Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

Welcome to Transcriptly (“Service”, “Website”, “we”, or “us”). By accessing our website, extracting transcripts, registering an account, or saving digital books, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”) and our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you must discontinue your use of Transcriptly immediately.

2. Description of the Service

Transcriptly provides an online utility designed to:

• Extract publicly accessible closed captions and subtitles from YouTube video URLs provided by the user.
• Reassemble fragmented subtitle snippets into readable, coherent text paragraphs with natural punctuation.
• Provide aligned bilingual and translated views for educational, research, and accessibility purposes.
• Enable registered users to save transcripts as digital books in their private library and read them page-by-page.
• Export transcript data in standard formats (TXT, JSON, SRT, and PDF).

4. Acceptable Use and Restrictions

When utilizing Transcriptly, you agree that you will not:

• Use the Service to violate any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
• Attempt to bypass rate limits, server security controls, or authentication mechanisms.
• Engage in automated scraping or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that overburden our infrastructure.
• Submit malicious URLs or attempt to inject harmful code into our parsing or database engines.
• Use transcripts to harass, defame, misrepresent, or infringe upon the rights of third parties.

5. User Accounts and Library Security

To use the personal digital library and reader features, you may register an account:

• You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during registration.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your login credentials and maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
• You are responsible for all activities that occur under your account.
• We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate our Acceptable Use policies or engage in abusive automated queries.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Transcriptly, its operators, and contributors shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, data, or goodwill arising out of or related to your use of or inability to use the Service.

8. Third-Party Links and Advertising

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites (such as YouTube and GitHub) or display third-party advertisements (such as Google AdSense). We do not control or endorse the content, policies, or practices of any third-party websites or advertisers, and you access them at your own risk.

9. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. When updates are published, the revised date at the top will be updated. Your continued use of the Website after modifications constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.