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This describes what the service actually records. Where a claim is made here, it is because the implementation behaves that way — the two are kept in step deliberately.
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Using this site requires no registration, no email address and no sign-in. Because there is no account, there is no user record, no history attached to you, and nothing to delete when you stop using it.
When you submit a post link, it is validated and normalized — tracking parameters removed, host standardized — and one row is written containing: the normalized link, the post id, whether the lookup succeeded, an error category if it did not, how long it took, which media provider answered, and a short summary of what was found (how many files, and their qualities).
The normalized link is erased automatically 24 hours after it is written. What remains is an anonymous row used for reliability statistics and nothing else. The row also carries a keyed hash of the link, which lets us recognise a repeat lookup without holding the link itself; a hash cannot be turned back into a URL.
We do not record who submitted a link. There is no field for it.
We do not store IP addresses in readable form. Rate limiting needs to distinguish one visitor from another, so the address is passed through a keyed hash and only that result is kept, together with a request count and a time window. The hash is not reversible and is not usable to identify you.
These rate-limit records are removed once they are old enough to be irrelevant, within twenty-four hours.
Our web server also keeps ordinary access logs for a short period for security and diagnostics, as essentially every web server does. Application logs are written deliberately narrow: a request id, the outcome, a duration and an error category. Submitted URLs are not written to them.
The site sets no cookies. There is no session cookie, no preference cookie and no advertising or analytics cookie, which is also why you are not being asked to dismiss a consent banner.
Your browser may keep ordinary cached copies of pages and images. That is a browser function, not something we set or can read.
We count events — a lookup started, a lookup succeeded, a lookup failed and why — as plain totals with no request context attached. There is no visitor identifier, no session, and nothing that could be traced to a person or a device.
No third-party analytics service is loaded at present. If one is added, this section will be updated before it goes live, and it will be chosen to work without cookies or cross-site tracking.
This matters and is easy to miss: when you tap a download button, the file is fetched by your browser directly from wherever the media is hosted. It does not pass through us. That means the host of the media — the platform's content network — sees a request from your device and therefore your IP address, exactly as it would if you had watched the video on the platform.
We have no control over what that third party logs. Their handling of it is governed by their own policy, not ours.
If you use the contact form, we store the name, email address, subject and message you provide, so that we can reply. A keyed hash of your IP address is stored alongside it purely to limit spam.
Those messages are kept while the matter is open and for a reasonable period afterwards, then deleted. They are not added to any mailing list, and they are not used for anything other than answering you.
No advertising network is integrated at the time of writing. Space is reserved in the layout for future advertising; while none is running, nothing is loaded into it and no third-party script executes.
When advertising is introduced, this section will say which provider is used and what it collects, before it is switched on.
Nobody. We do not sell, rent or share what we store. The only outside parties involved in normal operation are the media service that tells us which files a post contains, and the host your browser downloads those files from.
This is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, which includes children, because we collect almost nothing from anyone.
Data protection law gives you rights of access, correction and erasure over personal data about you. In practice we hold almost none: without an account, and with links erased on a timer and addresses stored only as hashes, there is usually nothing to retrieve.
The exception is a message you have sent through the contact form. Ask at [email protected] and we will send you a copy or delete it.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Changes that affect what is collected will be made here before they take effect in the service.