Privacy

Privacy Policy

Plain language about what Exist Forever stores, why, and how family access works. Last updated August 2026.

What we store

Account details you provide when you register: name, email, and a hashed password (we never store your password in plain text).
Your agent's profile: display name, personality, speaking style, life roles, values, and introduction.
Stories and memories you write on your personal page, including whether each one is shared with family.
Invites you create (invitee name, optional email, relationship, and a secret link token) and messages guests leave on a presence page.
Contact form messages, including a salted hash of the submitter's IP used only for abuse prevention — not the raw address.

To run your account and show your personal page.
To let family open the private presence links you create and read only the stories you mark as shared.
To deliver contact replies and keep a durable copy if mail delivery fails.
To rate-limit abuse without keeping unnecessary identity data.

We don't sell your stories, profile, or contact messages.
We don't put you on marketing lists from the contact form.
We don't show invitee emails or other invites on a guest presence page.
We don't claim secret links are as strong as a password-protected account — treat them like keys, and revoke them when someone shouldn't have access anymore.

Only you (when signed in) can manage your full profile, private stories, invites, and guest messages.
Anyone with an active invite link can see your agent's introduction and stories marked shared with family, and can leave a message.
Site operators with server access can see database contents as needed to keep the service running — the same reality as any self-hosted or hosted app.

Account and agent data remain until you ask us to remove them or delete your account through a supported process.
Revoking an invite stops further access; past guest messages you received stay on your inbox until removed by a future tools we may add, or by request.
Contact messages are kept so we can reply and investigate delivery problems.

Exist Forever is designed so you can run the software yourself. When you self-host, your privacy practices are yours to define; this policy describes the hosted experience on existforever.com.

Privacy questions belong in our contact form. Pick the privacy topic when you write so we can prioritize it.