Copyright and Takedown Policy

1. What You Can Report

You can report a Collection, a Place Card, a Trip, or a user's profile. A photo, title, description or tip is reported as part of the Collection, Place Card or profile that shows it.

This includes any photograph shown on a Place Card, whoever took it and wherever it came from. If you took a photo and it appears in Locals without your permission, this is the page for you.

A place itself — its name, address, or whether it is open — is not content anyone wrote in Locals, and is not handled under this policy. Information about a place that is wrong is not a rights claim.

2. How to Send a Notice

If you have a Locals account, you can report the content in the app. For a rights claim, choose the ground that fits best — usually "Something else" — and say in the text that the content infringes your copyright or other rights. We may write to you for the details listed below.

Whether or not you have an account, you can send a notice by email to legal@localsapp.app. The page of a shared Collection has a link that opens this email with the Collection's address already in it. Please include:

1. Your name and an email address where we can reach you.
2. The work or right you believe is infringed — for example, the photograph and where you originally published it, or the trademark and where it is registered.
3. Exactly where the content is in Locals: the share link of the Collection, or the Collection's title and its author's username, and which Place Card or photo you mean. A screenshot helps.
4. Why you believe the content infringes your rights.
5. A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act on their behalf.
7. Your physical or electronic signature. Typing your full name is enough.

A notice that is missing some of this can still be acted on, but it may take longer, because we may have to ask you for the rest.

3. What Happens Next

• A person reads every notice. Nothing is removed automatically, and the number of notices about the same content does not matter.
• If you reported in the app, the content is hidden for you straight away, and for nobody else, until the review is done.
• We review notices within 24 hours where we can, and tell you what we decided if you wrote to us by email.
• If the notice is valid, we remove the content for everyone. It no longer appears on the map, in search, on the author's profile, or through a share link. People who had saved it see that it is no longer available, with no reason given. Removing a Collection does not remove the Place Cards inside it; removing a Place Card removes it from every Collection that holds it.
• The author is told. The author sees, in the app, what was removed, on which ground and when. We do not tell the author who sent the notice, unless the law requires us to pass the notice on.
• If the notice is not valid, the content stays, and we tell you why if you wrote to us by email.

4. If Your Content Was Removed

If you believe your content was removed by mistake, or that you have the right to publish it, write to support@localsapp.app. Say which content was removed and why you believe the removal is wrong, and include any licence or permission you have. A removal is not a deletion and can be reversed: if we agree with you, the content is restored.

We may share your reply with the person who sent the notice, so that they can respond or take the matter further. We will tell you before we do.

5. Repeat Infringement

When content is removed from the same account more than once for infringing other people's rights, we review the account, and we close accounts that repeatedly infringe.

6. Misuse

Do not send a notice, or contest a removal, that you know to be false. Doing so is a breach of the Terms of Service and may make you liable to the person harmed by it.

7. Content From Third Parties

Place names, addresses, categories and photos supplied by Google Places are Google's content or that of the people who contributed it to Google. If your claim concerns content in Google Maps itself, you can also report it to Google. If such content appears in Locals, you can still send us a notice and we will handle it as above.

8. Contact

• Notices: legal@localsapp.app
• Contesting a removal: support@localsapp.app