Terms of Use

Your use of the BadTube Service implies your acceptance of these Terms of Use. We ask that You read them carefully.

Description of the BadTube service

BadTube (“BadTube”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is an original, video hosting website that enables users to access, view, upload, store, and share videos. The BadTube Service is made up of the BadTube website, any BadTube products, content, channels, data feeds, Ad services, and functionality (“BadTube Service”).

By accessing and/or using the BadTube Service, without being logged into a BadTube Account, You (“You” or “Your” as applicable) will be hereinafter a “Viewer.” As a Viewer, You will only have the ability to access, view, or share videos available on the BadTube Service, but will not be able to benefit from all the other features available on the BadTube Service. A “BadTube Account” means the video content storage space on the BadTube Service which is dedicated to a User (as defined below) on the BadTube Service that can be created by signing up for a BadTube Account via https://badtube.org.uk

If You want to be able to upload videos and access some other features of the BadTube Service, You will need to first create a BadTube Account and have Your email address validated at which point You will be a “User”.

Information provided by You to create Your BadTube Account must be accurate and complete. In order for BadTube to verify that the email address You provided is valid, You will receive an email from BadTube asking You to validate Your email address.

By creating a BadTube Account, You agree that You alone will be responsible (to BadTub and to others) for all activity that occurs under Your BadTube Account. The user ID(Email) and password which are necessary to access Your BadTube Account and the features associated with it are Your sole responsibility and it is Your obligation to keep them confidential. You agree to immediately notify BadTube of any unauthorized use of Your User ID, password, or any other breach of Your BadTube Account security.

As a User, You will also have the ability to access some additional features from the BadTube Service and will have the opportunity to monetize Your Content uploaded on Your BadTube Account.

If You are a free User or a Pro, You may notably upload video files (that must be compliant with the Terms) on the BadTube Service. Any and all elements posted through Your BadTube Account on the BadTube Service are deemed to be “Your Content”.

As a free User or a Pro, You are expected to be an active part of the BadTube community. As such, You also acknowledge that if Your BadTube Account remains inactive for a significant period of time, BadTube reserves the right to delete, reclaim or remove Your BadTube Account in its sole discretion with or without prior notice to You.

Any and all individuals or entities accessing the BadTube Service may be referred to hereafter as a “Visitor,” regardless of their status (i.e. be they a Viewer, Account Applicant, free User, or Pro).

Acceptance of these terms and conditions

Whether You are a Viewer, an Account Applicant, a free User, or a Pro, either an individual or an entity, You signify Your express and unconditional agreement to these terms of use, and all other policies of BadTube, including but not limited to the BadTube privacy and cookie policies, as accessible at any time from the BadTube website, By using the BadTube Service, You acknowledge that You have read and understood the Terms and agree that BadTube will treat Your use of the BadTube Service as acceptance of the Terms.

BadTube may, in its sole discretion, modify the Terms from time to time, and You agree to be bound by such modifications. Although we may notify You when major changes are made to the Terms, You should periodically review the most up-to-date version which is always accessible from the BadTube website. If You do not agree to the modified Terms or cannot comply with the modified Terms, Your only recourse is to stop using the BadTube Service. Your continued use of the BadTube Service after the effective date of the modified Terms will constitute Your acceptance of the modified Terms.

You shall not use the BadTube Service if You are not of legal age to form a binding contract with BadTube, or You are a person who is either barred or otherwise legally prohibited from receiving or using the BadTube Service.

If You are not an individual (i.e., a corporation or other legal entity), You represent to BadTube that You have all necessary corporate or equivalent authority and power to agree to the Terms which You agree shall be binding on the corporation, partnership, association or other entity in whose name You are using or accessing the BadTube Service.

Your intellectual property rights

For the entire period during which Your Content is hosted on the BadTube Service, You grant BadTube the non-exclusive worldwide rights (unless You geo-block certain territories through Your BadTube Account), to reproduce, represent, stream, replay (including offline display without permanent download), exploit, exhibit, show, market, distribute and to technically modify and compress Your Content as is strictly necessary for the purposes of the viewing and/or streaming of Your Content on the BadTube Service.

By making Your Content accessible on the BadTube Service, You agree to allow any Visitors of the BadTube Service to view and share Your Content through the Video Player on or through any declination of the BadTube Service, as accessible (online or offline) via any current or future device capable of distributing the BadTube Service by any means of access, including but not restricted to computers, smartphones, tablets, TV devices, IPTV platforms and/or game consoles free-of-charge. Furthermore, You acknowledge that Your Content and/or any videos uploaded onto the BadTube Service when on the BadTube website (https://badtube.org.uk) and/or when embedded elsewhere may include advertising.

Despite this allowance, Your Content shall always remain Your property. Please note that due to the nature of the Internet and digital media, data transmitted – including Your Content – cannot be protected against risks of misappropriation and/or piracy, for which BadTube shall not be liable. You are responsible for taking all appropriate steps to protect Your data, where applicable.

License & our intellectual property rights

We grant You a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable right to access and use the BadTube Service, which is conditioned on Your compliance with the Terms.

The material (other than Your Content and the Third-Party Video(s)) included on or accessible through the BadTube Service, such as text, graphics, logos, names, designations, button icons, features, functionalities, images, audio clips, information, data collected from the BadTube Service, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds, and other material, is the exclusive property of BadTube and its licensors, and is protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights and subject to applicable laws and regulations.

BadTube Material may not be downloaded, copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written consent of BadTube or BadTube’s licensors. You agree to not use or exploit the BadTube Material in any manner inconsistent with any of the rights granted or restrictions set forth herein, including, without limitation, prohibitions on downloading, redistribution, alteration, deletion, and deactivation of any content protection mechanisms. You are not allowed to modify, enhance, edit, translate, adapt, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based upon or otherwise alter in part or in full any BadTube Material.

All rights not expressly granted in the Terms are reserved to BadTube and its licensors.

Our liability as a hosting service provider

In its capacity as a web hosting service provider, BadTube is under no legal obligation to monitor content uploaded on the BadTube Service, nor obligated to actively seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal content but shall forthwith remove or disable access from its BadTube Service to any infringing content once having been notified of its existence. Furthermore, BadTube does not and has no legal obligation to, review or inspect content for possible illegality or infringement prior to its being viewable on the BadTube website.

You acknowledge and agree that the owners of the Video(s) and BadTube in accordance with the terms, the BadTube team may from time to time remove BadTube users’ content (including Your Content) from the BadTube Service without notice. You shall nonetheless remain fully liable for Your Content.

You agree that Your use of the BadTube Service shall be at Your sole risk and liability. In this regard, You are solely responsible for Your use of the BadTube Service and more specifically for Your Content (including any personal data that may be incorporated therein) and the protection of Your hardware against any virus or interruption.

You acknowledge and agree that the BadTube Service, in whole or in part (including, without limitation, the look and feel, the thematic channels, and the functionality of the BadTube Service), on and through which Your Content will be distributed, as well as any Third-Party Video(s) are provided “AS IS” and “as available” without warranties of any kind from BadTube or any owners of the Third-Party Video(s). Neither BadTube nor any owners of the Third-Party Video(s) warrant that the Third-Party Video(s) and the BadTube Service, the BadTube Material or any other content, information, materials, or products included on or otherwise made available to You through the BadTube Service are free of viruses or other harmful components. BadTube may enhance, modify and update the BadTube Service at its sole discretion. For the sake of clarity, You shall not be entitled to request any modification to the BadTube Service.

BadTube shall not be held responsible in any case for any malfunctions, inherent in the nature of the Internet, in the access and/or the use of the BadTube Service, or any default of its obligations caused by force majeure or an unintentional cause. Unless otherwise stated herein, BadTube does not grant You any guarantee of any kind, whether expressly or implicitly, in any area, including and in particular any guarantee of fitness for a particular purpose. Furthermore, BadTube is not responsible for any data related to Third-Party Video(s) provided by their relevant owners, such as the video title, description, category, etc.

Nothing herein shall exclude or limit BadTube’s liability for losses that may not be lawfully excluded or limited by applicable law. Subject to this overall provision above, BadTube shall not be liable for:

(a) any indirect or consequential losses which may be incurred by You, including (i) any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly); (ii) any loss of goodwill or business reputation; (iii) any loss of opportunity; or (iv) any loss of data suffered; or

(b) any loss or damage which may be incurred as a result of (i) any reliance placed by You on the completeness, accuracy, or existence of any advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between You and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on the BadTube Service; (ii) any changes which BadTube may make to the BadTube Service, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the BadTube Service (or any of its features); (iii) the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through Your use of the BadTube Service; (iv) Your failure to provide BadTube with accurate account information; or (v) Your failure to keep Your password or Your accounts details secure and confidential.

The BadTube Service may contain links to websites operated by other entities (a “Linked Site“). If You decide to visit any Linked Site, You do so at Your own risk and it is Your responsibility to take all protective measures to guard against viruses or other destructive elements. BadTube has no responsibility to You with respect to any Linked Site, and no Linked Site regardless of the linking form (ex., hotlinks, hypertext links, IMG links) is maintained, controlled, endorsed, monitored, or otherwise governed by BadTube.

The limitations on BadTube’s liability defined in this Section shall apply whether or not BadTube has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.

Some jurisdictions limit or do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or damages, so the above disclaimer may not apply to the extent such jurisdiction’s law applies to the Terms.

Prohibited contents & restrictions

Do NOT upload content that falls into any of the following Prohibited Content categories.

• Sexually Explicit or Child Abuse Content
• Dangerous, Harmful, Violent, or Illegal Actions in Content
• Hateful, Defamatory, Libelous, or Excessively Vulgar Speech in Content
• Violent, Graphic, or Repulsive Content
• Harassment, Threats, and Personal Information in Content
• Spam, Fake Engagement, Scam, Disinformation, or Deceptive Content
• Copyright-Infringing Content

BadTube restrictions:

(i) do not violate any applicable laws or regulations and/or display, incite, or promote illegal activities.

(ii) do not contain child pornography, sexual abuse, or any type of sexually explicit content.

(iii) do not infringe intellectual property rights of any third party (including but not limited to sound, music, excerpts from any animated or non-animated television shows, short, medium-length and/or feature-length films, brand, logo, advertisement, or any other material that You have not created Yourself or for which You do not have the necessary clearances and permissions from third-party rights owners or copyright royalty collection organizations).

(iv) do not violate:

Human rights (including incitement to hatred on the basis of the origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability of an individual or group of individuals, denying the commission of any crimes against humanity or acts that violate human dignity).

Individual rights (in particular by spreading defamatory, slanderous, or offensive material in the form of threats, intimidation, bullying, and harassment).

Publicity and privacy rights (in particular impersonation of an individual or a legal person).

Personal information rights.

(v) do not support or promote:

any organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence. This includes organizations or individuals involved in terrorism, organized hatred against other groups of individuals, human trafficking, and organized criminality.

the commission of violent extremist or terrorist acts.

violence and all other dangerous activities.

(vi) do not contain verifiably false or misleading information which:

is created, presented, and disseminated for economic gain or to intentionally deceive the public; and/or

may cause public harm, or is intended as threatening to democratic political and policymaking processes as well as to the public good such as to public health, to the environment, or to the security of persons.

(vii) are not spam or any other deceptive practices designed to abuse or mislead a Visitor (this includes excessively lengthy content, or content that forces unwanted and/or unsolicited actions, whether automated or manual, which falsely increase the number of views, impression or clicks associated with Your Content).

Failure to comply with the Terms may result in (i) Your Content being removed and/or (ii) Your BadTube account being deactivated. BadTube reserves the right to report any violation of these provisions to applicable legal authorities and You may be personally liable to criminal sanctions applicable to the content in question, in addition to any applicable civil damages depending on the contentious nature of the content.

BadTube Service is not designed as a video backup service, You are responsible for taking all necessary precautions to safeguard Your video files.

Updated June 4th 2024