Terms of Service
Last updated: 16 August 2026
1. Who you are dealing with
BlocRec is operated by Tobias Westrich, Hochstraße 33, 66287 Quierschied, Deutschland, email support@blocrec.app, telephone +49 177 5260714. Full details are in the legal notice (German: Impressum).
2. What the service is
BlocRec is a browser-based screen and camera recorder. On the free plan the recording is produced entirely on your device and written into a file you choose; it is not transmitted to us. On a paid plan you can additionally upload a recording to our storage and share it as a link.
No account is needed to record. An account is needed to buy a plan and to create shareable links.
3. Plans and prices
- Free — €0. 30 minutes per recording, 1080p, watermark, no shareable links.
- Pro — €36 per year or €4 per month. Unlimited recording length, 4K, no watermark, 50 shareable videos, 25 GB storage.
- Business — €84 per year or €9 per month. As Pro, plus 500 shareable videos, 250 GB storage, link passwords and expiry.
Under the German small-business scheme (§ 19 UStG) no VAT is charged or shown. The price you see is the total price. Payment and invoicing run through Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. A single video may be up to 2 GB.
3a. How a contract is made, and in what language
The steps are: choose a plan and a billing period · tick both withdrawal boxes · enter payment details and billing address on Stripe’s payment page · place the paid order there. Until that last step every entry can be corrected or the whole thing abandoned, and nothing is charged.
The contract language is German or English, whichever version you used. We do not store the contract text for you, and it is not retrievable from this site after the purchase. You receive all essential details by email in text form immediately after buying; keep that email and these terms.
4. Term, renewal and cancellation
Subscriptions run for the period you paid for and renew automatically for the same period unless cancelled before the end of it. You can cancel at any time in your account, in two clicks, without contacting us (§ 312k BGB), or without signing in at all through the “Verträge hier kündigen” button. An email to the address in the Impressum is equally effective.
After a subscription ends, new recordings carry the watermark again and uploaded videos remain reachable for 30 days. You will receive an email before anything is deleted. Recordings stored on your own device are never affected.
5. Right of withdrawal
Consumers have a 14-day right of withdrawal. Because the paid features are made available immediately, we ask you at checkout to expressly request that immediate start and to confirm that your right of withdrawal lapses when we begin (§ 356 (5) BGB). Neither box is pre-ticked, and without both there is no purchase. Details and the model form are in the withdrawal policy (German: Widerrufsbelehrung).
6. Your responsibility for what you record
You are responsible for the lawfulness of your recordings. In Germany and many other countries recording a spoken conversation requires the consent of everyone involved; recording without it is a criminal offence (§ 201 StGB), including for participants of the conversation. BlocRec always shows a recording indicator and does not offer a hidden mode. Further limits are in the Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these terms.
7. Availability
We aim for high availability but do not guarantee it. Recording itself keeps working while our servers are unreachable, because it happens on your device; uploads and shared links do not.
8. Liability
We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation, and only up to the damage typical for this kind of contract. Otherwise liability is excluded.
We are not liable for recordings that fail or are lost due to circumstances on your device, for example a full disk, a browser crash, a closed tab or a revoked permission. [To be reviewed — see PLAN/07-RECHT.md.]
9. Changes to these terms
We announce changes by email at least six weeks before the start of your next billing period and send the new version with the announcement. They apply to you only from that next billing period, and only if you continue the contract beyond it. If you do not agree, cancel before the current period ends; until then the old version keeps applying to you unchanged.
Deliberately without a “silence means yes” clause: under German case law (Bundesgerichtshof, 27 April 2021, XI ZR 26/20) treating a customer’s silence as consent to new terms is invalid. Tying the change to the next renewal costs nothing and holds.
10. Law and jurisdiction
German law applies. For consumers this does not affect the mandatory protections of the law of their country of residence. Place of jurisdiction for merchants is Saarbrücken.
11. Dispute resolution
We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 VSBG).