Terms of Service
1. Acceptance of Terms
By creating an account, accessing, or using Bazinet Vault (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2. Experimental Service
Bazinet Vault, (bazinet.net), is a free, experimental software project operated as a hobby project and is actively under development.
The Service may contain bugs, vulnerabilities, design flaws, implementation errors, or other defects. Features may change, be removed, or stop functioning at any time.
The Service has not necessarily undergone independent security audits or formal certification.
You acknowledge that use of the Service involves risk and that you should not rely on the Service to store critical, highly sensitive, regulated, business, financial, medical, legal, or irreplaceable information.
3. Service Description
Bazinet Vault is designed as a zero-knowledge password manager.
The Service is intended to perform encryption and decryption on the user's device and to store encrypted vault data on the server.
However, no software, website, infrastructure provider, cryptographic implementation, or security control can be guaranteed to be secure or free from vulnerabilities.
Accordingly, we make no representation or warranty that unauthorized access, disclosure, corruption, loss, or compromise of data will never occur.
Our public pages may display third-party advertising (including Google AdSense), which helps keep the Service free. Advertising is never shown on pages where your vault is accessed. See the Privacy Policy for how advertising cookies and consent work.
4. User Responsibilities
You are solely responsible for:
- Choosing and protecting your master password.
- Protecting your devices, browser, operating system, email account, and network.
- Maintaining backups of any information important to you.
- All activity performed through your account.
The Service is designed so that we do not normally possess your master password.
There may be no password recovery mechanism.
If you forget your master password, lose access to your account, or lose encrypted data, recovery may be impossible.
5. Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- Violate applicable laws.
- Abuse, disrupt, or interfere with the Service.
- Attempt unauthorized access to systems, accounts, or data.
- Circumvent security controls.
- Use the Service for fraudulent, harmful, or malicious activities.
6. Availability
The Service is provided on a best-effort basis.
We do not guarantee:
- Availability.
- Reliability.
- Uptime.
- Compatibility.
- Data retention.
- Continued operation of the Service.
The Service may be modified, suspended, restricted, or discontinued at any time without notice.
7. No Warranty
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."
WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SECURITY, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE SECURE, ERROR-FREE, AVAILABLE, OR FREE FROM DATA LOSS.
8. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU USE THE SERVICE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
BAZINET VAULT, ITS OWNER, CONTRIBUTORS, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS, DAMAGE, CLAIM, COST, OR EXPENSE ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO:
- Data loss.
- Corrupted data.
- Forgotten passwords.
- Security incidents.
- Unauthorized access.
- Service interruptions.
- Bugs or software defects.
- Third-party service failures.
- Loss of profits, business opportunities, revenue, or information.
- Reliance on the Service.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF CAD $10 OR THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE PRECEDING 12 MONTHS.
Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded under applicable law.
9. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Bazinet Vault, its owner, operators, and contributors from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from:
- Your use of the Service.
- Your violation of these Terms.
- Your violation of applicable law.
- Your misuse of the Service.
10. Account Suspension and Termination
We may suspend, restrict, disable, or terminate access to the Service at any time for operational, maintenance, security, abuse-prevention, legal, or business reasons.
We are not responsible for any resulting loss of access or data.
11. Changes
We may modify these Terms at any time.
Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
12. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.
Nothing in these Terms limits any rights that cannot legally be waived or excluded under applicable law.
13. Contact
Questions regarding the Service, these Terms, the Privacy Policy, account requests, or support matters may be directed to: