Terms of Service
Last updated: 2026-10-01
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Nabby (the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. What this is
Nabby is a general-purpose, open-source archival utility that uses yt-dlp to fetch publicly accessible media from supported websites and deliver it to the requesting user. The Service is stateless and acts as a conduit: it does not host, index, catalog, store long-term, verify, promote, or endorse any content retrieved through it.
2. Intended uses (acceptable use)
Nabby is a dual-use tool with substantial non-infringing purposes. Intended uses include, without limitation:
- Personal archival — backing up media you created or that you own rights to.
- Journalism and research — preserving public statements, news footage, or primary sources for reporting, academic study, or civic documentation.
- Educational use — downloading lectures, tutorials, or openly licensed content for study.
- Accessibility — converting media to formats or codecs required by assistive technologies, or caching for offline access.
- Fair use / fair dealing — commentary, criticism, parody, quotation, and other uses recognized under applicable copyright law.
- Content portability — exporting your own posts from a platform before leaving it, as supported by many platforms' own data-export policies.
- Link-rot prevention — preserving material that may be deleted, restricted, or taken offline.
Nabby is designed and operated to support these uses. The Service does not solicit, encourage, induce, or profit from infringing use.
3. User responsibility
You are solely responsible for how you use the Service. In particular:
- You are responsible for ensuring that any download you perform complies with applicable law in your jurisdiction, including copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, and computer-misuse law.
- You are responsible for respecting the terms of service of the source sites you retrieve media from.
- You retain full liability for any content you download, store, redistribute, or make further use of.
- Fair use, fair dealing, personal archival exceptions, and similar doctrines vary by jurisdiction. We do not advise you on their application. If you are unsure whether a specific use is lawful, do not proceed.
4. Prohibited uses
You must not use the Service to:
- Infringe copyright, trademark, publicity rights, moral rights, trade-secret rights, or any other third-party rights.
- Download, generate, store, or distribute child sexual abuse material (CSAM), non-consensual intimate imagery, or any content that sexualizes minors.
- Harass, dox, stalk, threaten, or target any person or protected group.
- Circumvent paywalls, authentication, access controls, geographic restrictions, or digital rights management (DRM) technologies on content that is not publicly available.
- Conduct mass scraping, bulk re-distribution, or commercial redistribution of material you do not have rights to.
- Interfere with, overload, or disrupt the Service, its infrastructure, or any linked source site.
- Use automated systems (bots, scripts, scrapers) in a manner that exceeds reasonable individual human use.
- Reverse-engineer, probe, or exploit vulnerabilities in the Service outside a coordinated-disclosure process.
- Impersonate any person, entity, or affiliation.
- Violate any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
5. Age restriction
You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of digital consent in your country, whichever is higher, to use the Service. If you are under 18, you represent that your parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf. The Service is not directed at and must not be used by children under the applicable minimum age.
6. No warranty
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. We expressly disclaim all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, accuracy, availability, uninterrupted operation, and freedom from error, bugs, or harmful components. Supported sites change their APIs constantly; downloads may fail, be incomplete, be corrupted, or return the wrong media; the Service may be unavailable without notice. You use the Service entirely at your own risk.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the operators, contributors, hosts, or affiliates of the Service be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the Service, regardless of the legal theory and even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Our aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or related to the Service shall not exceed fifty euros (€50) or the total amount you have paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, whichever is greater. Because the Service is provided free of charge, this amount will in most cases be €50.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. In those jurisdictions, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.
8. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the operators, contributors, hosts, and affiliates of the Service from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or third-party right; (d) any content you download, store, redistribute, or otherwise handle through the Service. We reserve the right to assume exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which case you agree to cooperate.
9. DMCA and takedowns
We respond to valid takedown notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act and equivalent processes under EU law. See our DMCA page for the full procedure. Users who are the subject of repeat infringement notices will have their access to the Service terminated.
10. Service changes and termination
We may at any time, with or without notice and for any reason, modify, suspend, discontinue, rate-limit, or terminate all or part of the Service. We may block individual users, IP addresses, user agents, source domains, or ranges thereof at our sole discretion, with no obligation to explain, warn, or restore access. These Terms survive termination with respect to provisions that by their nature should survive (including Sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13).
11. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to them or the Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Slovenia, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. The courts of Ljubljana, Slovenia shall have exclusive jurisdiction, except that this does not deprive consumers in the European Union of the protection afforded to them by mandatory provisions of the law of their country of residence.
12. Severability and entire agreement
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and DMCA Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the operators of the Service regarding its subject matter and supersede all prior or contemporaneous understandings, representations, and agreements, whether written or oral.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to do so later.
13. Export controls and sanctions
You represent and warrant that: (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a comprehensive EU or US government embargo, or that has been designated by the EU or US government as a "terrorist supporting" country; (b) you are not listed on any EU or US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; and (c) you will not use the Service in violation of any applicable export-control or sanctions laws.
14. Advertising and third-party content
The Service is funded in part by third-party advertising. By using the Service you acknowledge that pages may display advertisements, sponsored content, and links to third-party sites. We do not control, endorse, or guarantee any advertised product, offer, or claim; your dealings with any advertiser are solely between you and that advertiser. We are not responsible for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of such dealings. See the Privacy Policy for information about data our ad partners may collect and how to opt out.
15. Open source and self-hosting
The Nabby software is released under an open-source license. If you want full control over the Service, you may run your own instance. These Terms apply only to this hosted instance operated by us; a self-hosted instance is governed by the terms you choose to apply.
16. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If a change is material, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where practicable, post a notice on the Service for at least 14 days before the change takes effect. Continued use of the Service after a change constitutes acceptance.
17. Contact
This document is written in plain language where possible and is intended to be understood by its users. It is not legal advice. If you require legal advice, consult a qualified lawyer in your jurisdiction.