1. Acceptance of terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you (or the entity you represent) and DeepSecret ("DeepSecret", "we", "us"). By creating an account, signing in, installing or using the DeepSecret CLI, or otherwise accessing the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" refers to that organization.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. The Service

DeepSecret provides an identity-to-identity end-to-end encrypted secret exchange platform, including a hosted control plane, a single-binary command-line interface (secret <command>), and supporting websites (collectively, the "Service"). Encryption is performed on the sender's device using HPKE (RFC 9180) with a hybrid X25519MLKEM768 KEM and AES-256-GCM AEAD; integrity is provided by dual Ed25519 (RFC 8032) and ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) signatures. Ciphertext is stored in an S3-compatible bucket that you own and configure (Section 5).

3. Accounts & authentication

4. Organizations & roles

DeepSecret organizations are scoped to a verified DNS domain. Owners and administrators are responsible for managing actor membership, role assignments (owner / admin / actor), and policy configuration. Organization administrators may view audit logs, manage actors, and configure organization-wide policies. Org-wide policies override less-restrictive sender-specified policies; the Service stamps each enforced policy with its source.

5. Bring-your-own bucket (BYOB)

You provide and maintain the S3-compatible storage bucket(s) used to store ciphertext. You are responsible for: provisioning the bucket, configuring access credentials with appropriate least-privilege permissions, paying any storage and egress fees charged by your storage provider, and lifecycle/retention policies on that bucket. The Service writes encrypted payloads to your bucket and reads them on behalf of authorized recipients; we do not retain a copy of your ciphertext on our infrastructure.

Loss of access to your bucket (for example, deleted credentials, deleted bucket, or storage-provider outage) will prevent the Service from delivering ciphertext stored there.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

7. Fees, billing & trials

8. Customer content

"Customer Content" means any data you upload, transmit, or otherwise submit through the Service, including the plaintext of secrets you encrypt locally and the ciphertext stored in your bucket. As between the parties, you retain all rights in Customer Content. You grant DeepSecret a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, transmit, and process Customer Content solely as necessary to provide the Service to you and consistent with our Privacy Policy. We do not have access to plaintext and cannot read the contents of secrets.

You represent and warrant that you have the rights necessary to upload Customer Content and that doing so does not violate law or any third-party right.

9. Intellectual property

DeepSecret and its licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including software, design, documentation, and trademarks. Subject to these Terms, DeepSecret grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service during the term. No rights are granted by implication or estoppel.

Open-source components of the CLI are licensed under their respective licenses, which control over these Terms with respect to those components.

10. Confidentiality

Each party will protect the other's non-public information disclosed under these Terms with the same degree of care it uses to protect its own confidential information (and no less than reasonable care), and will use such information only to exercise rights and perform obligations under these Terms.

11. Beta & pre-release features

Features designated as "beta", "preview", "experimental", or similar are provided for evaluation purposes, may be modified or discontinued at any time, and are excluded from any service-level commitments and from the warranties below.

12. Warranties & disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." Except as expressly stated in a separate written agreement, DeepSecret disclaims all warranties, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure against every adversary, or that any defects will be corrected.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (a) neither party will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, even if advised of the possibility; and (b) each party's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms and the Service will not exceed the fees you paid to DeepSecret for the Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or one hundred US dollars (USD $100), whichever is greater. The foregoing limitations do not apply to liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

14. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DeepSecret from and against any third-party claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and reasonable attorneys' fees arising out of (a) your Customer Content, (b) your use of the Service in violation of these Terms or applicable law, or (c) your infringement or misappropriation of any third-party right.

15. Term & termination

16. Export controls & sanctions

The Service includes cryptographic functionality. You represent that you are not located in, and will not access the Service from, a country subject to comprehensive US sanctions, and that you are not on any restricted-party list. You will comply with all applicable export-control and sanctions laws.

17. Governing law & disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, and the parties consent to that jurisdiction and venue. Nothing in this section limits a party's right to seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may modify these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email to account administrators or by a prominent notice on the website at least 30 days before they take effect, except where a shorter period is required by law or to address a security or legal issue. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email hello@deepsecret.io. For privacy and data-rights requests, see our Privacy Policy.