DMCA Policy

If you are the creator of a Reel, post, Story or profile picture and you want Instapdown to stop serving it from cache, email dmca@instapdown.com with:

• The Instagram URL(s) you want removed from our cache.
• Confirmation that you are the creator (a screenshot of the post from inside your own Instagram account is enough — we do not need anything more formal than that).

We remove the cache entry within 24 hours. We also add the URL to a server-side block list so our extractors refuse to fetch it again. This costs you nothing, requires no lawyer, and does not need to fit the DMCA statutory format below. We do not push back, do not ask for justification, and do not require an explanation.

If you prefer (or need) to file a formal DMCA notice — for example because you represent a copyright owner and need to create a paper trail — send a written notice to dmca@instapdown.com that includes all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)):

1. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed.
2. The exact URL on instapdown.com (or specific Instagram URL we are caching) where the allegedly infringing material appears.
3. Your contact information: full legal name, postal address, telephone number, email.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on its behalf.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

Notices missing any required element are not valid DMCA notices and may be set aside. We acknowledge valid notices within 24 hours and act on them within 48.

Instapdown maintains an explicit repeat-infringer policy. Two patterns trigger action:

• Visitor side: an IP address or session that systematically downloads another creator's entire catalog is rate-limited, then blocked. We do not need a court order to do this.
• Notice side: an account submitting repeated invalid or bad-faith notices (impersonating a creator they do not represent, for instance) is blocked from future submissions and reported to legal counsel.

Knowingly false notices may make the sender liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

1. Identification of the removed material and its previous URL.
2. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the removal was a mistake or misidentification.
3. Your name, address, telephone number, and a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the US Federal District Court for the district where you live (or, if outside the US, the Southern District of New York, where our service provider is located), and that you will accept service from the original notice-sender.
4. Your signature.

We forward valid counter-notices to the original sender. Per 17 U.S.C. § 512(g), if the original sender does not file court action within 10–14 business days, we may restore the material.

• Scrape private accounts. Instapdown only resolves URLs from public Instagram profiles. We do not, will not, and have never offered an “anonymous viewer for private accounts” feature.
• Bypass Instagram's access controls. Login-walled content, paid-subscription posts, and friend-only restrictions return graceful errors — never auth-bypass paths.
• Host the downloaded media. The file you save comes directly from Instagram's CDN to your browser. Instapdown never holds the bytes.
• Sell or share user data. We do not log paste content past the cache key. We do not sell visitor data to third parties. See Privacy Policy for the full data-handling story.

These are not aspirational statements. They are architectural commitments — most are enforced by the URL parser and the proxy-only API design before any code path could violate them.