ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
1. Introduction and Scope
- This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) sets out the rules and standards that apply when accessing or using the websites, online video processing tools, software utilities, accounts, and related services provided by Torbisgo Limited (“Torbisgo”, “we”, “our”, or “us”). Our services may include tools for video conversion, video compression, video trimming and cutting, video-to-GIF conversion, and other related digital media processing functions.
- By accessing, browsing, registering for, or using any Torbisgo service, you agree to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you must not access or use our services.
- This policy is intended to protect our users, systems, infrastructure, and services from unlawful, abusive, fraudulent, harmful, or disruptive activity and to help maintain a safe and reliable video processing platform.
2. Permitted Use of Our Services
2.1 Lawful Use
You may use Torbisgo services only for lawful personal or business purposes and in accordance with all laws and regulations applicable to you. You are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary rights, permissions, licences, or other legal authority to upload, process, convert, compress, edit, download, or otherwise use any video, audio, image, or other media file through our services.
2.2 Appropriate Use
Our tools are intended to help users perform legitimate digital media processing tasks, including:
- converting videos between supported formats;
- reducing video file sizes;
- trimming or cutting video content;
- creating GIF files from video content; and
- using other media processing functions that we may make available.
You must not use our services in a way that interferes with their normal operation or negatively affects other users.
3. Prohibited Activities
You must not use, attempt to use, or assist another person in using Torbisgo services for any of the following purposes.
3.1 Illegal or Fraudulent Activities
You must not upload, process, transmit, distribute, or otherwise use content in connection with:
- illegal activities;
- fraud or attempted fraud;
- phishing or impersonation schemes;
- identity theft;
- financial scams;
- unlawful distribution of stolen information; or
- any activity that violates applicable criminal or regulatory laws.
3.2 Copyright and Intellectual Property Infringement
You must not use Torbisgo to upload, convert, compress, edit, reproduce, or distribute videos or other media unless you own the content or otherwise have the necessary legal rights or permission to use it. This includes content protected by copyright, trademark, confidentiality obligations, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You must not use our services to facilitate piracy or the unauthorised copying or distribution of copyrighted movies, television programmes, commercial videos, music, software, or other protected material. UK copyright protections apply to various categories of original works, and unauthorised copying or distribution can constitute infringement.
3.3 Malicious Files and Cybersecurity Abuse
You must not upload, transmit, distribute, or attempt to introduce:
- viruses;
- trojan horses;
- worms;
- ransomware;
- spyware;
- malicious scripts;
- corrupted files intentionally designed to cause harm; or
- any other malicious or destructive software or code.
You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Torbisgo systems, accounts, servers, databases, APIs, networks, or infrastructure. You must also not attempt to probe, scan, test, bypass, or exploit security controls or vulnerabilities without our prior written authorisation. Unauthorised access to computer systems and acts intended to impair computer operations can fall within the UK’s Computer Misuse Act framework.
3.4 Harmful, Abusive, or Prohibited Content
You must not use Torbisgo services to process, create, facilitate, distribute, or promote content that:
- exploits or sexually abuses children;
- contains child sexual abuse material;
- depicts or promotes non-consensual sexual content;
- promotes terrorism or violent extremist activity;
- contains credible threats of violence;
- encourages serious physical harm;
- promotes hatred or violence against individuals or groups;
- is used for harassment, stalking, intimidation, or abuse;
- unlawfully violates another person’s privacy; or
- is otherwise prohibited by applicable law.
We may also restrict the use of our services for pornographic or sexually explicit material where necessary to protect our users, service providers, payment partners, or platform integrity.
3.5 Deceptive or Misleading Media
You must not use our video processing tools as part of fraudulent or deceptive activity. This includes using altered or processed media to impersonate another person, deceive users regarding a person’s identity, facilitate scams, commit fraud, or intentionally misrepresent material facts in an unlawful manner.
3.6 Excessive Automated Use and Service Interference
Unless expressly authorised by Torbisgo, you must not:
- use bots, crawlers, scripts, or automated systems to make excessive requests to our services;
- scrape or harvest information from our website;
- bypass upload, file-size, usage, account, or processing limitations;
- circumvent rate limits or access controls;
- perform denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks;
- deliberately overload our processing infrastructure;
- use multiple accounts to evade restrictions or usage limits; or
- otherwise interfere with the availability, security, or performance of our services.
3.7 Reverse Engineering and Circumvention
Except where expressly permitted by applicable law, you must not attempt to:
- reverse engineer our software or systems;
- copy or reproduce proprietary elements of our services;
- circumvent security or access controls;
- bypass authentication or payment mechanisms;
- obtain unauthorised access to paid functionality; or
- modify or interfere with the normal operation of our website or processing tools.
4. Sanctions and Trade Restrictions
4.1 Compliance
You must not use Torbisgo services where doing so would cause Torbisgo or you to violate applicable economic sanctions, trade restrictions, export controls, or other applicable legal requirements.
4.2 Restricted Persons and Entities
You represent that your use of our services is not prohibited under applicable sanctions laws and that you are not using the services on behalf of a person or organisation where such use would be prohibited. Torbisgo may restrict access where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable sanctions requirements or official sanctions designations. For UK sanctions, the UK government currently uses the UK Sanctions List as the source for UK sanctions designations.
4.3 Suspension or Restriction
Where we reasonably believe that continued access may violate applicable sanctions, trade restrictions, or legal requirements, we may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to our services. Any payments, refunds, or account balances affected by such restrictions will be handled in accordance with applicable law and our relevant payment and refund policies.
5. Enforcement
5.1 Investigation of Potential Violations
Torbisgo does not undertake to review every file processed through our services. However, where we become aware of suspected abuse, receive a valid complaint, identify suspicious activity, or reasonably believe that this policy has been violated, we may investigate the matter as permitted by applicable law.
5.2 Actions We May Take
Depending on the nature and seriousness of the violation, Torbisgo may:
- issue a warning;
- temporarily restrict access to certain services;
- suspend an account;
- permanently terminate an account;
- block abusive devices, accounts, or network activity;
- remove or disable access to prohibited content where applicable;
- restrict further uploads or processing;
- preserve information where required by law;
- cooperate with lawful requests from competent authorities; or
- take other reasonable measures necessary to protect Torbisgo, our users, or third parties.
We may take immediate action without prior notice where reasonably necessary to address security threats, illegal activity, fraud, serious abuse, or risks to our infrastructure.
6. Reporting Abuse or Violations
If you believe that Torbisgo services are being used in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy, or if you wish to report copyright infringement, security concerns, fraud, or other abuse, please contact us.
Company Name: Torbisgo Limited
Support & Compliance Email: [email protected]
Registered Address: 14 Wells View Drive, London, England, BR2 9UL
When submitting a report, please provide enough information for us to identify and evaluate the issue.
7. Changes to This Policy
- Torbisgo Limited may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, security practices, operational requirements, or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- When we make changes, we will publish the revised version on our website and update the “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the services after an updated policy becomes effective will be subject to the revised policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.