Terms of Service
Welcome to Check-Usernames.com. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of our website, tools, and services ("Service"). By visiting or using our Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
If you disagree with any part of these Terms, please discontinue use immediately. If you have questions, contact us before continuing.
1 Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using the Check-Usernames.com website, its tools, APIs, or any related services (collectively, the "Service"), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.
These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use the Service. If you do not agree to any part of these Terms, you must not use the Service.
Continued use of the Service after any modification to these Terms constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.
2 Description of Service
Check-Usernames.com provides free online tools to:
- Check username availability across 33+ social, gaming, and messaging platforms
- Check domain name availability via Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS lookups
- Generate random, aesthetic, gamertag, and thematic usernames
- Convert text between different letter cases (UPPER, lower, camelCase, etc.)
- Provide links to third-party domain registrars and service partners
The Service is provided free of charge for personal, non-commercial use. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service (or any feature) at any time, with or without notice.
3 Eligibility
To use the Service, you must:
- Be at least 13 years old (or 16 in the EEA, as required by GDPR)
- Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement
- Not be prohibited from using the Service under any applicable law
- Not have been previously banned from using the Service
If you are under the required age, you may only use the Service with verifiable consent from a parent or legal guardian.
4 Permitted and Prohibited Use
We want our Service to remain fast, free, and available for everyone. Please respect the following rules:
You May
- Use the Service for personal or commercial research
- Check unlimited usernames manually
- Share result links with others
- Embed our tools in personal projects (with attribution)
- Contact us to request API access
You May Not
- Scrape, crawl, or use automated bots against the Service
- Send excessive requests that overload our infrastructure
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or copy our code
- Use the Service for any illegal purpose
- Impersonate Check-Usernames.com or its team
- Resell access to our Service as your own
- Bypass any rate limits or security measures
We reserve the right to block IP addresses, deny access, or take legal action against anyone violating these rules.
5 Intellectual Property
All content on Check-Usernames.com — including but not limited to:
- Source code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Design, layout, and visual identity
- Logos, brand names, and trademarks
- Written content, articles, and blog posts
- Word banks, symbol libraries, and generated data structures
...is the exclusive property of Check-Usernames.com and is protected by international copyright, trademark, and intellectual property laws.
You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display, or commercially exploit any part of our Service without prior written permission.
You may link to our Service, share result URLs, and use our tools for their intended purpose.
6 Accuracy Disclaimer
Username and domain availability results are provided "as is" without any guarantee of accuracy. Our checks use publicly available APIs and DNS lookups that may be:
- Rate-limited or temporarily unavailable
- Delayed in reflecting recent changes
- Subject to platform-specific restrictions
- Impacted by anti-bot protections on some platforms
Important: Never rely solely on our results for critical decisions. Always verify availability directly on the target platform before purchasing a domain, claiming a username, or making a brand decision.
7 Third-Party Links & Affiliates
Our Service contains links to third-party websites and services, including affiliate partners such as:
- Namecheap — domain registration
- Hostinger — web hosting
- NordVPN — VPN services
- GetResponse — email marketing
We may earn a commission when you purchase through these links (at no additional cost to you). This helps keep our Service free.
We are not responsible for the content, terms, privacy practices, or accuracy of any third-party website. Your interactions with them are governed by their own terms.
8 No Warranties
The Service is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to:
- Warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
- Warranties of non-infringement
- Warranties that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure
- Warranties regarding the accuracy or reliability of any results
We do not warrant that defects will be corrected or that the Service or servers are free of viruses or other harmful components.
9 Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Check-Usernames.com and its directors, employees, partners, agents, suppliers, and affiliates shall not be liable for any:
- Indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages
- Loss of profits, revenue, data, or business opportunities
- Loss of goodwill or reputation
- Damages arising from reliance on inaccurate results
- Damages arising from unauthorized access to or alteration of your data
This limitation applies regardless of the legal theory (contract, tort, negligence, strict liability) even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
10 Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Check-Usernames.com and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, or debt, and expenses (including attorney's fees) arising from:
- Your use of and access to the Service
- Your violation of these Terms
- Your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual property
- Any claim that your use caused damage to a third party
11 Account Termination
We may terminate or suspend your access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including without limitation if you breach these Terms.
Since our Service does not require user accounts, termination typically means:
- Blocking your IP address from accessing the site
- Refusing any future requests to use the Service
- Reporting abuse to relevant authorities if warranted
All provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive, including ownership, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.
12 Changes to Terms
We reserve the right to modify or replace these Terms at any time at our sole discretion. When we make material changes:
- We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page
- We will post a prominent notice on our homepage for 30 days
- Significant changes will be communicated via newsletter (if subscribed)
Your continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service.
13 Governing Law & Disputes
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
Any dispute arising from these Terms or the Service shall be resolved through:
- Good-faith negotiation — contact us first at legal@check-usernames.com
- Binding arbitration — if negotiation fails, disputes will be resolved by binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association
- Small claims court — you may bring individual claims in small claims court if they qualify
Class action waiver: You agree to resolve disputes on an individual basis and waive the right to participate in class actions or class-wide arbitrations.
14 Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction:
- That provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable
- If modification is not possible, the provision will be severed
- The remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect
Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
15 Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us:
- Legal: legal@check-usernames.com
- General: hello@check-usernames.com
- Contact form: check-usernames.com/contactus
- Response time: 2 business days for general inquiries, 30 days for legal requests