DMCA and Copyright Policy

Last updated: 10 August 2026

BoostBot.org (“BoostBot”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects copyright. This policy explains how to tell us that material on boostbot.org or in a space we control infringes your copyright, how the person who posted it can answer, and what we do about accounts that infringe again and again.

This policy follows the notice and takedown process in the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512. We rely on the safe harbours in section 512 for the material our users post. Nothing here waives any right or defence we have.

1. What this policy covers

1.1 This policy covers material stored on boostbot.org at the direction of a user, material posted in our Discord server, material sent to our support channels, and material in any comment, review, or profile field on our site.

1.2 This policy also covers material we publish ourselves, but for that material we ask you to write to us first, because a plain email usually settles it faster than a formal notice.

1.3 This policy does not cover the games our customers play. We do not host, copy, or distribute any game client, game asset, or game server. A complaint about a Game Publisher’s software is not something we can act on, because we do not hold that material.

1.4 A complaint about a trademark, about a name, about a logo, or about a false statement is not a copyright complaint. Section 9 explains where to send those.

2. Our designated agent

2.1 Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

Agent: BoostBot.org copyright contact
Email: support@boostbot.org
Post: We will send our postal address on request. Email support@boostbot.org with the subject line “Postal address” and we will reply with it.

2.3 Email is the fastest route. We read the mailbox on working days. Notices sent to support, to Discord, to social media, or to any other address may be delayed, and they may be missed.

3. How to send a copyright notice

3.1 Your notice must be in writing and must contain all six elements listed in 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A). A notice that leaves one out may not count as a valid notice, and we may not act on it.

3.2 Include all of the following:

a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorised to act for the owner;
identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or, if several works on one site are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works;
identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it, which in practice means the full URL of the page, or the Discord message link, or the file name;
your address, telephone number, and email address;
a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
a statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act for the owner.

3.3 Tell us if you want a takedown, or a credit and a link, or nothing more than a correction. We would rather fix a citation than remove a page, and we often can.

3.4 Consider fair use before you send. Under Lenz v. Universal a copyright owner must consider whether the use is a fair use before sending a takedown notice.

4. What we do when we receive a notice

4.1 We review the notice for the six elements in Section 3.2. If an element is missing we tell you what is missing and invite you to send a corrected notice.

4.2 If the notice is valid we remove the material, or disable access to it, promptly.

4.3 We tell the user who posted it that the material has been removed, we give them a copy of the notice, and we point them at the counter notice process in Section 5.

4.4 We keep a record of every notice, every counter notice, and every action we take.

4.5 We may forward your notice, including your name and contact details, to the user who posted the material, and we may publish it in a transparency record with personal details removed. Section 512(c)(3) requires the notice, and it becomes part of a dispute between you and that user.

5. Counter notice

5.1 If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake, or that the material was misidentified, you may send a counter notice under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3).

5.2 Send the counter notice to the agent in Section 2. It must contain:

your physical or electronic signature;
identification of the material that was removed, and the location where it appeared before removal;
a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed as a result of a mistake or a misidentification;
your name, address, and telephone number;
a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district where you live, or, if you live outside the United States, for any district where we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or from that person’s agent.

5.3 When we receive a valid counter notice we send a copy to the person who sent the original notice. We may restore the material between 10 and 14 business days after that, unless the original sender tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the user from the activity in question.

5.4 A counter notice is a sworn statement that goes to the other side with your name and address on it. Treat it as seriously as the original notice.

6. Repeat infringers

6.1 We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who infringe copyright again and again, as 17 U.S.C. 512(i) requires.

6.2 We count a valid notice that we act on as a strike against the account that posted the material. We remove a strike where a counter notice stands unanswered and the material goes back up.

6.3 Three strikes on one account leads to termination. We may terminate sooner where the infringement is deliberate, commercial, or large in scale.

6.4 Termination under this section closes the account and ends any live subscription. Section 22 of the Terms of Service governs what happens to the balance.

7. False notices

7.1 Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f) a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed by mistake, is liable for the damages the misrepresentation causes, including costs and legal fees.

7.2 We refuse notices that are plainly aimed at a competitor rather than at an infringement, and we say so in writing when we refuse.

8. Our own copyright

8.1 Our guides, our gift-code trackers, our comparison data, our screenshots, our page copy, and our images are our work, and copying them without permission infringes our copyright.

8.2 If you find our material republished elsewhere, send the URL to support@boostbot.org and we will handle it.

8.3 You may quote a short passage from a guide with a credit and a link to the page you took it from. You may not republish a tracker table, a full guide, or a data set we compiled.

9. Complaints that are not copyright complaints

9.1 Trademark. Send trademark complaints to support@boostbot.org with the registration number, the mark, the goods or services it covers, and the exact use you object to.

9.2 Game Publisher complaints. If you act for a Game Publisher and your complaint is about how we describe your game, or about the use of your name, write to support@boostbot.org. We use game names to say which game a product works with, which is a nominative use, and we state on every page that we have no affiliation with any publisher. See the Disclaimer for the full position.

9.3 Privacy. Requests to remove personal data go to support@boostbot.org and are handled under the Privacy Policy.

10. Changes to this policy

10.1 We may change this policy. The date at the top shows the current version.

10.2 A change does not affect a notice we have already received.