Legal Notice

Embedded Video

Some pages on Sarasota.Fish carry libraries of embedded video — for example the tarpon video library on our tarpon guide. This page explains what those embeds are, what they are not, and how a publisher can ask to be removed.

Last reviewed 2026-07-24.

What this site is

Sarasota.Fish is a brand of LARGE LLC, which operates this site. In this notice, “Sarasota.Fish”, “we”, and “us” mean LARGE LLC.

Sarasota.Fish is a resource and an aggregator. We research fishing material published across the web and organise the best of it in one place, by subject, so that anyone can use it. The video libraries on this site are curation and commentary: we select, group, and contextualise videos that other people made and published.

What we embed, and what we do not

• We embed only videos that are publicly available on YouTube and that have embedding enabled by the publisher.
• We check that setting programmatically before a video is listed. If embedding is disabled, the video does not go on the page.
• We use YouTube's own embed player, served by YouTube from YouTube's servers. We do not download, re-host, re-upload, mirror, or modify anyone's video file.
• We do not use iframes, proxies, or any other method to work around a publisher's embedding, age, or geographic restrictions.
• We do not strip branding or attribution. Every video is labelled with the publisher's own title and channel name and links back to the video on YouTube, where the publisher receives the view and any associated revenue.

The licence that permits embedding

Two clauses of the YouTube Terms of Service (effective 15 December 2023) govern this directly.

The first is the express permission granted to every user of the service. Under Permissions and Restrictions, YouTube states that you may access and use the Service as made available to you, and that You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.

The second is the licence each uploader grants everyone else. Under License to Other Users, an uploader grants each other user of the service a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access your Content through the Service, and to use that Content, including to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, display, and perform it, only as enabled by a feature of the Service (such as video playback or embeds).

Embedding is named in both. It is a feature YouTube builds, offers, and controls, and it is switchable at the uploader's end: a publisher who does not want their video embedded can turn embedding off, after which YouTube itself refuses to serve the embed. We rely on that setting as the expression of the publisher's choice, and we honour it.

These documents are YouTube's, not ours, and they change. Read the current versions:

• YouTube Terms of Service — see “Permissions and Restrictions” and “License to Other Users”.
• YouTube API Services — Required Minimum Functionality — the technical rules an embedded player must satisfy.
• YouTube API Services — Developer Policies
• YouTube Help: embed videos — official documentation for the embed feature.
• Turn embedding on or off — the publisher-side control we rely on.

How we meet YouTube's player rules

YouTube's Required Minimum Functionality rules set out how an embedded player must behave. Ours is built to them:

• Player size. The rules require a player viewport of at least 200×200 pixels and recommend at least 480×270 for 16:9. Videos here open in a dedicated player panel sized to the viewport, never inside a small grid tile, and the panel is floored at 200 pixels tall so the requirement holds on the narrowest phone.
• Nothing in front of the player. The rules forbid displaying overlays, frames, or other visual elements in front of any part of the player, including its controls. Our title and close control sit in a bar above the player, never over it. The play badge you click sits on a still image, before any player exists.
• No modification. We do not change the player beyond documented parameters, and we do not block, rebuild, or separate any part of it or its audio.
• No hover triggers. The rules forbid using mouseover or touch events on a player to act on the user's behalf. Nothing here loads or plays on hover.
• No autoplay. Nothing plays by itself. Opening the player is one deliberate click and starting playback is another, and only one player exists at a time.
• Thumbnails. A thumbnail that starts playback must be at least 120×70 pixels. Ours are far larger, and they are served by YouTube's own image servers rather than copied onto ours.
• No gating. We do not charge for access to any video, place it behind a login or paywall, or sell advertising against it.

This page describes our practice and our reading of the terms we operate under, as reviewed on the date above. It is not legal advice, and nothing here is a legal opinion about anyone else's rights. Where this page and YouTube's own terms differ, YouTube's terms govern.

No ownership. No endorsement. No affiliation.

We do not own the embedded videos and we do not claim to. All rights in each video remain with its creator or rights holder. All trademarks, channel names, and logos belong to their respective owners.

Nothing on this site implies sponsorship, affiliation, partnership, or endorsement in either direction. The channels we feature have not endorsed, reviewed, or approved Sarasota.Fish, and our inclusion of a video is not a recommendation of that channel's products, services, guiding, opinions, or advice. We select videos on subject matter and production quality. We do not verify the claims made inside them.

Fishing information found in a video may be out of date, may reflect a different location, and may not match current regulations. Always verify seasons, size limits, bag limits, and gear rules with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission before you fish.

Privacy

Embedded players load only when you click one. Until then the page shows a still image and a play button, and no connection is made to YouTube's player. This is deliberate: YouTube's own Developer Policies note that an embedded player collects and shares user data with YouTube as soon as it loads, and that this sharing can be limited before a user interacts with the player. Not loading the player until you ask for it is the strongest version of that.

When you do click, the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. Your interaction from that point is governed by Google's privacy policy. Closing the player removes it from the page entirely.

Requests for removal

If you are a publisher whose video appears on this site and you would prefer it did not, you have two routes, and either one works:

1. Turn embedding off on YouTube. This is immediate, applies everywhere on the internet at once, and requires nothing from us.
2. Contact us at 941-294-4144 and tell us which video. We review every request we receive and remove embeds we no longer have a basis to display. We aim to handle requests promptly; we do not guarantee a specific turnaround.

Requests are handled on their merits. Nothing on this page creates a contractual obligation, a warranty, or a service-level commitment, and we reserve the right to decline a request that is not made by the rights holder or their authorised representative.

Errors

Titles and channel names are reproduced as YouTube reports them. If something here is miscredited or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.