Terms of service

Effective 20 October 2026

Gideon Solutions, LLC (“we”, “us”) runs Gideon Lantern (“Lantern”) at gideonlantern.com. These terms are the agreement between you and us when you use it. By creating an account you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Lantern.

What Lantern does

Lantern emails you once a week to ask whether you're okay. If you don't answer, it reminds you, sends a final notice at least 24 hours before your deadline, and then sends the message you prepared, once, to each recipient who accepted your invitation. How it works describes every step and deadline.

What Lantern doesn't do

• Lantern doesn't know what has happened to you. A missed check-in can mean many things. When Lantern sends your message, it says only that you didn't respond.
• Lantern is not a will or a legal document, and not an emergency service. It doesn't transfer property, file anything, appoint anyone or give legal advice, and it can't summon help. If you or someone else is in danger, contact the emergency services.
• Lantern sends email, and can't promise it arrives. We hand each email to our email provider. We can't control whether it reaches an inbox, is filtered as spam, or is read. If Lantern itself is unavailable, your deadline moves later by the time it was down.

Your part

• You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live.
• Use an email address you read every week, and keep it current. Check in when asked, and pause Lantern before you'll be out of reach.
• What you write is yours, and your responsibility. It must be lawful. Don't include passwords, PINs or account numbers; say where to find them instead.
• Name as recipients only people you know and who would expect to hear from you. Each is invited first and can decline or withdraw at any time.
• Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what's done with your account.

Subscriptions and payment

• Setting up, testing and previewing are free. For Lantern to go live, your account needs a subscription: $10 a year or $1 a month in US dollars, or the price shown at checkout.
• Payments are taken by our payment processor, Stripe, at the start of each period. Your subscription renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from the Billing page; it then runs to the end of the period you've paid for.
• Non-payment never causes your message to be sent. While Stripe retries a failed payment, Lantern keeps running. If your subscription ends, we email you and your Lantern keeps running for 30 more days; if nothing changes, it then pauses and we tell you. A paused Lantern doesn't ask you to check in and doesn't send your message.
• Refunds. If you were charged by mistake, or Lantern didn't work as these terms describe, write to us and we'll refund you. Otherwise payments aren't refunded for the unused part of a period, except where the law requires.
• Discount codes work as described where they're offered. One code applies to a subscription; codes have no cash value and may expire. Ending a code stops new uses of it, but doesn't take away a discount already applied for the time it promised.
• Price changes. We'll email you at least 30 days before a new price applies to your subscription. You can cancel before then.

Your information

Our privacy policy says what we store, why, and who helps us run Lantern. It is part of these terms. You can download everything Lantern holds about you, or delete your account, from your Account page.

Acceptable use

Don't use Lantern to harass, threaten or deceive anyone, to send spam or unlawful content, to impersonate someone, or to probe, overload or break the service. We may suspend or close an account that does. A suspended or closed account's message is not sent.

Ending

You can delete your account at any time. That ends your subscription immediately, without a refund for the rest of the period, and stops Lantern for good; email already sent can't be recalled. If we ever stop running Lantern, we'll tell you by email at least 60 days ahead and refund the unused part of any payment.

Limits on our liability

Lantern is provided as it is and as available. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses. This doesn't limit any responsibility the law doesn't allow us to limit, including for our own fraud, gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina and applicable federal law. Please contact us first, so we can try to put things right directly. If we can't, disputes will be heard in the state or federal courts in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring them elsewhere.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll email you before it takes effect and update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Gideon Solutions, LLC · ian@gideonsolutions.us