Legal

Terms of Service

Effective date: March 2, 2026

1. Acceptance of Terms

By installing, accessing, or using the NodeZero browser extension or visiting this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use NodeZero.

2. Service Description

NodeZero is a decentralized password manager delivered as a Chrome browser extension. It provides:

  • • Local vault storage, encrypted at rest
  • • Hardware-backed authentication via WebAuthn / FIDO2
  • • Decentralized identity (DID) for vault ownership
  • • Optional cross-device sync via your Google Drive
  • • Password generation and CSV import from other managers
  • • End-to-end encrypted email inside Gmail, using keys exchanged directly between correspondents

3. Your Responsibilities

NodeZero is a zero-knowledge system. This means you — and only you — are responsible for:

Recovery Phrase

You must securely store your 12-word recovery phrase. It is displayed once during setup and cannot be recovered by NodeZero or any third party. Loss of your recovery phrase combined with loss of device access means permanent, irrecoverable loss of your vault.

Passphrase

Setup establishes a passphrase used for unlocking, for recovery, and for setting up new devices. You are responsible for choosing a strong one and keeping it confidential. NodeZero does not store or transmit your passphrase — only a copy of your vault key encrypted under it.

Security Key

If you use a hardware security key (e.g., YubiKey) for vault authentication, you are responsible for maintaining physical custody of that key.

4. No Warranty

NodeZero is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that defects will be corrected. You use NodeZero at your own risk.

5. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, NodeZero and its contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of data, loss of access to credentials, or financial losses arising from the use or inability to use the service.

In no event shall the total liability exceed the amount you paid for the service (which is $0 for the free tier).

6. Data & Privacy

Your use of NodeZero is also governed by our Privacy Policy. NodeZero employs a zero-knowledge architecture — we cannot access, read, or recover your vault contents. All encryption and decryption occurs locally on your device.

7. Service Availability

The NodeZero extension operates locally. Optional cross-device sync runs through Google Drive under your own Google account — we do not operate that service and cannot guarantee its availability. Your vault remains locally accessible whether or not sync is working.

8. Licence

NodeZero is proprietary software. You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use it on devices you control, free of charge. You may not sell it, redistribute it, or install it on a device or account you do not control. The full terms ship inside the extension as LICENSE.txt, together with the notices for the open-source components NodeZero is built with.

NodeZero is provided as is, without warranty of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. How you use it, and what follows from that use, is your responsibility.

This section previously stated that NodeZero was released under the AGPL-3.0 and that you could view, fork and modify the source. No source was ever published, so that was not accurate, and the licence has since been changed to proprietary. Nothing about how the extension handles your data has changed.

9. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

  • Use NodeZero for any illegal purpose or to store credentials for unauthorized access
  • Attempt to abuse, overload, or disrupt the sync service
  • Reverse engineer, tamper with, or bypass the extension's security mechanisms
  • Upload malicious or excessively large data through the sync service

10. Third-Party Services

NodeZero relies on third-party cloud infrastructure for vault sync and website hosting. Your use of these underlying services is subject to their respective terms of service. NodeZero is not responsible for third-party provider availability, performance, or policies.

11. Modifications

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. Updated terms will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Continued use of NodeZero after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

12. Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with applicable law, without regard to conflict of law principles.

13. Contact

For questions about these Terms of Service, email us at intothenode@gmail.com.