Copyright and intellectual property

A notice under this procedure is a legal document. Please consider the following before sending one.

• Only the rights holder or a person authorized to act on the rights holder's behalf may send a notice. If you are acting for someone else, say so and describe your authority.
• Consider whether the use is authorized or lawful. Fair use, first-sale, licensed use, and lawful resale of a genuine item are common reasons a use is not infringing. United States law requires a copyright complainant to consider fair use in good faith before sending a takedown notice.
• Misrepresentation carries liability. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.
• A notice is not the right tool for every dispute. If the problem is a scam, a prohibited item, harassment, or an inaccurate listing rather than an intellectual-property infringement, use Reporting and moderation instead, which is faster.

Send your written notice to Jinu's designated agent, whose full contact details, including a postal address and telephone number, are in Designated agent below. By email, write to legal@jinu.app with "DMCA notice" in the subject line. To comply with 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3), the notice must include substantially all of the following:

• (a) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Typing your full legal name at the end of the email is an acceptable electronic signature.
• (b) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works at a single site are covered by one notice, a representative list of those works.
• (c) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it. Please include the full Jinu URL of each listing, photograph, or message, for example https://www.jinu.app/listing/<id>.
• (d) Information reasonably sufficient to let us contact you: your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
• (e) A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• (f) 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 notice that omits the required elements may be ineffective and may be returned to you for completion. We aim to acknowledge every complete notice within three business days, to act on it promptly, and to complete a removal within ten business days of receiving a complete notice. These are our operating targets, not contractual commitments, and we do not guarantee an outcome.

The formal notice requirements above come from United States copyright law and govern copyright complaints only. A trademark, counterfeit or replica, registered design, patent, logo-misuse or right-of-publicity complaint is not a copyright complaint, and sending one in the form of a copyright notice is the most common reason a valid report is delayed.

Those complaints have their own front door, with their own intake requirements: **Intellectual property reports**. It sets out who may file, everything a report must contain, what we do on receipt, and how a member whose listing was removed responds. The email address is the same one, legal@jinu.app, so a report already on its way to us will still arrive.

Counterfeit and replica goods are independently prohibited by our Prohibited and restricted items policy, so a listing may be removed on that basis whether or not a rights holder complains.

When we receive a complete and valid notice, we may remove or disable access to the material identified in it, notify the member who posted it, and provide that member with a copy of the notice, including the complainant's identity and contact information. Assume that the contents of your notice will be forwarded to the member who posted the material, and that we may publish or share notices in transparency reporting with personal information redacted.

We may also, at our discretion and consistent with the Terms of Service, retain a copy of the removed material, limit features on the account, or suspend or terminate the account. Removal of a listing under this procedure does not entitle the member to a refund of any publishing fee.

If your content was removed under this procedure and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to legal@jinu.app with "DMCA counter-notice" in the subject line. To comply with 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3), it must include:

• (a) Your physical or electronic signature.
• (b) Identification of the material that was removed and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
• (c) A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• (d) 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, of any judicial district in which Jinu may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who submitted the original notice or that person's agent.

We will forward your counter-notice, including your name and contact information, to the original complainant. If the complainant does not notify us within ten business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we may restore the removed material in ten to fourteen business days after receiving your counter-notice.

It is Jinu's policy, in appropriate circumstances, to limit, suspend, or terminate the accounts of members who are repeat infringers. In assessing whether an account is a repeat infringer we consider the number and seriousness of valid notices received, whether any counter-notice was filed, and whether the member has re-posted material that was previously removed. Terminated members may not create a new account, and evading a termination is itself a violation of the Terms of Service.

This is Jinu's only repeat-infringer policy, and it is not limited to copyright. Valid reports made under Intellectual property reports, covering trademark, counterfeit, registered design, patent and right-of-publicity complaints, count towards it on the same terms. That page defers to this paragraph rather than restating it, so that one policy cannot become two.

Jinu App LLC has designated the following agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement, and has registered that designation with the United States Copyright Office as required by 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(2). The designation is on file in the Copyright Office's public DMCA Designated Agent Directory under registration number DMCA-1078378, effective 14 August 2026, and you are welcome to verify it there.

Email is the fastest and preferred channel and is the one we monitor most closely. A notice sent by post to the address above is equally valid and will be acted on, but it will necessarily take longer to reach the agent, so please do not use post for anything urgent. We do not accept notices by telephone: the telephone number is published because the statute requires it, and a call cannot carry the signed statements a valid notice must contain.

Please send only intellectual-property notices to this address. Safety reports go to safety@jinu.app, privacy requests to privacy@jinu.app, law-enforcement requests follow Law-enforcement requests, and general questions to hello@jinu.app. A notice sent to the wrong address will be slower to reach the right person.

We may update this procedure from time to time. When we do, we will revise the date at the top of this page. This page should be read together with our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, Prohibited and restricted items policy, and Privacy Policy.