DMCA Policy

The International WELL Building Institute PBC and IWBI International Inc. (collectively, “IWBI”) respects the intellectual property rights of others and asks that our website visitors do the same. If you believe material on this website infringes your copyright, you may notify us in the manner described below.

Pursuant to Section 512(c)(2) of the U.S. Copyright Act, as enacted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”), IWBI has designated an agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement. If you believe that your copyright or other intellectual property rights have been infringed or violated on our website, or if you have any questions or complaints regarding copyright infringement on our website, our designated contact is:

Attention: Copyright Agent International WELL Building Institute PBC 860 Washington Street New York, NY 10014 copyrightagent@wellcertified.com

To submit a notification about such infringement, you must write to the above contact (including by e-mail) and provide the following (preferably in this format):

Your name, address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address;
A detailed description of the copyrighted material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim is/are being infringed on this website;
A detailed description of the material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim is/are causing such infringement, and enough information (e.g., the specific web page address) to locate such material(s) and/or work(s) within the website;
A statement that you have a good-faith belief that use of the copyrighted material(s) and/or work(s) in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in your notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you either own the copyright (or an exclusive right under the copyright) in the material(s) and/or work(s) that you claim is/are being infringed, or are authorized by such owner to act on its behalf; and
Your physical or electronic signature.
Once we receive such a notice, we may, at our sole and absolute discretion, remove or disable access to the material claimed to be infringing and/or, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the access of infringing users. If we remove or disable access to material in response to such a complaint, we will make a good-faith attempt to contact the individual or entity who submitted it.

Pursuant to Section 512(g)(2) and (3) of the U.S. Copyright Act, as enacted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the provider of content affected by an infringement notification may make a counter-notification. When we receive a counter-notification, we may reinstate the material in question.

To make a counter-notification, you must write to the above contact (including by e-mail) and provide the following (preferably in this format):

Your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or New York County, New York, if your address is outside the United States) and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person;
A description of 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 to it was disabled (e.g., the specific web page address or other unique identifying information);
A statement from you, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
Your physical or electronic signature.