Terms of Service

Last updated September 2026. This is a draft pending formal legal review and may change.

The short version. MyOrigins.io helps you have a guided conversation about your family history, does background research using AI and web search, and lets you invite relatives to contribute their own memories. You must be 18 or older to create an account. You're responsible for what you enter and who you invite. Research findings are AI-generated and can be wrong - verify anything important yourself before relying on it.

1. What MyOrigins.io is

MyOrigins.io ("we," "us," the "Service") is a conversational tool for recording family history: an AI-guided interview, document upload and transcription, background genealogical research, and a way to invite family members to contribute their own memories. It is a research and storytelling aid, not a professional genealogy, legal, or records service, and its output is not a substitute for professional genealogical certification, legal advice, or an official vital record.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. By creating one, you confirm that you meet this requirement. You're responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account. Let us know right away if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

3. Inviting other people

You can invite other people ("contributors") to share their own memories through the Service. When you do, you're representing that you have a genuine relationship with that person and a good-faith basis for reaching out to them. Don't use the invite feature to contact people who have asked not to be contacted, or for any purpose other than inviting a real family member or acquaintance to contribute to a family history project.

4. Your content

You keep ownership of the stories, facts, and documents you and your contributors provide (your "Content"). You grant us a license to store, process, and use your Content solely to provide and improve the Service - for example, to run the interview, extract facts from documents you upload, and generate research based on what you've shared. We do not sell your Content and do not use it to train third-party AI models beyond what's needed to generate your own responses in the moment (see the Privacy Policy for detail on the AI providers involved).

You're responsible for having the right to share any document or story you upload, including anything belonging to or concerning another living person. Family history often touches on other people's lives - be thoughtful about what you share about people who haven't consented to being part of your project, particularly living relatives.

5. AI-generated research and its limits

Research findings, transcriptions, and extracted facts are generated by AI systems, including AI-driven web searches. They can be incomplete, outdated, or simply wrong. We tag findings with an evidence-quality indicator (for example, "documented" versus "hypothesis") to help you gauge reliability, but this is a guide, not a guarantee. Verify anything important - names, dates, legal relationships, medical or biographical claims - against original sources before relying on it, publishing it, or acting on it.

6. Acceptable use

Don't use the Service to:

7. Termination

You can delete your data or close your account at any time from the Account page. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or that we reasonably believe pose a risk to the Service or its users.

8. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that research findings will be accurate or complete. To the fullest extent permitted by law, MyOrigins.io and Live, Love, Learn, Leave a Legacy LLC are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service.

9. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. The "last updated" date above reflects the current version. Continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the updated terms.

10. Contact

Live, Love, Learn, Leave a Legacy LLC
livelovelearnleavealegacy@gmail.com