Our Approach
Maintaining Accessibility to Your Files
While there's no better way to preserve something forever than to seal it up in a cool, dark, dry place safe from the elements and far from the prying eyes, that lack of accessibility defeats the purpose of cultural heritage preservation. A legacy is ...
Our Approach
At Permanent, we understand the conflicts that our users face day-to-day when it comes to making choices for their digital data. We’re not claiming to have it all figured out or to be digital deities. We’re regular people who want a better, more ...
Exclusive Sharing
Share your files with other Archives while keeping them private from the world. You choose what files or folders you want to share, who you want to share them with and what level of access that Archive should have. You can add, change or remove ...
Why Should You Trust Permanent?
Preservation for every person is now within reach. Here’s why Permanent is a safe choice for your family’s cherished memories. As a nonprofit, we’re different from other storage providers. The Permanent Legacy Foundation is building the world’s ...
Going Open Source
This is an area of our manifesto that is currently under development. The most secure and sustainable technology is built and maintained as open source. That's why nearly our entire code base is built on open source libraries. We pledge to ...
Enhanced Legacy Controls
This is an area of our manifesto that is currently under development. Our nonprofit mission is to keep data perpetually accessible for the historical and educational benefit of future generations. We promise to respect the privacy and copyright of ...
Format Conversion
Files born today are memories transcribed and locked up in digital formats that have no guarantee to last or be readable in the future. When you use an app to capture a memory, that memory is often wrapped up in the app’s own special packaging ...
Data Migration
The most annoying part of managing your digital life is the dreaded task of moving all your files from one place to another: from an old device to a new one or from a retiring website to the popular new one. But what might be dreaded for you is what ...
Redundant Backups
What's the best way to keep something around for all time? Make multiple copies of it and store those copies in different places. We create multiple, redundant copies of every file in our system to mitigate against file degradation. Not only that, ...
Commercial Storage Partners
Running a data center is a major capital investment and organizational commitment that is not a core requirement to our mission. In fact, we see it as a liability. Instead, we leverage reliable, cost-effective commercial services that are already ...