Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-07-27

Status. This is the current version, and it describes how WatchMatrix.TV actually works today, so you can rely on it as our statement of what we do. It is a first version that has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. If that review changes anything, we will update this page and move the date above.

1. These terms, and how you accept them

WatchMatrix.TV(“the Service”) is operated by Links.to LLC (“we”, “us”, “our”), from California, United States. WatchMatrix.TV is the name of the product. Links.to LLC is the company behind it, and it is the party you are agreeing with.

These terms apply to the WatchMatrix.TV website at watchmatrix.tv and the other hostnames we operate that serve this site.

By using the Service you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use it.

Other WatchMatrix.TV software. A desktop application, a mobile application, two browser extensions and a TV application exist in our codebase but are not currently distributed, and the desktop download is paused. These terms cover the website. If we ever distribute any of that software, it will come with its own terms and, for the desktop application, its own license.

2. Who may use the Service

You may use the Service only if you are old enough to form a binding contract where you live, and only if you are at least 17 years old.

We do not verify age. There is no age gate, birthdate field or age-assurance code in the product.

The Service is not directed to children. If you believe a child has used the Service in a way that concerns you, contact us at the address in section 19. There is no account to close and no stored profile to delete, because we do not create either. What a user has stored is on their own device and clearing browser or app data removes it.

You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under United States law, including applicable export control and economic sanctions rules.

3. What the Service is

The Service is a free viewer. It arranges video players that other companies publish, and links to other companies’ sites, into a grid on one screen.

Concretely, on the website:

• You add a stream by pasting a link or picking a channel. We parse that link and, if it is one of the platforms we support, we build that platform’s own official embed address and put it in a frame.
• The supported platforms are YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rumble and X. A link that is not one of those is rejected.
• The video plays from that platform’s servers, in that platform’s player, under that platform’s rules.
• The TV guide, where it is available, links out to each streaming service’s own site in a new tab and never embeds it.
• The “streaming windows” tiles on the website are placeholders. They do not load the service; they tell you to open it in its own window and sign in yourself.

4. What the Service is not

This section is a description of how the product is built, not a promise about how you use it.

• We do not host any video. No video file is stored on, or served from, any system we operate.
• We do not re-host, rebroadcast or redistribute anyone’s stream.Each viewer’s own browser talks directly to the platform.
• We do not proxy video. No video passes through a server we run. The only server-side code we operate is a single function that forwards TV guide text searches.
• We do not download, record, rip or archive video.
• We do not decrypt anything, and we do not circumvent DRM, geoblocks, paywalls, login walls, rate limits or any other access control. The desktop application contains no ad blocking, no DRM circumvention and no response-header rewriting.
• We do not scrape the platforms. The TV guide catalog comes from a licensed data provider, not from scraping.
• We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or connected to any platform or streaming service we display or name. We use their names only to tell you what works with what. See our Disclaimers.

5. Availability is not guaranteed, and features come and go

We may change, pause, limit or remove any part of the Service at any time, for any reason, with or without notice. We may stop offering the Service entirely.

This is not a theoretical clause. As of the date above:

• The desktop application download is paused. Nothing is served.
• The TV guide is hidden. Every navigation link to it is switched off, although the page still loads if you already have the link.

Nothing in these terms promises that any particular feature, page, platform or stream will be available. Whether a given stream can be embedded at all is decided by the platform and by the person who published it, not by us.

6. You are responsible for what you watch and for the accounts you use

The platforms and services shown through the Service are not ours. Your use of them is governed by their terms, not by these terms.

You agree that:

• You will comply with the terms of service of every platform whose content you view through the Service, including YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rumble and X, and of any streaming service you open from a TV guide link.
• You use your own accounts.We never ask for, receive, store or transmit any platform password, token or session. Where a platform asks you to sign in, you do that inside that platform’s own page or player, and that session belongs to you and them.
• You hold whatever rights, subscriptions or permissions are needed for the content you choose to watch.
• Signing in through the Service does not make us a party to your relationship with that platform, and does not make them a party to this one.

7. Acceptable use

You may not use the Service to do any of the following, and you may not use the Service to help anyone else do them.

Circumvention and interference.Do not use the Service to get around any platform’s access controls, DRM, geographic restrictions, paywalls, login requirements, rate limits or terms. Do not modify, block, strip, obscure or interfere with any embedded player, its controls, or any advertising it shows.

Copying and redistribution. Do not download, record, capture, rip, re-host, republish, rebroadcast, resell or redistribute any content you view through the Service, except where the rights holder has clearly permitted it or the law allows it.

A note on our own features, so this rule is not self-contradictory. The Service includes an optional screen-sharing feature (“Matrix View”) that sends a live picture of your own WatchMatrix.TVtab to a second device you have paired to yourself. Using that feature as designed, to move your own view to your own screen, is permitted by us. Using it to retransmit content to other people, or to make a recording, is not, and may also breach the source platform’s terms. We do not police this. The obligation is yours.

Scraping and automation. Do not scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-extract data from the Service or from any platform through the Service. Do not use bots, scripts or automated tools against the Service, except for a search engine crawler obeying our robots.txt.

Infringement and unlawful use.Do not use the Service to view, share, link to or promote content you know infringes someone’s copyright or other rights, and do not use it for any unlawful purpose. Do not use it to link to content that is illegal to distribute where you are.

Attacking the Service. Do not attempt to break, overload, probe or gain unauthorized access to the Service or to any system we operate. Do not attempt to defeat rate limits. Do not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Service except to the extent that law expressly permits it despite this restriction.

Impersonation and misuse of our identity. Do not present the Service as your own product, do not use our name or interface in a way that suggests we endorse you, and do not remove or obscure any notice we display.

8. Links and content you add

The Service takes links and choices from you: the streams you add, the layout you build, the invite links you share, and, in the software that is not currently distributed, saved lists of links and pinned web pages.

• We do not review, approve, endorse or moderate anything you add or anything it points at.
• Adding a link does not give us a copy. Your layout is stored in your own browser or app, and is also encoded in the page address so a link can rebuild it.
• You are responsible for the links you share. If you send someone an invite or a layout link, you are choosing what they see.
• We may refuse or remove links. We can stop supporting a platform, refuse a class of links or remove a specific stream identifier at any time, without notice.

Content that appears through the Service belongs to the platforms and the people who made it. We do not control it, we do not vouch for it, and we are not responsible for it. Some of it will be live and unmoderated. Some of it may be inaccurate, offensive or unsuitable for some viewers. If you do not want to see a platform’s content, do not add it.

9. Watch parties, and how you must behave in one

A watch party lets people watch the same thing at the same time, in sync. Here is exactly what it is, because it is easy to assume it is more than it is.

What a party does.

• Everyone in the party plays their own copy of the video, from the platform, in their own browser.
• The host’s player position, play or pause state, and the identifier of the tile being watched, are sent directly to the other people in the party.
• The party channel also carries a display name you choose, chat messages, emoji reactions, polls and votes, a shared countdown, and the list of who is present.
• No video is sent over the party channel. That is structural, not a promise: nothing in the channel carries video, and the guest code has no path that can broadcast to the room at all, because it holds one connection and that connection goes to the host.
• Party content is held in memory for the session only and is gone when you leave or close the tab. Chat is never written to disk.

Sharing your playback is opt-in.Before anything about your playback is shared, we ask you separately, in a dialog of its own, not in these terms and not in a checkbox. You can decline. You can withdraw with the “Stop sharing” control in the party bar, which revokes the consent and leaves the party. Consent goes stale after two years and you will be asked again. Our Privacy Policy describes exactly what a party sends, and what the connection itself discloses.

Who can join. A party is reachable only by its invite link, which carries a room code and a secret. Anyone who has the link can join. If you share it publicly, strangers can join. That is your choice, not a defect.

Shared control, and what it lets other people do to your playback.The host can put a party into “Everyone controls” mode instead of the default “Host controls”. In that mode, any participant can pause, resume or move the position of the playback the party is following, and that includes yours: their request goes to the host, the host applies it, and everyone follows. Read together with the point above, that means anyone holding the invite link, including a stranger, can interrupt what you are watching for as long as you stay in the party. The mode is shown in the party bar, and leaving the party stops it at once. The party channel cannot do anything else to your device: it carries no message that adds, removes or opens a stream.

Conduct in a party. Chat and display names are written by users, not by us. When you are in a party:

• Do not harass, threaten, defame or abuse anyone.
• Do not post hateful content, sexual content involving minors, or anything illegal.
• Do not post other people’s personal information.
• Do not spam, advertise, or post malicious links.
• Do not use a display name that impersonates someone else.

We do not moderate parties. We cannot see party chat. It never reaches a server we operate, so we have no ability to read, filter, log, remove or report it. The only limits that exist are technical: a 300 character cap per message and a 200 line memory cap. If someone in your party behaves badly, the remedies available to you are to leave the party, stop sharing the invite link, and start a new party with a new link.

10. Our intellectual property

The WatchMatrix.TV name, the site design, the interface and the software we wrote are owned by Links.to LLC or its licensors. These terms give you permission to use the Service as it is offered, for your own personal, non-commercial use. They give you nothing else. No other license is granted, by implication or otherwise.

Our trademarks. MATRIX.TV (also written MATRIX TV), Matrix Browser and WatchMatrix.TV are trademarks of Links.to LLC, and all rights in them are reserved. You may use them to refer to the Service. You may not use them as your own, in a way that suggests we endorse you or your product, or in a domain name, application name, logo or store listing.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease or create derivative works from our software or interface, except where law expressly permits it despite this restriction.

We welcome feedback. If you send us ideas or suggestions, we may use them freely and owe you nothing for them. Do not send us anything you consider confidential.

11. Other people’s intellectual property, and trademarks

All video, audio, images, channel names, artwork and other content shown through the Service belong to the platforms, services and creators that own them. We claim no rights in any of it.

We name other companies’ services, such as YouTube, Twitch, Kick, Rumble, X, Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Tubi, Pluto TV, Roku, LG, Google Cast and others, only to identify what the Service works with. That is nominative use: there is no other way to say “works with Twitch”. Where a small service icon appears next to a name, for example in the service picker in the phone remote, it is there for the same purpose, to identify the service, and for no other.

We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or in any partnership with any of them. All trademarks and service marks belong to their respective owners. See our Disclaimers.

Streaming availability data in the TV guide is provided by the Streaming Availability API by Movie of the Night, and that attribution is displayed wherever the data appears.

Copyright complaints. If you believe content reachable through the Service infringes your copyright, contact us at the address in section 19 with enough detail to identify the work and the material you are complaining about, and we will look into it.

12. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service at any time. Close the tab. There is no account to delete, because there is no account.

We can stop providing the Service to you at any time, without notice, including if we believe you have broken these terms or the law. Because we do not have accounts, what that actually means in practice is limited and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. We can stop serving the Service, block specific requests, remove support for a platform or a specific stream identifier, disable a feature, and withdraw software that is distributed under an identity we control.

Sections 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 survive any termination.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT LIMITS WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM A FREE SERVICE.

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

In plainer words, and without limiting the above, we do not promise that:

• the Service will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error free;
• any particular stream, platform, feature, page or piece of content will work, or will keep working;
• content shown through the Service is accurate, lawful, suitable or safe;
• the Service will meet your requirements or work with your device, browser, network or television;
• defects will be corrected, or that the Service is free of harmful components.

We give no warranty about any third party. The platforms, the streaming services, the data provider, the connection broker used to set up watch parties, and every site you open from the Service are independent of us. We are not responsible for what they do, what they charge, what they collect, or whether they stay available.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you. In that case those warranties are limited to the shortest period and the narrowest scope the law allows.

14. Limitation of liability

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT LIMITS WHAT WE OWE YOU IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LINKS.TO LLC AND ITS OWNERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, USE OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE CLAIM IS BROUGHT IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES ARE POSSIBLE.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF LINKS.TO LLC FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, WHICH FOR A FREE SERVICE IS ZERO, AND (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

We are not liable for third parties. This includes anything done by a platform whose player you loaded, a streaming service whose site you opened, the public connection broker that helps watch-party devices find each other, another person in your watch party, or any device on your own network.

Why this is drafted this way. The Service is free. We take no payment and earn nothing from it. The allocation of risk in these terms is the basis on which we are able to offer it at all. If these limits were removed, we would not offer it.

What we do not exclude. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law. Under California Civil Code section 1668, contracts cannot exempt anyone from responsibility for their own fraud, willful injury to another, or violation of law, whether willful or negligent. Nothing here attempts to. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so some of the above may not apply to you.

15. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless us and our owners, officers, employees and agents from any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or relating to:

• your use of the Service;
• your breach of these terms;
• your breach of any platform’s or service’s terms;
• content, links or messages you add, share or send through the Service, including in a watch party;
• your infringement or violation of anyone else’s rights.

We may take over the defense of any matter subject to this section, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us. You will not settle any matter in a way that imposes any obligation on us without our written consent.

16. Governing law, and how disputes get resolved

Governing law. These terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Courts, not arbitration. These terms do not require arbitration and do not waive your right to a jury trial or to take part in a class action. Disputes are resolved in the state or federal courts of California, under California law.

Informal resolution first. Before filing anything, please email us at the address in section 19 and describe the problem. Most things can be sorted out that way, and we will try in good faith for 30 days.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top and post the new version on the Service. If a change is material, we will make a reasonable effort to flag it more visibly than a date change.

Continuing to use the Service after an update means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the Service.

18. General

Entire agreement. These terms are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service, and replace any earlier version.

Severability. If any part of these terms is held unenforceable, that part is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.

No waiver. If we do not enforce something, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

No third-party beneficiaries. These terms create no rights for anyone other than you and us.

Force majeure. We are not responsible for failures caused by things outside our reasonable control, including outages at the platforms, hosting providers or networks we depend on.

Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service in violation of United States export control or sanctions laws.

Notices to you. Because we hold no contact details for anyone, we give notice by posting on the Service.

19. Contact

Email watch.matrix.tv@gmail.com. That is the mailbox for anything about these terms, including copyright complaints.

For California users.Under California Civil Code section 1789.3, users of a California-based electronic commercial service are entitled to the provider’s contact information for complaints, which is the address above, and to the contact details of the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, which that Department publishes.