Copyright & DMCA Policy

1.Our commitment

Upgfrog operates https://upfrog.online, a free QR code generator together with written guides that we research and write ourselves. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users of the Site to do the same.

We respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we act on well-founded complaints under other applicable law.

2.What this site hosts — and what it does not

This section matters more than anything else here, because it determines whether a complaint belongs at this address at all.

We publish our own written guides, our own generated diagrams and artwork, and the software that runs the generator. That is the entirety of what we host.

We do not operate a library, a gallery, a repository or an upload facility. Specifically:

• QR codes are generated inside your browser and are never uploaded to us. We hold no copy of any code anyone creates.
• Logo images added to a code are read locally on your device and embedded into the file your browser produces. We never receive them and cannot store, republish or remove them.
• We do not host, mirror, cache or index the destinations that other people's QR codes point to.
• There are no user accounts and no user-submitted content of any kind.

So if you have found your artwork inside a QR code that somebody else made, that file did not come from us and we have no copy of it to take down. The person who made it holds it, and it is hosted wherever they put it. We are glad to help you work out where that is, but a takedown notice sent to us cannot remove it.

3.When a complaint does belong here

Send us a notice if you believe material we published infringes your copyright. For example:

• Text in one of our guides that reproduces your writing.
• A diagram, illustration or image on this Site that reproduces your work.
• Source code of ours that incorporates yours without a compatible licence.
• Any other material we have placed on this Site ourselves.

4.How to file a notice

Send your notice to our designated copyright contact at contact@upfrog.online, with "DMCA Notice" in the subject line. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), it should include substantially all of the following:

• Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
• Identification of the work. A description of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. Where several works are involved, a representative list is sufficient.
• Identification of the material. A description of the material you say is infringing, with enough information for us to locate it — ideally the exact URL of the page concerned.
• Your contact details. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
• A good-faith statement. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement of accuracy, under penalty of perjury. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

5.A word before you file a formal notice

You are very welcome to email us informally first. Most concerns we receive turn out to be resolvable in a couple of messages, and that is faster for everyone than a formal process.

Please also consider whether the use might be permitted — for example as fair use or fair dealing, or because the material is a published specification or standard that we are entitled to cite and quote. Knowingly and materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can carry liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), including damages and legal costs.

6.What we do when we receive a valid notice

On receiving a notice that substantially complies with the requirements above, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified.

Because effectively everything on this Site is published by us rather than uploaded by a third party, in practice we review the claim directly and take the material down wherever there is any legitimate doubt. Where a third party did provide the material, we will make a good-faith effort to notify them so they can submit a counter-notification.

We keep a record of the notices we receive.

7.Counter-notification

If material you provided was removed or disabled and you believe that was the result of a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same address. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) it should include substantially the following:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed, and the location at which it appeared before removal.
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, postal address and telephone number.
• A statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the United States Federal District Court for the district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, any district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

Where the law provides for it, we may restore the material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after receiving a valid counter-notification, unless we are first notified that the original complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity.

8.Repeat infringers

Consistent with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), we will in appropriate circumstances restrict or terminate access for anyone found to be a repeat infringer of copyright. We may also remove material and restrict access at our discretion.

9.Good-faith claims are welcome

We write our guides ourselves and generate our own artwork, but we accept that we can make mistakes — an over-long quotation, a diagram that resembles someone else's more closely than we realised, an attribution we got wrong.

If you think we have used your work without proper permission or credit, we would genuinely rather hear from you than not. Write to contact@upfrog.online and we will review it in good faith and correct or remove it where warranted, whether or not a formal notice is required.

10.Trademarks and other concerns

This page covers copyright. For trademark, privacy, defamation or any other non-copyright concern, write to contact@upfrog.online and describe the issue.

QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED. We use the term descriptively to refer to the standard, and this project is not affiliated with or endorsed by DENSO WAVE.

11.Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we make material changes we will post the revised policy on this page and update the date shown at the top.

12.Contact

Designated copyright contact: contact@upfrog.online

General enquiries: contact@upfrog.online

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