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Copyright &DMCA Policy

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UpFour respects the intellectual property rights of others, and we expect our readers to do the same. This page explains how to notify us if you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, and how we respond.

UpFour (accessible at https://upfour.online) publishes original guides, articles and infographics about Android settings, features and troubleshooting. Substantially all content on the Site is written and produced by us.

We respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512.

There are two directions this can run, and both are covered here:

  • You believe we have infringed your copyright. Use the takedown procedure below.
  • You believe someone has copied our work. We would like to know — see the final section.

If you believe your copyrighted work has been copied and made available on UpFour in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a written notice to our Designated Copyright Agent (contact details below). To be effective under the DMCA, your notice must include substantially all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

  1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work. A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are involved, you may provide a representative list.
  3. Identification of the infringing material. A description of the material you claim is infringing, together with information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it on our Site — ideally the exact URL or URLs of the page or pages in question.
  4. Your contact information. Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you, such as your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement of accuracy and authority, under penalty of perjury. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Please send your notice to our Designated Agent:

Designated Copyright Agent — UpFour Email: hello@upfour.online (Please include "DMCA Notice" in the subject line.)

A note before you send a formal notice. If you simply want to raise a concern or ask a question, you are welcome to email us first at hello@upfour.online. We take these messages seriously and can often resolve matters quickly and informally. Please also consider whether the use may be permitted by law — for example under fair use, or because a short factual statement or a settings menu path is not itself protectable expression. Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), including damages and attorneys' fees.

What Is and Is Not Protected

Copyright protects original expression, not facts or procedures. The fact that a setting lives at a particular place in a menu, the name of that setting, and the sequence of taps required to reach it are functional facts about a product, not creative works — and multiple publications will inevitably describe them in similar terms.

What is protected is the particular expression: the wording of an article, its structure and ordering, its explanatory analogies, its diagrams and infographics, and its selection and arrangement of material. Please bear this distinction in mind when assessing whether a genuine infringement has occurred.

Trademarks

Android and Google are trademarks of Google LLC. Samsung, Galaxy, Bixby and One UI are trademarks of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Microsoft, Windows and OneDrive are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. UpFour is an independent publication and is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by any of these companies. We use these names solely for identification and descriptive purposes, which we believe constitutes nominative fair use.

If you are a trademark owner with a concern about how a mark is used on the Site, please contact us at hello@upfour.online and we will review it promptly.

What We Do When We Receive a Valid Notice

Upon receiving a notice that substantially complies with the DMCA requirements above, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified in the notice. Where appropriate, we will make a good-faith effort to notify the person who provided the material (if any) so that they may submit a counter-notification. We may also keep a record of notices we receive.

Because substantially all content on UpFour is written and published by us rather than uploaded by third-party users, in most cases we will review the claim ourselves and remove or amend the material if there is any legitimate doubt.

Counter-Notification

If you submitted content that was removed or disabled as a result of a DMCA notice, and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notification. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notification must include substantially the following:

  1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the removed material. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location (URL) at which it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your contact information — your name, address and telephone number.
  5. A consent-to-jurisdiction statement — a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which UpFour may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original DMCA notice or their agent.

Send counter-notifications to the same Designated Agent above. If we receive a valid counter-notification, we may restore the removed material no sooner than 10, and no later than 14, business days after receipt, unless our agent first receives notice that the original complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity.

Repeat-Infringer Policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), UpFour has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the access of users who are found to be repeat infringers of copyright. We may also remove any material and restrict access at our discretion, with or without notice.

If Someone Has Copied Our Work

Our articles and infographics are original work. You are welcome to quote short extracts for commentary, criticism, news reporting, teaching or research, provided you attribute UpFour and link to the original article. Republishing whole articles, or substantial parts of them, without written permission is not permitted — see our Terms of Service.

If you have seen our content republished elsewhere without attribution, we would genuinely appreciate a note at hello@upfour.online with a link.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this DMCA & Copyright Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the "Last updated" date above.

Contact

UpFour — Designated Copyright Agent Email: hello@upfour.online Website: https://upfour.online