Terms of Service

1. Scope

PeerDrop is a peer-to-peer file and clipboard transfer service. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility and lawful use only

You may use the Service only if you are legally able to enter into a binding agreement and only for lawful purposes. You must comply with all applicable local, national, and supranational laws, including United States law, European Union law, and the laws of any EU member state that apply to your conduct, content, recipients, or devices. You are solely responsible for your conduct, the content you make available through the Service, and the consequences of sharing that content.

3. Strict prohibition on illegal material and unlawful activity

You may not use the Service to create, store, upload, transmit, receive, request, promote, organize, or facilitate illegal material or illegal activity of any kind. Prohibited uses include, without limitation:

• uploading, transmitting, receiving, requesting, advertising, or facilitating illegal content or illegal conduct
• child sexual abuse material, sexual exploitation material, grooming, trafficking, or any content involving the abuse or exploitation of minors
• non-consensual intimate imagery, sextortion material, voyeuristic material, or other exploitative sexual content
• copyright infringement, trademark infringement, trade-secret theft, or sharing material you do not have the right to share
• malware, ransomware, credential theft tools, phishing kits, stolen data, unauthorized access tools, or instructions intended to enable computer crime
• fraud, impersonation, harassment, threats, stalking, doxxing, extortion, or distribution of unlawful hateful or violent material
• content that violates export controls, sanctions laws, privacy laws, court orders, contractual confidentiality obligations, or any applicable European Union regulation, directive, or member-state criminal, civil, or regulatory law

Any use of the Service in connection with unlawful content, unlawful possession, unlawful distribution, or unlawful access is a material breach of these Terms.

4. Your representations and warranties

You represent, warrant, and agree that:

• you own or control all rights necessary for the content you share;
• you have all legally required permissions and consents from affected persons;
• your use of the Service will comply with all applicable laws, regulations, directives, and court orders, including those of the European Union and relevant member states;
• you will not use the Service in a way that could expose the operator to criminal, civil, regulatory, or third-party liability.

5. Nature of the Service

PeerDrop is designed to facilitate browser-to-browser file transfer and clipboard sharing after manual pairing, host approval, and safety-code verification. File bytes and clipboard contents are intended to move over direct WebRTC data channels between peers rather than through the signaling service. The signaling service does process control-plane information needed to establish and manage sessions, such as display names, room identifiers, pairing codes, session status, and WebRTC signaling messages.

Because of that architecture, the operator may not review, pre-screen, intercept, or retain every payload transferred between peers. That architecture does not authorize unlawful use, does not shift responsibility away from you, and does not limit the operator's right to investigate misuse or cooperate with lawful requests based on information that is available.

6. Enforcement, reporting, and legal compliance

The operator may take any action it considers necessary to protect the Service, users, rights holders, and the public. That includes the right to:

• refuse, suspend, or terminate access immediately
• remove or block access to any room, session, device, or user identifier
• preserve available logs, reports, metadata, and other records relevant to suspected misuse
• report suspected unlawful conduct to law enforcement, regulators, rights holders, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, or other appropriate third parties when permitted or required by law
• cooperate with subpoenas, court orders, warrants, and other lawful requests

You authorize the operator to use and disclose available connection, device, session, routing, and abuse-prevention information for these purposes, including available metadata such as display names, room or session identifiers, timestamps, control messages, and file metadata exposed through session controls. You have no right to use the Service in a way that avoids lawful detection, reporting, or compliance obligations.

7. Copyright complaints and repeat infringement

You may not use the Service to infringe intellectual property rights. The operator may act on infringement notices, disable access, block sessions, and terminate repeat infringers. Where the operator publishes a copyright-notice process, you must use that process for complaints and counter-notices.

8. Suspension and termination

The operator may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, if the operator believes you violated these Terms, created legal risk, or used the Service in a harmful, abusive, or suspicious manner.

9. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available." The operator disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, and security.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or related to the Service, user content, third-party conduct, or unauthorized use of the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator's total liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100) or the amount you paid to use the Service during the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim.

11. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the operator and its affiliates, personnel, contractors, and service providers from and against any claims, demands, actions, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, settlements, penalties, fines, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to your use of the Service, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

12. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction where the operator is established, excluding conflict-of-laws rules. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in that jurisdiction, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

13. Changes to these Terms

The operator may update these Terms from time to time. Updated Terms become effective when posted. Continued use of the Service after the effective date of revised Terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

14. Contact

Legal notices, abuse complaints, and rights-holder notices must be sent to the contact information, if any, published by the operator with the relevant deployment of the Service.