Norton 360 local vault missing

Until this morning, I was under the impression that I had a local vault.  That is what I opted for when I upgraded to version 6 last year.  Now seemingly, my local vault has been merged into an online vault.  I only know this because I kept getting a nag telling me to log into my account.  I didn't, I contact the support team.  They insisted that I log into the account, which I did, and now they tell me that I no longer have a local vault.  I can also see that N360 had started doing daily automatic back ups of my vault onto my hard drive, without telling me.  What's that about?  Why would I need daily backups of an online vault?  What they heck are they playing at?

 

Is there a way to get my my local vault back?

 

I have deleted the vault because I simply don't want or need those details storing in the cloud.

 

I'm happy enough to ditch Symantec when the product is up for renewal in a couple of months if that feature is gone and I managed for years without a password manager, so it's no particular hardship.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

BTW.  I can't believe they use captcha.  It is ridiculously user-unfriendly IMO