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Terms of Use

Termsof Use

The rules for using Clipferry, written to be read. The short version: only download what you have the right to, use the service fairly, and remember that you are responsible for how you use what you save.

Last updated 11 November 2026

About these Terms

These Terms of Use apply to the Clipferry website and the download service it offers (together, the "Service"). "Clipferry", "we", "us" and "our" refer to the operator of the Service under the Clipferry name. "You" means the person using the Service.

By using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it. Our Privacy Policy and Copyright Policy explain how we handle information and rights complaints, and form part of these Terms.

Who can use Clipferry

You may use the Service only if you are old enough to enter into a binding agreement where you live, or if a parent or guardian has agreed to these Terms for you where the law allows that.

The Service is offered for lawful, personal and noncommercial use. Reselling it, offering it as part of another product, or accessing it through scripts or integrations requires our written permission first.

What the service does

When you paste a link, Clipferry asks YouTube for publicly available information about that one video, shows you the formats it can prepare, and, when you pick one, prepares a copy on our servers and hands it to your browser. Files are kept in temporary storage and deleted automatically, usually 30 minutes after they are ready.

  • We work only with public videos that anyone can watch without signing in.
  • The formats, resolutions and file sizes on offer depend on what YouTube makes available, and sizes are estimates.
  • We do not host, publish or keep a library of videos, and we cannot recover a file after it has been deleted.
  • Clipferry is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by YouTube or Google.

Your responsibility

You may only download and use material that you have a lawful basis to use: for example content you created yourself, content whose owner has given you permission, content published under a licence that allows it, or a use that the law where you live clearly permits.

YouTube's own terms may restrict downloading, and you are responsible for respecting them. We do not check whether a particular download or use is lawful, and the fact that the Service lets you start a download does not mean that we have approved it or that it is permitted.

What is not allowed

When using the Service you must not:

  • download, copy or share material in a way that infringes copyright or any other right;
  • try to get around DRM, paywalls, age gates, membership restrictions, sign-in requirements or any other access control;
  • attempt to fetch private, unlisted, paid or members-only content;
  • use the Service for unlawful, harmful, abusive or deceptive material;
  • use bots, scrapers, automated tools or many parallel requests, or try to avoid our usage limits;
  • probe, scan, overload or interfere with our servers, or try to gain access to anything you are not meant to reach;
  • copy, resell or frame the Service, or present it as your own;
  • impersonate another person or misrepresent your connection to a rights holder.

Permission to process your request

You keep whatever rights you already have in the material you ask us to process. By submitting a link, you allow us to fetch, convert, store temporarily and deliver that material only as far as needed to fulfil your request, and to keep short-lived technical copies of video information so the same video does not have to be fetched again within a short time.

If you hold rights in a video and want it blocked on Clipferry, please follow the steps on our Copyright page. We may block, restrict or stop processing any video at our discretion. We cannot remove videos from YouTube itself or delete copies already saved on someone's device.

Our name, design and software

The Clipferry name, logo, design, text and software belong to us or our licensors. These Terms do not give you any right to use them other than to use the Service as intended. YouTube and Google are trademarks of Google LLC, and other names belong to their respective owners. Mentioning them does not imply any partnership or endorsement.

Third-party services and links

The Service relies on third parties, such as YouTube as the source of videos and the providers that host and run our servers. We are not responsible for their content, availability or policies. Links to other websites are provided for convenience only. Never send us passwords, payment details or other sensitive information: the Service does not need them.

Limits, availability and changes

To keep the Service fast and fair, we set limits, such as one download at a time per visitor, a number of downloads and link checks per hour, a maximum video length and a maximum file size. We may change these limits, change or remove features, or pause the Service, for example for maintenance, security or because a source stops working. Where the law requires notice of a change, we will give it.

Restricting access

We may limit or block access to the Service, or to particular videos, if we reasonably believe that these Terms are being broken, that the Service or other people are at risk, or that the law requires it. If you think we restricted your access by mistake, contact us with the link you used, the approximate time and a short explanation, and we will take another look.

No guarantees

The Service is provided free of charge, "as is" and "as available". We do our best to keep it working, but we do not promise that it will always be available, error-free, or able to process any particular video, or that files will meet a particular expectation of quality. This does not affect any rights you have under the law that cannot be excluded.

Responsibility and liability

You are responsible for how you use the Service and the files you download, including any claim made against you because of that use. We are not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable, for business losses, or for losses caused by your breach of these Terms or by misuse of downloaded material.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, such as liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Concerns and applicable law

If something goes wrong, we would like to hear about it first through our Contact page, so we can try to put it right. This is not a condition for exercising any legal right.

The law that applies to these Terms, and the courts that can hear a dispute about them, are determined by the applicable legal rules. These Terms do not require arbitration and do not take away any rights you have as a consumer under the law of the place where you live.

Changes and interpretation

We may update these Terms as the Service changes. The date at the top of this page shows when they last changed, and important changes will be highlighted on the site. If a part of these Terms turns out to be unenforceable, it applies only as far as the law allows and the rest stays in effect.

Contact

Questions about these Terms are welcome through our Contact page. For rights complaints, please use the Copyright page, and for questions about personal information, see our Privacy Policy.