Copyright and takedown

Send copyright notices to privacy@kartai.net, with Copyright notice in the subject line. A notice sent to that address reaches the person who runs Kart AI.

Most pictures on Kart AI are the retailer's own product photographs, loaded from the shop's own servers and credited under each one. Some pictures are not: Kart AI draws its own illustrations for deals that no photograph reaches, and stores them itself. Those are labelled “Illustration, not a photo” wherever they appear.

If something Kart AI publishes itself is yours and should not be here, this is the route, and it is the same address: privacy@kartai.net, with Copyright notice in the subject line. You do not need to use the statutory form below — tell us which page, which picture, and what your claim to it is.

• Kart AI claims no safe harbour for this material. 17 U.S.C. §512(c) protects a service provider from liability for material a USER stored. Material Kart AI publishes itself is not that, so the protection does not apply and Kart AI is not asking you to treat it as though it did.
• Kart AI aims to act on a notice about its own material within three business days. Kart AI is run by one person; the aim covers the removal itself, not a legal analysis — if the claim needs one, the aim is to tell you so inside the same window.
• The removal sticks. The picture comes off, any copy Kart AI is holding is deleted, and the automatic processes that find pictures for deals are blocked from putting one back on that listing — including if the same shop link is posted again later. Only a person can reverse it, and who removed the material and who restored it are both recorded.
• The deal stays up without the picture. What a shopper sees is the designed tile Kart AI uses for every deal that has no photograph. Taking the picture down does not take the offer down.
• You get a reply at the address on your notice, saying what came down and when. Nothing on the site sends it automatically — a person writes it.

Retailer photographs are a different case: those are loaded from the shop's own servers rather than stored here, and they are credited to the shop under each one. If one of those is yours, write to the same address and say so — Kart AI will take it off the page, and the same block applies.

17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3) sets out what a notice has to include. A notice missing these is still read, but it may take longer to act on, and only a conforming notice carries the legal weight the statute gives it. Please include all six:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of somebody authorised to act for them.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works on Kart AI are covered by one notice, a representative list is fine.
3. Identification of the material you want removed, and enough detail to find it — the full URL of the deal page, and enough of the comment or the passage to identify which one.
4. Contact information for you: address, telephone number, and an email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised 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 authorised to act on their behalf.

One warning the statute makes explicitly: §512(f) makes a person who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing liable for damages, including the costs the other side runs up putting it right. Please be sure.

• The material comes down. A comment is removed — its text and its author's name stop appearing, and the row stays in place so the replies underneath it are not orphaned. A community-submitted deal is taken off the site.
• The reason is recorded against the account that posted it, along with the date and who sent the notice. That record is what the repeat-infringer policy below is counted from.
• The person who posted it is told what came down and why, and is sent to the counter-notice section below.
• You get a reply at the address on the notice saying what was done.

You can send a counter-notice to privacy@kartai.net, with Counter-notice in the subject line. 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3) asks for four things:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before it was removed.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed 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 United States District Court for the district your address is in — or, if you are outside the United States, of any district in which Kart AI may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice.

Kart AI forwards a valid counter-notice to the person who sent the original notice. If they do not tell us within ten business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you, the material may go back up — the statute's window is ten to fourteen business days after the counter-notice.

Kart AI terminates the accounts of repeat infringers. In plain terms, and this is the policy rather than a summary of one:

• Every removal made in response to a copyright notice is recorded against the account that posted the material, with the date and the claimant.
• A removal that is reversed — because a counter-notice was accepted, or because the notice turned out to be mistaken — does not count.
• Three counted removals against one account, or a single deliberate, large-scale case, ends that account. It can no longer sign in, post, comment or submit deals.
• Circumstances that are obviously not the account holder's doing are weighed before anything is terminated. This is a small site run by one person, and the point of the policy is to stop repeat infringement, not to hit a number.

Kart AI names retailers and brands in order to say which shop sells what — nominative use — and draws no retailer's logo anywhere on the site. If you believe a use of your mark here goes beyond that, or you have another complaint about content on the site — defamation, privacy, or anything else — write to the same address and describe it. The DMCA process above applies to copyright specifically; everything else is read and answered by the same person.

The rest of the rules for using the site are in the terms of service, and what Kart AI does with personal information is in the privacy policy.