Last updated: 9 July 2026 · Version 1.0
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the website, services, and features offered at youasktube.com (the “Service”), operated by BitVibe Labs (“we”, “us”, or “our”). BitVibe Labs is the trading name of an individual operator based in Greece, who is the contracting trader for the purposes of these Terms. Payments for paid plans are processed by Gumroad, Inc. as merchant of record (see Section 10). Please read these Terms carefully. By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.
You must be at least 16 years old (or the minimum age of digital consent in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater) to use the Service. By using the Service you represent that you meet this requirement and that any information you supply is accurate. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms.
The Service consists of a landing page where you paste a YouTube video link, a video page that shows an embedded player alongside a chat, and an AI chat that answers questions grounded in the video’s transcript — citing the timestamped moments its answers draw on, so you can jump straight to them in the player. The transcript is fetched server-side and used as the AI’s context; it is not itself displayed on the page. Use is anonymous by default, subject to daily message quotas (see Section 10); optional paid plans (Pro and Max) raise those quotas. A separate, optional e-mail signup records interest in product updates and is governed by our Privacy Policy. Individual features may be enabled, disabled, or changed at any time (see Sections 11 and 18).
The Service operates as follows. Some items are planned for a later release and are marked as such.
youtube.com for youasktube.com in the address bar (e.g. youtube.com/watch?v=X → youasktube.com/watch?v=X). The Service treats the resulting video identifier as your input.youtube-nocookie.com) so you can watch the video, and — via third-party transcript providers (Supadata as primary, with TranscriptAPI as a fallback) — retrieves the video’s publicly-available captions (auto-generated or manually-uploaded) and uses them as the context the AI chat reasons over. The transcript itself is not shown on the page.youasktube is not a YouTube product, partner, reseller, integration, or licensee. We use the word “YouTube” on the Service nominatively, to identify the platform that hosts the videos whose public transcripts you may ask us to retrieve. YouTube, Google, Alphabet, and any related word marks, logos, and product names referenced on the Service are the property of their respective owners (YouTube LLC, Google LLC, and Alphabet Inc., respectively). Their inclusion does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, partnership, certification, or any other commercial or non-commercial relationship between BitVibe Labs and the respective owner. Other third-party marks that may appear on the Service (including GLM and Z.ai, owned by Z.ai; OpenRouter, owned by OpenRouter, Inc.; Gumroad, owned by Gumroad, Inc.; and Cloudflare, owned by Cloudflare, Inc.) are likewise the property of their respective owners and used nominatively only.
When you use youasktube to request the transcript of a YouTube video, you are accessing content that is hosted by YouTube and made available subject to YouTube’s own terms of service, community guidelines, and content policies. You remain solely responsible for complying with YouTube’s terms in your own use of YouTube and of any content surfaced through the Service, including but not limited to: videos that have age restrictions, regional restrictions, paid-membership gates, private-listing restrictions, or other access controls you would not satisfy on YouTube directly; videos whose captions you are not otherwise permitted to download, re-use, or redistribute under YouTube’s terms or under copyright law; and any onward use you make of the transcript text or AI-generated chat content. If you would not be permitted to view a video on YouTube directly, you must not use the Service to circumvent that restriction.
To obtain a transcript, we call a third-party transcript provider server-side — Supadata (supadata.ai) as primary, with TranscriptAPI (transcriptapi.com) as a fallback — passing only the public video identifier; that provider returns the publicly-available captions (auto-generated or manually-uploaded) that YouTube already serves to viewers. We do not authenticate as you, do not bypass YouTube’s access controls, do not download video or audio content, do not store more than the transcript text and minimal video metadata (title, channel, duration, language) required to render and reason over the transcript, and do not re-publish transcripts as a standalone library or feed. Retrieving publicly-available captions in this way sits in a grey area under YouTube’s terms; you remain responsible for your own compliance with those terms (see Section 5). If YouTube or a transcript provider we rely on blocks, rate-limits, restricts, or otherwise changes the availability of caption data at any time, the transcript-dependent features of the Service may degrade or stop entirely, and we will not be liable to you for any such interruption.
When you chat with the Service, replies are generated by an artificial-intelligence language model. AI replies may contain factual errors, fabricated quotations or timestamps, outdated information, omissions, hallucinations, or biases. Treat every AI reply as a starting point, not a finished answer. You are responsible for verifying any factual, legal, financial, medical, safety, or otherwise consequential claim against the source video and against authoritative sources before relying on it or sharing it with others. We do not warrant that AI replies are accurate, complete, current, fit for any particular purpose, or free of intellectual-property issues. AI replies are not, and must not be relied on as, professional advice of any kind.
You agree not to, and not to assist or permit any third party to:
We may, in our sole discretion and without notice, throttle, restrict, suspend, or terminate access to the Service for any user or class of users we reasonably believe to be in breach of these Terms.
The Service does not use accounts, passwords, or e-mail logins. You use it anonymously; a first-party cookie provides chat continuity only. If you buy a paid plan (see Section 10), the licence key issued by our payment processor is what identifies your plan — you activate it on the Account page, and a signed first-party cookie then records your plan tier between requests. Treat your licence key like a password: keep it private, and do not share, sell, or transfer it. If a third-party platform (our payment processor, our AI provider, or another provider) notifies us of abuse associated with your key or usage, we may cooperate with that platform’s investigation and suspend or disable the associated entitlement. How we process the limited personal data involved is described in our Privacy Policy.
The Service operates with daily usage quotas, measured per UTC day, together with per-request and global caps to prevent runaway requests. At launch the chat quotas are approximately two (2) messages per day for anonymous users, eight (8) per day on the Pro plan, and eighteen (18) per day on the Max plan. These numbers are guidance, not a contractual entitlement; we may change, increase, decrease, vary by region or feature, or temporarily suspend any quota or rate limit at any time and without notice, and may impose technical measures (including bot-defense challenges) to enforce them.
Paid plans. Two optional plans raise your daily quota: Pro at US$5 per month and Max at US$10 per month, each a monthly subscription that renews automatically until you cancel.
The Service is offered as a beta and is under active development. The Service is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”, with all faults and without warranties of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including (without limitation) warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, reliability, availability, timeliness, completeness, or any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade. We do not warrant that the Service will meet your requirements, that the transcript-fetch path will remain available, that AI replies will be accurate, that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected. There is no service-level agreement, no uptime commitment, and no support obligation. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of certain warranties; in such jurisdictions the foregoing disclaimers apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL BITVIBE LABS, ITS OPERATORS, AGENTS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES; ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, BUSINESS, GOODWILL, OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS; ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR RELIANCE ON ANY AI-GENERATED REPLY, ANY TRANSCRIPT, OR ANY OTHER OUTPUT OF THE SERVICE; OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR IF SUCH DAMAGES WERE FORESEEABLE.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, from all causes of action and theories of liability combined, shall not exceed the total amounts paid by you to BitVibe Labs in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, which for free use of the Service is zero (€0). The foregoing limitations apply regardless of the legal theory of liability and survive any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law, including: liability for fraud and fraudulent misrepresentation; liability for willful misconduct; liability for gross negligence (where excluding it is not permitted); liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence; the trader’s duty to perform the Service with reasonable care and skill; and any non-waivable statutory consumer rights (including, in the European Union, the rights protected by Council Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts and the mandatory consumer-protection law of the consumer’s habitual residence, and for Greek-resident consumers the mandatory protections of Greek consumer law). The remainder of these Terms continues to apply to the maximum extent permitted by law even where one or more of the foregoing carve-outs operates.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless BitVibe Labs, its operators, agents, and affiliates from any third-party claim, damage, loss, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) that arises from your breach of these Terms, your violation of any law or third-party right (including YouTube’s terms and the rights of any video creator or rightsholder), or your unlawful or abusive use of the Service. This obligation does not extend to claims caused by our own gross negligence or willful misconduct, and applies only to the extent permitted by applicable consumer-protection law (including, in the European Union, Council Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms in consumer contracts and the mandatory consumer-protection law of the consumer’s habitual residence). We may assume exclusive defense of any covered matter, in which case you agree to cooperate.
We respect the rights of copyright holders. If you are a rightsholder (or an authorised representative) and believe that a transcript surfaced through the Service, or AI-generated content derived from it, infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to dmca@bitvibelabs.com that includes: (a) your physical or electronic signature; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (c) identification of the specific YouTube video URL or transcript page on the Service that is the subject of the complaint, with enough detail to let us locate it; (d) your contact information (address, telephone, email); (e) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner. On receipt of a compliant notice we will, where appropriate, disable our surfacing of the specific transcript and forward the complaint to the user (if any) responsible for surfacing it. Repeat infringers will be terminated.
You may stop using the Service at any time. The chat service is account-less, so there is no account to delete; if you are on our product-update e-mail list, you can leave it via the one-click unsubscribe link in any e-mail or by e-mailing hello@bitvibelabs.com. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, and without liability — in particular for breach of these Terms, suspected abuse, or platform-level requests by upstream providers (YouTube, our AI provider, our email provider, our hosting provider). Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4–14 and 16–22) will survive.
The Service, including its design, code, content, trademarks (other than third-party marks), logos, and brand elements, is owned by BitVibe Labs or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service solely as permitted by these Terms. No other rights are granted by implication, estoppel, or otherwise. Transcripts surfaced through the Service remain the property of their respective rightsholders (typically the video creator and/or YouTube), and AI-generated replies are produced on a best-effort basis with no warranty of originality or non-infringement; you are responsible for your own use of either.
Our processing of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
We may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service or any feature, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice or liability. We may revise these Terms from time to time; the “Last updated” date above indicates the most recent revision. For material changes, we will provide at least thirty (30) days’ prior notice by updating this page and, where we hold a usable contact address for you, by email. Your continued use of the Service after a revision becomes effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not accept a revision, stop using the Service and (if you hold an account) request deletion.
We shall not be liable for any delay or failure in performance caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, governmental action, network or infrastructure outages, third-party service failures (including any change to or termination of our transcript provider’s or YouTube’s caption data, our AI provider’s API, our payment processor, our e-mail provider, or our hosting provider), or natural disasters.
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Greece, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. The courts of Greece will have jurisdiction over any dispute, except that we may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction. Consumer carve-out. Nothing in this Section deprives a consumer of the protection of (i) the mandatory provisions of the law of the consumer’s habitual residence under Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 (Rome I), or (ii) the consumer-protective jurisdiction provisions in Section 4 of Chapter II of Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (Brussels I Recast); a consumer may bring proceedings against us, or be sued by us, in the courts of the country where the consumer is domiciled, and Greek-resident consumers retain in full any mandatory protections of Greek consumer law.
Before commencing formal proceedings, we encourage you to contact us at hello@bitvibelabs.com so that we can attempt to resolve the matter informally. EU consumers may also use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr; we do not, however, currently commit to resolving disputes through any alternative-dispute-resolution body. Subject to the consumer carve-outs in Section 20, all other disputes are subject to the courts of Greece.
Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or of our right to enforce it later. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and BitVibe Labs concerning the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, communications, or representations regarding the Service. You acknowledge and agree that, in entering into and using the Service, you have not relied upon any representation, warranty, statement, promise, undertaking, or assurance that is not expressly set out in these Terms or the Privacy Policy. You waive any claim, right, or remedy that you have so relied. This Section operates without prejudice to any liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for any matter that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Questions about these Terms may be sent to hello@bitvibelabs.com. Copyright complaints should go to dmca@bitvibelabs.com per Section 14. A postal address for service is available on request by e-mailing hello@bitvibelabs.com.
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