Copyright and DMCA.

A listing on EstatePlan.now is built from facts a firm publishes about itself: the services it offers, the prices it names, how it starts work. Facts are not copyrightable, and short excerpts are quoted with their source and date so a reader can check them. That is fair use of the firm’s page as we understand it.

We also publish photos and logos that firms have given us permission to show. If we have got any of that wrong — quoted too much, used an image we should not have — tell us and we will take it down. You do not need a lawyer or a formal notice to get something removed: info@estateplan.now reaches a person who can do it. The procedure below is for when you want the protection of the formal process.

We respond to notices that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512. Send yours to our designated agent:

Copyright agent, EstatePlan.now
Email: info@estateplan.now

To be effective, a notice has to include all of this:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed — or, for several works on this site, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. The URL of the page, and which part of it, is what helps most.
4. Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for them.

Please consider whether the use is a fair one before you send a notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material is infringing can be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees.

• We acknowledge it, usually within two business days.
• If the notice is complete, we remove or disable access to the material expeditiously, and we record what we removed and why.
• We tell whoever supplied the material — usually the firm whose listing it was on — and give them a copy of the notice, including your contact details, so that they can answer it.
• If the notice is incomplete, we tell you what is missing. If we think the use is plainly fair, we will say so and explain why, and you can still pursue it.

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. It must include your signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and telephone number; and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live, or, if you are outside the United States, the district where we may be found, and your agreement to accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice.

We pass a valid counter-notice to the complainant. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material.

We will stop accepting submissions from, and may delist, anyone who repeatedly supplies material that infringes someone else’s copyright. Section 10 of the terms of use covers how access ends.

A photo or logo on a profile is shown under the permission the firm gave us when it supplied the material, and the firm told us at that point that it had the right to do so. The quickest route to removing one is to ask us: email info@estateplan.now and we take it down while we look into it. If you are the person shown in a photograph and did not agree to it being published, the same address works, and you do not need to make a copyright claim to get it removed.

The listing data on this site is published under a deliberately generous licence: you may read, cache, quote, summarize and display it, including commercially, if you name the source and keep it intact. The terms are in section 6 of the terms of use, and there is no key and no fee. The site’s own text, design, images and software are not covered by that licence; section 8 there sets out what we own.

If you think someone is republishing our directory in a way that breaks those terms — stripping the Sponsored labels, dropping the dates, presenting firms as ranked or recommended — we would like to know: info@estateplan.now.

• Terms of use — The agreement for using this site, reusing its data, and sending anything to us.
• Sponsorship and firm terms — What a firm buys, what it cannot buy, and how billing, cancellation and refunds work.
• Privacy — What the site collects, what it never collects, how long it keeps it, and how to have it deleted.