end of its period, at the price shown when you bought it, until you cancel. We tell you the renewal price and the period on the pricing page before you pay, and again in your receipt. You can cancel at any time from your account, in no more steps than it took to subscribe — cancelling stops the next charge and leaves everything you have already paid for in place until the period ends.

Where an introductory price applies, it applies to the first period only. The price it renews at is shown beside it, at the same size, before you buy.

If you are in the EU or the UK: fourteen days to change your mind

Distance-selling law gives you 14 days to withdraw from a purchase without giving a reason. LightVow is a digital service that begins the moment you buy — your tokens arrive and your plan opens — so at checkout you are asked to agree that performance may start immediately, and to acknowledge that this ends the withdrawal right once the service has been fully supplied.

If you have not used what you bought, we will refund it within 14 days regardless. That is our policy rather than the minimum the law requires: nobody should have to argue with us about a purchase they made last week and never touched.

Light Tokens, and what they are not

Light Tokens are a unit of account inside this service. They are not money — not a currency, not a stored-value or gift-card instrument, not transferable, not redeemable for cash, and not usable anywhere else. Tokens included with a subscription last for that period. Tokens bought as a pack do not expire while your account exists. Refunding a purchase reverses any of its tokens you have not yet spent; ones you have spent bought vows we are already committed to deliver.

8. Your content stays yours

Everything you write and upload belongs to you. You give us only the permission we need to run the service: to store your content, and to show it to the recipient you named, on the date you chose. We do not read it, sell it, publish it, or use it to train anything.

9. Cards, and what you may do with them

The card designs are generated by software from instructions we wrote. Because of that, nobody holds a copyright in them — not us, and not you. We are telling you this rather than claiming otherwise, because a licence that promises rights nobody has is worth nothing to you.

What we can do, and do, is set the terms on which we hand them out. Adding a card to a vow costs tokens, like everything else here. Downloading a file to print is part of a paid plan and each plan includes a number of files a year — your profile shows how many you have left. And on every plan:

  • Use cards for your own vows, invitations, celebrations and keepsakes, as many as you like.
  • Print them, frame them, hang them, and give them to the people they were made for.
  • Do not sell them, licence them, or hand them on as artwork — as a print, a download, a template, a design asset, or on anything you are selling.
  • Do not use them to advertise or promote a business, yours or anyone else’s, and do not upload them to a stock library or an AI training set.

In short: for the people in your life, not for a business. A wedding invitation to five hundred guests is exactly what this is for. A shop’s holiday mailing is not — if that is what you need, write to us and we will sort out a licence that actually covers it, rather than leaving you relying on one that does not.

None of this ever reaches your recipient. A vow that has been delivered is theirs to keep, read, print and pass on, for good — whatever plan you were on when you sealed it, whether you later cancelled, and whether or not you are still here. They never agreed to these terms and nothing in them is going to be used against them.

If somebody uses cards in a way this section forbids, what we will do is stop giving them cards. That is the remedy, and we would rather say so plainly than imply larger ones we have no intention of pursuing.

9a. Cards you make, and offering one to the library

You can make your own cards: from a photograph, from several as a slideshow, or by giving us a brief and having one generated. They are yours, they stay private, and nothing here changes that unless you choose otherwise.

Photographs never leave your account. We do not offer, and will not accept, a card made from your own pictures for the shared library — a photograph is of real people, often children, and there is no wording in a document like this that would make publishing one of them fair. That is enforced in the database, not just promised here.

A card you generated is different, and you may offer it — one card at a time, never by default, and only if you tap the thing that says so. If you do, you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, reproduce and make that card available to other LightVow users as part of the library, for as long as it stays in it. Nothing more: not ownership, not the right to sell it as artwork, not the right to use it to advertise anything.

  • Offering is not publishing. A person looks at every card before any of them appears, and most will not be used.
  • You can withdraw it at any time before we publish it. After that we cannot take it back out of vows already carrying it — the same rule as everything else here: a sealed vow is delivered, and that includes the picture it is wearing.
  • Your brief is never published. What you typed stays private, visible only to the person deciding. The picture carries no words.
  • Non-exclusive, and we will not pretend otherwise. Nobody holds a copyright in a generated picture — as section 9 says — so we cannot promise you that yours is exclusive to us, and we will not claim it. You can keep using it anywhere you like.

We do not pay for offered cards today. If that ever changes it will be a share of something we actually earn, agreed with you at the time — not a right we quietly took now.

10. The people you write to

Your recipient never agreed to these terms, and we treat that as the constraint it is. We hold their name and contact details for one purpose — delivering what you addressed to them — and we do not market to them, sell their details, or use them to build a profile.

Any recipient can tell us to stop, at any time, without explaining and without needing an account: every message we send carries a way to do it. If they do, we will not deliver that vow, and we will tell you it was stopped rather than let you believe it arrived. Their wish outranks yours here, because they are the one being written to.

Please do not name someone who would not want to hear from you. A message arriving from the past is a large thing to receive, and it is not always welcome.

11. Ending things

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. You choose what happens to vows you have sealed but that have not yet arrived: they can be cancelled with the account, or they can still be delivered. The choice is yours, and we ask it plainly before anything is deleted.

Vows that have already been delivered stay with the person who received them. Once somebody has been told a letter is waiting, it is no longer only yours — deleting your account does not reach into their inbox and take it back.

We may suspend an account being used to harm someone or to break these terms.

12. Liability

We run the service with real care, but without warranties beyond those your local law gives you and that we cannot exclude. Where liability can be limited, ours is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or fifty US dollars.

Nothing here limits what the law does not allow us to limit. That includes death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and — if you are a consumer — the statutory rights you have where you live. In the UK and the EU those rights sit alongside these terms and are not replaced by them. In some US states the exclusion of implied warranties or of incidental damages is not permitted, and in those states our exclusions apply only to the extent the law allows.

We are not liable for a vow that fails to arrive because an address stopped working, a mail provider filtered it, a recipient never opened it, or something outside our control prevented it. We are liable for failing to try, and for failing to tell you.

13. Changes and law

If we change these terms materially we will tell you before the change takes effect. These terms are governed by the laws of Israel, and the courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo have jurisdiction — except where you are a consumer. If you are, nothing here deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts. A consumer in the EU may also use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform.

14. Contact

Questions, complaints, or a request about your data: hello@lightvow.com.