Terms

Monovus is a business based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "We" and "Monovus" mean that business. "You" means whoever is reading the site, taking the assessment, engaging us or running the backup application. By using them, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use them.

The pages here are written to be useful, not to be a specification. Technical claims about AI services age quickly. Nothing on this site creates an obligation on us until we have agreed something in writing.

The text, design, wordmark and diagrams are ours, except the AWS Architecture Icons, which belong to Amazon Web Services and are used under its published terms. Quote our work with attribution; do not republish a page wholesale.

This assessment is an indicative self-assessment based on your answers. It is not an audit, a security review or professional advice. Your score and report are generated in your browser from fixed rules applied to your answers, so they cannot find risks you did not describe. Check anything you intend to act on.

The assessment is free and is provided without warranty. Do not put confidential, personal or regulated information in the free-text field, and do not send automated or bulk submissions through the site's forms.

If we do work for you, the scope, price and schedule live in a written proposal or statement of work. Where that document and this page disagree, that document wins.

Two things we commit to in every engagement: we will tell you when something is a five-minute fix rather than billing it as a project, and we will tell you when we think you should not buy what you asked us to build.

Monovus operates a private application, registered with Google as NAS Offsite Backup, which copies encrypted backup archives from a machine you control into a Google Drive account you control.

It is a tool, not a managed service

The application runs on your hardware, authenticates as you, and writes to your storage. Monovus does not monitor your backups, does not receive alerts when they fail, and has no server that holds your data. If you want someone watching it, that is a separate paid engagement.

What stays your responsibility

• Verifying restores. A backup that has never been restored is a hypothesis. Test yours.
• Keeping more than one copy. One offsite copy is not a backup strategy. Keep at least one other.
• Your encryption key. Archives are encrypted before upload and the key never leaves your machine. Lose the key and the backup is permanently unreadable — by you, by us, and by Google. We cannot recover it.
• Your Google account. Its storage limits, quotas, billing, and terms are between you and Google.

Acceptable use

Do not use the application to store material that is unlawful where you or your data resides, and do not use it to circumvent a third party's rights. Do not attempt to use it against a Google account you are not authorised to use.

The website, the assessment and the application are provided as they are, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the assessment identifies every risk, that the application will be uninterrupted, that any particular backup will complete, or that a restore will succeed.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Monovus is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, or lost or corrupted data, arising from the website, the assessment or the application.

For any claim relating to a paid engagement, our total liability is capped at the fees you paid us for that engagement. For the website, the assessment and the free use of the application, where no fees were paid, our total liability is capped at CAD $100.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

You can stop using the site or the assessment at any time, and you can revoke the application's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. We may withdraw or change the assessment or the application, or decline to continue an engagement, on reasonable notice. Paid work already delivered remains payable.

The date at the top is the date this page last changed. Continuing to use the site, the assessment or the application after a change means you accept the updated terms. If a change materially reduces your rights, we will say so plainly at the top of the page.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction, and you and we both agree to that venue.

Monovus, hello@monovus.solutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. See also our privacy policy.