HanziTales Rifta Studio LLC · Washington, United States

HanziTales — Copyright and DMCA Policy

Effective date: 22 September 2026 Last updated: 4 October 2026

Rifta Studio LLC respects copyright and expects users of HanziTales to do the same. This policy forms part of the Terms of Service.

1. Our position

Do not submit to HanziTales material you do not have the right to submit. In particular, do not paste passages from copyrighted books, textbooks, lyrics, subtitles or articles into a prompt in order to have them rewritten, translated, levelled or narrated. Generating a "graded reader version" of a work still under copyright is a derivative work, and you need the rights holder's permission to make one.

Reading material and vocabulary data supplied by us comes from sources we own, license, or use under open licences or because it is in the public domain. Third-party dictionaries and datasets incorporated into the Service remain subject to their own licences, which we honour, including attribution and share-alike requirements where they apply. These are:

Books generated through the Service are owned by Rifta Studio LLC as between us and the user, under section 7 of the Terms of Service. That says nothing about third-party rights: if generated text reproduces someone else's protected expression, the rights holder's rights are unaffected, and this policy applies.

2. Designated agent for copyright notices

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512, notices of claimed infringement should go to our designated agent:

Designated agentCopyright Agent, Rifta Studio LLC
Emailcopyright@hanzitales.com (subject: DMCA notice)

3. Sending a takedown notice

To be effective, your written notice must include substantially the following (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)):

  1. A physical or electronic signature of the owner, or a person authorised to act for the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, for multiple works at one site, a representative list.
  3. Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient for us to locate it — for HanziTales, the book title and, where possible, the chapter, plus a link or screenshot.
  4. Your contact information: address, telephone number and email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right allegedly infringed.

Please consider whether the use might be a fair use before sending a notice. Under § 512(f), knowingly materially misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages and legal costs.

4. What we do when we receive a notice

We act expeditiously to remove or disable access to material identified in a compliant notice, and we notify the user who submitted it, forwarding a copy of the notice. If a notice is not substantially compliant, we may ask you for the missing elements before acting.

5. Counter-notice

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the address above, including:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material removed and the location where it appeared before removal.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside 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 gave the original notice, or their agent.

If we receive a valid counter-notice, we forward it to the original complainant. Unless they tell us within 10 business days that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the activity, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

6. Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers, in accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i). We also terminate accounts for a single instance of egregious or wilful infringement.

7. Trademark and other complaints

For trademark, publicity, privacy or other rights complaints, write to support@hanzitales.com with the subject "Rights complaint", identifying the right you hold, the material at issue and the basis for the complaint.

8. Complaints outside the United States

Rights holders in other jurisdictions may use the same contact and process. Where local law — for example the EU Digital Services Act or the UK's regime — grants additional rights to notice, reasons or appeal, we honour them. Our handling of illegal-content reports generally is described in the Acceptable Use and Content Policy.