DMCA Policy

How to report intellectual property infringement to Signal Index.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

Signal Index 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 (the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf), Signal Index will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Signal Index service that are reported to our Designated Copyright Agent identified below.

Important Context: Signal Index is a diagnostic scanning utility. We do not host, store, serve, or distribute user-generated content, media, or files. Our crawler temporarily requests headers from user-defined third-party domains purely to detect meta directives. We do not cache or syndicate the content of the domains scanned. Therefore, we generally do not possess the technical ability to "take down" offending content hosted on third-party servers.

However, if you believe that certain aspects of the Signal Index native platform (our code, graphics, logos, or written copy) infringe upon your copyright, or if an abusive user is utilizing our scanning tool in a manner that constitutes a copyright violation as defined by the DMCA, please follow the procedure below.

Filing a Takedown Notice

If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to our Designated Copyright Agent.

To be effective, your notification must include substantially the following:

  1. Identification of the copyrighted work: Provide a detailed 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 infringing material: Provide a description of the material that you claim is infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity. You must include sufficient detail (such as specific URL links to the exact pages on Signal Index) to allow us to locate the material. General inquiries without exact URLs will experience processing delays.
  3. Your Contact Information: Include your full legal name, your company affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, telephone number, and an email address where we can reach you.
  4. Good Faith Statement: Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law."
  5. Perjury Statement: Include the following statement: "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the 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."
  6. Your Signature: Provide your physical or electronic signature (typing your full legal name at the bottom of the Email is acceptable).

Deliver the completed Notice to our Designated Copyright Agent via email at: dmca@signalindex.com.

Upon receipt of a valid DMCA notification, we will evaluate the claim. If we determine that the claim is legally sound, we will take whatever action we deem appropriate, including the removal of the challenged material from the Site and/or IP-banning the offending user.

Counter-Notification Procedure

If you believe that your material that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled.
  3. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the material.
  4. Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in San Francisco, California, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, we may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that we may replace the removed material or cease disabling it within 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-notice, at our sole discretion.

Repeat Infringers Policy

In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable law, Signal Index has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, the access of automated tools or IP addresses that are deemed to be repeat infringers or abusers of the platform.

Misrepresentations

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be subject to liability for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by us.

Always seek the necessary legal counsel before submitting a DMCA Takedown Notice to ensure your claim is valid.