Copyright takedown

What this page is for

Readit is a read-it-later app. When a user saves a URL, our server fetches that page and stores a reformatted copy in the user's private library so they can read it later. By default, saved articles are private to the user.

Users can also publish curated collections: ordered lists of saved articles that appear on a public profile page (e.g. /c/<username>/<collection>). Public collections show our reformatted reader view of each included article alongside a link back to the source. We don't republish content outside of these user-published collections, and we don't share private libraries across users.

If you're a rights holder and you believe content saved by one of our users — whether kept privately or included in a public collection — infringes your copyright, or if you operate a website and you don't want Readit's server to fetch your pages on users' behalf, we want to hear from you and we'll act quickly.

How to send a notice

Email [email protected] with the following:

1. Your name, organisation, and a contact email or postal address.
2. The work or works you claim are being infringed (URL or description).
3. The specific URL(s) on Readit, or the source URL(s), you want removed or blocked from being saved by users.
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent, or the law.
5. 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 rights holder.
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

How fast we respond

• We aim to acknowledge complete notices within 72 hours.
• For valid notices, we remove the affected content from users' libraries and add the source domain or URL to a fetch blocklist so future saves are refused. We'll confirm by email when this is done.
• If we need clarification, we'll write back. The 72-hour clock pauses until you respond.

Counter-notice

If a user's content was removed and they believe the takedown was mistaken, they can write to [email protected] with: their identification, the URL that was removed, a statement of good-faith belief that the removal was a mistake or misidentification, and consent to the jurisdiction of the courts competent at our registered office. We'll forward the counter-notice to the original complainant.

Repeat infringers

We terminate accounts of users who repeatedly save content after takedown notices on the same source. "Repeated" generally means three substantiated notices within a rolling 12-month window.

Bot / TDM opt-out

If you operate a website and want to signal that your content should not be processed by automated systems, we honour the following machine-readable signals on the AI step (summaries, embeddings, semantic search):

• X-Robots-Tag: noai or X-Robots-Tag: noimageai HTTP headers.
• An ai.txt file at your site root listing disallowed user agents or paths.
• The W3C TDM Reservation Protocol manifest at /.well-known/tdmrep.json.

For full removal (not just AI opt-out) please send a takedown notice as described above.

General contact

For non-takedown legal questions, write to [email protected]. Our registered details are on the Impressum page.