9vids DMCA policy and the laws we abide by

9vids holds no GDPR certification and we don't pretend otherwise. How it measures up against the Regulation's principles is something we can show, article by article.

Article 5 asks for data minimisation and storage limitation. The only visitor records we keep are the three scrambled counter entries described above, which we treat as personal data even though they're scrambled, and deleting them within 24 hours is our answer to storage limitation. Our basis for them is legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f). Without some limit, a few scripts could eat up a service that everyone else relies on, and the counters are what stop that; they aren't used for anything else.

Articles 15 to 22 give you the rights to access, correct and erase your data, to restrict or object to its use, and to data portability, and any of them can be used by writing to privacy@9-vids.com. Expect a short reply, though. Records this scrambled and this short-lived usually leave nothing we could link to you by the time a request arrives, and when that's so we'll tell you plainly. Under Article 77 you can also take a complaint to the supervisory authority where you live.

The UK kept the GDPR's principles in its own law, next to the Data Protection Act 2018, so the entry above holds for visitors in the United Kingdom too, rights and the privacy@9-vids.com address included. Cookie rules in the UK sit in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations instead, and what the ePrivacy entry below says about 9vids and cookies holds under them too. If our answer to a request doesn't satisfy you, the Information Commissioner's Office takes complaints.

Article 5(3) of the Directive is about storing or reading information on your device, which is what cookies do, and 9vids itself sets none. The nearest thing is a signed pass the page holds in memory for about 30 minutes to show a real browser is asking, which never becomes a cookie and isn't kept on our server.

Google is a different story. Google Analytics counts our visitors and leaves cookies of its own; the cookies page names them and gives four ways to refuse them, and the download tool works the same with all of them blocked.

The 2001 Directive gives authors the exclusive right to authorise copies of their work and its communication to the public, while leaving member states some room to allow private copying. Article 17 arrived with the 2019 Directive. It requires services that store and give the public access to large amounts of user uploads to get permission from rights holders, or to make best efforts to keep unlicensed works off their service.

9vids stores no content, accepts no uploads and publishes nothing; each file goes from the platform to the one person who asked for it, and no copy stays behind. We still act on rights holders' notices through the block list, and our terms rule out the same uses listed further up. Whether keeping a personal copy is allowed depends on the law where you live and on the platform's own terms, and checking that is up to you.

Duties under the DSA scale with what an online service does and how large it is. 9vids is small. It has no user accounts, no hosted content, no feed and no recommendation system, and it publishes nothing from its users, while most of the Act's obligations are written for hosting services, online platforms and very large platforms, which store or spread what their users post.

Some duties apply to every intermediary service all the same, including a single point of contact for authorities and for users (Articles 11 and 12) and clear terms and conditions (Article 14). Our point of contact is contact@9-vids.com, in English, and notices about specific content go to dmca@9-vids.com. The terms set out what the tool does and doesn't allow, and anyone in the EU can use the notice process on this page.

Section 512 sets out how online services handle copyright notices and counter-notices. With nothing hosted there's never a file to take down, so the same process runs against the block list instead, using the notice elements in §512(c)(3), the counter-notice elements in §512(g)(3) and the warning against false notices in §512(f), all covered earlier on this page.

Californians have rights under the CCPA, as amended by the CPRA, to ask what personal information a business collects, to have it deleted or corrected, to opt out of its sale or sharing, and to use those rights without being treated differently. 9vids doesn't sell personal information or build a profile of anyone, and it has no data broker, no email list and no accounts. Requests go to privacy@9-vids.com. In most cases we'll have to reply that the scrambled counter records were already deleted.

The 13 Australian Privacy Principles expect an organisation to be open about the personal information it handles, collect only what it needs, keep it secure and let people see and correct it. You don't give 9vids a name, an email address or an account to use it. The few scrambled records the limits rely on are the ones listed above, and this page and the privacy policy say openly what's held. Questions can come to privacy@9-vids.com, or you can go to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Creators and rights holders covered by the Copyright Act 1968 use the same notice and block process as everyone else, without citing US law.

India notified the DPDP Act's Rules in November 2025, and they're coming into force in stages. Between them, the Act and its Rules ask that personal data be used for a clear, lawful purpose, kept no longer than that purpose needs and protected with reasonable safeguards. On 9vids the scrambled counter records serve the download limits and nothing else.

The 2021 Intermediary Rules, as amended in 2026, ask an intermediary to publish a grievance contact, acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 7 days. For users in India our grievance contact is the founder, Mohammad Ahsan. Copyright complaints go to dmca@9-vids.com, anything about personal data to privacy@9-vids.com, and the rest to contact@9-vids.com. We acknowledge within 24 hours and aim to resolve each complaint within 7 days.

Under the Copyright Act, 1957, rights holders use the notice and block process described above, the same as anyone.

All three laws stand on the same foundation. Personal data should be collected for a specific purpose, kept only as long as that purpose needs, protected, and made available to the person it concerns when they ask. 9vids meets that mostly by collecting very little in the first place, and what it does collect is never sold or built into a profile.

Visitors in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and elsewhere in the region can write to privacy@9-vids.com, and their requests are answered on the same terms as anyone else's.

POPIA sets eight conditions for lawful processing, among them processing limitation, purpose specification, openness and security safeguards. The Acts in Nigeria and Kenya rest on similar principles and give people the right to access, correct and delete data about them. 9vids keeps its processing to the scrambled records the download limits need, and it says so openly, here and in the privacy policy.

For requests to us, the address is privacy@9-vids.com. People in these countries can also turn to their regulator: the Information Regulator in South Africa, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, or the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Kenya.

Brazil's LGPD and the ten fair information principles in PIPEDA ask much the same of a service, which is to limit what it collects, explain it openly, protect it and let people access and correct it. On 9vids that comes to one short list, the scrambled counter records the download limits run on. Write to privacy@9-vids.com with a request. In Canada you can also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and in Brazil the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD).