Why Amondo can display content
Understand why Amondo can collect and publicly display public content from platforms like Instagram and X (Twitter) and when you may need explicit permission.
Short answer: Yes, Amondo may access and publicly display public content from source platforms. We do this in two compliant ways:
API-based collection with Amondo-hosted display (Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter)
Official platform embed/player (TikTok, YouTube, Spotify)
Why Amondo can display public content
Users agree to each platform's Terms of Service, which grant the platform a licence to host, use, publicly perform or display and distribute public content.
Platforms make public content available to third parties via official embeds/players and/or permitted API access governed by Developer/Platform Policies.
Amondo uses these platform-approved methods to surface public content in a way that respects creator privacy/settings.
How Amondo displays content
API-based collection → Amondo-hosted display
Public content only; attribution & links preserved; honours removals/privacy changes.
API-based collection → Amondo-hosted display
Public Page content only; attribution & links preserved; honours removals/privacy changes.
X (Twitter)
API-based collection → Amondo-hosted display
Public Tweets only; attribution & links preserved; honours removals/privacy changes.
TikTok
Official platform player
No API connection; Amondo references the TikTok player.
YouTube
Official platform player
No API connection; Amondo references the YouTube player.
Spotify
Official platform player
No API connection; Amondo references the Spotify player.
What Amondo will (and won’t) access
Public only: Amondo collects content that is publicly available according to the source platform’s settings. Private or restricted content is not eligible.
Discoverable: Collection follows each platform’s discoverability rules (e.g., hashtags, mentions, URLs). See Platform Policies for specifics.
Attribution: Amondo displays creator credit (platform icon, name, avatar where available) and links to the original content.
Removals & privacy changes: If the source item is removed or made private, Amondo honours that change.
Important distinctions
Platform-approved display (in Amondo): Either the source platform’s official embed/player (TikTok/YouTube/Spotify) or API-permitted redisplay using Amondo-hosted media (Instagram/Facebook/X).
On-platform repost: Using native share/retweet/quote features within the same platform.
Off-platform use: Any use outside the platform-approved methods above (e.g., downloading a post and playing it locally, printing a still or re-uploading clips elsewhere) typically requires explicit permission.
Derivative assets: Edited/compiled versions (e.g., cuts, reels, sizzle edits) generally require explicit permission, even when the original post is public.
Excerpts from platform terms
Facebook (Meta)
Privacy Policy: “How is your information shared on Meta Products or with integrated partners?” https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?subpage=3.subpage.3-PublicContentWhatContent
We, you and people using our Products can send public content (like your profile photo, or information you share on a Facebook Page or public Instagram account) to anyone on, across or off our Products. For example, users can share it in a public forum, or it can appear in search results on the internet.
Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services, like:
Search engines. Learn more.
The media, like TV
Other apps and websites connected to our Products
Instagram (Meta)
Privacy Policy: “How is your information shared on Meta Products or with integrated partners?” https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?subpage=3.subpage.3-PublicContentWhatContent
We, you and people using our Products can send public content (like your profile photo, or information you share on a Facebook Page or public Instagram account) to anyone on, across or off our Products. For example, users can share it in a public forum, or it can appear in search results on the internet.
Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services, like:
Search engines. Learn more.
The media, like TV
Other apps and websites connected to our Products
Instagram Stories Public Instagram Stories from non-owned accounts, which are only available for 24 hours and are not available via the Instagram Graph API, can only be accessed and stored on the Platform if explicit permission from the account owner has been granted.
X (Twitter)
Terms of Service, Section 3: “Content on the Services” https://x.com/en/tos
By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating). This license authorizes us to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same. However, if you have chosen via our features to limit the distribution of your Content to a restricted community, we will respect that choice. You also agree that this license includes the right to analyze text and other information you provide with the view to improve the Services. You agree that this license includes the right for us to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use. Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.
TikTok
Terms of Service, Section 4: “Ownership of content and grant of licences” https://www.tiktok.com/legal/terms-of-use?lang=en#terms-eea
By creating, posting or otherwise making content available on the Platform, you grant to TikTok a:
non-exclusive (which means that you can licence your content to others),
royalty-free (which means that we don’t pay you for this licence),
transferable (which means that we can give the rights you give us to someone else),
sub-licensable (which means that we can licence your content to others, e.g. to service providers that help us to provide the Platform or to trusted third parties that have entered into agreements with us to operate, develop and provide the Platform) and
worldwide (which means that the licence applies anywhere in the world)
licence to use your content, including to reproduce (e.g. to copy), adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to translate and/or create captions), perform and communicate your content to the public (e.g. to display it), for the purposes of operating, developing and providing the Platform, subject to your Platform settings.
The licence to your content that you grant to us extends to Affiliates as part of making the Platform available.
You also grant to each user of the Platform a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to access and use your content, including to reproduce (e.g. to copy, share or download), adapt or make derivative works (e.g. to include your content in their content) perform and communicate that content to the public (e.g. to display it) using the features and functions of the Platform for entertainment purposes, subject to your Platform settings.
YouTube
Terms of Service, “Content on the Service” https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
The content on the Service includes videos, audio (for example music and other sounds), graphics, photos, text (such as comments and scripts), branding (including trade names, trademarks, service marks, or logos), interactive features, software, metrics, and other materials (collectively, "Content”). Content may be provided to the Service and distributed by our users and YouTube is a provider of hosting services for such Content.”
Spotify
Terms of Use, “Content and Intellectual Property Rights” https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/end-user-agreement/#4-content-and-intellectual-property-rights
In posting or sharing User Content or other information on the Spotify Service, please keep in mind that content and other information will be publicly accessible and may be used and re-shared by others on the Spotify Service and across the web, so please use caution in posting or sharing on the Spotify Service and be mindful of your account settings. Spotify is not responsible for what you or others post or share on the Spotify Service
Disclaimer
Not legal advice. Platform policies can change and specific media (e.g., music, logos, people's likeness) may involve additional rights. When in doubt, obtain explicit permission and keep a record.
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