Last updated 25 June 2026
These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of the Beacon Co-Parenting App ("the app", "we", "us"), a service that helps separated parents and guardians in Ireland coordinate messages, a shared calendar, child handovers, shared expenses and important documents. By creating an account and ticking "I have read and agree", you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you may not use the app.
You must be at least 18 years old and be a parent or legal guardian of the child or children you coordinate care for. The app is intended for use by adults; children do not hold accounts.
Messages between co-parents form a shared record that may be relied on for important family matters and, where relevant, in legal proceedings. For this reason messages cannot be deleted by anyone — not by either parent and not by our staff. Please consider this before sending a message. Our moderation team may flag or annotate messages for safety and oversight purposes.
The safety and welfare of children is our priority. To help confirm that the adults using the app are who they say they are, every parent must verify their identity with a photo of an official ID. Your ID is stored privately and is visible only to you and our safeguarding team — never to your co-parent.
We may review, retain, suspend access to, or report content where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect a child or to comply with the law. Information about children is entered by their parents solely to coordinate care and is treated as confidential.
Every tool in the app is free to use, with no subscription. The paid items are the Court-Ready Record — a one-off purchase at the price shown in the app at the time of purchase — and an optional one-off top-up pack of extra general moderator contacts beyond the free monthly one (contacts about a child's welfare or safety are always free). Payments are processed securely by Stripe; we do not store your card details. If you hold a legacy subscription from an earlier version of the service, it continues on its existing terms and renews automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time, and you can permanently close your account from Settings → Sign-in & security → Delete account, which also stops future billing. Except where required by law, payments already made are non-refundable.
We process your personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Irish data-protection law. Full details of what we collect, why, how long we keep it, who we share it with, and your rights (including access, correction, export, erasure and the right to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission) are set out in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
We use only the cookies that are strictly necessary to run the app — principally a secure session cookie that keeps you signed in. We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies, and we do not sell your data. Because these cookies are essential to providing the service, the app cannot function without them, and we do not require your consent to use them (and show no cookie consent banner).
We aim to keep the app available and reliable, but we provide it on an "as is" and "as available" basis and cannot guarantee uninterrupted access. We may update, suspend or withdraw features, and we may change these Terms from time to time. When we make a material change, we will ask you to read and accept the updated Terms the next time you use the app.
We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, misuse the app, or where necessary to protect another user or a child. You may stop using the app and delete your account at any time. Certain shared records are retained after deletion as described in our Privacy Policy.
The app — including its software, source code, design, layout, text, graphics, and the "Beacon Co-Parenting App" name and logo — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to use the app to coordinate care for your own children. We reserve all other rights.
You agree that you will not, and will not permit anyone else to:
Breach of this section is a serious breach of these Terms and may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account, in addition to any other remedies available to us in law.
The app is a coordination tool and is not a substitute for legal, medical or professional advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for decisions you make based on information stored in the app. Nothing in these Terms limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the courts of Ireland have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
For any question about these Terms, email support@beaconparenting.ie, or write to us at Beacon Co-Parenting App, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland.