Acceptable use
EncodeKit is a set of free browser-based tools. You may use them for personal, educational and commercial work without paying a fee, and you do not need an account to use them. By using the site you agree to the rules on this page.
You agree not to use the site to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, or to harm other people. You also agree not to interfere with the site itself: no attempt to bypass its hosting limits, no automated request volume that degrades the service for other visitors, and no probing the infrastructure for vulnerabilities except through a responsible disclosure sent to the contact address below. The tools run in your browser, so there is no account, no upload and no user database to protect.
- Do not present the site or its content as your own product, and do not remove copyright or contact notices.
- Do not use the converters as the only check on data that matters: for legal, financial, medical or safety decisions, verify the original source with a second method.
- Do not use the site to process content you have no right to process, including material that infringes copyright or breaks data-protection law.
No warranty
The tools and all content on the site are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the fullest extent permitted by law we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.
The converters are deterministic and are tested against the standards they document, but that is not a guarantee that a particular string, file or edge case will be handled correctly for your purpose. Encoding and decoding can lose information when they are applied incorrectly, and this site cannot verify where your data came from or what you intend to do with the output. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you; your local consumer rights are not removed by these terms.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, EncodeKit and the people who maintain it will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, revenue or goodwill, arising out of or relating to your use of the site or its tools. This applies whether the claim is based on warranty, contract, tort or any other legal theory, and even if we have been advised that such damage is possible.
Because the service is free, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the site is limited to the amount you have paid to use it, which is zero. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you do not accept this limitation, the remedy is to stop using the site.
Intellectual property
The site’s design, text, layout and code are owned by the EncodeKit team and are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the tools for lawful purposes; this licence does not transfer ownership of the site or of any part of it.
The text you paste and the output you create belong to you, and we claim no ownership of them: content is processed in your browser and is not sent to us. You may use the output in commercial work without attribution. If you quote a substantial part of the site’s explanatory content, link back to the page instead of copying it, and do not republish the site as a whole or present its brand, text or design as your own.
Third-party links and services
At the time of this review, the site loads no third-party scripts, fonts, analytics or advertising code. If pages add links to other websites in the future, those links are provided for convenience only: we do not control the destination and are not responsible for its content, availability, accuracy or privacy practices. Visiting a third-party site is at your own risk and is governed by that site’s own terms.
The same applies to software mentioned in the documentation, such as command-line encoders, browsers and programming-language libraries. The commands and code snippets on the site are examples that you run on your own machine; you are responsible for checking what they do before running them on data you care about.
Changes to these terms
These terms may change when the site changes: a new tool, a new legal requirement or a correction to the text can all lead to an update. The current version is always this page, and the review date in the byline and footer shows when it was last changed. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms, so review this page when the date moves.
The site itself may be updated, suspended or discontinued at any time. Because there are no accounts and no stored data, discontinuing the site does not delete anything of yours: the tools are simply no longer available for download on request.
Contact
Questions about these terms, corrections, bug reports and permission requests can be sent to [email protected]. A useful message includes the page address, your browser and version, the exact input that caused a problem and what you expected to happen instead. The site is maintained by a small independent team, and email is the fastest way to reach a person who can act on the report.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use EncodeKit's tools for commercial work?
Yes. The tools are free for personal, educational and commercial use, and there is no licence fee or usage limit for the output. You do not need to credit EncodeKit when you use a converted value. The site's own text, design and code remain the property of the EncodeKit team and may not be republished as another product.
Is the output guaranteed to be accurate?
No warranty is given. The converters are deterministic and are tested against RFC 4648 and RFC 3986 examples, but encoding tools cannot know your source data or your intent. Verify anything important with a second method and keep a copy of the original value before converting it. If an input is handled incorrectly, send the exact string so it can be fixed and tested.
Do I need an account, and is my input uploaded?
No account is needed, and input is not uploaded. Every converter runs in your browser, so the text you paste never leaves the tab, there is no server-side conversion and the site stores no pasted content. The only optional local state is the cookie-consent choice, which is kept in localStorage so the banner does not reappear on every visit.