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Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 9, 2026. This Privacy Policy explains how VideoDownload.best collects, uses, and protects information when you use the website and its Instagram downloader tools.
definitions
Interpretation And Definitions
"Service" means the VideoDownload.best website, downloader pages, local resolver API, and related support pages. "You" means the person using the Service. "Submitted URL" means the Instagram link you paste into the downloader. "Cached asset" means a temporary media file prepared so you can download a public result. "Personal information" means details that can identify you, such as contact details or technical request data linked to you.
VideoDownload.best is independent and is not affiliated with Instagram, Meta, or any supported platform.
data we process
Information We Process
- Submitted Instagram URLs, only as needed to resolve a public post, Reel, video, photo, or carousel.
- Technical request data such as time, browser type, page path, error state, and approximate network metadata for security and debugging.
- Temporary media cache metadata such as platform, format, size, duration, expiration time, and removal status.
- Contact, support, copyright, DMCA, or abuse report details that you choose to send us.
We do not ask for and do not collect Instagram login credentials, passwords, or authentication tokens. The Service works with public links only and does not access private accounts.
Where practical, production systems should store source URLs, IP addresses, and user agents as keyed hashes rather than raw values.
use of data
How We Use Information
- To provide the downloader workflow and return available public media results.
- To prevent abuse, enforce rate limits, investigate errors, and protect infrastructure costs.
- To process support messages, copyright notices, DMCA requests, and abuse reports.
- To improve reliability, page performance, accessibility, and internationalized user experience.
We process information based on providing the Service you request, our legitimate interests in security and abuse prevention, and compliance with legal obligations where applicable.
cookies
Cookies, Local Storage, And Tracking Choices
The static website may use local storage to remember your language preference. Essential security cookies may be used in production to protect the resolver, rate limits, or contact forms.
- Essential: required for core functionality, security, and rate limiting. These cannot be turned off.
- Functional: remember preferences such as your selected language.
- Analytics and performance: may be added later to understand reliability and usage; this policy will be updated first.
- Advertising: no Google advertising component is part of the current website output.
Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies in their settings. Our Service does not respond to "Do Not Track" signals in a special way, and we do not sell personal information. If analytics, advertising, consent tools, or other third-party services are added later, this policy must be updated before launch.
retention
Retention And Temporary Cache
The production plan uses short-lived private media caching. Cached assets should expire automatically, and valid copyright or abuse reports should remove matching cached objects early. Cached media is not intended to become a public searchable library.
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described here, including operational logs retained for debugging, anti-abuse, legal compliance, and service reliability. Contact messages and DMCA records may be retained longer when needed for legal or support follow-up, then deleted or anonymized when no longer required.
sharing transfer
Sharing, Disclosure, And Transfer
We may share limited information with infrastructure, hosting, storage, database, analytics, security, and support providers when they are needed to operate the Service. We may also disclose information if required by law, valid legal process, copyright enforcement, abuse prevention, or to protect users and the Service.
Your information may be processed by providers located in other countries that have different data protection laws. Where required, we seek to use appropriate safeguards for such transfers.
your rights
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information, including the right to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or objection to processing, and to withdraw consent.
- GDPR (EEA, UK, Switzerland): you may access, correct, delete, restrict, or port your data, object to processing, and lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
- CCPA / CPRA (California): you may know what personal information is collected, request deletion, correct inaccurate data, and opt out of any "sale" or "sharing." VideoDownload.best does not sell personal information.
- Other regions: local consumer privacy laws may give you similar rights.
To exercise these rights, contact us through the Contact or DMCA pages. We respond within the time frame required by applicable law. No method of internet transmission or storage is perfectly secure; we use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, but cannot guarantee absolute security.
children links
Children, External Links, And Changes
The Service is not intended for children under 13 (or the minimum age required by applicable law), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The website may link to third-party websites; their privacy practices are controlled by their own policies. We may update this policy as the product changes, and the updated version will be posted on this page.
contact
Contact Us
Questions about privacy, your rights, copyright, or abuse handling can be sent through the Contact or DMCA pages, or by email at support@videodownload.best.