The Perpetuity Charter. A covenant in five articles.

A fixed share of every fee, on every plan, is set aside as a hosting reserve at the moment a memorial is published. That reserve exists to pay for storage and bandwidth for years in which nothing else is paid. It is not spent on marketing or salaries.

The rest of the fee pays for the work: design, the archive vault, and the permanent hosting.

From the dashboard the owner can download the complete archive as a single file: every original photograph, film, recording and document at full resolution, all the text and data in an open format, and a copy of the memorial as plain web pages that open in any browser without us.

A printable memorial book can be generated at any time.

Every owner can name a successor: the person who inherits control of the memorial. When the time comes, ownership passes to them with one action, and the previous owner keeps editing access.

A memorial can be public, unlisted, or private behind a family passcode. On a public memorial, chosen sections can be kept for passcode holders only. We never store the passcode itself, only a salted hash of it.

We intend to operate for a very long time. If that were ever to change, this is what would happen, in this order.

Every family would receive at least twelve months notice by email and on the memorial dashboard, their complete archive without needing to ask, and the release of any connected custom domain. The plain-page copy of each memorial would be delivered so it can be hosted by the family or by another service.

The hosting reserve would be used to keep memorials online throughout that notice period.