Copyright and takedown

1. Why this page exists

Biojrnl lets you add your own files to your records, and lets someone you invite add entries to a profile you share with them. That makes Biojrnl Ltd a service provider under United States copyright law. If material that infringes someone's copyright is ever stored in the app, this page explains how the copyright owner tells us, and what we do about it.

2. Our designated agent

We have registered a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office, as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) requires, to receive notices of claimed copyright infringement.

• Agent: Copyright Agent, Biojrnl Ltd
• Email: copyright@biojrnl.com
• Post: Biojrnl Ltd, 71-75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom
• Telephone: +44 7727 357203

Email reaches us fastest. Please use this contact only for copyright notices. Anything else sent here will be slower to answer than support@biojrnl.com.

3. Sending us a notice

To be effective, a notice must include all of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be acted on.

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it.
• Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
• A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act for them.

Please be careful. Knowingly making a false claim of infringement can make you liable for damages, including costs and legal fees.

4. What we do when we receive one

We remove or disable access to the material expeditiously, and we tell the person whose account held it what we removed and why, so they can respond.

5. If you think we got it wrong

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include your signature, identification of the material and where it was, your name, postal address, telephone number and email address, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed by mistake or misidentification, your 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, for any judicial district in which Biojrnl Ltd may be found, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or an agent of that person. That wording follows section 512(g)(3) of the United States Copyright Act, and a counter-notice that departs from it may not be effective.

If we receive a counter-notice that meets these requirements, we pass a copy to the person who sent the original notice and tell them the material will be restored. We restore it between ten and fourteen business days after receiving the counter-notice, unless that person first tells us they have filed a court action against you over the material.

6. Repeat infringers

We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. We decide what counts as repeat infringement case by case, taking the circumstances into account.

7. This is not the route for other complaints

This page covers copyright only. For privacy requests use gdpr@biojrnl.com, for security reports use security@biojrnl.com, and for anything else use support@biojrnl.com.