In plain English, the agreement between you and me.

Who these Terms apply to

These Terms cover everyone who interacts with Armadoc: people who create an account and send files (senders), people who receive a file via an Armadoc link (recipients), and visitors who just browse the marketing site. By signing up, sending, receiving, or otherwise using the service, you agree to these Terms.

If you’re using Armadoc on behalf of an employer or organization, you’re confirming you have the authority to bind that organization, and “you” in these Terms means both you and them.

These Terms apply to armadoc.link and any subdomain, plus the underlying API and infrastructure.

Your account

Eligibility. You need to be at least 18 years old to use Armadoc. If you’re not, please don’t sign up.

Signing in. Armadoc has no passwords. Your email address is your account identifier and is always required — sign-in codes go there by default. You can optionally add a phone number to receive sign-in codes by SMS instead. By signing up, you confirm you own and control the email (and phone, if you add one) on your account, and you agree that anyone who can receive a sign-in code can access your account. If you stop controlling either — for example, you change phone carriers and lose the number — update or remove the identifier from your account before you lose access.

SMS consent. Adding a phone number is optional. If you add one, you’re consenting to receive automated text messages from Armadoc containing your sign-in codes — and nothing else. I do not send share notifications, billing messages, marketing, or any other texts to your phone. Message frequency depends on how often you sign in (one code per sign-in attempt). Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply. You can remove the phone number from your account anytime while you’re signed in.

Account responsibility. You’re responsible for what happens through your account. Keep your sign-in identifier and the device receiving codes secure. If you think your account has been accessed by someone else, email hello@armadoc.link and I’ll help.

One person, one account. Armadoc accounts are for individuals. Don’t create multiple accounts to evade limits, plan boundaries, or suspensions.

Plans and billing

Armadoc has a Free tier and a Pro tier. The current features and limits of each plan are on the pricing page — that page is the source of truth for what each plan includes.

Pro is billed monthly in US dollars. You’re charged at the start of each billing period. Subscriptions auto-renew until you cancel.

Cancellation. You can cancel anytime from your dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current paid period — you keep Pro features until then, and you won’t be charged again. No refunds for partial billing periods. That’s the standard for SaaS subscriptions; it’s also how I keep the service simple to operate as one person.

Failed payments. If a Pro payment fails, Stripe will retry through its standard recovery flow and email you. If payment can’t be collected, your account drops to Free at the end of the paid period and any Pro-only features become unavailable.

Price changes. If I change Pro pricing, the new price applies to your next billing cycle, not the current one — and I’ll email you before it takes effect.

Taxes. Prices on the pricing page are exclusive of any applicable taxes (sales, VAT, GST, etc.). Stripe handles tax collection at checkout where required.

No free trial. Pro doesn’t currently offer a free trial. The Free tier is the trial.

Acceptable use

I can’t read your files, but using Armadoc to do any of the following is not allowed and will get your account suspended or terminated:

• Anything illegal under the laws that apply to you or to me. The list of “illegal things” varies by jurisdiction; the principle doesn’t.
• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of any kind. Even though I can’t see file contents, sending or receiving CSAM through Armadoc is prohibited absolutely. Reports involving suspected CSAM are referred to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and to law enforcement, as required by US law.
• Malware, exploits, or anything designed to harm a recipient’s device or data. Armadoc is for sharing files between people who want to share, not a delivery mechanism for attacks.
• Harassment, threats, doxxing, or non-consensual intimate imagery. Same principle as above — I can’t see contents, but the prohibition is absolute and reports trigger action.
• Content you don’t have the right to send. If it’s not yours and you’re not licensed to share it, don’t send it through Armadoc.
• Use by sanctioned persons or in sanctioned jurisdictions under US law. I’m a US-based operator and I follow US sanctions law.
• Circumventing security, rate limits, or plan boundaries. That includes attempting to access another user’s account, probing the API for vulnerabilities outside of a coordinated-disclosure email, scraping, or running automated tooling against the service without my permission.
• Spam or unsolicited commercial messaging. Don’t use Armadoc to send unwanted files at scale.

If you find a security issue and want to report it responsibly, email hello@armadoc.link with the subject line “Security report” — I’ll respond.

Abuse and reports

A note on how moderation works here, because Armadoc is different from most file-sharing services: I can’t read what you send. That’s by design and it’s not changing. So the abuse model has to work without content access.

Three things make it work:

• Recipient reports. If you receive a share you believe contains illegal or abusive content, report it to abuse@armadoc.link with the share link and a brief description of the issue. I’ll disable the share immediately while I review, and I may suspend the sender’s account based on the report and the sender’s history.
• Behavioral signals on my side. Even without content access, I can see operational signals: rate-limit trips, mass-share patterns, payment fraud, account-creation anomalies. I act on those.
• Lawful requests. I respond to valid legal process from law enforcement, as covered in the privacy policy. I cannot decrypt files for anyone — I don’t hold the keys — but I will preserve and produce the encrypted blob and metadata when compelled by valid process.

This isn’t perfect, and I don’t pretend otherwise. It’s the moderation model that’s compatible with end-to-end encryption. If that tradeoff doesn’t work for you, Armadoc isn’t the right service for what you need.

Your content

You own what you send. Files, recipient lists, filenames — all yours. Sending something through Armadoc doesn’t transfer ownership.

The license you grant me is narrow. When you upload a file, you’re giving me permission to store the encrypted blob, route it to the recipients you specified, and delete it when the share expires. That’s the entire license. It’s limited to what I need to operate the service, and it ends when the share ends.

I will not train machine-learning models on your content (I can’t, but I’m saying it anyway), use your content to improve the service, share your content with anyone outside the sub-processor list in the privacy policy, or extract any information from the encrypted blob beyond the metadata described in the privacy policy.

Armadoc, the brand, is mine. “Armadoc,” the logo, the design, and the marketing site are owned by Waimun Inc. You don’t get any rights to those by using the service. Don’t use the brand to suggest endorsement or pretend to be Armadoc.

Service availability

I run Armadoc carefully, but I’m one person. The service is provided on a best-effort basis. I don’t promise specific uptime, and I don’t offer an SLA. I’ll do my best to keep things running and to communicate when something goes wrong.

I may modify or remove features at any time. For changes that meaningfully reduce what the Pro plan offers, I’ll give notice through email and through the dashboard before the change takes effect.

If I ever shut down Armadoc entirely, I’ll give at least 30 days’ notice so you can retrieve any active shares before they’re gone. I’ll also delete remaining account data on the schedule described in the privacy policy.

Termination

You can leave anytime. Cancel Pro from your dashboard or delete your account by emailing hello@armadoc.link as described in the privacy policy.

I can suspend or terminate your account:

• Immediately, for cause: if you violate these Terms, especially the acceptable use rules; if there’s payment fraud or chargebacks on your account; if I receive a credible abuse report; or if I’m legally required to.
• With 30 days’ notice, without cause: if I’m discontinuing service, exiting a market, or otherwise winding down something that affects your account.

When an account is terminated, the data on it is handled according to the privacy policy’s deletion process. Encrypted blobs that haven’t already expired are deleted.

The clauses in these Terms that should reasonably survive termination — your content rights, the warranty disclaimer, the liability cap, indemnification, and the disputes section — survive termination.

Disclaimer of warranties

Here’s the section that has to be written in lawyer-grade language. The plain-English version: I’ve built Armadoc using established cryptographic primitives and I operate it with care, but I’m one person, no software is bug-free, and no system is unbreakable. I can’t guarantee perfect security, perfect uptime, or that the service will meet every need you have for it.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WAIMUN INC. AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

I DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM USING THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; OR THAT ANY ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow some of these disclaimers. Where that’s the case, the disclaimer applies to the maximum extent permitted, and any non-disclaimable warranty lasts the minimum period required by law.

Limitation of liability

Same deal as the section above — this part has to look formal because courts read it that way.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL WAIMUN INC., ITS REPRESENTATIVES, OR ITS SUB-PROCESSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF (OR INABILITY TO USE) THE SERVICE — EVEN IF I HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

WAIMUN INC.’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ARMADOC IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS ($100).

These limits don’t apply to liability that can’t be limited under applicable law — for example, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or any liability that consumer-protection law in your jurisdiction expressly prevents from being limited. In those cases, the limits apply to the maximum extent allowed.

Indemnification

If a third party brings a claim against me because of how you used Armadoc — what you sent, who you sent it to, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any applicable law — you agree to defend and indemnify Waimun Inc. for that claim. That includes reasonable legal fees and any damages or settlement amounts I have to pay.

I’ll let you know about the claim, give you a reasonable opportunity to handle the defense, and cooperate with you on it.

Disputes

If you and I have a dispute about Armadoc, here’s how we agree to handle it.

Step 1: Talk to me first. Before either of us files anything, we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days. Email hello@armadoc.link with the issue and what you’d like to see happen, and I’ll respond. If we can sort it out, neither of us has to spend time or money on lawyers.

Step 2: New York courts. If informal resolution doesn’t work, any dispute will be filed in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York. We both consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

Step 3: No class actions. Any claim under these Terms must be brought individually. Neither of us can bring or participate in a class action, collective action, or representative proceeding against the other. This doesn’t take away your right to sue me individually — it just means the dispute stays between you and me, not aggregated with other users’ claims. If a court decides this clause isn’t enforceable in your case, the rest of the disputes section still applies.

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods doesn’t apply.

If you live somewhere with mandatory consumer-protection rules that override any of this — for example, a non-waivable right to sue in your home jurisdiction — those rules apply, and this disputes section gives way to them as far as it has to.

Other legal stuff

Severability. If any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.

No waiver. If I don’t enforce a provision right away, that’s not a waiver — I can still enforce it later.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the privacy policy, are the entire agreement between you and me about Armadoc. They replace any earlier agreements or understandings on the same subject.

Assignment. You can’t transfer your rights under these Terms without my permission. I can assign these Terms — for example, if Waimun Inc. is sold or merges — and the new operator inherits the same obligations to you.

Force majeure. I’m not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside my reasonable control: extended cloud-provider outages, natural disasters, internet-wide incidents, government action, and the like. I’ll work to restore service as quickly as I can.

Notices to you. I’ll send notices to the email address on your account. Please keep it current.

Notices to me. Email hello@armadoc.link for anything that needs to reach me, including notices required under these Terms.

Changes to these Terms

If I change something material — adjusting the disputes section, expanding what’s prohibited, anything that meaningfully changes the deal — I’ll email account holders before the change takes effect, and I’ll bump the effective date at the top of this page. Continued use of Armadoc after the effective date counts as acceptance of the updated Terms.

Cosmetic edits and clarifications won’t trigger an email but will be reflected in the date.

If you don’t agree with a change, the right move is to stop using the service before the new Terms take effect, and delete your account using the process in the privacy policy.

Contact

For anything — a Terms question, a security report, a concern, or just “this paragraph could be clearer” — the address is hello@armadoc.link. For abuse reports specifically, use abuse@armadoc.link. The reply will come from the same person who built and maintains the service.