cat.moe

Version 2026-09-08-2

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cat.moe Terms of Service

Version: 2026-09-08-2. The announcement and effective dates appear on the document page. The version date is not its effective date.

한국어 · Privacy Policy

1. Service and operator

Minwoo Jeong (정민우), known as p1nkjelly, operates cat.moe as an individual, providing free URL shortening and link management at https://cat.moe. Contact admin@cat.moe for questions, reports and appeals. These terms apply to members and people using the service without an account.

A “short link” is a https://cat.moe/slug address pointing to an external destination URL supplied by a user. A “link owner” is the member account the service authorizes to manage that link. Knowing a public address does not establish ownership or management rights.

2. Registration and agreement

  1. An agreement forms when you accept the presented terms, apply to register or create a link, and the service accepts the request. We record the agreed version and time; previous use or receipt of email does not itself record agreement.
  2. Registration and anonymous link creation are available only to people aged 14 or older. Legally required representative consent and cancellation rights for minors continue to apply. We do not offer a parental consent procedure for registration under 14.
  3. Registration requires an email address you are authorized to use, a display name, a password and completed email verification. The display name may be a nickname. We may reject or defer a request or restrict the relevant use if identity misuse, registration attacks or evasion of a justified restriction is established, or required verification is incomplete.
  4. Keep your email and authentication methods secure. Change your password and contact us if you suspect misuse. Responsibility for account activity depends on actual fault and applicable law.

3. Features, permissions and limits

  1. Anonymous users can create links within the applicable limits and temporarily view links created in the same browser session. Members can list, search, configure, disable, re-enable and delete their links and view analytics. Persistent account management and session-history recovery are not provided to anonymous users.
  2. Custom aliases, expiration, password protection, advanced analytics and extended retention depend on the relevant permissions and conditions shown in the interface. Advanced analytics include comparison with the previous equal-length period and CSV exports of time buckets and click counts. Social login is not currently available.
  3. Permissions granted without charge do not promise permanent features or capacity. We may adjust quotas, request rates, optional features and permissions as reasonably necessary for capacity, cost, usage, security or legal compliance. Unlimited creation permissions remain subject to security rate limits. Changes materially affecting normal use follow the advance-notice procedure in section 10.
  4. Availability checks do not reserve aliases. An alias is allocated only after successful registration; existing addresses and system reservations are unavailable. An alias confers no trademark or exclusive rights outside this service.
  5. We currently charge no fees. Any future paid feature will disclose pricing, cancellation and refunds in advance and will not charge you without a separate application.
  6. Use is within the described features and available interface and APIs. Custom development, integrations, installation, technical consulting and requested feature additions are outside the service unless separately agreed. Occasional free assistance or accommodation does not by itself create a continuing commitment to provide it.

4. Links and restoration

  1. Anyone who knows an unprotected short link can open it. Do not submit URLs containing authentication tokens, passwords, personal identifiers or access credentials for confidential documents. Link passwords do not change the destination's security settings or prevent direct access to it.
  2. You must check the destination's legality, your authority to distribute it, and the submitted address, expiration and access settings. Issuing or maintaining a link, or leaving it unblocked, is not a review, endorsement or guarantee of the destination's legality, safety, accuracy or availability. We do not offer advance review or continuous monitoring of every external page; we respond to specific reports and applicable legal duties. Providing a short address alone does not make us a party, agent or guarantor in an external transaction.
  3. Independent links can point to the same destination. Recent-duplicate notices are recommendations; the service does not substitute an existing link without your choice.
  4. Deleted links stop redirecting. Automatically generated addresses are permanently reserved against reissue to other users. Custom addresses are not reissued to other users either. Where restoration is offered, only the existing owner with the necessary permissions may restore the retained original custom link. Erased links and some older links whose custom origin cannot be established are excluded.
  5. Custom-link restoration preserves the address, settings and remaining analytics, counts toward creation quotas and leaves the link disabled. It cannot bypass suspension, blocks, erasure or destination restrictions. The owner must check the settings and re-enable the link.
  6. Link deletion stops redirects as a management action and is distinct from erasure of personal information. The Privacy Policy governs erasure and retention. Keep your own destination lists and original material, and arrange alternative access appropriate to your use. The service does not replace your storage, backups or individual data restoration. This guidance does not transfer responsibility for our own fault to you.

5. Analytics: 90-day details and up to 365-day counts

  1. Analytics provide reference information about link use. Processing delays or omissions, automated visits and browser settings can affect results; unique visitor counts are estimates. We do not guarantee capture of every visit, exact identification, certified advertising or billing evidence, or any business outcome.
  2. Individual visit details and visitor values are retained for up to 90 days, regardless of permissions. Only time-bucket click counts may be retained for up to 365 days for links owned by active accounts with extended retention permissions; otherwise counts are limited to 90 days. The 365-day extension applies after the corresponding Privacy Policy revision takes effect. Longer count history does not extend visitor estimates, recent visits or referrer and device breakdowns.
  3. These periods are personal-information retention limits and the available scope of history, not a guarantee to collect, preserve or restore a complete history for that entire period. Collection start dates, retained records, the period shown in the interface, routine erasure and outages may reduce available history. Material operational reductions to the period for normal users receive advance notice.
  4. Removing the permission or suspending the account returns click counts to the standard period, making older counts eligible for cleanup. Withdrawal and verified erasure follow their separate procedures. Previously erased analytics are not restored by granting permissions again or restoring a custom link. Visits, permission changes and exports do not restart old records' retention.
  5. Extended retention does not increase the one-hour lifetime of pending records containing raw IP and user agent, or separate support, audit and backup periods. CSV exports contain the retained time-bucket click counts available at export. Without a separate agreement, we do not provide custom extracts or recalculation, expert opinions or certificates, visitor identification or restoration of individual visit records. Statutory disclosure and correction duties remain applicable.

6. Prohibited use

You must not:

  1. Use the service for phishing, malware, fraud, unlawful spam or unlawful material.
  2. Disclose personal or authentication information without authority, or infringe copyright, trademarks, reputation or privacy.
  3. Access accounts or links without authorization, exploit vulnerabilities or steal, alter or destroy information.
  4. Use multiple accounts, addresses or automation to evade quotas, rate limits or blocks, or impose excessive load.
  5. Impersonate others, knowingly submit false reports or interfere with legitimate use.
  6. Reidentify visitors from analytics, combine records to track people, or retain or redistribute personal visit records outside permitted purposes or periods without a separate lawful basis.

If your violation causes loss to us or another person, you are responsible to the extent recognized by applicable law. This does not transfer responsibility attributable to us to you.

7. Reports, restrictions and support

  1. Use the report page or admin@cat.moe, identifying the address and specific grounds. Do not send passwords, authentication tokens or unrelated personal information.
  2. Specific indications of a violation, credible reports, lawful official requests or objective security risks may justify blocking links, restricting creation or suspending an account while we review the matter. Scope and duration must be proportionate to the risk, harm and repetition; serious or repeated violations may justify terminating the agreement.
  3. A blocked destination URL or domain can cause existing links to it to be blocked as well. Removing the rule does not automatically reactivate individual links. Users cannot remove operator blocks themselves.
  4. Reasons and review instructions are provided through the service interface or an available contact channel; actions based on the same grounds may use a common explanation. Legally required individual notices follow the applicable procedure. Necessary limits on timing or detail may apply to prevent urgent harm, avoid obstructing an investigation or meet legal restrictions. You may email the relevant address, account and grounds for review; confirmed mistakes are corrected.
  5. Ordinary support uses the available interface, documentation, email and report intake. It does not promise round-the-clock consultation, dedicated support, a fixed reply time, or a separate acknowledgment, progress update, outcome reply or investigation report for every report. We prioritize risk and available information and may use common answers or consolidate the same matter. Further ordinary replies may be omitted for repeated requests with no new facts after a reasoned response, or messages containing only advertising or abuse. These limits do not override the action notices in paragraph 4, statutory rights requests, legal deadlines or review of new evidence.
  6. Ordinary support does not include disclosing other people's personal information, internal security detection methods, source code, access credentials or nonpublic material, performing a separate inspection for a user, or representing them in a dispute with an external website. Statutory disclosure, explanation and cooperation with investigations remain applicable.

8. Ending use, withdrawal and erasure

  1. Members can withdraw at My links → Account, confirming their current password and intention. If access is unavailable, request withdrawal by email with minimum necessary identity and authority verification. The last active administrator must appoint another active administrator before withdrawing.
  2. Withdrawal terminates every short link owned by that account and revokes sessions and management access. Terminated addresses are not reissued to others. Retain any destination information you need before withdrawing.
  3. Withdrawal and verified personal-information erasure are intended to be irreversible. We do not provide recovery or reconstruction of expired analytics, erased destinations or lost anonymous session histories. Section 4 defines the scope of link restoration.
  4. The Privacy Policy governs erasure, minimum address-reservation information and separate support, audit and backup records. Withdrawal or closure does not extinguish accrued rights or our statutory correction duties.

9. Changes, interruptions and closure

  1. The free service is provided with reasonable security and operational measures. There is no service-level guarantee of uptime, latency, uninterrupted access, a fixed recovery deadline or perpetual links. Do not use it as the sole connection for emergency or safety-critical operations.
  2. We may interrupt or restrict affected functions as necessary for maintenance, equipment or network failure, attacks, disasters or legal compliance. Material planned interruptions are announced on the site with known timing and effects. Where urgency prevents advance notice, we explain the reason and effects when practicable. Routine maintenance, fixes and security measures that do not materially affect normal use do not receive separate individual notices. Recovery estimates may change and are not fixed recovery deadlines. Statutory notice duties remain applicable.
  3. We may end free features or the service for sustained inability to operate, disproportionate cost, legal restrictions or comparable reasonable operational grounds. Material feature changes follow section 10. For planned closure of the entire service, we ordinarily announce the closure date, effects on links, available ways to retain information and treatment of personal information on the site at least 30 days in advance. We also follow any required individual-notice procedure.
  4. If urgent legal or security grounds or an interruption beyond reasonable control prevent the advance period, we explain the reason and subsequent handling when practicable. Closure does not itself require bespoke data conversion or migration to another service. Statutory access, transfer and erasure duties continue to apply.

10. Notices and changes to these terms

  1. General service notices are posted on the site. Members must keep their registered email accessible. Where law or these terms require individual notice, we use the registered email or another available individual channel; applicable law governs necessary receipt and agreement requirements.
  2. Changes to these terms state the content, reason and effective date at least seven days in advance. Minor revisions that do not disadvantage users or materially affect rights or obligations use site notice without separate member emails. Disadvantageous or material changes receive at least 30 days' notice and individual notice to members. More demanding legal procedures take precedence; a substantive change cannot be treated as minor just because it is described as a clarification.
  3. You may decline a revision and end your use. We obtain separate agreement where required, do not treat silence alone as acceptance and do not retroactively disadvantage accrued rights. Declining a revision does not itself automatically delete existing links or prevent withdrawal or statutory rights requests.
  4. Announced terms remain available by version. Registration, new link creation and the account agreement screen use the version presented at the time; if it changes while a form is open, review the new version and submit again.

11. Privacy and intellectual property

The Privacy Policy explains processing purposes, information, periods, disclosure and rights. Agreement to these terms is not blanket consent to personal-information processing or overseas transfers. Separate consent is obtained where legally required.

Rights in service code, design, characters and other material belong to the operator or the respective rightsholders. Rights in destinations and user-provided material remain with their owners and are not transferred by using the service. We process URLs and settings as necessary for requested links, management, security and disclosed analytics. External websites apply their own operators' terms and privacy practices.

12. Liability and disputes

  1. Each party bears the responsibility recognized by applicable law for its own breach or fault. We are not responsible for external destination content or failures, incorrect user addresses or access settings, inadequate protection of authentication methods, or unavoidable external failures to the extent no fault is attributable to us.
  2. Free features carry no separate fixed outage compensation, service-credit or revenue guarantee. Liability and damages depend on fault, causal connection and recoverable loss under applicable law. Loss arising from special circumstances is subject to legal requirements, including whether those circumstances were known or reasonably knowable. Penalties, guarantees or service-level commitments you agree with third parties do not themselves become our contractual obligations unless we separately and validly assume them. Whether resulting loss is recoverable remains subject to applicable law.
  3. The scope and support limits in these terms do not exempt intentional wrongdoing, gross negligence or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. They do not exclude ordinary loss or legally recoverable special loss, mandatory privacy or consumer rights and remedies, or transfer statutory burdens of proof to you. Ordinary negligence may also create liability under applicable law.
  4. The laws of the Republic of Korea govern, without excluding applicable mandatory protections. Contact admin@cat.moe to discuss a dispute; discussion is not a mandatory prerequisite to proceedings or statutory rights. Jurisdiction follows applicable law.
  5. A separate valid agreement takes precedence within its scope. If a provision is invalid, the remaining provisions apply as permitted by law.

Effective date and languages

This revision applies from the displayed effective date under section 10; the previous effective version applies before then. Korean and English describe the same policy. Korean wording is the reference for translation differences, subject to mandatory law and legally required interpretation.