Copyright Policy

This Copyright Policy is incorporated by reference into the Terms of Service (the "Terms"). Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in the Terms.

People publish their own material through the Service, for example on a public profile. We respect copyright and expect the people who use the Service to do the same. This page explains how to tell us that something hosted on the Service infringes your copyright, what we do when you tell us, and what the person who posted it can do in answer. It follows the procedure of the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we accept notices from anywhere in the world.

This page is about copyright only. For impersonation, personal information published without consent, or any other misuse, see Section 6 of the Acceptable Use Policy.

1. HOW TO REPORT INFRINGEMENT

Send a written notice to our designated agent for copyright notices, at the legal notices address shown in the contact panel below, by email or by post. Put "Copyright notice" in the subject line.

To be effective, your notice must contain all of the following:

(a) your physical or electronic signature, or that of the person authorized to act for the copyright owner;

(b) identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed or, if one notice covers several works, a representative list of them;

(c) identification of the material you say is infringing, and information reasonably sufficient for us to find it. The full web address of the page is best;

(d) information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you: a postal address, a telephone number and an email address;

(e) 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;

(f) a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

A notice that leaves out any of these may not be acted on. If it is missing something we can ask for, we will try to ask.

Before you send a notice, consider whether the use is one the law allows, such as fair use. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

2. WHAT WE DO WHEN WE RECEIVE A NOTICE

(a) When we receive a notice that contains everything in Section 1, we remove the material or disable access to it, promptly;

(b) We tell the person who posted it, at the email address on their account, that we have done so, and we send them a copy of the notice, including the name of the person who sent it;

(c) We record the notice against the account (Section 4).

We may also remove material we have good reason to believe is infringing without having received a notice.

3. HOW TO ANSWER A NOTICE: THE COUNTER-NOTICE

If we removed or disabled your material and you believe that was a mistake, or that the material was misidentified, you may send a counter-notice to the same agent, at the same address. To be effective, it must contain all of the following:

(a) your physical or electronic signature;

(b) identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and where it appeared before that happened;

(c) 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;

(d) your name, postal address and telephone number;

(e) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located or, if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which the Company may be found; and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or that person's agent.

When we receive a counter-notice that contains everything above, we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice, and tell them that we will restore the material in ten business days. We restore it not less than ten and not more than fourteen business days after receiving the counter-notice, unless before then our agent is told that the person who sent the original notice has filed a court action seeking to stop you from infringing.

The same warning applies here: a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material was removed by mistake may be liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

4. REPEAT INFRINGERS

We close, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who infringe repeatedly. As a rule:

(a) each notice that led to a removal, and that was not answered by a counter-notice or withdrawn, counts once against the account;

(b) an account that reaches three such notices is closed, and its owner may not open another;

(c) we may close an account sooner where the infringement is flagrant, and we may disregard a notice that was mistaken, abusive or withdrawn.

Fees paid for an account closed under this policy are not refunded (Terms, Section 6.5).

5. YOUR OWN RESUME AND OUR TEMPLATES

Your resume is yours (Terms, Section 4.1). The designs, templates and software of the Service are ours or our licensors'; using a template to produce your own resume, and sending that resume wherever you like, is exactly what they are for. Copying the templates or the Service itself to offer them to others is not (Acceptable Use Policy, Section 3).

6. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this policy. The date at the top of this page is when it last changed; material changes are announced the same way as changes to the Terms.