reLynth respects the rights of authors and rights holders. This document explains how the Service relates to third-party content, what we do about a well-founded claim, and how to send one.
Claims: [email protected]. If your procedure requires a postal address, write to that address and we will provide it.
How the Service works
reLynth hosts nothing. It has no library, no catalogue, no feed and no search over anyone else's content, and it offers the user nothing on its own initiative. Everything it does is done on the express instruction of a specific user: it requests the public link that user supplied and delivers the resulting file to that user.
No copy stays with us: the file is deleted as soon as it has been sent. After that the file resides on Telegram's servers under Telegram's rules (see the Privacy Policy, section 4).
None of this removes our duty to act on claims, and we do act on them.
What we can do about a claim
- Block a specific item. We add the material's identifier and URL to a stop list; the Service stops processing it for everyone.
- Block an entire catalogue or source account where the infringement is systematic.
- Terminate a user's access where they infringe repeatedly (section 5).
- Discontinue support for a platform or service entirely, at the well-founded request of a rights holder or of the platform.
What we cannot do
- Remove material from the source platform. A claim about content published there must go to that platform; we have neither access nor authority.
- Recall a file a user has already received and saved to their device or forwarded in Telegram. There is no technical means to take it back.
- Disclose user data without a lawful basis. We will comply with a properly issued court order or authority demand; we will not act on a private party's request for someone's identity.
How to send a claim
Write to [email protected] with the subject "Copyright claim". We acknowledge receipt and review the claim within 5 business days.
For a claim to be actionable it must contain:
- A description of the work whose rights are infringed and, where possible, a link to an authorised copy of it.
- The URL or identifier of the material whose processing is to stop. Without it we physically cannot add anything to the stop list: we have no catalogue in which to search for "everything by this creator".
- Your contact details: name or company name, address, telephone, email.
- Confirmation of standing: that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them, and on what basis.
- A statement that the use is not authorised by you, your agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in the claim is accurate.
- A signature, handwritten or electronic.
We are not subject to United States law, but we voluntarily follow the procedure in section 512 of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and we give equal treatment to claims prepared under EU or other national rules. A claim missing items 1–3 cannot be acted on; we will reply asking you to complete it.
Repeat infringement
Where we receive three well-founded claims within any six consecutive months about material requested by the same user, that user's access to the Service is terminated. Any unused portion of a paid subscription is not refunded in that case.
We also terminate access immediately and without warning where the infringement is plainly deliberate and industrial in nature: bulk extraction of a catalogue, re-uploading under one's own name, or commercial exploitation.
Counter-notice
If your access was restricted by a claim you believe to be mistaken, write to [email protected]. Your counter-notice should state:
- Which material was blocked.
- That the block was the result of a mistake or misidentification of the material.
- Your name, address, telephone and email.
- Your consent to the dispute being heard by the courts where we are located or where you live — your choice.
- Your signature.
We pass the counter-notice to the claimant. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that proceedings have begun, we may lift the restriction.
Bad-faith claims
A claim is a statement made on your own responsibility. If you knowingly misrepresent that material is infringing, you are liable for the resulting loss to the person whose access was restricted and to us. We may decline to review repeated unfounded claims from the same sender.
Trademarks
Send trademark complaints to the same address with the subject "Trademark claim", including your registration details and the specific use you consider infringing.
The names of the platforms the Service works with are used solely to indicate compatibility. We claim no affiliation with them and do not act on their behalf.
Approaches from platforms
If you represent a source platform and consider that the Service's interaction with your site breaches your terms or your rights, write to [email protected]. We respond to and resolve such approaches as a priority, up to and including discontinuing support for your platform entirely.
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