Terms of Service

These terms cover use of Energixer: the API, the demo sandbox, the console and this website. Using any of them means agreeing to them.

Who runs this

Energixer is a personal project run by one person. There is no company behind it, no support desk, and nothing for sale — just an inbox: [email protected].

What the service does

You send us video through the API; we store it, transcode it into adaptive renditions, and serve it back for playback. Your backend holds one API key and hands single-video upload tokens to your users' devices, so your key never ships inside a client application.

Free, and as-is

The service is free. There is nothing to buy, no subscription, no advertising, and no plan to make money from it.

That cuts both ways, so it is worth being blunt: it is provided as-is, with no warranties and no service level agreement. It is run by one person alongside everything else in their life. It may be slow, it may be down, and it may lose data in an incident. Keep your own copy of anything you would miss.

The sandbox is temporary by design

The demo mints a throwaway key with no signup. Everything in it is subject to:

• three videos per day per IP address;
• a watermark burned into every rendition;
• deletion after 24 hours, along with the session that made it;
• the same unguessable-but-public playback URLs as everything else.

The sandbox is for evaluating the service. Do not put anything you need to keep, or anything you would mind a stranger watching, into it.

Your content stays yours

You keep every right you have in what you upload. By uploading, you grant us the licence we need to actually run the service — to store, transcode, cache and deliver your video, for as long as you host it with us, and to hand it to a worker for encoding (see below). If you ask for a transcript, that licence extends to transcribing the audio of the video you asked about, and to storing and serving the transcript with it. Nothing else: we do not use your content to train anything, and we do not reuse it.

What you are responsible for

• Having the rights to what you upload, including from your own users.
• Your end users. If you run an app on top of Energixer, their content is your responsibility, and they are your users, not ours.
• Your API key. It authenticates as you. It is shown exactly once, we store only a hash, and rotation exists for when one leaks — use it.
• Your playback URLs. They are unguessable but unauthenticated: anyone holding one can watch. Treat them accordingly.

What you may not do

• Upload or distribute unlawful content. Child sexual abuse material will be removed and reported to the authorities, and the account terminated.
• Upload content you do not have the rights to.
• Use the service to attack, defraud or harass anyone, or to distribute malware.
• Attempt to reach another customer's data, or to circumvent quotas, rate limits or the isolation between domains.
• Resell raw capacity in a way that makes you an unattributed intermediary for abuse you will not act on.

Who encodes your video

I do, on machines I run. No third party has been issued a worker credential. The software would allow it — workers pull from an instance-wide queue — and the Privacy Policy explains what that would mean; the commitment here is that it does not happen without that page changing first.

Some of those machines are rented rather than owned: during a backlog, extra workers start automatically on servers rented from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and stop when it clears. They are still my workers running my software under my credentials — but the hardware is theirs, and both are US companies. The Privacy Policy sets out what that means for your video.

Quotas and limits

Every domain has limits — per-video size and duration, daily upload volume, storage, and how many videos it can encode at once — plus rate limits on the API. They are enforced, they can change, and a rejection tells you which one fired rather than failing vaguely. Limits are not a promise of capacity below them.

Suspension and termination

I may suspend or terminate access for abuse, unlawful content, or use that threatens the service for everyone else — and, since this is a free service run by one person, for use so heavy that it stops being one. You can stop at any time and delete your videos through the API or the console. On termination your content is deleted from the live service; backups age out on the schedule in the Privacy Policy.

Non-affiliation

Google, and the names of any other products referenced in our documentation, belong to their owners. Energixer is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost data or lost profits arising from your use of the service. Nothing here excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited. This is a free service run by one person; please size your expectations accordingly.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify me against claims arising from content you upload or from your use of the service in breach of these terms.

Changes

These terms will change as the service does, and the date at the bottom with them. Continuing to use the service after a change means accepting it.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

Energixer is a personal project run by one person — there is no company behind it. Questions about this document, or any request about your data: [email protected].

Last updated 3 August 2026.