Terms of Service

Last updated: 23 May 2026

1. Operator

The Capzo service at capzo.net and the Capzo Windows desktop client (together, the "Service") are operated by Digital-E. Operator's full contact details are published in the imprint at https://www.digital-e.org/impressum/. The German words "wir", "uns", "unser" in these terms refer to that entity. "You" means the person using the Service.

2. The Service

Capzo lets you capture, upload, and share screenshots, screen recordings, and a small set of generic file types. Each upload receives a public share URL. The desktop client performs local OCR (text recognition) on screenshots and uploads the extracted text so you can search across your captures — see the Privacy Policy for what we do with that text.

3. Eligibility and accounts

1. You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. We do not knowingly accept accounts from children under 16.
2. You must provide an accurate e-mail address and choose a username that is not impersonating someone else.
3. You may hold only one account per person. Operating multiple accounts to circumvent plan limits is a breach of these terms.
4. You are responsible for keeping your password and your API key confidential. Any action taken with your credentials is treated as taken by you. Tell us immediately if you suspect they have been compromised.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service to upload, share, or otherwise process content that:

• is illegal anywhere it can reach. The content must be lawful in Germany, in your country of residence, and in every other jurisdiction in which it may be transmitted, stored, accessed, or viewed. Because share URLs are public and can be opened from anywhere in the world, this in practice means the content must be lawful worldwide. Examples of content that is prohibited under this rule (the list is illustrative, not exhaustive): sexual or sexualised depictions of minors (CSAM), terrorist or violent- extremist content, content that incites violence or hatred against a protected group, content promoting self-harm or suicide, content that violates export- control or sanctions law, and any content whose production, possession, or distribution is criminal in any of the jurisdictions just named;
• is protected by copyright or other intellectual- property rights and you are not the rights-holder. Do not upload screenshots, videos, audio, images, fonts, source code, e-books, documents, game assets, paid courses, or any other material protected by copyright, trademark, design right, database right, patent, trade secret, or a comparable intellectual-property right unless (a) you are the rights-holder, or (b) you hold a written licence from the rights-holder that explicitly permits the upload, storage, public sharing via direct link, and grant of the licence described in §5 below. A belief that an upload qualifies as fair use, fair dealing, citation, or parody does not waive this rule — those defences are matters for the courts to weigh and do not bind us;
• otherwise infringes the privacy rights, image rights, publicity rights, name rights, personality rights, or trade secrets of any third party;
• contains malware, viruses, worms, ransomware, exploits, cryptominers, or any other code intended to harm, surveil, or interfere with third parties or their devices;
• is used to monitor, record, photograph, or otherwise surveil another person without their consent where consent is legally required;
• defames, threatens, harasses, doxxes, sexually harasses, or impersonates another person.

You also agree not to:

• circumvent or attempt to circumvent the rate limits, file-size limits, recording-duration limits, or other technical limits of your account tier, or operate multiple accounts to evade those limits or any suspension or ban;
• use the API in a way designed to disrupt or degrade the Service for other users;
• copy, scrape, harvest, mirror, enumerate, or systematically download any substantial part of the share URLs hosted on the Service, or build a database or index of them, by any automated means;
• upload to the Service through anything other than the official Capzo desktop client, the official Capzo gallery upload form, or our published HTTP API authenticated with your own personal API key — third- party clients, browser extensions, or "headless" automation are not permitted without our prior written permission;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, the wire protocol, or the workings of the desktop client or the API, except to the limited extent that mandatory law expressly permits (for example §69e UrhG / Article 6 of the EU Software Directive 2009/24/EC);
• distribute share URLs as part of spam, unsolicited bulk messaging, phishing, malware delivery, or any other coordinated unsolicited contact;
• use the Service as a general-purpose content-delivery network for material that has not been captured, recorded, or otherwise produced by you for sharing through a Capzo client;
• resell or otherwise commercialise access to the Service without our written permission.

Reporting violations. If you believe content hosted on Capzo infringes your rights or otherwise breaches this section, please contact us using the e-mail address published in the imprint. Include the full share URL (or just the value of the key= query parameter), a description of the issue, and — for copyright claims — a statement that you are the rights-holder or are authorised to act on the rights-holder's behalf, plus contact details we can use to reach you. We will review every report we receive and act in accordance with §10 TMG and Article 16 of the EU Digital Services Act, including by removing or disabling access to content where the report has a sufficient basis.

5. Your content

You retain every right you have in the files you upload. By uploading content you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to store, process, transmit, and display that content for the sole purpose of operating the Service — that is, to host the file, generate thumbnails and OCR-indexed search, and serve the file to anyone who knows the public share URL you have created.

The licence ends as soon as you delete the upload or your account. We do not use your content to train machine-learning models and we do not grant rights in your content to any third party other than the sub-processors named in the Privacy Policy.

You warrant and represent that:

• you either own the content you upload or have obtained every licence, permission, release, and consent necessary to upload it, to grant us the licence in this section, and to allow the content to be served via a public share URL;
• the content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, design right, database right, patent, trade secret, privacy right, publicity right, image right, name right, personality right, or other right of any third party;
• the content is lawful in every jurisdiction in which it may be transmitted, stored, accessed, or viewed (see §4 above);
• if the content depicts identifiable individuals, you have obtained their consent to that depiction and to its public sharing where the law of any relevant jurisdiction requires such consent.

If any of these warranties turns out to be false, you are responsible for the consequences (see §11, Indemnification).

6. Public sharing

Every upload has a public share URL. Anyone who has the URL can view the file without authentication. You are solely responsible for whom you give a share URL to and for the consequences of distributing it. Deleting the upload immediately revokes the URL.

7. Service availability — no uptime guarantee

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We make no uptime guarantee, give no service- level agreement, and provide no warranty against loss of data, loss of share URLs, or loss of stored files. The Service runs on third-party infrastructure (currently Servarica Hosting Inc.); outages, hardware failure, or data loss at that infrastructure layer are outside our control. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. You are responsible for keeping your own backup of any file that matters to you.

Force majeure. We are not in breach of these terms and not liable to you for any failure or delay in providing the Service that is caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, riots, civil disturbance, government action or order, sanctions, outages or routing failures of the public internet, failure or attack on our hosting provider's infrastructure, distributed denial-of-service attacks, hardware failure outside our direct control, fires, floods, prolonged power outages, strikes, or pandemic-related restrictions.

8. Paid plans

At the time of writing the Service offers a free plan and an optional premium plan. Premium upgrades are handled manually and governed by a separate purchase agreement made at the time of purchase. Should automated billing or recurring subscriptions become available, the applicable terms (including any right of withdrawal under §§ 312g, 355 BGB for digital services delivered with your explicit consent) will be presented to you before payment.

9. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your account, remove specific uploads, and refuse further service if we reasonably believe you have breached these terms or applicable law, or if we are required to do so by court order or by a competent authority. Where possible we will tell you before doing so and give you a chance to fix the breach; where the breach is severe or ongoing, we may act first.

Repeat infringers. Without limiting the above, we will terminate the account of any user who, in our reasonable judgment, is a repeat infringer of intellectual-property rights. For this purpose a "repeat infringer" is a user against whom we have received and acted on three or more valid takedown notices (as described in §4 above) in any rolling twelve-month period, or one notice describing a particularly large-scale, commercial, or wilful infringement. When we terminate an account on this basis, we delete the account and all its uploads under this section, and we may decline to create a replacement account for the same person.

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete your account yourself from the account page; this immediately erases your account, all your uploads, all your albums, and the corresponding files from disk. Once deleted, these data cannot be recovered.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of business opportunities, or loss of goodwill, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for (a) wilful misconduct or gross negligence, (b) injury to life, body or health, or (c) any other liability that may not be excluded under mandatory German law.

11. Indemnification

You will defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless against any third-party claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) that arises out of (a) content you upload, share, or otherwise process through the Service, (b) your breach of these terms, or (c) your violation of any law or of any third party's rights.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. The current version is always published at capzo.net/terms.php with the date of the most recent revision shown at the top of the page.

For material changes — those that affect your account, the way your content is processed, the grant of rights in §5, your paid plan, our liability to you, or the governing-law clause — we will give you at least 30 days' notice before the change takes effect, by e-mail to the address on file or as a clear in-product notice on the gallery page. During the notice window you may stop using the Service and delete your account from the account page; if you do, the new version of these terms does not apply to you.

For non-material changes — typographical corrections, clarifications, updates to sub-processor lists, retention periods, or contact details that do not adversely affect your rights — we may publish the update without prior notice. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the change in every case.

If you continue to use the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new version.

13. Governing law and place of jurisdiction

These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Mandatory consumer-protection law in the country where you have your habitual residence is not affected.

The place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with these terms is the operator's registered seat as listed in the imprint, to the extent permitted by law.

14. Inactive accounts

If your account shows no sign-in activity for 24 consecutive months, we may delete it together with all uploads, albums, and share URLs it owns. Before doing so we will send a reminder e-mail to the address on file at least 30 days in advance. Signing in during that 30-day window cancels the planned deletion.

15. Our intellectual property

The Service — including the Capzo name, the lightning-bolt logo, the website's design and source code, and the desktop client's compiled binaries — is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. We grant you a personal, limited, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the website and the desktop client for the purposes described in §2 (Service description) and subject to these terms.

You may not:

• use the Capzo name, logo, or any confusingly similar mark in domain names, app names, social-media handles, advertising, or anywhere that suggests endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation by us;
• copy, redistribute, or rehost the desktop client's binaries, the website's source code, or its design assets, except for personal use of the desktop client as intended;
• build a competing service from our code, brand, design, or proprietary protocol.

Linking to capzo.net or to your own share URLs is always allowed.

16. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, feature requests, or other feedback about the Service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, and incorporate that feedback into the Service or other products without compensation, attribution, or confidentiality obligation. Feedback you send us is not treated as confidential.

17. Survival

Termination of these terms, of your account, or of the Service does not end any obligation or right that by its nature is intended to continue, including without limitation §4 (acceptable use, in respect of content already uploaded), §5 (your content — for any copy that left the Service before deletion), §6 (public-sharing consequences), §10 (limitation of liability), §11 (indemnification), §13 (governing law), §15 (our intellectual property), and §16 (feedback).

18. Severability

If any provision of these terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect.

19. Contact

If you have any question about these terms, please use the contact details published in the imprint at https://www.digital-e.org/impressum/.