LighChat
Sign in
← All legal documents

DMCA / Copyright Policy

LighChat DMCA / Copyright Policy

Last updated: 2026-08-03 Version: 1 Applies to: all content transmitted or stored through the LighChat Service.

1. Our position

We respect intellectual property rights and expect our users to do the same. We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

Note that LighChat is a private communications service. Private and group conversations are not published to the public, and where end-to-end encryption is enabled we cannot access their content at all. Our ability to act is limited to material we can technically identify and reach.

2. Designated Copyright Agent

Notices of claimed infringement must be sent to our designated agent, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office:

Designated Agent: [AGENT_NAME], KDS Consulting Inc Address: 1730 S Federal Hwy, Suite 160, Delray Beach, FL 33483, United States Email: dmca@lighchat.online Phone: +1 561-702-9557

Registration details are published in the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory.

3. How to submit a takedown notice

Your written notice must include all of the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

  1. a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act on their behalf;
  2. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or a representative list, if multiple works);
  3. identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it — a link, message identifier, account name and the time the material was sent;
  4. your contact details: name, postal address, telephone number and email;
  5. a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent or the law;
  6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner.

Send it to dmca@lighchat.online. We acknowledge notices within 7 calendar days.

Misuse warning. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly making a material misrepresentation that material is infringing can make you liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

4. What we do with a valid notice

  • we remove or disable access to the material identified, where it is technically within our control;
  • we notify the user who provided it and forward a copy of the notice;
  • we record a copyright strike against that account.

5. Counter-notice

If your material was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to dmca@lighchat.online containing:

  1. your physical or electronic signature;
  2. identification of the material removed and its location before removal;
  3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
  4. your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for the district in which you live (or, if you are outside the United States, for the Southern District of Florida), and that you will accept service of process from the complaining party or its agent.

We forward the counter-notice to the complaining party. If they do not notify us within 10 business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order, we may restore the material within 10 to 14 business days.

6. Repeat infringers

Accounts that accumulate three valid, unresolved copyright strikes are terminated. We may terminate sooner in cases of egregious or commercial-scale infringement. A strike is removed if the corresponding notice is withdrawn or successfully countered.

7. Trademarks and other rights

Trademark complaints, publicity-rights complaints and other intellectual-property claims outside the DMCA should be sent to legal@lighchat.online, with evidence of your rights and identification of the material.

8. Users outside the United States

Rights holders in the EU may also use this process, which serves as our notice-and-action mechanism under Art. 16 of the Digital Services Act. Decisions and their reasoning are communicated to the affected user, who may appeal under the Content Moderation Policy.