DMCA Policy

VPS.org LLC respects copyright and responds to notices of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. 512). This page is the one procedure for copyright complaints about anything hosted on VPS.org; the Terms of Service and the Acceptable Use Policy refer to it.

Customers run their own servers and we do not review what they host. When we receive a notice, we act on it as described below.

1. Designated agent

Send notices and counter-notices to our designated agent, as registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (registration DMCA-1039496):

2. What a notice must contain

Your notice must be in writing and include:

1. The physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act for the owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed, or a representative list if there are several works.
3. Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough information for us to find it, such as the full URL or the IP address and path.
4. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner.

3. What we do with a notice

• We forward a complete notice to the customer responsible for the server and require them to remove or disable access to the material.
• If the customer does not act promptly, we may disable access to the material ourselves, which can mean suspending the server.
• An incomplete notice may not be acted on. We may ask you for the missing information.

4. Counter-notice

If material you posted was removed or disabled and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send our designated agent a counter-notice that includes:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and where it appeared before.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for your address (or, if you are outside the United States, any judicial district in which VPS.org LLC may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

We send a copy of a valid counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action to restrain the activity, the material may be restored 10 to 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.

5. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of customers who are repeat infringers.

6. Misrepresentation

7. Other abuse reports

For spam, attacks, malware and other abuse that is not a copyright claim, see the Acceptable Use Policy and email abuse@vps.org.

Acceptable Use Policy