Terms of service.

CelebrateThem is operated in Nigeria. When you create an account, publish a tribute, light a candle, send a message, make a payment, or donate to a family, you are agreeing to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service.

We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will put a note on the homepage and email anyone with an account. Meaningful changes come with at least thirty days’ notice.

You need an email address to create an account. You must be at least eighteen years old. Each account belongs to one person; please don’t share login details or pretend to be someone else. Keep your password to yourself.

If someone else uses your account because you left it signed in on a shared computer, that is your responsibility, not ours. Sign out when you are done.

When you create a tribute you are publishing words, photos, and sometimes audio or video about a person who has passed on. You keep every copyright you had before. By publishing, you give us a limited licence to store, display, and serve that content on CelebrateThem for as long as the tribute exists.

You are the one who decides what goes up, and you must have the standing to do so. Either you are family to the person being remembered, or you are acting with the family’s consent. If a family member writes to us asking to change or take down a tribute, we will consider the request in good faith.

Your data lives on Supabase (Postgres and storage). The site itself is served by Vercel. Payment flows run through Paystack. We never see or store your card number.

We sell one-time plans. You pay once, and the tribute stays online. There are no monthly or annual subscriptions and we will not silently re-bill you. All prices are shown in Nigerian Naira before you pay. See the Refunds policy for how to ask for your money back.

If a tribute has a support campaign attached, visitors can donate to the family. The family sets the goal and connects their own bank account through Paystack’s subaccount system; the bulk of every donation lands in that subaccount at the moment of charge and settles to the family’s bank on Paystack’s normal cadence. We retain a small platform fee (currently three per cent of the donation) and the Paystack processing fee is deducted from that split. We do not take a cut of anything outside that fee, and we never hold the family’s funds. If we change the platform fee, we will tell campaign owners at least thirty days before the new rate applies, and the change will not affect campaigns already collecting.

Please don’t impersonate anyone. Please don’t publish anything that was not yours to share. Please don’t use CelebrateThem for hate, harassment, or fundraising for anything other than the family named on the tribute. We will take down tributes that break these rules, and in serious cases close the account that posted them.

You can close your account from the Account tab at any time. When you do, we ask whether to keep your tribute pages online for the family and visitors, or delete them at the same time. If you keep them online, your personal account details come off the page; the tributes stay up. If you choose to delete, the tributes and everything posted on them are removed within thirty days. See the Privacy policy for what happens to your data.

We reserve the right to close accounts that seriously break these terms or upload content we’re required by law to remove. If we do that, we will tell you why, except where doing so would itself break the law.

We take reasonable care with the service, but we don’t guarantee it will be available every minute of every day, and we recommend keeping your own copy of anything you publish that matters to you. To the extent permitted by Nigerian law, we are not responsible for losses that result from things outside our control, lost earnings, or lost data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

You agree to indemnify Celebrate Life Ltd, the company that operates CelebrateThem, against claims, costs, or damages that come from content you uploaded which you didn’t have the right to share, or from any misrepresentation you made on the service. In plain language: if you publish a photo you didn’t own or a story that defames someone, and that lands us in court, the consequences are on you, not on us.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Any dispute that cannot be resolved by a calm conversation will be settled in the courts of Osun State, Nigeria.

If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. These terms, together with the Privacy policy and the Refunds policy, are the whole agreement between you and Celebrate Life Ltd about the service. We are not responsible for failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including natural disasters, outages at our hosting or payment providers, government action, civil unrest, or public-health emergencies.