Defamation, Copyright and Trademark Infringement Policy

Respecting Your Legal Rights

Business Optimization Group, LLC (“Business Optimization Group,” “BizOps,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website located at www.thebizoptimizers.com (the “Website”). As a responsible website publisher, we support the protection of your reputation and the protection of your intellectual property rights.

We do not routinely edit, pre-vet, or review third-party material submitted for display on the Website. We operate a notice and takedown procedure with respect to such material. In furtherance of this policy, we have established the procedures set forth below for reporting content that you believe defames you or infringes your copyright or trademark rights.

Upon receipt of an appropriate notification as described in this policy, and where we deem it appropriate, we will remove or disable access to the material claimed to be infringing or defamatory. Please be aware that knowingly providing false or misleading information in a notification may result in civil liability, including liability for damages and attorneys’ fees under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), and may result in criminal liability.

This policy supplements our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.

Designated Agent

Notices submitted by email are preferred and will generally receive the fastest response.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Defamation

Note: The following information is provided exclusively for notifying us that you believe you have been defamed by content on this website. All other inquiries will not receive a response through this process.

If you believe that any content on the Website contains statements that are defamatory to you, please submit a written notification to our Designated Agent at info@thebizoptimizers.com.

Your written notification must include the following:

• Your contact information, including your name, postal address, telephone number, email address, and occupation if applicable;
• Identification of the content and its location on the Website. Where possible, copy and paste into your notification all content that you believe is defamatory, and state why you believe it is defamatory;
• A statement explaining why the content is untrue and the extent to which it is damaging to you;
• A statement, made in good faith and under penalty of perjury, that the information provided in the notification is accurate and true; and
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will review each notification received and, where we deem it appropriate, remove or disable access to the content within a reasonable time. We reserve the right to decline to remove content, to request additional information, and to notify the person who submitted the content of the complaint and of your identity.

Nothing in this policy constitutes an admission that any content on the Website is defamatory, and nothing in this policy limits or waives any protection available to us under applicable law, including Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

Note: The following information is provided exclusively for notifying us that your copyrighted material may have been infringed. All other inquiries will not receive a response through this process.

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes infringement and that the material is accessible on the Website, please submit a written notification to our Designated Agent identified above, in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.

To be effective, the notification must include substantially the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, such as the specific URL on which it appears;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which you may be contacted;
• 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
• 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.

Counter-Notification

If material you submitted to the Website has been removed or disabled in response to a copyright notification, and you believe the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter-notification to our Designated Agent containing substantially the following:

• Your physical or electronic signature;
• Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
• 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 to be removed or disabled;
• 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 of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of that person.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we may forward it to the person who submitted the original notification and may restore the removed material in accordance with the procedures and timeframes set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Trademark Infringement

Note: The following information is provided exclusively for notifying us that your trademark may have been infringed. All other inquiries will not receive a response through this process.

If you believe that any content on the Website infringes your trademark rights, please submit a written notification to our Designated Agent at info@thebizoptimizers.com.

Your written notification must include the following:

• Identification of the trademark or trademarks claimed to have been infringed, including the trademark registration number and registering jurisdiction, if applicable, and a description of the goods or services with which the mark is used;
• Identification of all material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or to which access is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, such as the specific URL on which it appears;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which you may be contacted;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the trademark owner, its agent, or the law;
• 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 the trademark that is allegedly infringed; and
• Your physical or electronic signature.

How We Handle Notices

• We will review each notification we receive that substantially complies with the applicable requirements above.
• We may request additional information before acting on a notification.
• Where we deem it appropriate, we will remove or disable access to the material within a reasonable time.
• We may forward the notification, including the identity and contact information of the person submitting it, to the person who submitted the material at issue.
• We may retain copies of notifications and related correspondence in accordance with our Privacy Policy and our recordkeeping obligations.
• Our removal of material is not an admission of liability or an acknowledgment that the material was infringing or defamatory.

Repeat Infringers

It is our policy, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, to disable or terminate the accounts and Website access of users who are repeat infringers of the copyright or other intellectual property rights of others, and to remove all material submitted by such users.

Reservation of Rights

We reserve all rights and defenses available under applicable law, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Nothing in this policy shall be construed as a waiver of any right or defense, and nothing in this policy creates any obligation on our part beyond those imposed by applicable law. We may modify this policy at any time by posting an updated version on the Website.

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