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DMCA Policy

DMCA Policy for Homemade Sloppy Joes

Homemade Sloppy Joes (referred to as "we", "us", or "our") respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects its users to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), the text of which can be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Homemade Sloppy Joes website or online services (the "Site") if such claims are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please submit a written notification to our Designated Copyright Agent using the process outlined below. Your notice must comply with the DMCA requirements.

Filing a DMCA Notice of Infringement

To file a DMCA notice of infringement, you must provide a written communication that includes substantially the following:

  1. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed: This means a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works.
  2. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing: This requires a description of the material that you claim is infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material on the Site (e.g., URL(s) of the specific page(s) where the material is located).
  3. Your contact information: Provide your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  4. A statement that you have a good faith belief: 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, its agent, or the law.
  5. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate: A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  6. An electronic or physical signature: Your physical or electronic signature (e.g., typing your full legal name).

Please send this notice to our Designated Copyright Agent via the contact methods listed on our Contact Us page.

DMCA Counter-Notification

If you believe that your material has been removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification with us. To be effective, a counter-notification must be a written communication provided to our Designated Copyright Agent that includes substantially the following:

  • Identification of the material: Identify the specific material that was removed or to which access was disabled and the location (e.g., URL(s)) where the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
  • A statement under penalty of perjury: 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 to be removed or disabled.
  • Your contact information: Provide your full legal name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  • A statement of consent to jurisdiction: 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 of the United States, for any judicial district in which Homemade Sloppy Joes may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original DMCA notification or an agent of such person.
  • An electronic or physical signature: Your physical or electronic signature (e.g., typing your full legal name).

Please send this counter-notification to our Designated Copyright Agent via the contact methods listed on our Contact Us page.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we will send a copy of the counter-notification to the original complaining party informing them that we may replace the removed material or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member, or user, the removed material may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notification, at our sole discretion.

We reserve the right to remove any content at any time, for any reason, without prior notice.