Intellectual Property / DMCA Policy

1. User Responsibility

You are fully responsible for content you upload, import, store, rez, sell, distribute, transfer, export, or bring into SimulArk through viewer upload, Hypergrid, IAR, OAR, backup, scripts, bots, vendors, marketplace purchases, freebies, or any other tool.

Viewer permissions such as Copy, Modify, or Transfer are technical permissions. They do not prove legal ownership, copyright authorization, resale rights, export rights, brand permission, or permission to distribute the work outside its original license.

2. Prohibited Content and Tools

• Copybot, stolen content, piracy, unlawful cloning, fake permissions, and license violations are prohibited.
• Modified viewers, scripts, bots, external tools, IAR/OAR files, or Hypergrid transfers may not be used to bypass creator permissions, original licenses, or legal rights.
• Content using protected brands, logos, characters, celebrity likenesses, commercial products, textures, scripts, meshes, sounds, animations, or names must be used only with proper rights or authorization.
• Users who sell or distribute content should keep proof of authorship, purchase, license, permission, or chain of rights.

3. No Proactive Asset Certification

SimulArk cannot realistically inspect or verify the legal legitimacy of every asset uploaded, imported, carried in inventories, restored from backups, or entering through Hypergrid. SimulArk does not pre-clear, certify, or guarantee the legality of all assets on the grid.

SimulArk reviews legitimacy when a report is submitted, when a risk is detected, during an investigation already in progress, or when required for security, legal, operational, or administrative reasons.

4. Copyright / DMCA-Style Notices

Copyright complaints should be sent to admin@simulark.xyz. To help SimulArk evaluate a complaint, include:

• Your legal name or authorized representative name and contact information.
• Identification of the copyrighted work or rights claimed.
• Identification and location of the allegedly infringing content, such as region, coordinates, object name, seller, URL, or asset identifier if known.
• A good-faith statement that the complained use is not authorized by the rights owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

SimulArk may request additional information where a notice is incomplete, unclear, abusive, or not specific enough to locate the material.

5. SimulArk Actions

Depending on the risk and available evidence, SimulArk may remove, disable, hide, return, block, preserve, replace, suspend sale of, or restrict access to reported content. SimulArk may also suspend accounts, restrict selling privileges, restrict Hypergrid access, block uploads, or preserve evidence where necessary.

6. Counter-Notice and Appeals

A user affected by a takedown may contact admin@simulark.xyz with evidence of authorship, purchase, license, authorization, or lawful use. SimulArk may restore, keep removed, or continue restricting the content based on risk, evidence, legal duties, platform safety, and administrative judgment.

7. Repeat Infringers and Bad Faith

Accounts that repeatedly infringe, import suspicious content, use copybot tools, sell content without proof of rights, abuse Hypergrid imports, submit knowingly false complaints, or abuse takedown/counter-notice processes may be restricted, suspended, or terminated.

8. Reservation of Rights

SimulArk may act quickly when content presents legal, security, reputation, or operational risk. Nothing in this policy creates an obligation to host, restore, distribute, or continue supporting any specific content, asset, store, vendor, region, account, or transaction.