Report content

The short version

Email legal@spendelevated.com. Tell us which page, who you are, what you own, and why it shouldn’t be here. That is a valid notice and we will act on it.

Spend Elevated is a product of Vocally Yours LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company. The company is who you are writing to, not the product.

What is actually on this site

Worth knowing before you write, because it often answers the question faster than we can:

• We publish prices and product names from weekly circulars. Those are facts, and facts are not copyrightable. We do not store or display circular artwork anywhere — there is no image field in the pipeline at all.
• We do not republish other people’s writing. Where we point at someone else’s post, the most you will find is a headline, a link and their name.
• We quote coupon and promotion terms. Those are the issuer’s own words, reproduced so a reader can check them, and attributed.
• There is no user-generated content. Nobody but us posts here. If something is on this site, we put it there, which means we can take it down without anyone’s permission but our own.

If we got a price wrong or described your store’s offer badly, that is usually a correction rather than a takedown, and the fastest route is the “Something wrong?” link on the deal itself. Either way reaches us.

Copyright notices

For copyright complaints, US law sets out what a notice should contain. Those elements are at Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, subsection (c)(3)(A), and the form below asks for each of them. A complete notice names the work, names the material you say infringes it and where to find it, gives your contact details, carries a statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised, and carries a statement that your information is accurate and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorised to act for the owner.

Section 512(f) of the same statute makes a person liable for damages if they knowingly and materially misrepresent that material is infringing. Notices sent to silence a correct price or an unflattering fact fall under that heading, and we read them with that in mind.

What we will do

1. Acknowledge your notice by email.
2. Look at the material. Because we wrote everything here ourselves, we can usually settle it without anyone having to argue.
3. Remove or correct what should not be there, and tell you what we did. Where we disagree, we say so and say why, rather than going quiet.
4. Keep a record of the notice, including who sent it and what they claimed. See the privacy policy for what that means for your details.

If we take something down and you think we were wrong

Since nobody but us publishes here, the classic counter-notification procedure in section 512(g) has nobody to protect — there is no third-party uploader whose material we removed. If we remove something of ours and you think the notice that caused it was mistaken, write to legal@spendelevated.com and say so. We will look again.

Complaints that are not about copyright

The form takes those too, and you should use it rather than trying to fit a non-copyright problem into copyright words:

• Trademark. We name stores and brands because that is what the deal is. If we have used your mark in a way that suggests you endorse us, tell us and we will fix it.
• Your personal information. If something here identifies you and should not, say so. That is also a deletion request under privacy law — see your rights.
• Something false about you or your business. Tell us what is wrong and what is true. If we got it wrong we would rather know.
• Licence terms. We use open data under its licence — most visibly Open Food Facts under the ODbL, where attribution is a condition and not a courtesy. If we have slipped, that is a bug and we will treat it as one.

The form

Everything with a required marker has to be filled in before we can treat it as a notice. Nothing here is thrown away if the form fails.