Terms

Draft — pending legal review. This page is a working draft for Firgie's invite-only beta and may change before it is final. It isn't legal advice.

The beta

• Firgie is an invite-only beta for people 18 and over who live in the United States. Features, limits and availability may change, and uploads may be paused at any time.
• You must be 18 or over and live in the United States. Invitations are personal: don't share them or your sign-in links.
• Firgie may revoke invitations and suspend accounts that break these terms or the acceptable-use rules. Suspended accounts can't upload, register or edit links; their past records stay as described below.
• You sign in with an email link and can sign out at any time.

Registering

• Only register videos you made or are authorized to register.
• Before a video can be registered, a Firgie reviewer watches the private copy once to check it against our content rules. The review isn't a check of authorship, ownership or licensing. Passing the review doesn't mean Firgie endorses the video.
• Registration is completed after a safety review. The registered time is when registration is completed, not when you uploaded. If someone else registers a matching video before then, theirs is the earlier entry.
• Reviews usually take less than 24 hours and never more than 72 hours; we'll email you. If the review isn't done in time, the upload expires and you can upload again.
• Your display name is shown publicly, is part of the signed receipt, and is permanent: it can't be changed or corrected later.

What a record means

• First registered means the earliest matching entry in Firgie's registry — not authorship, copyright ownership, or a legal finding.
• Time is server-recorded, not independently certified.
• A signed receipt shows that Firgie signed certain facts at the time. It doesn't prove who owns the video or say anything about its content.
• A registration may later be marked disputed or revoked, or withheld from public view. Its history isn't erased, and receipts already issued aren't changed or re-signed, so a receipt saved earlier may still verify. The record's page shows its current status, and that status takes precedence.
• Firgie doesn't decide who owns a video. If ownership is contested, a record can be marked disputed.

Publication links

• Publication links are supplied by the creator and are not verified by Firgie.
• Firgie doesn't visit, check or monitor linked pages. Following a link is at your own risk. Misleading, malicious or unlawful links are removed and may lead to suspension.

Your data

Uploaded files are deleted right after analysis, and always within 24 hours. For a video you register, Firgie makes a private reduced-resolution copy that a Firgie reviewer watches once; it's deleted if the video isn't registered within 72 hours, and kept while the registration exists if it is. It's never shown publicly. If we suspect content is illegal, or the law requires it, we may keep it longer and restrict access to it. Details are on the privacy page.

Report a concern

To report a registration, a match page, a link or abuse, email abuse@firgie.com with the record ID. See Reporting for what to include and what happens next. Other questions: support@firgie.com.