Terms of Service

Effective date: July 12, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Joseph Lint, doing business as Heirloom ("Heirloom," "we," "us," or "our") and govern your use of the Heirloom mobile and web application and related services (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What Heirloom does

Heirloom helps you photograph, identify, value, catalogue, and plan the inheritance of art, antiques, and collectibles. The Service uses artificial intelligence and third-party image- and web-search tools to generate estimates and research, and it can connect you with independent expert businesses (such as appraisers, dealers, galleries, and auction houses). Heirloom is a software tool and an introduction platform. Heirloom is not an appraiser, auctioneer, dealer, insurer, broker, fiduciary, or law firm, and does not provide professional appraisal, authentication, financial, insurance, tax, legal, or estate advice.

2. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent where you live, if higher) to use the Service. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information, for keeping your credentials secure, and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly at hello@heirloomapp.io of any unauthorized use. You may sign in using email and password or through Sign in with Apple or Google, subject to those providers' terms.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

property, privacy, or other rights;

their awareness (this includes beneficiary, attorney, executor, and contact details);

content depicting stolen, counterfeit, or illegally trafficked goods;

rate limits, or its security;

content obtained from the Service, except your own content;

details in violation of Section 8, or by transacting in a way that evades the platform;

We may investigate and take action — including removing content and suspending or terminating accounts — for any suspected violation.

4. Your content and the license you grant us

You own your content. As between you and Heirloom, you retain all rights to the photos, descriptions, notes, item data, and other materials you submit ("User Content"). We do not claim ownership of your User Content.

License to operate the Service. You grant Heirloom a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for example, resize and compress images), display, and transmit your User Content solely to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service for you — including the specific processing described below. This license ends when you delete the relevant User Content or your account, except (a) for copies retained in routine backups for a limited period, (b) where retention is required by law, and (c) for content you have already shared with third parties (see Sections 6 and 8), which we cannot retrieve on your behalf.

AI and third-party processing. You specifically authorize Heirloom to transmit your User Content — including item photos, descriptions, and voice-derived text, and, where applicable, audio — to third-party artificial-intelligence and search providers (currently including OpenAI and, for comparable research, Google via ScrapingDog and SerpAPI) to generate identifications, valuations, and research, as described in our Privacy Policy.

Public and shared content. If you choose to make a collection public, share it, post in community areas, or grant estate-plan access, you grant the relevant recipients the ability to view and interact with that content, and you grant Heirloom the license needed to display it to them. Do not share content you are not comfortable making available to those recipients.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use it without obligation to you.

5. AI-generated valuations and identifications — important disclaimer

READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. Identifications, categories, attributions, condition assessments, comparable sales, valuations, and value ranges produced by the Service are automated, AI-generated estimates provided for general informational purposes only. They:

coverage or claims;

quality, the information you provide, and limitations of AI and third-party data sources.

You should independently verify any result with a qualified, licensed professional before relying on it for any insurance, tax, legal, estate-planning, purchase, sale, or other decision. You are solely responsible for decisions you make based on output from the Service, and Heirloom disclaims all liability for such decisions to the fullest extent permitted by law. Estate-planning features are organizational tools only and do not create a will, trust, or any legally binding testamentary instrument; consult a licensed attorney to make legally effective arrangements.

6. Estate-planning features

The estate-planning tools help you organize information about your items, beneficiaries, attorney, executor, bequests, and reminders, and optionally share this information with people you designate. These features are for your convenience and record-keeping and, as stated in Section 5, do not constitute legal advice or a legally binding estate document. When you invite someone (such as an attorney or executor) to view your estate information, you are responsible for choosing that recipient and the access you grant, and that recipient's use of the information is outside Heirloom's control.

7. Expert-lead marketplace

The Service can match you with independent expert businesses and forward, at your request, a snapshot of your item (which may include its photos, category, details, estimated value, and your note) to those businesses, and can relay messages between you and them.

Heirloom only facilitates introductions. Heirloom is not a party to, and does not guarantee, endorse, supervise, insure, or take responsibility for, any engagement, transaction, valuation, appraisal, sale, consignment, service, advice, or payment between you and an expert business. Expert businesses are independent third parties. Any agreement you enter into with an expert business is solely between you and that business, on their own terms. Heirloom makes no representation about the qualifications, licensing, credentials, availability, pricing, or conduct of any expert business, and we disclaim liability for their acts or omissions. You are responsible for performing your own due diligence.

Where a business receives your item snapshot, that business becomes an independent recipient of that information; Heirloom cannot delete or recall information already delivered to a business.

8. Communications and off-platform contact

Messages exchanged with expert businesses run through the Service and may be monitored for safety, quality, and abuse prevention, including automated detection of personal contact information. Circumventing the platform to solicit or exchange off-platform contact details in violation of these Terms may result in warnings, suspension, or termination. By using the Service you consent to receive transactional emails and push notifications; you can control notifications in your device and account settings.

9. Subscriptions, billing, and free features

The Service is currently offered free of charge during its beta period. Paid subscription tiers are not yet active. When paid features become available:

change on notice;

by Apple or Google under their terms — Heirloom does not receive or store your full payment card details;

relevant store or account settings;

Nothing in the current App should be read as a binding offer of paid features until those features and their terms are made available to you.

10. Intellectual property in the Service

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and trademarks (but excluding your User Content), is owned by Heirloom or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or create derivative works from the Service except as permitted by these Terms or applicable law.

11. Third-party services

The Service relies on and links to third-party services (including Supabase, OpenAI, ScrapingDog, SerpAPI, Resend, Expo, TelemetryDeck, Apple, Google, and, in future, Stripe). Your use of those services may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Heirloom is not responsible for third-party services, and their inclusion does not imply endorsement.

12. Disclaimers

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT AND OUTPUT (INCLUDING AI-GENERATED IDENTIFICATIONS AND VALUATIONS) ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. HEIRLOOM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY VALUATION, IDENTIFICATION, RESEARCH RESULT, OR OTHER OUTPUT IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, RELIABLE, OR CURRENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

13. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HEIRLOOM AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, OR FOR ANY LOSS ARISING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON AI-GENERATED VALUATIONS OR IDENTIFICATIONS, YOUR DEALINGS WITH EXPERT BUSINESSES, OR ANY INSURANCE, TAX, LEGAL, ESTATE, PURCHASE, OR SALE DECISION, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HEIRLOOM'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID HEIRLOOM FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS (US$100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some of the above may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Heirloom and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms or applicable law; (d) your provision of another person's personal information without a lawful basis; or (e) your dealings with any expert business or other user.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time from within the App (subject to the deletion process and grace period described in our Privacy Policy). We may suspend or terminate your access at any time if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service or other users. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Sections 4 (license grant for content already shared), 5, 7, and 10–17 — will survive.

16. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

We may modify or discontinue the Service, or any feature, at any time. We may also update these Terms; when we make material changes we will update the "Effective date" and provide reasonable notice. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree to the updated Terms, you must stop using the Service.

17. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States, without regard to its conflict-of- laws rules. Any dispute arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Macomb County, Michigan, and you and Heirloom consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms you agree to, are the entire agreement between you and Heirloom regarding the Service.

18. Apple and Google app-store terms

If you obtained the App through the Apple App Store or Google Play, additional store terms apply. For Apple: these Terms are between you and Heirloom, not Apple; Apple has no obligation to provide support or handle warranty claims; and Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries entitled to enforce these Terms against you.

19. Contact

Joseph Lint, doing business as Heirloom 21716 Lakeshire, Saint Clair Shores, MI 48081, USA Email: hello@heirloomapp.io

*This document is a draft and does not constitute legal advice. It must be reviewed and approved by qualified counsel before publication.*