The terms, in plain words.

Acceptance

These terms are an agreement between you and Vamocles (“we” or “us”), the legal entity that operates vamocles.com and the Vamocles apps. Where these terms speak of using Vamocles, they mean the website and the apps together. By using Vamocles, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

You must be at least 16 and able to enter into a binding agreement where you live. If you use Vamocles for an organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms for it, and “you” includes that organisation.

Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal data.

Preview status

Vamocles is in preview. The iOS and macOS apps are available in preview, and support for the web, Android, Windows and Linux is coming. During preview:

• features may change, pause or be withdrawn without notice;
• some features are shown before they are complete, and may not yet do everything their descriptions say; and
• an update may change what the apps keep, so use Export My Data to keep your own copy of anything that matters to you.

Plans for individuals, businesses and governments will be announced.

Your licence

While you follow these terms, we give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use the apps on devices you own or control, and this website, for their intended purpose.

Vamocles, including its software, design, text, imagery and the Vamo character, belongs to Vamocles or its licensors. You must not copy, modify, distribute, sell or lease any part of it, or reverse engineer it or try to extract its source code, except where the law allows this despite these terms or we have agreed in writing.

Terms set by the platform through which you receive an app also apply to your use of it.

Acceptable use

Vamocles is a defensive system. Use it lawfully, and only to surveil, monitor, protect and move what you are responsible for. You must not use it to:

• track, stalk, harass, intimidate or target any person, or build a profile of someone without a lawful basis;
• undermine anyone’s rights, including their privacy and their freedom of expression, association and assembly;
• develop, direct or support weapons, or plan or carry out offensive operations;
• gain access to any system, account, device or data you are not authorised to access;
• remove, suppress or request the deletion of information about anyone other than yourself;
• watch domains you do not own, or organisations you are not authorised to monitor;
• probe, disrupt or overload Vamocles, except under our disclosure policy;
• misrepresent who you are or the authority you act under; or
• break any law or regulation that applies to you, including privacy, data protection, surveillance, export control, aviation and maritime law.

If you are unsure whether a use is allowed, ask us first at hello@vamocles.com.

Vanish and Monitor

Vanish

• Use Vanish only for information about yourself.
• Vanish acts on the authorisation you give in the app: to search people-search and data-broker sites for your information and to prepare opt-out, deletion and do-not-sell requests for you, using only the identifiers you provide. That authorisation is limited to data removal.
• Requests go through each broker’s official privacy channel, and you send each one yourself. Nothing is sent without you.
• Brokers are independent companies. We cannot guarantee that a broker will remove a listing, when it will act, or that a listing will not reappear. Vanish marks a listing removed only when a later check no longer finds it.

Monitor

• Add only domains you own, and organisations you are authorised to monitor.
• Monitor reads public leak indexes, breach directories and certificate transparency logs. It never logs in anywhere and never touches the systems it reports on.
• Findings depend on those sources. They may be incomplete, late or wrong, and they are not a security audit.
• LeakIX needs your own API key, and your use of it is subject to LeakIX’s terms.

Commanding assets

Vamocles is the intelligence and command layer above drones, vessels, satellites, sensors and networks. When you use it to task or direct an asset:

• you remain the operator in command, and responsible for the asset and for what it does;
• you must hold every licence, permit, registration and authorisation the operation needs;
• you must follow aviation rules, including those on airspace, altitude and line of sight; maritime law and collision regulations; and the privacy and surveillance law of every place you operate; and
• you must not use any surveillance feature in a way that infringes people’s rights.

Vamocles supports your decisions. It does not replace your judgement, your training or the rules that apply to you.

Vamo

Vamo is the analyst inside Vamocles. Vamo can make mistakes. Verify anything critical.

Vamo’s answers are general information, not legal, financial, medical, security or other professional advice. Do not rely on Vamo alone for decisions with serious consequences.

Organisations and governments

Organisations and governments use Vamocles under separate written agreements. Where such an agreement conflicts with these terms, the agreement takes precedence for that deployment. To discuss one, request a briefing.

Third-party services

Parts of Vamocles work with services we do not run:

• people-search and data-broker sites, which Vanish searches and which receive the requests you send;
• LeakIX, the Have I Been Pwned breach directory and crt.sh, which Monitor reads; and
• Apple, whose Mail, Safari, speech recognition, Face ID, Touch ID and notifications the apps use.

We do not control these services and are not responsible for their content, availability or practices. Your use of them is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

Trademarks

Vamocles, Vamo and the Vamocles V-mark are trademarks of Vamocles. Do not use them without our written permission, except to refer to Vamocles accurately.

Third-party product names used on this site belong to their owners. Apple, iPhone, iOS, macOS, Face ID and Touch ID are trademarks of Apple Inc. Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Windows is a trademark of the Microsoft group of companies. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Their appearance does not imply endorsement.

Other names, such as LeakIX, Have I Been Pwned and the brokers Vanish works with, belong to their owners.

Suspension and ending

We may suspend or end your access to Vamocles, or to part of it, if you break these terms, if your use puts other people at risk, or if the law requires it. Where it is reasonable, we will tell you first and explain why.

You may stop using Vamocles at any time. Before you remove an app, use Delete All Data to clear what it keeps; the privacy policy explains what that covers on each platform.

Terms that by their nature should continue, such as those on trademarks, disclaimers and limitation of liability, continue after your use ends.

Disclaimers

Vamocles is provided “as is” and “as available”, especially during preview. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties or conditions, express or implied, including those of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

No system can detect or prevent every threat. We do not guarantee that you, your data, your devices or your assets will be kept from harm, that Vamocles will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that its findings are complete.

Nothing in these terms affects rights you have as a consumer that the law does not allow us to exclude.

Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Vamocles is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your use of Vamocles or your inability to use it.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

Governing law

The law that governs these terms, and the courts that may hear disputes about them, will be stated here at Vamocles’ first public release. Until then, nothing in these terms takes away the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live.

If a dispute arises, please write to hello@vamocles.com first. Most problems are easier to solve in conversation.

Changes

We may update these terms as Vamocles develops. When we do, we change the date at the top of this page, and if a change is significant, we say so clearly here before it takes effect. If you keep using Vamocles after a change takes effect, the updated terms apply.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force. If we do not enforce a term straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

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