Copyright Policy & DMCA Notice

Surveyors using yachtscanr can share material with each other — for example photos marked public, or items published to the Community Library. If you believe something shared this way infringes your copyright, this page explains how to tell us and what happens next.

Send copyright claims to our designated agent:

James Welsh
yachtscanr Ltd
Suite E, Astra Business Centre, Preston, PR2 5AP, United Kingdom
[email protected]

Notices sent anywhere else (a comment, a support ticket about something unrelated, a social media message) may not reach us in time to act on them. Use the address above.

To act on a claim, we need, in writing:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorised to act for them.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
• Identification of the material you claim is infringing, and where it is on yachtscanr (specific enough that we can find it — a component name, a report reference, a library item title).
• Your contact details — address, phone number, and email.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on their behalf.

A notice missing these elements may not be actionable, and we may ask you to resend it with the missing parts.

We remove or disable access to material we determine is infringing, and we notify the surveyor who shared it. They can submit a counter-notice if they believe the material was removed in error — stating under penalty of perjury that they have a good-faith belief the material was wrongly removed, and consenting to the jurisdiction of their local federal court (or, outside the US, an appropriate court) if the claimant pursues the matter. We may restore the material if we don't hear back from the original claimant within a reasonable time.

An account that is the subject of repeated, valid infringement notices may have its sharing privileges restricted or the account itself suspended.