Terms.

A space to confess comes with a responsibility to respect others.

Effective 2026-09-14

1. About Confess

Confess is an Oceanbyte product operated by OceanByte, City Gate, Bldg 1000, Mahon Crescent, Co. Cork T12 W7CV. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to that operator.

These terms govern the Confess app and supporting website services. When you create an account, you agree to these terms and the community rules below. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, and our Cookies Policy explains website cookies and similar technologies. Accepting these terms does not give consent to optional tracking. If you do not agree to the terms, do not create or continue using an account.

2. Eligibility and account security

You must be at least 18 years old to create or use a Confess account. Provide accurate registration information, complete required verification and keep account details current. Do not bypass age restrictions, impersonate someone else or allow another person to use your account.

Keep passwords, verification codes and recovery links private. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised access. We may take proportionate steps to secure a compromised account. You do not need an account to contact us, exercise data rights or report a safety concern.

3. Your Sinnername and privacy

A Sinnername is your public identity on Confess. It does not guarantee anonymity. We may refuse or change a Sinnername that impersonates someone, infringes rights or creates a safety risk. Do not publish real names, contact details or identifying information about another person without a lawful basis.

Public content can be copied or shared outside the service. Consider that before posting. Confess cannot control copies held by other people.

4. Your content

You retain ownership of content you create. You are responsible for having the rights and permissions needed to submit it and for complying with these terms and the law.

By submitting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute and technically format it only as needed to provide, secure and moderate Confess. We may permit our service providers to perform those functions for us. This permission does not give us a separate right to use your confession in advertising.

The licence ends when content is removed from our systems. It does not affect copies already shared outside our control.

5. Community rules

Confessions may be personal, awkward or difficult. They must still respect the people who read them and anyone they concern.

Protect identity and privacy. No doxxing, impersonation, stalking, blackmail or exposing private information.
Protect children. No child sexual abuse material, grooming, sexual exploitation or conduct that endangers a child.
Respect consent. No non-consensual intimate content, sexual exploitation or threats to expose someone.
Do not encourage harm. No credible threats, incitement to violence, targeted hate or encouragement of suicide or self-harm.
Respect rights and the law. No unlawful defamation, intellectual-property infringement, fraud, scams or illegal transactions.
Keep the community usable. No spam, bots, manipulation, ban evasion, unauthorised scraping or attempts to defeat security controls.
Keep adult discussion responsible. No pornographic promotion, sexual solicitation or exploitative sexual content.

Good-faith discussion of difficult experiences is different from encouraging harm. We consider context, seriousness, potential harm and repeated behaviour when applying these rules.

6. Reports, moderation and appeals

Use Report a concern or email report@oceanbyte.ie. Identify the exact content or account and explain the concern. For suspected illegal content, explain why you believe it is illegal and identify the relevant country if known. Do not attach prohibited material.

Confirm that the report is made in good faith and is accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge. For other formal illegal-content notices, include your name and email. Contact details are optional for ordinary community reports and notices concerning child sexual abuse or exploitation.

The website acknowledges successful submissions. If you supply an email with a report, we also send a receipt. We review the concern and may request more information. Where contact details are available, we communicate the decision and applicable options to challenge it. A report alone does not establish a violation or guarantee removal.

We may take no action, issue a warning, reduce visibility, remove content, restrict a feature or suspend or close an account. Measures are proportionate to the seriousness of the issue, risks to others and repeated conduct. Immediate action may be necessary for serious safety or security risks or a legal requirement. Where required, we explain a restriction, its reason, duration and ways to challenge it, unless the law prevents disclosure.

Confess content moderation is carried out manually by human reviewers. To ask us to review a moderation decision, use the contact form and choose “Appeal a decision”. Automated security checks used to protect sign-in and website forms are separate from this manual content-review process.

To request review, choose “Appeal a decision” on the contact form. Include the decision or content reference, date and why you believe the decision should change. A person reviews appeals; the final decision is not made solely by an automated system. This does not limit applicable statutory complaint, out-of-court dispute settlement or court remedies.

7. Account deletion

You may stop using Confess at any time. To delete your account, open Sinner ID → Edit Profile → Delete Account, or contact us for help if you cannot sign in. We may verify that the request concerns your account.

Completed deletion is permanent and removes the account and all associated data from the app’s Supabase backend, including confessions, comments and associated moderation/report records. The Privacy Policy explains the scope of deletion and our data handling. Terms that by their nature must continue, including responsibility for earlier conduct and applicable legal rights, survive account closure.

8. Availability, changes and payments

We use reasonable care and skill in providing the service. Maintenance, technical faults and necessary safety measures may interrupt availability. We cannot promise continuous or error-free operation.

We may change features for technical, security, legal or service-improvement reasons. We explain material changes and give appropriate notice where required. If we discontinue the service, we provide notice and information about available data access or deletion options, subject to urgent legal or safety requirements.

These terms do not authorise us to charge you. Any paid feature requires clear information about price, billing, renewal and cancellation before you agree to purchase. Mandatory consumer and app-store rights continue to apply.

9. Community posts and emergencies

Posts express the views and experiences of their authors. They are not verified medical, legal, financial or other professional advice. Use appropriate professional services where needed.

Confess is not an emergency service. If someone is in immediate danger, contact emergency services directly.

10. Our materials and external services

The Confess name, logo, interface, software and original Oceanbyte materials are owned by or licensed to their respective rights holders. Using the service does not transfer those rights. You may use the app and website for their intended purpose, subject to these terms and rights granted by law.

Links to external websites do not make their operators part of Confess. External services and app stores may have their own terms and privacy information.

11. Responsibility and legal rights

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, or removes mandatory consumer or data-protection rights. We remain responsible for failures to exercise the care and skill required by applicable law.

Subject to those protections, we are not responsible for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable from a breach of these terms, or for business losses arising from a service provided for personal use. We do not guarantee the truth of another person’s posts or control copies shared outside Confess.

12. Governing law, updates and contact

These terms are governed by Irish law. Consumers keep mandatory protections provided by the law of their habitual residence and any right to bring a claim before courts available under applicable law. These terms do not require mandatory arbitration.

If a provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue where they can do so fairly and lawfully. A delay in enforcing a term does not waive the right to enforce it later.

We may update these terms when the service or legal obligations change. The effective date appears at the top. We give notice of material changes and request renewed agreement where required. If you do not accept updated terms, you may stop using the service and delete your account without losing rights you already have.

Questions and appeals: support@oceanbyte.ie. Privacy requests: privacy@oceanbyte.ie. Safety reports: report@oceanbyte.ie.