Terms of service
These terms govern your use of FAM at fam.sochnev.com, operated by Pasha Sochnev. Contact pasha@sochnev.com with questions or support requests. By using the service, you agree to these terms and acknowledge the privacy policy.
The service
FAM helps you record family history and share it privately. The current free version allows each account to own up to five trees and view other trees by invitation. Features, storage limits, and availability may change. The service is intended for adults managing family history, not for independent accounts operated by children.
Your account and access
Use your own Google account and keep it secure. Do not impersonate someone else, share access without permission, or bypass access controls. Owners choose viewers and editors and review the information available to them. Viewer access is read-only; editor access permits content changes. Either role can be revoked by the owner. All members must respect the privacy of everyone represented in the tree.
Your content
You retain your rights in content you add. You give the service only the permission needed to host, process, display, back up, and deliver that content to you and your invited viewers. You must have the rights or permission needed to upload photos and personal information. Do not upload unlawful content, credentials, malicious files, or information you are not entitled to share. We do not verify the accuracy of family records or calculated relationships.
Sharing and privacy
An invitation grants access to every detail in the tree, not selected fields. Viewers cannot edit or bulk-export through the service, but technical restrictions cannot stop screenshots or copies of visible information. Do not redistribute another person's private information without permission. Our privacy policy explains information handling, providers, retention, and deletion.
Acceptable use
Do not use the service to harass, spam, infringe rights, distribute unlawful material, probe other accounts, overload infrastructure, scrape private trees, or defeat security controls. Invitation sending is subject to rate limits and delivery safeguards. We may restrict or suspend use that threatens privacy, security, legal compliance, or the service's operation.
Backups, export, and deletion
Keep your own exported backup of important family history. Standard GEDCOM may not preserve every custom field or photo; review the export format before relying on it. Account deletion removes your owned tree and its invitations. Leaving another tree does not delete it. Deleted content may remain in limited recovery copies as described in the privacy policy.
Availability and responsibility
The service is provided as available. We cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation, error-free relationship calculations, or recovery of every lost edit or file. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for indirect losses caused by use or unavailability of the service. Nothing in these terms excludes rights or liability that applicable law does not allow to be excluded. FAM is not an official identity, legal, medical, or vital-record service.
Ending use and updates
You can stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may change or discontinue the service, with reasonable notice when practical. Updated terms will be published here; material changes will be announced in the application or by email where appropriate. Contact us before continuing if you have questions about a change.