encrypt.to

Terms of Service

Effective 2026-09-01 · Operated by Gargoyle Labs LLC

These terms cover your use of Encrypt.to. By creating an account, or by creating a one-time link, you agree to them. If you do not, do not use the service.

What the service does

You upload documents, which are encrypted in your browser. You name recipients and set a check-in interval. If you stop checking in, we send reminders, wait out a grace period, hold for a further 48 hours, and then send each recipient a link to the documents you assigned them. Any check-in at any point resets the clock.

This is not a will, and we are not your lawyer

Encrypt.to is a delivery mechanism, not a legal instrument. Nothing you store here has testamentary effect, and using it does not create a will, a trust, a power of attorney, or any other legal document. It does not replace an executor, a solicitor, or a probate process. If you are planning an estate, get advice from someone qualified to give it and treat this service as a way of getting material to people, not as the plan itself.

What we do not promise

We may fail to deliver. Software has defects, providers have outages, email is unreliable, addresses go stale, and companies close. We build carefully — the system refuses to fire when it cannot prove it was reachable, and it will not treat a failed send as a delivered one — but we cannot guarantee that a delivery will happen, or happen on time. Do not rely on this service as the only route by which something important reaches someone.

We may deliver in error. A defect, or a period in which you were alive but genuinely unable to check in, could cause documents to be sent when you did not want them sent. A delivery cannot be recalled. Choose what you store here with that in mind.

Your responsibilities

  • Keep your password and your 15-word recovery code safe. We cannot reset your password and cannot recover your documents without one of them — that is a consequence of not being able to read them, not an oversight.
  • Check in. Reminders go to the email address on your account, so keep it current and reachable.
  • Choose recipients carefully, and make sure you are entitled to give us their contact details for this purpose.
  • Do not use the service to store or transmit anything unlawful, or to harass anyone.

Open Link recipients

If you designate a recipient as an Open Link, documents assigned to them are readable by us and could be produced under legal compulsion. The product tells you this at the point of choosing, and requires you to acknowledge it. By choosing it you accept that the zero-knowledge protection does not apply to those documents.

Recipients did not sign up

People you name have no account and have agreed to nothing. If a delivery happens they will receive an email they did not ask for. They may contact us at support@encrypt.to and ask what we hold, and ask us not to contact them again — which may mean a delivery you intended cannot be completed.

One-time links

Anyone can use the free one-time link tool at /drop without an account. The message or file is encrypted in your browser and the key is carried in the link, which we never receive, so we cannot read it, cannot recover it, and cannot tell what it is. The link opens once; after that, or at the expiry time you chose (at most seven days), we destroy the encrypted copy. Anyone holding the link can open it, so where you send it is your responsibility. If you add a password, we never receive it and cannot recover it or the contents without it. Files are limited to 5 MB, and creating links is rate-limited per connection and in total. You must not use it to send anything unlawful, malware, or material you have no right to share, and we may disable a link that is reported to us as abusive. It is provided free and as-is, with no promise that a link will be delivered, opened, or available.

Subscription

Encrypt.to is a paid subscription. The base plan includes 100 MB of encrypted storage; larger allowances cost more. You can move to a smaller plan once your stored data fits inside it — we will never delete your documents to make a downgrade possible.

If a payment fails. A failed payment will never cause your documents to be sent, and will never stop them being sent. Only your check-ins decide that.

If your subscription lapses we will keep trying to reach you, and your trigger stays armed and unchanged until it either fires or you check in. If you are checking in — so we know you are there — we will not deliver anything; we will ask you to fix the payment, and if you do not we will eventually close the account and delete your documents, after telling you first and giving you time to retrieve them.

Ending the agreement

You may close your account at any time, which deletes your documents and disarms your trigger. We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, or discontinue the service; if we discontinue it we will give you reasonable notice and time to retrieve your documents.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, Gargoyle Labs LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the service, including loss resulting from a delivery that did not happen, happened late, or happened when it should not have. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply only as far as permitted.

Changes and governing law

We may update these terms; material changes will be notified by email to the address on your account. These terms are governed by the law of the State of Michigan, United States.

Contact

support@encrypt.to · See also our Privacy Policy.