General Disclaimer

Effective date: 19 September 2026

LovedForever is a collaborative memorial website designed to help families, friends, and communities preserve and share information about people's lives.

The information and content available on LovedForever is provided primarily for general informational, historical, memorial, and personal purposes.

By using LovedForever, you acknowledge and agree to the following general principles.

1. General Information Only

LovedForever contains information contributed by users and members of the community.

Although we encourage contributors to provide accurate and respectful information, LovedForever does not guarantee that every statement, date, photograph, story, biography, or other piece of content is complete, accurate, current, or free from error.

Information may have been contributed by people with different levels of knowledge about the person or subject concerned.

You should therefore use appropriate judgement when relying on information found on LovedForever.

If accuracy is important, you should independently verify important information using appropriate primary or authoritative sources.

2. User-Contributed Content

Much of the content on LovedForever is created, edited, or uploaded by users.

LovedForever generally provides the platform and technical infrastructure that allows users to create and maintain memorial pages.

The opinions, statements, memories, stories, photographs, and other contributions published by users belong to the respective contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of LovedForever.

LovedForever does not automatically endorse or verify every contribution made by users.

Contributors are responsible for the content they submit, subject to applicable law and LovedForever's policies.

3. Memorial Information

LovedForever is intended to preserve memories and information about people's lives.

Memorial pages may contain information about:

Living people;
Deceased people;
Families;
Relationships;
Places;
Events;
Personal experiences;
Photographs;
Stories; and
Other historical or personal information.

The presence of information on a memorial page does not necessarily mean that LovedForever independently verified the information.

Where appropriate, users should provide reliable sources, supporting information, or context for significant claims.

4. Accuracy and Corrections

LovedForever makes reasonable efforts to support accurate and respectful memorial content.

However, errors may occur.

Information may also change as new photographs, documents, memories, or historical information become available.

If you believe that information on LovedForever is incorrect, misleading, inappropriate, or missing important context, you may contact us or use the appropriate editing or reporting process where available.

LovedForever may review and, where appropriate, correct, restrict, or remove content.

5. No Professional Advice

Content published on LovedForever is not intended to constitute professional advice.

Nothing on LovedForever should be relied upon as:

Medical advice;
Legal advice;
Financial advice;
Tax advice;
Mental health advice;
Genealogical certification;
Professional historical research; or
Any other form of professional advice.

If you require professional advice, you should consult an appropriately qualified professional.

6. Historical and Biographical Information

Some LovedForever memorials may contain historical or biographical information.

Historical information may be incomplete, disputed, interpreted differently by different sources, or subject to future research.

The inclusion of a statement on LovedForever does not necessarily establish that the statement is historically proven.

Where appropriate, contributors are encouraged to distinguish between documented facts, personal memories, family accounts, and interpretations.

7. Stories and Personal Memories

Stories and memories are an important part of LovedForever.

Personal memories may reflect an individual's own experience, perspective, or interpretation.

Two people may remember the same event differently.

A personal story published on LovedForever should not automatically be interpreted as an independently verified historical account.

The publication of a Story does not mean that LovedForever agrees with, confirms, or endorses every statement contained within it.

8. Photographs and Media

Photographs, videos, documents, and other media may be uploaded by users.

LovedForever does not necessarily verify:

Who appears in an image;
When or where an image was taken;
Who owns the copyright;
Whether every person shown has consented to publication; or
Whether accompanying descriptions are accurate.

Users should only upload material when they have the appropriate rights, authority, or permission to do so.

LovedForever may remove or restrict media where there are reasonable concerns relating to privacy, copyright, safety, legality, or other legitimate interests.

9. Copyright and Intellectual Property

LovedForever respects copyright and other intellectual property rights.

The appearance of copyrighted material on LovedForever does not necessarily mean that LovedForever owns that material or grants permission for it to be reused.

Users are responsible for ensuring that material they upload or contribute can lawfully be published.

If you believe material on LovedForever infringes your copyright or other legal rights, please contact us with sufficient information to identify the material and the basis of your concern.

LovedForever may remove, restrict, or review material where appropriate.

10. Third-Party Websites and Links

LovedForever may contain links to websites operated by third parties.

These links may be provided for reference, research, historical information, convenience, or additional resources.

LovedForever does not control third-party websites and does not necessarily endorse:

Their content;
Their services;
Their products;
Their opinions;
Their privacy practices; or
Their policies.

When you leave LovedForever and visit another website, that website's own terms, privacy policy, and other rules will apply.

You should review the policies of third-party websites before providing them with personal information or using their services.

11. External Services

LovedForever may rely on third-party providers for services such as hosting, email, storage, security, analytics, backups, or other technical functions.

Although reasonable steps may be taken to select and manage appropriate providers, LovedForever cannot guarantee that every third-party service will always be available, secure, uninterrupted, or error-free.

12. Website Availability

LovedForever is provided on an "as available" basis.

We aim to keep the website available and functioning reliably, but we cannot guarantee that the website will always be:

Available;
Uninterrupted;
Secure;
Error-free;
Free from technical problems; or
Available at a particular time.

The website may occasionally be unavailable because of maintenance, upgrades, technical problems, security issues, hosting problems, network failures, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

13. Data and Technical Errors

Although reasonable measures are taken to protect the integrity of the website, technical errors may occur.

These may include:

Loss of data;
Corrupted files;
Incorrect page displays;
Broken links;
Missing photographs;
Software errors;
Database errors;
Synchronisation problems; or
Temporary loss of access.

LovedForever does not guarantee that every piece of content will remain permanently available in exactly the same format.

Users should maintain their own copies of important photographs, documents, and other personal materials.

14. Memorial Preservation and Long-Term Availability

LovedForever is designed with long-term memorial preservation in mind.

However, no online service can guarantee permanent availability indefinitely.

Changes in technology, hosting arrangements, software, financial circumstances, legal requirements, security threats, or other unforeseen circumstances may affect the availability or format of the website in the future.

LovedForever will make reasonable efforts to preserve memorial information, but users should not treat the website as their sole backup for important photographs, documents, or family records.

15. User Responsibility

Users are responsible for the information, photographs, stories, and other content they contribute.

Before publishing information, users should consider:

Whether it is accurate;
Whether they have permission to publish it;
Whether it contains sensitive information;
Whether it affects the privacy of living people;
Whether it may cause harm or unnecessary distress; and
Whether they have the necessary copyright or other rights.

Users should not use LovedForever to publish unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, defamatory, or otherwise inappropriate material.

16. Content Moderation

LovedForever may review content where necessary to maintain the integrity, safety, legality, and purpose of the website.

We may remove, edit, restrict, or otherwise manage content where we reasonably believe that it:

Violates applicable law;
Violates LovedForever policies;
Infringes another person's rights;
Creates a significant privacy or safety concern;
Contains abusive or threatening material;
Contains fraudulent or deliberately misleading information;
Infringes intellectual property rights;
Is spam or promotional abuse; or
Is otherwise inappropriate for a memorial platform.

However, LovedForever does not guarantee that all inappropriate content will always be identified or removed immediately.

17. No Endorsement

The appearance of a person's name, organisation, product, service, website, photograph, statement, or other material on LovedForever does not necessarily constitute an endorsement by LovedForever.

Similarly, a link to another website does not necessarily mean that LovedForever endorses that website or its content.

18. No Contract Created by Memorial Content

Unless expressly stated otherwise, information published on LovedForever does not create a contract, agreement, guarantee, warranty, or other legal relationship between LovedForever and a visitor or contributor.

Contributors remain responsible for their own submissions.

== 19. Limitation of Responsibility

To the extent permitted by applicable law, LovedForever and those responsible for operating the platform do not accept responsibility for losses or damage arising from reliance on user-contributed content, third-party content, website interruptions, technical errors, or information that is inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or unavailable.

Nothing in this disclaimer is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any right, guarantee, remedy, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or modified under applicable law.

== 20. New Zealand Law

LovedForever operates in New Zealand and seeks to comply with applicable New Zealand laws.

Nothing in this General Disclaimer is intended to remove or reduce rights that cannot legally be excluded under New Zealand law.

In particular, this disclaimer does not attempt to exclude rights or protections that apply under laws such as the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, the Fair Trading Act 1986, the Privacy Act 2020, or other applicable legislation.

Where New Zealand law provides a mandatory right or protection, that right or protection continues to apply.

== 21. Changes to This Disclaimer

LovedForever may update this General Disclaimer from time to time.

Changes may be made to reflect:

Changes to the website;
Changes to our services;
Changes to applicable law;
Changes to our policies; or
Improvements to the clarity of this document.

The current version published on this page will apply to use of LovedForever from the effective date stated above.

22. Contact

If you have concerns about information published on LovedForever, including concerns relating to accuracy, privacy, copyright, safety, or inappropriate content, please contact LovedForever through the contact information provided on the website.

We encourage people to raise concerns where they believe content may cause significant harm or may violate applicable law or LovedForever policies.

Final Statement

LovedForever exists to help people preserve and share memories.

We encourage users to contribute carefully, respectfully, and responsibly.

The stories preserved on LovedForever are created by people who remember.

LovedForever provides the place to preserve them.

A Wiki for Every Life.