Terms of use

The short version: GuardaFoto and OptiFoto are free, your pictures stay yours, don't abuse the tools, and everything is offered as it is. The full version is below, in plain words.

Last updated: October 21, 2026.

What these services are

GuardaFoto (guardafoto.com) is a free tool that surfaces the public photo — or the video, for TikTok and for Instagram reels and video posts — behind a link from YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, TikTok, X, Twitch or Instagram. Its public API does the same job for other tools and sites. OptiFoto is our free image optimizer, run by GuardaFoto under the A3Q Global imprint: an API at api.guardafoto.com and a WordPress plugin that compresses JPEG and PNG uploads and converts them to WebP. None of it asks for an account, a password or a payment.

Your pictures, your rights

Everything you send to these services, and everything they hand back, stays yours — or its owner's. Sending an image to OptiFoto gives us permission to do one thing only: process it and return it to you. The photos and videos GuardaFoto surfaces belong to the artists, channels, creators and photographers behind them; they are here for personal use, so respect copyright and ask the owner before any public or commercial use.

Fair use

The services stay free by staying cheap to run, so there are two limits, applied per IP address:

• GuardaFoto API: 120 requests per minute. Answers are cached for an hour, so normal use never gets close.
• OptiFoto: 1,000 optimizations per day, images up to 25 MB, in JPEG, PNG or WebP format.

Reaching a limit just means slowing down. Working around the limits, hammering the servers, scraping the endpoints to build a mirror, or probing for security holes is not fair use, and we may block it.

Acceptable use

Don't use these services for anything illegal, to process images you have no right to, or to infringe anyone's rights. If a platform or a rights holder asks us to block a specific link, we do, as the contact page explains.

No warranty

The services are provided “as is” and “as available”. OptiFoto's optimization is lossy by nature — it trades a little quality for a much smaller file — so keep your own copies of anything irreplaceable. The services may change, break or be discontinued, and the limits above may be adjusted; we are not liable, as far as the law allows, for damages arising from their use or from an interruption.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms; the current version is always the one on this page, with its date at the top. Questions: hola@guardafoto.com or the contact page. How we handle data is its own page: privacy policy.