The fine print,
without the fog.

Terms of use

What you.wiki is

you.wiki gives every human one permanent page. You build it, you claim it, and the people who know you confirm it. By using you.wiki you agree to these terms.

Your page, your words

Everything you write on your page is yours. By publishing it you give us permission to store it, display it publicly, and keep it in the permanent archive; that's the entire point of the product. You can edit your page at any time; edits create new versions and old versions are preserved, because the archive is append-only by design.

One human, one page

You may claim exactly one page, and it must be about you. Claiming a page as someone you are not (impersonation) is the one unforgivable act here. Contested names are resolved by the trust ladder: a page confirmed by real, mutual connections outranks a bare claim, and verified community reviewers arbitrate disputes. We never reassign a page silently.

What you may not publish

No content that is illegal, that harasses or endangers another person, or that publishes someone else's private information without their consent. Pages that cross these lines can be unpublished pending review; the version history is retained, and the decision is recorded.

Payments

Every price on you.wiki is one-time. There are no subscriptions and nothing you own here can expire. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number. The free page is free forever.

Refunds

Changed your mind? Write to support@you.wiki within 14 days of a payment and we refund it, no questions asked. The one exception is honest and small: a numbered Founding Seal that has already been issued to your page ties up that number, so refunding it releases the number back to the pool. Refunds are returned the way you paid, through Stripe.

Age

Claiming a page is for people 16 and older. Younger than 16, a parent or guardian claims beside you and holds the email key until you take it over. A family tree may NAME children of any age, and trees are private by default; publishing a child's page or photos to the public archive is not allowed (see Children, below).

Who runs this

you.wiki is run by Trade Vessel P.C., a Greek private company (IKE), registered at [REGISTERED ADDRESS], GEMI number [GEMI NUMBER]. The company holds the domain, the archive and the payment account, and it is the data controller named in the privacy policy below. It was started by Constantinos Darzentas, and he is still the person behind it; his own page is you.wiki/constantinosdarzentas. The archive's custody plan (what happens to the data if the company ever winds down) is written in the Questions page, under "How can you possibly promise this lasts to the year 3000?".

No warranty, plain version

We work to keep the archive alive and correct, and we design for permanence, but you.wiki is provided "as is", and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect damages arising from its use. Your agreement is with Trade Vessel P.C., and these terms are governed by the laws of Greece.

Privacy policy

The short version

We collect almost nothing. One email address if you claim a page (it is your key to it), never a password, never an advertising profile. Your page is public because you publish it. Your drafts live on your own device until you do.

Who holds it

Trade Vessel P.C., the Greek company named under "Who runs this" above, is the data controller for everything in this policy. It decides what is kept here and it answers for it. Write to legal@you.wiki and a person answers.

What we store, and why

On your device: your draft page and claim record live in your browser's local storage. They never leave your device until you publish. In the archive: once you publish: your page content, your chosen address, and the connections you confirm. All of it is public by your own choice. For your key: the email address you claim with, held by our authentication provider (Supabase) and our email carrier (Resend) solely to send you sign-in links. It is never shown publicly, never sold, and never used for marketing.

What is public, and what you control

Our position, plainly: your page is public because publishing it is the point: your name, your story, your chapters. But anything that names other people is yours to control: your Core Circle is private by default and appears publicly only if you switch it on. Drafts are always device-only. Claim records, credentials, and payment identifiers are never public, ever.

What we never do

We do not sell data. We do not run advertising. We do not track you across the web. We do not build engagement profiles; there is no feed to optimize. We do not use your content to train AI models.

Who processes data for us

Vercel (hosting and content delivery), Supabase (the database that holds published pages, and sign-in; stored in the EU, in Ireland), Resend (delivering sign-in emails), Stripe (payments), and Sentry (catching errors, and, only with your consent, anonymized visit recordings kept in the EU). Each receives only what its job requires.

Children

A family tree names children, and trees are private by default. The public archive is for people who write their own lives when they are ready: keep children's pages and photos out of public view. A parent or guardian can always have a child's data removed, through "Report a page" on any page or by writing to legal@you.wiki.

Your rights

You can export your page at any time (Settings → Export): every version, every connection, one file. You can correct anything by editing it. You can ask us to erase you. You can complain to the data protection authority in your country. Write to legal@you.wiki and a person answers.

If you ask to be erased

Write to legal@you.wiki from the address you sign in with. A person here does it by hand and writes back to tell you it is done. The law gives us one month. There is no form and no fee.

What goes

Your words go. Every version of your page we ever saved is emptied, not only the one showing today. Your pictures come off all of them. Your address goes: you.wiki/yourname turns into a short code that means nothing. Your sign-in goes, so nobody can open the page again, including you. Your name comes off the invitations you sent to other people.

If you can still find anything of yours on you.wiki after we tell you it is done, send us the link. That is part of the same request, not a new one.

What stays, and why

The shape of history stays. Every version keeps its number and its place in the chain, with an empty space where your words were. We are not keeping a copy of you; the words are gone. We are keeping the frame, because the frame is what lets everyone else's page still prove it has not been edited behind their back. Pull your rows out and every record saved after yours stops proving itself.

The connections you confirmed stay as events, with your name off them. Where your page was, one line is left: a record here was erased at the request of the person it was about. Not your name. Not your address.

A receipt stays: the date, the reason for the request, and how many versions were emptied. It is never public. We keep it so we can show that we did what you asked.

If you paid us, the payment record stays. Tax law decides how long we have to keep what we were paid. Your name comes off it. The reference that ties it to Stripe stays, because that is how the books balance, and Stripe keeps its own copy under its own rules.

If someone else's page names you

A family tree names real people, and some of them never came here. If a page names you and the page is not yours, you can still ask to be taken out of it. You do not need an account to ask.

Write to legal@you.wiki. Give us the address of the page (you.wiki/name) and the name on it that is you, and tell us enough for us to be sure it is you, so that we do not take out the wrong person. A person here does it by hand and writes back to tell you it is done. The law gives us one month. There is no form and no fee.

Here is what we do, so that nothing about it is a surprise. Your name comes off that spot, and so does any link to a page. The spot itself stays, and from then on it reads as the relationship: it says Mother, and nothing else. A tree needs every one of its positions or it stops being a tree, and everyone hanging below that spot would fall off the page with your name. The position belongs to the family. The name was yours, and it goes.

This is for living people. A page or a tree entry about someone who has died is a memorial, and holding the dead in the record is what this place is for. If something written about a person who has died is wrong or cruel, write to us anyway and a human reads it.

One thing worth knowing before you write: a family tree is private unless the person who made it switched it on, and private here means private in the database, not just hidden on the screen. Most trees have never been shown to anybody but the person who wrote them. We do not write to everyone a tree names to tell them they are in it. We answer the people who ask.

The fingerprint on the blockchain

You may have read that the archive is sealed on a blockchain. Here is exactly what that is. Once a day the whole archive is folded into one number, thirty-two bytes long, made from a fingerprint of every saved version and every confirmed connection. That one number is the only thing that ever goes onto a chain. Nothing else does.

It holds no names, no photographs and no text. It cannot be unfolded. Nobody can read a person out of it. All it can prove is that the archive on a given day was exactly what we say it was.

A number that is already on a chain cannot be taken back, by us or by anyone. It does not need to be. It never held your words, only a fingerprint of a fingerprint, and that road runs one way.

Cookie policy

The whole policy in one breath

you.wiki uses no advertising cookies and no third-party trackers. One repair tool (Sentry) catches errors so we can fix what breaks; with your OK, given once in a small banner, it may also keep a short, anonymized recording of a visit with all writing hidden. Say no and everything still works, and we never ask again.

The two things we do set

Local storage (not a cookie): your draft page, your theme choice, and your claim record, so your work survives a refresh. It stays on your device. A sign-in session cookie (set by our authentication provider only after you sign in with your email link): it keeps you signed in so you can edit your own page from any device without re-verifying on every save. It identifies your session, never your browsing.

How to clear them

Your browser's "clear site data" removes everything. Export your page first (Settings → Export) if you want to keep your draft.

Report a page

If a page pretends to be you, names you wrongly, shows a child, or wrongs a person living or dead, write to legal@you.wiki with the page's address (you.wiki/name) and what is wrong. A human reads every report. If the page breaks our rules we take it out of public view while we look, and we answer you either way. The owner of a page can always correct their own page by editing it, and anyone named on someone else's page can ask to be removed from it.