Copyright Complaints (DMCA)

How to report content you believe infringes your copyright, and where the process stands today.

Read the last section on this page (“Designated agent: not yet registered”) before relying on anything above it. Ryvx has not registered a designated agent with the US Copyright Office, so the DMCA's statutory safe-harbor protection does not currently apply to us. We still process copyright notices in good faith, using the DMCA's own notice-and-counter-notice structure as the process, not as a legal shield we hold.

What this covers

Content that appears on the Ryvx website or in the hosted product that you believe infringes your copyright. It doesn't extend authorization to test any third-party system, which is covered on Security, and it isn't the place to report a security vulnerability in Ryvx itself (also Security) or a complaint about how your personal data is handled (Privacy Policy).

Before you file

Be sure the material is your copyrighted work and that its use here isn't licensed or otherwise permitted (fair use/fair dealing, a quote, a screenshot with permission). A takedown notice is a legal statement made under penalty of perjury, not a preference, and knowingly misrepresenting that something infringes can carry real legal consequences for you.

What a valid notice must contain

Your physical or electronic signature, or that of someone authorized to act on your behalf.
Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
Identification of the material you claim is infringing, specific enough for us to find it (a URL, or the finding/report it appears in).
Your contact information: name, postal address, phone number, and email.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

A notice missing any of the above isn't one we can act on; we'll tell you what's missing rather than guess at it.

Where to send it

Email support@ryvx.dev with the subject line “DMCA notice”. There is no separate legal or copyright-specific address today; this is the same address that handles every other contact channel on the site until there is one.

What happens after we receive a notice

We review a notice that contains all six elements above, and if the material appears to genuinely infringe, we remove or disable access to it. We don't publish a response-time SLA for this any more than we do for support or security reports: Ryvx is run by one person with no ticketing system and no on-call rotation, so a notice gets read by a human, it just doesn't come with a guaranteed turnaround.

Counter-notice

If content of yours was removed and you believe that was a mistake or misidentification, send a counter-notice to the same address, containing:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, address, and phone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales (the same governing law our Terms of Service sets for any other dispute) and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, and the original complainant doesn't tell us they've started a legal action to keep the material down, we intend to restore it within 10 to 14 business days, the same window the DMCA itself uses. That's a courtesy practice we've chosen to follow, not a statutory obligation we currently carry, for the reason in the last section below.

Repeat infringement

An account that is the subject of repeated, valid copyright notices may be suspended or terminated, consistent with the acceptable-use section of our Terms of Service.

Designated agent: not yet registered

Ryvx has not registered a designated agent with the US Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(2). That registration is what gives a hosting provider the DMCA's safe-harbor protection against liability for infringing content a user submits; without it, this page describes the process we intend to follow in good faith, not a legal shield we currently hold. We are a UK sole trader, and the DMCA is a US statute in any case, so this page is one route to reach us about copyright content, not a claim of a US safe harbor we don't have. If a designated agent is registered, this page will say so and name it, rather than leave the gap standing.