The 99-Year Promise

Why this page exists

I do disaster recovery for a living. My whole career is making sure things keep working after everything goes wrong. So before I asked anyone to print one of our QR codes on a business card, a lighter, or the side of a moving box, I wrote a disaster-recovery plan for YOUR links. This page is that plan, in plain English. Most companies promise "lifetime." We wrote down what happens after the lifetime part gets tested.

The Promise

1. Your code never stops working. Every QRLife code keeps scanning and keeps resolving — even if you never pay us a dime, even if you cancel, even if your card expires. When a paid plan ends, your code becomes static at its last destination. It does not break, does not show ads, and does not get resold. Static codes stay live for the life of the service.
2. Your destinations are always yours to take. At any time, you can export a complete list of your codes and the destinations behind them — free, no lock-in, no "contact sales."
3. We prepay the foundations. Our domains are registered and prepaid to the maximum term registrars allow, renewed automatically from a dedicated continuity reserve that is separate from day-to-day operating money. A portion of every lifetime purchase goes into that reserve.
4. The dead-man switch. If QRLife ever winds down — sold, shut, or the founder gets hit by the proverbial bus — we commit to: (a) at least 12 months of advance notice to every account email; (b) free export of every code and destination during that entire period; and (c) releasing the redirect service as open-source software so anyone — including you — can keep the codes alive.
5. Succession is written down. QRLife is family-owned and family-run. Responsibility for this Promise, the continuity reserve, and the dead-man switch is assigned in our operating agreement — it survives the founder.
6. If we are ever acquired, the Promise goes with us. Any sale of QRLife will contractually require the buyer to honor this Promise for all existing codes, or trigger the dead-man switch above.

What "99 years" means (and honest limits)

"99 years" is our design target — the standard we build and budget against, not a claim that we can see the future. Nobody can lawfully guarantee a century of anything, and we will not insult you by pretending otherwise. What we guarantee is the plan above: prepaid foundations, a funded reserve, a written wind-down procedure, and an open-source escape hatch, so your code outlives any one company, server, or person. The Promise does not cover things outside anyone's control (internet-wide standards changes, registry seizures, force majeure) and does not apply to codes removed for illegal content or abuse under our Terms of Service.

The 99-Year Promise is a service commitment, not a warranty or insurance product. See Terms of Service.