DMCA Policy

Smartly Calculators respects intellectual-property rights and expects users to do the same. This page explains how to report content that you believe infringes your copyright, how we handle those reports under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA“), and how to file a counter-notice if your content is removed in error.

Our commitment

We do not knowingly host content that infringes the copyright of others. When we receive a complete and good-faith infringement notice, we will:

• Acknowledge receipt of your notice (usually within 2 business days).
• Promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material if the notice is valid.
• Notify the user who posted the material, if applicable.
• Terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers.

What you can report

You may submit a notice if you are the owner of an original work, or an authorised agent of the owner, and you believe a page on this site uses your work without permission and without a legal exception (such as fair use or fair dealing). Examples include:

• Verbatim or near-verbatim copying of articles or substantial passages.
• Use of your photographs, illustrations, charts, infographics or videos without licence.
• Republishing the source code of a calculator that is not licensed for reuse.
• Unauthorised reuse of trademarked logos in a way that creates confusion.

What you should not report here

This procedure is for copyright complaints only. Use a different channel for:

• Trademark issues — contact us through the regular contact form with details of the mark, registration number, and the infringing usage.
• Defamation, harassment or privacy concerns — contact us through the regular contact form.
• Errors in a calculator’s formula or output — that’s a bug report, not a copyright issue.
• General content disputes — explain the issue through the contact form.

How to file a notice

To be effective under the DMCA, your written notice must include all six of the following elements:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If multiple works are covered by a single notice, include a representative list.
3. Identification of the allegedly infringing material on our site, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it — ideally the full URL of the page in question.
4. Your contact information — full legal 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 authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

Where to send your notice

Email your notice as a PDF attachment or in the body of an email to the address shown in the contact block at the bottom of this page, with the subject line: “DMCA Notice — [URL of infringing page]”. Postal notices are not preferred, but if necessary you may request a postal address by emailing first.

What happens after we receive a notice

1. We acknowledge receipt of your notice, usually within 2 business days.
2. If the notice appears valid and complete, we remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material, usually within 5 business days.
3. We notify the user who submitted the material (if applicable) and provide them with a copy of your notice (excluding personal contact details where possible).
4. We retain a record of the notice for our compliance and repeat-infringer files.

If your notice is incomplete, we will reply to ask for the missing information. We may decline to act on notices that are clearly invalid, abusive, or that target content protected by fair use, fair dealing or another applicable exception.

Counter-notice procedure

If you believe your content was removed by mistake or as a result of misidentification, you may file a counter-notice. To be effective, a counter-notice must include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed.
3. 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.
4. Your full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in the district where you reside (or, if outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or their agent.

Send counter-notices to the same email address used for DMCA notices, with the subject line: “DMCA Counter-Notice — [URL of removed content]”.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we will forward a copy to the original complainant. Unless the complainant notifies us within 10–14 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to keep the material disabled, we may restore the material.

Repeat-infringer policy

It is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers. We may also limit access to the Service for any user who infringes copyrights, regardless of whether the conduct is repeat in nature.

Trademarks & other IP complaints

For complaints about trademarks, trade dress, publicity rights, or other intellectual-property issues that are not copyright, please use our regular contact form. Provide details of the mark or right, evidence of ownership (e.g., registration number), and the URL of the page you are concerned about.

Misrepresentation & bad-faith notices

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner or its agent, or by us as a service provider.

Non-U.S. complainants

This policy uses the DMCA framework as a baseline because it is the most established. We accept and act on equivalent infringement notices from copyright owners outside the United States — please follow the same six-element format above and we will treat your notice on equivalent terms.

Changes to this policy

We may update this DMCA & Copyright Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.