Schwartz and Sandy’s (“we” or “us”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and is committed to complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This page outlines our procedures for handling copyright infringement claims. If you believe your work has been used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow the process outlined below.

Notification of Copyright Infringement:

Suppose you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any content on our website infringes upon your copyrights. In that case, you may submit a notification under the DMCA by providing our designated Copyright Agent with the following information in writing:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if a single notification covers multiple copyrighted works at a single online site, a representative list of such works.

3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of violating activity, and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.

4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.

5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right allegedly infringed.

Counter-Notification:

If you believe your content was removed or disabled due to a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notification to our designated Copyright Agent. To be effective, a counter-notification must include the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.

2. Identify the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access was disabled.

3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled due to a mistake or misidentification of the material to be released or disabled.

4. The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located or, if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

Upon receipt of a valid counter-notification, we will promptly provide the person who provided the original notification of claimed infringement with a copy. We will inform that person that we will replace the removed material or cease disabling access in 10 business days. We will replace the removed material and terminate disabling access to it not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days following receipt of the counter-notification unless our designated Copyright Agent first receives notice from the person who submitted the original notification that such person had filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on our website.