Copyright and takedown

Everything on this site — the writing, the photography, the design, the code, the downloadable guides and frameworks — is the copyright of Muhammad Javed unless it says otherwise, and it is protected under the Copyright Act of Canada and by international agreement.

The names and marks used here belong to their owners. Where another company’s mark appears it is used to describe a genuine relationship or a real piece of work, not to claim any connection that does not exist.

• Read, share a link to, and quote briefly from anything here, with a credit and a link back.
• Print or save a page for your own reference.
• Quote a purchased guide internally, in a way that does not reproduce it wholesale.
• Use any template or checklist you have bought, for your own work or your own clients.

Quoting briefly means a paragraph or two in a review, an article or a presentation. It does not mean republishing an article, or reproducing a substantial part of one, on another site — including a site that carries advertising.

• Republish substantial parts of an article or guide, on any site or platform.
• Resell, redistribute or bundle a purchased download, or share the download link.
• Use the material to train a machine-learning model without written permission.
• Remove a copyright notice, or present the work as your own.
• Use the name, likeness or branding here to suggest an endorsement or partnership that does not exist.

A purchased download is licensed to you, not sold. The licence is for one person or one organisation, is not transferable, and does not expire — the file is yours to keep and to use. Sharing the download link is what breaks it, and download links are issued per purchase and per person for that reason.

If you believe something on this site infringes your copyright, send a written notice to hello@javed.ca with the subject line Copyright notice. A notice that includes the following can be acted on quickly; one that does not may need to be sent again.

• Your name, address, telephone number and email address.
• Identification of the work you say has been infringed — a title, a registration number, or a URL where the original appears.
• The exact URL on this site where the material appears, specific enough to be located.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and that you are the owner or are authorised to act for them.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Material that is the subject of a complete notice will be removed or made unreachable promptly, and you will be told what was done. Where the material came from someone else — a guest post, or an image supplied with one — that person will be told, because they are entitled to respond.

Send a counter-notice to the same address with the subject line Counter-notice, setting out your contact details, identification of what was removed and where it was, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario.

On receiving a proper counter-notice, the material may be restored after ten business days unless the original complainant tells us they have started a court action.

Anyone who repeatedly posts infringing material here — in a comment, a guest contribution, or anything else — will have their access removed. This site does not knowingly host infringing material, and there is no interest in doing so.

This site is operated from Ontario, Canada, so the Copyright Act of Canada governs, and its notice-and-notice provisions are what apply to a complaint. The procedure above is written to satisfy both that regime and the United States DMCA, because most rights holders and hosting providers expect the DMCA form and there is no reason to make anyone guess.

One limit worth stating plainly rather than implying: the statutory safe harbour in the United States depends on having a designated agent registered with the US Copyright Office. This site does not claim the benefit of that provision, and nothing on this page should be read as claiming it.