Copyright & DMCA Policy

Last updated 10 August 2026

Our position

curltact respects copyright. We respond to clear notices of alleged infringement under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe the rights of others. The rule we follow is set out under Repeat infringers below.

Designated agent

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

• Agent: Copyright Agent, Curltact LLC
• Email: contact@curltact.com (subject line: DMCA Notice)
• Post: Curltact LLC, [POSTAL ADDRESS ON FILE WITH THE U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE]

Email is the fastest route and the one we check. Our registration is listed in the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory.

Sending a takedown notice

To be effective under the DMCA, your notice must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be actionable, and we may ask you to resend it:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as the copyright owner or someone authorised to act on their behalf.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. For curltact, give us the card address, for example curltact.holtzhost.com/some-name, and say which line or element is the problem.
4. Your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. 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 their behalf.

What happens after we receive a notice

If your notice is complete, we will remove or disable access to the material, usually promptly. We may notify the account holder and pass your notice on to them, including your name and the contents of the notice, so that they can respond. We may act on a notice without deciding who is right.

Separately from this policy, and as set out in our Terms of Service, we may remove any content at our own discretion for any reason, with or without a notice from anyone.

Counter-notice: if we removed your content and you think we were wrong

If your material was removed and you believe it was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address above. To be effective it must include:

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

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we may forward it to the person who sent the original notice and tell them we will restore the material in 10 to 14 business days, unless they notify us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity. This is the process the DMCA sets out, and the timing is not ours to change.

Repeat infringers: the policy, and how we apply it

We have adopted the policy in this section, we apply it, and it is part of our Terms of Service. It covers every account, free or paid.

• What counts as a strike. We record a strike against an account each time we remove or disable material on it in response to a copyright notice that meets the six requirements above. One notice is one strike, however many cards or lines it names.
• When a strike comes off. A strike is withdrawn if we restore the material after a valid counter-notice and the complainant does not file a court action, if the complainant withdraws the notice, or if we decide the notice was mistaken or abusive. Strikes do not otherwise expire.
• We do not email you about this. We never send strike or termination notices, and we do not ask you for an address in order to send one. If we act against your account, you see it the next time you sign in, with the reason on file and how to reach us if you think it is a mistake.
• Three strikes ends the account. On the third strike we terminate: the account closes, its cards stop rendering, and its names go back in the pool unless the name itself was the infringing thing, in which case we hold it. We may terminate on a first or second strike where the infringement is blatant, commercial, or plainly deliberate, and sooner still where the law requires it.
• Termination is unpaid and final. A terminated account gets no refund, keeps no cosmetics, and keeps no names.
• No coming back under a new login. Signing in through another provider account to get around a termination is itself a breach of the Terms. We terminate the new account too, without notice.
• We keep the record. We log every notice we act on, the account it landed on, the date, the running strike count, and what we decided. The log outlives the account, so a count cannot be reset by deleting a card or a name.

The legal standard is termination “in appropriate circumstances”. The counts above are how we normally read it, and we follow them.

Trademarks and other complaints

This page is about copyright. For a trademark objection, an impersonation report, or anything else, email contact@curltact.com and describe the problem. Our Terms of Service let us reclaim any name or remove any content at our discretion, so we do not need a formal legal process to act, though we may ask for detail before we do.

See also our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy.