The right storage decision depends on the people, devices and obligations around the files. Start with your circumstances, then follow the relevant features, scenarios and limitations.
Choose your context
- Private-file storage for journalists: Separate a reporting archive from everyday phone use while keeping source protection, communications and newsroom policy in the wider plan.
- Private archives for activists and organizers: Keep selected photos, notes and documents separate while accounting for participant consent, shared copies and the limits of a personal device.
- Private-file decisions when someone monitors your technology: Consider safe timing, a safer device and preservation needs before changing access or installing a vault on a device another person may control.
- Private documents for frequent travellers: Prepare a small usable travel archive and a recovery path that survives losing access to the phone.
- Private photo storage for parents and shared family devices: Separate adult private files from everyday family use, then check handoffs, account sharing and the copies outside the vault.
- Sensitive working files for legal and healthcare professionals: Start with your organization’s approved systems and retention rules before deciding whether any working copy belongs on a personal phone.
Understand the common boundary
NullVault is a private-file vault. It does not replace organizational approval, a personal safety plan, device security or a reliable backup. Read the security limitations alongside the page relevant to you.