The agreement between you and Aftr Limited for use of the Aftr digital estate planning service.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Aftr Limited (NZBN 9429120) (“Aftr”, “we”, “our”), a New Zealand company. By creating an account or using the Aftr service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use Aftr.
These Terms apply alongside our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, which are incorporated by reference.
Aftr is operated from New Zealand. Your use of Aftr is governed by New Zealand law regardless of where you are located. By using Aftr, you agree to this.
Aftr is a digital estate planning tool that helps you organise your digital assets, record your life story, manage your family relationships, and give your executor verified, legal access to your digital estate if you pass away. It includes:
You must be at least 18 years old to use Aftr. By creating an account, you confirm that you are 18 or older and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement under the laws of your jurisdiction.
You are responsible for:
Because Aftr uses zero-knowledge encryption, we cannot reset or recover your master password. If you forget it, your encrypted Vault content cannot be accessed by anyone.
Aftr is offered on a paid subscription basis. Payments are processed by Stripe. Aftr does not store or process your payment card details.
Prices for international (non-NZ) users are displayed in United States Dollars (USD), exclusive of any applicable local taxes. You are responsible for any taxes, duties, or charges applicable in your jurisdiction.
Plans available at time of writing (USD, international pricing):
We reserve the right to change our pricing. We will give you at least 30 days’ notice before any price increase affects your subscription.
If you join Aftr before 1 September 2026, you qualify as a Founding Member. Founding Members receive a locked price:
The Founding Member price lock is non-transferable. It applies to your account only.
The annual plan includes a 30-day free trial on your first subscription. No credit card is required to start. The trial is available once per account.
If you do not subscribe at the end of the trial, your account becomes inactive. Your data is preserved. You can reactivate at any time by subscribing.
When you delete your account from your account settings:
Bookshelf entries are end-to-end encrypted. Manual sharing with named recipients is available and uses envelope encryption. A future ON_DEATH auto-release feature is not yet live and will require explicit opt-in when it becomes available.
The Life Story feature uses OpenAI for voice transcription and AI-generated narrative stories. By using these features, you acknowledge and agree that:
Written Life Story entries do not trigger any data transfer to OpenAI.
You agree not to use Aftr to:
Your content is yours. You retain all ownership rights in the content you store in Aftr. By storing content in Aftr, you grant us a limited licence to store, encrypt, and transmit that content solely for the purpose of providing the service to you.
The Aftr software, design, and brand are owned by Aftr Limited and protected by New Zealand and international intellectual property laws.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages. To the extent such laws apply, some of the above limitations may not apply to you.
We aim to maintain the service with reasonable availability. We do not guarantee 100% uptime. Aftr is an early-stage product. There may be periods of maintenance, downtime, or feature unavailability. We will notify you of scheduled maintenance by email where practicable.
By you: You may close your account at any time from your account settings. See “Account deletion” above for what happens to your data.
By us: We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if we cease operating the service. Where we terminate for breach, we will give at least 14 days notice and an opportunity to export your data, except in cases of serious breach, fraud, or legal compulsion.
If Aftr Limited ceases operations, we will give paid subscribers at least 90 days notice by email and provide a data export before shutting down.
If we confirm a material security breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you by email within 72 hours of confirming the breach.
We want to resolve any issue you have. Before initiating any formal legal process, please email us at support@aftr.co.nz describing your concern. We will make a good-faith effort to resolve disputes by email within 30 days.
If we cannot resolve the dispute informally, either party may then pursue their rights under applicable law.
Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive or interim relief from a court of competent jurisdiction.
These Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand, regardless of where you are located. This is valid and standard for a New Zealand company serving international users.
Any formal dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms will be subject to the jurisdiction of the New Zealand courts. You acknowledge and consent to this jurisdiction. This does not prevent you from also having rights under the consumer protection laws of your own jurisdiction.
If any part of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts continue in full force.
We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify you by email and update the effective date above. We will give you at least 14 days’ notice before material changes take effect.
If you continue to use Aftr after the new Terms take effect, you accept the updated Terms.