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DMCA & Copyright Policy

HolidaySmart Copyrights and Trademark Notices

All materials used and displayed on the HolidaySmart Service are the property of HolidaySmart,  or its affiliates, partners, or image licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce or distribute materials found on HolidaySmart without prior written permission from the owner. You may display and print content for your personal, non-commercial use.

Note that the majority of our images are sourced from Shutterstock, Canva, Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay or other image partner in which we have the rights through the partnership to use the image. See the DMCA copyright information below. 

 

Request Permission to Use Copyrighted Materials

HolidaySmart.com contains content, including but not limited to, articles, photos, images, icons, and other copyrighted materials owned by us or our content providers or submitters. The following information applies only to materials we own. You must contact the copyright owner for permission to use third party materials.

Do I Need Permission?

You are authorized to view, copy, download, and print for personal use only any copyrighted materials from HolidaySmart.com that are available on this or any of our Partner websites, subject to the following conditions:

1. The documents may be used solely for personal, noncommercial, and informational purposes. They may not be posted or distributed.
2. All copyright credit must be documented in the use.

This permission does not extend to materials owned by other content providers that appear on HolidaySmart.com.

You may not copy, duplicate or redistribute the design or layout of HolidaySmart.com or any individual elements of the website design without our express written permission.

Permission for Non-Personal or Commercial Use

Reproduction, copying, or redistribution of any HolidaySmart.com content for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited without our express written permission.

To request permission, contact us with the following:

1. The content you wish to use and the URL where it is located.
2. Where and how it will be used.
3. If being distributed, where, how many copies, what audience and for how long you wish to distribute.
5. If publishing content, when, where and for how long will the content be puclished.
6. Other materials that will be used with our content.
7. Your name, title, company, address, email address, and phone number
8. Please include “Content Permission Request” in subject of email or letter.

All permissions granted will require a link or mock up of the content. We retain the right to refuse permission for any reason we deem necessary.

We strive to respond to your request in a timely manner. If you do not get a timely response to your request, kindly notify us with a reminder of your deadlines.

DMCA & Copyright Policy

HolidaySmart is a website that has multiple members, users, designers, writers, creators, affiliates, freelancers, agencies, and other business representative, all submitting content. The DMCA policy is set to protect both the copyright owner, and the website of suspected infringement by giving the site notice and opportunity to remove any image. We care about copyright and will take down any copyrighted image that we are made aware of.

Sources for the images on our website typically come from the following:

Daily Holidays, Monthly Holidays, and most country and religious holidays, as well as article content, images are sourced from Shutterstock, Canva, Unsplash or other image partner in which we have the rights to use the image. We have had a membership on Shutterstock since 2016 and Canva since 2020. Unsplash, Pixabay and Pexels are free image sites that our editors have used as well. Articles and content that links to a business or organization my use in fair use an image from that businesses page an will link directly to the page. We are promoting businesses and organizations and only use their images for linking back to them. 

If we are notified about use of a copyrighted image that stems from one of these sources, we will bill your company for the use of our personnel time for proving proper use because we have informed you of our sources. WE have paid memberships to the mentioned stock sites. If the image you represent was ever on an image site for use of the members, please don't waste our time or threaten us with legal actions. WE DO NOT EVER USE IMAGES WITHOUT PROPER SOURCING. We will happily remove any image of which the owner no longer wishes for it to be used. We will not be bullied by trolling companies claiming representation of images that were once on a image sourced website (which EVERY ONE OF OUR IMAGES ARE SOURCED FROM if not from our own staff or a business we are promoting). We have never and will never use an image freely from the web without proper license to source from a stock image website in which we have a paid membership or is a free stock site. 

Special Notice to CopyTrack: We will remove any image you contact us about because we have no interest in ever showcasing an image from any photographer who uses trolling companies to try to threaten and charge enormous amounts of money for images that are part of stock memberships. We are also tracking the time involved in dealing with these trolling image companies like Copytrack, and have running bill that they are ignoring. Thus, we will no longer respond to any messages from this company since we have proved our subscriptions to the forementioned stock sites many times, and will continue to keep a running bill to your company for the unethical use of our time. 

We take careful consideration to not infringe on others image copyrights and will comply with removal of any images in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf). We will respond to any claims of copyright infringement and take appropriate action by removing the image.

If you are a copyright owner or an authorized agent of a copyright owner, and you no longer wish for your image (that we used fully authorized from a membership on an image website) to be used on our site, please follow these procedures as outlined by the DMCA. We will never respond to threats of legal action or monetary requests for any of the images on this site as every one of them are from an image membership website as mentioned above. 

Reporting Claims of Copyright Infringement

Note that the majority of our images are from Canva or Shutterstock. If you find an image that is yours, please verify the image on one of the partner websites. We do not use images from other websites that are not paid or free image websites. 

If you no longer wish for your image to be used and have removed it from  Report the one of the image websites, send a notice to our Designated Copyright Agent, listed below,  with the following information:

·        Provide full name and physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on its behalf.

·        Provide a description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.

·        Provide a description of the infringing material and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material including, if applicable, the URL of the link where the material may be found and or reference link to the material or activity where an infringement is being claimed.

·        Contact information of the copyright owner or authorized agent – address, phone or email.

·        Include a statement by the copyright owner or authorized agent that states that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner.  Include a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalties of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Send the Notice to:

HolidaySmart’s Copyright Agent
5840 Red Bug Lake Rd #1514
Winter Springs, FL 32708
Email: [email protected]

It is HolidaySmart’s policy to take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including the removal of the infringed material from HolidaySmart.com. HolidaySmart will also follow DMCA’s rules of watching for repeat offenders and disabling/terminating their accounts.

 

If you are a user or member and we notify you that there is a Copyright Complaint (DMCA) notification on material you have posted on our site, it means that we have removed the material at the request of the owner of the copyright. If you believe that the material was removed is either not infringing, or that you have the right to post the material, you must send your counter-notice in writing following the same requirements listed above to HolidaySmart’s Copyright Agent listed above. Be sure that your counter-complaint is valid and that you have the actual rights to the copyrighted material in question before submitting.  If your account receives too many complaints, your account will be disabled and removed.