Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

Piddlin.com respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our visitors to do the same. Piddlin.com has no responsibility for content on other websites that you may find or access when using the services available on Piddlin.com. Material available on or through other websites may be protected by copyright and the intellectual property laws of the United States and/or other countries. The terms of use of those websites, and not the Piddlin.com Terms of Service, govern your use of that material.

It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may infringe or repeatedly infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Piddlin.com and/or others.

Notice for Claims of Intellectual Property Violations and Agent for Notice

THIS PROCESS IS FOR COPYRIGHT AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MATTERS ONLY. Correspondence regarding any other matters will not get a response. For reports of abuse and related concerns, please see the mailing address and email addresses below.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or that your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Piddlin.com's Agent for Notice with the following information (your "Notice"):

1. an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property;
2. a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed upon;
3. a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Piddlin.com web site, with enough detail that we may find it on the website (in most circumstances, we will need a complete URL);
4. your mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;
6. a written statement from you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

In some circumstances, in order to notify the subscriber, account holder or host who provided the allegedly infringing content to which Piddlin.com has disabled access, Piddlin.com may forward a copy of a valid Notice including name and email address to the subscriber or account holder, or may forward a copy of a valid Notice (with personally identifiable information removed) to Chilling Effects (http://www.chillingeffects.org) for publication.

The Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

By mail Copyright Agent c/o Piddlin.com Inc. P.O. Box 22145 Knoxville, Tennessee 37933

By email contact copyright

Please note that, due to security concerns, attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment will not be received or processed.