Terms of Use

By accessing or using FormatHive, you agree to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

You must be at least 13 and legally able to enter this agreement. If local law requires a higher age or parental authorization, that requirement applies. If you act for an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind it.

FormatHive provides browser-based formatting, validation, conversion, viewing, comparison, preview, educational, and related developer utilities. Features, engines, limits, output, availability, and supported formats may change.

Tools assist with developer workflows but do not replace professional security review, schema validation, legal review, financial review, or verification against an authoritative source. You must test output before relying on it in production.

Free access may be supported by advertisements. Future paid, API, or premium capabilities are not included unless separately offered and accepted.

You retain ownership of content you lawfully place in the tools. You grant FormatHive only the limited rights needed to process a feature you intentionally request, such as fetching a URL, producing a share link, receiving an issue report, or responding to support.

You represent that you have all rights and permissions necessary for the content and processing you initiate. Do not submit secrets, credentials, unlawful material, or third-party personal data without authority.

You are responsible for reviewing output, protecting shared links, maintaining backups, and complying with licenses, contracts, export controls, privacy law, and organizational policies.

You must follow the Acceptable Use Policy. Among other restrictions, do not attack the service, bypass limits, scrape abusively, introduce malware, infringe rights, process unlawful content, impersonate others, or use the service to facilitate harm.

We may investigate, rate limit, suspend, block, remove, or report activity when reasonably necessary to protect the service, users, third parties, or legal compliance.

The service, brand, interface, original content, software, and design are owned by or licensed to the operator and protected by applicable intellectual-property law. These Terms grant a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the public service for its intended purpose.

Open-source components remain subject to their own licenses. Third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners. You may provide feedback; if you do, we may use it without restriction or payment, subject to the Privacy Policy.

The service may link to, import from, embed, or display content from third parties, including ad, analytics, video, and infrastructure providers. Their terms and privacy practices apply independently.

An advertisement is not an endorsement. Transactions or disputes with advertisers or external services are between you and that third party, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

We aim to provide a reliable service but do not guarantee uninterrupted access, permanent storage, compatibility with every browser or payload, or continued availability of any feature. Maintenance, incidents, provider failures, abuse controls, or legal requirements can affect access.

We may modify, discontinue, or limit features and may impose payload, request, storage, geographic, or usage limits. Where reasonably practicable, material changes will be communicated.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, and error-free operation.

We do not warrant that output is syntactically, semantically, legally, or operationally correct for your use case. Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the operator and its affiliates, personnel, and providers are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive loss, or for lost profits, revenue, goodwill, data, or business interruption arising from the service.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for the service during the 12 months before the event or USD 100, subject to mandatory consumer law. This limitation does not apply where prohibited, including liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

To the extent permitted by law, you will defend and indemnify the operator from third-party claims and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful content, violation of these Terms, infringement of rights, or misuse of the service. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim results from the operator’s own unlawful conduct.

You may stop using the service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for material or repeated violations, security risk, legal requirements, nonpayment of a separately agreed paid service, or discontinuation.

Provisions that by their nature should survive, including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnity, and dispute provisions, remain effective after termination.

The governing law and venue, when configured in the operator details, apply without regard to conflict-of-law rules, subject to mandatory consumer, privacy, and other rights in your place of residence.

Before filing a claim, contact the legal address and allow 30 days for a good-faith attempt to resolve the dispute, unless urgent relief or applicable law permits otherwise.

Nothing in these Terms prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using a regulator, court, consumer forum, or other mechanism that applicable law guarantees.

If a provision is unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions remain effective. Failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without consent; the operator may assign them as part of a reorganization or transfer of the service.

These Terms and incorporated policies are the entire agreement about the public service unless a separate written agreement applies. Headings are for convenience. Electronic notices may be provided through the service or contact information you supply.