Copyright & Notice-and-Takedown Policy

Listing information may originate from sellers, representatives, brokers, partners or public sources. That content — including descriptions, photographs, floor plans and data compilations — remains the property of its rights holder. Own Ahead does not claim ownership of it.

For live sourced records, Own Ahead writes its own short factual summaries rather than reproducing third-party listing prose, and uses its own branded placeholder imagery rather than third-party photographs.

Own Ahead has not registered a designated copyright agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, and this page does not claim that one exists. We still review and act on properly made notices through the process below. If a registered agent is designated in future, this page will be updated with the agent’s details.

Send your notice through the request centre and choose “Other”, writing “Copyright notice” at the start of your message. Please include all of the following, since an incomplete notice will slow us down:

• Identification of the work you say is infringed — for example the original listing, photograph or text, with a link or copy if possible.
• The exact location on Own Ahead of the material you are complaining about, including the page URL.
• Your name, the rights holder you represent, and contact details we can reply to.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the rights holder, its agent or the law.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that, under penalty of perjury, you are the rights holder or are authorised to act on their behalf.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We review notices promptly. Where a notice appears valid we may remove or disable access to the material, notify the person who submitted it, and in cases of repeated infringement suspend or terminate the account responsible. We may keep a record of notices received and action taken. We may decline to act on a notice that is incomplete, abusive or clearly unfounded, and knowingly submitting a false notice can have legal consequences for the sender.

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can submit a counter-notice through the same route. Include the material that was removed and where it appeared, your contact details, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed in error, and your signature. Where the law provides for it, we may restore the material after the applicable waiting period unless the original complainant tells us they have started legal proceedings. This process operates to the extent applicable law provides for it.

Use the same route for trademark, publicity, database-right or other intellectual property concerns, describing the right you hold and the material at issue.

Own Ahead does not yet publish a dedicated legal or privacy mailbox. Until one is in place, send any legal, privacy, accessibility, copyright or security message through the privacy and requests centre. Requests submitted there are logged for review, and you do not need an account to use it.