Copyright & DMCA Policy

Our position

Most content on DumpNotes is private and never seen by anyone but its author. Where content is shared with other users, and where it infringes someone’s copyright, we will act on a valid notice.

We respond to notices under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the EU Digital Services Act, and equivalent intermediary and safe-harbour regimes in other countries. The DMCA process below is the one we follow by default, because it is the most widely recognised; a notice valid under your own country’s equivalent regime is accepted just the same.

Sending an infringement notice

Send it to admin@dumpnotes.app with COPYRIGHT NOTICE in the subject line. To be valid it must include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or a person authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed — or, if several works are covered by one notice, a representative list.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it: the URL, the username, the shared note, or the message.
4. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the owner or authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

What we do with it

1. We acknowledge receipt, usually within 2 business days.
2. We review the notice for completeness. Incomplete notices are returned with an explanation of what is missing.
3. Where the notice is valid, we expeditiously remove or disable access to the material.
4. We notify the user who posted it, forward a copy of the notice (including your contact details, which the law requires us to pass on), and tell them how to file a counter-notice.
5. We record the action against the account for the purposes of section 5.

Removal is not a finding that infringement occurred. It is the process the law requires of an intermediary that wishes to keep its safe harbour.

Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, send a counter-notice to admin@dumpnotes.app including:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for the district where you live (or, if outside the United States, of any district where we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

We forward the counter-notice to the original complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe. In practice: a first valid, uncontested notice results in removal and a warning; a second results in suspension; a third results in termination. We weigh the seriousness of each case, whether a counter-notice was filed, and whether the notices came from the same rights-holder about the same underlying dispute.

Misuse of this process

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees, under Section 512(f) of the DMCA and equivalent provisions elsewhere.

We may decline to act on notices that are obviously abusive, filed in bad faith, or used as a tool to silence criticism rather than to protect a genuine copyright interest.

Trade marks and other rights

For trade mark complaints — including a username that impersonates your brand — email admin@dumpnotes.app with the mark, its registration details, the account or content complained of, and why you believe it creates confusion.

For privacy, defamation, or personal-data complaints, use the routes in the Privacy Policy or the Acceptable Use Policy instead — those are handled by a different process.

AI-generated content

AI output can resemble existing works, and the copyright status of AI-generated material differs between jurisdictions and is still developing. We do not warrant that AI output is free of third-party rights.

If you publish or submit AI output, you are responsible for checking it first. A notice about AI-generated content stored on the Service is handled the same way as any other.

Where to send it

Copyright & DMCA notices: admin@dumpnotes.app
[Legal entity name]
[Registered address]

Notices sent to any other address may be delayed. This address is for intellectual property claims only — general support goes to admin@dumpnotes.app.