Copyright / Takedown Policy

1. How to report copyright infringement

If you believe content available through the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to [PLACEHOLDER: copyright@critso.com] containing:

• 1.1A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;

• 1.2Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works are covered by a single notice, a representative list;

• 1.3Identification of the material claimed to be infringing, and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it on the Service (such as a URL, account name, video ID, or Output identifier);

• 1.4Your contact information, including name, address, telephone number, and email address;

• 1.5A 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; and

• 1.6A statement, made under penalty of perjury (or the equivalent under applicable law), that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

A notice that does not substantially comply with these requirements may not be actionable, and we may request additional information before acting on it.

2. How we respond

• 2.1On receipt of a valid notice, we will review it and, where appropriate, remove or disable access to the identified material, and notify the account holder who uploaded it.

• 2.2We may terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are found to repeatedly infringe copyright.

• 2.3Submitting a false or bad-faith notice may expose the sender to liability under applicable law, including for damages incurred by the party whose content was wrongly removed.

3. Counter-notice process

If you believe content you uploaded was removed or disabled in error or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice to [PLACEHOLDER: copyright@critso.com] containing:

• 3.1Your physical or electronic signature;

• 3.2Identification of the material that was removed and its location on the Service before removal;

• 3.3A statement, under penalty of perjury (or the equivalent under applicable law), that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;

• 3.4Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction described in Section 16 of the Terms of Service (or, where the original notice was submitted under U.S. DMCA procedures, the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice).

• 3.5On receipt of a valid counter-notice, we may forward it to the original complainant and, unless that party informs us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the user from the allegedly infringing activity, may restore the material within a reasonable time not less than [PLACEHOLDER: e.g. 10–14 business days, aligned with DMCA convention] after receipt of the counter-notice.

4. Repeat infringer policy

Critso will, in appropriate circumstances, disable or terminate the accounts of users who are determined to be repeat infringers of third-party intellectual property rights.

5. Jurisdiction-specific notes

• 5.1United States (DMCA). For users and rights holders in the United States, this Policy is intended to operate consistently with the notice-and-takedown procedure under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. [PLACEHOLDER: to claim DMCA safe-harbor protection, Critso should designate a formal DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office — confirm with counsel whether this is warranted given your user base, and if so complete the designation before publishing this policy.]

• 5.2India. This Policy is also intended to support Critso's position as an intermediary under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, including the "actual knowledge" and takedown-timeline requirements applicable to intermediaries under Indian law. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm with counsel that the response timelines and grievance-officer designation in this Policy meet the specific requirements of the Intermediary Guidelines — a Grievance Officer with published contact details may be separately required under Indian law regardless of this Policy.]

• 5.3Other jurisdictions. Where a notice is submitted under a different jurisdiction's notice-and-takedown framework, we will make reasonable efforts to process it in accordance with that framework's requirements to the extent applicable to Critso.

6. Contact

Copyright notices and counter-notices: [PLACEHOLDER: copyright@critso.com]

Grievance Officer (India, IT Rules 2021): [PLACEHOLDER: name, designation, and contact details — required to be published under Indian intermediary rules]