Terms

#Using 2L

You can make links without an account. With an account you also get somewhere to manage them, and links that do not expire on their own. You are responsible for what you upload and for who you give the link to — a link is unguessable but not secret, and anybody holding it can open it unless you put a password on it.

You must be old enough to agree to this where you live, and you must not use 2L on behalf of anybody who is barred from using it.

#What you may not upload

• Anything you do not have the right to share.
• Malware, ransomware, exploit kits, or anything designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to a system.
• Phishing pages, fake login forms, or content impersonating a person or an organisation.
• Sexual content involving minors. This is reported to the relevant authorities, always, without exception, and the account is closed.
• Content that harasses, threatens or targets a person, or that publishes their private information.
• Anything unlawful where you are or where we operate.

Programs — files that an operating system will execute, such as .exe, .msi, .apk and .jar — cannot be uploaded without an account, and can be uploaded on any paid plan, where there is a verified address and a card behind every upload. We do not scan files for malware and do not claim to; treat any program from a link you were sent the way you would treat any program from a stranger.

An uploaded web page is shown in a sandbox that cannot reach anything of 2L’s or of yours, and only ever inside our viewer, with a notice above it saying where it came from. Using one to imitate a login screen is still phishing and still ends the account.

#Link names

On Scale you can choose the name a link lives at instead of taking a random code. There is one namespace and it is first come, first served.

• A name is yours while the link it points at exists. Delete the link and the name goes back into the pool.
• Do not take a name to pass yourself off as somebody else, or as us. A name that impersonates a person, a company or a product is removed on report.
• Do not register names you have no use for in order to hold or resell them. Bulk registration for that purpose ends the account.
• Words we need for the site itself, and the names of our own plans, are reserved and cannot be taken.

A name is easier to guess than a random code, by design. That is a choice you are making about that particular link, not a change to how anything is protected — passwords, expiry and delete-after-reading all work exactly the same on a named link.

#Reports and removal

Every page that shows uploaded content has a report link, on every plan. Every report is read by a person, usually within a day. If something breaks these terms it is removed, and its fingerprint is blocked so the same file cannot be re-uploaded under a new name. Repeatedly uploading content that has to be removed ends the account.

If your content was removed and you think that was wrong, write to support@2l.nz with the link. A person will look again.

#Limits and fair use

Each plan has limits on file size, storage, links per calendar month and transfer per link per calendar month; they are listed on the pricing section and enforced by the software rather than by a policy. The transfer allowance is per link, so one popular file pauses on its own without affecting anything else you have shared.

2L is for sharing things with people. It is not a content delivery network, a backup service or a place to park an archive you never intend to open. We will get in touch before doing anything about an account that is clearly being used that way.

Storage is the one limit with teeth, because it is the one that costs something every month rather than once. It is enforced by the process described under Paying, which applies to any account over its allowance — not only to one whose plan lapsed.

#The API

Plans that include the API are listed on the pricing section, and the reference is at 2l.nz/docs. Requests are metered per account, per minute, at the rate your plan states.

A key acts as your whole account, so keep it as you would keep a password: one key per place you use it, revoked rather than deleted when it leaks. Everything you make through the API is subject to these terms exactly as if you had made it in the browser, and your account is responsible for it.

You may build whatever you like on top of it. You may not resell access to the API itself as though it were your own service.

#Paying

Paid plans are billed monthly or annually through Dodo Payments. Cancelling stops the renewal; you keep the plan until the end of the period you have paid for.

A plan ending does not delete anything by itself. After a seven-day grace period the account drops to free limits. If you are over the free storage allowance at that point your links pause — still visible to you, not to the public — until you renew or delete enough to fit.

If the account stays over its allowance, we do eventually reclaim the difference, and the whole process is written down here so it can never be a surprise:

• Day 0. The night you first go over, you get an email saying by how much, and naming the links that would be removed and in what order.
• Day 30 and day 53. Two more emails, with the days remaining.
• Day 60. The oldest links are deleted, and only as many as it takes to fit. An account 3 GB over loses 3 GB, not everything it holds. A final email names every link that went.

Two things stop it at any point before that date, and either one works on its own: renew the plan, or delete enough yourself. The countdown resets the moment the account is under its allowance again — it never resumes from where it left off, and it starts from zero if you ever go over later.

We would rather not do this at all. It is here because storage costs money every month whether or not anybody is paying for it, and an allowance that is never enforced is not an allowance — it is a bill we quietly hand to everybody else.

If something is genuinely wrong with the service, write to us and we will sort it out. We would rather refund somebody than argue with them.

#Closing an account

You can delete your account from your dashboard at any time, which removes your links, your files and your record. We can close an account that breaks these terms, and will say why when we do.

An account that has not been signed into for twelve months is dormant. We will email the address on it before removing anything, and give at least thirty days.

#The legal part

2L is provided as it is. We work hard to keep it available and your files intact, and we do not promise perfection: keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. To the extent the law allows, our liability is limited to what you have paid us in the twelve months before whatever went wrong.

If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands. Questions go to support@2l.nz.