Intellectual Property Policy
How to report content or activity that you believe infringes intellectual-property rights.
Last updated August 7, 2026
1. Purpose
Dotless respects copyright, trademark, design, database, publicity, and other rights and requires Customers to do the same. This Policy explains how to report content hosted, published, or made available through the Service and how Dotless handles notices, responses, and repeat infringement. It does not determine ownership or replace a court process. The Terms of Service govern rights in the Service and Customer Content.
2. Before sending a notice
Consider whether the material is authorized, licensed, public domain, independently created, or permitted by quotation, parody, criticism, review, fair use, a statutory exception, exhaustion, interoperability, or another limitation. Rights and exceptions vary by country. A notice can have legal consequences; knowingly or materially misrepresenting infringement can create liability. If the dispute concerns a Customer’s commercial relationship, domain, contract, privacy, defamation, or product quality rather than intellectual property, use the appropriate contact or legal process instead.
3. Copyright or design-right notice
Send a notice containing all of the following:
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your full name, organization if applicable, postal address, telephone number, and email;
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identification of each copyrighted work or protected design claimed to be infringed, including registration details where available and a link or copy sufficient to identify it;
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the precise Dotless-hosted URL and a description or screenshot locating each allegedly infringing item; a homepage or search-results link alone may be insufficient;
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an explanation of the protected elements and why the identified use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or law;
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a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized;
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a statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury where that standard applies, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and
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your physical or electronic signature.
Send it to support@dotless.co with the subject “IP infringement notice”, and to Saem Group s. r. o., Attn: IP Notices, Púpavová ulica 4139/37, 900 25 Chorvátsky Grob, Slovakia. Telephone: +421 949 086 278. Email is the fastest channel. Do not include unrelated sensitive data. This contact is Dotless’s operational notice channel and does not claim registration as a statutory agent in a jurisdiction where separate registration is required.
4. Dotless review and action
Dotless may request missing information, forward the notice and contact details to the affected Customer, preserve relevant evidence, restrict access, remove content, disable publication, or take no action where a notice is incomplete or does not establish a plausible claim. In urgent and clear cases, Dotless may restrict material before contacting the Customer. Removing material is not an admission that infringement occurred.
Dotless may consider the nature of the work, scope of use, licences, apparent exceptions, geography, court or authority orders, prior notices, counter-statements, risk of harm, and whether a targeted restriction is available. Dotless will not adjudicate complex ownership disputes and may require the parties to obtain a court order.
5. Counter-notice
A Customer who believes content was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may send a counter-notice containing:
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the Customer’s name, organization, postal address, telephone number, account email, and physical or electronic signature;
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identification of the removed material and its former URL or location;
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a clear explanation and, under penalty of perjury where applicable, a good-faith statement that removal resulted from mistake or misidentification;
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evidence of ownership, licence, authorization, or an applicable exception where available; and
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where a relevant statutory process requires it, consent to the jurisdiction and service-of-process terms prescribed by that law.
Dotless may forward a complete counter-notice to the claimant. Where an applicable law prescribes a restoration period, Dotless may restore access after that period unless the claimant provides evidence of a filed court action seeking to restrain the use. Outside a prescribed process, timing and restoration depend on the record, risk, and available remedies. Repeated submissions do not substitute for a court decision.
6. Trademark, passing-off, and impersonation reports
A trademark, trade-name, logo, design, or impersonation report should identify the asserted right and jurisdiction, registration number if any, owner, exact URL, accused sign or design, relevant goods or services, and how the use is likely to confuse people about origin, sponsorship, or affiliation. Include the statements and signature required in Section 3. Dotless may ask for evidence of current rights, reputation, authorization, and consumer-facing context. Ordinary referential use, criticism, resale, compatibility statements, and domain disputes can require a different legal analysis or forum.
7. Repeat and serious infringement
Dotless may warn, restrict publishing, suspend, or terminate Customers that repeatedly or seriously infringe intellectual-property rights in appropriate circumstances. We consider complete and credible notices, counter-notices, retractions, court outcomes, the Customer’s response, and whether separate reports concern the same conduct. We do not count obviously abusive or invalid notices as established infringement merely because they were submitted.
8. Misuse of the process
Do not submit automated bulk notices without validating each URL, seek removal of material you do not own or represent, suppress lawful criticism, include false statements, or use this process to obtain private Customer data. Dotless may reject abusive notices, limit submissions, preserve and disclose evidence where lawfully required, and seek recovery for harm caused by fraudulent or bad-faith reports.
9. Reports concerning Dotless Materials
If you believe Dotless itself uses material without authorization, use the same notice channel and identify the specific Dotless-controlled page or feature. Dotless will route the report for legal review rather than asking the Customer to respond. Nothing in this Policy waives a defence, exception, jurisdictional objection, or other right.
10. Dotless rights and automated access
Dotless Materials are owned by Dotless or its licensors. The Terms prohibit unauthorized copying, mirroring, framing, extraction, reverse engineering, false affiliation, competitive use, model training, and removal of rights notices, subject to mandatory legal exceptions. Dotless reserves text-and-data-mining rights in lawfully accessible protected works, including under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790, where that reservation is legally effective. Permission requests should identify the exact material, use, territory, duration, and distribution method and must be approved in writing before use.
11. Other reports
Use Privacy Policy channels for personal-data requests and the Acceptable Use Policy channel for spam, phishing, malware, or safety reports. For an immediate threat to life or physical safety, contact local emergency services first and then notify Dotless with the relevant URL and authority reference.
