Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using Broken Link Recovery (brokenlinkrecovery.com), you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any portion of these terms, you should discontinue use of the service.

2. Purpose & Description of Service

Broken Link Recovery provides diagnostic tools to test the live availability of URLs and query public web archives (including the Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX API) to assist users in locating historical snapshots and reading preserved web content.

3. Acceptable Use Policy

You agree to use Broken Link Recovery only for lawful, personal, academic, research, or diagnostic purposes. Specifically, you agree not to:

• Attempt to disrupt, overload, or flood the service through automated scripts, botnets, or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attempts.
• Abuse or overload upstream third-party APIs (such as the Internet Archive CDX server).
• Use the service to circumvent legal court orders or violate applicable copyright, trademark, or privacy laws.

4. Third-Party Content & Intellectual Property

Broken Link Recovery acts as a search indexer and visual reader for publicly accessible web archives. All archived content, text, media, trademarks, and logos displayed through historical snapshots are the intellectual property of their respective creators and original publishers.

Broken Link Recovery does not host, curate, or claim ownership over third-party materials. We are not responsible for the accuracy, legality, or integrity of content hosted on third-party servers or preserved by independent web archives.

5. Disclaimer of Affiliation

Broken Link Recovery is an independent open-web tool. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Internet Archive (archive.org). We gratefully utilize the public APIs provided by the Internet Archive in accordance with open web standards.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that every dead link will have an available archived snapshot.

7. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Broken Link Recovery and its contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use this service.

8. Modifications to Terms

We reserve the right to revise or replace these Terms of Service at any time. Continued use of the website following any changes constitutes acceptance of the new terms.