Copyright Policy
Last updated: 08/11/2026
Nisone, LLC (“Company,” “Platform,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Platform to do the same. This Copyright Policy explains how to notify us of material on the Platform that you believe infringes your copyright, how the affected user may respond, and what we do about repeat infringement.
This policy provides two routes, one for each of the jurisdictions whose law governs how we must respond:
- Section 1 — United States. Notice and takedown under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- Section 2 — Canada. Notice and notice under the Copyright Act. Read this section carefully if you are reporting material in Canada: a notice under it results in your complaint being forwarded to the user, not in the material being removed.
Use whichever route applies to you. You do not need to determine which framework governs before contacting us; if you send us a notice that does not identify a route, we will treat it under whichever section applies and tell you which one that is. Both routes use the same contact address, given in Section 3.
This policy supplements, and does not replace, the Terms of Service, which prohibit posting content that infringes the intellectual property or proprietary rights of others.
1. United States Policies
1.1 DMCA
This section is issued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.
Reporting Copyright Infringement
If you are a copyright owner, or authorized to act on behalf of one, and you believe that material available on the Platform infringes your copyright, you may submit a written notification to our Designated Agent identified in Section 3.
To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your notification must include substantially all of the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material. A direct URL to the study, treatment guide, measurement log, or other page containing the material is the most reliable identification.
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address.
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
If your notification does not substantially comply with these requirements, it may not be effective and we may be unable to act on it. We may contact you to request the missing information.
What Happens After We Receive a Notice
Upon receipt of a notification that substantially complies with the requirements above, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified in the notification. We will make a good faith effort to notify the user who made the material available, provide that user with a copy of the notification, and inform that user of their right to submit a counter-notification.
We may, in our sole discretion and consistent with the Terms of Service, also suspend or terminate the account associated with the material.
Counter-Notification
If you are the user whose material was removed or disabled, and you believe the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to our Designated Agent identified in Section 3.
To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notification must include substantially all of the following:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
- Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or, if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of that person.
What Happens After We Receive a Counter-Notification
Upon receipt of a counter-notification that substantially complies with the requirements above, we will promptly provide the person who submitted the original notification with a copy of the counter-notification and inform that person that we will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in 10 business days.
We will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it not less than 10 nor more than 14 business days following receipt of the counter-notification, unless our Designated Agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the original notification that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the user from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on the Platform.
Restoration is at our discretion in all cases where the material independently violates the Terms of Service for reasons unrelated to the copyright claim.
Repeat Infringer Policy
We have adopted and reasonably implemented a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.
We may consider a user to be a repeat infringer where that user is the subject of more than one notification of claimed infringement that substantially complies with the requirements above and that is not withdrawn or successfully rebutted by a counter-notification. We may also terminate an account based on other evidence that reasonably suggests repeated infringement, and we may terminate an account after a single notification where the infringement is egregious.
Termination of an account may result in the removal of all studies, treatment guides, measurement logs, and other User Content associated with that account. As described in the Terms of Service, we do not guarantee that User Content will remain available and are not responsible for any resulting loss of data.
Misrepresentation
Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing, or that material or activity 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 copyright owner’s authorized licensee, or by us.
Do not make false claims. If you are unsure whether material on the Platform infringes your copyright, or whether a use is permitted by fair use or another exception, consult an attorney before submitting a notification or counter-notification.
2. Canada
2.1 Notice and Notice
If you are located in Canada, or the material you are reporting is available there, the notice-and-notice regime in sections 41.25 to 41.27 of the Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42 applies. It works differently from every other route in this policy, and the difference matters: a notice under this section does not cause material to be removed.
What Notice and Notice Means
Under Canadian law, our obligation on receiving a compliant notice of claimed infringement is to forward it to the user responsible for the material, and to keep records. It is not to take the material down.
Accordingly, when we receive a compliant notice under this section, we will:
- Forward the notice electronically, without delay, to the user whose account is associated with the electronic location identified in the notice.
- Inform you that the notice has been forwarded or, if it was not possible to forward it, explain why.
- Retain records allowing the identity of that user to be determined, for six months from the day we receive the notice, or for one year if you commence proceedings relating to the claimed infringement within those six months and so notify us.
We will not charge you a fee for doing any of this.
We Do Not Remove Content on Notice Alone
We do not remove material, disable access to it, or restrict its visibility in response to a notice under this section. We take no view on the merits of the claim.
Forwarding a notice to a user is not a determination that infringement has occurred, is not an admission or endorsement by us of anything the notice asserts, and carries no penalty for the user in itself.
Under this section, we will remove material or disable access to it only where ordered to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction. If you want the material taken down, you must obtain such an order and provide it to us at the contact address in Section 3.
Nothing in this section limits our separate and independent right, described in the Terms of Service, to remove User Content or suspend accounts that violate those Terms for reasons other than a claim made in a notice under this section.
Requirements for a Canadian Notice
To be compliant under section 41.25(2) of the Copyright Act, your notice must:
- State your name and address, and any other information that enables us to communicate with you.
- Identify the work or other subject-matter to which the claimed infringement relates, and your interest or right in respect of it.
- Specify the location data, such as the URL, of the material to which the claimed infringement relates.
- Specify the infringement that is claimed.
- Specify the date and time of the commission of the claimed infringement.
Under section 41.25(3), your notice must not contain an offer to settle the claimed infringement, a request or demand for payment or for personal information, or a reference to any such offer, request, or demand. It must not contain information other than that required or permitted by the Act and its regulations.
We will not forward a notice that fails these requirements, and we will tell you why. Sending a notice containing a settlement demand is the most common reason a notice is rejected under this section.
3. Contact and Designated Agent
Notices, counter-notifications, and complaints under Section 1 or Section 2 should be sent to the contact below. If you are unsure which section applies, send it anyway; we will route your message correctly and tell you which section we are handling it under.
- Designated Agent: Copyright Manager, Nisone, LLC
- Email: hello.nisone@proton.me
- Telephone: 412-834-5941
- Mailing address: Northwest Registered Agent, LLC, 502 W 7th ST STE 100, ERIE COUNTY, Erie, PA, 16502, USA
We have designated the agent above to receive notifications of claimed infringement, and that agent is registered with the United States Copyright Office in its Directory of Designated Agents to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2). The same contact details are published here and in that directory.
4. Transparency and Record-Keeping
4.1 Records We Keep
We maintain a record of every notice, counter-notification, and complaint we receive under this policy, under whichever of Section 1 or Section 2 it was submitted. For each one we record:
- The date it was received and the date of every action taken in response.
- The material identified, including the URL or URLs at which it appeared.
- The identity and contact details of the person who submitted it.
- The action taken, if any, including removal, disabling of access, restriction of visibility, account suspension, account termination, or a decision to take no action, together with the reason for that decision.
- Whether automated means were used in reaching the decision.
- Any counter-notification or complaint received, and its outcome, including any decision we reversed.
- For notices handled under Section 2, the fact and date of forwarding the notice to the user, or the reason it could not be forwarded.
These records allow us to identify repeat infringers under Section 1.1. We retain them for as long as necessary for those purposes and to comply with our legal obligations, and we handle any personal data in them in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
For notices received under Section 2, we retain records allowing the identity of the user to be determined for the periods required by section 41.26(1)(b) of the Canadian Copyright Act, as described in that section of this policy. Those statutory periods are minimums and do not shorten any longer retention required for the purposes above.
4.2 Transparency Reporting
Where and to the extent we are required to do so by law, and in any event once the Platform reaches a scale at which such reporting is meaningful, we will publish an annual transparency report covering the preceding calendar year. That report will state, at a minimum:
- The number of notices received under this policy, broken down by the type of alleged illegality and by the section of this policy under which they were handled.
- The action taken in response to those notices, and whether the action was taken on the basis of law or of the Terms of Service.
- The median time taken to act on a notice.
- The number of counter-notifications received, the basis for them, decisions taken in response, and the number of decisions reversed.
- Any use of automated means in content moderation, including a description of the purpose and an indication of accuracy.
- The number of accounts suspended or terminated for repeat infringement.
Where we are required to submit statements of reasons to a public database maintained by a competent authority, we will do so.
5. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Copyright Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. Your continued use of the Platform after a revision takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
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