Your words outlive us. Here's how we make that true.

When you seal a message for a wedding 20 years out, or write the story of your grandmother's kitchen, you're trusting us with decades. That's an enormous trust. This page tells you, in plain words, what protects your memories today, what happens in the hard cases, and what we're still building. No poetry where facts belong.

What protects a sealed message

Your timelock is encrypted with AES-256, and the key is split into three shares using a method called secret sharing: one share is protected by your password, one goes to a trusted contact you choose, and one is held by WillThis. Any two of the three shares can open the seal — and no single share can open anything on its own. Even we cannot read your private messages; that's not a policy, it's the math of the design.

If you lose your password, your trusted contact and WillThis can recover the seal together. If a trusted contact becomes unreachable, your share and ours still open it. The protection doesn't depend on any one person — including us.

Where your archive lives

Your account is the vault. What you build in TimeProofMemories — stories, photos, trees, recipes, keepsakes — is stored under your login, not on one phone. If you clear your browser data or switch devices, signing in brings it back.

You can also take your archive with you: encrypted backup files you can download and keep anywhere, unlocked with a recovery phrase only you hold. Your memories never depend on a single company's servers.

What happens if WillThis changes

Honest answer first: we're an early company, not a century-old institution. Our business entity is still forming, and our terms are interim until our attorneys finish their review. We won't dress that up.

What we can tell you today:

• Your archive is portable. The encrypted backups you download open with your recovery phrase, with or without us. Your stories are yours.
• Your seals aren't hostage to any one party. The 2-of-3 key design means your message's recovery never depends on WillThis alone — your share and your trusted contact's share are always enough.
• Our backups are layered. The vault is snapshotted before every code deploy, encryption shares are copied to separate storage several times a day, and a third, off-site backup location is on the roadmap as we grow.

What we're still building

• Physical claim cards and keepsakes (claim codes are digital today)
• A formal continuity plan, reviewed by counsel, for acquisitions, closures, and multi-decade guarantees
• Independent security review of the encryption implementation

We'll update this page — and date the updates — as each one lands. We'd rather under-promise and over-deliver than the reverse.

This page describes the product as it exists on 2026-10-21 and is pending attorney review. For the binding terms, see our Terms of Service.