Terms of Use

Who this is between

These terms are between you and the maker of Confront. Using the app means accepting them. If you do not accept them, do not use the app; if you have already paid, the store you bought it from handles the refund.

Apple requires a subscription app to carry terms of use. This page is that, and it is written to be read rather than to be scrolled past.

What you may do with the app

You get a personal, non-exclusive licence to use Confront on devices you own, for as long as these terms are kept. That is a licence to use it, not ownership of it.

You may not:

• resell, rent or sublicense the app;
• take it apart to rebuild it as your own product;
• strip out the paywall and hand the result to other people.

The app’s text — the concepts, the comparison sessions, the questions and the commentary — is ours. Quotations inside it belong to their own authors and are used under fair use, with the source named every time.

What you write is yours

Every answer, value and note you write belongs to you. We claim no licence over it, no right to publish it and no right to train anything on it. We could not do those things if we wanted to: it is in a database on your phone and we have no copy.

See the privacy policy for where it goes and does not go.

Subscriptions, and how to stop one

The app offers a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription and a one-time purchase. The current price, the length of each period and the length of the free trial are shown on the subscription screen inside the app, before you buy anything.

A subscription renews on its own until you cancel it. It is charged to your store account at confirmation of purchase, and again at each renewal, unless auto-renewal is switched off at least 24 hours before the period ends.

Cancel through the store, not through us. On an iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. On Android: the Play Store app → your profile → Payments and subscriptions → Subscriptions. We cannot cancel it for you, because we never held the payment.

The free trial. If you take a free trial and then buy, the unused part of the trial ends when the purchase starts. Cancelling before the trial ends costs nothing.

The one-time purchase does not renew and there is nothing to cancel. It stays with the store account that bought it.

Refunds are the store’s. Apple and Google both run their own refund process and their decision is theirs. We have no way to issue one.

Price changes

A price can change. An existing subscription keeps its price until the store tells you otherwise and asks you to agree, which is the store’s own process on both platforms. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for.

What the app is not

Confront is not medical or psychological treatment, and it is not a substitute for a doctor, a therapist or a crisis service. It asks you questions and keeps your answers. It does not diagnose anything and it is not monitored by anybody.

If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency service or a crisis line. This app cannot help with that and is not built to.

It is also not financial, legal or career advice. What you do after reading your own answers is your decision and your responsibility.

Your journal is your responsibility to keep

Because there is no account and no copy of your journal on any server, a lost or wiped phone can mean a lost journal. The app offers two ways to prevent that — your phone’s own backup, and a file you export — and Move to a new phone in the app explains both.

We hold no copy, so we cannot restore anything for you. That is the same fact as the privacy promise, seen from the other side.

No warranty, and the limit of what we owe

The app is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be free of faults, that it will suit any particular purpose, or that it will always be available.

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you is limited to what you paid for the app in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here removes a right you have under consumer law where you live, and in some countries those rights cannot be limited at all.

Ending it

You can stop using the app at any time. Uninstalling removes the database with it, and there is no account left behind anywhere.

We may end this licence if these terms are broken — if the app is resold or stripped, for instance. Your own writing is unaffected: it is on your phone.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with it. A change that takes something away from you needs a new version of the app, and installing it is your choice.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to [email protected].