DMCA & Copyright

1. Our position

GACS respects copyright. Most material on the site — study books, capstone briefs, blog posts, registry pages — is our own work. User submissions (reports, screenshots, transaction hashes) are uploaded by their authors who confirm they have the right to share them. If you believe content on GACS infringes your copyright, you can submit a takedown notice under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and comparable laws.

2. What a valid notice must include

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
• The exact URL on gacs.app of the allegedly infringing material.
• Your contact information (name, address, telephone, email).
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are the rights-holder or authorised to act on their behalf.

3. How to submit

Send your notice to legal@gacs.app with subject 'DMCA Takedown — <URL>'. We aim to acknowledge within 3 business days and act within 10 business days where the notice is complete and valid.

4. Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe the removal was wrongful, you may submit a counter-notice including: identification of the material, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe removal was a mistake, your contact details, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in your district. We will forward valid counter-notices to the original complainant and may restore the content after 10–14 business days unless we receive notice that legal action has been filed.

5. Misuse of the DMCA

Material misrepresentations in a DMCA notice may expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f). We do not honour notices that are obviously retaliatory — for example, a scammer trying to remove a registry warning by claiming copyright over their own scam page. Such attempts are logged and may be published as part of the listing.

6. Repeat infringers

We terminate the accounts and revoke certificates of users who are determined to be repeat infringers, in line with our acceptable-use policy.