DMCA & Copyright Policy

Our commitment to copyright

Everything published on zepe.online is written by us. Our guides, their explanations, our diagrams and our generated artwork are original work. We do not host third-party files, and we do not republish other people’s articles.

Where we rely on someone else’s work, we cite it rather than reproduce it: our guides link to Microsoft’s own documentation and support pages as the source for factual claims, and our editorial standards explain why. We quote only short extracts, with attribution, and only where the quotation is necessary to make a point.

We can still make mistakes. If you are a copyright owner, or an agent acting on their behalf, and you believe material on Zepe infringes your copyright, this page explains how to tell us so we can review it and, where appropriate, remove it. We respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512.

Before you file a formal notice

If you simply want to raise a concern or ask a question about something we have published, you are welcome to email us first at contact@zepe.online. We take these messages seriously and can usually resolve an issue quickly and informally, without either side needing to go through a formal process.

Please also consider whether the use may be permitted by law, for example as fair use of a short quotation for commentary or criticism. Knowingly and materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can expose you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), including damages and legal fees.

How to file a copyright (DMCA) takedown notice

If you believe your copyrighted work has been copied and made available on Zepe in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a written notice to our designated copyright agent. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include substantially all of the following:

• 1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner, or a person authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.
• 2. Identification of the copyrighted work. A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed. If multiple works are involved, you may provide a representative list.
• 3. Identification of the infringing material. A description of the material you claim is infringing, together with information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it on the Site, ideally the exact URL of the page in question.
• 4. Your contact information. Information reasonably sufficient for us to contact you, such as your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• 5. A good-faith statement. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• 6. A statement of accuracy and authority, under penalty of perjury. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner’s behalf.

Please send your notice to our designated agent:

What we do when we receive a valid notice

Upon receiving a notice that substantially complies with the requirements above, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified in the notice. Where appropriate, we will make a good-faith effort to notify the person who provided the material, so that they may submit a counter-notification. We keep a record of the notices we receive.

Because all content on Zepe is published by us rather than uploaded by third-party users, in most cases we will review the claim ourselves and remove or rewrite the material if there is any legitimate doubt. In practice, a well-founded complaint about one of our guides is more likely to result in us rewriting the passage than in a formal takedown.

Counter-notification

If you submitted content that was removed or disabled as a result of a DMCA notice, and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notification. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), it must include substantially the following:

• 1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature.
• 2. Identification of the removed material. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location at which it appeared before it was removed.
• 3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• 4. Your contact information — your name, address and telephone number.
• 5. A consent-to-jurisdiction statement — a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States 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 Zepe may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

Send counter-notifications to the same designated agent above. If we receive a valid counter-notification, we may restore the removed material no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after receipt, unless we first receive notice that the original complainant has filed a court action seeking to restrain the allegedly infringing activity.

Repeat-infringer policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), Zepe has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the access of anyone found to be a repeat infringer of copyright. We may also remove material and restrict access at our discretion, with or without notice.

If someone has copied our guides

The complaint we most often need to make runs the other way. Our guides are original work, and rewritten or scraped copies of them appear elsewhere from time to time. If you are reading a page that reproduces one of our guides without permission, we would be glad to know: email contact@zepe.online with the URL.

For the avoidance of doubt, section 5 of our Terms of Service sets out what you may and may not do with our Content. Short quotations with attribution and a link are welcome. Republishing a guide in whole or in substantial part, including a lightly reworded version, is not.

Trademark and other concerns

This policy addresses copyright. If you have a concern about a trademark, privacy or other non-copyright matter, please contact us at contact@zepe.online and describe your concern. Windows and other Microsoft product names are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; we use them descriptively to identify the software our guides are about, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Microsoft.

Changes to this policy

We may update this DMCA and Copyright Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will post the revised policy on this page and update the date shown above.

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