DRAFT — not effective or ready to publish. Prepared September 19, 2026. Resolve bracketed fields and the publication checklist before adoption.
Effective date: [EFFECTIVE DATE]. Seige is referred to as “Seige,” “we,” or “us” in these Terms. Contact: [LEGAL EMAIL].
Drafting note: operator identification is intentionally deferred. This draft does not establish a registered office or governing jurisdiction.
1. Your agreement and eligibility
These Terms govern the Seige website, accounts, encrypted notes and mailbox, and any additional features we actually make available (the “Service”). By affirmatively accepting these Terms when registering or when otherwise asked, you enter into an agreement with the operator of Seige. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Service. Our Privacy Policy explains our processing of personal information; accepting these Terms is not consent to optional processing.
You must be at least 18 and legally able to enter this agreement. If you act for an organization, you must have authority to bind it, and “you” includes that organization. You must not use the Service where providing it to you is prohibited by applicable law.
2. Accounts and security
Provide accurate information where requested, protect your credentials and devices, and promptly report suspected compromise to [SUPPORT EMAIL]. You are responsible for your own conduct and for people you authorize to use your account. This does not make you automatically responsible for unauthorized activity caused by our breach of duty.
Do not sell accounts, share credentials outside supported account arrangements, evade a suspension through replacement accounts, or obtain access through deception. We may reserve or withdraw addresses that impersonate others, infringe rights, or are needed for service administration, with notice where appropriate.
3. Evaluation service and encryption limits
Seige is currently an evaluation service under development. Use test data. Features, compatibility, capacity and availability may change, and recovery and account-management capabilities are incomplete. Do not rely on Seige as your only copy of information or for emergencies or safety-critical uses. Independently retain anything you need.
Client-side encryption protects supported stored content, but does not make every interaction anonymous or inaccessible to us. Ordinary internet email is processed in readable form by our mail infrastructure during delivery and may remain in temporary mail queues. Routing and account metadata are available to the Service. Recipients can retain or disclose messages. Devices, authenticators and the browser software delivered by Seige are part of the security boundary. Lost credentials may make encrypted information unrecoverable. The Privacy Policy explains these limits further.
4. Prohibited activity
You must not use, attempt to use, or knowingly assist others in using the Service to:
- Commit, facilitate or solicit crimes, including fraud, extortion, trafficking, unlawful sales, or violent criminal activity.
- Create, obtain, store, transmit or distribute child sexual abuse material; sexually exploit or groom minors; or facilitate child sex trafficking.
- Distribute intimate images without consent, including synthetic depictions; stalk, dox, threaten, or unlawfully harass people.
- Infringe copyright, trademarks, privacy, confidentiality or other rights; impersonate someone deceptively; or disclose information you have no right to disclose.
- Send spam, phishing or deceptive bulk messages; distribute malicious software; steal credentials; or operate scams or command-and-control infrastructure for malicious activity.
- Access systems without authorization, compromise accounts, interfere with security controls, or attack Seige or third-party infrastructure.
- Bypass quotas, abuse invitations, create accounts in bulk to evade restrictions, or impose unreasonable load that harms other users. Automation must respect documented interfaces, limits and security controls.
- Use stolen payment credentials, evade applicable sanctions or export restrictions, or resell access without written authorization.
Lawful journalism, research, criticism and good-faith abuse reports are not prohibited merely because they discuss unlawful conduct. Security testing still requires authorization appropriate to its scope. Receiving an unsolicited abusive message is not, by itself, a violation by its recipient.
5. Reports, investigation and enforcement
Report suspected abuse to [ABUSE EMAIL]. Include the relevant address or identifier, dates and time zone, the conduct at issue, and information we can lawfully use to locate and assess it. Do not send passwords, private keys or copies of suspected child sexual abuse imagery. For immediate danger, contact emergency services; Seige is not an emergency response service.
We may investigate credible reports and technical abuse indicators using information available to us and access permitted by law. We do not promise to inspect every communication or detect every violation. Encryption does not prevent us from restricting an account or stopping delivery.
Where reasonably necessary to address a suspected violation, security threat, legal obligation or material service disruption, we may reject messages, impose limits, disable access to identified material where technically possible, suspend an account, or terminate access. Serious violations may result in immediate action. We consider severity, available evidence, repeated conduct and risks to others. We terminate repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.
Where lawful and practicable, we provide the reason for a restriction and a way to contest it at [APPEALS EMAIL]. We may delay notice where it would compromise security, endanger someone, interfere with an investigation or violate law. Appeals should identify the account, challenged decision and relevant explanation; a person will review the decision. Statutory complaint and judicial remedies remain available.
We may preserve relevant information and respond to legally valid requests, or make disclosures otherwise specifically permitted or required by law, as described in the Privacy Policy. These Terms do not authorize unrestricted disclosure of private communications.
6. Your content and third parties
You retain ownership of your content. You grant us only the nonexclusive permission needed to receive, transmit, store, back up and technically process it to provide the Service, follow your instructions and comply with law. This permission does not authorize advertising use or AI training on your private content. It ends when processing ends, except for lawful retention and backups described in the Privacy Policy.
You must have the rights and legal basis necessary for information you upload or send, including other people's personal information. Seige does not endorse user content. External email providers and recipients handle messages under their own arrangements. Additional apps or integrations may require separate permissions and terms when introduced; a roadmap description does not make a feature available.
7. Copyright complaints
Send copyright complaints to [COPYRIGHT CONTACT NAME, POSTAL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE AND EMAIL]. Identify the protected work, the specific allegedly infringing material and its location, your contact details and authority to act, and the legal basis for your complaint. We may request missing information and act under the procedure applicable to the claim. If U.S. DMCA procedures apply, our published notice and counter-notice process is [DMCA PROCEDURE URL]. Knowingly false complaints may create legal liability. Copyright disputes do not excuse other violations of these Terms.
8. Fees and cancellation
The current evaluation does not create a paid subscription. Before charging you, we will disclose the price, taxes, billing interval, any renewal terms, cancellation method and refund rules, and obtain the required agreement. No future paid plan is authorized by your acceptance of these Terms alone.
9. Ending your use
You may stop using Seige at any time and request account closure at [SUPPORT EMAIL]. Self-service account deletion and complete export are not currently available. Moving email to Trash does not erase it. Request available assistance before closing your account, and consult the Privacy Policy for retention limits.
We may end the evaluation or discontinue a feature with reasonable advance notice where practicable. Immediate restrictions remain possible under section 5. Account closure does not recall delivered messages or erase copies held by recipients. We retain data only as described in the Privacy Policy and required by law. Obligations that by their nature continue, including accrued claims and applicable liability provisions, survive termination.
10. Warranties and liability
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. We do not guarantee uninterrupted delivery, complete spam prevention, recovery of lost data or absolute security.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, including lost profits, business interruption or loss of anticipated savings. Our aggregate liability arising from the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of USD 100 and the fees you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.
These exclusions and limits do not cover fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any liability or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including applicable consumer and data-protection rights. They do not excuse our mandatory legal duties.
11. Responsibility for third-party claims
If you use Seige for business purposes, to the extent permitted by law you will indemnify us and our personnel for reasonable losses, costs and legal fees arising from third-party claims caused by your unlawful use, your infringement of their rights, or your material breach of these Terms. This does not cover losses caused by our own breach, negligence or misconduct.
We will promptly notify you of a covered claim, reasonably cooperate, and allow you to manage its defense with qualified counsel, subject to reasonable protections for our interests. No settlement may admit fault on our behalf or impose nonmonetary obligations on us without our written agreement. This contractual indemnity does not apply to consumers.
12. Changes, governing law and general provisions
We will give reasonable advance notice of material changes through the Service or an available account contact, stating when they take effect. Changes needed urgently for law or security may take effect sooner with notice as soon as practicable. We will obtain renewed agreement where required. Changes do not retroactively rewrite an existing dispute. You may stop using the Service if you disagree.
Subject to mandatory law, these Terms are governed by [GOVERNING COUNTRY/STATE], and disputes may be brought before [COMPETENT COURTS]. Consumers retain mandatory protections and any right to bring proceedings where they live. These Terms do not impose mandatory arbitration or a class-action waiver.
If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent legally possible. Failure to enforce a provision once does not waive later enforcement. We may transfer this agreement with the Service to a successor that assumes our obligations, subject to applicable law and notice of material changes. These Terms and any expressly agreed service-specific terms form the agreement about the Service; applicable open-source licenses continue to govern the software they cover.