Terms of Service

Last Updated: January 1, 2024

Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to Get Thumbnails ("we," "us," or "our"). By accessing and using the YouTube Thumbnail Downloader and any related services (collectively, the "Service"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all terms, do not use our Service.

We reserve the right to update these terms at any time. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.

Description of Service

Get Thumbnails provides a web-based tool that allows users to extract and download thumbnail images from publicly available YouTube videos. The Service is provided "as is" for personal, educational, and fair-use purposes.

Important: This tool accesses publicly available image URLs from YouTube. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to YouTube LLC or Google LLC.

User Responsibilities

You agree to use the Service responsibly and legally:

  • Legal Use: You will only download thumbnails for content you own, have permission to use, or which falls under "fair use" exceptions like criticism, comment, or research.
  • Respect Copyright: You acknowledge that thumbnail images may be subject to copyright. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use complies with applicable laws.
  • No Abuse: You will not use the Service to spam, harass, or attempt to disrupt its operation.
  • Accurate Information: You will only input valid YouTube video URLs.

Prohibited Uses

You may not use the Service to:

  1. Infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others.
  2. Download thumbnails for commercial redistribution without explicit permission from the copyright holder.
  3. Use thumbnails in defamatory, obscene, or illegal material.
  4. Reverse engineer, scrape, or overload our servers with automated requests.
  5. Misrepresent the ownership or source of downloaded thumbnails.

Intellectual Property Rights

Our Property

The Get Thumbnails website, its design, code, and logo are our intellectual property. You may not copy or reuse them without permission.

YouTube Content

Thumbnail images fetched by the Service are hosted by and are likely the property of the respective video uploaders and/or YouTube/Google. We do not claim any ownership over them. This Service merely provides access to publicly available files.

Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

Service "As Is": The Service is provided free of charge without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including reliability, accuracy, or fitness for a particular purpose.

No Guarantee: We do not guarantee the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will always fetch every available thumbnail resolution.

Limitation of Liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law, Get Thumbnails shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use or inability to use the Service.

Third-Party Services & Links

The Service interacts with and provides links to YouTube. You are subject to YouTube's Terms of Service when using their platform. We are not responsible for their content, policies, or any changes they make that affect our Service's functionality.

Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Service at our sole discretion, without notice, for any conduct we believe violates these Terms or is harmful to other users, us, or third parties.

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us:

Email:
legal@get-thumbnails.com
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