DMCA Copyright Policy

1. Overview

SaveSnippets respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the SaveSnippets website and application (the "Services") to do the same. We respond to clear notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

This DMCA Copyright Policy ("Policy") explains how copyright owners (or their authorized agents) can notify us of infringing material on the Services, how affected users can file a counter-notification, our policy regarding repeat infringers, and the consequences of submitting a fraudulent or bad-faith claim.

This Policy is part of, and incorporated by reference into, our Terms of Service.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

Notifications of claimed copyright infringement and counter-notifications must be sent to our Designated Copyright Agent at the address below. Notices sent to any other address may be delayed or disregarded.

3. Before You File

Filing a DMCA notice is a sworn legal statement. Before you submit one, please confirm the following:

• You actually own the copyright (or you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner). Ownership of a domain, a brand, or a public social-media handle is not the same as owning a copyright.
• The material is original and copyrightable. Short code fragments, general algorithms, common API call sequences, function names, configuration boilerplate, and ideas alone may not be protectable. Style, look, and feel are not copyrightable. Facts are not copyrightable.
• The use is not authorized. If you (or your employer) released the code under a permissive open-source license (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD, ISC, etc.), the reproduction may already be authorized — including the right of others to fork, copy, modify, and redistribute it.
• The use is not protected by fair use. Commentary, criticism, teaching, parody, transformative re-use, and minimal use of short excerpts may qualify as fair use. Consider this in good faith before filing.
• You have considered the consequences. Knowingly material misrepresentations in a DMCA notice can result in liability for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) — including attorneys' fees.

4. Submitting a DMCA Notice

If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, send a written notification to our Designated Copyright Agent (Section 2). To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notification must include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or person authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed (e.g., title, URL of the original work, registration number, or a representative list if multiple works are involved).
3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it. A direct URL to the snippet, comment, profile, or page is strongly preferred (for example, https://savesnippets.com/snippet.php?id=12345).
4. Your contact information: full legal name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A good-faith statement that you believe the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. Specifically:
   "I have a good-faith belief that use of the copyrighted material described above is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."
6. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information in the notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner. Specifically:
   "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner, or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

Incomplete notices may not be actionable. We may, but are not required to, follow up with you to request missing elements.

5. Notice Template

You may copy and adapt the template below. Fill in the bracketed fields, sign it, and send it to dmca@savesnippets.com.

6. How We Respond

Upon receipt of a complete and apparently valid notice, we will:

• Promptly remove or disable access to the identified material;
• Take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted the material that we acted in response to a DMCA notice;
• Forward to that user a copy of the notice (which may include your name and contact information);
• Inform the user of their right to submit a counter-notification under Section 7.

We may make exceptions where, in our good-faith judgment, removal is clearly inappropriate (for example, where the notice on its face fails to identify a copyrightable element, or where the asserted "use" is plainly authorized by an open-source license attached to the snippet).

We typically respond within a few business days, but our response time depends on volume and complexity. We are not bound to any specific service-level commitment.

7. Counter-Notification

If you believe content you posted was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). To be effective, your counter-notification must include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or to which access was disabled, and the location at which it appeared before it was removed or disabled (URL is preferred).
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material. Specifically:
   "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good-faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."
4. Your full legal name, postal address, and telephone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which SaveSnippets may be found — for our purposes, the Western District of Texas) and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notice or that person's agent.

Send counter-notifications to the same Designated Copyright Agent (Section 2). Upon receiving a valid counter-notification, we will:

• Promptly forward a copy to the party who submitted the original DMCA notice;
• Inform that party that we will restore the material in 10 to 14 business days unless the party files a court action seeking a restraining order against the user;
• If we do not receive notice of such a court action within that window, we will restore the material at our discretion.

8. Counter-Notice Template

9. Repeat Infringer Policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), SaveSnippets has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, the accounts of users who are deemed to be repeat infringers.

For purposes of this Policy:

• An "infringement strike" is recorded against a user when material they posted is removed in response to a DMCA notice that we deem facially valid, AND the user either does not file a counter-notification or the matter is otherwise resolved against the user (e.g., a court order, settlement, or withdrawal of the counter-notice).
• An account that accumulates three (3) infringement strikes within a rolling twelve-month period is subject to termination.
• Aggravated cases — including but not limited to mass uploading of clearly infringing material, commercial-scale piracy, or use of the Services to bypass anti-circumvention measures — may result in immediate termination without prior strikes.
• Strikes that have been retracted (e.g., because the original notice was withdrawn or found to be mistaken) will not count toward this threshold.

Terminated repeat infringers may be permanently barred from re-creating accounts on the Services.

10. Misuse & Bad-Faith Claims

The DMCA imposes liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) on any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing (or that material was removed by mistake). Liability may include damages, costs, and attorneys' fees incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner, the copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by us.

We treat repeated abuse of the DMCA process — for example, filing notices targeting non-copyrightable material, open-source-licensed material, fair-use commentary, or content from a competitor purely to suppress it — as a serious matter. We may, in our sole discretion:

• Refuse to process further notices from a repeat abuser;
• Publicly note that a notice was rejected as facially defective;
• Refer the matter to the alleged infringer for civil action under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f);
• Refer the matter to law enforcement where appropriate.

11. International & Non-DMCA Claims

The DMCA is a United States statute. If you are a rights-holder outside the United States and believe content on the Services infringes a copyright recognized under your local law (or under an applicable treaty such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty), you may still submit a takedown request to dmca@savesnippets.com. Please include the equivalent of the elements set out in Section 4. We will evaluate such requests in good faith but reserve the right to apply U.S. law and the U.S. DMCA framework as our default standard.

12. Trademark Concerns

This Policy covers copyright only. For trademark, name, or impersonation concerns (such as a profile or snippet that misuses your brand name or logo), please contact legal@savesnippets.com with:

• Your full legal name and contact information;
• The trademark at issue (with registration details if applicable);
• The URL(s) of the material on the Services that you believe infringe;
• A clear explanation of the alleged infringement;
• A good-faith statement that the use is not authorized.

13. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other reasons. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Services after the changes take effect constitutes your acceptance.

14. Other Contact

For matters unrelated to copyright, please use the following addresses:

This Policy is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. If you have specific questions about how the law applies to your situation, please consult a qualified attorney.