Terms of Use
These Terms of Use (the "Terms") form a binding electronic agreement between you (the "User" or "you") and the operator of needmoretruth.com (the "Operator", "we", "us") and govern your access to and use of the website, its sub-domains, and all related features, content, and functionality (collectively, the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, or by clicking any control marked as acceptance of these Terms, you confirm that you have read and understood these Terms and agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree, you must not access or use the Service.
Last updated: 2026-05-29 · Version: 2026-05-29-v11
1. Definitions
"Service" means the website operated under needmoretruth.com and any related sub-domains, applications, and features. "User", "you", or "your" means any natural person who accesses or uses the Service. "Operator", "we", "us", or "our" means the natural person who operates the Service in a personal, non-commercial capacity. "Member" means a User who has authenticated through a supported OAuth identity provider; "Guest" means a User who has not. "Guest Mode" means the convenience feature that lets a Member submit Content under the same processing rules as a Guest (defined in Section 7). "Content" means any text, link, file, image, code, or other material submitted to the Service. "Privacy Policy" means the document published at /privacy and incorporated into these Terms by reference. "Account" means an authenticated identity created when you sign in via a supported OAuth identity provider.
2. Acceptance and binding effect
These Terms become binding on you when you first access or use the Service, or when you click any control marked as acceptance of these Terms, whichever occurs first. Where the Service requires an explicit click-through acceptance — including the consent gate that precedes sign-in, browsing the community section, posting, commenting, reporting content, or contacting support — that click constitutes a binding electronic acceptance of these Terms and the Privacy Policy as of the version stated on the consent gate. If you do not accept, you may continue to read the home page, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy, but you may not use any other feature of the Service.
3. Eligibility
You represent and warrant that (a) you are at least sixteen (16) years of age and otherwise of the legal age required to enter into a binding agreement under the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside, (b) you are competent to enter into a binding agreement, and (c) you are not barred from receiving the Service under any law applicable to you, including export-control, sanctions, age, and professional-conduct rules. If you access the Service on behalf of an organisation, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind that organisation to these Terms. The minimum age of sixteen is an operator policy set to align with the default age of consent for information-society services under EU/EEA GDPR Article 8; it sits above the fourteen-year floor permitted for personal-data processing under the Republic of Korea Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), and where your local law sets a different age of digital consent that applies to you, the higher of that age or sixteen governs your eligibility. Authentication is delegated exclusively to third-party OAuth providers (GitHub, Google), which apply their own age-verification policies; the Operator does not perform independent age verification and relies on these providers and on your own representation to enforce minimum-age requirements. The Operator does not knowingly permit the Service to be used by anyone below the applicable minimum age and does not seek verifiable parental consent to enrol younger children, because the Service is not directed to children below that age. If you believe that a person below the minimum age has nevertheless accessed the Service, please contact the Operator at [email protected] or through the in-Service Bug & Operations Reports channel so that the relevant data may be deleted without undue delay.
4. Accounts and authentication
Authentication is provided exclusively through third-party OAuth identity providers, currently GitHub and Google. The Service does not collect, store, or process passwords. Only profile fields exposed by the identity provider — such as provider account ID, login name, public display name, avatar URL, and (where exposed) email address — are stored. You are solely responsible for the security of the third-party account you use to sign in and for all activity that occurs under your Account on the Service. When multiple Members would share the same display name, the later-joining Member receives a visible numeric suffix (for example, "name#2") shown in a distinct typographic style so that it cannot be confused with digits that happen to be part of the chosen name itself. The Operator may suspend or terminate your Account where you breach these Terms or where required by law, by giving you reasonable prior notice through the in-Service inbox or, where you have provided one, your sign-in email address. Notice may be omitted only where (i) you are causing material harm to the Service, other Users, or third parties, (ii) you have fundamentally breached these Terms, (iii) immediate action is required by law or to prevent a security incident, or (iv) prior notice would be impossible or impracticable. Termination without cause, where permitted by law for a free non-commercial service, will also be subject to reasonable prior notice except in the circumstances listed above.
5. User-submitted Content
You retain all ownership rights you may have in Content that you submit to the Service. By submitting Content, you grant the Operator a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up licence — sublicensable solely to subprocessors acting on the Operator's behalf for the purpose of operating the Service (for example, content-delivery, hosting, and backup providers), and transferable solely to a successor operator that continues to provide the Service in substantially the same form — to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, distribute, cache, modify (including for formatting, translation, and moderation), create derivative works of, and publish your Content for the purpose of operating, providing, securing, and improving the Service. The licence does not authorise the Operator to use your Content for unrelated commercial purposes, for advertising, or for resale to third parties. This licence terminates when you or the Operator delete the relevant Content from the Service, except to the extent that the Operator must retain residual copies for technical reasons (such as backups, caches, or audit logs) or legal reasons. The Operator has no obligation to host, monitor, edit, or retain any specific Content.
6. Content rules
You must not submit Content that: (a) is unlawful or that promotes, facilitates, or encourages unlawful activity, including the sale of controlled substances, weapons, or unauthorised intrusion or denial-of-service tools; (b) infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right of any person; (c) is defamatory, harassing, hateful, threatening, or invasive of another's privacy; (d) is sexually explicit, sexually exploitative of any person, or depicts a minor in a sexual context; (e) depicts, glorifies, or encourages self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders; (f) plans, threatens, or encourages violence against any identified person or group; (g) contains malware, viruses, or any code intended to damage or disable any system; (h) is designed to harvest personal data or to phish credentials; or (i) violates any third party's intellectual-property or privacy rights. The Operator applies automated content filtering to the more serious categories above; as described in Section 10, the strictness of this filtering may be configured separately for each board, and matched Content may be refused, hidden pending the Operator's review, or flagged for review. The Operator may remove, hide, edit, refuse, or restrict access to any Content at the Operator's sole discretion, with or without notice. The Operator is not a publisher of User-submitted Content and does not endorse or warrant any User-submitted material.
7. Guest Mode for Members
A Member may, at the moment of submitting Content, toggle "submit as Guest". When this toggle is on, the Service processes the submission exactly as if it had originated from a logged-out Guest on the same connection: no link to your Account is stored, the public display name shown is the same daily Guest identifier that a logged-out visitor from your connection would receive, the Guest cooldown applies in place of the Member cooldown, and self-deletion requires the deletion password that you set at the time of submission. This is a convenience feature only. Because logging out and submitting as a Guest already produces an indistinguishable result, the toggle simply removes the need to log out and back in. Any attempt to manipulate the visible discourse by alternating between Member and Guest Mode — including operating multiple effective identities to inflate or suppress engagement signals — is your responsibility under Section 9; the absence of a database link does not absolve you of accountability under these Terms or under applicable law.
8. Reporting Content
Any visitor may report a post or comment that they believe violates these Terms via the in-Service report function attached to the Content. A high volume of reports against a single piece of Content raises the Operator's review priority but does not, on its own, hide or remove the Content; only the Operator's own review may do so. Coordinated or bad-faith reporting intended to suppress lawful Content is itself a violation of these Terms and may result in enforcement action against the reporting User or connection. Copyright owners and other rights holders may submit takedown requests through the Bug & Operations Reports channel; valid requests will be processed within a reasonable time.
9. Prohibited conduct
You must not, and you must not attempt to, and you must not permit any third party to: (a) circumvent, bypass, or interfere with rate limits, anti-spam controls, content fingerprinting, authentication, the human-verification challenge, or access controls of the Service; (b) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or any related system, network, or infrastructure, except as expressly authorised in writing by the Operator; (c) submit automated traffic, scraping, crawling, or bulk requests to the Service, except as expressly authorised; (d) impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation; (e) interfere with any other User's use or enjoyment of the Service; (f) collect, store, transfer, or disclose personal data of other Users or visitors of the Service without their lawful consent; (g) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Service except as permitted by mandatory law; (h) use the Service in any manner that could overload, damage, or impair its operation; (i) operate multiple identities — whether through separate Accounts, alternation between Member and Guest Mode, or other means — to evade access restrictions, inflate engagement signals, or otherwise manipulate the visible discourse; or (j) use Guest Mode or any other feature of the Service to engage in any of the foregoing. Because the Operator processes only the minimum data necessary for safe operation, the Operator may, in some cases, be technically unable to identify the natural person responsible for a violation after the fact. This limitation is an intentional consequence of the data-minimisation design and does not transfer responsibility for your acts from you to the Operator. The Operator will cooperate in good faith with valid lawful requests from competent authorities, within the technical scope of the data actually retained at the time of the request, and will preserve the data it is required to preserve under applicable law.
10. Moderation and enforcement
The Service applies a combination of automated controls (rate limiting per daily IP hash and per Account, request deduplication, automated content filtering for the categories listed in Section 6, the strictness of which the Operator may configure separately for each board and which may refuse a submission, hide it pending review, or flag it for review, and a third-party human-verification challenge for write actions provided by Cloudflare Turnstile) and human review by the Operator. The Operator may apply the following enforcement actions, in any combination and at the Operator's sole discretion: warning, Content hiding, Content deletion, anonymisation of an Account's display in connection with specific Content, an access restriction keyed to the current day's IP hash ("IP ban") which auto-expires when the daily IP-hashing salt rotates (see Section 12 and the Privacy Policy), an Account-level write timeout for a stated duration, and Account suspension or termination, including permanently. All administrator actions are recorded in an internal audit log used only for moderation review. Affected Users may submit one appeal per access restriction through the in-Service form on the access-restriction notice page. This one-appeal limit is without prejudice to any mandatory legal right of review you may have under applicable law (such as the right to obtain human review of a significant automated decision under EU/EEA GDPR Article 22, equivalent rights under PIPA, or analogous protections in other jurisdictions). The Operator is not obligated to respond and may decline to provide reasoned responses where doing so would compromise the integrity of the moderation system, except to the extent applicable law requires the Operator to provide a reasoned response.
11. Content deletion and moderation authority
The Operator retains full authority to delete, hide, or modify any Content at any time, including for reasons of safety, legal compliance, or community standards. Moderation decisions are final as between the User and the Operator, subject only to mandatory legal rights of appeal or review that the User may have under applicable law. Members may delete their own posts and comments at any time from the Service interface. Deletion is permanent and irreversible; the Operator cannot recover deleted Content. Guests, and Members using Guest Mode, must set a deletion password at the time of submission. This password is the sole means of self-deletion and is stored as a one-way cryptographic hash that the Operator cannot reverse. If the password is forgotten, self-deletion is permanently impossible. The Operator does not provide any recovery mechanism for deletion passwords; this absence of recovery is an intentional consequence of the data-minimisation design described in the Privacy Policy, and the responsibility for retaining the password rests with the User. The Operator cannot verify the identity of a User who submitted as a Guest or in Guest Mode. Deletion requests submitted via the Bug & Operations Reports channel will be processed only if the Content violates these Terms or applicable law, as determined solely by the Operator, except where mandatory law (such as the GDPR right to erasure or the PIPA right of deletion) requires deletion regardless of these Terms. Requests to delete Content that does not violate these Terms and is not subject to a mandatory deletion right will be declined. Do not include personal data (real names, addresses, telephone numbers, national identification numbers, financial information, or other sensitive data) in Content submitted as a Guest or in Guest Mode. Such information cannot be guaranteed to be deleted if the deletion password is lost. The Operator is not liable for personal information voluntarily and unnecessarily included in User-submitted Content.
12. Access restrictions
The Operator may restrict access to the Service through the following tiered measures, applied in combination as needed: (a) an "IP ban" keyed to the current day's IP hash, which automatically expires at most twenty-four (24) hours after the most recent rotation of the daily IP-hashing salt; (b) an Account-level write timeout preventing a Member from posting, commenting, or otherwise writing for a stated duration; and (c) Account suspension or termination, which may be permanent. The first measure is short by design: because the Service stores no raw IP address and the daily salt is unrecoverable after rotation, an "IP ban" cannot meaningfully bind any address beyond the current day. This is an intentional consequence of the data-minimisation design described in the Privacy Policy, and the Operator acknowledges that determined attackers will rotate their network paths and so cannot in practice be excluded by IP-level restriction alone. A User affected by an IP ban will see a notice page explaining the approximate time until automatic expiry; that page contains a one-shot form that allows the User to send the Operator a written account of the situation. Because most IP bans expire automatically before they could be reviewed, that form exists to inform future moderation rather than to lift the current restriction. Account-level measures, by contrast, are not affected by salt rotation and may be permanent.
13. Intellectual property
All software, source code, design, branding, logos, layouts, graphics, original written content (other than User-submitted Content), and other materials forming part of the Service are owned by the Operator or licensed to the Operator and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, the Operator grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes. No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. Trademarks, logos, and service marks displayed on the Service may not be used without the prior written consent of the Operator or, where applicable, the relevant third-party rights holder.
14. Third-party services
The Service relies on third-party providers including but not limited to GitHub and Google (authentication), Cloudflare (DNS, edge, TLS termination, tunnelling between the public internet and the origin server, and the Turnstile human-verification challenge presented for write actions), and the operating system, runtime, and database software running on the origin server. The Operator does not control these providers and is not responsible for their availability, policies, performance, or actions. Your interactions with these providers are governed by the providers' own terms of service and privacy policies.
15. Privacy
Your use of the Service is also governed by the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Reading the Privacy Policy is required before granting consent. Capitalised terms used in the Privacy Policy and not otherwise defined there have the meanings given to them in these Terms.
16. Disclaimer of warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, AND THE OPERATOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. THE OPERATOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE FROM HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY CONTENT WILL BE ACCURATE, TIMELY, OR RELIABLE.
17. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE OPERATOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, BUSINESS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE, REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, OR OTHERWISE) ON WHICH THE CLAIM IS BASED AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE OPERATOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE, THE OPERATOR'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY FOR DIRECT DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED ONE UNITED STATES DOLLAR (USD 1.00) OR THE EQUIVALENT IN YOUR LOCAL CURRENCY. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS THE OPERATOR'S LIABILITY FOR: (A) DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY THE OPERATOR'S NEGLIGENCE; (B) THE OPERATOR'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILFUL MISCONDUCT; (C) FRAUD OR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION; OR (D) ANY OTHER LIABILITY THAT APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT TO BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED, INCLUDING MANDATORY CONSUMER-PROTECTION LIABILITY UNDER THE LAWS OF YOUR COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR DAMAGES; IN THOSE JURISDICTIONS THE LIABILITY OF THE OPERATOR IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
18. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Operator and any of the Operator's affiliates, contractors, and service providers from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with: (a) your access to or use of the Service; (b) any Content you submit; (c) any violation of these Terms by you; or (d) any violation by you of any law or any right of any third party.
19. Suspension and termination
The Operator may suspend or terminate your access to the Service in accordance with Section 4 (Accounts and authentication) and Section 10 (Moderation and enforcement). You may stop using the Service at any time. Upon termination, all rights granted to you under these Terms cease immediately. Sections of these Terms which by their nature are intended to survive termination — including ownership, indemnification, disclaimers of warranties, limitation of liability, governing law, and dispute resolution — will so survive.
20. Changes to these Terms
The Operator may amend, modify, or replace these Terms at any time. The current version is identified by the version label and the "last updated" date displayed at the top of this page. When the version changes, you will be required to re-accept the updated Terms before using any feature that requires acceptance. Continued use of the Service after acceptance of an updated version constitutes acceptance of that version.
21. Governing law
These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Korea, without regard to its conflict-of-laws provisions. Where a mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence grants you stronger rights or protection, that mandatory law will apply to that extent.
22. Dispute resolution
The parties will first attempt in good faith to resolve any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms by informal contact through the Support channel. If a dispute is not resolved within sixty (60) days of first contact, the dispute may be brought before the competent courts of the Republic of Korea, whose jurisdiction is non-exclusive: nothing in this section prevents you from bringing proceedings in the courts of your country of residence where mandatory consumer-protection rules of that jurisdiction grant you such a right, and nothing in this section limits any mandatory right you may have to refer the dispute to a competent supervisory authority (such as a data-protection regulator).
23. Severability and entire agreement
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable while preserving its original intent, or, if such modification is not possible, severed from these Terms; in either case the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional notices posted within the Service, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, and understandings, whether written or oral, regarding the same subject matter.
24. Languages and controlling version
These Terms are originally drafted in the English language and the Operator may publish translations (including a Korean translation) for the convenience of readers. Each language version is intended to express the same substantive rights and obligations and is binding on a User who has accepted the Terms in that language. In the event of any genuine discrepancy, ambiguity, or conflict between the English version and any translation, the English version shall prevail and shall be used to interpret and enforce these Terms. The same rule applies to the Privacy Policy. Nothing in this section limits any mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence that requires the Operator to communicate with you, or to enforce certain provisions, in your local language; in such cases, that mandatory law continues to apply notwithstanding this section.
25. No waiver; assignment
Failure or delay by the Operator in enforcing any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of the right to enforce that provision later or to enforce any other provision. You may not assign or transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms without the prior written consent of the Operator. The Operator may assign these Terms without restriction. Any attempted assignment in violation of this section is void.
26. Contact
The Operator provides the Service from the Republic of Korea (대한민국). Questions or notices about these Terms can be sent by email to [email protected], or through the in-Service Support channel, or through the in-Service Bug & Operations Reports channel for technical or operational concerns. The in-Service forms are the preferred channels because they let your request be tracked and handled fairly; the email address above is provided as a direct alternative and as the contact point of the Operator for the purposes of applicable data-protection law. The Operator is a natural person operating the Service in a personal, non-commercial capacity and, consistent with the data-minimisation design of the Service, does not publish a personal legal name, postal address, or business-registration number; the country of establishment and the contact email above are the Operator's disclosed identifying and contact details.