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Steward Host

Trust

Trust is not a badge we can put on a page. It comes from saying what we do, what we do not do, and what we cannot promise.

Honest limits

Who can access what

Your data sits on your own server. Our job is to stay as far away from it as we reasonably can.

The honest part, said plainly: the box is rented and managed by us, in our own hosting account, and we hold support access to it, including root. We do not go inside your box on our own initiative.

We can seeWe do not look at
The health of your server: disk, memory, whether the assistant is up. Your files or your conversations with the assistant. They live on your box, and we leave them alone.
Your plan, credit balance and top-ups. Your card number. Our payment provider holds that; we never see it.
That your service exists and whether it is running. Your work. We do not use it for any purpose of ours.

Getting your data out

Your data is yours. Email [email protected] any time and ask for a copy, or ask us to delete it, or both. You do not have to give a reason.

Leaving, and what happens to your data

Cancel whenever you like: email [email protected] and we stop it. Cancelling stops the next charge. No lock-in, no minimum term, no exit fee. The assistant cannot close an account itself, so a person here does it and writes back to confirm.

We will give you honest dates rather than say “instantly”, and we will tell you in writing when a deletion is done.

Backups and restores

Your server is backed up, encrypted, so it can be brought back if something goes wrong. By default we hold the backup key, which is what lets us restore your box for you.

If you would rather hold the key yourself, you can. Then the key is yours and not ours. The trade-off is real: if that key is lost, the box cannot be restored, not even by us. We will not pretend there is a way around that.

What a real launch still needs

We would rather launch late and honest than early and vague. These are still to be settled, and we are not hiding them: