Terms of Service

The service

Pastepile is a free tool for sharing text and code snippets. It is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee availability, durability, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Minimum age

You must be at least 13 years old to use Pastepile. If your country sets a higher minimum age for using online services, you are responsible for complying with it.

Acceptable use

You agree not to use Pastepile to post, host, or distribute:

• Content that is illegal where you are or where we operate.
• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Reported immediately to the appropriate authorities.
• Malware, exploits, RATs, stealers, or other code intended to harm systems or people.
• Phishing kits, credential harvesters, scams, or spam (including link-shortener floods).
• Doxxing or content that targets, harasses, or endangers a specific person.
• Other people's secrets you do not have the right to share (API keys, credentials, private documents).
• Material that infringes copyright or other intellectual-property rights.

Your content, your responsibility

You represent that you own the content you submit, or that you otherwise have the right to post it and to comply with any third-party licenses that apply to it. You are responsible for what you paste.

Moderation

We may remove any paste and block any client at our sole discretion, with or without notice, to enforce these terms or protect the service. Pastes may also be deleted at any time for operational reasons. You are responsible for your own backups.

Intellectual property and content license

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant Pastepile only the limited, non-exclusive right to store, host, transmit, and display your content as needed to operate the service, and nothing more. We do not claim the right to use your content to build or train products, to sell it, or to redistribute it beyond serving it back as part of the service.

For copyright claims and counter-notices, see /dmca. Consistent with DMCA safe harbor, Pastepile will block access for, or refuse service to, repeat copyright infringers (phrased as blocking clients or IPs, since Pastepile has no user accounts).

Data loss

Pastes may be deleted automatically when they reach their chosen expiry, or on first read for burn-after-read pastes. We may also delete content at any time for operational or moderation reasons. Keep your own backups. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss of content or data.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Pastepile and its operators harmless from any claims, damages, liabilities, and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of the content you post or your misuse of the service.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Pastepile and its operators are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising out of your use of the service.

Third-party links

Pastes may contain links to sites and resources we do not operate, control, or endorse. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy, or content of those sites, and visiting them is at your own risk.

Export and sanctions

Pastepile is operated from the United States. You may not use the service where doing so is prohibited by US export controls or economic sanctions, or by any other applicable law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of Pastepile after a change takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full force and effect.

Contact

General: hello@pastepile.com · Abuse: abuse@pastepile.com · Security: security@pastepile.com

Governing law: United States. Operator: Pastepile.