Copyright Infringement Policy
(DMCA & Canadian Notice-and-Notice)

1. Purpose and Scope

This Policy applies to material posted, stored, or made available on or through the Services by users (User Content) and, where applicable, to allegations concerning material we host. It is our policy to: (a) respond promptly to compliant notices of claimed copyright infringement; (b) remove or disable access to material that we determine, or that a compliant notice alleges, is infringing, where appropriate under the applicable regime; (c) terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers; and (d) accommodate standard technical measures used by copyright owners to identify and protect their works. Nothing in this Policy is legal advice, and we do not adjudicate the underlying merits of infringement disputes between third parties.

If you believe your own copyrighted work — or a work you are authorized to act for — has been copied and made available on the Services in a way that constitutes infringement, use the procedures below. If you are reporting piracy of the Company's own content found elsewhere on the internet (for example, leaked course videos), please also use the contact in Section 12; we actively enforce our rights as described in our Copyright & Intellectual Property Notice.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

Notices under this Policy should be sent to our Designated Copyright Agent:

Note to Company: to preserve DMCA safe-harbour eligibility for U.S. purposes, the Designated Agent must also be registered (and kept current) with the U.S. Copyright Office's online DMCA Designated Agent Directory. [REGISTER AGENT AT dmca.copyright.gov AND RENEW AS REQUIRED]

3. Filing a DMCA Takedown Notice (U.S.)

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your written notification must include substantially all of the following:

1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on the owner's behalf;
2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple works at a single online site are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works);
3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and that is to be removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it — for example, the exact URL, channel and message link, timestamp, or file name and location;
4. information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address;
5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
6. a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Before submitting, please consider whether the use may be permitted (for example, as fair use in the U.S. or fair dealing in Canada); Section 10 describes liability for knowing misrepresentation. Notices that do not substantially comply may not trigger any obligation on our part, though we may, in our discretion, seek clarification.

4. What Happens After a Takedown Notice

On receipt of a substantially compliant DMCA notice, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the identified material; take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted it and provide them with a copy or summary of the notice; and record the complaint for the purposes of our repeat-infringer policy. Removal of material is not an admission or determination by us that the material is in fact infringing.

5. Counter-Notification (U.S.)

If material you posted was removed or disabled as a result of a DMCA notice and you believe this was the result of a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to the Designated Copyright Agent containing substantially the following (see 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)):

1. your physical or electronic signature;
2. identification of the material that was removed or to which access was disabled, and the location at which it appeared before removal;
3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material;
4. your name, address, and telephone number; and
5. a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which the Company may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or that person's agent.

6. Restoration of Material

On receipt of a compliant counter-notification, we will promptly provide a copy to the original complainant and inform them that we will restore the removed material in not less than ten (10) and not more than fourteen (14) business days, unless our Designated Copyright Agent first receives notice that the complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity. We may decline to restore material that independently violates our Terms & Conditions.

7. Repeat Infringer Policy

It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and in our discretion, to suspend or terminate the accounts and access of users who are determined to be repeat infringers — including users against whom we receive multiple substantially compliant infringement notices, users who repeatedly post infringing material, and users who repeatedly upload, share, or solicit the sharing of the Company's own protected content in breach of our Terms. We may also, in our discretion, act on a single instance of blatant infringement. Terminated users are not entitled to any refund. We may retain complaint records as needed for compliance and enforcement.

8. Canadian Notice-and-Notice Regime

Under sections 41.25–41.26 of Canada's Copyright Act, a copyright owner may send a notice of claimed infringement to certain intermediaries, who must forward compliant notices to the relevant user and retain identifying records. To the extent those provisions apply to any function we perform, on receipt of a notice that complies with s. 41.25(2) — in writing and setting out the claimant's name and address, identification of the work and the claimant's interest or right in it, the location data for the electronic location concerned, the claimed infringement, and its date and time — we will, as required: forward the notice electronically to the user associated with the identified location and inform the claimant of the forwarding (or explain why forwarding was not possible), and retain records allowing the user's identity to be determined for six (6) months after receipt of the notice (or one (1) year if court proceedings relating to the claimed infringement are commenced and we are so notified).

9. Limits on Canadian Notices; Our Role

By law (s. 41.25(3)), a Canadian notice-and-notice notice must not contain: an offer to settle the claimed infringement; a request or demand for payment or for personal information, made in relation to the claimed infringement; a reference (including a hyperlink) to any such offer, request, or demand; or other content prescribed by regulation. Notices containing prohibited content are non-compliant, and we are not obliged to forward them. Please also note: (a) the notice-and-notice regime does not itself require us to remove content or reveal a user's identity to the claimant — disclosure of user identity occurs only under a court order or as otherwise required by law; and (b) independent of that regime, we may nonetheless remove content or discipline accounts under our own Terms & Conditions, and rights holders may additionally use the DMCA process in Section 3 for material we host.

10. Misrepresentation and Abuse of Process

Submitting false or bad-faith notices has consequences. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages — including costs and attorneys' fees — incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner or its licensee, or by us. Statements made under penalty of perjury carry legal consequences in their own right. We reserve the right to ignore notices that are abusive, duplicative, deceptive, or submitted to harass, to seek all available remedies against abusive submitters, and to restrict Services access of any person who abuses this process.

11. Trademark and Other IP Complaints

For complaints concerning trademarks, personality/publicity rights, confidential information, or other non-copyright intellectual-property rights, write to the agent in Section 2 with "IP Complaint" in the subject line, identifying: the right at issue and proof of your interest in it (for example, registration particulars); the material complained of and its exact location; why you believe it infringes; your contact information; and a good-faith statement that the information provided is accurate and that you are authorized to act. We will review and act as we consider appropriate, which may include removal, labelling, or requesting further information; we do not adjudicate contested ownership disputes.

12. Contact

All notices, counter-notices, and IP complaints under this Policy: Designated Copyright Agent, S.O.T. School of Trading Inc., [REGISTERED OFFICE / MAILING ADDRESS], info@schooloftrading.ca. To report piracy of the Company's own content found on third-party sites or channels, use the same address with subject "Piracy Report".