Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to uCONFESS, accessible at https://uconfess.net (the “Website”).

We respect the privacy of visitors and people who submit confessions and comments. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, how it is used, how it may be shared, how long it may be retained and what privacy choices and rights may be available to you.

This policy applies to information processed through the Website, including information submitted through confession forms, comments, contact forms, reporting tools and other Website features.

Important: uCONFESS is designed to support anonymous submissions, but it does not guarantee complete anonymity. Technical information may be processed by our hosting provider, security services and other service providers.

By using the Website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires consent, we will request that consent separately.

2. Who is responsible for your information?

The organization or individual operating uCONFESS is responsible for determining how and why personal information is processed through the Website.

Website: https://uconfess.net

Privacy contact: uconfessconfessions@gmail.com

Operator / legal name: [Insert the legal name of the individual or business operating uCONFESS]

Business or mailing address: [Insert an appropriate business contact address, if legally required]

For privacy-related questions or requests, contact us using the email address above.

3. Information we may collect

The information collected depends on how you use the Website.

A. Confessions and submissions

When you submit a confession, we may collect and store:

The title and text of your confession.
The category selected.
The date and time of submission.
Any other information you voluntarily include.
Technical information associated with the submission.

Confessions may be published publicly if approved or eligible for publication under our moderation settings.

Do not include names, addresses, phone numbers, financial details, medical records or other sensitive information about yourself or another person unless there is a lawful and necessary reason to do so.

B. Comments

When you submit a comment, we may collect:

The comment text.
The date and time of submission.
The post or page to which the comment relates.
Technical information associated with the submission.

Comments may be held for moderation before publication.

C. Technical and security information

When you visit the Website, we or our service providers may automatically collect technical information, including:

IP address.
Browser type and version.
Device and operating system information.
Language and general technical settings.
Date and time of access.
Referring and exit pages.
Requested pages and basic usage information.
Security, spam-prevention and diagnostic information.

This information may be processed for website operation, troubleshooting, security, fraud prevention, abuse detection and legal compliance.

D. Contact and support requests

If you contact us, we may collect your email address, name if provided, message contents, attachments and information needed to respond to your request.

We may retain communications to respond to inquiries, manage complaints, process removal requests and maintain appropriate records.

4. How we use information

We may use information for the following purposes:

Operating and maintaining the Website.
Receiving, storing and displaying confessions and comments.
Reviewing and moderating submissions.
Detecting spam, abuse, harassment and prohibited material.
Protecting visitors, authors and the Website.
Responding to reports, privacy requests and complaints.
Preventing fraud and unauthorized activity.
Maintaining technical logs and backups.
Understanding general Website usage and performance.
Displaying advertisements where permitted.
Meeting legal obligations and responding to lawful requests.

We do not intend to use submitted confessions to identify their authors or create public profiles.

We do not sell personal information in exchange for money. However, certain advertising, analytics or technology integrations may involve the sharing or processing of information by third parties as described in this policy and subject to applicable law.

5. AI-assisted content moderation

uCONFESS uses automated moderation technology to help screen confessions and comments for potentially harmful or prohibited content.

This process may use the OpenAI API and its moderation service.

What information may be sent?

The text of a confession or comment may be sent to the AI moderation service for analysis.

The information may include the submitted title and text, or other relevant text required by the moderation system.

We do not intentionally send unnecessary account information, contact details or a user’s IP address as part of the moderation text itself. However, technical information may be processed separately by our hosting provider and service providers.

Why do we use AI moderation?

AI-assisted screening helps identify potential:

Sexually explicit content.
Child exploitation or sexualization.
Hate speech and discrimination.
Threats, violence and harassment.
Self-harm or suicide-related content.
Other content that may violate our Posting Rules.

What happens after screening?

Depending on the moderation settings:

Submissions assessed as not flagged may be eligible for automatic publication.
Submissions flagged by the moderation system are held for manual review.
Submissions that cannot be screened because of a technical error are not automatically approved.
Comments are held for moderation rather than automatically approved.

A result indicating that content was not flagged does not guarantee that the content is lawful, safe, appropriate or compliant with Google AdSense policies.

AI systems may produce false positives and false negatives. uCONFESS may independently reject or remove content regardless of the automated result.

Third-party AI processing

Text submitted for moderation is processed by the third-party AI service under its applicable API terms and data-handling policies.

According to OpenAI’s published API data controls, API content is not used to train or improve its models by default. OpenAI may retain abuse-monitoring logs containing customer content for up to 30 days by default, subject to applicable exceptions and approved retention controls.

For more information, consult OpenAI’s API data controls:

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/your-data

The use of AI moderation does not mean that uCONFESS or the AI provider has independently verified the truth of a confession.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

The Website may use cookies, local storage, pixels, scripts and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used by WordPress, our hosting provider, security services, analytics providers and advertising partners.

Cookies may fall into the following categories:

A. Strictly necessary cookies

These may be required for:

Website security.
Basic website functionality.
Remembering necessary preferences.
Preventing abuse.
Maintaining technical sessions.

These technologies may be used where permitted without consent.

B. Functional cookies

These may remember optional settings and preferences to improve the Website experience.

Where required by law, we will request consent before using them.

C. Analytics and performance cookies

If enabled, these may help us understand how visitors use the Website, which pages are visited and how the Website performs.

Analytics technologies will be activated according to the user’s applicable consent choices.

D. Advertising cookies and technologies

If advertising is enabled, advertising providers such as Google may use cookies, identifiers or similar technologies to:

Display advertisements.
Measure advertising performance.
Limit repeated advertisements.
Detect invalid traffic.
Personalize advertisements where permitted and consented to.

Third-party advertising providers may collect or receive technical information, including IP addresses and device or browser information, when their advertising technology operates on the Website.

Your cookie choices

Where consent is legally required, non-essential cookies and similar technologies will not be activated before consent is obtained.

You may be able to:

Accept all optional cookies.
Reject non-essential cookies.
Select individual cookie categories.
Change or withdraw your choices later through the cookie settings tool.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before withdrawal.

Browser settings may also allow you to block or delete cookies, although some Website functions may not work as intended.

Cookie details: The actual cookies, providers, purposes and retention periods must be listed in the Website’s cookie consent tool or cookie declaration. This list should be kept accurate as plugins and advertising services change.

7. Advertising and Google AdSense

uCONFESS may use Google AdSense or other advertising providers to display advertisements.

If advertising is enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure and personalize advertisements, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.

Depending on your location and the choices you make, advertisements may be personalized, non-personalized or limited.

Google may process information such as:

IP address.
Browser and device information.
Advertising identifiers.
Cookie information.
Information about interactions with advertisements.
Information needed to detect invalid traffic and measure performance.

For more information about Google’s advertising practices, visit:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

For Google’s privacy information, visit:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

You may also be able to manage advertising personalization through Google’s advertising settings:

https://adssettings.google.com/

uCONFESS does not control all data processing performed by third-party advertising providers. Their own privacy policies and terms also apply.

8. Third-party service providers

We may use third-party service providers to operate, secure, moderate and improve the Website.

Depending on the services actually enabled, these providers may include:

Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
WordPress and website maintenance services.
Security and spam-prevention providers.
AI moderation providers, including OpenAI.
Analytics providers.
Advertising providers, including Google.
Email and communication providers.
Backup and technical support providers.

These providers may process information on our behalf or for their own purposes, depending on their role and applicable agreements.

We aim to use service providers that apply appropriate privacy and security safeguards.

The actual service providers used by uCONFESS should be identified in this policy or an accompanying cookie and service-provider list.

9. International data transfers

Some service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country in which you live or submit content.

Those countries may have different privacy laws and data protection standards.

Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

10. How long information is retained

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods may vary by information type.

Published confessions and comments: Retained while published or until removed, subject to backups and legitimate retention needs.
Unpublished submissions: Retained for moderation, administration and security purposes for a limited period.
Moderation records: Retained as needed to manage review decisions, repeat abuse and security.
Technical logs: Retained according to hosting, security and operational requirements.
Contact requests: Retained as necessary to respond and maintain appropriate records.
Backups: May retain deleted information for a limited period until the backup cycle expires.

We should establish and follow specific retention periods rather than keeping personal information indefinitely.

Removing a confession from public view does not necessarily mean that every backup, technical record or third-party copy is immediately erased.

11. How we protect information

We use reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration and disclosure.

No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure.

We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we take reasonable steps to protect information and respond to suspected security incidents.

12. Children’s privacy

uCONFESS is intended for adults aged 18 and older.

We do not knowingly permit children under 18 to submit confessions or comments.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children for participation in the Website.

If we become aware that a child has submitted personal information or content, we may remove the content and take appropriate steps under applicable law.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information or has been placed at risk through the Website, contact us immediately at:

uconfessconfessions@gmail.com

13. Your privacy rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These may include:

Requesting access to personal information we hold about you.
Requesting correction of inaccurate information.
Requesting deletion of personal information.
Requesting restrictions on certain processing.
Objecting to certain uses of personal information.
Requesting a copy of information in a portable format.
Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
Complaining to an applicable privacy regulator.

These rights may be subject to legal exceptions and limitations.

To make a request, contact:

uconfessconfessions@gmail.com

Please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. We may need to verify your identity or connection to the information before taking action.

Because confessions are designed to be anonymous, we may not always be able to identify which submission belongs to a particular person without additional information.

14. European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland

Where applicable, we process personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, applicable national data protection laws and relevant electronic privacy and cookie requirements.

Depending on the circumstances, our legal bases for processing may include:

Consent.
Legitimate interests, where those interests are not overridden by individual rights.
Compliance with legal obligations.
Performance of a contract or steps requested before entering into a contract.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

Where required, we will provide information about data transfers, retention, recipients and your rights.

For non-essential cookies and similar technologies, we will obtain consent before activation where legally required.

15. Canada and other applicable privacy laws

Where applicable, we handle personal information in accordance with Canadian privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and applicable provincial privacy legislation.

Depending on the circumstances and where users are located, other privacy laws may apply.

We aim to provide meaningful information about the collection, use and disclosure of personal information and provide appropriate ways to exercise privacy rights.

16. Do Not Track and browser preferences

Some browsers provide Do Not Track or similar privacy settings.

There is no universal standard for responding to all such signals. We will respect legally recognized privacy signals where required by applicable law and where our systems support them.

Cookie preferences should be managed through the Website’s cookie settings tool where available.

17. External links

The Website may contain links to third-party websites.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content or security of external websites.

When visiting another website, review its privacy policy and terms.

18. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as our Website, services, advertising arrangements, moderation tools and legal obligations change.

The updated policy will be published on this page with a revised date.

Where required by law, we will provide notice or request additional consent for material changes.

19. Contact us

For privacy questions, access requests, correction requests, deletion requests or concerns about the handling of personal information, contact:

Email: uconfessconfessions@gmail.com

Website: https://uconfess.net/contact-us/