1. About the Service

FamilyBushes.com ("we", "us", "our") provides a web-based interface for creating, editing, and viewing family trees ("the Service"). Your family tree data, photos, and attachments are stored in our cloud infrastructure (Supabase) and are also cached locally in your browser for offline access. Trees are private by default; you can choose to share one by link or make it a public archive in the Public library (see section 6). An account is required to use the Service. We do not guarantee the safety, availability, or permanence of any data stored through the Service.

2. Data Storage and Responsibility

The Service stores your family tree data, photos, and attachments in our cloud infrastructure to enable access across devices. However:

• We do not guarantee cloud storage permanence. Cloud-stored data may be deleted at any time without notice, including due to account inactivity, service changes, or technical failure.
• Media files (photos and attachments) are uploaded to the cloud automatically. When you add photos or attachments, the Service uploads them to our cloud storage. A local cache is also kept in your browser's IndexedDB. Clearing your browser data will remove the local cache, but your media remains in the cloud as long as your account exists.
• You should still keep your own backups. Cloud storage can fail, accounts can be deleted, and the Service may be discontinued. Do not rely on FamilyBushes.com as your sole copy of important family data.

We strongly advise you to export your family tree regularly using the built-in export feature (File → Export .FBFT). The exported file contains your full tree data and all media, and should be kept on your own device or a backup service of your choice. We accept no liability for data loss.

3. Scope of the Service

FamilyBushes.com provides an interface for editing and visualising family trees. It is not a data archiving service, a genealogy research database, or a long-term document storage platform. Any cloud features are provided as a convenience and not as a substitute for keeping your own backups.

4. User Accounts

An account is required to use the Service. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or that have been inactive for an extended period.

5. User Content

You retain full ownership of all content you upload or create through the Service, including family tree data, photos, and file attachments ("User Content"). By uploading User Content you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store and serve that content solely for the purpose of providing the Service to you.

If you share a tree by link or make it a public archive, you also grant us, for that tree, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to show it to anyone who opens it, to list it in the Public library, to make previews of it, and to keep temporary copies needed to serve it quickly. This part of the licence ends when you turn the link off or make the tree private again, apart from temporary copies, which we remove shortly afterwards, and copies other people have already made (see section 6).

We are not responsible for User Content. We do not review, verify, or moderate content uploaded by users. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any content you upload:

• does not violate any applicable law or regulation;
• does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third party;
• does not include personal data about living individuals without their knowledge or consent where required by law;
• is not defamatory, obscene, or otherwise harmful.

We expressly disclaim all liability for any User Content. You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses, or damages arising out of or related to your User Content.

6. Sharing and Public Trees

Your trees are private by default: only you can see them. You can make a tree visible to others in two ways:

• A share link. Anyone who has the link can view the tree, without an account. You can turn the link off at any time.
• A public archive. The tree is listed in the Public library, where anyone can find and view it, and anyone can open it by its link, without an account. You can make it private again at any time.

Either way, people who view the tree see all of it: names, dates, places, notes, custom fields, photos and attachments. A public archive also shows its author by a nickname and picture generated from your account ID, and the account ID itself; your email address is not shown. Only you can edit your tree.

People who view a shared or public tree can copy it. They can save a copy to their own account and download it (as .fbft, CSV or text). Turning a link off or making a tree private stops new viewers, but we cannot recall copies others have already made. Do not share a tree you would not want copied.

You may use trees others have shared or published for your own personal genealogy. You may not republish them, sell them, or use them commercially without their author's permission, and you may not collect them in bulk (for example by scraping).

Before you share or publish a tree, you confirm that you are entitled to. Publishing information about people to anyone is generally not a private, household activity under data protection law, so you are responsible for what you make visible. In particular:

• information about living people (such as their names, birth dates, places, photos and relationships) should be published only with their consent or another lawful ground, and with extra care for children;
• do not publish sensitive information about living people, such as their health, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or political views, unless you are lawfully entitled to;
• you are responsible for the accuracy of what you publish, including trees the AI assistant built or changed. Do not publish untrue or defamatory statements about real people;
• you must have the right to publish any photos and documents in the tree.

We do not promise that a public archive will be listed, where it will appear, or that the Public library will stay available. We may remove a tree from the Public library, turn off its share link or make it private, for example after a valid report (see section 9) or if it breaks these terms.

7. Reviews and Testimonials

If you submit a review, rating, or testimonial through the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, and display that content in our marketing materials, including on the website, social media, and other promotional channels. We may attribute the review to your first name or display it anonymously, at our discretion. We will never use personal family data from your tree in marketing.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use the Service to store, share or publish content that is unlawful, harmful, or infringes on the rights of others. You are solely responsible for the content you add to family trees, including photos and personal information about living individuals. We reserve the right to remove any content or suspend any account that we reasonably believe violates these terms or applicable law, without prior notice.

9. Reporting Content and Takedowns

Anyone, including people who do not use the Service, can report a shared or public tree that they believe is illegal or violates their rights, for example one that publishes their or their children's personal details without consent, contains untrue statements about them, or infringes their copyright. Send your report to our point of contact, vladislavzhabinsky@gmail.com (in English), and include:

• the link to the tree, and which people, photos or details you mean;
• why you believe it is illegal or violates your rights;
• your name and email address (you may report anonymously for some kinds of illegal content, but we may then be unable to reply);
• a statement that your report is accurate and made in good faith.

For copyright, also identify the work you own and state that you are its owner or authorised to act for them.

We review reports promptly and may remove the content, make the tree private or turn off its share link. When we restrict your content, we tell you what we did and why, unless the law forbids it, and you can reply to us to contest the decision. We may suspend accounts that repeatedly publish illegal content, and ignore reports that are manifestly unfounded.

10. Ownership of the Service and No Copying

The Service, including its software, source code, design, layout, user interface, features, text, graphics and logos, is owned by us and protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. We grant you only a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service through our website and apps, under these terms.

We do not consent to anyone copying the Service. Without our prior written permission, you may not copy, reproduce, clone, imitate, modify, translate, adapt or create derivative works of the Service or any part of it; decompile, disassemble or reverse-engineer it, except where applicable law expressly permits this; scrape or extract its code, design or content to build a similar product or service; or distribute, sell, sublicense or host copies of it. Any use not expressly permitted by these terms is prohibited.

This does not limit your rights to your own content: your family trees, photos and files remain yours, and you may export them. The public specification of the .fbft file format may be used to read and write .fbft files.

11. Privacy and Data Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, you have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or UK GDPR regarding your personal data. The personal data we process includes your email address (used for authentication and service-related communications) and usage analytics. Our legal basis for processing is your consent (given when you create an account) and our legitimate interest in improving the Service.

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data at any time. To exercise these rights, contact us at vladislavzhabinsky@gmail.com. You may also delete your account and all associated data directly from within the Service (Account → Advanced → Delete Account). We will fulfil deletion requests within 30 days.

User Content you upload (photos, attachments, family tree data) may contain personal data about third parties (family members). You are the data controller for that content. For trees you keep private, we act as a data processor on your behalf and process it only to provide the Service. When you share a tree or make it a public archive, you remain responsible for the decision to publish it (see section 6), and we are responsible for running the Public library and handling reports and removal requests (see section 9). We do not use User Content for any other purpose, including advertising or model training.

When you use the Service's AI features, such as the assistant, what they need to answer you is sent to Anthropic, PBC, which provides the AI model: your messages, files you attach, and the parts of your family tree the assistant reads (such as names, dates, places, notes and relationships). Anthropic processes it only to produce the answer, as our service provider, and not to train its models. If you do not use AI features, nothing is sent to Anthropic. When you ask the assistant for the tree of a real person or family, it builds it from the model's general knowledge, which can be incomplete or wrong.

12. Cookies and Tracking

The Service uses cookies and similar browser storage mechanisms for the following purposes:

• Authentication. We store a session token in your browser so you remain signed in across page reloads.
• Preferences. We store your chosen language and colour theme locally so the app remembers your settings.
• Analytics. We use Microsoft Clarity to collect usage data (page visits, interactions, session recordings). It sets its own cookies. If you are signed in, your email address may be associated with this usage data to help us understand how the Service is used and to improve it. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we ask first, and it loads only if you accept; elsewhere it loads unless you decline. Anyone can change their answer at any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of the site.

The authentication and preference storage above is necessary for the Service to work and needs no consent. We do not use cookies for advertising or sell your data to third parties. You can clear cookies at any time through your browser settings, though this will sign you out and reset your preferences.

13. Privacy and Analytics

As described in section 12, we use Microsoft Clarity to understand how the Service is used and to improve it. When you are signed in, your email address may be associated with your usage data in it. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Please refer to our privacy policy for more details.

14. Subscriptions and Payments

Some features of the Service require a paid subscription. Subscriptions are processed through third-party payment providers. Prices and available plans may change at any time. Refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis — contact us at vladislavzhabinsky@gmail.com if you have billing questions.

Data retention after cancellation. When a paid subscription ends or is cancelled, your account reverts to the free plan and remains subject to its limits. We retain your cloud-stored data — including family trees, photos, and attachments — for three (3) months after the subscription lapses. If the subscription is not renewed within that period, we may permanently delete cloud-stored data, including photos and attachments, in order to manage storage costs. You can export your full family tree and media at any time using the built-in export feature (File → Export .FBFT), and we strongly recommend doing so before your subscription ends.

15. AI Features and Credits

Some features of the Service use artificial intelligence, such as the in-app assistant. Using them consumes credits from your account balance.

• Each request deducts credits, and the amount varies. Every request to an AI feature deducts a number of credits that we determine at our sole discretion. It may depend on, among other things, the length of your request and conversation, any files you attach, the size of the response, and the number of steps the feature takes. A single message may result in several requests. The amount is not fixed or predictable in advance, and we may change how it is calculated at any time without notice.
• We do not guarantee what credits will produce. We make no promise about the amount, quality, accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of the work that any number of credits will produce. Credits are deducted for requests that are processed, including when the result is incomplete, incorrect, unsatisfactory, stopped by you, or ends partway because your balance runs out.
• Credits are not refundable. Credits have no cash value and cannot be refunded, exchanged for money, or transferred to another account, whether they came with a subscription or were bought separately, except where the law requires otherwise. If a purchase of credits is refunded or reversed through the store or your bank, the credits from it that are left are removed from your account.
• Free and subscription credits last one month; bought credits do not expire. Credits you receive for free or with a subscription are meant to be used within one month of being added to your account. Those not used within that month may expire, and expired credits are not restored or refunded. Credits you buy as a credit pack do not expire. If you delete your account, all of its credits, bought or not, are deleted with it and are not refunded.
• Check AI output yourself. AI features can produce mistakes, including wrong names, dates, and relationships. You are responsible for reviewing any changes they suggest or make to your family trees, and for checking trees it builds about real people before you share or publish them.

16. 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 free of data loss. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, including loss of data.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page when changes are made.

18. Contact

For questions about these terms, contact us at vladislavzhabinsky@gmail.com.