Terms of Use

By accessing or using refind you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use refind.

You must be at least 13 years old to use refind, and old enough to agree to these Terms where you live. You sign in with a Google account. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Do not share your account or create accounts for other people without their consent.

refind is early-stage software. Features, limits, and plans may change, be added, or be removed. refind may be unavailable or slow, it may give incorrect results, and data may be lost at any time. Do not rely on refind where accuracy or availability is critical.

refind offers a Free plan and may offer paid plans. Each plan's features and usage limits, such as how much content you can add, are shown on the pricing page and may change. A plan marked “coming soon” is not yet for sale. Joining its waitlist does not commit you or us to anything.

Paid plans are billed in advance, monthly or annually, through our payment processor. A subscription renews automatically until you cancel. You can cancel at any time by contacting us. Your plan then stays active until the end of the period you have paid for and does not renew. Payments are non-refundable, including for partial periods or unused features, except where the law requires a refund.

If we change a plan's price, existing subscribers keep the price they signed up at unless we give at least 30 days' notice before their next renewal. If a payment fails, you keep your plan for a short grace period. After that your account moves to the Free plan, and the subscription may be cancelled if payment is not recovered. Prices exclude applicable taxes unless stated.

Depending on your plan, you can add public YouTube channels, playlists, or videos, or request that they be added. A request, or a request's ranking, is not an obligation and does not guarantee that anything will be added, when it will be added, or how much of a channel's history will be included. Plan limits apply to everything you add.

You may use refind to:

• Explore, search, and ask questions about public YouTube content for research, learning, and personal or professional use.
• Organise content into collections and notebooks and add your own annotations.
• Share answers, notebooks, and pages using refind's built-in sharing features.

You may not use refind to:

• Submit or distribute content that you do not have the right to use.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with refind's security, plan limits, or rate limits.
• Scrape, bulk-download, or programmatically access refind other than through its normal user interface. refind does not offer a public API.
• Use bots or other automation to submit content, requests, or questions.
• Break the law or violate YouTube's Terms of Service.
• Circumvent YouTube's access controls or geo-restrictions, or use refind to redistribute a creator's content.
• Impersonate another person, or create accounts on someone else's behalf without their consent.
• Create or share links designed to produce harmful, defamatory, misleading, or illegal AI-generated content about any person or entity.
• Create or distribute content that misrepresents what a creator has said.

You keep ownership of what you create on refind: your notes, annotations, notebooks, and questions. You give refind a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, process, and display that content as needed to run refind. This includes showing anything you choose to publish or share to the people you share it with. A share link is public to anyone who has it. Questions may be used, in reworded form and without being attributed to you, as suggested questions. You are responsible for what you submit.

refind uses AI to create answers, summaries, and other content from videos. AI-generated content is a derivative summary, not a direct quote. It may be inaccurate, incomplete, or misrepresent the original video. Always check important points against the source video. It is not professional, legal, medical, or financial advice. It does not represent the views of the video's creator, and creators do not endorse it.

refind processes publicly available YouTube content and uses YouTube API Services. All video content belongs to its copyright holders. refind does not host or redistribute video files. refind is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by YouTube or Google LLC. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.

By using refind you also agree to follow YouTube's Terms of Service. In particular, do not submit private content or content you are not authorised to access, and do not reproduce transcripts in a way that infringes a creator's rights.

If you are a creator and want your channel removed from refind, or you believe refind has processed content that infringes your copyright, see our DMCA & removal policy or use the contact form.

We handle takedown and opt-out requests as described in that policy. We do not control when search engines update their results.

refind may remove any content, share link, or channel at its sole discretion and without notice.

refind is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. This includes, among others, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, refind and its operators accept no liability of any kind for any loss or damage arising from your use of refind, or from being unable to use it. This includes direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, and punitive damages, and lost data or profits. If you are dissatisfied with refind, your sole remedy is to stop using it.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless refind and its operators, contributors, and affiliates. This covers any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from: (a) your use of refind; (b) your violation of these Terms or any law; or (c) any content you submit or share through refind.

You can stop using refind at any time and request deletion of your account through the contact form. If you cancel a subscription, the billing terms above apply. We may suspend or terminate access to refind at any time, for example for a breach of these Terms, and may stop offering refind entirely.

We may update these Terms as refind evolves. We will change the date above when we do and, for material changes, give notice on the site. If you continue to use refind after a change is posted, you accept the updated Terms.

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