Copyright and DMCA Policy

1. Overview

Rappor respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Service to do the same.

The Service may allow users, members, group administrators, organization administrators, and workspace owners to submit, upload, publish, display, or manage content, including:

• Business descriptions
• Member profile content
• Business profile content
• Logos
• Profile photos
• Project showcase photos
• Documents
• Website links
• Social media links
• Service descriptions
• Group information
• Event information
• Other user-submitted materials

Users are responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights, licenses, permissions, and authority to submit, upload, publish, or display any content through the Service.

2. User Responsibility for Content

You may not upload, submit, publish, display, link to, or otherwise use content through the Service unless you have the legal right to do so.

This means you must not submit content that infringes or may infringe another person's or entity's copyright, trademark, publicity rights, privacy rights, trade secrets, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights.

Examples of content you should not upload unless you have permission include:

• Photos taken by another photographer
• Stock images you are not licensed to use
• Logos you do not own or have permission to use
• Project images from another company
• Website copy copied from another business
• Articles, guides, or documents created by someone else
• Screenshots or marketing materials owned by another party
• Images copied from Google, social media, competitor websites, or vendor websites without authorization

If you are unsure whether you have the right to use certain content, do not upload or publish it through the Service until you confirm your rights.

3. Reporting Copyright Infringement

If you believe that content available through the Service infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notice to our designated copyright agent.

Your notice should include the following information:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, or the signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple copyrighted works are involved, you may provide a representative list.
3. Identification of the material that you claim is infringing or the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to help us locate the material, such as a URL.
4. Your contact information, including your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate.
7. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Please send copyright notices to:

4. Incomplete or Invalid Notices

If a copyright notice does not include the information required by this Policy, we may be unable to process it.

We may request additional information before taking action. We are not required to remove or disable content based on notices that are incomplete, unclear, inaccurate, or unsupported.

5. Our Response to Copyright Notices

When we receive a valid copyright infringement notice, we may take one or more actions, including:

• Reviewing the reported content
• Removing the reported content
• Disabling access to the reported content
• Unpublishing a public page
• Disabling a file, image, logo, document, or link
• Notifying the user or workspace administrator who submitted the content
• Requesting additional information
• Terminating repeat infringers where appropriate
• Taking other action we believe is appropriate

We may act quickly to remove or disable access to allegedly infringing content, even before a full dispute is resolved.

Removal or disabling of content does not mean Rappor has made a final legal determination about whether infringement occurred.

6. Notice to the User Who Posted the Content

If we remove or disable content in response to a copyright notice, we may notify the user, member, group administrator, organization administrator, or workspace owner who submitted or controls the content.

The notice may include information about the copyright complaint and instructions for submitting a counter-notice if the user believes the content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification.

7. Counter-Notice Procedure

If you believe content you submitted was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notice to our designated copyright agent.

Your counter-notice should include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location where the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
3. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, the federal district court for the district in which Rappor may be found.
6. A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the copyright notice or that person's agent.

Please send counter-notices to:

8. Restoration of Removed Content

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we may forward it to the person who submitted the original copyright notice.

Unless the original complaining party informs us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we may restore the removed content or re-enable access to it after the applicable waiting period required by law.

We reserve the right to decline restoration where we believe restoration may violate our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, this Policy, applicable law, or the rights of others.

9. Repeat Infringer Policy

Rappor may suspend or terminate accounts, workspaces, or access for users who repeatedly infringe copyrights or repeatedly submit infringing content.

We may determine repeat infringer status based on circumstances we consider relevant, including:

• Valid copyright notices received
• Repeated uploads of infringing content
• Repeated publication of unauthorized photos, logos, documents, or website copy
• Attempts to re-upload removed content
• Abuse of the Service
• Failure to respond to copyright concerns
• Other conduct suggesting repeated or intentional infringement

We may also remove content, restrict upload access, disable public pages, or take other enforcement action.

10. Misrepresentations

Submitting false, misleading, or bad-faith copyright notices or counter-notices may result in legal liability.

You should not submit a copyright notice or counter-notice unless you have a good faith basis for doing so.

Rappor may suspend or terminate accounts that abuse the copyright complaint process.

11. Trademark and Other Intellectual Property Complaints

This Policy primarily addresses copyright complaints under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

If you believe content on the Service violates a trademark, publicity right, privacy right, or other intellectual property right, you may contact us at [email protected].

Please include enough information for us to understand and review the issue, including:

• Your name and contact information
• The right you claim is being violated
• Identification of the content at issue
• The URL or location of the content
• An explanation of why you believe the content violates your rights
• Documentation supporting your claim, if available

We may review and take action in our discretion.

12. Rappor's Rights

We reserve the right to remove, disable, restrict, noindex, or unpublish any content at any time if we believe it may violate copyrights, trademarks, other rights, our Terms of Service, our Acceptable Use Policy, this Policy, applicable law, or platform quality standards.

We are not required to host, publish, restore, or continue displaying any user-submitted content.

13. Workspace Administrator Responsibilities

Workspace administrators are responsible for helping ensure that content submitted by members and users in their group or organization complies with this Policy.

Administrators should not approve or publish content unless they reasonably believe the workspace has the right to use it.

If an administrator receives a copyright complaint directly from a third party, the administrator should promptly remove the content or contact Rappor for assistance.

14. Public Pages and Search Engines

If content is removed from Rappor, it may not immediately disappear from search engines, browser caches, third-party websites, social media platforms, or external archives.

Rappor does not control third-party indexing, caching, sharing, archiving, or search result behavior.

15. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice by posting the updated Policy, updating the “Last Updated” date, sending an email, displaying an in-app notice, or using another reasonable method.

Your continued use of the Service after the updated Policy becomes effective means you accept the updated Policy.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Policy, please contact us at: