Copyright & Takedown Policy

1. Our approach to intellectual property

We respect the rights of creators, developers and brand owners, and we expect the same from everyone who sends material to us. Our approach rests on a few principles:

• Listing descriptions are written by our editors in their own words. We don't copy providers' marketing copy or text from other websites.
• We don't display providers' logos. Listing tiles show a monogram generated from letters of the tool's name.
• We use product and company names only to identify the tools we describe.
• We handle well-founded complaints fairly and without unnecessary delay, following good-practice notice-and-takedown principles.

The listing text, page design and other original material we create for this website belong to us or our licensors. Please don't copy it in bulk or republish it as your own.

2. What this policy covers

This policy applies to material published on our website, including:

• Listing text — names, taglines, descriptions, features, use cases, things to consider and other information in the directory;
• Monograms — the letter-based images shown on listing tiles; and
• Material sent to us — information that providers and other people send through our contact form, which we may use as source material for listings.

The site doesn't host user comments, reviews or uploads, so most concerns relate to listing text or to the way a product is identified.

We can only act on material on our own website. If your concern is about content on a provider's website, or about how a listed tool itself works, please contact that provider directly. We can, however, review whether our listing of that tool should be changed or removed.

3. Trademarks of listed tools

Product names, company names and other trademarks that appear in the directory belong to their respective owners. We use them only to identify the products we describe and to link to their official websites.

The appearance of a name or trademark doesn't mean that its owner is affiliated with us, sponsors us or endorses our website, or that we endorse the product. Where a provider does have a paid relationship with us, the listing is labeled "Sponsored", as explained in our Advertising Disclosure.

Monograms are generated from letters of a tool's name and aren't intended to imitate any logo. If you believe a monogram or listing could confuse people about the source of a product, or suggests a connection that doesn't exist, please let us know using the process below.

4. How to submit a copyright or trademark complaint

If you believe material on our website infringes your copyright or trademark, or those of someone you are authorized to represent, send us a notice through our contact form with the copyright topic selected, or by post to the address in the Contact section. Please include:

1. Your contact details — your full name, your organization (if any), and an email or postal address where we can reach you.
2. The work or mark — a description of the copyrighted work or trademark concerned, with a link to the original where one exists, or the mark's registration details if it is registered.
3. The exact location — the full web address of each page on our site where the material appears, such as the listing page, and the part of the page that concerns you.
4. A good-faith statement — a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent or the law.
5. An accuracy and authority statement — a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
6. Your signature — your full name, typed at the end of your message, serves as your signature. Notices sent by post should be signed.

It also helps to tell us what outcome you are asking for, such as changing specific wording or removing a listing. If you have already prepared a notice in a format used in another country, you may send it to us, as long as it contains the information above. Incomplete notices can delay our review, and we may ask for more information before we act.

5. What happens next

1. Acknowledgment. We aim to reply within two business days (Monday to Friday, excluding US federal holidays).
2. Review. We check that the notice is complete, look at the material and how it is being used, and may ask you for further details.
3. Action. If the notice is valid, we may remove, edit or disable access to the material, or remove the listing altogether. We may decline to act if a notice is incomplete, if the use appears lawful — for example, using a product's name to identify it — or if we can't verify the claim.
4. Notification. Where appropriate, we tell the person who submitted the material, or the provider concerned, what we have done and why. We may share the substance of your notice with them so that they can respond.
5. Outcome. We let you know what we have decided.

We aim to act on complete, valid notices as quickly as we reasonably can. Complex cases, such as those involving competing rights claims, can take longer. Personal information included in notices is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Counter-notices

If material you submitted, or the listing for your product, was removed or changed because of a notice and you believe this was a mistake, you can send us a counter-notice through the contact form with the copyright topic selected. Please include:

• your full name and contact details;
• a description of the material that was removed or changed, and where it appeared on our site;
• a statement that you believe in good faith that the material was removed or changed by mistake or because it was misidentified, with an explanation, such as a license or permission you hold;
• a statement that the information in your counter-notice is accurate;
• your agreement that we may share your counter-notice with the person who sent the original notice; and
• your full name as your signature.

We will review your counter-notice and may restore the material, keep it removed, or ask either party for more information. We aren't obliged to restore material, and we don't decide legal disputes between rights owners and others. If a disagreement can't be settled through this process, the parties will need to resolve it between themselves or through the appropriate legal channels.

7. Repeat infringers

If a provider or agency is the subject of repeated valid complaints, or someone repeatedly sends us infringing material, we may remove related listings and stop using material they send us. We decide what counts as repeated infringement case by case, taking into account how serious the infringements were and whether they appear to have been deliberate.

8. Misuse and false claims

This process is for genuine intellectual property concerns. Please don't use it to:

• send notices that you know are false or misleading;
• target a competitor's listing without a real rights claim; or
• remove accurate information you disagree with, such as a fair caveat in a listing's "things to consider".

Knowingly false statements in a notice or counter-notice may expose the sender to legal liability. If someone misuses this process, we may disregard their notices and take the misuse into account in future dealings. If you think a listing is inaccurate rather than infringing, please ask for a correction instead, as described in Other concerns.

9. Other concerns

Not every concern about a listing is a copyright or trademark matter. Please use the route that fits:

• Defamation or safety — if a listing contains a statement you believe is untrue and damaging, or describes a tool you believe is harmful, unlawful or a scam, use the contact form with the report topic selected.
• Inaccurate or out-of-date details — to correct information in a listing, choose the listing topic.
• Your personal data — if a listing includes personal information about you that shouldn't be there, to request access to or correction of personal data we hold about you, or to exercise other privacy rights, see our Privacy Policy and choose the privacy topic.

We review the reports we receive and may edit, suspend or remove a listing where appropriate. Our Editorial Policy explains how we correct and remove listings.

10. Contact

Please send copyright and trademark notices and counter-notices through our contact form with the copyright topic selected. We aim to reply within two business days. You can also send notices by post to: