Question 1

How long will my stories actually last?

Accepted Answer

A hundred years from your last active session. We use a 3-2-1 backup posture — three copies, two storage media, one off-site — plus periodic cryptographic fixity hashing to detect silent data rot.

Question 2

What happens to my archive when I die?

Accepted Answer

Your designated heirs trigger the succession process. Two heirs must independently confirm within their authenticated Legacy Journal accounts. Only then does your vault open to them. Until that two-heir confirmation, the archive remains private. No exceptions.

Question 3

Can I control what different family members see?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every heir relationship has its own encrypted namespace. The memories you tag for one child are invisible to another. You decide, per memory, who can see what.

Question 4

What's the difference between Storyteller and Curator?

Accepted Answer

A Storyteller is the one speaking — whose voice is captured. A Curator is the one guiding — asking the questions, shaping the session for someone else. You pick a role at the start of each Ritual. You can be both, for different people.

Question 5

What's the difference between the three Ritual modes?

Accepted Answer

AI Conversation — Elora asks, listens, follows up. Listener — silent transcription; your words appear in the StoryBook. Record — pure capture, no AI guidance. You can switch modes mid-session.

Question 6

How does the voice cloning work?

Accepted Answer

During voice enrollment you read five to seven short script lines aloud. Once we have ~60–90 seconds of clean audio, ElevenLabs builds your personal voice clone. After you're gone, the same clone is how your heirs hear you.

Question 7

Can I edit or delete a sealed memory?

Accepted Answer

No — and that's deliberate. Sealed memories are permanent: no edit, no delete, no rewrite, not even by us. You can choose, at any time, not to seal a session you've just recorded.

Question 8

I'm not a good storyteller. Will this work for me?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You don't need stories — you need presence. Speak about anything: a song, a recipe, a small moment from last Tuesday. The good stories arrive sideways.

Question 9

Is my voice ever used outside my family?

Accepted Answer

Never. Your voice clone is scoped to your private archive. We don't sell data. We don't train public AI models on your recordings.

Question 10

Can I revoke Eternal Voice while I'm still alive?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Write to privacy@legacyjournalapp.com. We disable post-mortem activation — even if heirs later confirm succession, your clone won't be used. Sealed memories remain viewable.

Question 11

Who can invite who to the family tree?

Accepted Answer

A Storyteller invites their own heirs. An invited heir doesn't get to invite further — the tree is rooted in the person whose archive it is.

Question 12

What if the company shuts down?

Accepted Answer

Subscription funds are escrowed against continued storage. We're building a portable archive format so your family can take everything with them. Tied to RUFADAA — the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.

Question 13

Why a long Legacy Contract instead of a click-through?

Accepted Answer

Because the promises — encrypted vault, two-heir succession, never-fabricate Eternal Voice, hundred-year durability — are not the kinds a one-line ToS can hold. The contract walks through each one before you accept.