Use the web without taking it.

Agreement

By accessing or using Ratdolt, you agree to these Terms & Conditions, the Content Policy and the Privacy Policy. If you use Ratdolt for an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to bind it. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

Eligibility

You must have legal capacity to accept these terms. If you are below the age of legal majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must authorize your use. Ratdolt is not directed to children under 13.

The service

Ratdolt retrieves or receives an inert snapshot of a public page, extracts its readable material and creates a publication that may be read, printed or downloaded as a PDF. Ratdolt is not the publisher of the source page, does not grant access to restricted material and does not guarantee that every page can or should be composed.

Your permission and responsibility

You may use Ratdolt only with public material or material you are authorized to process. When you submit a URL or browser capture, you represent that your request and intended use are lawful. You give Ratdolt a limited, temporary permission to retrieve, process, reproduce and format that material solely to provide, secure and troubleshoot the requested service. This permission ends when the temporary data is deleted, except for reports or records that must be kept by law.

Permitted use

You may compose public, unrestricted pages for lawful personal reading, accessibility, research and printing. Any broader use requires the permission of the relevant rightsholder and must comply with applicable law and the source material's license.

Prohibited use

• Bypassing or attempting to bypass paywalls, logins, age gates, technical restrictions or access controls.
• Redistributing, publishing, selling, scraping in bulk or building a content library without permission.
• Using Ratdolt for unlawful trade, fraud, exploitation, abuse, trafficking, credible threats, violent extremism or harm.
• Submitting malware, secrets, private communications, personal data or confidential material you are not authorized to process.
• Overloading, probing, reverse engineering for abuse, interfering with or evading the security and content controls of the service.
• Misrepresenting Ratdolt output as an authorized edition, removing provenance or infringing intellectual-property, privacy or publicity rights.

Source material and intellectual property

Authors, publishers and other rightsholders retain every right in source material. Ratdolt does not claim ownership of it, and a generated publication does not transfer a license or make restricted material public. Ratdolt and its licensors retain rights in the software, product identity, editorial system, templates and original interface.

Copyright and takedown requests

If you believe Ratdolt is processing or presenting material in a way that infringes your rights, send the source URL, identification of the protected work, your contact details, the basis of your claim and a good-faith statement to legal@ratdolt.com. Ratdolt may remove temporary results, preserve evidence required by law and restrict repeat misuse while reviewing a claim. False or abusive notices may have legal consequences.

Third-party sites and services

Source websites, hosting providers, browsers, GitHub and other integrations are governed by their own terms and policies. Ratdolt does not control their availability, content, security or decisions. Links are provided for provenance and convenience, not as an endorsement.

Reports and feedback

You may submit reports and optional feedback. Do not include confidential or sensitive personal information: depending on configuration, a report may be delivered to a webhook or become a GitHub issue. You allow Ratdolt to use non-confidential feedback without restriction to improve the service, without transferring ownership of your original work.

Enforcement and suspension

Ratdolt may refuse a page, rate-limit requests, remove temporary results, suspend access or cooperate with a lawful investigation when reasonably necessary to enforce these terms, protect people or systems, respect third-party rights or comply with law. Content checks are conservative and may be reviewed through the Content Policy page.

Changes and availability

Ratdolt may change, pause or discontinue features and may impose reasonable limits. The service may be unavailable because of maintenance, source-site behavior, technical failure, legal requirements or events outside Ratdolt's control. Where practical, material changes will be communicated through the service.

Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ratdolt is provided “as is” and “as available.” Ratdolt disclaims implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement and uninterrupted or error-free operation. Web pages change, automated classification can be wrong, and output may omit, rearrange or misformat source material. Nothing in these terms excludes a warranty or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ratdolt and its operators, contributors and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, loss of data, profits, goodwill or business opportunity, or harm caused by source material or your use of an output. Any aggregate liability will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid Ratdolt for the service during the preceding 12 months or US$100. These limits do not apply where liability cannot legally be limited.

Responsibility for claims

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify Ratdolt against third-party claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from material you submit, your unlawful use, or your violation of these terms or another person's rights. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by Ratdolt's own unlawful conduct.

Applicable law and disputes

Before filing a claim, contact legal@ratdolt.com and allow 30 days for an informal resolution. The law and courts that otherwise govern the operator of Ratdolt will apply, subject to any mandatory consumer, privacy or procedural rights available where you live. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using a regulator or small-claims process where available.

General terms

These terms and the linked policies are the entire agreement about the service. If one provision is unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum necessary and the remainder will continue. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms without consent; Ratdolt may assign them as part of a reorganization, financing or transfer of the service, subject to applicable law.

Changes to these terms

Updated terms will be posted here with a new effective date. Material changes will receive the notice and consent required by applicable law. Continued use after an effective change means you accept it where that form of acceptance is legally valid.