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KiWi Vault Terms of Use

Effective Date: November 2, 2026

Developer: Nascentra Labs

Application: KiWi Vault (Android, distributed through Google Play)

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) form a legally binding agreement between you and Nascentra Labs (“Nascentra”, “we”, “us” or “our”) governing your download, installation, access to and use of the KiWi Vault mobile application, including its free features, KiWi Vault Premium, any updates, and any related documentation (together, the “Application”). By installing, opening or using the Application, or by purchasing any Premium entitlement, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our KiWi Vault Privacy Policy, which explains how information is handled and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, you must not install or use the Application and you should uninstall it. These Terms replace and supersede all earlier terms of use published for KiWi Vault with effect from the Effective Date stated above. Where you obtained the Application through Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service also apply to your relationship with Google; if there is a conflict between those terms and these Terms concerning the Application, these Terms govern as between you and Nascentra, except where Google’s terms are mandatory for the distribution of apps through Google Play. Nothing in these Terms limits any right you have under mandatory consumer protection law that cannot be excluded or waived by contract, and every provision of these Terms must be read subject to that principle.

2. Eligibility and Age

You may use the Application only if you are legally capable of entering into a binding contract in your country of residence and are not prohibited from receiving software under any applicable law. The Application is a general-audience privacy tool and is not directed to children. In particular, it is not designed for, marketed to, or intended to be used by children under the age of 13, or under any higher minimum age that applies to digital services in your country (for example, the age set by a European Union Member State under Article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which may be up to 16). If you are older than that minimum age but under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Application only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who must review these Terms and who accepts them on your behalf, including responsibility for any purchases. A parent or guardian who allows a minor to use the Application is responsible for supervising that use. Because the Application does not create accounts and does not collect personal information on servers operated by Nascentra, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and we design our practices to respect the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and comparable laws. If you believe a child is using the Application in breach of this section, please contact us using the details in the final section of these Terms so that we can consider any appropriate steps.

3. Description of the Application

KiWi Vault is an offline-first Android privacy vault. It allows you to place photos, videos, audio files, documents, other files and private notes behind a lock that you configure, using a PIN, password or pattern, and optionally biometric unlock through Android’s BiometricPrompt. When you hide an item, a copy is placed in the Application’s private, sandboxed internal storage on your device, and you may choose to delete the original from shared storage; when you unhide an item, a copy is restored to shared storage. Notes and the catalogue of hidden items are kept in a local database on your device. Other features include Calculator and Clock disguises, alternative launcher icons, a decoy mode, intruder detection, Vault-to-Vault sharing with nearby devices, receiving files shared from other apps, local in-vault search, a Recently Deleted area, recovery through security questions and an 8-digit recovery code, automatic locking, and optional on-device reminders and suggestions. The Application does not require an account, has no cloud synchronisation, and does not transmit your vault contents to servers operated by Nascentra. Feature availability may depend on your device model, Android version, region, language and whether you hold a Premium entitlement. Descriptions in the Google Play listing, screenshots or in-app text are illustrative and do not constitute a warranty that any specific feature will be available on every device or at all times, subject always to your statutory rights regarding conformity of digital content.

4. Licence Grant

Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, Nascentra grants you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence to download, install and use one copy of the Application in object code form on each Android device that you own or control, solely for your own personal, non-commercial purposes and in accordance with the Google Play Terms of Service and any usage rules that Google applies to purchased content, including family sharing rules where Google enables them for a particular product. Where you hold a Premium entitlement, this licence extends to the Premium features associated with that entitlement for as long as the entitlement remains valid. The Application is licensed, not sold. Nascentra and its licensors retain all right, title and interest in and to the Application, including all copies, updates, modifications and derivative works, and all rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms are reserved. No implied licence is granted under any patent, copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This licence does not entitle you to receive support, upgrades or new versions except as described in these Terms or as required by law. The licence will terminate automatically, without notice, if you fail to comply with any material term of these Terms, subject to the termination section below and to any mandatory rights you may have as a consumer under applicable law.

5. Your Content and Ownership

You retain all ownership rights you hold in the photos, videos, audio, documents, files, notes and any other material that you place in, create in or transfer through the Application (“Your Content”). Nascentra does not claim any ownership of Your Content and does not receive a licence to it, because the Application processes Your Content locally on your device and Nascentra has no access to it. You are solely responsible for Your Content, including its legality, accuracy, and the way you obtain, store, display, share and dispose of it. You represent and warrant that you have all rights, permissions and lawful bases necessary to store and process Your Content in the Application, including the consent of any identifiable person depicted in it where the law requires such consent, and that storing it does not infringe any copyright, trade mark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality or other right of any third party. The Application is a storage and concealment tool; it does not review, monitor, moderate or scan Your Content, and Nascentra does not endorse, verify or assume any responsibility for it. Hiding a file in the Application does not change its legal status: content that is unlawful to possess remains unlawful when it is stored in a vault. You acknowledge that because Your Content stays on your device, Nascentra cannot retrieve, inspect, correct, restore or delete it on your behalf, and any rights you exercise in relation to Your Content must be exercised by you directly within the Application or through your device settings.

6. Credentials, Recovery Options and Backups

You are solely responsible for choosing, safeguarding and remembering your PIN, password, pattern, decoy credential, security-question answers and 8-digit recovery code, and for keeping any biometric enrolment on your device under your control. The Application stores your PIN, password, pattern, security-question answers and recovery code only as salted, iterated cryptographic hashes (PBKDF2) on your device; Nascentra never receives them and has no master key, back door or reset mechanism. If you forget all of your credentials and cannot satisfy any recovery option you configured, Nascentra will not be able to unlock the vault or recover Your Content for you, and you should not contact us expecting such assistance. The Application may display an occasional in-app reminder, roughly twice a month, asking whether you still remember your recovery option; this is a convenience and does not shift responsibility to us. Android cloud and automatic backup are disabled for the Application, so vault contents are not backed up by Google or by Nascentra, and the Application offers no cloud backup or synchronisation of its own. Your Content may therefore be permanently lost if you uninstall the Application, clear its data, factory-reset your device, lose or damage the device, or lose access to your credentials and recovery options. You are responsible for keeping independent copies of anything you cannot afford to lose, in a manner and location you consider appropriate, before hiding it and before deleting any originals from shared storage.

7. Security Measures and Their Limits

We design the Application to protect the confidentiality of Your Content, but no software or device is invulnerable, and we make no guarantee that the vault cannot be accessed by others. Hidden items are kept in the Application’s private storage, which is protected by the Android operating system’s application sandbox and by device-level encryption where your device provides it. Credentials are stored as salted, iterated hashes, security settings are kept in encrypted preferences protected by an AES-256 key held in the Android Keystore, and some items are additionally encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Not every file stored in the vault is individually encrypted by the Application, and the protection of vault contents depends substantially on the integrity of your device and operating system. Protection may be weakened or defeated if your device is rooted, runs a modified or outdated operating system, lacks device encryption, is infected with malware, has accessibility or device-administrator services granted to untrusted apps, is subject to forensic extraction, or is accessed by someone who knows or observes your credentials or can enrol a biometric on it. You are responsible for keeping your device updated, using a strong screen lock, and avoiding untrusted software. Nothing in these Terms, the store listing or in-app text should be read as a representation that the Application is certified, audited or completely secure, and you should evaluate whether it is appropriate for your particular risks, especially where your safety may be at stake.

8. Disguise and Decoy Features

The Application offers features intended to make the vault less conspicuous, including Calculator and Clock disguises that make the vault appear to be a calculator or a clock, alternative launcher icons, and a decoy mode in which a separate decoy credential opens an empty vault while decoy state is kept only in memory. These features are designed to reduce casual discovery, not to guarantee concealment. The presence of the Application may still be detected by a person with access to your device, for example through the Android settings application list, storage usage, notifications, permission dialogs, Google Play purchase or installation history, backup records of other apps, or forensic examination. You must not rely on disguise or decoy features as a guarantee of personal safety, and if you are at risk of harm from someone with access to your device, you should seek help from appropriate support services or authorities. You agree not to use disguise or decoy features to deceive any person in a way that is unlawful, to obstruct a lawful search, inspection or legal process, or to conceal evidence that you are legally obliged to preserve or disclose. Nascentra does not represent that use of these features will be lawful in every jurisdiction or circumstance, and you remain responsible for complying with any legal obligation to provide access to your device or data that may apply to you, including obligations arising from court orders, border inspections or employment arrangements.

9. Intruder Detection and Lawful Use

When intruder detection is enabled, the Application may silently take a photograph with the front camera after an incorrect PIN, password or pattern is entered, and store that photograph locally with the time and the unlock method attempted. Only the vault owner can view these photographs, and they can be deleted at any time. The Application does not perform facial recognition, does not create biometric templates or identifiers, and does not upload these images. However, an image of an identifiable person is that person’s personal data, and capturing it may be regulated. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of intruder detection is lawful wherever you use it, including under laws on photographing or recording people without notice or consent, laws on covert surveillance, workplace and household monitoring rules, and data-protection laws such as the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation, under which the household exemption may not apply in every situation. Although the Application does not generate biometric identifiers, you must also respect biometric privacy statutes such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act and Washington’s biometric identifier law if you process images in ways those laws cover. Where required, you must give notice to, or obtain consent from, people who may use your device, including family members, employees and colleagues. You must not use intruder detection, or any other feature, to secretly photograph, monitor, track, stalk, harass or gather evidence against another person in breach of law.

10. Vault-to-Vault Sharing

Vault-to-Vault sharing lets you send files directly to another nearby device running KiWi Vault using Google’s Nearby Connections API, which is part of Google Play services and operates over Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi. Transfers occur device-to-device; Nascentra does not receive, store or have access to transferred files. Device discovery and connection are handled by Google Play services under Google’s own terms and privacy policy, and Android may require location permission for nearby device discovery on some versions, although KiWi Vault does not use it to determine or store your location. Before sending any file, you must ensure that you own it or have every right and permission necessary to share it, that sharing it is lawful in the jurisdictions of both sender and recipient, and that the recipient has agreed to receive it. You must not use sharing to send unsolicited, harassing, sexually explicit, defamatory or infringing material, or any image of a person who has not consented to its distribution where consent is legally required. You are responsible for verifying the identity of the device to which you connect and for confirming the transfer only with a person you intend to share with. Once a file has been delivered, it is under the control of the recipient, and neither you nor Nascentra can recall or delete it from the recipient’s device. Transfer success, speed and range depend on hardware, radio conditions, Google Play services versions and operating system settings, and are not guaranteed.

11. Acceptable Use and Prohibited Content

You must use the Application only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must not use the Application to create, store, conceal, transmit or share any content or material that is illegal in the place where you are located or where it is received, including child sexual abuse material or any content that sexually exploits or endangers minors, which we prohibit absolutely and which may be reported to authorities where we become aware of it through lawful means. You must not use the Application to store or distribute non-consensual intimate imagery, material obtained through hacking, theft or unlawful surveillance, content that infringes intellectual property or privacy rights, malware, or content that promotes terrorism or violent extremism. You must not use the Application to facilitate fraud, stalking, harassment, coercive control, human trafficking or any other crime. The Application is a personal privacy tool; it does not authorise, and must not be used for, evading a lawful investigation, destroying or concealing evidence, obstructing justice, or defeating a lawful order to produce information. Our inability to see Your Content does not mean we approve of any use of the Application, and we may cooperate with lawful requests from authorities to the extent we hold relevant information, which, given the design of the Application, will usually be limited to information that Google makes available to developers about purchases. A breach of this section is a material breach of these Terms and may result in termination of your licence and Premium entitlements to the extent permitted by law.

12. Restrictions and Anti-Circumvention

Except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by mandatory law, you must not, and must not permit or assist anyone else to: copy, modify, translate, adapt or create derivative works of the Application; decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Application, except to the extent such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this restriction, such as for interoperability under Article 6 of the EU Software Directive; rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, redistribute or make the Application available to third parties as a service; remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices; circumvent, disable or interfere with licence checks, Google Play Billing verification, Premium entitlement controls, security features, rate limits or other technical measures; distribute modified, cracked or repackaged versions of the Application or tools designed to unlock Premium features without payment; or access or attempt to access any device, data or vault that you are not authorised to access, including another person’s vault. Unauthorised access to computers and data may be an offence under laws such as the United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990, Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 and equivalent laws elsewhere, and circumvention of technological protection measures may be unlawful under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act and similar laws. Good-faith security research is welcome where conducted lawfully and reported to us responsibly.

13. Premium Subscriptions and Lifetime Purchase

Certain features are available only with KiWi Vault Premium. Premium is offered through Google Play Billing as auto-renewing weekly, monthly or annual subscriptions, and as a one-time lifetime purchase, in each case as presented in the Application and on the Google Play purchase screen at the time you buy. Prices are set in Google Play and shown in your local currency before you confirm, and may include or be subject to applicable taxes as determined by Google and the law of your location. The specific features included in Premium are described in the Application and may differ by version; if we materially reduce the core features of a paid entitlement during its term, you may have rights to a remedy under applicable consumer law. Payment is processed by Google, which acts as the merchant of record or payment processor for your purchase under the Google Play Terms of Service and Google Payments terms. Nascentra never receives or sees your card or payment details; Google may make order records, such as an order identifier, product, country, date and status, available to us through the Google Play Console for the purposes of support, fraud prevention, accounting and legal compliance. A lifetime purchase grants a non-expiring Premium entitlement for the Application, linked to the Google account used for purchase, for as long as we continue to make the Application available and subject to these Terms; “lifetime” refers to the lifetime of the Application, not of you or of any device, and does not include future separate products.

14. Free Trials

We may, at our discretion, offer a free trial on some Premium subscription plans. Whether a trial is available, its length, and any eligibility conditions are shown on the Google Play purchase screen before you confirm, and Google Play may limit trials to one per Google account or per payment method. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your subscription will automatically convert into a paid subscription at the end of the trial, and you authorise Google to charge the subscription price shown at the time you started the trial, together with any applicable taxes, for the first paid billing period and for each renewal period after that until you cancel. You can cancel during a trial through the subscriptions section of the Google Play Store, and you will usually retain access to Premium features until the trial expires; uninstalling the Application does not cancel a trial. Google Play typically notifies you before a trial converts into a paid subscription, in accordance with its policies, and you should keep your Google account contact details current so that you receive such notices. We may change, suspend or withdraw trial offers for future users at any time, without affecting a trial you have already started. If you obtain or attempt to obtain multiple trials through abusive means, such as creating additional accounts solely to obtain trials, we or Google may decline or cancel the trial to the extent permitted by law.

15. Automatic Renewal, Cancellation and Price Changes

Premium subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period, weekly, monthly or annually depending on the plan you selected, for the same period and at the then-current price, and your Google Play payment method will be charged at the start of each renewal period, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period or within any other window that Google Play specifies. We present the material terms of automatic renewal, including the price, the billing frequency, the fact that the subscription continues until cancelled, and how to cancel, before you purchase, and Google Play provides an acknowledgement of the purchase; we intend these disclosures to respect the California Automatic Renewal Law, the United States Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act and similar state and national laws. You can cancel at any time, using the same medium through which you subscribed, by opening the Google Play Store, selecting Payments and subscriptions, then Subscriptions, and cancelling KiWi Vault Premium. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep Premium access until then. Uninstalling the Application or clearing its data does not cancel a subscription. If we change the price of a subscription, Google Play will notify you in advance as required by its policies and applicable law, and, where the law or Google Play requires your affirmative consent to a price increase, the new price will not apply to you unless you accept it; if you do not accept, the subscription may end at the end of the current period.

16. Refunds and Statutory Withdrawal Rights

Because purchases are processed by Google, refund requests are handled under the Google Play refund policies, and you may request a refund through Google Play, typically from your order history or Google’s help pages. Nascentra may, in limited cases, be able to assist through the Google Play Console, but except as required by law we do not offer refunds or credits for partial billing periods or unused time. Nothing in this section limits any right you have under mandatory law. If you are a consumer in the European Union or European Economic Area, you generally have a right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days under the Consumer Rights Directive. For digital content not supplied on a tangible medium, that right is lost once performance has begun with your prior express consent and your acknowledgement that you thereby lose the right of withdrawal; when you purchase Premium and access is unlocked immediately, you will be asked to give that consent and acknowledgement. Your rights under the Digital Content Directive concerning conformity of digital content are not affected. Consumers in the United Kingdom have comparable rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015, including remedies where digital content is not of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose or as described. Consumers in Australia have guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, including a right to a refund or replacement for a major failure and compensation for other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage.

17. Restoring Purchases and Entitlement Issues

Premium entitlements are linked to the Google account used to make the purchase, not to a Nascentra account, because the Application does not use accounts. If you reinstall the Application, replace your device or reset it, you can restore an active subscription or a lifetime purchase by signing in to Google Play with the same Google account and using the restore option in the Application, or by allowing the Application to query Google Play Billing automatically. Restoring a purchase restores your Premium entitlement only; it does not restore any vault contents, credentials, intruder photographs or settings, which are not backed up and may already have been lost as described elsewhere in these Terms. Entitlements cannot be transferred between Google accounts except where Google Play provides a mechanism to do so, such as family sharing for eligible products. If a purchase does not appear after restoration, please first confirm that you are signed in with the correct Google account, that the purchase has not been refunded, cancelled or charged back, and that Google Play services are up to date; then contact us with your Google Play order identifier so that we can review the matter. We may revoke Premium access where Google notifies us that a purchase has been refunded, reversed, charged back or identified as fraudulent, or where entitlement was obtained in breach of these Terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

18. Permissions and Device Features

The Application requests Android permissions that are needed for particular features, and you can grant or refuse them through Android’s prompts and settings. These include camera access for intruder detection; all-files access on Android 11 and later so that the Application can move or delete originals from shared storage when you hide them; storage and media read or write permissions on older Android versions and for audio; biometric permission for fingerprint or face unlock through Android’s BiometricPrompt; notification permission for optional reminders; and Bluetooth, Nearby Wi-Fi Devices, Wi-Fi state and location permissions for Vault-to-Vault sharing, where Android requires them for discovering nearby devices. Biometric data is handled by your device’s secure hardware and is never accessible to the Application or to Nascentra; KiWi Vault does not use location permission to determine or store your location. If you decline a permission, the related feature may not work, and some features may become unavailable on certain Android versions as Google changes platform rules. Granting all-files access gives the Application broad ability to manage files in shared storage, and you are responsible for confirming any deletion of originals carefully, because deleted originals may not be recoverable outside the vault. You are responsible for the configuration of your device and for any charges imposed by your mobile carrier or internet provider in connection with downloading the Application, updates or using any feature that requires a network connection.

19. Reminders and On-Device Suggestions

The Application includes optional “For You” suggestions and smart reminders. To time these reminders, the Application records on-device usage patterns, such as the days and hours when you open it, and uses them to send at most one reminder notification per day, respecting quiet hours and reducing frequency when reminders are ignored. Reminders are not sent while a Calculator or Clock disguise is active, in order to avoid revealing the vault, but you should be aware that any notification, including those generated by Android or Google Play, may be visible to people who can see your screen. This usage information stays on your device, is not transmitted to Nascentra, and is not used for advertising, profiling for legal or similarly significant effects, or any purpose other than providing the feature. You can turn reminders off within the Application or disable notifications for the Application in Android settings at any time, and you can remove the stored usage information by clearing the Application’s data, subject to the data-loss consequences described in these Terms. Suggestions and reminders are offered for convenience only and are not advice of any kind; they may be inaccurate or poorly timed, and Nascentra is not responsible for decisions you make on the basis of them. We may change, reduce or remove the reminders and suggestions feature in future versions, and any such change will not by itself entitle you to a refund except where required by applicable consumer law.

20. Updates, Availability and Support

We may release updates that fix errors, improve security, add or change features, or adapt the Application to changes in Android, Google Play policies or law. The Application uses Google Play’s in-app update library to inform you of updates and, where you agree, to download and install them; some updates may be required for continued use of certain features or for security reasons. Where you are a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, we will supply updates, including security updates, that are necessary to keep the Application in conformity for the period required by applicable law, and you will be informed of them; if you fail to install an update within a reasonable time, we will not be responsible for a lack of conformity resulting solely from that failure, to the extent the law allows. We do not guarantee that the Application will be compatible with every device or Android version, will be available in every country, or will operate without interruption or error. We may discontinue the Application, or any feature, in whole or in part, but where you have paid for a subscription we will act in accordance with applicable consumer law, and where we discontinue Premium entirely we will consider in good faith any remedy that the law requires. Because the Application works offline and stores data locally, discontinuing distribution through Google Play does not automatically delete Your Content from your device. Support is provided on a reasonable-efforts basis through the contact channels below; we cannot provide support that requires access to Your Content or credentials.

21. Third-Party Services

The Application relies on services provided by third parties, principally Google. Google Play distributes the Application and processes purchases under the Google Play Terms of Service, Google Payments terms and Google’s Privacy Policy; Google Play Billing manages subscriptions, trials, renewals, cancellations and refunds; Google’s Nearby Connections API, part of Google Play services, handles device discovery and connections for Vault-to-Vault sharing; Google Play’s in-app update library delivers update prompts; and Android’s BiometricPrompt and Android Keystore provide biometric authentication and key storage. These third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy notices, which you should review, and Nascentra does not control and is not responsible for their availability, accuracy, security or data practices, or for any act or omission of Google, except to the extent that responsibility cannot be excluded under applicable law. Your device manufacturer and mobile operating system may also process information independently of the Application, for example in system logs, backups of other data, keyboards or file managers. Google is not a party to these Terms and has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Application, except as Google’s own terms provide. Links to third-party websites that appear in the Application or on our website are provided for convenience only and do not imply endorsement, and your use of them is at your own risk and subject to their terms.

22. Intellectual Property and Open-Source Software

The Application, including its code, design, user interface, graphics, icons, text, translations, the KiWi Vault name and logo, and the Nascentra name and logo, is owned by Nascentra or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property laws and international treaties. You may not use our names, logos or trade dress without our prior written permission, including in a way that suggests sponsorship or endorsement, or in any domain name, app name or advertising. Calculator and Clock disguises and alternative icons are part of the Application and are licensed to you only for use within it. The Application may include software components licensed under open-source licences, such as libraries from Android Jetpack and other open-source projects. Those components are subject to the terms of their respective licences, which may grant you rights in addition to, or override, the restrictions in these Terms solely with respect to those components; where an open-source licence requires us to provide notices or make source code available, we will do so in the Application, in its store listing or on request. Nothing in these Terms restricts any right you have under an applicable open-source licence. Third-party trade marks referred to in the Application or in these Terms, including Google, Google Play, Android and Bluetooth, belong to their respective owners, and their use does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement of Nascentra or the Application by those owners.

23. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, comments, bug reports, feature requests or other feedback about the Application, whether by email, WhatsApp, a review on Google Play or any other channel (“Feedback”), you grant Nascentra a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable and sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish and otherwise exploit that Feedback for any purpose, including improving the Application and developing new products, without any obligation to compensate you or to attribute the Feedback to you. You represent that you have the right to give any Feedback you submit and that it does not contain confidential information of a third party. Please do not include in Feedback any vault contents, passwords, PINs, patterns, recovery codes, security-question answers or intruder photographs, and do not send us sensitive personal data, because we do not need such information to provide support and cannot use it to unlock or recover a vault. Where Feedback contains personal information, such as your email address or phone number, we will handle it in accordance with our KiWi Vault Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law. Public reviews posted on Google Play are subject to Google’s policies, and we may respond to them publicly; we will not disclose the content of any private correspondence in such responses without your permission. Nothing in this section obliges us to review, implement or respond to any Feedback, and we may already be developing ideas similar to those you submit.

24. Privacy and Data Protection

Our KiWi Vault Privacy Policy describes how the Application handles information, including the fact that vault contents, notes, intruder photographs and usage patterns for reminders remain on your device, that the Application contains no analytics, crash-reporting or advertising software development kits and displays no advertisements, and that Google may share limited purchase order records with us through the Google Play Console. We design our practices to respect applicable data-protection laws, including, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation and ePrivacy rules, the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act and comparable comprehensive privacy laws in other US states, Canada’s PIPEDA and Quebec’s Law 25, Brazil’s LGPD, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, Singapore’s PDPA, Australia’s Privacy Act 1988, Japan’s APPI, South Korea’s PIPA, South Africa’s POPIA, the UAE PDPL, China’s PIPL where the Application is made available there, and Google Play’s User Data policy. Where you use the Application to process personal data of other people, for example through intruder detection or by storing or sharing images of others, you may be responsible for that processing under applicable law, and these Terms do not make Nascentra a processor of that data on your behalf, because Nascentra has no access to it.

25. Export Controls and Sanctions

The Application incorporates cryptographic functionality, including AES-256 encryption, PBKDF2 hashing and the use of Android’s cryptographic services, and may therefore be subject to export control laws, including the United States Export Administration Regulations, in particular the provisions governing mass-market encryption items, as well as the export, import and use laws of other countries. You agree to comply with all applicable export control and import laws and regulations, and you must not download, use, export, re-export or transfer the Application in violation of them. You represent and warrant that you are not located in, ordinarily resident in, or acting on behalf of any person or entity located in, a country or territory subject to comprehensive United States, United Nations, European Union or United Kingdom sanctions, and that you are not listed on, or owned or controlled by any person listed on, any sanctions or restricted-party list, including the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the US Commerce Department’s Entity List, or equivalent lists. You must not use the Application for any end use prohibited by export control law, including the development, production or use of weapons of mass destruction. Some countries restrict the import or use of encryption software, and you are responsible for determining whether you may lawfully use the Application where you are. We may restrict availability of the Application, or of Premium purchases, in particular jurisdictions to comply with these obligations or with Google Play’s distribution rules.

Nascentra respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Application to do the same. Because Your Content is stored only on your device and transferred device-to-device, Nascentra does not host Your Content and cannot remove it from any user’s device; however, if you believe that the Application itself, its store listing, our website or any material we publish infringes your copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights, please notify us at nascentra@gmail.com. To enable us to respond under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act or comparable laws, your notice should include your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work or other right claimed to be infringed; identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail for us to locate it; your name, postal address, telephone number and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf. If you believe material we removed was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice containing the information required by applicable law. Knowingly making a material misrepresentation in a notice or counter-notice may expose you to liability for damages. Complaints relating to content on Google Play may also be submitted directly to Google through its legal removal request process.

27. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and except as expressly stated in these Terms, the Application is provided “as is” and “as available”, and Nascentra and its licensors disclaim all warranties, conditions, representations and guarantees, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade. Without limiting the foregoing, Nascentra does not warrant that the Application will meet your requirements, will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, will prevent every form of unauthorised access to your device or vault, will keep the existence of the vault concealed, will capture an image of every intruder, will successfully complete any Vault-to-Vault transfer, or that Your Content will not be lost or corrupted. You acknowledge that you use the Application at your own discretion and that you are solely responsible for any loss of data resulting from its use, including through uninstallation or device failure. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. If you are a consumer, this section does not affect your statutory rights, including the statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law, the statutory rights under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015, and the legal guarantee of conformity under the EU Digital Content Directive as implemented in your Member State.

28. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Nascentra, its owners, personnel, contractors and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, Your Content, profits, revenue, goodwill, business opportunity or anticipated savings, or for the cost of substitute services, arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Application, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. In particular, and given that the Application stores data only on your device without backup, Nascentra will not be liable for loss of Your Content caused by forgotten credentials, uninstallation, clearing of data, device loss, damage or reset, operating system changes, or deletion of originals that you confirmed. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Nascentra’s total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Application will not exceed the greater of the total amounts you paid for the Application and Premium in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the liability, or, where you have paid nothing, the minimum amount permitted by applicable law. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including under consumer protection statutes in your country of residence.

29. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Nascentra, its owners, personnel, contractors and licensors from and against any claims, demands, actions, proceedings, liabilities, damages, losses, fines, penalties, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party or regulator, arising out of or relating to: Your Content; your use of intruder detection, including any claim by a person photographed by it; your use of Vault-to-Vault sharing, including any claim by a recipient or a person depicted in transferred material; your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law, including privacy, data-protection, surveillance, biometric, intellectual property, export control and sanctions laws; or your violation of any right of a third party. Nascentra will notify you promptly of any claim for which it seeks indemnity, will permit you to control the defence and settlement of the claim with counsel reasonably acceptable to Nascentra, and will provide reasonable cooperation at your expense; you may not settle any claim that imposes an obligation or admission on Nascentra without its prior written consent, which will not be unreasonably withheld. Nascentra may participate in the defence with counsel of its choice at its own expense. If you are a consumer, this indemnity applies only to the extent that the relevant loss was caused by your breach of these Terms or your unlawful or negligent conduct, and it will not be interpreted to impose on you any obligation that is unfair or unenforceable under the consumer protection laws of your country of residence.

30. Termination

You may stop using the Application at any time by uninstalling it, but uninstalling will delete vault contents stored in the Application’s private storage, and it does not cancel any active subscription, which you must cancel separately through Google Play. Before uninstalling, you should unhide or otherwise preserve any content you wish to keep. We may suspend or terminate your licence to use the Application, or your access to Premium features, if you materially breach these Terms, if required to do so by law, a court order or Google Play, or if we discontinue the Application, and where reasonably practicable and lawful we will give you notice and an opportunity to remedy a breach. Because Nascentra has no access to your device or vault, termination does not mean that we will delete or access Your Content; you remain responsible for removing the Application and dealing with Your Content in accordance with law. If we terminate a paid subscription for reasons other than your breach, you may be entitled to a pro-rata refund for the unused period where applicable law so requires. On termination, all licences granted to you end and you must stop using the Application, except to the extent necessary to retrieve Your Content where lawful. Sections concerning Your Content, credentials and data loss, restrictions, intellectual property, feedback, export controls, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, governing law and dispute resolution, and general provisions survive termination, together with any provision that by its nature should survive, and any accrued statutory rights you have.

31. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or the Application, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws applicable at the principal place of business of Nascentra Labs, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, while consumers keep the protection of the mandatory laws of their country of residence. Before starting any formal proceedings, you and Nascentra each agree to try to resolve the dispute informally: please contact us at nascentra@gmail.com with a description of the issue, the relief you seek and, if relevant, your Google Play order identifier, and we will respond in good faith and try to reach a resolution within 60 days. If the dispute is not resolved informally, either party may pursue it before the courts that have jurisdiction under applicable law. These Terms do not require arbitration and do not appoint any arbitral body. If you are a consumer, you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country or place of residence where mandatory law gives you that right, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of the protection of the courts or laws of that place. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction instead of pursuing other remedies. To the extent permitted by law, disputes will be resolved on an individual basis, but this sentence does not remove any collective or representative right that applicable consumer law guarantees and that cannot be waived. Either party may seek urgent interim or injunctive relief from a competent court to protect intellectual property or confidential information.

32. EU and UK Consumer Notes and Online Dispute Resolution

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the European Economic Area, you benefit from the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, including the national laws implementing the Consumer Rights Directive, the Digital Content Directive and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive, and nothing in these Terms affects those rights. The European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform, previously available for consumer disputes about online purchases, has been discontinued under EU law, and we therefore do not provide a link to it; you may instead contact the national consumer authority or a certified alternative dispute resolution body in your Member State, or the European Consumer Centres Network for cross-border issues. Nascentra is not obliged and does not currently commit to participate in a particular alternative dispute resolution procedure, but we will consider in good faith any proposal to use one. If you are a consumer in the United Kingdom, your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 are unaffected, and you may obtain advice from Citizens Advice or the equivalent service in your part of the UK. Consumers in other countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Pakistan and the United States, may also have rights under local consumer law that these Terms cannot exclude, and they may contact the consumer protection authority in their country for information about those rights.

33. Accessibility and Language

We aim to make the Application usable by as many people as possible, and we design it to work with Android’s built-in accessibility services, such as screen readers, font scaling and display settings, where those services are compatible with its security features. Some security functions, such as the hidden nature of disguises, automatic locking, silent intruder capture and pattern entry, may interact imperfectly with assistive technologies, and enabling third-party accessibility services can give those services the technical ability to read screen content, which you should consider when deciding whether to grant them access. If you encounter an accessibility barrier, please contact us, and we will consider reasonable steps to address it, consistent with applicable accessibility laws and the practical constraints of an offline application. The Application is localised into multiple languages, and we may make these Terms available in languages other than English for convenience. The English version of these Terms is the authoritative version and prevails in the event of any inconsistency, except where the law of your country of residence requires that a consumer contract be concluded in, or be interpreted according to, a version in your local language, in which case that mandatory rule applies. Translations within the Application, including feature descriptions and in-app notices, are provided in good faith but may contain inaccuracies, and you may contact us if any wording is unclear or appears to conflict with these Terms.

34. General Provisions

These Terms, together with the KiWi Vault Privacy Policy and any terms presented to you at the point of purchase, constitute the entire agreement between you and Nascentra regarding the Application and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, including earlier versions of the KiWi Vault terms of use. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court or authority of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable or, if that is not possible, severed, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision, and any waiver must be in writing to be effective. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent, and any attempted assignment in breach of this section is void. We may assign or transfer these Terms, in whole or in part, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets, or by operation of law, provided that the assignment does not reduce your rights as a consumer. Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship. Except as expressly provided, no third party has any right to enforce these Terms, including under the UK Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Headings are for convenience only, and the words “including” and “for example” mean without limitation.

35. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in the Application, our business, Google Play’s policies or applicable law. When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of these Terms and publish the revised version on our website and, where appropriate, make it accessible from within the Application. If a change is material, for example because it significantly affects your rights or obligations, the price or renewal terms of a subscription, or the way the Application handles information, we will give you reasonable advance notice through an in-app notice, the store listing or another appropriate method before the change takes effect, unless the change is required urgently by law or to address a security risk. Changes will not apply retroactively to disputes arising before the change, and no change will alter the price of a subscription period that you have already paid for. Where applicable law requires your consent to a change, we will seek that consent, and if you do not consent, the previous terms will continue to apply to you until your current subscription period ends or until we or you terminate in accordance with these Terms. Otherwise, your continued use of the Application after the revised Terms take effect constitutes acceptance of them. If you do not agree to revised Terms, you must stop using the Application and, where relevant, cancel your subscription through Google Play, after first preserving any content you wish to keep.

36. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about these Terms or the Application, or if you wish to give notice under these Terms, please contact Nascentra Labs by email at nascentra@gmail.com, by WhatsApp at +923477419855, or through the contact form at https://www.nascentra.com/contact/. To help us respond efficiently, please include the name of the Application, a clear description of your question or issue, your device model and Android version where relevant, and, for purchase-related matters, your Google Play order identifier. Please do not send us your PIN, password, pattern, recovery code, security-question answers, vault contents or intruder photographs, as we do not need them to assist you and cannot use them to recover a vault. We aim to acknowledge messages within a reasonable time and to resolve them in good faith, but response times may vary, and support does not include recovery of locked or lost data. Legal notices to you may be given through the Application, the Google Play store listing, our website or, where you have contacted us, the email address or phone number you used, and notices you send to us are effective when received at the email address above. For questions about payments, renewals, cancellations or refunds, you may also contact Google Play support directly, since Google processes all purchases. Thank you for choosing KiWi Vault; we hope it helps you keep your private files private while using it responsibly and lawfully.

Questions? nascentra@gmail.com