Terms of Licence
Last updated: 2026-08-17
1. Agreement
These terms govern your use of VaultDB, an encrypted database engine published by Clavitor LLC ("we"). By evaluating, downloading or running VaultDB you agree to them. If you are acting for an organisation, you confirm you may bind it.
2. What VaultDB is
A software library you link into your own process. It stores records encrypted per record in a single file, enforces access control on every operation, chains every write and every export read into a tamper-evident audit log, and lets you search by prefix without decrypting what it stores. It runs where you run it; it never contacts us.
3. What VaultDB is not
Not a hosted service, not a key-management system, not a backup or retention policy, and not a substitute for the controls your regime requires around it. It protects the file it writes; what happens to copies of that file, and to the key you give it, is yours to govern.
4. Licence and permitted use
VaultDB is proprietary. An evaluation licence permits internal, non-production use for the evaluation period. A commercial licence permits production use for the seats, hosts or products it names. You may not redistribute the engine, remove notices, or represent a non-FIPS build as a FIPS build. Everything not expressly granted is reserved.
5. Fees
Commercial licence fees, term and scope are set in your order. Evaluation is free of charge.
6. Your data and your file
The .vault file and everything in it are yours. We never receive it, never hold a key to it, and cannot decrypt it. There is nothing for us to return, delete or hand over.
7. Security disclosures and the audit record
We publish the threat model, the documented edges, the audit record and the frozen at-rest conformance vectors. Report vulnerabilities to security@vaultdb.ch; see the Security page for the disclosure terms.
8. Warranty and liability
VaultDB is provided as described in its documentation and specification. To the extent Swiss law allows, we exclude other warranties and limit our liability to the fees paid in the twelve months before the claim; we do not exclude liability for intent or gross negligence, which Swiss law does not permit us to exclude.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Switzerland. Disputes are resolved in the courts of Zürich.
This is deliberate. Switzerland has some of the strongest privacy and data protection laws in the world — including the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), which applies regardless of where you live. Swiss law does not permit bulk surveillance or warrantless access to personal data, and foreign governments cannot compel disclosure without going through Swiss legal process, which has a high bar. By choosing Swiss jurisdiction for these terms, we give you the benefit of that framework — and we bind ourselves to it.
10. Changes
We will notify licence holders by email before making material changes. If you disagree, you may terminate; a paid term runs out under the terms it was bought under.
11. Contact
sales@vaultdb.ch for licences, security@vaultdb.ch for vulnerabilities.