Terms of Service

Allgemeine Nutzungs- und Geschäftsbedingungen. Last updated: 26 October 2026.

1. Who we are, what these terms cover

ClipBack (clipback.tv) is operated by the person named in the Impressum ("we"). These terms govern your use of ClipBack, with or without an account. ClipBack is free; there is no paid plan. They are written for consumers; if you use ClipBack for business purposes the same terms apply unless stated otherwise.

Language. The contract language is English. The Impressum carries a German heading because German law prescribes it.

2. What ClipBack does

ClipBack lets you mark a start and end point in a video hosted elsewhere and share a link that plays only that segment. ClipBack never downloads, stores, re-encodes or re-serves any video. A clip is a set of timestamps plus a reference to the original video, which always streams from its source platform through that platform's own embedded player, subject to that platform's terms.

Because the video is not ours, we cannot guarantee that any clip keeps working. If the source video is deleted, made private, or restricted by its platform or uploader, the clip stops playing. That is outside our control and is not a defect of ClipBack.

Signed in, you can also gather your saved clips into playlists: ordered lists that play the clips one after another. A playlist is private. It has no public link, only you can open it, and it can only hold clips from your own library. Like a clip, it stores no video: it is a name and the order of the clips in it, so deleting a playlist never deletes the clips.

3. Accounts

You sign in with a Google account; ClipBack has no passwords of its own. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your Google account secure. You may delete your account at any time from Settings, which permanently removes your clips and playlists.

You must be at least 16 to create an account.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

We may lock or remove clips and suspend or close accounts that breach this section. How we handle reports and what we tell you if we act against your content is set out in section 5.

5. Reporting content, notice and action, and what we tell you (DSA)

Clips are pointers to videos hosted on the source platform; the video itself is not stored or served by ClipBack. What users provide to ClipBack — the title of a clip and the segment it selects — is published under the clip's link. The following describes how we handle unlawful content and content that breaches these terms, in the sense of Articles 14, 16 and 17 of the Digital Services Act (EU) 2022/2065.

How to report. If you believe a clip infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, email [email protected] (our point of contact for users and authorities, in English or German) with: the link of the clip, an explanation of why you consider the content unlawful or in breach of these terms, your name and email address, and a statement that you believe in good faith that your report is accurate and complete. We confirm receipt without undue delay, assess every report diligently and without discrimination, act on it in a timely manner, and tell you our decision and the reasons for it by email. Reports are handled by a person, not an automated system. If your complaint is about the video itself, it must go to the platform hosting it; we can only act on the clip.

What we may do. We may lock a clip (it stays in the library but cannot be played or embedded), delete it, or, in the case of repeated or serious breaches, suspend or close the account. We act only on the basis of these terms or the law, and we choose the least intrusive measure that addresses the problem.

What we tell the clip's creator. If we restrict a clip or an account created by a signed-in user, we send that user a statement of reasons to the account's email address: what we did, which facts and which provision of these terms or of the law it rests on, whether the action followed a report, and that they can contest it by replying to that email. We answer such a reply within 14 days. Anonymous clips carry no contact address, so their creator cannot be notified.

Misuse. Reports that are manifestly unfounded and repeated may be disregarded after a warning.

6. Availability, changes to the service, and defects

We aim to keep ClipBack available around the clock, but as a one-person service it cannot promise uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, failures of the hosting infrastructure, and changes on the source platform can interrupt it.

7. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Produkthaftungsgesetz, and for any guarantee we have expressly given.

For slight negligence we are liable only for the breach of an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely (a cardinal obligation), and then only for the damage that is foreseeable and typical for this kind of contract. Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. This applies also to the personal liability of our agents.

ClipBack is provided without charge; we are therefore liable only for intent and gross negligence and for the cases in the first paragraph. We are not responsible for the availability, content or behaviour of the source platform or of the videos clips point to.

8. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms where a change in the law, a court decision, a change on the source platform, a new feature or a gap in these terms requires it, provided the change is reasonable for you. We notify account holders of a proposed change by email at least six weeks before it takes effect, explaining what changes and why. If you do not object within that period, the change is agreed, and the notice will say so in plain terms. If you object, the previous terms continue to apply and either side may end the use of the service; you can delete your account at any time.

9. Governing law, dispute resolution

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer resident in another EU or EEA state, you keep the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.

We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG). Complaints about content are handled as described in section 5; for anything else, email us and we will try to resolve it directly.

Should a provision of these terms be invalid, the rest remains in force; the statutory rules take the place of the invalid provision.