Copyright and Takedown Policy

The job of a host, and its limits

Space is what we rent out. Nobody here picks what gets put in it, nobody reads it in advance, and no law requires us to patrol it. What the law does require is action once someone points at something specific, and pointing at it is exactly what this page is for.

1. Sending a notice

Email info@hosting-cheap.com putting "Copyright notice" in the subject line, or use report abuse. Every single item below has to be present. Leave one of them out and the notice comes back to you instead of being acted upon:

• the work you hold rights in, described well enough for us to recognise it, ideally with a link to where it appears legitimately;
• the precise addresses of the material you allege infringes it. A whole site will not do, nor a domain;
• your name, postal address and email, plus the party you represent where that is not yourself;
• a statement of your good faith belief that the use was never permitted by the owner, by any agent, or by law;
• a statement confirming the information you gave us is accurate and that you hold authority to act.

A notice drafted under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act goes to that same address and receives identical handling. This company sits in England and Wales and US law does not reach it, though a DMCA notice drafted properly already carries every single item on that list.

2. What happens next

Once a notice is complete, its substance reaches the customer, normally inside a working day. Your name travels with it, along with the allegation you have made, since no one can answer a case they are barred from reading. We hold your postal address back unless you tell us otherwise or a court asks for it.

Where the copying is plainly obvious and the customer stays silent for five working days, down it comes. Where ownership is honestly open to argument, we will say as much and leave the pair of you to settle it between yourselves. No favour is done to anyone by a hosting company ruling on ownership on the strength of a single email.

3. Answering a notice

Had your material removed and think the call was wrong? Write back explaining why, whether that means a licence, a receipt, written permission, or a fair dealing argument, and add a statement of your good faith belief that the removal was a mistake.

Any answer that holds water is passed back to the complainant. Should they not tell us within another ten working days that court proceedings are underway, the material usually returns to the site.

4. Doing it again

An account that keeps drawing substantiated notices ends up closed. No magic number gets published, since three complaints over one disputed photograph sit nowhere near three complaints about a person copying a whole catalogue. Somebody makes the decision, and the reasoning is explained to you.

5. Notices fired off out of spite

Filing a takedown notice means making a formal accusation, and aiming one at a competitor to win a spat can leave the sender facing trouble of their own. Every notice we receive is kept. Where a sender has a record of claims that came to nothing, we will want independent evidence before doing anything.

6. Trade marks and other complaints

A trade mark complaint travels the same route, though you send the registration number and country rather than the work itself. Defamation and privacy complaints arrive through report abuse, although a host faces a higher bar before pulling down content that appears lawful on its face, and what actually shifts such material in practice is a court order.

7. Our own material

Every word, the layout and the marks on this site belong to Bohzo Ltd unless credited elsewhere. Quoting us is fine with attribution, but republishing whole pages is not. Photography under licence does not travel with a quotation of the wording.

8. The company

Hosting-Cheap runs as the trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under Company No. 15031604. Registered office: The Workspace Basildon, 7 High Pavement, Basildon, England, SS14 1EA. Notices to info@hosting-cheap.com.