Copyright policy

How to tell us that something on Heartipedia infringes your copyright, how to respond if material was removed because of such a report, and what happens to accounts that infringe repeatedly.

Effective 15 September 2026

Overview

Heartipedia (heartipedia.com) is operated by Freedom! Family Limited (the “Company”). Its pages are written by Heartipedia from cited sources and published under the license described separately. We respect the rights of the people who make things, and we expect everyone who contributes to the site to do the same.

This policy covers everything served from heartipedia.com:

article text: paragraphs, key facts, timelines, tables, and the titles and descriptions of video moments;
quotations and transcripts drawn from videos;
embedded YouTube videos and their thumbnails;
anything readers submit, and images, each credited individually.

It sits alongside the terms and the privacy notice.

Videos embedded from YouTube

A video on a Heartipedia page is played by YouTube’s own player from YouTube’s servers; the video itself is not stored here. If a video infringes your rights, YouTube’s copyright removal process takes it down everywhere it is embedded, this site included. You can also send us a notice under this policy, and we will take the embed and its moments off the page.

Only submit what you have the right to share

Submit only text you wrote yourself or otherwise have the right to license under CC BY-SA 4.0. Having read something is not the same as having the rights in it: a sentence copied from an article, a book or a video still belongs to whoever wrote it.

Reporting infringement

If you believe that material on Heartipedia infringes a copyright you own, or one you are authorized to act for, send a written notice to our copyright agent (the address is below). To be effective under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)), your notice must include:

A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or of a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed or, if several works are covered by one notice, a representative list of them.
Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough information for us to find it. The address of each page is best, with the sentence, quotation or video moment you mean: for example https://heartipedia.com/page/valheim and the words concerned.
Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the way complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

If a notice leaves out something that is required, we may ask you for it before we act.

Where to send a notice

Email: support@freedom.tm (please put “Copyright notice” or “Counter-notice” in the subject line)

Messages about anything other than copyright sent to this address may not receive a reply as a copyright matter. A factual error on a page is corrected through the page itself: see corrections and right of reply.

What happens after a notice

We review every notice we receive. When a notice is valid, we act expeditiously to remove the material it identifies or to disable access to it. On Heartipedia that means taking the sentence, quotation, moment or embedded video off the page, or taking the whole page out of public view, and removing the material from the earlier versions shown in the page’s revision history.

Where the material was submitted by a reader, we let them know what we have done and why. We may send them a copy of the notice, including the name and contact details of the person who sent it, so that they can respond. Material that has been removed may be kept for a limited time, so that it can be restored if a valid counter-notice leads to that.

Receiving a notice does not by itself establish that anything infringes, and we may decline to act on a notice that is incomplete, unclear or plainly mistaken.

Counter-notices

If material you submitted was removed or disabled because of a notice, and you believe that happened by mistake or because the material was misidentified, you may send a counter-notice to the copyright agent at the same address. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), it must include:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the address at which it appeared before that happened.
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.
Your name, address and telephone number, and 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, for any judicial district in which the Company may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or that person’s agent.

When we receive a valid counter-notice, we send a copy of it to the person who sent the original notice. Unless that person tells us, within 10 business days, that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we restore the material (or stop disabling access to it) no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after we received the counter-notice.

Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. In deciding what is appropriate we look at the whole record, including counter-notices and notices that were withdrawn or shown to be mistaken. Short of termination, we may remove material or limit an account’s ability to submit it.

False notices and counter-notices

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), a person who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. If you are not sure whether material infringes your rights, please consider getting legal advice before you send a notice.

Outside the United States

The procedure above follows the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you are writing from elsewhere, you can use the same address and give us the same details; tell us where you are, and we will handle your notice under the law that applies to it. You can also use the address to report other material on the site that you believe is illegal.