Copyright & DMCA Policy

Link in Seconds is operated by Radadiya Sunny Keshavbhai (Sole Proprietorship), GSTIN 24CADPR8542K2ZA. We are an intermediary within the meaning of Section 2(1)(w) and Section 79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000. We store and serve files at the direction of our users. We do not initiate the transmission, we do not select who receives it, and we do not select or modify the content our users upload. We do not review every file before it is published. That said, we act on valid copyright complaints, and we remove or disable access to content that a proper notice identifies as infringing.

Because we serve visitors worldwide, this policy covers both Indian copyright law (Section 52(1)(c) of the Copyright Act, 1957 read with Rule 75 of the Copyright Rules, 2013) and the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). The DMCA is US law and does not by itself apply in India; we offer it here as a familiar notice channel for rights owners outside India.

Send a written notice to our designated agent (details at the bottom of this page). To be valid and actionable, your notice must include all of the following:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works are covered by one notice, a representative list is fine.
• The exact infringing link on our site, the full public URL (for example a /p/[slug] link on linkinseconds.com), so we can locate and disable the specific content.
• Your contact details: your name, address, telephone number, and email address so we can reach you about the notice.
• A good-faith-belief statement: a statement that you believe in good faith that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• An accuracy statement: a statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and (under penalty of perjury) that you are the owner of the copyright, or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.
• Your signature, physical or electronic, of the copyright owner or a person authorised to act for them.

These are the elements required under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) and align with the particulars expected under Rule 75 of the Copyright Rules, 2013. A notice that is missing these elements may not be actionable, and we may ask you to resubmit it.

On receipt of a notice that includes the elements above, we will expeditiously disable access to the identified content and, where appropriate, notify the user who uploaded it. Under Indian law, on a valid written complaint from a copyright owner we will keep the identified content disabled for twenty-one (21) days, pending an order from a competent court. If we receive a court order restraining the content within that period, access remains disabled in accordance with the order.

Separately, if we receive a court order, or a notification from an appropriate Government agency, that any content is unlawful, we will remove or disable access to that content as early as possible and in any event within thirty-six (36) hours, as required under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

If you are the user whose content was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notice. To be valid under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3), your counter-notice must include:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed and the location where it appeared before it was disabled (the URL).
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address, and telephone number.
• A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the US federal district court for the district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original notice or their agent.

For notices handled under the US DMCA, if we receive a valid counter-notice we may restore the removed material in ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days unless the party who filed the original notice tells us they have filed a court action seeking to keep the content down. For notices handled under Indian law, content taken down on a copyright complaint may be reinstated after the twenty-one (21) day period if no order of a competent court restraining the content is produced.

We have adopted and reasonably implement a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers, as contemplated by 17 U.S.C. § 512(i). In practice this means we can ban an account and block every link that account has created. Terminating repeat infringers is a condition of the safe-harbour protections that make it possible for a service like ours to host user content at all.

Submitting a takedown notice or a counter-notice is a serious matter. Knowingly making a false or bad-faith claim can carry legal liability, including for damages and costs, under the DMCA and under applicable Indian law. Please make sure you actually hold the rights you are asserting, and that the material is not authorised by law (for example, fair use or fair dealing) before you file.

Not every complaint is about copyright. If content on our service breaks our rules in some other way (for example malware, impersonation, or abuse), please use our Acceptable Use Policy and the Report button on any public link. Complaints about child sexual abuse material, or about non-consensual or impersonating imagery, are handled with priority under our Child Safety policy. For grievances under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, including timelines and our Grievance Officer, see our Grievance Redressal page.

Send copyright takedown notices and counter-notices to our designated agent, who is the person we have appointed to receive copyright notices under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2) and who also serves as our Grievance Officer for Indian copyright complaints:

• Attention: Designated Copyright Agent / Grievance Officer, Radadiya Sunny Keshavbhai
• Email: support@linkinseconds.com
• Phone: +91 99090 97776
• Post: Bhaktinandan, Sector 4, S G Road, Mota Varachha, Surat, Gujarat 394101, India

Radadiya Sunny Keshavbhai (Sole Proprietorship) · GSTIN 24CADPR8542K2ZA. You can also reach us through our contact page.