Terms of Use

Last updated: 19 October 2026.

These terms are an agreement between you and Ahmed Farag, trading as Egyptian Ad Archive ("we", "us"), the operator of Egyptian Ad Archive at egyptianadarchive.com (the "Archive"). By creating an account or using the Archive, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Archive.

Contact: [email protected]. Address: Cairo, Egypt.

1. What the Archive is

The Archive is a searchable index of Egyptian TV commercials, made for research and reference. It lists films with their brand, year, occasion, credits, scene descriptions and similar information.

• We do not host the films. Films play only through YouTube's official embedded player or Vimeo's player, or open on those sites. If a film is removed from YouTube or Vimeo, it stops playing here.
• Thumbnails are small preview images used only to help you find a film in the index.
• The films, brands, logos and music belong to their owners, such as the advertiser, agency, production house or director. Listing a film does not mean we own it, that its owner endorses the Archive, or that you may reuse it.
• Some information (scene tags, tones, years, credits) is produced by automated tools or sent in by users. We work to keep it correct, but it may contain mistakes.

2. Who can use it

• You must be at least 16 years old, or the age of legal consent where you live if that is higher.
• You must give a real email address and keep your sign-in details safe.
• You can sign in by email or with a Google account.

3. Plans

Features, limits and prices are shown on the pricing page at the time you buy. We may change features over time. If we raise the price of your paid plan, we will tell you by email at least 30 days before the change applies to you, and you can cancel before it does.

4. Payments

• Card payments (US dollars) are handled by our online reseller, Freemius, or by Lemon Squeezy; the one named on your receipt acts as the seller (the "merchant of record"). Your purchase is also covered by their buyer terms, and they may collect sales tax or VAT where required.
• In Egypt without a card: contact us on WhatsApp +20 150 354 5040. You pay by InstaPay or phone cash and send a payment proof (reference and screenshot) through our form. Your plan starts once we confirm the payment, normally the same day. These plans are paid for 1, 3 or 12 months at a time and do not renew by themselves.
• Prices include tax where it applies, as shown at checkout.
• Cancelling: you can cancel any time from your account page or with the link in your receipt email. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for. It then does not renew.
• Refunds are covered in the Refund Policy.

5. One account, one person

A paid account is for one person only.

• You can use it on one computer and one phone or tablet at the same time. To add another device, remove one first; a device can be removed at most once a week.
• The account works in one country at a time. Travelling is fine: opening it in another country signs out the device in the first one.
• Sharing your account, password or sign-in links with other people is not allowed.

To protect accounts, we watch for signs of sharing: the account jumping between two devices of the same kind many times in one day, hundreds of films opened in one hour, or use from two countries at the same time. A VPN on its own is never counted. Each sign adds a strike: 1. First strike: a warning by email. 2. Second strike: the account is suspended for 24 hours. 3. Third strike: the account is suspended until we review it. If we confirm the account was shared, we may close it without a refund for the current period.

If you think a strike was a mistake (for example, you were travelling), write to [email protected] and we will review it.

6. What you may do

You may use the Archive for your own research, reference, study and creative work, for example to collect references for a brief, a pitch or a treatment, and to share boards and PDF decks with your colleagues.

7. What you may not do

• Copy, download, scrape or export the Archive or large parts of it, by hand or with tools, bots or scripts.
• Rebuild, resell or publish the Archive's data (lists, credits, tags, descriptions) as your own product or database.
• Download, re-upload or re-host the films or thumbnails.
• Remove or hide the watermark on boards, PDF decks or other exports.
• Get around limits, device rules, security or paywalls.

Fair use: paid plans include fair-use limits on searches to stop automated copying. Normal use never reaches them; if you do, searching resumes shortly or the next day, and you can write to [email protected] if it is real work.

• Use the Archive to break the law or anyone's rights, including YouTube's and Vimeo's own terms.
• Send false credits, false claims or harmful content.

Watermarks: boards, PDF decks and other exports carry a watermark with the Archive name and may carry your account details. This shows where the material came from.

8. Things you send us

You can send credits, corrections, film suggestions, feedback and similar content ("submissions").

• You confirm the information is true to the best of your knowledge.
• You allow us to use, edit, publish and keep your submissions in the Archive, for free and without time limit, so the record stays complete.
• We review submissions before they go live and may refuse or edit any of them.
• Rewards for approved credits (for example 3 extra searches that day during the trial) are set out on the site and may change.

9. Corrections and removal requests

If you own rights in a film, a thumbnail or information shown in the Archive, or you see a mistake, use "Something wrong? Correct or remove" on the film, or write to [email protected]. Please include the film link and what you would like changed. We aim to reply within 5 working days, and we remove material while we check a valid rights claim.

Credits come from public sources. Anyone named can ask for a correction or removal with "Something wrong? Correct or remove" on the film, or by writing to [email protected]. We reply within 48 hours, and a name is removed within 7 days. Requests are handled by Ahmed Farag (operator of the Archive) and logged.

10. Our content

The Archive's design, code, name, logo, and its own work (the selection and arrangement of the index, written descriptions, tags and credits research) belong to us. These terms do not give you any right to them except to use the Archive as described here.

11. Availability and changes

We try to keep the Archive available and the data correct, but we do not promise it will always be available, complete or free of errors. Films may stop playing when YouTube or Vimeo removes them. We may change, pause or stop parts of the Archive. If we close the whole paid service, we will refund the unused part of any prepaid period.

12. Limits on our responsibility

The Archive is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for indirect losses, such as lost business, lost work or lost profit, and our total responsibility to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms removes rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be removed.

13. Ending your account

You can ask us to delete your account at any time by writing to [email protected] from the email of the account. We delete it within 30 days, as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, as described in section 5 and section 7.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change is important, we will tell you by email or on the site at least 14 days before it applies. If you keep using the Archive after that, the new terms apply.

15. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Before going to court, please write to us so we can try to solve the problem together. Disputes go to the courts of Cairo, Egypt, unless the law where you live gives you the right to use your local courts.