Copyright, Trademarks & Takedowns

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This page says what we claim, what we do not claim, and how to get something removed. If you are a brand owner or a sponsor who has arrived here because you saw your name on our board, the last section is the one you want.

What we claim

The individual facts on this board are nobody's property. A closing date is a closing date; a prize is a prize. Facts are not copyrightable and we make no claim over them.

What we do claim is our own work: the selection of which promotions are worth listing, the verification of each one against its official rules, the arrangement and categorisation, the wording we wrote, the code, the design, and the drawn artwork. That compilation and this website are © [YEAR] [LEGAL ENTITY NAME OR YOUR FULL LEGAL NAME]. All rights reserved.

What we do not claim, and do not copy

Sponsors' official rules. We do not republish them. We read them, record the facts they state, and link you to the sponsor's own document so you read the authoritative version.
Sponsors' logos and brand artwork. We do not use them anywhere. Every graphic on the board is an original drawing of ours, made for exactly this reason.
Sponsors' photography. We use none of it.
Trademarks. Every brand, product and sponsor name on this site is the property of its owner. We use those names only to state factually whose promotion a listing describes — nominative use — and never as a badge of origin, an endorsement, a sponsorship, or an affiliation. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any promotion or brand we list.

How we gather listings

An automated sweep reads publicly available pages once a day. It identifies itself honestly in its user-agent, it reads robots.txt before it reads anything else and obeys it — including when that costs us a listing, which it regularly does — it fetches at a polite rate, it does not attempt to get past a login, a paywall or a bot check, and it does not accept or set cookies to circumvent anything. If your robots.txt disallows us, we stop, and the listing is marked on our board as rules we could not read rather than guessed at.

If you operate a site we read and you would rather we did not, tell us and we will stop. You do not need to send a legal letter; an email is enough.

Getting something removed

The quick way

Email support@sweepwatcher.com with the URL or the listing name and what is wrong with it. You do not need a lawyer and you do not need to cite a statute. We will look at it within 2 business days. If a listing is inaccurate, out of date, or about a promotion you do not want listed, we will correct or remove it — we have no interest in publishing something a sponsor objects to, and an unwanted listing helps nobody.

Formal copyright notice (DMCA)

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, you may send a notice under 17 U.S.C. §512(c) to our designated agent:

DMCA Designated Agent
[AGENT NAME]
[LEGAL ENTITY NAME OR YOUR FULL LEGAL NAME]
[BUSINESS ADDRESS]
support@sweepwatcher.com

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

your physical or electronic signature;
identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed;
identification of the material you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it — a URL is ideal;
your name, address, telephone number and email address;
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 that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.

We will remove or disable material as the statute requires, and we will tell whoever posted it. Note that a knowingly false notice can make you liable for damages under §512(f).

Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same agent, containing your signature, identification of the removed material and where it was, your name, address and telephone number, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if you are outside the US, for [COUNTY], New York) and to accept service from the person who sent the original notice.

Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Trademark complaints

If you own a mark and object to how it appears on this site, email the address above with the mark, your registration if you have one, the page, and what you want changed. We will respond within 2 business days. Removing a factual reference to your own promotion is usually easy for us and we will not argue about it.

Contact

[LEGAL ENTITY NAME OR YOUR FULL LEGAL NAME]
[BUSINESS ADDRESS]
support@sweepwatcher.com

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