Terms of Service

These Terms govern access to and use of Secretus, a secure one-time secret-sharing service operated internationally from Romania.

Operator

MUNTEANU C. D. MIHAI PERSOANA FIZICA AUTORIZATA, trading as Secretus.

Service

Secretus is a web-based service for sharing one-time encrypted text, file, and audio content through browser-based cryptography, signaling, and peer-to-peer delivery flows.

Acceptance

By creating an account, accessing the service, or using Secretus, you agree to these Terms.

Minimum age

You must be at least 16 years old, or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction to use the service lawfully.

Account access

Accounts currently use Google sign-in through AWS Cognito. You are responsible for maintaining control of your Google account and devices.

Accurate information

You must provide accurate account information and must not impersonate another person or organization.

Abuse of limits

You must not create duplicate or abusive accounts to bypass usage, security, or product restrictions.

Secretus is designed to reduce operator access to secret content, but it still processes account, security, and session metadata needed to operate the service.

Client-side encryption design

Secret content is intended to be encrypted in the browser before transfer. Secretus is not designed to routinely access plaintext secret content.

Operational metadata

We may process account identifiers, usage counters, connection/session information, anti-abuse data, and other technical metadata needed for reliability and security.

Network characteristics

Because the service uses signaling, WebRTC, and related infrastructure, some network metadata may be visible to peers, telecom operators, cloud providers, or other intermediaries involved in delivery.

Ephemeral by design

Secretus is built for one-time, self-destructing sharing. Automatic deletion of secrets — on first viewing, on expiry, on revocation, or per retention rules — is core intended behavior, not a defect. We are not liable for content that is deleted, expires unviewed, or is not retrieved in time.

Irrecoverable content

Because content is encrypted in your browser and decryption keys live only in the share link, we cannot recover, restore, or hand over secret content — not for you, and not for anyone else. A lost or expired link means the content is permanently unrecoverable. This is a security property of the design, not a support request we can fulfil.

Your responsibility to retain

Secretus is a transfer mechanism, not a storage or backup service. You are responsible for keeping your own copy of any information you cannot afford to lose before sharing it.

No absolute guarantees

No online service can guarantee absolute confidentiality, availability, or uninterrupted operation.

Secretus offers paid monthly subscription plans (Starter, Pro, Business), each preceded by a 14-day full-access free trial that requires no payment card.

Free trial

New accounts receive a 14-day full-access trial. No payment method is collected and nothing is charged for the trial. When the trial ends without a purchase, the account remains accessible but plan features — including creating new secrets — require an active subscription.

Subscriptions and renewal

Paid plans are billed monthly or annually (as selected at checkout) and renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period, as described in our Refund & Cancellation Policy.

Checkout and merchant of record

Purchases are made through a checkout hosted by Stripe using Stripe Managed Payments. For these purchases, Link (Sold through Link, LLC) acts as the merchant of record: your statement shows a "LINK.COM*" descriptor, you accept Link's consumer terms at checkout for the payment relationship, and receipts, tax invoices, and renewal notices are sent to you by Link/Stripe. The Secretus service itself is provided by us under these Terms.

Prices and taxes

Prices are displayed exclusive of tax. Applicable VAT, sales tax, or GST is calculated, shown at checkout, and collected and remitted through the merchant-of-record arrangement where supported; a tax invoice is issued to you where required.

Price changes

We may change plan prices. Changes apply from a future billing period, after notice by email or in-product, and never retroactively. If you do not accept a change, cancel before it takes effect.

Failed payments

If a renewal payment fails, Stripe/Link notifies you and retries collection. If payment ultimately cannot be collected, the subscription ends and the account reverts to the post-trial limited state.

Availability of checkout

If self-serve checkout is not yet available for your account or region, paid access can be arranged directly by contacting billing@secretus.app.

Enterprise

Enterprise access is offered under separate, directly negotiated B2B agreements; where such an agreement exists, its commercial terms prevail over this section.

Teams

A Business subscriber may share their plan with a limited number of other accounts via single-use invite links. Shared access is derived from the owner's subscription in real time: it ends immediately when the owner's subscription lapses or is cancelled, when the owner removes the member, when the member leaves, or when either account is deleted. The owner can see limited member information (email address, join date) to manage the team. Shared access is a feature of the owner's plan, not a separate contract with the member.

Feature limits

Secretus may apply usage, attachment, anti-abuse, and security limits by plan or account status.

You must use Secretus lawfully and responsibly.

Prohibited activity

You must not use Secretus for malware, fraud, harassment, credential theft, unlawful surveillance, intellectual-property infringement, or unlawful disclosure of third-party data.

Technical misuse

You must not interfere with infrastructure, probe security weaknesses without authorization, scrape abusively, bypass limits, or automate use in a way that harms the service.

Content responsibility

You are responsible for the legality of content you choose to transmit and for ensuring that you have the right to share it.

Availability

We aim to keep Secretus available and secure, but we may suspend, rate-limit, patch, or modify the service at any time for technical, legal, or security reasons.

No uptime commitment

The service is provided without any uptime, availability, or performance guarantee. Maintenance, upgrades, incidents, and capacity work may cause interruptions, planned or unplanned, without notice.

Support is best effort — no SLA

Support is provided on a reasonable, best-effort basis by email, with no guaranteed response time, no guaranteed resolution, no service-level agreement (SLA), and no service credits. "Priority support" on paid plans means we reasonably prioritize those requests in our queue — it is a handling preference, not a contractual response-time commitment. Binding SLAs exist only where explicitly agreed in a signed Enterprise contract.

Third-party dependencies

Secretus depends on third-party providers — including AWS (infrastructure), Stripe and Link (payments), and Google (sign-in). We are not responsible for their outages, changes, or decisions, and service functionality may be degraded while a provider is unavailable.

Force majeure

We are not liable for delay or failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including infrastructure or network failures, denial-of-service or other attacks, acts of authorities, war, natural disasters, or failures of third-party providers.

Security actions

We may investigate abuse, restrict access, rotate credentials, invalidate sessions, or suspend accounts where reasonably necessary to protect users, the service, or legal rights.

Product evolution

Features, limits, regional setup, infrastructure providers, and security measures may change over time.

Our rights

Secretus, its software, branding, site content, and documentation remain the property of the operator or its licensors.

Limited license

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the service in accordance with these Terms.

Feedback

If you send product feedback, you allow us to use it to improve the service without any obligation to you.

By you

You may stop using Secretus at any time, and you can delete your account yourself from your profile. Deletion cancels any active subscription immediately (without refunding the current period — see the Refund & Cancellation Policy), removes your saved payment method, revokes API keys, dissolves team relationships, and permanently deletes your profile and sign-in account, as detailed in the Privacy Policy.

By us

We may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary for abuse prevention, legal compliance, non-payment of an active subscription or other paid arrangement, or material breach of these Terms.

Effect

Termination may remove access to account features, but legal obligations, dispute clauses, and provisions that should survive termination will continue to apply.

Service basis

To the maximum extent permitted by mandatory law, Secretus is provided on an "as available" and "as is" basis.

Indirect loss

To the maximum extent permitted by mandatory law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.

Cap

For paid subscriptions and other paid arrangements, our aggregate liability will not exceed the amount paid by you for the relevant service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, unless mandatory law requires otherwise.

Mandatory rights preserved

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights or remedies that cannot be limited under applicable data protection, contract, or other mandatory law.

Applicable law

These Terms are governed by Romanian law, together with mandatory European Union law where applicable.

Courts

Disputes that are not resolved amicably will be submitted to the competent courts, subject to any mandatory jurisdiction rules that may apply.

Your misuse

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold the operator harmless from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful use of the service, content you transmit without the right to do so, or your material breach of these Terms. This clause does not apply to consumers where mandatory consumer law provides otherwise.

Updates

We may update these Terms from time to time. The updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date.

Material changes

Where appropriate, material changes may also be communicated by email or in-product notice. If you do not accept a material change, stop using the service and, if you have a subscription, cancel it before the change takes effect.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force, and the invalid provision is replaced by a valid one that best reflects its intent.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Refund & Cancellation Policy, are the entire agreement between you and the operator regarding the service, superseding prior statements — except where a signed Enterprise agreement explicitly prevails.

No waiver

Our not enforcing a provision at some point is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

Assignment

You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our consent. We may assign these Terms as part of a business transfer, reorganization, or sale, with notice where required by law.

For information about personal data processing, please review our Privacy Policy.

For cancellation and refund specifics, please review our Refund & Cancellation Policy.