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TERMS / PLAIN ENGLISH

The deal,in full.

Terms of use are usually written to be survived rather than read. This one is short, in ordinary words, and the awkward parts are near the top instead of buried at clause nineteen.

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Last updated

14 AUGUST 2026 · LIVARA 1.8.11 (89)

Using Livara Chat — the website, the Android app, or the API behind them — means accepting this. If you do not, the honest answer is not to create an account.

The data detail sits on the privacy page, and the cryptographic boundary is on the security page.

terms.summarythe whole thing
You get
An account, and a messenger whose direct chats and compatible group text we cannot read.
You keep
Everything you write. Livara claims no ownership of your messages, media or profile.
You owe
Honest use. Do not send what is illegal where you are, and do not aim the service at other people.
You carry
Your password and recovery phrase. Lose both and the encrypted history is gone — including for us.
We may
Suspend an account that is being used to harm someone, and act on reports about content we can read.
We cannot
Promise the service never breaks, never loses data, or is fit for something life depends on.
01 — YOUR ACCOUNT
Your account

What you are holding

An account here is not a login on a database somewhere. It is a set of keys, most of which only exist on your device — which changes what you are responsible for.

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Be old enough

You must be at least 13, and older where the law where you live sets a higher age for this kind of service. If you are under that age, this is not for you yet.

One account per handset

Accounts are created in the Android app and bound to the device that created them. Working around that binding — emulators, rooted spoofing, bought devices at scale — is a breach of these terms rather than a clever trick.

Your credentials are yours

Your password never reaches Livara: SRP proves you know it without sending it. That is a genuine protection and a genuine responsibility, because there is no copy here for us to fall back on.

Your recovery phrase is final

It is the only thing that reopens an encrypted key backup on a new device. Not your password, not your email, not a support request. Write it down somewhere that survives losing your phone.

note your password is proven with SRP and never transmitted. There is no copy of it here.

warn lose the device and the recovery phrase together and the encrypted history stays closed. No support ticket reverses this.

02 — ACCEPTABLE USE
Acceptable use

The things that end an account

A short list, because a long one is mostly decoration. The single idea underneath all of it: privacy is for talking to people, not for doing things to them.

  • Sending or storing material that is illegal where you are, or that sexually exploits children anywhere.
  • Using Livara to threaten, stalk, dox or organise harassment of another person.
  • Bulk unsolicited messaging, engagement farming, or automated account creation.
  • Distributing malware, phishing pages, or credential-harvesting links.
  • Attacking the service: scraping at scale, hammering rate limits, or probing other people's accounts.
  • Reselling access, or presenting Livara as your own product to someone who does not know.
  • Impersonating Livara staff, or claiming a message came from the platform when it did not.

Security research is welcome and explicitly not on that list. Reading the code, running the instruments in the Proof Lab, and testing your own account are all fine. Testing someone else’s is not.

03 — YOUR CONTENT
Your content

We take no licence

Most messengers ask you to grant a broad, worldwide, royalty-free licence to your content, and then explain that it is only for running the service. Livara asks for the narrow version: permission to store your content and transmit it to the people you send it to, and to synchronise it to your own devices. Nothing about training, promotion, or sublicensing to anyone else.

For direct chats and compatible group text this is close to academic — the server holds ciphertext it cannot open, so the permission covers moving an opaque blob from one device to another. It matters more for the parts that are server-readable in 1.8.11 (89): group photos, video, files and captions, and channel content. Those are listed as readable on the security page rather than left for you to infer.

You are responsible for what you send. If you do not have the right to share a file, sending it through an encrypted channel does not give you one.

Moderation, honestly

Livara can act on reports about content it can read, and can suspend an account on other evidence — abuse of the API, mass account creation, credible reports of harm. It cannot moderate what it cannot read, and it will not add a way to read it. That is the cost of the guarantee on the front page, stated here so it is never a surprise later.

Livara AI

Livara AI runs on your Android device. Livara AI Pro is available only to accounts an administrator has selected, and only when you choose to use it: text needed for a Pro request travels through Livara to Google, and an encrypted chat requires per-chat permission before anything from it is used. AI output is generated text — it can be confidently wrong, and it is not advice.

04 — WHAT IS PROMISED
Promises

Both columns

The right-hand column is the one that usually appears in capital letters at the bottom of a document nobody reads. It is here at the same size as everything else.

livara.doeswhat you can rely on
  • Run the service, ship fixes, and say on this site when the security boundary moves.
  • Encrypt direct-chat content and compatible group text on your device, so the server relays what it cannot open.
  • Keep your email address private, and never show it on your profile or hand it to another user.
  • Tell you plainly, on the security page, which things are not encrypted rather than rounding it up.
  • Let you export your data, delete your messages, sign out a device, or delete the account outright.
livara.does.notwhat you cannot
  • Guarantee uptime. There is no service level agreement, paid or otherwise.
  • Guarantee delivery. A message can be lost to a network, a device, or a bug.
  • Guarantee that data is never lost. Keep your own copy of anything that matters.
  • Promise fitness for emergency, medical, legal or safety-critical communication. Do not use it for those.
  • Offer any warranty, express or implied, beyond what the law where you live insists on.
  • Read your direct chats to moderate them. We cannot, and building a way to would end the product.

Livara is provided as it is. To the extent the law where you live allows it, Livara is not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost profits, lost data, or a message that did not arrive. Some consumer protections cannot be signed away, and nothing here tries to.

05 — ENDING IT
Ending it

Leaving is a button

No retention call, no cancellation flow with four screens of reconsidering.

You can delete your account from within the app after proving your password. That removes the account and the content held for it. It does not reach through the network to messages already delivered to other people’s devices, because nothing can.

Livara can suspend or close an account that is being used against the list in section 02, or where continuing to run it would put other people at risk. Where it is possible to say why without compromising someone’s safety, we will.

These terms can change when the implementation changes. The date at the top of this page is the version in force, and the canonical copy lives at https://chat.livara.org/terms. Continuing to use Livara after a change means accepting the current version.

Contact

Questions about these terms, reports of abuse, and legal notices go through the existing Livara support channel, the same route as privacy questions.

Questions

The four that actually get asked

Who owns the messages I send on Livara?

You do. Livara claims no ownership of your messages, media or profile content. The only permission you give the platform is the narrow, technical one it needs to run: storing and transmitting your content so it reaches the people you sent it to, and syncing it to your own devices. That permission ends when the content is deleted.

Can Livara moderate an end-to-end encrypted chat?

No, and this is a structural fact rather than a policy choice. Direct-chat content and compatible group text are ciphertext to the server, so there is nothing for a moderator or an automated system to look at. Reports can be acted on where content is server-readable — channels, group media and captions in this release — and accounts can be suspended on other evidence. Anyone promising both real end-to-end encryption and complete content moderation is not describing the same system twice.

What happens to my messages if my account is suspended or deleted?

Account deletion removes your account and the content held for it. Suspension stops access without immediately erasing data, so that a mistake can be reversed. Neither can recover encrypted content once your keys are gone, and neither reaches the copies already delivered to the people you were talking to — a message you sent lives on their device, which is a property of messaging rather than of Livara.

Do these terms change?

Yes, when the implementation changes — the same rule the privacy page follows. Material changes are dated at the top of this page. Continuing to use Livara after a change means accepting the current version; if you would rather not, you can export your data and delete the account.

Read it, then use it

The agreement is six lines long and the rest is detail. If any of it reads as a promise Livara cannot keep, that is a bug in this page — say so, and it gets fixed here rather than defended.

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