DMCA Policy
"How To Make Brown Sugar" ("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), we will respond promptly to notices of alleged copyright infringement that are reported to our designated copyright agent, identified below.
This policy outlines the procedures for copyright holders to notify us of alleged infringement and for users to submit counter-notifications if they believe their content was wrongly removed.
Filing a Notice of Alleged Infringement
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any content hosted on "How To Make Brown Sugar" infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the DMCA by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail):
- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright's interest.
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including, for example, the specific brown sugar recipe, instructional image, or video tutorial.
- A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the "How To Make Brown Sugar" website, sufficient for us to locate the material (e.g., URL link to the specific page).
- Your address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Counter-Notification
If you believe that your content, such as your unique brown sugar making method, ingredient list, or related images, which 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-notification containing the following information to our Copyright Agent:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the content appeared before it was removed or disabled.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the content.
- Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in the district where your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which "How To Make Brown Sugar" may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification of alleged infringement.
Our designated Copyright Agent can be reached via our contact page.