DMCA & copyright

Our position

Half Mile respects the intellectual property of others and expects readers to do the same. We respond to properly made notices of claimed infringement in line with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) and equivalent law elsewhere.

Trademarks and brand names

Company names, logos and trademarks on this site belong to their respective owners. We use them only to identify the service a guide describes. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. If you own a mark and believe our use goes beyond identification, write to us and we will review it promptly.

Sending a notice of claimed infringement

Email contact@hafmile.com with DMCA in the subject line. To let us act without going back and forth, please include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the owner of the exclusive right or a person authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed — or, for multiple works, a representative list.
3. Identification of the material you are complaining about, with the full URL of each page, so we can locate it.
4. Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act for the owner.

An incomplete notice may delay our response. Knowingly misrepresenting material as infringing can carry liability for damages under section 512(f).

What we do next

We review every notice we receive. Where a claim appears valid we remove or disable access to the material, usually within a few business days, and notify whoever posted it. We keep a record of notices received.

Counter-notice

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 should include your signature; identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address and telephone number, together with consent to the jurisdiction of the appropriate court and to accept service of process from the complaining party.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the access of contributors who repeatedly infringe.

Using our content

Our own articles, layout and code are protected by copyright — see our terms of service. Short quotations with a link back are welcome. For anything more, ask first at contact@hafmile.com.