This Copyright & IP Infringement Policy applies to (i) any websites or mobile sites offered by VRIFY Technology Inc. and its affiliates (“VRIFY”, “we”, “us” or “our”), including without limitation vrify.com, and including all subdomains, present and future (the “Website”); (ii) use the mobile application that VRIFY makes available from time to time (the “Application”); and (iii) use any of its services, including the content development, technology development, project management, hosting and other services made available from time to time (the “Client Services”). We call the Website, the Application and the Client Services together the “Services”.
VRIFY respects the intellectual property rights of others and wishes to offer Services that contain no content that violates those rights. We require that information posted by users and clients be accurate, lawful and not in violation of the rights of third parties. VRIFY has adopted this Copyright & IP Infringement Policy to explain to VRIFY users and third parties their rights and responsibilities regarding copyright of the user content uploaded through our Services and the actions that VRIFY will take in response to copyright complaints.
It is VRIFY’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others.
The process outlined in this Policy is designed to be consistent with the process suggested by U.S. and Canadian copyright laws. Remember that your use of VRIFY’s Services is at all times subject to the relevant End User License Agreement and/or User License Agreement, as applicable to you, which incorporate this Copyright & IP Infringement Policy. Any terms we use in this Copyright & IP Infringement Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the relevant End User License Agreement and/or User License Agreement.
For the full text of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please visit the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site, http://www.copyright.gov. For the full text of the Canadian Copyright Act, please visit the Government of Canada’s Justice Laws website, laws-lois.justice.gc.ca.
VRIFY wants to ensure that we are doing the right thing when we are asked to remove content from our Services. Only copyright owners (or owners of other IP) can report a suspected infringement to VRIFY. Therefore, you cannot report a suspected infringement if you are not the copyright or IP owner (or an authorized representative of such owner). Please be aware that you may be liable for any damages if you knowingly materially misrepresent that content published through the Services is infringing your copyright or other IP. When in doubt, you should consult an attorney. If you do conclude that your copyrights or other IP rights are being infringed, you can follow the process outlined in this policy to report it to us. We also strongly encourage you to contact the user directly.
If you believe that materials or content residing on or accessible through the Services infringe your copyright (or the copyright of someone on whose behalf you are authorized to act), please send a notice of copyright infringement (a “Notice”) containing the following information to VRIFY’s designated agent for receipt of Notices (our “Designated Agent,” whose contact details are listed below):
Your Notice with all items completed will need to be delivered to VRIFY’s Designated Agent at the following address:
Copyright Manager
401 – 353 Water St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1B8
email: legal@vrify.com
tel: 604-260-4888
fax: 604-260-4889
Once a proper written Notice is received, VRIFY will proceed to take any or all of the following action, depending on the governing legislation (i.e., US or Canada):
Please note that any copy of the Notice provided to the user who allegedly provided the infringing content may include your personal information.
If your content has been removed by VRIFY, and you believe that the content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or you believe that you have the authorization to post and use such content from the copyright owner, or the copyright owner’s agent, or pursuant to the law, you may send VRIFY a counter-notice (“Counter-Notice”) to the address of the Designated Agent listed above. Your Counter-Notice must contain the following information:
Once a proper Counter-Notice is received, VRIFY may, in our sole discretion, send a copy of the Counter-Notice to the original complaining party informing them that VRIFY may replace the removed content (or restore access to it) ten business days after our Designated Agent received the Counter-Notice, or any time thereafter. At VRIFY’s discretion, the removed content may be replaced (or access to it restored) ten business days after receipt of the Counter-Notice, or any time thereafter, unless our Designated Agent first receives notice that a court action has been filed to restrain the user from engaging in infringing activity related to the removed or disabled content.
If you believe that some other IP right of yours (or of someone on whose behalf you are authorized to act) is being infringed by a user, please provide a Notice to VRIFY’s Designated Agent (as specified above) with the following information:
Upon receipt of the notice as described above, in accordance with its applicable legal obligations, VRIFY will seek to confirm the existence of the IP on our Services, notify the user who posted the content including the IP, or take whatever action, in its sole discretion, we deem appropriate, including temporary or permanent removal of the IP from our Services.
Copyright Manager
c/o Forooghian & Company Law Corporation
401 – 353 Water St, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1B8