Terms of Service — Effective July 23, 2026
GraveStory lets you photograph a gravestone and receive an AI-generated biographical story about the person it commemorates, assembled from publicly available records and historical sources. Signed-in users may also upload a gravestone photo and write a remembrance themselves without running the research pipeline. The service is intended for remembrance, education, genealogy, and historical interest.
GraveStory is not an official record, a genealogical authority, or a substitute for primary-source research. It is a research aid that produces a respectful starting point, not a verified or authoritative account of any person.
Biographies, summaries, location estimates, and symbol interpretations are produced by automated systems (artificial intelligence) drawing on third-party public sources. You acknowledge and agree that:
We take the risk of AI “hallucination” seriously and have built multiple safeguards to keep biographies grounded in cited evidence rather than invention; these are described in our Privacy Policy. No automated system is perfect, however, and historical records and weathered stones contain errors. Each generated story is shown with a visible notice of its AI-generated nature.
Every public story includes an in-app reporting path. Community Stories also provides report-contributor and block-contributor controls. If you believe content is inaccurate, offensive, unlawful, infringes someone’s rights, or concerns a living person inappropriately, please report it there or email us at edmondsj46@gmail.com.
We review reports and may correct, restrict, place in review, unpublish, or remove content or accounts at our discretion. If you are an individual (or an authorized representative or close relative) and a publicly shared story concerns you or your deceased relative and you want it removed or corrected, contact us and we will act in good faith to address your request promptly.
Some features require an account. You are responsible for the accuracy of your account information and for activity under your account. You may sign in with email and password or with a third-party provider such as Google. You may delete your account and associated data from within the app or by contacting us; see our Privacy Policy.
You choose whether each story is public or private. A public story may expose its text, photos, name, dates, contributor display name, and any location you provide in Community Stories. Stories with coordinates may also appear on the Community Map; stories without coordinates display “Location not provided” and do not receive a map pin.
If you share a story publicly, you represent that doing so does not violate anyone’s privacy or other rights. Do not publicly share content that identifies, or includes private information about, living individuals without a lawful basis. Public submissions may be automatically screened, held for human moderation, rejected, or removed. You can make your story private again or delete it at any time.
You retain ownership of original content you submit. You grant GraveStory a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, process, reproduce, and display that content only as needed to operate, moderate, secure, and improve the service. This license ends when the content is deleted, except for limited retention required for security, legal compliance, or unresolved reports.
You agree not to:
You are responsible for how you use, share, and rely on content from the service.
GraveStory offers paid scan credits through the applicable app store’s billing system (for example, Google Play Billing). Prices are shown at the point of purchase. Credits are consumed when you run a scan and do not expire. Purchases are processed and, where applicable, taxed by the app store as merchant of record; refunds and billing disputes are handled according to that app store’s policies. Except where required by law or those policies, purchases are non-refundable.
The service, including its software, design, and branding (including the GraveStory name and logo), is owned by us or our licensors and protected by law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the service for its intended purpose. Story content may incorporate or reference third-party and public-domain material that remains subject to its own rights and licenses; we make no ownership claim over that underlying source material.
The service relies on third-party providers and public data sources (including search, mapping, genealogy, encyclopedic, archival, and cloud-infrastructure providers, listed in our Privacy Policy). We are not responsible for the accuracy, availability, or practices of third-party sources, and your use of any linked third-party content is at your own risk and subject to that third party’s terms.
THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY STORY OR FACT WILL BE ACCURATE OR COMPLETE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS ARISING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT PRODUCED BY THE SERVICE. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR (B) US $50. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS, SO SOME OF THESE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GraveStory and its operator from any claim or demand arising out of your misuse of the service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party (including content you share publicly).
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. To the extent permitted by law and not subject to the app store’s policies, you agree that the state and federal courts located in South Carolina have jurisdiction over any dispute.
We may modify or discontinue the service, and we may update these Terms, at any time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, provide notice in the app. Your continued use after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.
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