Terms of Service
The rules for using SpotTheCatch, including what our verdicts are not.
Last updated: 6 November 2026
1. What SpotTheCatch is
SpotTheCatch is an automated consumer tool that analyses public short-form videos (Instagram Reels and carousels, TikTok videos, YouTube Shorts and videos up to 10 minutes) and produces a plain-English summary of what the video claims, what we could verify, what it really costs, and whether a non-technical person can realistically do it.
2. What SpotTheCatch is NOT
SpotTheCatch does not give legal, medical, or financial advice. A verdict is an automated, AI-assisted reading of publicly available media. It can be wrong, incomplete, or out of date. Always verify anything that matters to your health, money, or legal rights before acting on it.
Specifically, our output is not:
- A medical, legal, financial, or tax recommendation.
- A statement of fact from a court, regulator, or authority.
- A guarantee that a product, service, or creator is legitimate, safe, or available.
- A substitute for your own judgement or for advice from a qualified professional.
3. Acceptable use
You may use SpotTheCatch to check public videos you send us. You may not:
- Send us videos you do not have the right to access, or attempt to check private, deleted, or paywalled content.
- Use the service to build a competing product, to resell access, or to automate bulk checking at a rate that degrades the service for others.
- Attempt to circumvent credit limits, rate limits, or the human-verification gate.
- Use our output to harass, accuse, or defame a creator. We describe observable discrepancies on screen; we do not make claims about people's intent or character.
4. Accounts, credits, and payment
- New accounts receive a small number of free checks. Additional checks are sold as one-time packs or through a monthly subscription.
- Paid credits do not expire. Subscription credits are subject to a fair-use cap, described at the time of purchase.
- If we cannot read or analyse a video — because it is private, deleted, silent with no readable content, or blocked by the platform — the check is refunded automatically and costs you nothing.
- Subscriptions renew until cancelled. You can cancel from the billing link in your receipt email or the Mini App at any time; access continues until the end of the paid period.
- EU consumers have a 14-day withdrawal right on subscriptions purchased directly. Where you waive that right at checkout, we record your consent in our database with the timestamp and your billing country.
5. Intellectual property
The videos you check belong to their creators. We do not claim ownership of them, we do not host them, and we do not keep copies. We store our own analysis and our own generated verdict card. The SpotTheCatch name, design system, and verdict format are our own.
6. Third-party platforms
SpotTheCatch links to third-party websites and apps. We do not control them and we are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices. A link we surface is not an endorsement of that product — it is a factual observation that the link appeared in the video or was confirmed by search.
7. Availability and changes
We aim for high availability but do not guarantee it. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features, and we will give reasonable notice for paid subscriptions where a change materially reduces their value.
8. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, SpotTheCatch is provided "as is". We are not liable for decisions you make based on our output, for the content of third-party videos, or for any loss arising from your use of the service. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud or wilful misconduct.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the courts of Ireland have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence.