These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and the operator of DownWitch ("DownWitch", "we", "us") governing your use of the DownWitch website and downloader (the "Service"). By using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service.

1. What the Service is

DownWitch is a free tool that resolves publicly available Twitch clips, highlights and past broadcasts into MP4 files you can save. It reads only what an anonymous visitor could already load, and it does not decrypt, unlock or otherwise bypass any access control, subscription or paywall.

We are not a host. We store no video library and offer no search or catalogue of content. Every download originates from Twitch's own servers in response to a link you supply.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live. If you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms for it.

3. Acceptable use

You may only download content you own, content licensed for your use, or content you have the copyright holder's permission to download. You are solely responsible for what you download and what you subsequently do with it.

You agree not to use the Service to:

infringe copyright, trademark or any other intellectual-property right;
access subscriber-only, private or otherwise restricted content;
circumvent a subscription, paywall or technical protection measure;
re-upload a creator's work as your own, or monetise it without permission;
violate any person's privacy or publicity rights;
harass, defame or create misleading edits of a person;
breach Twitch's Terms of Service or any law that applies to you;
scrape, automate, rate-abuse, overload or otherwise interfere with the Service or the infrastructure behind it.

Twitch's own terms place limits on copying content from its platform. Complying with them is your responsibility, and nothing in these Terms overrides them or grants you any right Twitch has not granted.

4. Creator rights

The videos you access belong to the streamers who made them, and usually contain third-party material too — games, music, artwork and other people on stream. Downloading a clean file gives you no licence to republish, edit, or monetise someone else's work.

If you are a creator and you would rather your content were not downloaded, note that DownWitch only reaches what Twitch already serves publicly. Disabling VOD archiving, or making a video subscriber-only, removes it from reach entirely. We also honour removal requests under section 7.

5. Availability and changes

The Service is provided free of charge and without any uptime commitment. We may change, limit or discontinue any part of it at any time. Twitch may also change how its platform works, which can break extraction without warning and outside our control.

6. No affiliation with Twitch

DownWitch is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to Twitch Interactive, Inc. or Amazon.com, Inc. "Twitch" is a trademark of Twitch Interactive, Inc., used here descriptively to identify the platform the Service works with, in the way nominative fair use permits.

7. Copyright complaints and removal requests

We respect copyright and respond to properly made complaints. Because we host no content, there is rarely anything for us to take down — but we can and will block specific videos, channels or users from being processed by the Service.

To make a complaint, email [email protected] with:

your name and contact details;
identification of the work you say is infringed;
the specific Twitch URL or channel concerned;
a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law;
a statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them;
your physical or electronic signature.

We aim to acknowledge complaints within five business days. Knowingly false complaints may carry legal consequences for the sender.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or able to process any particular link.

Nothing here excludes any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and nothing affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for any loss of data, profits, goodwill or opportunity, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service, or from any content you download through it.

Because the Service is free, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us (which is nothing) or USD 50.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against any claim, demand, loss or expense, including reasonable legal fees, arising from your use of the Service in breach of these Terms or of any third party's rights — including any claim brought by a copyright holder over content you downloaded or republished.

11. Suspension

We may block access to the Service, without notice, where we reasonably believe it is being used in breach of these Terms, in a way that endangers the Service, or unlawfully. Since there are no accounts, this normally means technical rate limiting or blocking rather than closing anything.

12. Advertising and third-party links

The Service is funded by advertising, and pages may contain ads or links to sites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content or practices. How advertising cookies work is set out in our Privacy Policy.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "last updated" date above reflects the current version, and continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the revised Terms.

14. General

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force and the provision is applied as narrowly as needed to make it valid. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. You may not assign them; we may assign them as part of a transfer of the Service.

15. Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]
Copyright complaints: [email protected]
Or use the contact page.