Copyright & Takedown Policy
Effective from: 1 October 2026
1. Our Position, Stated Plainly
HemiCode lists software that we believe is distributed under the GNU General Public License or a compatible licence. The GPL permits any recipient to redistribute, including for a fee, and that is the basis on which we operate. Our Licence & GPL page explains this in full.
We also know that this assessment is not always straightforward. A product may not be GPL at all. It may be GPL in its code but contain images, fonts, JavaScript or third-party libraries that are separately licensed and not redistributable. Our listing may use a name or logo in a way that overreaches. Any of those makes a listing wrong, and we want to know.
So this Policy is written to be easy to use rather than defensive. We are not looking for reasons to refuse.
The Service is operated by DELTRIG, a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Rahul Chouhan, trading as HemiCode, of Dakra, Khalari, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India – 829210.
2. Where to Send a Notice
Email [email protected]. This is the fastest route and the one we monitor for this purpose.
You may also write to the postal address in Clause 14, but email reaches us sooner and we will reply by email in any case.
Please do not send takedown notices through our general support channel, our contact form, or a chat widget. They will be forwarded, but it costs a day.
3. What a Notice Should Contain
You do not need legal language. You need to tell us enough to find the thing and understand the objection. In practice that is:
The URL of the product page on our Service, or its name if you cannot find the link.
What the work is — the plugin, theme or kit, and where it is normally published.
Who you are, and your relationship to the work: the author, the rights holder, or someone authorised to act for them.
What specifically is wrong. This is the part that matters most. See Clause 4 for the grounds we act on, and please say which applies. “This is our plugin” on its own does not tell us whether you are objecting to redistribution as such, to a bundled asset, or to our use of your name.
Contact details we can reply to.
A statement that you believe in good faith the material is not authorised to be distributed as it is, and that the information you have given is accurate.
If you are sending a formal notice under the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or under India's Information Technology Rules, include the additional elements that legislation requires — typically an identification of the work, a statement of good-faith belief, a statement made under penalty of perjury as to accuracy and authority, and a physical or electronic signature. A notice that omits those is still read and still acted on; it simply is not a statutory notice.
4. The Grounds We Act On
These are the objections we see, and what we do with each.
Ground | Our response |
|---|---|
The product is not GPL at all — it is proprietary, or under a licence that does not permit redistribution | Removed. This is a straightforward error on our part and we do not argue it. |
Split licensing — the code is GPL but bundled images, icon fonts, typefaces, JavaScript or demo content are not, and are not redistributable | Removed, or replaced with a version stripped of the affected assets where that is practical. Tell us which files if you can. |
Third-party assets licensed only to you — stock images or fonts the author licensed for their own distribution only | Removed. |
Trade mark — our listing uses your name, logo or brand in a way that implies endorsement or official status | Corrected at once. Our intent is descriptive identification only; where we have gone beyond that we will rewrite or remove. See Clause 10 of the Licence page. |
Our own description or screenshots copy your copyrighted marketing material | Rewritten or removed. |
The archive contains your licence key, credentials or private data | Removed immediately, ahead of any other assessment. |
Malware or tampering — the file we host differs from your release in a way that suggests it has been modified maliciously | Removed immediately and investigated. Please tell us even if you are not the rights holder. |
You object to GPL redistribution as such, with no other ground | We will engage with you properly and explain our position. We may decline, because the GPL permits redistribution and that permission is not ours to give back. But we will read what you send, reply substantively, and reconsider if you show us the licence does not apply. |
The last row is the only one where we may say no, and even there we will say it in a reply written by a person, not a template.
5. How We Respond, and How Fast
We acknowledge every notice within two working days.
We aim to decide within seven working days. Where the ground is clear — a non-GPL product, an exposed credential, suspected malware — we act the same day and assess afterwards. Removing a listing costs us little; leaving a wrongful one up costs you more.
Where we need to understand a split-licensing objection in detail, we may ask which files are affected, and that may take longer. We will keep you informed rather than going quiet.
When we act, we will tell you what we did: removed, replaced, or listing corrected.
We may also remove a listing on our own initiative at any time, without a notice, if we come to doubt our right to distribute it. We do not need to be asked.
6. What Removal Means
When we remove a product: the page comes down, it stops appearing in search and category listings, and it cannot be downloaded or bought again.
Customers who already downloaded it keep the copy they have. We cannot reach into anyone's computer and we will not pretend we can. Where a notice requires us to revoke ongoing access as well, we will revoke the download entitlements for that product, so no further download is possible from us.
We keep an internal record of what was removed and why, so the same item is not re-listed later by mistake.
7. Counter-Notice
If we have removed something and you believe that was wrong — for example because the material genuinely is GPL and freely redistributable, or because the complainant does not hold the rights they claim — tell us.
Send to [email protected]: what was removed, why you believe the removal was mistaken, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the material was removed in error and that the information you give is accurate.
We will review it and, where we agree, restore the listing. Where a statutory counter-notice procedure applies, we will follow it, which may include forwarding your counter-notice to the original complainant and restoring the material after the statutory waiting period unless they begin proceedings.
Understand that a counter-notice may result in your details being passed to the complainant. We will tell you before we do that.
8. Repeat Infringement
Our listings are ours; they are not user-generated. So “repeat infringer” on this Service means something slightly different from a hosting platform: it means us, listing the same kind of thing wrongly more than once.
We treat a repeated notice from the same rights holder as a signal that our own assessment process has a gap, not as a nuisance. Where we receive more than one well-founded notice from the same holder, we will review every other listing associated with them and remove anything comparable, without waiting to be asked item by item.
Where a customer is found to be uploading, sharing or redistributing material in a way that breaches a third party's rights through our Service — for example through a review, a support attachment or a chat message — we will remove the material and may suspend the account under Clause 17 of the Terms of Service.
9. Misuse of This Process
A takedown notice is a serious thing and a false one causes real harm.
Do not use this process to remove a competitor's listing, to suppress lawful GPL redistribution you simply dislike, or to make a claim over rights you do not hold. Where we believe a notice has been sent in bad faith we may decline it, keep a record, require verification of authority before acting on further notices from the same source, and where the harm warrants it, pursue the sender.
If you are not sure whether you hold the rights, say so in your notice. An honest “I think this is ours, can you check” is welcome and will be treated properly. An assertion you cannot support is not.
10. Reporting Our Own Work Being Copied
The catalogue is not ours, but the Service is: our name and logo, our site design and code, our product descriptions, our screenshots and the arrangement of our catalogue.
If you find a site copying our descriptions, cloning our design, passing itself off as HemiCode, or mirroring our downloads, we would appreciate being told at [email protected]. A link is enough.
Equally, if you find someone impersonating us to take payments, tell us urgently. That harms our customers and we will act on it immediately.
11. Customers Who Have Bought a Removed Product
If you bought a product that we later removed, and you bought it in the three days before removal, the Refund & Cancellation Policy applies as normal.
If you bought it longer ago and had a working download, removal does not entitle you to a refund — you received what you paid for at the time. What you lose is future access on our Service, and any further versions.
Where we are required to revoke your access to a product you had already downloaded, we will tell you, and we will refund you whether or not you are inside the refund window. Taking back something you paid for is different from simply stopping new sales.
12. No Legal Advice, and No Waiver
Nothing on this page is legal advice, to you or to anyone. If a copyright or licensing question matters to your business, take your own advice on it.
Responding to a notice, removing material, or restoring it is not an admission of liability by us, and not a waiver of any right or defence available to us.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy, for example if the law changes or our process does. The current version is published on this page with its effective date.
14. Contact
Takedown notices, copyright complaints, counter-notices: [email protected]
Trade mark concerns and anything about our own content: [email protected]
If you are a customer affected by a removal: [email protected]
DELTRIG (trading as HemiCode)
Sole proprietorship — Proprietor: Rahul Chouhan
Dakra, Khalari, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India – 829210
Website: https://hemicode.com
Document control. Copyright & Takedown Policy, version 1.0, effective 1 October 2026. Issued by DELTRIG (proprietor: Rahul Chouhan), operator of HemiCode. This version supersedes all earlier versions. Superseded versions are retained and available on request from [email protected].