Terms of use
The rules for using SafeOrNah, what a verdict means and what it does not promise.
In short
SafeOrNah helps you know whether a link or a file is safe. The service is free, without ads, and provided as is. Its verdict is an opinion, not a guarantee.
By using SafeOrNah, you accept these terms. The privacy policy explains what we do with your data.
The service
SafeOrNah asks security services, adds the opinion of the community and that of an AI, and turns them into a score out of 100 and a verdict (Safe, Meh or Nah). For a file, only its fingerprint is checked, so the file does not leave your device.
We do our best to keep the service running, without guaranteeing that it is always available, nor that a third-party service answers. The team can at any time pause the analyses, put the site under maintenance, require signing in to analyze or close the sign-ups.
An indicative verdict
The verdict helps you decide, it guarantees nothing. The services can be wrong both ways. A dangerous file can go unnoticed, and a safe file can be flagged. The AI review is written automatically and can contain mistakes. A link or a file can also change after the analysis.
The team can add a note to an analysis page or set its verdict by hand, for instance after checking a false positive or a danger the services do not see. This is always shown on the page, and the results of the services stay visible. That verdict remains an opinion, not a guarantee.
SafeOrNah replaces neither an antivirus nor your caution. You remain responsible for what you open, download or run. Within the limits allowed by law, SafeOrNah is not liable for damage related to a verdict, a review or the service being unavailable.
Your account
You sign in with your Google, Apple, Microsoft or GitHub account, so you must also follow their terms. You are responsible for what is done with your account.
You can delete it at any time from your settings. It is immediate and final.
The browser extension
The SafeOrNah extension for Chrome and Firefox is part of the service, and these terms apply to it in the same way. Its warning page, the score on its icon and the marks on the links of your emails are advice, never a guarantee. A site the extension does not know is not safe for that matter, and a warning can be wrong. You can always continue to a site, at your own risk.
Connecting the extension gives it a device key for your account, with the same limits as the site. What it sends is described in its privacy policy.
Usage limits
Each account and each visitor has limits on analyses per day and per minute, AI reviews per day and file size. They are shown on the site, and the team can change them.
Opening an analysis page that already exists uses nothing. Running an analysis or an AI review again uses your quota, and is only possible after a delay.
What is not allowed
- getting around the limits, with several accounts, a change of IP address or automated bulk submissions;
- overloading or attacking the site, or trying to access what is not meant for you;
- posting in a review, an idea, a comment or your profile photo content that is illegal, insulting, hateful, misleading or promotional, or someone else's personal data;
- giving a false review, for example to pass off as safe a file you know is dangerous;
- sending to VirusTotal a file you are not allowed to share, or a personal document;
- sharing a device key, or using it from another program than the one it was created for.
Your reviews, your ideas and your comments are public. You remain responsible for them, and you allow SafeOrNah to show them on the site as long as they are there.
A signed-in account can report a review for spam, offensive language, a misleading review or another reason.
Moderation and suspension
The team can hide a review, an idea or a comment that breaks these terms. A hidden review no longer counts in the score, and its author can no longer edit or delete it.
In case of abuse, the team can suspend an account. It is signed out at once and can no longer sign in nor run analyses. Its analyses and reviews stay.
Licenses and credits
A team license, granted by SafeOrNah to an organization, gives each of its members extra analyses every day, and sometimes other wider limits. It has a number of seats and an end date. Its manager sees the name, email and picture of each member, their number of analyses over 30 days since they joined and the date of the last one. The manager can remove a member and change the key.
Bonus credits, granted by the team, add analyses or AI reviews once your daily limit is reached. They expire on the date shown, and the ones that expire first are used first.
Licenses and credits have no monetary value and cannot be transferred. The team can withdraw a license in case of abuse.
Third-party content
The results come from independent services (VirusTotal, Google Safe Browsing, abuse.ch…) and remain subject to their terms. SafeOrNah shows them with the notices they ask for, without being able to correct them. Links to other sites, such as those of partners or of service reports, lead to content SafeOrNah is not responsible for.
Changes to these terms
We can change these terms as the service evolves. The date at the top of the page shows the version in force. By continuing to use SafeOrNah after a change, you accept the new version.
Governing law
These terms are governed by Swiss law, subject to the mandatory rules of the country where you live.
These terms are written in French. The translations are provided to make reading easier, and the French version prevails in case of doubt.