Privacy Policy

What we collect

The link you submit. It is sent to our server so we can read the video's public metadata. The resolved metadata — caption, the Page or person who posted it, media URLs, duration, dimensions — is held in memory for a short period (ten minutes by default) so that repeating the same lookup does not hit Facebook again. It is never written to a database or to disk, and it disappears when the cache entry expires or the server restarts.

Page source, only if you paste it. The private video downloader asks you to paste the source of a Facebook page your own browser fetched. That document is more sensitive than a link: alongside the video URLs it contains your Facebook user id and short-lived request tokens, and fragments of whatever else was on the page. It is parsed once, in the request that carries it, purely to find the media URLs, and then released. It is never written to disk, never put in a cache, and never recorded in a log line — including our error logs, which record a message and a stack trace and never the request body. Only the extracted media URLs survive, under a random token that expires with everything else. Nothing on this site ever asks for your Facebook password, and nothing signs in on your behalf.

Request metadata. Standard web-server information: IP address, user agent, timestamp, and the path requested. Your IP address is used to enforce the rate limit of twenty lookups a minute per address that keeps the service available. We do not build profiles from it and do not sell or share it.

What we do not collect

• No account, email address, or password — there is nothing to sign up for, and you are never asked to log in to Facebook.
• No downloaded media. Files stream through and are never stored.
• No advertising or analytics trackers, no third-party pixels, and no Facebook pixel.
• No clipboard contents. The Paste button reads your clipboard locally in your browser only when you press it; that value is only submitted if you run a lookup.

Cookies and local storage

We set no cookies. One value is written to your browser's localStorage: your light or dark theme preference. It never leaves your device and is not readable by us.

Third parties

To resolve a link, our server contacts Facebook (Meta Platforms, Inc.) on your behalf, and it may try more than one of Facebook's front ends before one returns the full page. Your browser does not contact Meta directly during a download, so no referrer or browser fingerprint of yours reaches them through this tool, and nothing appears in your Facebook activity. Meta sees a request from our server, not from you. Their handling of that request is governed by their own privacy policy.

Thumbnail images shown in the results are loaded by your browser directly from Meta's CDN with a no-referrer policy. If you would rather avoid that connection entirely, blocking images for this site does not affect downloads.

Data retention

• Resolved video metadata: in memory only, ~10 minutes.
• Media files: never retained. Streamed, not stored.
• Rate-limit counters: in memory, cleared each window.
• Server access logs: retained only as long as the hosting provider's default, for security and abuse investigation.

Your rights

Because we hold no account data, there is generally nothing to export or delete on request. If you believe a specific piece of information about you is held here, contact us and we will investigate and remove it where it exists.

Children

This service is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Continued use after an update constitutes acceptance.