DMCA / Copyright Policy

Last updated: 2026-06-07. Effective: 2026-06-07.

ZI² Discover (the "Service"), operated by Zenith Intelligence Technologies ("ZI²"), respects intellectual property rights and expects users to do the same. This page describes how to report copyright infringement under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, and how we respond. It also outlines equivalent procedures under EU and French law.

1. Our position

The Service is a scanner, not a publisher. We do not host primary source content for our customers. We do, however, retain cached page snapshots, screenshots, extracted text, schema markup, and other artifacts taken from sites that customers have configured for scanning. Where a customer's Verified Site itself contains material owned by a third party, those artifacts may incidentally contain copyrighted material.

If you believe material accessible through the Service infringes your copyright, please send us a notice using the procedure in section 2. We process valid notices promptly.

2. Submitting a DMCA notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all of the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed, or — if multiple works at a single online site are covered by a single notice — a representative list of those works.
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, with information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate it (a URL within the Service is best).
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, including your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email.
• 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.
• A statement that the information in the notice 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.

Misrepresentations in a DMCA notice may make the sender liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), including costs and attorneys' fees.

3. Designated Agent — where to send notices

Send notices to our Designated Agent:

• By email (preferred): [email protected] with subject line "DMCA Notice".
• By mail:
  Designated DMCA Agent
  Zenith Intelligence Technologies (ZI² Systems)
  [POSTAL ADDRESS TO BE INSERTED]

Notices sent to any other address may be delayed or disregarded. ZI² will, as appropriate, update its registration with the U.S. Copyright Office's Designated Agent Directory.

4. How we respond

On receipt of a notice that substantially complies with section 2, we will:

• Acknowledge receipt within a reasonable time, typically 2 business days.
• Promptly remove or disable access to the material claimed to be infringing.
• Take reasonable steps to notify the customer whose Verified Site or account the material relates to, providing a copy of the notice.
• Forward any counter-notice received under section 5 to you.
• Restore access if a valid counter-notice is received and you do not file an action seeking a court order within 10 to 14 business days, as required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(g).

5. Counter-notice

If you are a ZI² customer and you believe material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notice must include all of 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 removal.
• 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.
• Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal 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 ZI² may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the original notifier (or its agent).

Send counter-notices to [email protected]. Knowing material misrepresentations in a counter-notice may make you liable for damages under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

6. Repeat infringer policy

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), it is our policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of customers who are repeat infringers. Generally, a workspace that accumulates three substantiated DMCA notices within a rolling 12-month period, without a successful counter-notice, will be terminated. We may terminate sooner for egregious or willful infringement. Suspended or terminated accounts are not entitled to a refund of fees attributable to the infringing period.

7. Good-faith requirement

We expect all senders of DMCA notices and counter-notices to act in good faith. Filing a notice you know to be false, abusive, or sent to suppress lawful criticism, competitor research, or fair use is a misrepresentation under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f) and may also breach our Acceptable Use Policy if the sender is a ZI² customer.

8. EU Digital Services Act (DSA)

To the extent the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) applies to the Service, you may submit a notice under Article 16 by sending it to [email protected] with subject line "Article 16 Notice". A valid Article 16 notice should include:

• A sufficiently substantiated explanation of why you consider the information at issue to be illegal content.
• A clear indication of the exact electronic location of that information (URL).
• Your name and email address (except for content concerning offences referred to in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU).
• A statement confirming your good-faith belief that the information and allegations contained in the notice are accurate and complete.

We will confirm receipt without undue delay, act on valid notices in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary, and objective manner, and explain our decision to the affected user where required.

9. France — LCEN article 6-I

If you are a resident of France and wish to notify us of manifestly unlawful content under Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (LCEN) article 6-I.5, send the notice to [email protected]. The notice should include: the date of notification; your full identity (name and surnames, profession, residence, nationality, date and place of birth — or for a legal person, its form, name, registered office, and the body that represents it); the name and residence of the addressee (or for a legal person, its name and registered office); a description of the disputed facts and their precise location; the reasons for which the content should be withdrawn including legal provisions and supporting evidence; and a copy of any correspondence sent to the author or publisher of the content requesting their interruption, withdrawal, or modification (or justification that the author or publisher could not be contacted). Notice that any abuse of this mechanism is subject to the penalties in LCEN article 6-I.4.

10. Changes to this policy

We may revise this policy from time to time. The current version is always the one published on this page.

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