Home Clean Guide respects copyright. This page explains how to report material on this site that you believe infringes your copyright, what happens after a report arrives, and what to do if your material was removed in error.
What is ours and what is not
The text, charts, comparison tables, and scoring data published here are the work of Home Clean Guide unless credited otherwise. Product images, titles, and specifications originating with Amazon, other retailers, or the manufacturers themselves remain the property of their owners and are used under the terms that apply to them. Manufacturer photography, logos, and trademarks belong to the manufacturers.
You may quote a short passage with attribution and a link to the page it came from. Republishing an article in whole or in substantial part, including a reworded or machine translated version, is not permitted.
Reporting infringement
Send copyright complaints to [email protected] with DMCA in the subject line. Under Section 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a notice we can act on must contain all of the following:
- The work. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed, or a representative list where one notice covers several works.
- The location. The full URL of every page on this site carrying the material. A link to the home page is not specific enough for us to act on.
- Your contact details. Name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
- A good faith statement. A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement of accuracy. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
- A signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or an authorized agent.
If a notice is missing one of these, we will tell you which one rather than leaving you waiting.
What happens next
We review every complete notice. Where the claim holds up we remove or disable access to the material. Where an article is changed as a result, the change is recorded as an update under the correction rules in our Editorial Policy. We do not quietly delete a page to make a dispute disappear.
Counter notification
If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter notice to the same address. It must identify the material and where it appeared before removal, give your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address, state under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district your address is in. We pass a valid counter notice to the original complainant, and the material may be restored if no court action is filed within the period the DMCA allows.
Bad faith notices
Section 512(f) makes it unlawful to knowingly misrepresent that material is infringing. A notice sent to suppress an unfavorable review, or to remove a competitor from a comparison, is that kind of misrepresentation, and we do not act on it.
Repeat infringement
Anyone responsible for repeat infringement loses access to this site and to any means of contributing to it.
Other complaints
Trademark complaints, factual disputes, and requests about personal data are not handled through this process. Factual disputes go through the corrections route on our Contact Us page, and data requests are covered by our Privacy Policy.