Copyright Policy

1We respect copyright#

Businesses build their sites with AOS Sites using their own words and photos, photos from licensed stock libraries, and text AOS writes from what the business tells it. If you believe a site we host uses your work without permission, tell us and we’ll act on it under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

2Sending a notice#

Send your notice to our copyright agent (contact details below). To be complete, it needs:

1. your physical or electronic signature, or that of the person authorized to act for the owner;
2. the work you believe is being infringed;
3. the address of the page on the site we host where it appears, precise enough for us to find it;
4. your name, postal address, phone number and email;
5. a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and
6. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for them.

A notice that’s knowingly false can make the sender liable for damages. If you aren’t sure the use infringes your work, it’s worth asking a lawyer first.

3What we do with a notice#

When a notice is complete, we remove or disable the material promptly, tell the business that runs the site, and send them a copy of the notice. If the material is a whole page or the site’s main image, the page may go offline until it’s replaced.

4If your site’s content was removed#

If you run the site and believe the material was removed by mistake or misidentified, you can send a counter-notice with:

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. what was removed and where it appeared before;
3. a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification;
4. your name, address and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, outside the US, any district where we may be found), and will accept service from the person who sent the notice.

We forward a complete counter-notice to the person who sent the notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they’ve filed a court action, we may restore the material 10 to 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice.

5Repeat infringers#

We close the accounts of businesses that repeatedly infringe others’ copyright, as our Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service allow.

6Our copyright agent#