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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information ReelDown collects when you visit reeldown.app or use its downloader and viewer tools, how that information is used, which third-party services are involved, including Google Analytics and Google AdSense, and the choices you have.

✓ No account or login ✓ We never ask for passwords ✓ Effective October 16, 2026
Overview

Information ReelDown Collects

Links you submit

When you use a ReelDown tool, you paste a public link, such as an Instagram Reel, post or story, a TikTok video, a Facebook video or Reel, or a Pinterest Pin, or you enter a public username. We use that input only to find and prepare the public media you asked for.

Only submit links to content you are allowed to save. ReelDown cannot open private accounts or content that requires a login.

Technical information

Like almost every website, our servers and our network provider receive standard technical information with each request: your IP address, browser and device type (user agent), the page requested, the referring page, the date and time, and the response status.

Cookies and browser storage

ReelDown uses a few first-party cookies and browser storage for security and preferences. Google, our analytics and advertising provider, also uses cookies. Each one is described in the Cookies section below.

What we do not collect

ReelDown has no user accounts. We never ask for your Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or Pinterest password, and we do not collect your name, email address, phone number or payment details. If you email us, we receive only the details you choose to include in your message.

How the tools work

How Your Links Are Processed

01

You paste a public link

The link is sent from your browser to ReelDown over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The paste button reads your clipboard only when you tap it, and only if your browser allows it.

02

We fetch the public media

Our servers request the media from the platform's public servers or through third-party media-processing services. These services receive the public link you submitted, not your IP address, your name or any account details.

03

You save the file

The available photos, videos or audio are shown on the page so you can preview and save them. ReelDown does not publish what you download and does not build a library of other people's content.

Cookies

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser. ReelDown and its partners use the following:

  • Theme preference (local storage). The key chlak-theme remembers whether you chose light or dark mode. It stays in your browser until you clear your site data.
  • Security cookie (first party). A small cookie set by ReelDown helps confirm that tool requests come from a real visit to the site and helps block bots. It is not used for analytics or advertising.
  • Google Analytics cookies. Cookies such as _ga and _ga_* distinguish visits and sessions so we can measure how the site is used. They can last up to two years.
  • Advertising cookies. Google and its advertising partners may set or read cookies, or use similar identifiers, to show ads, limit how often you see the same ad and measure ad performance.
Analytics

Google Analytics

ReelDown uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google, to understand how visitors use the site: for example which pages are visited, how long visits last, which website or search engine referred the visit, the type of device and browser, and the approximate country or city. This helps us fix problems and improve the tools and guides.

Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses, and we do not use Google Analytics to identify individual visitors.

Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You can opt out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Advertising

Advertising and Google AdSense

ReelDown uses Google AdSense to display ads. Ads help keep ReelDown free to use.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to ReelDown or other websites.
  • Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to ReelDown and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info or, in Europe, www.youronlinechoices.eu.

If you opt out, you will still see ads, but they may be less relevant to you. For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google serves personalized ads only where consent has been given; otherwise non-personalized or limited ads may be shown.

For more details, see how Google uses cookies in advertising.

Infrastructure

Hosting, Server Logs and Cloudflare

01

Cloudflare

ReelDown is delivered through Cloudflare, which protects the site from attacks and speeds up page delivery. Cloudflare processes connection and request information, such as IP addresses, to provide these services.

02

Server logs

Our web server keeps access and error logs for security, troubleshooting and abuse prevention. Logs are rotated daily and only a limited number of recent copies are kept.

03

Security

All traffic uses HTTPS. The site sends security headers, including a content security policy, and limits tool requests to prevent abuse. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Use of information

How We Use Information

Provide the tools

To process the public links you submit and show you the photos, videos or audio that are available.

Keep ReelDown secure

To detect and block bots, scraping and other abuse. For this, we keep a temporary count of tool requests per IP address or network range, and the count resets every day.

Measure and improve

To understand which pages and tools are useful, find errors, and improve speed and content.

Show ads

To display ads through Google AdSense, which keeps ReelDown free.

No sale of personal data

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the service providers described in this policy, or when the law requires it.

Retention

How Long Information Is Kept

Tool results: kept in a short-term server cache, typically from 15 minutes to a few hours, so repeated requests for the same public link load faster, and then discarded.

Temporary media files: some videos, such as Facebook videos where picture and sound must be combined, are prepared as a temporary file on our media server and deleted automatically after a short time.

Request limits: daily request counters are reset every day.

Server logs: rotated daily and kept only for a limited number of days.

Google Analytics: data is kept according to the retention settings of our Google Analytics property.

Emails: messages you send us are kept only as long as needed to answer and follow up on your request.

Your rights

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Europe and the UK

If the GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, you have the right to access, correct or delete personal data about you, to object to or restrict its processing, and to complain to your local data protection authority.

We process technical data on the basis of our legitimate interest in running a secure and useful website, and we rely on consent where the law requires it.

California

California residents have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. ReelDown does not sell personal information. You can limit ad personalization through Google Ads Settings or your browser settings.

How to make a request

Email [email protected]. Because ReelDown has no accounts, we may need details such as the approximate date and time of your visit to find related records. Some information, such as cached results, may already have been deleted automatically.

Children

Children's Privacy

ReelDown is not directed to children under 13, or under the minimum age required in your country, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Other services

Third-Party Platforms and International Transfers

ReelDown is an independent website and is not affiliated with Instagram, Facebook, Meta, TikTok or Pinterest. When you open a link to one of these platforms, or to any other website, that website's own privacy policy applies. See our DMCA, Copyright & Disclaimer page for more information.

Our servers, and those of our service providers, may be located in countries other than yours, including countries in the European Union and the United States. When personal data is transferred internationally, it is protected by the safeguards our providers offer, such as standard contractual clauses.

Changes

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when ReelDown's tools, service providers or legal requirements change. The effective date below shows when it was last updated, so please review this page from time to time.

Effective date: October 16, 2026

Contact

Privacy Questions

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy request, contact us:

Email: [email protected]

You can also reach us through the contact page.