Terms of use

Place a Stone is run and sold by Codama Advanced Engineering, Inc. (“Codama”, “we”), a corporation incorporated in Delaware, USA, with its registered office at 8 The Green, Ste A, Dover, DE 19901, USA. It is run from Israel; to write to us there, use Codama – Advanced Software Solutions Ltd. (company no. 516756517), Oren 32/2, Harish 3760101, Israel. Email: info@codama.dev.

A place to keep a memorial page for someone who has died, or, when the page is about you, to write the story of your life while you are alive.

Whoever opens a page is its steward. The steward decides what appears on it, who can see it, and who else may help keep it.

You must be 18 or over to open or keep a page, and 16 or over to write on one. Place a Stone is not meant for children under 16.

A memorial page for someone who is alive, or for a death that did not happen. A page about yourself is not a memorial page, and is marked differently.

Untrue, humiliating or abusive content about someone who is alive, or anything defamatory.

Private information about someone who is alive (their health, religion or beliefs, sexuality, ethnic origin, political views, criminal record or finances) unless they agreed to it being shared or made it public themselves. Details that identify a child, without a parent’s consent.

Photographs, recordings, documents or text you have no right to share, such as someone else’s photograph without their permission.

Advertising, spam, or any commercial use of a memorial page. Anything designed to harm devices or accounts. Pretending to be someone else.

A page for a public figure, opened by someone unconnected to them. A public figure is someone known mainly for public office or for artistic, sporting or media work; only their family, or someone with the family’s consent, may open a page for them.

What you write or upload remains yours. So that we can run Place a Stone, you give Codama a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, back up, copy, adapt (for example, to resize a photograph or convert a recording so that it plays on a phone), show and send it (within the service only: on the page, in the preview shown when a link to it is shared, in our emails, and in the archive a page’s stewards download) to whoever the stewards allow. If they make the page public, that means anyone, including search engines.

If you write on someone else’s page, you give its stewards the same licence, so that they can keep your memory in their archive; you let them decide whether and where it appears; and you agree that they may correct small mistakes in it, such as spelling or a date, without changing its meaning.

The licence ends when the content is deleted from Place a Stone, except for archives already downloaded and copies we must keep by law.

You confirm that you have the rights in what you upload, or the owner’s permission, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights, including copyright and privacy.

Pages and memories are written by families and visitors, not by us, and we do not check them for accuracy. A page’s stewards decide which memories appear on it (unless they choose otherwise, every memory waits for their approval) and they are responsible for what they approve and upload. A draft written with “Draft it for me” is yours once you use it, and you are responsible for it as for anything else you publish.

Automatic checks. When a memory is sent, automatic checks look for things such as many links, the same text sent to several pages, and phone or identity numbers. They never reject a memory on their own; they only decide whether it must wait for the steward. A file that fails a security check is refused.

Reporting. Anyone can report something: with “Report” beside a memory, “Report something on this page” at the foot of a page, or by writing to info@codama.dev with the page’s address, the item, what is wrong with it and how to reach you. We aim to deal with a report within 72 hours, not counting Shabbat and Jewish holidays. A memory reported by several people, by the page’s steward, or as a legal complaint is hidden while we look at it.

What we may do. If content, or the way the service is used, breaks these terms or the law, or a court or authority requires it, we may remove or hide content, make a page private, or suspend or close an account. Unless the law prevents it, we tell the person affected what we did and why, and they can reply to challenge it. We never delete a page as a sanction without first offering its stewards the archive, unless the law requires otherwise. If an account is closed for a serious or repeated breach of these terms, a plan paid for is not refunded.

A page is kept by its primary steward (whoever opened it) and anyone they invite to keep it with them.

A relative who believes a page should be in their care can ask, from the page, for it to be handed over. The steward is told by email at once, in their own language, and has 14 days to respond. Until the request is settled, the page cannot be deleted or made more visible; otherwise it keeps working.

Codama’s staff look at the request. We start from this order: spouse or partner; child; parent; brother or sister; executor; grandchild or other family; friend. A will, an executor’s appointment, a court order or a written agreement within the family comes first, and we may ask either side for documents. If the steward does not answer, we may decide on what the person asking has shown us.

We may leave the page with its steward; hand it to the person who asked, in which case the previous steward stays on as a co-steward unless the page was being misused; or, where it cannot be settled, freeze it: it closes to visitors and takes no new memories until the family agrees or a court decides, and its stewards can still download the archive.

Our decision is only about who keeps the page on Place a Stone. It does not decide anyone’s legal rights, and a court order always takes precedence. A plan paid for a page stays with the page if it is handed over, and a handover does not give rise to a refund.

Opening a page to other people is a single payment for the “Memorial page” plan, not a subscription. The price shown when you buy is the total price. The plan has no end date and nothing to renew: the page stays open for as long as Place a Stone operates.

Payment is taken on Stripe’s secure page, which is in English. Your card statement will show CODAMA INC* PLACESTONE. The seller is a US company, so a card issued elsewhere may carry its own fee. We never see or store your card number.

The engraved plaque is not on sale yet. Its terms will be added here before it is.

You can cancel within 14 days of paying (or of receiving our purchase confirmation by email, if it reached you later) without giving a reason and without any fee.

Senior citizens (65 or over), new immigrants and people with a disability whose purchase involved a conversation with us may cancel within four months, as section 14C1 of the Israeli Consumer Protection Law, 5741-1981 provides.

To cancel, use “Cancel a purchase” at the foot of every page, write to info@codama.dev, or send registered post to our address in Israel above. Tell us the page’s address or the email you signed up with. We will confirm by email that we received it.

We refund the full amount to the card you paid with within 14 days of receiving your notice, and we do not charge for the time the page was open. Banks usually take 5 to 10 working days to show it.

After a refund the page goes back to being an unpaid page: open only to you and the people who keep it with you. Nothing on it is deleted, and the archive keeps working.

If you live in the EU or the UK, this is your legal right of withdrawal (in the UK, the right to cancel), and our commitment is at least as generous as the law. You may use this form, but you do not have to: “To Codama Advanced Engineering, Inc. (Place a Stone), info@codama.dev: I give notice that I cancel my purchase of the Memorial page plan for the page …, paid on …. Name: … Email used for the purchase: … Date: …”

If we decide to close Place a Stone, we will tell every steward by email at least 90 days in advance and keep the service and the archive working throughout. If something outside our control makes that impossible (a court order, or the failure of a supplier), we will give as much notice as we can. Stewards also receive a page’s full archive every year, and it opens without us, so a page never depends on us alone.

If another company takes over Place a Stone, we may transfer this agreement to it. It must keep to these terms, and your rights will not be reduced.

We provide Place a Stone with reasonable care and skill, and work to keep it running and your content backed up, but it may sometimes be unavailable. Keep a copy of your page’s archive: it exists so that a page never depends on us alone.

Hebrew dates and yahrzeit reminders are calculated automatically. We take care with them, but for religious observance please confirm the date with your community.

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for losing content you could have kept by downloading the archive, and our total liability to you is limited to the greater of what you paid us and US$100. If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK, we are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability where that would be unlawful (for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, for gross negligence or wilful misconduct, or under consumer-protection or privacy law) or takes away rights you have as a consumer. If a court finds part of these terms invalid, the rest still applies.

We may change these terms to reflect a change in the law, in how Place a Stone works or in our suppliers, or to make them clearer. Every change is published here with its date, and we email every account holder about a material change at least 30 days before it takes effect. A change will never make you pay again for what you have bought, or take away anything your plan includes.

If you do not accept a material change, you can download the archive and delete the page or your account before it takes effect. The version in force when something happened is the one that applies to it; we will send you an earlier version on request.

These terms are governed by Israeli law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, where those are more favourable to you.

The courts of Israel, including the Small Claims Court, have jurisdiction under the ordinary rules. If you are a consumer in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, you may bring proceedings where you live, and we may bring proceedings against you only there.

These terms are published in Hebrew, English, Russian, French and Spanish. The version in the language in which you accepted them governs; if another version is more favourable to you, you may rely on it.