Yev here -> yes, under our ToS you need to be a customer in good standing in order for us to provide service. We do want to see your computer ping home every now and again to make sure its running up-to-date and supported versions. The Computer Backup service is a backup, not an archive. If you need to put your data somewhere and have it be there forever until YOU remove it, we recommend our B2 Cloud Storage service which has a ton of integrations that make backing up easy -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html?use-case=back... (I filtered by "backup" to make it easier to see all of the integrators).