DMCA Notice and Take-Down Procedure

Effective date: May 26, 2026

1. About this notice

Develemit LLC, doing business as Diner Decider ("Diner Decider," "we," "us," "our") hosts content uploaded by users — meal photos, notes, ratings, and, when the public review feed launches in a future release, public posts. We respect intellectual-property rights and we comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 ("DMCA"). This document describes how to send us a take-down notice if you believe content on Diner Decider infringes your copyright, and how a user whose content was removed can submit a counter-notice.

This notice is also published to satisfy our obligations under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2) and § 512(c)(3).

2. About the Service for purposes of Section 512

Diner Decider is an online service that hosts user-generated content within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). The principal user-generated surfaces are:

• meal photos and notes (private to the uploading user by default);
• ratings and stamps (derived from meal entries);
• public reviews (planned for a future release; not yet live);
• restaurant lists.

We do not pre-screen user content for copyright infringement, but we will respond to properly formatted take-down notices under the procedure below.

3. Designated Copyright Agent

The Designated Copyright Agent for receipt of notification of claimed infringement is:

Name: Emit Dutcher

Email: legal@develemit.com

Full agent contact details are on file with the US Copyright Office DMCA Directory.

Registration renews every three years (next renewal: May 2029).

Take-down notices, counter-notices, and any related correspondence should be sent to the email address above.

4. How to submit a take-down notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice of claimed infringement must include all six of the following elements. Notices that omit any element may be disregarded — we will tell you what's missing so you can re-submit:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or — if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification — a representative list of the works at that site.
3. 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, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material. The most reliable identifier is a Diner Decider URL — for example, a meal-detail URL (https://dinerdecider.app/meal/<uuid>) or a photo URL — or, in its absence, a description that uniquely identifies the post (user handle, restaurant name, approximate post date, photo content description).
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including your address, telephone number, and email address.
5. 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.
6. 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.

You can send the notice by email to the address in Section 3 with the subject line "DMCA take-down notice." Including all six elements in a single message — or as numbered sections in a PDF attachment — is the fastest path to a take-down.

5. What happens after we receive a notice

When we receive a notice that includes all six elements above:

1. We will remove or disable access to the identified material expeditiously.
2. We will take reasonable steps to notify the user whose content was removed, including a copy of the notice (with your contact information visible, since 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(2) requires it for counter-notices to be possible). If you want your home address redacted from the user-facing copy, write "redact home address" in your notice and provide a business address as an alternative; we will use our reasonable judgment.
3. We will give the user the opportunity to submit a counter-notice under Section 6 below.
4. If a valid counter-notice is submitted, we will forward it to you. Under § 512(g)(2)(C), we will restore the removed material in 10 to 14 business days unless we receive notice from you that you have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the user from engaging in infringing activity.

We do not investigate the merits of a notice — that is for the courts. We do, however, reject notices that are missing required elements, that are clearly retaliatory or anti-competitive on their face, or that target material that does not appear to be on the Service.

6. How to submit a counter-notice

If your content was removed in response to a take-down notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), a counter-notice must include all five of the following elements:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. 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 disabled.
3. 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.
4. 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 the United States, for any judicial district in which Diner Decider 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.
5. A statement of consent to service as described above.

Send counter-notices to the same email address in Section 3 with the subject line "DMCA counter-notice."

7. Repeat-infringer policy

We terminate accounts of repeat infringers under appropriate circumstances, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i)(1)(A). Our baseline thresholds:

• two valid take-downs within twelve months → suspension;
• three valid take-downs within twelve months → termination.

"Valid" means a take-down that was not successfully countered or withdrawn. The same policy is summarized in the Acceptable Use Policy Section 7, with appeals processed through this DMCA counter-notice procedure rather than the AUP appeals process.

8. Misuse warning

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification — is liable for any damages, including costs and attorneys' fees, incurred by the alleged infringer, by any copyright owner or copyright owner's authorized licensee, or by us, as a result of our reliance on the misrepresentation.

False DMCA notices and false counter-notices are both perjury. Please make sure you have a good-faith belief that the relevant statement is true before signing.

9. EU notice-and-action

If you are sending a notice from the European Union under the Digital Services Act (DSA) or a Member-State law, the same email address above also serves as our notice-and-action contact point. Please include the same six elements as a DMCA notice plus, where applicable, the type of illegality you are claiming (e.g. "copyright infringement," "trademark infringement," "defamation under [country] law"). EU notices are reviewed under the timelines required by Article 16 of the DSA.

10. UK Online Safety Act

If you are sending a notice from the United Kingdom under the Online Safety Act 2023, the same email address above is also our designated contact for illegal-content notices. Please indicate the relevant priority-offence category if known.

11. Updates

We may update this notice from time to time. The Designated Agent contact information in Section 3 controls; if it changes, we will update both this page and the copyright.gov registration on the same day.

12. Contact

For DMCA take-downs, counter-notices, EU/UK notice-and-action submissions, or any related correspondence: legal@develemit.com (address in Section 3).

For non-copyright abuse reports, see the Acceptable Use Policy Section 5.

For general legal notices, see the Terms of Service Section 16.