1. What Assay actually hosts
Almost nothing that a user uploads. There is no file upload, no image hosting, no comments, and no publishing tool. What exists is:
- Reports — written by us from what your app already serves publicly. Private to your account unless you print or share them yourself.
- Badge pages — a page on our domain, created when you mint a mark, showing an app URL, a date, and a verdict. No findings, no page content, no code.
- Account details — your email address or GitHub handle.
We do nothost your app, your code, or your users’ data. If your complaint is about the content of an app we scanned, the place to send it is that app’s own host — not us.
2. Reporting infringement
If you believe material on assaysecurity.com infringes a copyright you own or represent, email hello@assaysecurity.com with “Copyright notice” in the subject line. To let us act on it, include all of the following:
- your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
- identification of the work you say is infringed — if several, a representative list;
- the exact URL on our site of the material you want removed, specific enough that we can find it without guessing;
- 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 your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner;
- your physical or electronic signature.
These are the elements US law (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)) requires. A notice missing them may be unenforceable, and we may not be able to act on it. We usually acknowledge within a few working days; Assay is run by one person, so please allow for that rather than assuming silence.
Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing carries liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) — including for the other side’s legal costs. Don’t use a copyright notice to get a page taken down for another reason.
3. What we do about it
If a notice is valid we remove or disable access to the material promptly, and tell the affected account holder what was removed and why, giving them a copy of the notice. If we remove a badge page, the mark it displayed stops resolving on the app that embedded it.
4. Counter-notice
If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, reply to us with a counter-notice containing:
- your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
- identification of the material and the URL where it appeared before removal;
- a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of a mistake or misidentification;
- your consent to the jurisdiction of a federal court where you live, or — if you are outside the United States — any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service from the person who filed the notice;
- your physical or electronic signature.
We may forward your counter-notice, including your contact details, to the person who filed the original notice — that is how the process works, so send only what you are willing to have passed on. Where the law requires it, we may restore the material after 10–14 business days unless we are told court proceedings have begun.
5. Repeat infringers
We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. This sits alongside our Acceptable Use Policy, which separately allows us to suspend accounts for scanning apps they don’t own.
6. Trademarks, and other complaints
For a trademark complaint, a privacy or personal-data request, or a badge page you say misrepresents your app, email the same address describing the problem and the exact URL. Data-protection requests are handled under our Privacy Policy; you don’t need to use this procedure for those.
Use of the Assay name and hallmark is governed by our License Terms.
7. Scope
Assay is operated by Aynur Əliyevafrom Baku, Azerbaijan Republic. We follow the notice-and-takedown procedure above because it is a fair and well-understood process, and we apply it to complaints from anywhere. Doing so is not an admission that any particular country’s law governs us, and it does not waive any defence available to us.