Copyright & DMCA Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to KibbeTypes (“we,” “our,” or “us”). This Copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy outlines our respect for intellectual property rights and establishes procedures for addressing claims of copyright infringement on our website at kibbetypes.com (the “Site”), including any subdomains.

We are committed to complying with U.S. copyright law and responding to claims of copyright infringement. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect our users to do the same.

2. Copyright Ownership

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site and all content and materials available on the Site, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, data compilations, and software (collectively, the “Content”) are the property of KibbeTypes or our content suppliers and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

The compilation of all Content on the Site is the exclusive property of KibbeTypes and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on the Site is the property of KibbeTypes or our software suppliers and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

3. Relationship to David Kibbe and the Kibbe System

KibbeTypes is an independent educational resource focused on the Kibbe body typing system. We wish to make it explicitly clear that KibbeTypes is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to David Kibbe, the creator of the Kibbe body typing system. David Kibbe has not authorized, sponsored, or approved this website or its content.

Our use of the term “Kibbe” in our domain name and throughout our website refers descriptively to the Kibbe body typing system as an informational and educational concept. This usage falls under fair use doctrines of U.S. trademark and copyright law, as we use the term in good faith to describe and discuss the system in an educational, informational, and non-competitive context.

We acknowledge that David Kibbe is the creator of the Kibbe body typing system, and we do not claim any ownership of his intellectual property, methodologies, or concepts. Our purpose is to provide educational information and resources about these concepts in a manner that contributes to public discourse and understanding.

If you are looking for official services from David Kibbe, we encourage you to seek out his official channels and services directly.

4. Fair Use

We respect the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law, which permits limited use of copyrighted material without permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.

Our Site contains educational content about the Kibbe body typing system that we believe constitutes fair use of relevant concepts and terminology. We make every effort to properly attribute concepts to their original creators, provide educational context, and add our own analysis and commentary.

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been used on our Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement rather than fair use, please follow our DMCA takedown procedure outlined below.

5. User License

Subject to your compliance with these terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and view the Content on the Site for your personal, non-commercial use.

You may not:

• Reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or publicly perform the Content
• Modify or create derivative works of the Content
• Use the Content for any commercial purpose
• Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices from the Content
• Transfer the Content to another person or “mirror” the Content on any other server

This license will terminate automatically if you breach any of these restrictions and may be terminated by KibbeTypes at any time.

6. User-Generated Content

If our Site allows users to post, upload, or submit content (“User Content”), you retain all your ownership rights in your User Content. However, by posting User Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute your User Content in any existing or future media.

You represent and warrant that:

• You own the User Content posted by you or have the right to post it and grant us the license described above
• The posting of your User Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person

We have the right to remove any User Content that, in our judgment, violates this Copyright Policy or is otherwise objectionable.

7. DMCA Compliance

We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”), which provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under U.S. copyright law.

If you believe in good faith that materials on our Site infringe your copyright, you may send us a notice requesting that we remove the material or block access to it. Your notice must meet the requirements of the DMCA and follow our DMCA Takedown Procedure outlined below.

8. DMCA Takedown Procedure

If you believe that content on our Site infringes your copyright, you may send a written notification of claimed copyright infringement to our designated agent. Your notice must include the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted.
5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please send your notice to:

Email: kibbetypes@gmail.com
Subject line: DMCA Takedown Request

Upon receipt of a proper notification of claimed copyright infringement, we will respond expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

9. Counter-Notice Procedure

If you believe that your content was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification, you may send us a counter-notice. Your counter-notice must include the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification 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.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
4. Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or an agent of such person.

Please send your counter-notice to:

Email: kibbetypes@gmail.com
Subject line: DMCA Counter-Notice

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we will restore the removed material after 10 business days but no later than 14 business days from the date we received the counter-notice, unless we first receive notice from the party who submitted the original DMCA notice that they have filed a legal action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on our Site.

10. Repeat Infringer Policy

In accordance with the DMCA and other applicable law, we have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, users who are deemed to be repeat infringers. We may also, at our sole discretion, limit access to the Site and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

11. Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Copyright & DMCA Policy at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting to the Site. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our copyright practices.