Terms of Service

1. Who you're agreeing with

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Queri K.K., a company organized under the laws of Japan ("we," "us," "our"). Commit is a product of Queri Labs and is powered by the Queri Platform. The Terms govern your use of the Commit mobile application and the commit.queriapp.com website (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. The point of the Service — read this one

Commit is a platform for delayed, irreversible publishing. You accept that:

• Sealed means sealed. Once you seal a post, direct message, or letter, you cannot edit it, and you cannot delete it. It will be delivered to the audience you chose at the time you chose.
• Cancelling has a price and leaves a mark. The only way to stop delivery is to cancel and incur the cancellation price you set when sealing. The item's content is then permanently hidden, but a redacted receipt — the fact you cancelled, and the amount — remains visible to the original audience and counts toward your visible totals (e.g., the "Class of Fail" board).
• Witnesses see it coming. Before delivery, your audience can see that something sealed is coming, its kind, its countdown, and your cancellation price — and can react and comment. They can never see the content early; no payment or feature reveals sealed content before its time.
• Delivered content stays. Arrived posts remain on your record. There is no unsend.

If any of this is unacceptable to you, do not seal the item. Think before you seal.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (or the higher minimum age required where you live) and legally capable of entering into these Terms. If you are under the age of majority, you confirm a parent or guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf.

4. Your account

You are responsible for your account and everything sealed from it. Keep your password secure; sign-up currently requires only a username and password, so a lost password may not be recoverable. Handles and display names must not impersonate others or infringe rights. You may not sell, transfer, or share your account.

5. The commit mechanic in detail

• Sealing. When you seal an item you choose its audience (your circle for posts; a recipient for DMs and letters), its delivery time (subject to product minimums), and your cancellation price within the limits offered in-app.
• Delivery. We deliver sealed items on a schedule with reasonable technical tolerance (delivery is timer-driven and may occur within a short window around the scheduled time). Arriving is free.
• Cancellation. Cancelling before delivery incurs your self-set price. If you sealed the item with the optional price-doubling add-on, cancelling within the final five minutes before delivery incurs double your price. Without the add-on, your price never changes. The add-on is called "Double Down" in the app and on the site.
• Receipts. Cancelled items leave a permanent redacted receipt visible to the original audience, showing the cancellation and its amount. Cancelled DMs and letters are hidden from their recipient, but your own record still reflects the cancellation.
• Instant messages. Chat threads also support ordinary instant messages outside the commit mechanic; these are plain messages with no timer, no price, and no receipt.
• Previews. Any "pay to preview" prompt is a curiosity experiment: it never reveals content and never charges anyone; it records only that you tapped yes.

6. Payments

If real payments launch in the future: cancellation charges will be processed by a third-party payment processor at the moment you confirm a cancellation; you authorize the charge by confirming; charges are final and non-refundable once the cancellation takes effect, except where required by law. We will provide notice and update these Terms before enabling real charges.

7. Your content and license to us

You own the content you create. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, adapt (for technical display), transmit, and display your content solely to operate, provide, and improve the Service — including continuing to display delivered content and cancellation receipts to their audience as described in Section 2. This license lasts as long as your content remains on the Service. You represent that you have all rights needed to post what you post.

8. Prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• Post content that is illegal, infringing, defamatory, harassing, threatening, or that sexualizes minors — or use the delay mechanic to schedule such content;
• Use the Service to threaten, blackmail, extort, or coordinate harm (the irreversibility of the mechanic is not an excuse — you chose to seal it);
• Impersonate any person, misrepresent affiliation, or access another person's account;
• Probe, disrupt, reverse engineer, scrape at scale, or overload the Service, or circumvent its security or its delivery/cancellation mechanics;
• Use the Service for spam or unsolicited commercial content.

9. Reporting, moderation, and the one exception to "no delete"

Anyone in a sealed item's audience can report it, and any user can report delivered content or accounts. Reported pending items may be paused (their timer stops and they are hidden) while a human reviews them. After review, we may restore an item (its countdown resumes with the time it had left), remove it, or remove the account. We may also remove content or suspend accounts without a report where necessary for legal compliance or user safety. Moderation removal is the one way content leaves the record without a cancellation receipt.

10. Third-party services

The Service depends on third-party providers (including Apple's app distribution and push notifications, and the cloud providers described in the Privacy Policy). Your use of the app is also subject to the terms of the platform you installed it from (e.g., Apple's standard EULA).

11. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, and branding ("Commit," the Commit wordmark, "Queri," "Queri Labs," and the Queri Platform), belongs to us and our licensors. These Terms grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app for its intended purpose. No other rights are granted.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may request account deletion as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms, create risk for other users or us, or where required by law. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 6, 7, 13–16) survive termination.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that delivery will occur at an exact instant, that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that content other users seal is accurate or lawful. You alone are responsible for what you choose to seal, knowing it cannot be taken back.

14. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, goodwill, or reputational harm (including harm resulting from content you sealed and could not retract), arising out of or relating to the Service. Our aggregate liability for all claims will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you actually paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) USD 100.

15. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from your content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of another person's rights.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Subject to any mandatory consumer protections where you live, the Tokyo District Court has exclusive jurisdiction as the court of first instance over disputes arising from these Terms or the Service. Before filing, you agree to try to resolve any dispute with us informally by contacting hello@sayitpostitcommitit.com.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, provide notice in the app. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept them. If you do not accept, stop using the Service.

18. Miscellaneous

These Terms (with the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

19. Contact

Queri K.K. — Commit team: hello@sayitpostitcommitit.com.
Commit is a product of Queri Labs, powered by the Queri Platform.