Terms of Use
Draft revision: 2026-11-09. Effective date: pending operator and counsel approval. These terms describe the current Circava beta. The operator's legal identity, eligibility rule, refund policy, governing law, and other legal provisions remain open for review.
Accounts and the beta
Circava is an invitation-only beta for approved email addresses and valid Circle invitees. Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us if you suspect unauthorized account access. Do not use someone else's account or invitation. Features may change, be unavailable, or have interruptions during beta. We may ask for feedback; sharing it is optional. Paid billing and AI suggestions may be unavailable.
Minimum account age and the treatment of content about children have not been finalized. Circava has no child-account or parental-consent workflow. This eligibility section requires a decision before external beta invitations.
Circles and shared content
A Circle is a private space for people who share Traditions. It may be a Family or Group Circle. A Tradition continues over time; an Occurrence is one dated chapter. A Circle's creator becomes an Admin. Circles can have several Admins, who can manage invitations and members; the final Admin cannot be removed through the current controls. Members contribute according to their permissions. Circle administration and subscription payment are separate roles. Content shared in a Circle can be seen by its authorized members, including people other members invite.
You remain responsible for the memories, photos, documents, recipes, stories, interviews, reflections, notes, votes, and other material you contribute. Make sure you have an appropriate basis to upload and share it, including material involving other people. Circava is for sharing within authorized Circles, not public publishing.
You retain any rights you have in your content. To operate Circava, you permit the service to store, process, display to authorized Circle members, transmit, and back up that content as needed to provide the service. This does not transfer ownership of your memories to Circava. Counsel should review the scope of this permission before these terms take effect.
Acceptable use
Do not share unlawful or infringing material, impersonate someone, harass others, upload malicious files, misuse invitations, access another Circle without permission, or interfere with Circava's operation. Reports about abuse or content can be made through Help. We may restrict misuse and respond to reports, subject to the final approved terms and applicable requirements.
Free use, subscriptions, and cancellation
The current Free limits are one Family Circle and one Group Circle created per account, and three Traditions authored across Free Circles. Joining additional Circles by invitation does not use your creation allowance. Existing Circle history remains readable after a plan downgrade; Free limits may restrict new creation or uploads. Paid plans and prices shown on the pricing page are proposals. Live billing is not enabled for this beta.
If paid subscriptions are enabled later, the final price, billing interval, renewal, applicable taxes, cancellation timing, and any trial terms must be shown before payment. The billing contact may manage payment separately from Circle Admins. The application has a billing portal and subscription status handling, but final refund terms and treatment of failed payments await operator and counsel approval. No refund promise is made by this draft.
AI and other services
When available and chosen, AI can suggest a plan or organize a reflection from text you submit. Review every suggestion before saving it. AI can be wrong and should not be treated as an authoritative account of your Circle's history. Manual planning remains available. Circava uses outside providers for hosting, authentication, storage, transactional email, optional AI, and future payment processing; see the Privacy Policy.
Export, deletion, and service changes
A Circle Admin can download a JSON export of Circle records with time-limited links to private media; this is not a bundled media archive. Account deletion removes sign-in and membership, subject to final-Admin and billing safeguards. Contributions in a shared Circle may remain with the account shown as “Former member.” An Admin can schedule deletion of a Circle, with a seven-day period to cancel before processing. Scheduled deletion depends on the operational deletion job. Details are in Privacy and Settings.
Availability is not guaranteed during beta. We may change or discontinue features, or restrict access for serious misuse, subject to the final approved terms and applicable law. Material policy changes should be communicated before they take effect; the notice method and any new assent process require operator and counsel approval.
Legal provisions and contact
Pending counsel approval: operator identity and address; eligibility; warranty disclaimer; liability limits; indemnification, if appropriate; governing law and dispute process; refund policy; and effective date. These provisions have not been invented or silently adopted in this draft.
A monitored legal and privacy contact is still required. See Help for current guidance.