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DMCA & Copyright Policy

Effective date: June 21, 2026 Last updated: June 21, 2026

Droply ("Droply", "we", "us", "our") operates a no-code static-site and file-hosting service. Customers upload static files (HTML, ZIP archives of static sites, PDFs, images, and documents) and we serve them at <subdomain>.droply.id and, for eligible plans, at connected custom domains. We respect the intellectual-property rights of others and expect our users to do the same. This DMCA & Copyright Policy explains how copyright owners (and their authorized agents) can report material they believe infringes their rights, how we respond, and how an affected publisher can dispute a removal.

This Policy is part of, and should be read together with, our Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy. It governs copyright and other intellectual-property complaints. Non-IP abuse (phishing, malware, fraud, illegal content, harassment, and similar) is handled under our Acceptable Use Policy; see Section 11.

1. Respect for intellectual property and scope

1.1. Droply hosts content uploaded by its users. We do not pre-screen user content for copyright compliance, and the user who uploaded the content — not Droply — is responsible for ensuring it does not infringe anyone's rights. Every hosted site on Droply is tied to an identified, signed-in account (we do not permit anonymous publishing), which lets us attribute content to a responsible party for the purposes described in this Policy.

1.2. What this Policy covers. This Policy applies to user content that we host and serve, including:

1.3. What this Policy does not cover. This Policy does not apply to content Droply itself publishes (for example, our marketing pages and blog). It also does not apply to websites or servers that Droply does not host — if a domain merely points elsewhere, or the content lives on infrastructure we do not control, please direct your notice to the actual host.

1.4. Droply acts as an online service provider that stores and transmits user content at the direction of users and intends to qualify for the safe-harbor protections of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. § 512. We follow the notice-and-takedown and counter-notification procedures described below.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

We have designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed copyright infringement.

Email is the fastest way to reach us and is the recommended channel for all notices and counter-notices. Please put "DMCA Notice" or "DMCA Counter-Notice" in the subject line so it is routed correctly.

Note on the agent record. To maintain DMCA safe-harbor eligibility, the registered agent's legal name and physical address must be on file with the U.S. Copyright Office and published here. The bracketed entry above is a placeholder pending confirmation of Droply's operating legal entity and registered address. [TO CONFIRM: legal entity name and registered postal address for the Copyright Office filing.]

3. How to file a takedown notice (DMCA § 512(c)(3))

If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe that material hosted by Droply infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to our Designated Agent (Section 2) that includes all of the following elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3):

  1. Signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf. Typing your full legal name at the end of an email is an acceptable electronic signature.

  2. Identification of the copyrighted work. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed — or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.

  3. Identification and location of the infringing material. Identification of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed or disabled, with enough detail for us to locate it. Please provide the specific URL(s) of the allegedly infringing material — for example, name.droply.id/path/to/file or the relevant custom-domain URL — rather than only a homepage or top-level domain. Page-specific URLs let us act precisely; vague or overly broad notices may delay our response.

  4. Your contact information. Your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address so we can reach you.

  5. Good-faith-belief statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

  6. Accuracy and authority statement (under penalty of perjury). A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please note: Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a notice that contains a material misrepresentation may expose you to liability (see Section 9). If you are unsure whether the material is actually infringing — for example, whether it may be a fair use or otherwise authorized — you may wish to seek legal advice before submitting a notice.

A copy of a complete and valid notice (with personal contact details that may be redacted) may be forwarded to the affected user as described in Section 4.

4. What happens after we receive a valid notice

Upon receipt of a notice that substantially complies with Section 3, we will, in line with DMCA § 512:

  1. Promptly disable or remove access to the identified material. Because our architecture serves content from immutable deployments, we typically act by atomically "flipping" the affected site to a takedown/notice page (a pointer flip at the edge), so the identified material is no longer served. Where appropriate, we may instead remove specific files or suspend the site. Disabling a site also withdraws TLS authorization for any connected custom domain, so the site stops being served on that domain as well.

  2. Make a good-faith effort to notify the publisher. We will take reasonable steps to notify the user who published the content that we have removed or disabled it in response to a copyright complaint, and to forward a copy of the notice to that user, so they can decide whether to submit a counter-notification (Section 5). Contact details in the original notice may be visible to the affected user; if you wish certain personal information to be redacted, please indicate this in your notice (we cannot guarantee redaction where the law or the counter-notice process requires disclosure).

  3. Record the complaint. We log the notice and the action taken as part of our abuse and enforcement records, which support our repeat-infringer policy (Section 7). See our Privacy Policy for how we handle the personal information contained in notices.

We may decline to act on, or may request clarification of, a notice that does not contain all the required elements or that does not adequately identify the material or its location.

5. Counter-notification (DMCA § 512(g))

If you are a Droply user and your material was removed or disabled as a result of a copyright notice, and you believe in good faith that it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification to our Designated Agent (Section 2).

Your counter-notification must include all of the following, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3):

  1. Your signature — physical or electronic.

  2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and the location at which it appeared before it was removed or disabled (for example, the original URL such as name.droply.id/path or the relevant custom-domain URL).

  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.

  4. Your name, address, and telephone number.

  5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or — if your address is outside the United States — to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which Droply may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice (or that person's agent).

Important: Section 512(f) applies to counter-notifications too. Knowingly materially misrepresenting that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may subject you to liability (see Section 9).

6. Restoration after a counter-notification

When we receive a valid counter-notification, we will promptly forward a copy to the person who submitted the original takedown notice and inform them that we will restore the removed material in 10–14 business days unless our Designated Agent first receives notice that the complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the alleged infringing activity.

If the complainant does not give us such notice within that 10–14 business-day window, we may, in our discretion, restore the material (for example, by reversing the pointer flip and re-serving the affected deployment). Restoration of service is also subject to the affected account otherwise being in good standing under our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.

[ASSUMPTION: the 10–14 business-day restoration window reflects the statutory range in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2)(C); Droply uses not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days as its operating policy.]

7. Repeat-infringer policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Droply has adopted and reasonably implements a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

7.1. Account-level enforcement. Copyright enforcement is tied to our broader account-standing model. Because every hosted site is attributed to an identified account, we can act not only at the site level (suspending or removing a specific site) but also at the account level. Accounts may be suspended (a temporary hold that revokes dashboard and API access) or permanently banned/terminated for repeat or egregious infringement. A terminated account loses access to the Service, and its hosted content is taken down.

7.2. What we weigh. When deciding whether termination is appropriate, we consider the totality of the circumstances, which may include the number and nature of valid notices received about content under a given account, whether the user submitted counter-notifications, any prior warnings or suspensions, and whether the conduct appears willful or part of a pattern of abuse.

7.3. Manual, discretionary enforcement. Determining when termination is "appropriate" is a fact-specific judgment we make in good faith. Today, repeat-infringer enforcement is a manual, case-by-case staff process: our team reviews notices and account history and takes action by hand. We do not currently operate an automated system that counts notices per account, aggregates complaints, or applies a fixed warn → suspend → ban escalation ladder. We may also terminate or suspend an account for a single severe violation, and we may act with or without prior notice where the circumstances warrant (for example, where required by law or to prevent ongoing harm).

[ASSUMPTION: repeat-infringer enforcement is presently a manual, discretionary staff process. The platform does not yet implement automated tracking, per-account notice counting, complaint aggregation, or an automatic escalation/termination ladder; building such a mechanism is a to-do item before any systematic, automated repeat-infringer regime is relied upon operationally.]

8. Records and our enforcement backbone

We record copyright notices, counter-notifications, and the actions we take as part of our abuse and enforcement records. These records support the repeat-infringer policy above and help us respond consistently. See our Privacy Policy for details on retention and the handling of personal information contained in notices.

[ASSUMPTION: Droply maintains an append-only, immutable administrative audit log. That immutable log is presently confirmed for administrative plan grant/revoke actions; whether copyright/abuse takedown actions (for example, site suspensions and restorations) are additionally written to the immutable audit log is a to-confirm item. See the assumptions list below.]

9. Misrepresentation liability (DMCA § 512(f))

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents (a) that material is infringing, or (b) that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages — including costs and attorneys' fees — incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or its authorized licensee, or by Droply, as a result of our reliance on that misrepresentation. Please do not submit notices or counter-notices unless you genuinely and in good faith believe the statements they contain are true.

10. Trademark and other intellectual-property complaints

This Policy's formal DMCA procedures apply to copyright. If you believe content hosted on Droply infringes your trademark rights, or violates other intellectual-property rights (such as the right of publicity), please contact us at [email protected] with:

We review trademark and other IP complaints on a case-by-case basis and may remove or disable access to content, suspend a site, or take account-level action consistent with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. Note that trademark disputes are often fact-specific (for example, nominative or descriptive fair use), and we may ask for additional information before acting.

11. Relationship to the Acceptable Use Policy (non-IP abuse)

This Policy complements — and does not replace — our Acceptable Use Policy. Non-IP abuse — including phishing, malware, fraud and scams, illegal content (including CSAM), harassment, and similar — is handled under the AUP, not the DMCA process described here, and is typically reported through our abuse channel at droply.host/abuse or by email to [email protected]. We may act immediately, with or without notice, on priority abuse such as phishing, malware, or CSAM. If your complaint involves both copyright and other abuse, you may reference both; we will route each issue to the appropriate process.

12. Notice for complainants outside the United States (and EU/UK)

The DMCA is a United States statute, and the formal notice-and-takedown, counter-notification, and safe-harbor mechanics described above are grounded in U.S. law. Even if you are located outside the United States, you are welcome to use the procedures in this Policy to report content you believe infringes your copyright; please provide the same information described in Section 3 so we can act effectively.

We also respond to clear, well-substantiated notices of infringement under other applicable laws, and we operate a general notice-and-action process for illegal or infringing content consistent with modern online-service obligations (including EU/EEA and UK frameworks such as the EU Digital Services Act). If you are reporting under a non-U.S. legal regime, please tell us which law you are relying on and provide enough detail (including specific URLs and the basis for your claim) for us to assess and act on the report. Where a non-U.S. framework provides specific notice, redress, or appeal mechanics, we will handle eligible reports in a manner consistent with those obligations.

Regardless of where you are located, copyright notices and counter-notices may be sent to our Designated Agent at [email protected].

13. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, our services, or our practices. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, the Designated Agent record. Material changes will be communicated consistent with our Terms of Service. Your continued use of the Service after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.

Assumptions & items to confirm

This document is provided for general informational purposes and is not legal advice. Droply is not your lawyer, and reading or relying on this Policy does not create an attorney–client relationship. The placeholders and assumptions above reflect decisions that require business and legal input. Have a qualified attorney review and finalize this Policy — including the registered DMCA agent details, governing law, and jurisdiction — before publication.

This document is a draft pending legal review and is not legal advice. Have it reviewed by a qualified lawyer before launch.
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