Livara terms of use: The deal, in full.

Terms · plain English

Terms of use are usually written to be survived rather than read. This one is short, in ordinary words, and the awkward parts are near the top instead of buried at clause nineteen.

What we do not promise What is on the disk

Last updated 28 September 2026 · Livara 0.1.68 (69)

The short version

Six lines. The rest is detail.

Using Livara Chat — the website, the Android app, or the API behind them — means accepting this. If you do not, the honest answer is not to create an account.

The data detail sits on the privacy page, and the cryptographic boundary is on the security page.

terms.summarythe whole thing

You get: An account, and direct and private-group text and media that the service receives as ciphertext, subject to the identity and membership limits on the security page.
You keep: Everything you write. Livara claims no ownership of your messages, media or profile.
You owe: Honest use. Do not send what is illegal where you are, and do not aim the service at other people.
You carry: Your password and recovery phrase. Lose both and the encrypted history is gone — including for us.
We may: Suspend an account that is being used to harm someone, and act on reports about content we can read.
We cannot: Promise the service never breaks, never loses data, or is fit for something life depends on.

01 · Your account

What you are holding.

An account here is not a login on a database somewhere. It is a set of keys, most of which only exist on your device — which changes what you are responsible for.

note your password is proven with SRP and never transmitted. There is no copy of it here.

warn lose the device and the recovery phrase together and the encrypted history stays closed. No support ticket reverses this.

account.rulesfour obligations

Be old enough
You must be at least 13, and older where the law where you live sets a higher age for this kind of service.
Use your account responsibly
Create an account on the web or in the Android app, then use it across your devices. Automated signups, device spoofing and attempts to evade service limits breach these terms.
Your credentials are yours
Your password never reaches Livara: SRP proves you know it without sending it. That is a genuine protection and a genuine responsibility, because there is no copy here to fall back on.
Your recovery phrase is final
It is the only thing that reopens an encrypted key backup on a new device. Not your password, not your email, not a support request. Write it down somewhere that survives losing your phone.

02 · Acceptable use

The things that end an account.

A short list, because a long one is mostly decoration. The idea underneath all of it: privacy is for talking to people, not for doing things to them.

Sending or storing material that is illegal where you are, or that sexually exploits children anywhere.
Using Livara to threaten, stalk, dox or organise harassment of another person.
Bulk unsolicited messaging, engagement farming, or automated account creation.
Distributing malware, phishing pages, or credential-harvesting links.
Attacking the service: scraping at scale, hammering rate limits, or probing other people's accounts.
Reselling access, or presenting Livara as your own product to someone who does not know.
Impersonating Livara staff, or claiming a message came from the platform when it did not.

Security research is welcome and explicitly not on that list. Reading the code, running the instruments in the Proof Lab, and testing your own account are all fine. Testing someone else’s is not.

03 · Your content

We take no licence.

Most messengers ask you to grant a broad, worldwide, royalty-free licence to your content, and then explain that it is only for running the service. Livara asks for the narrow version: permission to store your content and transmit it to the people you send it to, and to synchronise it to your own devices. Nothing about training, promotion, or sublicensing to anyone else.

For direct and private-group text and media this is close to academic — the server holds ciphertext it cannot open, so the permission covers moving an opaque blob from one device to another. It matters more for the parts that are server-readable in 0.1.68 (69): channel content, profiles, stories and account metadata. Those are listed as readable on the security page rather than left for you to infer.

You are responsible for what you send. If you do not have the right to share a file, sending it through an encrypted channel does not give you one.

Moderation, honestly

Livara can act on reports about content it can read, and can suspend an account on other evidence — abuse of the API, mass account creation, credible reports of harm. It cannot moderate what it cannot read, and it will not add a way to read it. That is the cost of the guarantee on the front page, stated here so it is never a surprise later.

Livara AI

In the web app and Livara App, AI is included by default when you accept the account rules during signup. This one-time consent covers all your current and future chats for answers, reminders, summaries and related AI features. Existing accounts are asked once. Relevant message text, including private messages decrypted on your device, may be sent to Livara's configured AI service. You can turn AI off in Settings at any time. Text completion is requested with Ctrl+Space. This consent does not enable model training.

The standard Android app retains its own AI controls and consent flow. AI output can be wrong; review answers before relying on them.

04 · What is promised

Both columns.

The right-hand column usually appears in capital letters at the bottom of a document nobody reads. It is here at the same size as everything else.

livara.doeswhat you can rely on

Run the service, ship fixes, and say on this site when the security boundary moves.
Encrypt direct-chat and private-group text, media and files end-to-end on your device, and keep the technical documentation honest.
Keep your email address private, and never show it on your profile or hand it to another user.
Tell you plainly, on the security page, which things are not encrypted rather than rounding it up.
Let you export your data, delete your messages, sign out a device, or delete the account outright.

livara.does.notwhat you cannot

Guarantee uptime. There is no service level agreement, paid or otherwise.
Guarantee delivery. A message can be lost to a network, a device, or a bug.
Guarantee that data is never lost. Keep your own copy of anything that matters.
Promise fitness for emergency, medical, legal or safety-critical communication.
Offer any warranty, express or implied, beyond what the law where you live insists on.
Read your direct or private group chats to moderate them. We cannot — the ciphertext is unreadable without your device keys.

Livara is provided as it is. To the extent the law where you live allows it, Livara is not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profits, lost data, or a message that did not arrive. Some consumer protections cannot be signed away, and nothing here tries to.

05 · Ending it

Leaving is a button.

No retention call, no cancellation flow with four screens of reconsidering.

You can delete your account from within the app after proving your password. That removes the account and the content held for it. It does not reach through the network to messages already delivered to other people’s devices, because nothing can.

Livara can suspend or close an account that is being used against the list in section 02, or where continuing to run it would put other people at risk. Where it is possible to say why without compromising someone’s safety, we will.

These terms can change when the implementation changes. The date at the top of this page is the version in force, and the canonical copy lives at https://livara.org/terms. Continuing to use Livara after a change means accepting the current version.

Contact

Questions about these terms, reports of abuse, and legal notices go through the existing Livara support channel, the same route as privacy questions.

Questions

The four that actually get asked.

Who owns the messages I send on Livara?

You do. Livara claims no ownership of your messages, media or profile content. The only permission you give the platform is the narrow, technical one it needs: storing and transmitting your content so it reaches the people you sent it to, and syncing it to your own devices. That permission ends when the content is deleted.

Can Livara moderate an end-to-end encrypted chat?

Livara cannot read direct or private-group messages, photos or files, because they reach the service as ciphertext. Public channel content and server-visible routing evidence can be reviewed when users report them, and accounts that violate the terms can be suspended.

What happens to my messages if my account is suspended or deleted?

Deletion removes your account and the content held for it. Suspension stops access without immediately erasing data, so a mistake can be reversed. Neither can recover encrypted content once your keys are gone, and neither reaches copies already delivered to the people you were talking to.

Do these terms change?

Yes, when the implementation changes — the same rule the privacy page follows. Material changes are dated at the top of this page. Continuing to use Livara after a change means accepting the current version; if you would rather not, you can export your data and delete the account.

Read it, then use it

Six lines long. Then the detail.

If any of it reads as a promise Livara cannot keep, that is a bug in this page — say so, and it gets fixed here rather than defended.

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