CallVault

Terms of Use

Last updated: 13 November 2026

By installing or using CallVault, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't use the app. CallVault is published by Ahsan Mahmood (aoneahsan@gmail.com).

What CallVault is

A personal tool to record your own phone calls and optionally back them up to CallVault's private cloud storage. It is provided for personal use.

Plans, payment and households

CallVault has a free plan and paid plans. To request Pro or Family, sign in on the CallVault website and choose a plan and period. For Family, choose a seat count. A Family request requires a household you own. The request shows the price for that period and starts as pending. A CallVault administrator then sends payment instructions privately. Submitting a request does not charge you or activate the plan. After independently verifying payment, an administrator confirms the request and applies a dated plan to your account or household. Nothing is sold inside the Android app.

A plan sets how much private cloud backup your account gets. Recording, import, playback, search, notes, favorites and export are free on every plan, and they stay free.

A confirmed manual payment adds one dated plan period, starting after your current paid grant ends if that date is later, so confirmation does not shorten it. Plans do not renew automatically. When a period ends, you can request another one. Every confirmed plan purchase is final, and payments already made are not refunded.

When a plan ends, new backups pause at the lower limit. Nothing already stored is deleted. Your recordings stay there to play, search, export and delete, and new backups start once your account is back inside the limit, whether a plan was applied again or you freed space.

The Family plan is held by a household. One person owns it and can invite up to 4 others by email. A household holds up to 5 members, owner included. Family costs 9.99 USD per seat for one month or 79 USD per seat for one year, with at least 3 seats in each request. Seats can remain empty. The administrator checks the household and seat count before confirming payment. If members leave, the plan already granted runs to its end date.

The owner holds the seats. The owner can remove a member, or close the household, which ends every membership in it and leaves every member's recordings untouched. A member can leave at any time. The owner cannot leave their own household.

Each plan carries fair-use limits: the size of a single recording, and how many uploads an account can start in an hour. Those limits belong to the plan and a CallVault administrator can change them, and the limits that apply to an upload are always the ones on your account at the moment that upload runs. The current value of each limit, for each plan, is listed at https://callvault-docs.aoneahsan.com/user-guide/plans-and-family.

A recording larger than the per-recording limit stays on the phone. It is not uploaded, and it appears under Needs attention in Backup & sync health.

We never use your recordings, notes or call details to train anything, on any plan.

Invite rewards are plan time we add at no charge. We can change the programme or its numbers, or end it, and we can cancel a reward that came from abuse.

Your responsibilities — recording laws

Recording laws vary; you are responsible for getting any consent required where you are. This is general information, not legal advice.

In some places you must tell everyone on the call, or get their consent, especially before you share a recording with anyone else. Using CallVault lawfully where you are is solely your responsibility. That includes telling other people when the law there requires it, whether or not the app says anything.

CallVault shows a live banner in the app and a persistent notification the whole time it is recording. It does not announce the recording to the other person, so telling them stays your responsibility.

If you are not sure what applies to you, check the law where you are, or ask a lawyer, before you record.

Acceptable use

Use CallVault only for lawful purposes and only to record calls you are a party to. Do not use it to record others unlawfully, to harass anyone, or to violate anyone's rights or privacy.

"As is"

Call recording depends on your device and Android version; on many phones the other party's voice is only captured on speakerphone, and some calls may not record at all. CallVault is provided "as is", without warranties, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted recording or backup.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the app, including missed or lost recordings, or any consequences of recording or sharing a call.

Your data

How your data is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.

White-label licences and buyouts

These clauses apply to a business that licenses or buys CallVault to offer under its own name. Plain-language pages start at White-label.

  1. Licence. We build, host and deploy CallVault for a business under that business's name (the buyer), connect the buyer's domain, and apply the buyer's name, logo and colours. The Android app is delivered as the buyer's own signed APK, downloaded from the buyer's site; if the buyer chooses to publish under its own store account, that account and its review are the buyer's. The buyer may offer the app to its own users.
  2. No source code. A licence does not disclose or transfer source code. Source code changes hands only with a buyout.
  3. Not exclusive. Until someone buys CallVault outright, we may license it to other buyers.
  4. Groups. A licence covers the platform groups the buyer paid for. CallVault's group is the mobile app. iOS is delivered when the buyer provides or funds an Apple developer account; CallVault has no iPhone build today, because iPhone doesn't let an ordinary app record calls, so what can be built for iPhone users is agreed in writing before work starts.
  5. Updates. Six months of product updates from the purchase date. A renewal of 3, 6 or 12 months extends them from the later of the renewal date and the current end date. Without one, the deployment keeps running on its last version.
  6. Custom work. Changes made only for one buyer are quoted and paid separately.
  7. Buyout. The buyer receives the source code of every repository that builds the groups CallVault ships, with six months of updates. Signing keys, accounts and credentials are not part of the code; the buyer creates its own. After a buyout we stop selling CallVault to anyone else. Licences sold before it keep their terms.
  8. Verification. Every deployment carries a licence key and serves a file at /.well-known/callvault-white-label-license.json. Anyone can check a licence on the licence check page.
  9. Revocation. A licence used outside these terms, or on a domain it does not cover, may be revoked.
  10. Payments are final. Every white-label licence, renewal, buyout and custom-work payment is final, and payments already made are not refunded.
  11. Third-party costs. Costs the buyer chooses, such as its domain, store accounts and paid services, are the buyer's.
  12. Buyer data. The buyer's name, email, company, domain and order details are kept to issue, verify and renew the licence, and are processed by our licensing service, as the Privacy Policy describes.
  13. Recording law. The buyer publishes the app to its own users and is responsible for the recording-consent law where they use it. This is general information, not legal advice.

Changes

We may update these terms; continued use of the app means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Ahsan Mahmood · aoneahsan@gmail.com