DMCA & Copyright Policy
What belongs to us
The original content on travelhifi.com is protected by copyright: our articles, guides, reviews, deal write-ups, original photographs and graphics, and the compilation and presentation of the site itself. Where we publish material created by others, we do so under licence, with permission, or within the limits of quotation and fair use, and we credit accordingly. Facts themselves are free: nobody owns a fare price, a route announcement or a visa rule, and we make no claim to them. What copyright protects is the expression, the words, images and structure we made, and that we do protect.
Quoting us, linking to us, republishing us
Links are always welcome, to any page, with no permission needed. Quotation is welcome too, within normal limits: a passage or two, attributed to TRAVELHIFI, with a link to the original article. What is not permitted without written permission:
- Republishing an entire article or guide, translated or not, on another site or app.
- Scraping deal posts or guide content at scale and re-serving it, with or without attribution.
- Using our photographs or graphics outside the article context, or stripping credits and watermarks from them.
- Reproducing our content in commercial products, newsletters or aggregation services beyond quotation limits.
- Using the content of this site as training data for machine learning models, except where a licence from us or an applicable law expressly permits it.
Permission is often cheap or free for the asking, particularly for non-commercial and educational uses. Ask at support@travelhifi.com before you copy, not after.
If you believe we have infringed your copyright
We take other people’s rights as seriously as our own, and mistakes are possible: a mislabelled image, a licence misread, a quotation that ran too long. If you believe material on travelhifi.com infringes copyright you own or represent, send a notice to support@travelhifi.com with DMCA as the first word of the subject line. To let us act quickly, include everything a formal takedown notice requires:
- Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed, or a representative list if there are several.
- The exact URL on travelhifi.com where the allegedly infringing material appears, for each item.
- Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
Where notices go, and what happens next
Notices are read by the editors, not routed into a void. A complete, valid notice gets a prompt response: we review the material, and if the claim holds we remove or disable access to it quickly and tell you it is done. If the notice is incomplete, we will tell you what is missing rather than ignoring it. If the material was posted from a reader submission, we will notify the submitter that it was removed and why. We keep records of notices and outcomes, which protects everyone involved, including you.
Counter-notification
If material you submitted was removed after a notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification to the same address, containing: identification of the removed material and where it appeared, your name, address and telephone number, a statement under penalty of perjury of your good-faith belief that the removal was erroneous, your consent to the jurisdiction of the competent courts where the operator of this site is established, and your signature. On receiving a valid counter-notification we may restore the material within the period the applicable law provides, unless the original claimant informs us they have filed a court action.
Repeat infringers, and false claims
Contributors who repeatedly infringe copyright lose the ability to have material published here, permanently. The obligation runs the other way too: sending a knowingly false infringement notice is itself unlawful in many jurisdictions and can make the sender liable for damages, including costs and fees. Copyright notices are also legal documents, not takedown buttons for content someone merely dislikes; a complaint about accuracy belongs with our corrections process, and a complaint about fairness belongs at support@travelhifi.com in plain words. We respond well to both. We respond to abuse of legal process considerably less well.
