Terms of Service

Last updated: July 17, 2026

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(this summary is for convenience only and is not legally binding - if it conflicts with the full text below, the full text governs):

- No accounts needed. You upload a file, get a link, that's it.
- Files expire automatically, up to a default maximum of 14 days (instances may configure a different ceiling). Default max file size is 5GB.
- Don't upload illegal content, CSAM, malware, non-consensual intimate imagery, or stuff you don't have rights to. CSAM is reported to authorities immediately.
- Legal adult content is allowed, but links are hotlinked with no age-gate, and content can still be pulled if it breaks our infrastructure providers' (e.g. Cloudflare's) own rules.
- We're a "hosting provider" under French law (LCEN), not a publisher - we don't review uploads before they go live, but we act on valid reports and legal notices.
- We encrypt your IP address (AES-256-GCM) for storage and compute a separate HMAC hash for abuse prevention and rate-limiting. The encrypted IP may be decrypted by administrators when required for abuse investigation or legal obligations. A session cookie lets you manage your own uploads. Lose the cookie, lose access - we can't recover it.
- Service is free and provided "as is," no uptime or data-loss guarantees. We can suspend, restrict, or discontinue it anytime.
- Disputes go through informal negotiation first, then French courts, under French law.
- You must be 15+ to use the Service.

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Welcome to JuiceBox² ("we," "us," "the Service"), a free, anonymous file-hosting and link-sharing service available at box.juicey.dev. The Service is currently provided free of charge and without advertising, but we reserve the right to introduce advertising, sponsorships, donation prompts, or other monetization in the future; if that happens, we will update these Terms and, where required, our Privacy Policy accordingly. By uploading a file or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you don't agree, don't use the Service. These Terms form a legally binding agreement between you and the operator of this instance, and using the Service in any way, including simply viewing a file someone else uploaded, indicates your acceptance of them where applicable.

JuiceBox² lets anyone upload an image, video, or audio file without creating an account, and generates a shareable link to that file. No registration, login, or payment is required. The Service is intended for casual, non-commercial file sharing, and we don't offer any service-level guarantees around speed, storage capacity, or availability. Each instance may impose its own maximum file size for uploads; on this instance, the default limit is 5GB per file, though this may change without notice as we adjust for storage capacity and abuse prevention. We also apply a general rate limit on how frequently a given IP address may upload files, to prevent abuse of the Service; the exact limit is not published and may be adjusted at any time.

Legal adult content (NSFW) is permitted on the Service, provided it complies with the Acceptable Use rules below, in particular the prohibitions on CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery, and content you don't have the legal right to share. Because files are served directly via hotlink, with no landing page, age gate, or content warning shown before the file loads, we are not able to label, gate, or contextually warn viewers about adult content the way a typical hosting site might. This also means such content must comply with the acceptable-use policies of the third-party infrastructure providers we rely on to operate the Service, such as Cloudflare; we reserve the right to remove content, without notice, that we believe violates those providers' own policies, independent of whether it complies with these Terms, and such removals may happen automatically or without our own review of the content in question.

The software powering JuiceBox² is, or will be, open source. These Terms apply only to this specific instance, running at box.juicey.dev, operated by us. If you encounter other instances of this software run by third parties, whether self-hosted or otherwise, those instances are operated independently, under their own terms, retention policies, and moderation, and we are not responsible for them in any way, including for content hosted there or how they handle your data. Once published, the code will be released under the MIT License, which permits modification, redistribution, and forking, including for commercial use, provided the original copyright notice is retained. The MIT License governs the code itself and is separate from these Terms, which govern your use of this particular instance.

You must be at least 15 years old to use the Service, as this is the digital age of consent set by French law under the GDPR. If you are under 18, you should have a parent or guardian's permission, and by using the Service you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement and that any information you provide (such as content metadata) is accurate. We have no reliable way to verify your age given the account-free nature of the Service, and rely on your representation in good faith; using the Service while under the minimum age in violation of these Terms may result in your access being revoked at any time. Anyone acting in an administrative, moderation, or operational capacity for the Service, including but not limited to server access, content moderation decisions, or acting as a point of contact for legal or abuse purposes, must be at least 18 years old, or an emancipated minor with full legal capacity under French law. This is separate from, and stricter than, the 15-and-up threshold for ordinary users, reflecting the contractual and legal responsibilities involved in operating the Service.

You agree not to upload, host, or share content that is illegal under the laws of the United States or your local jurisdiction; that depicts or facilitates child sexual abuse material, which will be reported to the relevant authorities, such as France's PHAROS platform and/or the U.S. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), immediately and without warning; that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights; that contains malware, viruses, exploits, or other malicious code; that depicts non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called "revenge porn"; that is used for phishing, scams, doxxing, harassment, or targeted abuse; that violates the privacy or publicity rights of any person; or that you do not otherwise have the legal right to share. You also agree not to use the Service to circumvent rate limits or abuse detection through automated means, not to attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or its infrastructure without our prior written consent, and not to use the Service in any way that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair it or interfere with any other party's use of it. We reserve the right to remove any file and/or block any user, by IP address or otherwise, at our discretion, with or without notice, for violating these Terms or for any other reason we deem appropriate to protect the Service or its users. We also reserve the right to restrict or block access to the Service from specific countries or regions, including where required by sanctions, export control laws, or other legal obligations, or where we determine in good faith that doing so is necessary to manage legal risk or abuse originating from a particular region; such restrictions may be applied or lifted at any time without notice. Separately, because we rely on third-party infrastructure providers, such as our hosting provider and Cloudflare, to operate the Service, your content and use of the Service must also comply with those providers' own acceptable use policies. Content or activity that violates a provider's policies may be removed or restricted automatically, at the provider's initiative, or at ours, independent of whether it complies with these Terms, and we are not liable for any such removal.

Because the Service doesn't require accounts, we cannot verify who uploaded a file, and we cannot let you log in to manage your uploads after the fact beyond the session cookie described below. Files may be deleted for inactivity, storage limits, abuse reports, technical failure, or at our discretion, with or without notice. Uploaded files are automatically deleted after your chosen expiration time, up to a default maximum of 14 days; this is a ceiling, not a fixed retention period, and files chosen for shorter expiration will be deleted sooner. The instance may also enforce a minimum expiration time, so you may not be able to set a file to expire immediately or after an unreasonably short period; both the minimum and maximum are configurable per instance. Depending on the instance's configuration, this maximum may be set differently, but we do not guarantee retention up to that limit in every case, and files may be removed earlier for abuse, legal, or storage reasons. We do not provide backups of uploaded content, and we are not responsible for any loss of data resulting from server failure, maintenance, migration, or discontinuation of the Service. If you need a link to stay up, monitoring that and maintaining your own copy of the file is your responsibility; we're not obligated to keep it available. If you clear your cookies, switch browsers or devices, or otherwise lose the deletion-token cookie described in the Privacy section below, you will lose the ability to manage or delete that upload yourself, and this is not recoverable; because we don't collect accounts or identifying information, we have no way to verify ownership of a file or reissue a lost deletion token, even upon request.

You retain whatever rights you already have in files you upload. By uploading, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, transmit, reproduce, and display that file solely for the purpose of operating the Service, meaning serving the link you generated and performing the technical functions, such as caching or format handling, reasonably necessary to do so. This license ends when the file is deleted, whether automatically or otherwise, except to the extent copies persist in routine backups or caches for a reasonable technical wind-down period. You are solely responsible for the content you upload and for having the rights to share it, and you represent and warrant that your use of the Service does not and will not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate the intellectual property or other rights of any third party.

As we are governed by French law, formal copyright takedown requests follow the notice procedure set out in Article 6 of the Loi pour la Confiance dans l'Économie Numérique (LCEN), rather than the U.S. DMCA, though we will also generally honor properly formatted DMCA notices as a courtesy given the international nature of the internet. If you believe content hosted on JuiceBox² infringes your copyright, send a notice to dmca@juicey.dev including identification of the copyrighted work, the URL or link of the infringing file, your contact information, a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is unauthorized, and a statement that the notice is accurate and that you're authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder. We'll remove infringing content upon receiving a valid, sufficiently detailed notice, consistent with our obligations as a hosting provider under LCEN. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to reinstate content or restore access if we determine in good faith that a takedown notice was invalid, fraudulent, or mistaken, and repeat infringers may be permanently blocked from the Service at our discretion. Because uploads aren't tied to accounts, we track repeat infringement by the hashed IP identifier described in our Privacy Policy: an IP hash associated with three or more valid, unrebutted takedown notices within a rolling 12-month period will generally be permanently blocked from uploading to the Service, though we retain discretion to block sooner, or to allow additional notices before blocking, depending on the severity and circumstances of each case.

To report illegal or abusive content, contact abuse@juicey.dev. Reports may be reviewed manually before action is taken, though we reserve the right to act on automated detection alone where appropriate. Reports involving apparent child sexual abuse material will be escalated immediately to the relevant authorities, including France's PHAROS platform at internet-signalement.gouv.fr and/or NCMEC where applicable, and such reports may involve manual review by us to confirm the report is well-founded before or alongside escalation, though we may also escalate immediately without waiting for review where we believe the risk warrants it. We may also proactively report content to law enforcement or relevant authorities where we believe in good faith that doing so is legally required or necessary to prevent harm, without prior notice to the uploader.

Under French law, specifically LCEN Article 6, JuiceBox² acts as a hosting provider, or hébergeur, for user-uploaded content, not as a publisher or editor of that content. We do not review files before they are made available, and we are not liable for their content, provided that we had no actual knowledge of the illegal nature of the content, and that upon obtaining such knowledge, for example via a report to abuse@juicey.dev or a valid legal notice, we act promptly to remove or disable access to it. This status does not exempt us from cooperating with valid judicial or administrative requests, including preserving data, such as hashed IPs where still available, as required by law.

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," with no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including no warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, uptime, availability, or security. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, and we may modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time and without notice or liability.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, JuiceBox² and its operator are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service, including loss of data, loss of access to uploaded files, lost profits, or content posted by third parties, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. As the Service is provided free of charge, we aim to limit our liability to the greatest extent the law allows, and in any case where liability cannot be fully excluded, our total liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us to use the Service in the twelve months prior to the claim, which, given the Service is free, we anticipate will typically be zero. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under French law, such as liability for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless JuiceBox² and its operator from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in any way connected with your violation of these Terms, your misuse of the Service, or content you upload, except to the extent such claims arise from our own gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Files hosted on the Service are uploaded by third parties. We do not review most content before it's made available and are not responsible for what users upload, beyond our obligations to respond to valid legal notices as described above. Links to or from third-party websites or services that may appear within uploaded content are not under our control, and we are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or practices.

We encrypt your IP address using AES-256-GCM before storing it in our database, and compute a separate HMAC hash for rate-limiting and identifying repeat abusers. The encryption ensures that raw IP addresses are not stored in plaintext, while the HMAC hash allows us to enforce bans and rate limits without exposing the original IP. The encrypted IP may be decrypted by authorized administrators when required for abuse investigation or to comply with valid legal obligations under French law (e.g. judicial requests). The HMAC hash is not reversible and is not visible to administrators. Both the encrypted IP and the hash are deleted when the associated file expires, except where retained for active bans or legal requirements. We use a cookie to store a private key or deletion token that lets you locate and delete files you've uploaded during your session; this cookie is not tied to your IP and expires when the associated file expires. Basic traffic analytics are handled via Cloudflare, without any individual tracking mechanism such as fingerprinting or cross-site tracking. As of this writing, the Service is hosted on DigitalOcean infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany. We plan to migrate to Oracle Cloud in the future, and hosting location and provider may change, including to outside the EU, as our infrastructure evolves; we'll update our Privacy Policy if that happens. Because we operate under EU law, this processing is carried out in line with the GDPR, and full details are available in our separate Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms by reference.

We may block, rate-limit, or deny access to any user or IP address at any time, for any reason, without notice, including for suspected abuse, excessive load, or violations of these Terms. Provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination of your access, including but not limited to ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnification, and limitations of liability, will survive.

We make a best-effort attempt to design the Service to be broadly accessible, including reasonable alignment with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), but we do not guarantee full conformance, and as a free, individually operated project we may not always have the resources to address every accessibility issue immediately. If you encounter an accessibility barrier using the Service, you're welcome to let us know at legal@juicey.dev, and we'll make reasonable efforts to address it where feasible.

These Terms are governed by French law. Before initiating any formal legal proceeding, both parties agree to first attempt to resolve the dispute informally by contacting legal@juicey.dev with a written description of the issue; each party will then have a reasonable period, generally 30 days, to attempt to resolve the matter through good-faith negotiation before pursuing litigation. If a dispute cannot be resolved this way, it will fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent French courts, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection rules that may apply in your country of residence if you are an EU consumer, including your right to bring proceedings in the courts of your own country of residence where such mandatory rules apply. Nothing in this section limits any right you may have to lodge a complaint with a relevant data protection or consumer authority.

If you are accessing the Service from outside the European Union, to the fullest extent permitted by the law applicable to you, you agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not as part of a class, consolidated, or representative action, and you waive any right to participate in a class action or class-wide arbitration against us. This waiver does not apply to EU consumers to the extent it would conflict with mandatory consumer-protection law in their country of residence.

If any provision of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of that right or provision, and any waiver must be in writing to be effective. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral, on the subject. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them without our prior written consent; we may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a change in operator, merger, or transfer of the Service. Neither party will be liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, war, internet or infrastructure outages, or acts of government.

We may update these Terms at any time. Continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms, so you should check back periodically. The "Last updated" date at the top will reflect the most recent revision, and for material changes we will make reasonable efforts to make the update noticeable, though given the account-free nature of the Service we cannot notify individual users directly.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to legal@juicey.dev.

Disclaimer: This document has not been verified by a lawyer but generally validable.