Disclaimer
Last Updated: August 2026
The Short Version
Your Eulogy is a writing and information resource.
We help people think about their lives, record their stories, and leave useful material for whoever may eventually write their eulogy.
We are not a law firm, funeral director, counselling service, healthcare provider, therapist, financial adviser, will-writing service, or emergency support service.
The website and My Eulogy File contain general information, questions, prompts, and ideas. They aren’t individual professional advice.
You decide what you write, what you share, what you keep private, and what instructions you leave.
And while we’d like people to respect your wishes after your death, we cannot guarantee that they will.
The much longer version follows.
About This Disclaimer
Your Eulogy is operated by:
Ceri Wood
Sole trader, trading as Your Eulogy
United Kingdom
Email: hello@youreulogy.co.uk
This Disclaimer applies to information and resources provided through the Your Eulogy website and to My Eulogy File.
It should be read alongside our:
Nothing in this Disclaimer is intended to remove or restrict consumer rights or other rights that cannot lawfully be excluded. UK consumer rules require disclaimers and other consumer notices to be fair and transparent, and businesses cannot use them to remove statutory rights relating to faulty or misdescribed digital content.
Your Eulogy Is a Writing and Information Resource
Your Eulogy exists to help people think about and record things that could eventually be useful when their eulogy is written.
That includes things such as:
- facts about their life;
- relationships;
- memories;
- stories;
- personality;
- values;
- achievements;
- regrets;
- difficult experiences;
- messages;
- preferences about how they are described; and
- material for a draft or finished eulogy.
Our resources are designed to prompt your thinking.
They don’t tell you what your life means, what your eulogy must contain, or what decisions you should make.
We Don’t Provide Legal Advice
Your Eulogy doesn’t provide legal advice.
Some subjects raised by the website or My Eulogy File may have legal implications.
For example, you may write about:
- another person;
- confidential information;
- allegations;
- family disputes;
- criminal matters;
- inheritance;
- wills;
- ownership of property;
- funeral arrangements;
- privacy;
- copyright;
- or who has authority to make particular decisions after somebody dies.
Our general information about these subjects isn’t a substitute for advice from an appropriately qualified legal professional.
If something has significant legal consequences, please obtain appropriate advice for your circumstances.
My Eulogy File Is Not a Will
This one deserves to be particularly clear.
My Eulogy File is not a will.
It isn’t designed to distribute your estate or create legally binding instructions about what should happen to your money, property, possessions, or other assets after your death.
Don’t use My Eulogy File instead of making a legally valid will where you need one.
If you need advice about wills, inheritance, executors, probate, trusts, or estate planning, speak to an appropriately qualified professional.
It Isn’t a Funeral Plan Either
My Eulogy File focuses on your life and your eventual eulogy.
It isn’t intended to be a comprehensive record of your funeral wishes.
You might mention funeral-related preferences while completing it, because death has an inconvenient habit of overlapping with funerals.
But the File isn’t designed to replace whatever appropriate arrangements or records you choose to make about matters such as:
- burial or cremation;
- funeral directors;
- funeral costs;
- venues;
- music;
- ceremonies;
- religious arrangements;
- ashes;
- organ donation;
- or other practical end-of-life wishes.
If you want to plan those things, use an appropriate separate process.
This is the eulogy bit.
We Don’t Provide Medical Advice
Your Eulogy doesn’t provide medical advice.
The website and workbook may mention illness, disability, dying, mental health, treatment, or other health-related experiences because those things can form part of people’s lives.
Nothing we publish should be used to diagnose, treat, prevent, or make decisions about a medical condition.
Questions about your health, treatment, medication, prognosis, capacity, or medical care should be discussed with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
We Don’t Provide Therapy or Counselling
Writing about your life can bring things up.
You may remember:
someone you’ve lost;
a difficult relationship;
something traumatic;
something you regret;
something you’re angry about;
something unresolved;
or something you haven’t thought about for years.
My Eulogy File isn’t therapy.
Your Eulogy doesn’t provide counselling, psychotherapy, trauma treatment, bereavement counselling, or mental health treatment.
You don’t have to answer a question simply because we’ve asked it.
Skip it.
Stop.
Come back later.
Decide you’re never answering it.
The workbook doesn’t get a vote.
If something you are thinking or writing about means you need professional support, please seek appropriate help rather than relying on the workbook.
We’re Not a Bereavement Support Service
Some people will inevitably find Your Eulogy after somebody has died.
Parts of the website and My Eulogy File may be useful when preparing a eulogy.
But Your Eulogy isn’t a bereavement support or counselling service.
Grief is personal, and our writing resources aren’t a substitute for professional or specialist support where that is needed.
We’re Not an Emergency Service
Your Eulogy isn’t designed to respond to urgent situations.
Please don’t use our contact form or email address for an emergency or situation requiring an immediate response.
We don’t continuously monitor messages, and we cannot guarantee when an email will be read.
Use an appropriate emergency, healthcare, professional, or specialist service where urgent help is required.
Difficult Subjects
My Eulogy File deliberately makes room for lives that aren’t neat.
That means some questions cover subjects such as:
- death;
- illness;
- bereavement;
- estrangement;
- difficult relationships;
- regret;
- mistakes;
- trauma;
- loss;
- beliefs;
- identity; and
- unresolved experiences.
You are not required to engage with every subject.
There is no score.
There is no completion percentage.
There is no certificate for reaching the end.
Use what’s useful.
Leave what isn’t.
Be Careful With Sensitive Information
Some of the information you could record in your File may be extremely personal.
It could also include legally protected categories of personal information, such as health information, religious or philosophical beliefs, political opinions, racial or ethnic origin, or information about sex life or sexual orientation. UK data protection law treats these categories with particular care.
This is one reason Your Eulogy does not ask you to upload or store your completed My Eulogy File with us.
Think carefully about:
who can access your File while you’re alive;
where you keep it;
who should access it after your death;
which information may be shared;
and which information should remain private.
Other People Appear in Your Life Story
Unless you’ve spent your entire existence alone on an island, your life story involves other people.
Your memories may contain information about their:
relationships;
health;
identity;
mistakes;
experiences;
finances;
beliefs;
family circumstances;
or private lives.
Writing something in your personal File doesn’t automatically mean it should later be read aloud or published.
Before leaving instructions for sensitive information to be shared, consider:
Is this mine to share?
Does the other person have a reasonable expectation of privacy?
Is the detail necessary?
Could the story be told without it?
Where there could be serious consequences, appropriate professional advice may be sensible.
Memories Aren’t Perfect Records
My Eulogy File asks you to remember things.
Human memory is not an archive.
Dates can be wrong.
Stories change.
People remember the same event differently.
Details get mixed together.
Your recollection is still valuable.
But we don’t suggest that writing something in My Eulogy File establishes it as objectively or historically true.
Your version is your version.
Other people may have theirs.
Your My Eulogy File May Not Be Followed
This is perhaps the most important limitation of the whole idea.
You can leave excellent instructions.
You can write your own eulogy.
You can carefully label what may and may not be used.
You can nominate somebody you’d like to handle your File.
You can write FOR GOD’S SAKE, DON’T SAY THAT in very large letters.
But we cannot guarantee what happens after your death.
Circumstances may change.
Your chosen person may be unavailable.
Your File may not be found.
People may disagree.
A funeral may happen differently from what you expected.
Somebody may decide not to use something you’ve written.
And, unless a particular instruction has some independent legal effect, personal wishes recorded in My Eulogy File shouldn’t be assumed to be legally binding simply because you’ve written them there.
My Eulogy File gives you a voice in the process.
It doesn’t give you control from beyond the grave.
You Can’t Control Other People’s Memories
Nor are we trying to help you do that.
Writing your own account doesn’t mean everybody else has to adopt it.
Your children may remember you differently.
Your partner may disagree with your description of your relationship.
Your oldest friend may insist that the incident happened in Brighton rather than Bournemouth.
Someone may have been deeply affected by something you barely remember.
Your version matters.
So do theirs.
The aim of Your Eulogy is to preserve your perspective, not declare it the authorised history of everybody who knew you.
No Particular Outcome Is Guaranteed
We hope My Eulogy File helps you record something useful.
We don’t guarantee that:
- you’ll finish it;
- you’ll answer every question;
- you’ll find the process enjoyable;
- you’ll remember everything accurately;
- you’ll write a finished eulogy;
- somebody will eventually find your File;
- somebody will use it;
- your eventual eulogy will follow your wishes;
- your family will agree about what should be said;
- completing it will change how you feel about death;
- completing it will resolve difficult relationships; or
- you’ll experience profound personal transformation.
You might.
You might also fill twenty pages with stories about your family and remember that you once owned a Ford Fiesta.
Both count.
Information Can Change
We make reasonable efforts to keep factual information on Your Eulogy accurate and useful.
However, laws, regulations, professional practices, third-party services, and other information can change.
Website content may therefore become outdated.
Where a current legal, financial, medical, or other professional matter affects you personally, check appropriate current authoritative information or obtain professional advice rather than relying solely on something you read here.
If you think we’ve got something wrong, please tell us:
External Websites
We may link to external websites or resources where we think they may be useful.
We don’t control those websites.
A link doesn’t mean that we guarantee:
their information;
their services;
their security;
their accessibility;
their availability;
or everything else the organisation says or does.
Check the relevant external service for yourself before relying on it.
Responsibility and Consumer Rights
We take responsibility where the law requires us to.
This Disclaimer isn’t intended to become a magical paragraph that means Your Eulogy can never be responsible for anything.
UK consumer law requires consumer notices and contract terms to be fair and transparent. Businesses cannot simply disclaim responsibility for matters such as faulty or misdescribed digital content, poor contractual performance, or other responsibilities that the law does not allow them to exclude.
Nothing on this page removes your statutory consumer rights.
The purpose of this Disclaimer is to make clear what Your Eulogy is and isn’t, and the reasonable limits of what a writing resource can do.
If You’re Unsure
Most of the time, the distinction is fairly straightforward.
Want help remembering stories from your life?
That’s us.
Want prompts for thinking about who mattered?
Us.
Want to record what you were actually like?
Definitely us.
Want to leave material for somebody who eventually writes your eulogy?
Very much us.
Need legal advice about whether you can disclose something?
Not us.
Need medical advice about dying?
Not us.
Need therapy for something the workbook has brought up?
Not us.
Need somebody to decide what should happen to your estate?
Also not us.
Need somewhere secure to upload every intimate detail of your life?
Absolutely not us.
Contact
If you have a question about this Disclaimer or about what Your Eulogy does, contact:
Ceri Wood
Sole trader, trading as Your Eulogy
Email: hello@youreulogy.co.uk
And if you’re contacting us about something personal, remember:
We probably need much less of the story than you think we do.