Copyright &
Content Policy

01 Vyn's position

The developer of Vyn does not host, store, cache, transmit, aggregate, index, search, link to or in any way supply audio or video content. There is no Vyn server. A device running Vyn talks to services its owner configured, and to a public metadata catalogue; it never talks to us, because there is no "us" for it to talk to.

Vyn respects intellectual property and expects the same of the people who use it. Using Vyn to access content you have no right to access is a breach of the Terms of Use.

02 Where the media comes from

Every stream Vyn plays originates in one of four places, all of them the user's own:

A freshly installed copy of Vyn, with nothing connected, can play nothing whatsoever.

03 Metadata and artwork

The posters, stills, synopses, cast lists and ratings you see while browsing come from TMDB through its public API, used within its terms. Additional ratings come from MDBList, and intro timings from IntroDB. Programme listings come from your IPTV provider or from an XMLTV guide document your playlist points at.

This is descriptive metadata about films and television — the same material a listings magazine prints. It is not the works themselves, and browsing a title in Vyn implies nothing about whether you can play it. If a title is not in a source you have connected, Vyn simply has no way to play it.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

04 What Vyn deliberately does not do

Several of these were possible and were left out on purpose.

• No downloading or saving of media from third-party services. Vyn offers no "save", "convert", "export" or "rip" of anything it plays.
• No source directory. Vyn ships with no preloaded playlists, no default servers, no bundled credentials and no in-app way to discover any of those.
• No scraping of streaming services. Vyn does not sign in to, extract from or replay content from Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or any comparable service.
• No DRM circumvention. Vyn plays unencrypted files that its user's own server or subscription serves it. It does not decrypt, break or work around any protection measure.
• No client-side recording of live TV. Where catch-up or restart is available it is the IPTV provider's own recording, served from the provider's own endpoint, and the controls appear only when that provider offers it.
• No sharing between users. Vyn has no accounts, no social layer and no mechanism by which one person's library could reach another.

05 What we ask of users

Connect only sources you are entitled to use. Hold the subscriptions, licences and permissions that the law where you live requires for the media you play. Respect the terms of the services you connect. An IPTV subscription that resells channels its seller has no right to resell is not made lawful by the player you watch it in.

06 Reporting a concern

If you are a rights holder, or acting for one, and you believe Vyn itself — the app, this website, its screenshots or its marketing — infringes your copyright or trademark, write to hello@vyn.app with the subject line Copyright. Reports are read by the developer personally and answered. Material that turns out to be infringing will be removed or replaced.

Vyn is distributed through Apple's App Store, and Apple provides its own channel for intellectual-property disputes about apps at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices.

07 Sending a notice

To be actionable, a notice should include:

• your name, address, telephone number and email address;
• identification of the work you say is infringed;
• identification of exactly what in Vyn or on vyn.app you say infringes it, precise enough to locate — a page address, a screenshot, a screen name;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf;
• your physical or electronic signature.

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing carries liability for damages in several jurisdictions, including under §512(f) of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

08 When the notice belongs elsewhere

This is the common case, and it is worth being direct about it rather than leaving you to discover it after a month.

If your concern is that a film or a channel is available to somebody using Vyn, the developer cannot help you, and no notice sent here can achieve anything. There is nothing to take down: the file is on a stranger's server or a stranger's IPTV panel, the developer cannot see it, cannot reach it, cannot identify who holds it, and has no technical means to block it. Vyn keeps no record of what any user connects, so there is nothing to disclose either.

A notice about that content should go to the party that actually holds or transmits it:

• the IPTV provider or panel selling the subscription, and its upstream host;
• the hosting provider of the server the content sits on;
• the relevant domain registrar or network operator.

Vyn's position here is the ordinary one for a general-purpose player: it is neither a host nor a conduit for the content its users choose, in the sense the DMCA and the EU e-Commerce Directive use those words, because it never touches that content at all.

09 Trademarks

Jellyfin, Emby, Plex, Trakt, Simkl, TMDB, MDBList, IntroDB, XMLTV, YouTube, Apple, Apple TV, Dolby, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos are trademarks of their respective owners. Vyn is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.

Those names appear in Vyn and on this site only to say truthfully what Vyn works with. If you own one of them and would prefer it described differently, write and it will be changed.

10 Contact

See also the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, and the Support page.