Copyright and DMCA
Last updated: 21 September 2026
If you are here because someone used Downaro with a link you own, skip to Send a copyright notice. If you use the tool yourself, read the short section on what you are allowed to paste. The rest of this page is the unglamorous part: what we store, what we will never be able to delete for you on Instagram or TikTok, and how a real notice should look.
Who this page is for
Two groups land here, and they need different things.
Rights holders and agents. You found a Downaro URL, or you found a public Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Reddit, or YouTube link that someone pasted into our tool. You want that path reviewed. Use the notice section. Do not send a password, a login cookie, or a demand that we “hack the post down.”
People who use Downaro. You still own the risk of what you choose to save. A green download button is not a licence. If the clip is not yours and you do not have permission, do not paste the link. The terms say the same thing in fewer words.
What Downaro does with a link
Downaro is a public-link helper. You paste a URL. Our server checks that the host is one we allow, then looks for media that page already advertises to a logged-out visitor. When a file is there, we show it. When the platform only shows a login wall, a preview, or nothing useful, we say so.
That is a narrower job than most “video downloader” pages pretend to do. We do not sign into your account. We do not ask for an Instagram or TikTok password. We do not walk around a paywall or a DRM lock. If a post is private in the app and public nowhere, it will fail here too.
The homepage tool and the platform pages — Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Reddit, and YouTube — all follow that same rule.
What we do not host
There is no public media library on downaro.com. There is no search box for other people’s Reels. There is no account folder where yesterday’s files sit waiting for strangers.
A file that ends up in your Downloads folder after you pick a quality is a file you asked for in that session. We did not publish it as a Downaro original, and we do not keep a browseable copy for the next visitor. Hosting logs and short-lived rate-limit files are a different matter; those exist so the site does not get flooded. They are not a catalogue of videos.
If you are filling a takedown form that asks “where is the infringing file hosted?”, the honest answer is usually: on the platform that already published the post. Downaro is a helper in front of that public URL, not a second YouTube.
If you paste a URL
You may use Downaro for media you own or already have permission to keep. That includes a creator backing up their own public post, a team saving an asset they cleared, or someone storing a clip they were told they could keep offline.
It does not include “I liked this song on TikTok and I want a clean MP4.” It does not include a private Story, a paid Facebook library, or a YouTube video the owner marked as not for download. We will refuse a lot of those automatically. Some will still resolve because the platform itself advertised a public file. Resolving is not the same as permission.
You are responsible for copyright, privacy, and the terms of the site you copied the link from. If a notice later arrives and we disable a path, that is a decision about our site. It is not a court deciding you were right or wrong.
Names and logos
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Meta, X, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, and Google are trademarks of their owners. The marks on our platform cards are there so you can tell one tool from another. They do not mean those companies built, funded, or approved Downaro.
The rounded “D” and the word Downaro are our brand. Do not scrape the site and rebrand it as an official saver for any of the platforms above.
Send a copyright notice
Email hello@downaro.com with the subject line Copyright notice. Use that subject. It keeps the message out of the ordinary product inbox.
A useful notice is boring and complete. A username and a feeling that something is yours is not enough. We need enough detail to find the exact path and to know you are allowed to speak for the work.
What to put in the email
- Your name, organization if you have one, and a working email we can reply to.
- A description of the copyrighted work. A title, a date, and a URL on the original platform help more than a paragraph of anger.
- The exact Downaro URL if you have one, and the third-party URL that was pasted — the Instagram Reel, the TikTok, the Facebook share, the X post, and so on.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information is accurate, and that you are the owner or an authorized agent. If you are writing under U.S. law, say that under penalty of perjury.
- Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name at the end is enough if that is how you sign mail.
If you represent a company, say so. If you already filed a notice with Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, say that too. It does not replace a notice to us, but it tells us the post may already be gone on the source.
If you are sending a U.S. DMCA notice
Include the statutory elements in 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We are not your lawyer. If you do not know whether DMCA applies to your situation, get advice before you send a sworn statement. Misrepresentation can carry legal consequences. That runs both ways: a fake notice is not a shortcut, and a fake counter-notice is not a shortcut either.
You can also use the contact form for a first ping, but a formal notice belongs in email so the attachments and the wording stay in one thread.
What happens after we read it
We read complete notices as they arrive. A message with a name, a work, and a URL gets looked at. A message that only says “steal my video” sits until you send the rest.
When the report is clear, we can review the path, disable a specific abuse route on our side, and keep whatever logs still exist for that period. We aim to look at a complete notice within a few business days. That is an aim, not a courtroom deadline. Weekends and holidays slow us down like they slow everyone else.
We may write back and ask for a clearer URL. We may tell you the link already fails because the platform took the post down. We may tell you the URL is not on Downaro at all.
What we cannot do
We cannot delete a video from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Pinterest, Reddit, or YouTube. Those companies run their own report flows. If the file still plays on their site for a logged-out visitor, it will keep existing there until they act.
We cannot invent a user account to suspend. Downaro does not have member profiles. We work with the URL, the host, and the technical traces we still have — not a folder with someone’s real name on it.
We cannot promise that a file already saved on someone else’s phone will vanish. Once a person downloads a public file to their device, that copy is on their disk. Our job is the helper on downaro.com, not a remote wipe.
We also cannot accept a notice that asks us to block an entire platform because one post annoyed you. Instagram as a whole is not an infringing URL.
If you think a notice was wrong
If we disabled a path after a notice and you believe the use was allowed, write to the same address with the subject Counter-notice. Include your contact details, the URL, and why you think the material should be restored.
We will not automatically put a path back. We will not referee a fight between you and the rights holder. If the law in your country has a formal counter-notice process, follow that process and say so in the mail. Silence from us for a day is not permission to keep pasting the same link.
Repeat misuse
If the same URL keeps coming through after we have already refused it, we can keep refusing it. If a pattern looks like scanning, flooding, or trying to walk around a block, we can rate-limit or shut that pattern down. That is a safety measure for the site, described in the privacy policy as technical logs and short-lived limits. It is not a public shaming list.
Photos and short videos
The same rules apply to photos. A public TikTok photo post, a Facebook share that already shows images to a logged-out visitor, an X media tweet, or a Pinterest pin is still someone else’s work if it is not yours. Saving every slide in an album does not make you the owner. A YouTube Short is still a YouTube video.
If you are a photographer or a small brand, send the notice the same way. Tell us it is a still, not a clip, and give us the public URL. We do not need a watermark lecture. We need the link.
Related pages
Product questions that are not a rights notice go to Contact. The short version of who we are is on About. If a download landed in Files on iPhone instead of Photos, that is a Safari habit, not a copyright issue — use the iPhone guide.
Users remain responsible for what they choose to save. See the terms.