Family Archivist
iOS-only private continuity system for families — Object Universe · Evidence Stack · Posthumous Protocols
Preserve what must not be lost — across every artefact, every voice, every generation.
Terms and Conditions
Master Terms · Per-App Schedule A · Apple-Required Terms
Operator
ML Consulting MB, a private legal person of the Republic of Lithuania
Product
Family archivist — iOS-only private continuity system for families
Editions
Essential · Family · Family Office · Institutional · Collection Add-Ons
Surfaces
iPhone (capture) · iPad Pro (cataloguing & advisor mode) · Apple Watch (glanceable & break-glass) · visionOS (horizon)
Initial market
Lithuania → Baltics → EU (DACH, Benelux, Nordics) → UK / CH → selected US metros
Distribution
Apple App Store — iOS, iPadOS, watchOS only
Document
Master Terms and Conditions + Schedule A (Family archivist)
Version
1.0 — Family archivist edition
Effective
2026-05-26
Last updated
2026-05-26
Governing law
Republic of Lithuania, courts of Vilnius
Contact
support@mlconsulting.lt · https://mlconsulting.lt
Please read these Terms together with the Per-App Schedule that follows.
PRELIMINARY NOTICE
How to read this document
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How to read these terms
This document has two layers. Part I — Master Terms — covers every iOS, iPadOS and watchOS app that ML Consulting MB publishes on the Apple App Store. Part II — Schedule A — is the per-App overlay for Family archivist and controls where it differs from the Master Terms. By installing, opening, signing in to, or subscribing to Family archivist you accept the combined Master Terms and Schedule A. If you do not accept them, do not use the App and request a refund through the Apple App Store within the eligibility window. Each subscription is taken in the name of a single legal person — the "Subscribing Customer" — which may be an individual principal, a family entity (trust, foundation, holding company), a family office, a private bank or advisory firm, or an institution. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for every family member, advisor, executor, archivist and assistant who accesses the App under that subscription, and for every iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch device on which it is installed.
Archival, attribution, valuation, restitution and posthumous-protocol disclaimer
Family archivist is a private continuity, evidence-organisation and archival-discipline product. It records objects, people, places, events and stories — across seventeen categories including fine art, wine, spirits, cigars, watches, jewellery, rare books, numismatics, vinyl, instruments, classic vehicles, yachts, firearms (where lawful), antiques, textiles, equestrian and heritage gardens. It organises evidence and produces signed, encrypted Evidence Packets for the Subscribing Customer's advisors, executors, insurers and beneficiaries. It is NOT an attribution service, NOT an authentication service, NOT a valuation service, NOT an opinion of counsel, NOT a tax or investment advisor, NOT a restitution-clearance authority, NOT a gemological or horological certification body, and NOT a notary. Where Family archivist surfaces vocabulary, schemas or standards drawn from third-party authorities — ICOM Object ID, CIDOC-CRM, VRA Core 4, Getty AAT, WSET, NAWCC, AHCI, FIVA, GIA / IGI / HRD, IGS, AACR2 / RDA, BIBFRAME, OCLC, ISTC, ABAA, PCGS / NGC, Krause, Scott / Michel / Gibbons, Discogs, MusicBrainz, FEI passport, IPNI, TROBI — Family archivist does so under fair-use referencing and does not represent itself as endorsed, certified, accredited or licensed by any of those authorities. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for engaging qualified experts (conservators, gemologists, horologists, sommeliers, classic-car registrars, art advisors, attorneys, notaries, executors and tax counsel) before relying on any record produced through Family archivist to authenticate, value, sell, insure, transfer, restitute, bequeath or otherwise act on a recorded asset.
Subscription, paid concierge, family-office and institutional pilot disclaimer
Family archivist is a premium product. Editions contemplated at the date of these Terms are Essential (approximately €180–€360 per year plus a €490 concierge setup), Family (approximately €480–€1,200 per year plus a €990 concierge setup), Family Office (approximately €18,000–€120,000 per year on a private tenant or on-prem-hybrid deployment, with concierge onboarding) and Institutional (bespoke, typically €250,000 per year and above on a private-tenant or licensed deployment with per-family seats). Collection Add-On modules (Wine Cellar, Watch Collection, Fine Art, Jewellery, Classic Vehicles, Rare Books, Equestrian, Heritage Garden and others) are priced at €120–€600 per module per year on top of the base subscription. Apple App Store subscriptions are governed by Apple's refund and renewal rules; direct subscriptions and concierge engagements are governed by clause 11 of the Master Terms and the cancellation mechanics in Schedule A. The concierge setup and Family-Office or Institutional pilots involve real human effort and are intentionally non-refundable beyond the Apple App Store window because they reserve archivist, conservator-liaison and onboarding time specific to the Subscribing Customer's archive.
CONTENTS
What is inside
Part I Master Terms and Conditions
§ 1 Agreement and Parties
§ 2 Apps Covered and Per-App Schedules
§ 3 Eligibility and Intended Users
§ 4 Definitions
§ 5 Licence to Use the Apps
§ 6 What the Apps Do, and What They Do Not Do
§ 7 Accounts and Security
§ 8 Your Data and Permitted Use by Us
§ 9 Privacy and Data Protection
§ 10 Subscriptions, Billing and App Store Rules
§ 11 Direct Billing for Business Apps
§ 12 Acceptable Use
§ 13 AI / ML Features and Probabilistic Outputs
§ 14 Intellectual Property
§ 15 Updates, Availability and Support
§ 16 Suspension and Termination
§ 17 Consumer Rights
§ 18 Disclaimers
§ 19 Limitation of Liability
§ 20 Indemnity for Business Users
§ 21 Force Majeure and Reserved Capacity
§ 22 Governing Law and Disputes
§ 23 Changes to this Agreement
§ 24 General
§ 25 Apple-Required Terms
§ 26 Precedence — Schedules and Order Forms
Part II Schedule A — Family archivist
A1 App, Purpose and Archival Perimeter
A2 Editions, Collection Add-Ons and Concierge Setup
A3 Subscribing Customer Types and Authorised User Roles
A4 Apple Platform Reliance — iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CloudKit and Secure Enclave
A5 The Evidence Stack, Hash-Fixity and RFC 3161 Timestamps
A6 Authority of Qualified Experts and Reserved Decisions
A7 Object Universe Categories, Standards Used and Standards-Body Disclaimer
A8 AI Assistance, Probabilistic Output and Mandatory Human Review
A9 Evidence Packets, Sealed Letters and Posthumous Protocols
A10 Personal Data, Special Categories, Minors and Family Members
A11 HomeKit Telemetry, Critical Alerts and Cellar / Humidor / Gallery Guardianship
A12 Firearms, Jurisdiction-Gated Categories and Sanctions
A13 Prohibited Uses and Family-Specific Restrictions
A14 Liability Cap, Lookback Period and Subscribing Customer Recourse
A15 Apple-Required Terms — Family archivist specifics
PART I
Master Terms and Conditions
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SECTION 01
Agreement and Parties
Who is on each side of this contract, and how it begins.
1.1. These Master Terms and Conditions (the "Master Terms") form a binding agreement between ML Consulting MB, a private legal person of the Republic of Lithuania ("ML Consulting", "we", "us"), and the person or legal entity that installs, opens, signs in to, subscribes to, or otherwise uses any iOS, iPadOS or watchOS application published by ML Consulting on the Apple App Store ("you", "Subscribing Customer", or "Authorised User", as the context requires).
1.2. Where the App is acquired by an individual for personal or family use, the Subscribing Customer and the Authorised User are the same person. Where the App is acquired by a family entity (trust, foundation, holding company), a family office, a private bank, an advisory firm or an institution, the Subscribing Customer is that legal entity, the Authorised Users are the natural persons it permits to access the App under that subscription, and the legal entity is responsible for every act and omission of every Authorised User.
1.3. Acceptance of these Master Terms is signified by installing the App, signing in with an Apple ID, activating a trial or paid concierge setup, or beginning paid use, whichever happens first. If you do not accept these Master Terms, do not install the App; if already installed, delete it from every device on which it is present.
1.4. These Master Terms must be read together with the relevant per-App Schedule (in this document, Schedule A for Family archivist) and any Order Form executed between ML Consulting and the Subscribing Customer.
SECTION 02
Apps Covered and Per-App Schedules
How the Master Terms and the per-App Schedule fit together.
2.1. These Master Terms apply across the ML Consulting portfolio of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS apps published on the Apple App Store. Each App has its own Schedule that names the App, its intended audience, its regulatory perimeter and any App-specific restrictions, plan structures or liability mechanics. In this document, the Schedule is Schedule A — Family archivist.
2.2. Where the Master Terms and a Schedule say different things on the same topic, the Schedule prevails for that App. Where an executed Order Form says something different from both, the Order Form prevails for the Subscribing Customer named in it.
2.3. A reference to "the App" in the Master Terms is a reference to the App named in the Schedule. A reference to "the Apps" is a reference to the whole ML Consulting portfolio. A reference to "the Schedule" is a reference to the Schedule for the App in question.
SECTION 03
Eligibility and Intended Users
Who is allowed to use the Apps, and on what devices.
3.1. You must be at least 18 years old to accept these Master Terms. Where you accept on behalf of a Subscribing Customer that is a legal entity, you warrant that you are authorised to bind that entity to these Master Terms, the relevant Schedule and any Order Form referenced in either.
3.2. The Apps are designed for iPhone, iPad and (where indicated in the Schedule) Apple Watch, running supported versions of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS as set out in the relevant App Store listing. ML Consulting does not warrant operation on jailbroken devices, on emulators, or on hardware outside the App Store-published support list.
3.3. Family archivist is positioned for adult Subscribing Customers and adult Authorised Users. Where the Subscribing Customer wishes to grant access to a minor descendant (for example a Newly-Major Descendant aged 18, 21 or 25 receiving age-appropriate orientation), the Subscribing Customer is responsible for obtaining the consents required by applicable family, guardianship and data-protection law of the minor's habitual residence.
3.4. You may not use the App if you are subject to applicable trade-control, sanctions or export-control measures of the European Union, the United Nations, the United Kingdom, the United States or the Republic of Lithuania that would prohibit the supply of software or related services to you, or if your use of the App would breach a law applicable to your business or household.
SECTION 04
Definitions
Words with a special meaning in these Master Terms.
App — an iOS, iPadOS or watchOS application published by ML Consulting MB on the Apple App Store and identified in a Schedule, including all updates, fixes, embedded fonts, icons, configuration files and bundled assets.
Subscribing Customer — the natural person, family entity (trust, foundation, holding company), family office, private bank, advisory firm or institution in whose name a subscription to the App is taken. Replaces every reference to "Workforce Owner", "Account Owner" or similar in prior versions of these Terms.
Authorised User — a natural person authorised by the Subscribing Customer to access the App under that Subscribing Customer's subscription, including the family principal, spouse, descendants of permitted ages, family-office personnel, archivist, conservator-liaison, executor, trustee, general counsel, accountant, insurance broker and any approved advisor.
Apple — Apple Inc., the operator of the App Store, the developer of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and the Apple frameworks used by the Apps (including SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit, Secure Enclave, CryptoKit, PhotoKit, VisionKit, Vision, Speech, NaturalLanguage, Core ML, ARKit, RoomPlan, LiDAR APIs, HomeKit, WatchKit, WatchConnectivity, ActivityKit, WidgetKit and StoreKit), and the issuer of the App Store standard licence agreement.
Subscriber Data — all data, files, documents, photographs, audio recordings, video walk-arounds, 3D / LiDAR scans, AR placements, HomeKit telemetry, oral histories, family-tree records, object records across the Object Universe categories, provenance segments, conservation events, valuation records, sealed letters, posthumous protocol instructions, family-constitution texts, advisor minutes and audit records that the Subscribing Customer or its Authorised Users upload, capture, enter, generate or store through the App.
Subscription Fees — the fees payable for use of the App, whether through the Apple App Store, through a direct Order Form with ML Consulting, or through a paid concierge setup or pilot, and whether expressed as Essential, Family, Family Office, Institutional, Collection Add-On or any other named tier.
Schedule — the per-App overlay published by ML Consulting for an individual App; in this document, "Schedule A" means Schedule A for Family archivist.
Order Form — a written ordering document, purchase order, statement of work or signed quotation entered into between ML Consulting and the Subscribing Customer, referencing these Master Terms and the relevant Schedule, including any annexes attached to it.
AI Output — any text, draft narrative, classification, label-recognition result, reference-number suggestion, attribution suggestion, valuation range, provenance-event extraction, restitution-window flag, drinking-window estimate, summary or other content generated, suggested or estimated by the AI/ML components of the App, regardless of confidence label.
SECTION 05
Licence to Use the Apps
A limited, revocable, non-exclusive permission to use the App.
5.1. Subject to your payment of all Subscription Fees due and your compliance with these Master Terms and the relevant Schedule, ML Consulting grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to install and use the App on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch devices owned or controlled by the Subscribing Customer, solely for the Subscribing Customer's own private archival, evidence-organisation, succession-preparation, insurance-evidence, family-governance and continuity purposes within the perimeter set out in the Schedule.
5.2. You may not — and you may not allow any Authorised User or third party to: (a) sublicense, sell, rent, lease, lend, time-share or otherwise commercially exploit the App other than as expressly permitted; (b) reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or attempt to derive the source code of the App except to the minimum extent allowed by mandatory law; (c) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice, watermark, hash-fixity record, RFC 3161 timestamp, custody log or audit metadata; (d) use the App or its AI Output to train, evaluate, fine-tune, benchmark or improve any competing family-archive, provenance-AI, collector-vertical, valuation or attribution product, model or dataset; (e) circumvent any technical access control, rate limit, tier gate, workspace isolation or device limit; or (f) operate the App as a front for a person or entity that does not itself hold a valid subscription.
5.3. The licence is granted on a per-Subscribing-Customer basis and is keyed to the workspace identifier provisioned at onboarding. Sharing of credentials or workspaces across distinct legal persons is prohibited.
SECTION 06
What the Apps Do, and What They Do Not Do
The promise of the App, with its limits stated clearly.
6.1. The Apps assist Subscribing Customers in organising, evidencing and preserving private records, artefacts, voices and family governance instruments. They are decision-support and archival-discipline tools. They are not the regulated activity itself, and they are not a substitute for licensed conservators, gemologists, horologists, classic-car registrars, sommeliers, art advisors, attorneys, notaries, executors, trustees, accountants or tax counsel.
6.2. The Apps do not authenticate, do not attribute, do not value, do not opine on tax, legal or investment matters, do not certify, do not notarise, do not register firearms with any authority, do not issue gemological certificates, do not issue FIVA passports and do not issue veterinary or breed-society records. Where the Schedule describes specific App capabilities — for example the Object Universe categories, the Evidence Stack, Inheritance-Readiness, sealed letters, posthumous protocols, Emergency File, Wine Cellar drinking-window forecasts, Watch reference lookup, HomeKit cellar-telemetry warnings or AR/LiDAR captures — those capabilities are described as designed, not warranted to operate without interruption, without error, or in a manner free from algorithmic uncertainty.
6.3. The Apps do not generate legal advice and do not represent that any output is authoritative. AI Outputs are draft until a qualified human reviewer confirms them through the workflow built into the App.
6.4. The Apps do not act as an authority of the Subscribing Customer for the purposes of probate, intestacy, succession, restitution, insurance settlement, customs clearance, sanctions screening or tax filing. Evidence Packets exported from the Apps are evidentiary aids, not adjudications.
SECTION 07
Accounts and Security
Sign in with Apple, Secure Enclave, multi-device sync and your security obligations.
7.1. The Apps rely on Sign in with Apple and Passkey as the primary authentication methods, and on Apple Secure Enclave for cryptographic key protection where supported by the device. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for the Apple IDs used by its Authorised Users, for two-factor authentication on those Apple IDs, for revoking access when an Authorised User leaves the family, family office or institution, and for promptly notifying ML Consulting of any suspected compromise.
7.2. Where the App offers multi-device synchronisation through Apple CloudKit, the Subscribing Customer accepts that data sync depends on Apple CloudKit availability and on each device's own iCloud configuration. ML Consulting does not warrant continuous CloudKit availability and is not liable for sync delays or conflicts attributable to Apple's infrastructure.
7.3. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for the physical security of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch devices on which the App is installed, for device-level passcodes and biometric configuration, for Find My and remote-wipe capability, and for the physical security of any printed evidence, signed minute book, sealed-letter print, USB or cold-storage key associated with the archive.
SECTION 08
Your Data and Permitted Use by Us
Who owns Subscriber Data and what we may do with it.
8.1. As between the Subscribing Customer and ML Consulting, the Subscribing Customer retains all right, title and interest in and to Subscriber Data, including all object records, photographs, video walk-arounds, audio commentaries, LiDAR scans, AR placements, HomeKit telemetry, oral histories, family-tree records, provenance segments, valuation records, sealed letters, posthumous protocol instructions, family-constitution texts, advisor minutes and audit records.
8.2. The Subscribing Customer grants ML Consulting a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, copy, transmit, process, render, display, back up, index, run pipelines over and otherwise use Subscriber Data solely to the extent necessary to: (a) provide the App and its features; (b) operate, secure, monitor and improve the App; (c) generate AI Output, Evidence Packets and audit logs requested by the Subscribing Customer; (d) comply with mandatory law and lawful regulatory requests; and (e) detect, prevent and respond to fraud, abuse and security incidents.
8.3. ML Consulting will not sell Subscriber Data to third parties, will not use Subscriber Data to train foundation models that serve customers other than the Subscribing Customer that supplied the data, and will not share identifiable family records, object records, photographs, audio histories, sealed letters or posthumous instructions between distinct Subscribing Customers.
8.4. ML Consulting may produce aggregated, anonymised statistics about App usage and category benchmarks, provided that such statistics cannot reasonably be re-associated with any individual Subscribing Customer, Authorised User, family member, object or specific location.
SECTION 09
Privacy and Data Protection
GDPR, Lithuanian privacy law and processor mechanics.
9.1. ML Consulting acts as a processor under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR") and the Republic of Lithuania Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data when handling personal data on the Subscribing Customer's instructions, and as a controller when handling account-level data necessary to operate the App, bill the Subscribing Customer, comply with legal obligations and secure the platform. Where the Subscribing Customer is established in the United States or the United Kingdom, ML Consulting also acts as the corresponding statutory category under the California Consumer Privacy Act/CPRA, the Virginia CDPA, the Colorado CPA, the Connecticut CTDPA, the Utah UCPA and the UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018, to the extent each applies.
9.2. Lawful bases for the controller-level processing carried out by ML Consulting include performance of contract (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)), compliance with legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)), and the legitimate interests of ML Consulting in operating, securing and improving the App (Article 6(1)(f)) where those interests are not overridden by the rights and freedoms of the data subject.
9.3. Where processing involves special-category data within the meaning of GDPR Article 9 — for example oral histories or photographs that reveal health, biometric, religious, political or trade-union information of family members, advisors or staff — the Subscribing Customer warrants that it has a lawful Article 9 basis and that storage of such data in the App is appropriate to its private continuity context.
9.4. Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, ML Consulting relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914) and, where required, supplementary measures consistent with the European Data Protection Board's recommendations. Transfers to the United Kingdom rely on the UK Addendum; transfers to the United States may rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where the receiving entity is certified.
9.5. Data-subject requests addressed to ML Consulting will be routed to the Subscribing Customer where ML Consulting is the processor. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for responding to data-subject requests in respect of personal data it controls. ML Consulting will provide reasonable assistance.
SECTION 10
Subscriptions, Billing and App Store Rules
How fees work when you pay through Apple.
10.1. Subscriptions purchased through the Apple App Store are governed by Apple's payment, renewal, cancellation and refund rules, including Apple's Subscriber Agreement and any tier-specific information shown at point of purchase. Renewal is automatic until cancelled in the device's iOS Settings.
10.2. Subscription Fees displayed in the App Store are inclusive or exclusive of value-added tax or other applicable transaction tax according to the App Store rules of the territory of purchase. Currency, presentation and local tax handling are managed by Apple.
10.3. ML Consulting may adjust Subscription Fees and tier names for new subscriptions at any time. Where a price change applies to an existing subscription, the Subscribing Customer will receive the notice required by Apple App Store rules and may cancel before the change takes effect.
SECTION 11
Direct Billing for Business Apps
Where ML Consulting bills the Subscribing Customer directly.
11.1. For Family Office, Institutional and white-label deployments, the Subscribing Customer may instead enter into a written Order Form with ML Consulting and pay Subscription Fees, concierge-setup fees and pilot fees by invoice. Where an Order Form is in place, the App Store route is replaced by the direct contract for that Subscribing Customer for the duration of the Order Form.
11.2. Direct invoices are due 30 days from the date of invoice unless the Order Form says otherwise. Late payment attracts interest at the rate provided in the Republic of Lithuania Law on the Prevention of Late Payment in Commercial Transactions, plus reasonable recovery costs.
11.3. Subscription Fees, concierge-setup fees and pilot fees paid under direct billing are non-refundable except in the case of a material breach by ML Consulting that is not cured within thirty (30) days of written notice from the Subscribing Customer.
SECTION 12
Acceptable Use
Conduct the Apps will not support.
12.1. You will not use the App in a way that is unlawful, fraudulent, harmful, deceptive, infringing of third-party rights, contrary to applicable cultural-heritage, anti-money-laundering, sanctions, customs or weapons-licensing rules, or otherwise in breach of the Schedule's domain-specific prohibitions.
12.2. You will not upload to the App any content you do not have the right to upload, including images, audio or video of third parties (including domestic staff and household workers) without consent, content that infringes intellectual property, content that breaches confidentiality, content that contains malware, or content that contains personal data of third parties that you do not have a lawful basis to process within the App.
12.3. You will not use the App to launder the provenance of an object, to disguise dispossession in the 1933–1945 window or any other restitution-relevant window, to evade sanctions or customs controls, or to facilitate trafficking in cultural property contrary to UNESCO 1970 or the Hague Convention.
SECTION 13
AI / ML Features and Probabilistic Outputs
How AI Output is produced, labelled and meant to be used.
13.1. The Apps use machine-learning and statistical models for tasks including, depending on the App, label and reference recognition, OCR of title pages and certificates, provenance-event extraction, attribution suggestion, valuation-range estimation from licensed feeds (opt-in), drinking-window forecasts, restitution-window flagging, hallmark reading, condition description drafting and oral-history transcription. These models are probabilistic. Their output is a draft for human review by a qualified expert, not an authoritative determination.
13.2. AI Output is generated using a combination of on-device frameworks (Core ML, Vision, VisionKit, Speech, NaturalLanguage) and server-side language models accessed through ML Consulting's backend. The Subscribing Customer accepts that AI Output may be incomplete, inaccurate, biased, outdated or otherwise unsuited to its specific facts.
13.3. No AI Output may be relied upon as the sole basis for any binding decision, including but not limited to attribution, authentication, valuation, insurance schedule, sale, purchase, donation, restitution, bequest, tax filing, customs declaration or sanctions screening. Every such decision must be confirmed by a qualified human expert engaged by the Subscribing Customer.
13.4. ML Consulting tracks AI Output versioning through the run records described in the App. The Subscribing Customer is entitled to export those records as part of an audit trail. Retention is governed by the Schedule.
SECTION 14
Intellectual Property
What we own, what you own, and what stays separate.
14.1. The App, the underlying code, models, prompts, schemas, design system, brand, trade marks, logos, marketing materials, documentation and all related intellectual property remain the property of ML Consulting and its licensors. No right is granted to you other than the limited licence in clause 5.
14.2. The Subscribing Customer retains ownership of Subscriber Data and of any output that consists materially of confirmed, edited or original content authored by the Subscribing Customer or its Authorised Users — including the family's canonical record, signed minute book, sealed letters, posthumous protocol instructions, Evidence Packets in the form actually exported, and any oral histories recorded by family members.
14.3. Where the Subscribing Customer provides feedback, feature requests or comparative reviews, ML Consulting may use that feedback to improve the App without any obligation to credit, license back or compensate the Subscribing Customer, provided ML Consulting does not identify the Subscribing Customer by name without consent.
SECTION 15
Updates, Availability and Support
How the App evolves and what to expect when it is delivered.
15.1. ML Consulting may release updates, new features, bug fixes and configuration changes to the App at any time and through the Apple App Store update mechanism. Some updates may add, remove, deprecate or change features. Where a change materially reduces a feature that the Subscribing Customer has paid for, ML Consulting will give reasonable notice through the App or by email.
15.2. The App is provided "as available". ML Consulting does not commit to a specific uptime percentage in these Master Terms; where an uptime commitment is given, it is set out in the Schedule or in the Order Form.
15.3. Support is provided in the manner described in the Schedule. For Family archivist, support channels, target response times and concierge availability are set out in Schedule A and, where applicable, in the Order Form.
SECTION 16
Suspension and Termination
How either side can step away from this agreement.
16.1. The Subscribing Customer may stop using the App at any time. Apple App Store subscriptions may be cancelled through iOS Settings; direct subscriptions end in accordance with the Order Form.
16.2. ML Consulting may suspend or terminate access immediately and without prior notice where: (a) Subscription Fees are unpaid beyond thirty (30) days; (b) the Subscribing Customer or any Authorised User materially breaches these Master Terms, the Schedule, or any applicable law including cultural-heritage, sanctions, anti-money-laundering or weapons-licensing law; (c) continued access creates a security, integrity or regulatory risk to the platform or to other Subscribing Customers; or (d) Apple suspends or withdraws the App from the App Store.
16.3. On termination, the Subscribing Customer's licence ends, but accrued rights and obligations survive, including payment obligations, audit-trail retention required by the Schedule, posthumous-protocol release commitments to executors that have crystallised under clause A9, and any indemnities owed.
16.4. For thirty (30) days after termination, the Subscribing Customer may request export of Subscriber Data in a machine-readable format (BagIt-wrapped PDF/A, TIFF, FLAC, FFV1+Matroska, USDZ, glTF, UTF-8 Markdown and JSON-LD/RDF as appropriate). After that window, ML Consulting may delete Subscriber Data, subject to retention required by law and any crystallised posthumous protocols.
SECTION 17
Consumer Rights
Mandatory consumer protection where it applies.
17.1. Where the Subscribing Customer is a consumer under the law of the European Union, the Republic of Lithuania, the United Kingdom, or any other jurisdiction with applicable consumer-software protections, nothing in these Master Terms limits or excludes consumer rights that cannot be limited or excluded by contract, including the right of withdrawal under Directive 2011/83/EU as transposed into national law.
17.2. Family archivist is positioned for use by adult Subscribing Customers and adult Authorised Users. Where an individual buys the App on personal account, this clause 17 applies in addition to and where required in priority over the rest of these Master Terms.
SECTION 18
Disclaimers
The boundary between what the App offers and what it cannot.
18.1. Except as expressly stated in these Master Terms or the Schedule, the App is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, to the maximum extent permitted by law.
18.2. ML Consulting does not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, virus-free, accurate at the level of any specific AI Output, complete with respect to any third-party catalogue or registry, compatible with every iOS, iPadOS or watchOS configuration, or suitable for any particular object, family, jurisdiction or contract.
18.3. ML Consulting does not warrant the availability, accuracy or completeness of third-party catalogues, registries, valuation feeds or telemetry sources surfaced through the App. Their availability and content are outside ML Consulting's control.
SECTION 19
Limitation of Liability
How exposure is capped, and what survives the cap.
19.1. Subject to clause 19.4, the aggregate liability of ML Consulting to the Subscribing Customer under or in connection with these Master Terms, the Schedule, or any Order Form — whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, restitution, or otherwise — is limited to the Subscription Fees actually paid by the Subscribing Customer to ML Consulting in respect of the App during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
19.2. In no event will ML Consulting be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, loss of object value, loss of insurance recovery, loss of inheritance, loss of bid at auction, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of margin, loss of goodwill, loss of cultural-heritage status, or loss of anticipated savings, however arising.
19.3. Without limiting clause 19.2, ML Consulting will not be liable for: (a) the consequences of a Subscribing Customer relying on AI Output, label recognition, drinking-window forecasts, valuation ranges or restitution-window flags without qualified human review; (b) the loss or damage of any physical object recorded in the App, including loss of a bottle, watch, jewellery piece, classic vehicle, vessel, instrument, manuscript, animal, plant or any other artefact; (c) any change in cellar, humidor or gallery environmental conditions, including conditions reported via HomeKit; (d) the consequences of a sealed letter being released early, late or to the wrong party; (e) the consequences of any probate, intestacy, restitution, insurance, customs, sanctions or tax determination; or (f) the consequences of any third-party catalogue, registry, valuation feed or telemetry source change.
19.4. Nothing in these Master Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or liability for any other matter that mandatory law of the Republic of Lithuania prohibits from being excluded or limited.
SECTION 20
Indemnity for Business Users
When the Subscribing Customer holds ML Consulting harmless.
20.1. The Subscribing Customer agrees to indemnify, defend and hold ML Consulting harmless from and against all claims, losses, fines, regulatory sanctions, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with: (a) the Subscribing Customer's breach of these Master Terms or the Schedule; (b) the unlawful or unauthorised use of the App by any Authorised User; (c) the content of Subscriber Data; (d) any representation, sale, insurance claim, restitution claim, tax filing or bequest based wholly or partly on AI Output or App-generated artifacts that the Subscribing Customer did not subject to qualified human review; (e) any third-party claim that Subscriber Data infringes intellectual property, breaches confidentiality, violates cultural-heritage law or violates personal-data protection law; and (f) any breach of sanctions, customs, anti-money-laundering, weapons-licensing or wildlife-trade rules by the Subscribing Customer.
20.2. ML Consulting will give the Subscribing Customer prompt notice of any claim covered by this clause 20, reasonable cooperation in defending the claim, and the right (but not the obligation) to take over the defence at its own cost.
SECTION 21
Force Majeure and Reserved Capacity
What happens when events outside either side's control take over.
21.1. Neither party is liable for delay or failure to perform any obligation under these Master Terms (other than the obligation to pay Subscription Fees that have accrued) where the delay or failure results from circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to: act of God, war, armed conflict, civil unrest, terrorism, embargo, sanctions, pandemic, public-health measure, internet outage, large-scale cloud-provider outage (including Apple iCloud or CloudKit incidents), cyber-attack, denial-of-service, governmental or regulatory order, change in cultural-heritage, sanctions or weapons-licensing law, or extended unavailability of an upstream catalogue, registry, valuation feed or HomeKit accessory.
21.2. Where the App is unavailable, partially functional or operating in a degraded mode for reasons described in clause 21.1, ML Consulting will use commercially reasonable efforts to restore service, will keep the Subscribing Customer informed of material developments through the App or by email, and will not be required to provide a service credit beyond that expressly set out in the Schedule or the Order Form.
21.3. A force-majeure event lasting more than ninety (90) consecutive days entitles either party to terminate the affected subscription on written notice with no further liability beyond accrued amounts and any crystallised posthumous-protocol commitment.
SECTION 22
Governing Law and Disputes
Which law applies and which courts decide.
22.1. These Master Terms, the Schedule, and any Order Form are governed by the law of the Republic of Lithuania, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules.
22.2. Subject to mandatory consumer-protection rules of the Subscribing Customer's habitual residence, the courts of Vilnius, Republic of Lithuania, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Master Terms, the Schedule or any Order Form.
22.3. Before commencing proceedings, the parties will attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute by senior-level discussion for a period of thirty (30) days, unless interim relief is needed to prevent imminent harm.
SECTION 23
Changes to this Agreement
How these Terms can evolve, and what notice you get.
23.1. ML Consulting may amend these Master Terms and the Schedule from time to time. Material changes will be notified through the App or by email at least thirty (30) days before they take effect, except where a change is required to comply with mandatory law, Apple App Store policy, or to address a security risk, in which case a shorter notice period may apply.
23.2. Continued use of the App after the effective date of a change constitutes acceptance of the change. Where the Subscribing Customer does not accept a change, its remedy is to cancel the subscription before the effective date.
SECTION 24
General
Standard contract plumbing.
24.1. If any provision of these Master Terms or the Schedule is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in force. The parties will replace the invalid provision with one that achieves, so far as possible, the original commercial intent.
24.2. A failure or delay by ML Consulting in exercising a right is not a waiver of that right. A single or partial exercise does not prevent further exercise.
24.3. These Master Terms, together with the Schedule and any executed Order Form, constitute the entire agreement between the parties in respect of the App and supersede any prior representation, agreement, negotiation or understanding.
24.4. Notices to ML Consulting must be sent to support@mlconsulting.lt with a copy by registered post to ML Consulting MB's registered office in the Republic of Lithuania. Notices to the Subscribing Customer may be sent to the email address held by ML Consulting in the workspace record.
SECTION 25
Apple-Required Terms
The relationship with Apple sits inside these Master Terms.
25.1. These Master Terms are concluded between the Subscribing Customer and ML Consulting only, and not with Apple. ML Consulting alone is responsible for the App and its content.
25.2. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services in respect of the App. Apple is not responsible for any warranties, whether express or implied by law, in respect of the App.
25.3. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by the Subscribing Customer or any third party relating to the App or the Subscribing Customer's possession or use of the App, including product-liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer-protection, privacy or similar legislation.
25.4. In the event of any third-party claim that the App or the Subscribing Customer's possession and use of the App infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, ML Consulting — and not Apple — is solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
25.5. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Master Terms and, on the Subscribing Customer's acceptance, will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Master Terms as a third-party beneficiary.
SECTION 26
Precedence — Schedules and Order Forms
How the document layers stack when they disagree.
26.1. Where there is a conflict between (a) these Master Terms, (b) the Schedule, and (c) an executed Order Form, precedence runs Order Form → Schedule → Master Terms for the conflicting provision and for that Subscribing Customer.
26.2. Nothing in any Schedule or Order Form may purport to give the Subscribing Customer broader rights than the Master Terms in respect of Apple-Required Terms, AI Output reliance, or limitations of liability, except to the extent that mandatory law requires.
PART II
Schedule A — Family archivist
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SECTION A1
App, Purpose and Archival Perimeter
What Family archivist is, who it is for, and the regulatory edges it lives inside.
A1.1. Family archivist is an iOS-only private continuity system published by ML Consulting MB and licensed by subscription through the Apple App Store and, for Family Office and Institutional editions, through direct Order Forms with concierge onboarding. It is positioned for individual principals, family entities (trust, foundation, holding company), family offices, private banks, advisory firms and institutions seeking an evidence-grade, privacy-native, category-literate, century-scale private archive.
A1.2. Family archivist operates within a defined perimeter that includes, without limitation: the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679); the Republic of Lithuania Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data; the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) where AI features qualify as in-scope; the eIDAS Regulation (Regulation (EU) 910/2014) for electronic signatures and qualified electronic timestamps under RFC 3161; cultural-heritage law including the UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, the EU Regulation (EC) No 116/2009 on the export of cultural goods, the EU Directive 2014/60/EU on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed, the U.S. Cultural Property Implementation Act, and the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art (1998); wildlife and species-protection law including CITES; firearms-licensing law including the EU Firearms Directive 91/477/EEC (as amended) and equivalent U.S., UK and Swiss statutes where applicable; consumer-protection law including Directive 2011/83/EU as transposed into national law; insurance, succession, probate and trust law of the Subscribing Customer's jurisdiction; and applicable Apple App Store, iPadOS and watchOS App Review rules.
A1.3. Family archivist is not an authentication body, not an attribution authority, not a valuation service, not a gemological or horological certification laboratory, not a notary, not a tax or legal advisor, not a customs broker, not a sanctions-screening service, not a probate adjudicator and not a restitution tribunal. It supports the Subscribing Customer's qualified experts — archivists, conservators, sommeliers, horologists, classic-car registrars, gemologists, attorneys, notaries, executors and tax counsel — in producing a hash-fixed, RFC 3161-timestamped, source-cited record that can be exported to those experts as signed, encrypted Evidence Packets.
SECTION A2
Editions, Collection Add-Ons and Concierge Setup
How the tiers stack up, and what each one entitles the Subscribing Customer to.
A2.1. Editions for Family archivist, as offered at the date of these Terms, are: (a) Essential, approximately €180–€360 per year plus a €490 paid concierge setup, intended for an organising adult child and an ageing parent; (b) Family, approximately €480–€1,200 per year plus a €990 paid concierge setup, intended for a mass-affluent family household; (c) Family Office, approximately €18,000–€120,000 per year on a private-tenant or on-prem-hybrid deployment with concierge onboarding, intended for single- and multi-family offices and UHNW principals; and (d) Institutional, bespoke and typically €250,000 per year and above, on a private-tenant or licensed deployment with per-family seats, intended for private banks, advisory firms, foundations and white-label distribution partners.
A2.2. Collection Add-On modules are licensed on top of any base edition. They include Wine Cellar, Whisky & Spirits, Cigar Humidor, Watch Collection, Jewellery, Fine Art Provenance, Rare Books, Numismatics & Philately, Vinyl & Music, Musical Instruments, Classic Vehicles, Yachts & Vessels, Firearms & Sporting (jurisdiction-gated under clause A12), Antiques & Decorative Arts, Textile Heritage, Equestrian & Companion Animals and Heritage Garden & Estate Grounds. Each Add-On is priced at €120–€600 per module per year.
A2.3. Concierge setup and Family-Office or Institutional pilots involve real human effort by ML Consulting personnel and reserve archivist, conservator-liaison and onboarding time specific to the Subscribing Customer's archive. They are intentionally non-refundable beyond the Apple App Store window. Pricing in this clause A2 is indicative of the offer at the effective date of these Terms; the actual fee payable is the fee shown in the Apple App Store or in the executed Order Form.
A2.4. Where ML Consulting integrates optional revenue-share offerings with auction houses, insurance brokers, valuation feeds or market-data providers, those offerings are opt-in for the Subscribing Customer and disclosed at the point of activation. ML Consulting does not sell Subscriber Data and does not act as a broker in the underlying transaction.
SECTION A3
Subscribing Customer Types and Authorised User Roles
Who can subscribe, and what their named users are allowed to do.
A3.1. Family archivist is licensed to Subscribing Customers that fall within one or more of the following categories: (a) an individual adult principal acquiring the App for the principal's own household; (b) an organising adult child acquiring the App for an ageing parent under an arrangement consistent with applicable family and guardianship law; (c) a family entity (trust, foundation, holding company) licensed by its trustees or directors; (d) a single- or multi-family office; (e) a private bank, wealth manager or advisory firm; and (f) a foundation, institution or white-label distribution partner under the Institutional edition.
A3.2. Authorised User roles supported in Family archivist include: family principal; spouse; descendants of permitted ages (including Newly-Major Descendants receiving age-appropriate orientation at 18, 21 or 25); family-office CEO and chief of staff; archivist; conservator-liaison; trustee and general counsel; executor and digital executor; accountant and tax advisor; insurance broker; art / wine / watch / classic-car advisor; veterinary or stable manager (for equestrian collections); estate gardener (for heritage gardens); and ML Consulting concierge and support staff acting under the support agreement.
A3.3. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for assigning the correct role to each Authorised User, for the role-, branch-, time- and purpose-bound access model described in the App, for revoking access when an Authorised User changes role, leaves the family, family office or institution, or where an event such as divorce, branch split or majority transition requires it, and for keeping role assignments aligned with applicable family, succession, trust and data-protection law.
SECTION A4
Apple Platform Reliance — iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, CloudKit and Secure Enclave
Why Family archivist is Apple-only and what that means for availability.
A4.1. Family archivist runs exclusively on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch devices using iOS 17 or later, iPadOS 17 or later, and the watchOS version identified in the App Store listing. There is no web app, no Android app, no native Mac app, no Mac Catalyst at launch, no Apple TV app and no advisor web portal within the scope of the launch. visionOS is a horizon experience reserved for v3 and beyond. The Subscribing Customer accepts that Family archivist availability depends on Apple's continued support of the relevant frameworks and on the Subscribing Customer's own device fleet remaining within the supported Apple operating-system range.
A4.2. Family archivist relies on Apple frameworks including SwiftUI, SwiftData, CloudKit (private database and shared zones), CryptoKit, Secure Enclave, PhotoKit, VisionKit, Vision, Speech, NaturalLanguage, Core ML, ARKit, RoomPlan, LiDAR APIs, HomeKit, WatchKit, WatchConnectivity, ActivityKit, WidgetKit, PushKit, PassKit and StoreKit. LiDAR, RoomPlan and the highest-fidelity AR features require iPhone Pro and iPad Pro devices. Continued availability and behaviour of these frameworks is controlled by Apple, and ML Consulting is not liable for changes that Apple makes to them.
A4.3. Workspace data — object records, photos, audio, video, LiDAR scans, AR placements, HomeKit telemetry, oral histories, family-tree records, provenance segments, valuation records, sealed letters, posthumous protocol instructions, family-constitution texts, advisor minutes and audit records — is persisted through SwiftData backed by CloudKit private database, with cryptographic key material protected by the Secure Enclave on supported devices and signed Evidence Packets exported as PDF/A + BagIt containers. The Subscribing Customer accepts that CloudKit availability, throughput, asset quotas and consistency are controlled by Apple.
A4.4. Apple Watch is used for quick voice notes, "tag this artefact" confirmations, sensor alerts, break-glass approvals and transition confirmations. Any Watch interaction that cannot complete (notably evidentiary capture beyond a brief voice note) gracefully prompts the Authorised User to finish on iPhone.
SECTION A5
The Evidence Stack, Hash-Fixity and RFC 3161 Timestamps
How records are made evidence-grade, and the limits of that evidence.
A5.1. Every person, object, place and event in Family archivist carries an Evidence Stack: photos (with capture protocols where it matters), video walk-arounds and talk-throughs, audio commentary and oral stories, 3D / LiDAR scans where the device supports it, AR placements and HomeKit environmental telemetry. Each component is hash-fixed at capture (SHA-256 or stronger) and, on premium tiers and where indicated in the Schedule, sealed with an RFC 3161 qualified electronic timestamp consistent with the eIDAS Regulation.
A5.2. Hash-fixity proves that the digital component has not been altered since the moment it was captured by the App. RFC 3161 timestamps prove that the component existed in the App at a given point in time. Neither hash-fixity nor a qualified electronic timestamp authenticates the physical artefact, attributes it to a maker, values it, certifies it, or determines its provenance, restitution status or legal title; those are reserved to qualified human experts under clause A6.
A5.3. Audit-trail records — including object creation, edits, provenance-segment changes, conservation events, sealed-letter creation, posthumous-protocol changes, Evidence Packet exports and AI Output generations — are retained for the duration of the subscription and for thirty (30) days after termination, after which the Subscribing Customer's right to export them lapses unless an extended retention period is agreed in the Order Form or a posthumous-protocol release has crystallised.
A5.4. The Subscribing Customer accepts that timestamps describe when an event was recorded by the App, not when the underlying physical event happened. Where time-of-event accuracy matters for an insurance, restitution, tax or dispute purpose, the Subscribing Customer is responsible for its own corroborating evidence.
SECTION A6
Authority of Qualified Experts and Reserved Decisions
Attribution, valuation, restitution and posthumous release stay with qualified humans.
Reserved decisions — qualified human authority
Family archivist organises and evidences. It does NOT authenticate. It does NOT attribute. It does NOT value. It does NOT certify. It does NOT clear restitution exposure. It does NOT adjudicate probate, intestacy, succession or trust matters. It does NOT replace a notary, executor, trustee, attorney, conservator, gemologist, horologist, classic-car registrar, sommelier, art advisor, insurance broker, auctioneer or veterinarian. Every binding decision — attribution, authentication, valuation, insurance schedule, sale, purchase, donation, restitution claim, bequest, tax filing, customs declaration, sanctions screening, sealed-letter release and posthumous-protocol trigger — must be confirmed by the qualified human expert engaged by the Subscribing Customer.
A6.1. The Subscribing Customer warrants that any conclusion drawn from Family archivist is reviewed by personnel holding the qualifications, licences and authority required by the relevant jurisdiction and by the relevant collection vertical, and that the Subscribing Customer will not represent any AI Output as the opinion or determination of any such qualified expert.
A6.2. Sealed letters and posthumous-protocol releases are evidentiary instruments that depend on the integrity of the multi-party break-glass approval process configured by the Subscribing Customer. ML Consulting is not the executor, not the digital executor and not the trustee; it is a technical custodian of the sealed material that releases it only when the configured conditions and human approvals are satisfied.
A6.3. Family archivist will not submit any filing, transfer or registration to a probate court, registry, notary, gemological laboratory, horological registry, classic-car authority, customs authority, sanctions screening service, art-loss register or restitution body. Submission of any such filing remains the Subscribing Customer's exclusive responsibility through the appropriate qualified human channel.
SECTION A7
Object Universe Categories, Standards Used and Standards-Body Disclaimer
How seventeen categories are handled, and what the standards references mean.
A7.1. Family archivist organises objects across seventeen categories: B1 Fine Art, Sculpture and Cultural Objects; B2 Wine Cellar and Vintage Spirits; B3 Whisky, Cognac, Rum and Rare Spirits; B4 Cigars, Humidors and Tobacco Heritage; B5 Watches and Horology; B6 Jewellery and Gemstones; B7 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Autographs; B8 Numismatics and Philately; B9 Vinyl, Music and Audio Equipment; B10 Musical Instruments; B11 Classic and Performance Vehicles; B12 Yachts, Boats and Vessels; B13 Firearms, Hunting and Sporting Equipment (jurisdiction-gated under clause A12); B14 Antiques, Heritage Furniture and Decorative Arts; B15 Textile Heritage; B16 Companion Animals and Equestrian; and B17 Heritage Garden, Estate Grounds and Living Heritage.
A7.2. Each category honours the conventions of its real-world standard. References used in the App include, without limitation: ICOM Object ID, CIDOC-CRM, VRA Core 4, Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), ICOM Red List, WSET descriptors, Master of Wine vocabulary, OIV vintage data, Cellartracker-compatible export, Scotch Whisky Association labelling, BNIC for Cognac, NAWCC and AHCI for horology, GIA / IGI / HRD certification schemas and IGS taxonomy for gemstones, AACR2 / RDA and BIBFRAME and OCLC and ISTC and ABAA for books, PCGS / NGC and Krause for coins, Scott / Michel / Stanley Gibbons for stamps, Discogs and MusicBrainz for vinyl, maker-of-record and conservation-log conventions for instruments, FIVA passport and FIA records and marque-specific registries (such as Porsche Kardex and Ferrari Classiche) for classic vehicles, Lloyd's and IMO and MCA for vessels, BADA descriptors for antiques, CIETA terminology and ICOM-CC textile guidance, FEI passport and breed-society records for equestrian, and IPNI and TROBI for living heritage.
A7.3. Standards Body Disclaimer. Family archivist uses the above references and vocabularies under fair-use referencing to give the user a category-literate experience. Family archivist is not endorsed, certified, accredited or licensed by ICOM, CIDOC, VRA, the J. Paul Getty Trust, WSET, the Institute of Masters of Wine, the OIV, the Scotch Whisky Association, the Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac, NAWCC, AHCI, GIA, IGI, HRD, IGS, OCLC, ABAA, PCGS, NGC, Krause Publications, Stanley Gibbons, Scott Publishing, Michel Verlag, Discogs, MusicBrainz, FIVA, FIA, Porsche AG, Ferrari S.p.A., Lloyd's Register, the IMO, the MCA, BADA, CIETA, ICOM-CC, FEI, IPNI, TROBI or any other named standards body, registry, catalogue, certification authority or maker. The Subscribing Customer will not represent itself, through Family archivist output, as endorsed, certified, accredited or licensed by any of those authorities.
A7.4. Each Object Universe category includes a capture protocol, a data model and an AI assistance description. Where any of those descriptions diverges from the convention adopted by the relevant standards body in practice, the convention prevails and the Subscribing Customer is responsible for engaging a qualified expert to align the record.
SECTION A8
AI Assistance, Probabilistic Output and Mandatory Human Review
Probabilistic outputs across the Object Universe and the confirm step.
A8.1. AI features in Family archivist include, depending on the category and tier: label and reference recognition for wine, spirits, watches, books and jewellery; OCR of title pages, certificates, service books and hallmarks; provenance-event extraction from catalogue text; attribution suggestion; valuation-range estimation from licensed feeds (opt-in); drinking-window forecasting; restitution-window flagging in dispossession windows (1933–1945 and others); condition-description drafting in conservator-grade language; oral-history transcription; and family-constitution language drafting.
A8.2. On-device workloads run on Apple frameworks (Core ML, Vision, VisionKit, Speech, NaturalLanguage). Server-side workloads run on ML Consulting's backend through an authenticated round-trip. The Subscribing Customer accepts that AI Output may be incomplete, inaccurate, biased, outdated or otherwise unsuited to its specific facts.
A8.3. The Subscribing Customer will not, and will not allow any Authorised User or third party to, use Family archivist or its AI Output to: (a) authenticate, attribute or value any object without confirmed qualified-expert review; (b) issue an insurance schedule, sale-readiness export, customs declaration, restitution-clearance assertion, probate filing, tax filing or sanctions-clearance assertion that is not separately confirmed by qualified human counsel; (c) train, evaluate, fine-tune, benchmark or improve any competing family-archive, collector-vertical, provenance-AI, valuation, attribution or restitution-screening product, model or dataset; or (d) modify hash-fixity, RFC 3161 timestamp or audit-trail metadata after export.
A8.4. Family archivist does not constitute legal, tax, valuation, attribution, authentication or investment advice. Any AI Output is a starting point for review by qualified personnel engaged by the Subscribing Customer; the Subscribing Customer is responsible for the final action delivered to a buyer, auction house, insurer, executor, registry, court, gemological laboratory or other counterparty.
SECTION A9
Evidence Packets, Sealed Letters and Posthumous Protocols
How the family's record reaches advisors, executors and beneficiaries.
A9.1. Evidence Packets are signed, encrypted, watermarked PDF/A + BagIt containers that aggregate selected object records, photos, audio, video, LiDAR scans, certificates, hash-fixity records, RFC 3161 timestamps and custody log for export to advisors, executors, insurers, beneficiaries and other counterparties chosen by the Subscribing Customer. Evidence Packets replace the v1.1 Web Advisor Portal and are designed to open on any device the advisor already uses.
A9.2. Sealed letters are messages created by an Authorised User and held inside the workspace under cryptographic seal until a specified release condition is met (for example, the death of the principal confirmed by a multi-party break-glass approval). Family archivist is the technical custodian of the sealed material. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for configuring release conditions consistent with applicable succession, trust and data-protection law and for selecting the multi-party approvers.
A9.3. Posthumous protocols include the Emergency File, the Inheritance-Readiness Index, the digital-executor configuration, the multi-party break-glass model and the curated orientation released to Newly-Major Descendants. The Subscribing Customer is responsible for designating the digital executor, for ensuring that the designation is consistent with the Subscribing Customer's will, trust deed and applicable law, and for keeping the configuration current.
A9.4. A posthumous-protocol release that has crystallised before the termination of the subscription survives the termination to the extent necessary for ML Consulting to honour the release in accordance with the configuration as it stood at the time of crystallisation. ML Consulting is not the executor, not the digital executor and not the trustee.
SECTION A10
Personal Data, Special Categories, Minors and Family Members
How Family archivist handles personal and household information.
A10.1. Family archivist processes a wide range of personal data: family-tree records, photographs, oral histories, audio commentary, video walk-arounds, contact details, advisor identifiers, sealed letters and posthumous-protocol instructions. Some of this data may constitute special-category data within the meaning of GDPR Article 9, including health, biometric, religious, political or trade-union information disclosed in oral histories or images.
A10.2. The Subscribing Customer warrants that it has obtained the consents or has another lawful basis required by applicable family, guardianship and data-protection law to record and preserve personal data of family members, advisors, household staff and other persons. Where a Newly-Major Descendant or other minor receives access at a permitted age, the Subscribing Customer is responsible for the necessary consents and for the age-appropriate scope of access.
A10.3. Where a data subject exercises rights under GDPR or under U.S., UK or other applicable privacy law (access, deletion, correction, restriction, objection, portability, opt-out of sale or sharing), the request will normally be directed at the Subscribing Customer as controller. ML Consulting will provide reasonable processor assistance, including deletion or export from the workspace upon written instruction, subject to crystallised posthumous-protocol commitments.
A10.4. ML Consulting will not sell Subscriber Data within the meaning of CPRA Section 1798.140(ad) and (ah), will not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and will not retain it for purposes other than providing the App and complying with mandatory law and crystallised posthumous-protocol commitments.
SECTION A11
HomeKit Telemetry, Critical Alerts and Cellar / Humidor / Gallery Guardianship
Always-on environmental guardianship without alarm fatigue.
A11.1. Where the Subscribing Customer integrates HomeKit-compatible environmental sensors (temperature, humidity, light, motion, vibration) with Family archivist — typically for wine cellars, humidors, gallery rooms and storage vaults — Family archivist records the telemetry as time-series Evidence Stack data and surfaces anomalies at thresholds configured by the Subscribing Customer.
A11.2. Apple Watch Critical Alerts (where supported by the device and operating system) are used only at user-confirmed thresholds and only for genuine environmental excursions (for example, cellar temperature exceeding the user-configured upper bound for a sustained period). Family archivist does not use Critical Alerts for marketing, retention or engagement purposes.
A11.3. Family archivist is not a fire-suppression system, not an intrusion-alarm system, not a security service, not an insurance underwriter and not a substitute for a professional cellar manager, art handler or vault operator. HomeKit telemetry is a guardianship aid; it does not warrant the safety, temperature, humidity, lighting, security or condition of any physical artefact.
A11.4. The Subscribing Customer accepts that HomeKit reliability is variable, that sensor accuracy and battery state are outside ML Consulting's control, and that failure of a HomeKit accessory does not give rise to liability of ML Consulting for any damage to or loss of a physical artefact.
SECTION A12
Firearms, Jurisdiction-Gated Categories and Sanctions
Categories that depend on local law to be available at all.
A12.1. The Firearms, Hunting and Sporting Equipment Add-On (category B13) is available only where the Subscribing Customer warrants that it holds the licences, registrations and authorisations required by the jurisdiction of habitual residence and the jurisdiction in which the firearms are kept. Applicable rules include, without limitation, the EU Firearms Directive 91/477/EEC as amended, the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 and ATF regulations, the U.K. Firearms Act 1968 and the Firearms (Amendment) Acts, and the Swiss Federal Act on Weapons.
A12.2. Family archivist does not register firearms with any authority, does not transfer firearms, does not store firearms and does not certify any holder's licence status. It records serial numbers, calibres, custody chain, condition, conservation and insurance information for archival and succession purposes only.
A12.3. Categories that may involve CITES-listed species (for example certain rare textiles, certain instruments built from restricted materials, certain antiques and certain hunting trophies) are recorded only where the Subscribing Customer warrants compliance with CITES, applicable EU wildlife-trade regulation and applicable national law.
A12.4. The Subscribing Customer warrants that no object recorded in Family archivist originates from, is owned by, or is destined for any person or entity subject to applicable sanctions of the European Union, the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom or the Republic of Lithuania, and that no Evidence Packet will be exported to such a person or entity.
SECTION A13
Prohibited Uses and Family-Specific Restrictions
Practices that are not permitted on this platform.
A13.1. The Subscribing Customer and its Authorised Users will not, in any case, use Family archivist to:
▪ represent a Family archivist record, Evidence Packet, AI Output or hash-fixed photo as an attribution, authentication, valuation, gemological certificate, horological certificate, FIVA passport, ICOM Object ID issuance, museum accession, customs clearance, tax determination, restitution clearance or notarial deed;
▪ claim endorsement, certification, accreditation or partnership by Apple Inc., ICOM, CIDOC, VRA, the J. Paul Getty Trust, WSET, the Institute of Masters of Wine, OIV, the Scotch Whisky Association, BNIC, NAWCC, AHCI, GIA / IGI / HRD, IGS, OCLC, ABAA, PCGS / NGC, Krause, Stanley Gibbons, Scott, Michel, Discogs, MusicBrainz, FIVA, FIA, Porsche AG, Ferrari S.p.A., Lloyd's, IMO, MCA, BADA, CIETA, ICOM-CC, FEI, IPNI, TROBI, or any auction house, insurance broker or registry, except to the extent of any agreement actually in place;
▪ launder the provenance of an object, disguise dispossession in any restitution-relevant window (including the 1933–1945 window), or facilitate trafficking in cultural property contrary to UNESCO 1970, UNIDROIT 1995, EU Regulation 116/2009 or EU Directive 2014/60/EU;
▪ record any object that originates from, is owned by, or is destined for any person or entity subject to applicable sanctions of the European Union, the United Nations, the United States, the United Kingdom or the Republic of Lithuania, or use Evidence Packets to evade sanctions or export controls;
▪ record any firearm, hunting trophy or sporting equipment except in compliance with clause A12.1 and the applicable jurisdiction's licensing rules;
▪ record any CITES-listed species, ivory, rhino horn or other restricted material except in compliance with CITES, the applicable EU wildlife-trade regulation and applicable national law;
▪ train, evaluate, fine-tune, benchmark or improve any competing family-archive, provenance-AI, attribution, valuation, restitution-screening, collector-vertical or oral-history product, model or dataset using Subscriber Data, AI Output, hash-fixity records, RFC 3161 timestamps or any other artefact obtained from Family archivist;
▪ upload images, audio or video of household staff, advisors, family members or third parties without their reasonable consent, or use such material for commercial promotion;
▪ configure posthumous-protocol release conditions that conflict with the Subscribing Customer's will, trust deed or applicable succession law, or that purport to deny a forced heir a share to which the heir is entitled under mandatory succession law;
▪ use the App to perform any high-risk decision-making under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) without applying the human-oversight, transparency and risk-management measures the Act requires;
▪ share, resell, redistribute or publish Object Universe schemas, capture protocols, Evidence Packet templates or family-constitution scaffolds outside the Subscribing Customer's own workspace and family system; or
▪ use Family archivist to evade Apple App Store rules, including by side-loading, re-signing or distributing the App outside the App Store channel.
SECTION A14
Liability Cap, Lookback Period and Subscribing Customer Recourse
Twelve months of Subscription Fees, with no fixed-EUR floor.
Aggregate cap — twelve months of Subscription Fees
The aggregate liability of ML Consulting MB to a Subscribing Customer of Family archivist under or in connection with these Terms — whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise — is capped at the Subscription Fees actually paid by that Subscribing Customer for Family archivist during the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. No fixed-EUR floor and no fixed-USD floor applies. Where the relevant Subscribing Customer is on the Essential edition, the cap is the Essential Subscription Fees paid in the twelve-month lookback (concierge-setup fees included where they fall within the lookback). For Family, Family Office, Institutional, Collection Add-On and paid-pilot subscribers, the cap is the sum of all Subscription Fees, concierge-setup fees and pilot fees actually paid by that Subscribing Customer for Family archivist in that same window across all editions, all add-on modules and all per-family seats.
A14.1. For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding any prior version of these Terms, the liability cap for Family archivist is twelve (12) months of Subscription Fees paid by the relevant Subscribing Customer to ML Consulting in respect of Family archivist, calculated against the event giving rise to the claim. There is no fixed-EUR floor, no fixed-USD floor and no minimum cap.
A14.2. The cap in clause A14.1 applies on an aggregate basis across all claims, however arising, and is not refreshed by the renewal of a subscription, the upgrade of an edition, the addition of a Collection Add-On, the addition of per-family seats, the addition of further family-office or institutional sub-workspaces, or any concierge or pilot engagement.
A14.3. Without limiting clauses 19.2 and 19.3 of the Master Terms, ML Consulting is not liable, in any case, for loss of object value, loss of insurance recovery, loss of inheritance, loss of a bid at auction, loss of cultural-heritage status, loss of restitution recovery, loss of a sealed-letter timing, loss of HomeKit-monitored cellar or gallery condition, regulatory fines imposed on the Subscribing Customer by a cultural-heritage, sanctions, customs, weapons-licensing or tax authority, or the consequences of any third-party catalogue, registry, valuation feed, HomeKit accessory or auction-house decision.
A14.4. The Subscribing Customer's primary recourse for a defect, malfunction or service failure of Family archivist is, at ML Consulting's election: (a) repair or workaround within commercially reasonable time; (b) re-performance of the affected service component; or (c) a pro-rata refund of Subscription Fees for the period during which the defect materially impaired use, subject always to the cap in clause A14.1.
A14.5. Nothing in this clause A14 limits liability that cannot be limited by mandatory law of the Republic of Lithuania, by EU consumer-protection law, or by the law of the Subscribing Customer's habitual residence, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other matter that mandatory law prohibits from being limited or excluded.
SECTION A15
Apple-Required Terms — Family archivist specifics
How the Apple Standard EULA wraps around this Schedule.
A15.1. These Terms incorporate by reference the Apple Standard End User Licence Agreement applicable to Family archivist as published by Apple from time to time. In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the Apple Standard EULA, the more restrictive of the two prevails to the extent required by Apple App Store policy.
A15.2. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms in respect of Family archivist — including its watchOS companion app — and have the right to enforce these Terms against the Subscribing Customer as third-party beneficiaries.
A15.3. In the event of any failure of Family archivist to conform to any applicable warranty, the Subscribing Customer may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of Family archivist to the Subscribing Customer; to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Family archivist.
A15.4. Apple is not responsible for any product-liability, conformity, consumer-protection, privacy, cultural-heritage, sanctions, weapons-licensing or tax claim relating to Family archivist or to the Subscribing Customer's possession or use of Family archivist. Such claims are addressed exclusively against ML Consulting in accordance with these Terms.
END OF DOCUMENT
Master Terms · Schedule A — Family archivist
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Operator
ML Consulting MB · Republic of Lithuania
Product
Family archivist — iOS-only private continuity system (iOS / iPadOS / watchOS only)
Document
Master Terms and Conditions + Schedule A (Family archivist)
Version
1.0 — Family archivist edition
Effective
2026-05-26
Contact
support@mlconsulting.lt · https://mlconsulting.lt
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Apple Standard End User Licence Agreement applicable to Family archivist
Family archivist is published by ML Consulting MB. It is a private continuity, evidence-organisation and archival-discipline product. It is not an authentication, attribution, valuation, restitution, tax or legal service.
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