irreversibility contract
What VitalSend will not do.
Irreversibility is not a feature. It is the product. This page is a plain statement of what we will not build, will not store, and will not be able to recover.
Clause 1 — No memory
VitalSend will not remember what was sent.
- File contents are encrypted in the sender's browser before upload. VitalSend stores only encrypted bytes.
- The decryption key never reaches the server. It lives in the URL fragment, which browsers never send.
- Account identity is not connected to transfer activity. What you send cannot be traced back to your account.
Clause 2 — No recovery
Once a transfer is gone, it is gone.
- After one successful download, the file is destroyed automatically.
- After expiry, the file is destroyed automatically.
- There is no archive. There is no backup of customer file content.
- VitalSend support cannot resend, restore, or reconstruct a transfer. The infrastructure does not allow it.
Clause 3 — No tracking
VitalSend will not build a record of who sent what.
- Recipients are anonymous. No login. No identity attached to the download.
- Senders may optionally hold an account for prepaid credits. The account does not see, link, or list their transfers.
- Operational logs are minimal and retained only for security and abuse handling. They are not a transfer history.
Clause 4 — No reuse
A link is not a folder.
- A transfer link works exactly once. Resending the link does not reopen access.
- There are no shared folders. There is no collaboration space.
- There is no link rotation that turns a one-time link into a persistent one.
Clause 5 — No exceptions
There is no key under the mat.
- VitalSend cannot read uploaded file contents. Not for support, not for moderation, not for compliance.
- VitalSend cannot decrypt a transfer on request. The decryption key never reached the server.
- Lawful requests for file contents can only return what VitalSend has — encrypted blobs without their key.
The client-side encryption code is public so the model can be independently verified.
If you need to resend, recover, or track a file — this is the wrong tool.
VitalSend is built for the cases where that is the point.

