Copyright Policy

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

Email is the fastest route. Notices sent to any other address may not reach the agent and may not be treated as received.

To be effective, your notice must be in writing and must include all of the following. This is what the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires, and a notice missing any of it may not oblige us to act.

2.1Your physical or electronic signature.

2.2Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If you are covering several works in one notice, a representative list of them.

2.3Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough information for us to find it. A direct URL to the page and a description of which image or text on it is yours is ideal.

2.4Your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.

2.5A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

2.6A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

3.1We review it. If it is complete, we remove or disable access to the material, usually within a few business days.

3.2We tell the person who published the material that we have removed it, and we send them a copy of your notice, including your contact details. Be aware that your notice is passed on, so send it from an address you are willing to have shared.

3.3We may remove material without notice where we judge it necessary, and we may do so in response to an incomplete notice if the infringement is obvious.

3.4We keep a record of notices we receive.

You may send a counter-notice. It must include all of the following, which is what the statute requires:

4.1Your physical or electronic signature.

4.2Identification of the material that was removed, and the location where it appeared before it was removed.

4.3A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of a mistake or a misidentification.

4.4Your name, postal address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district where your address is, or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which WildHQ may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

Send it to the agent in section 1.

4.5If we receive a valid counter-notice we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after receiving your counter-notice.

5.1Sending a notice or a counter-notice that misrepresents whether material is infringing can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

5.2Do not use this process to remove material you simply dislike, to resolve a commercial dispute, or to take down a competitor. We may refuse to act on notices we believe are sent in bad faith, and we may report repeated misuse.

6.1We keep a record of notices attributed to each account.

6.2We will terminate the account of anyone who repeatedly infringes copyright. What counts as repeated depends on the circumstances, including how many valid notices there have been, how serious they were, and whether the account has responded.

6.3Terminating an account under this section does not entitle the account to a refund, and section 17.2 of the Outfitter Subscription Terms applies.

7.1You are responsible for holding rights in everything you give us, as section 7.4 of the Outfitter Subscription Terms requires. That includes photographs taken by someone else, stock imagery, and images that came across from a previous version of your website.

7.2A stock license bought for one website does not automatically cover publication on another. If you are not sure a photograph is cleared for use here, tell us and we will replace it rather than publish it.

7.3If you receive a notice through us, respond promptly. Ignoring one leaves us no option but removal.

To report use of your trademark, write to the agent in section 1 and describe the mark, your rights in it, and where it appears. Trademark complaints are not covered by the DMCA process above and we handle them case by case.