Copyright Notice

Advertising copy and certain images on this site are copyright © ShopForPhones.co.uk and its representatives 2003-5 and must not be used without permission. Images are the copyright of the respective holders and you must not assume that you are free to re-use them. Some elements are copyright Juptermedia corporation and are used under licence.

Our intellectual property is protected under the the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 in the United Kingdom, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States, the Berne Convention worldwide, and must not be used elsewhere without prior permission.

Violations of our intellectual property rights are treated extremely seriously. We reserve the rights to carry out any of the following actions:

• Charge violators fees for the use of our intellectual property, as described. Non-payment of these fees may result in legal action.
• File a complaint with the violator's hosting company and/or upstream provider to have their site terminated or suspended.
• If the violator is an affiliate, file a complaint with their merchants and affiliate networks.
• If the violator is a merchant with an affiliate programme then a complaint will be filed with your affiliate network and we will publish details of the violations as we see fit.
• Publish personally identifiable details of copyright infringers (as described on our privacy page).
• Issue press releases and other statements identifying those businesses infringing on our intellectual property.
• File DMCA complaints with Google (example), Yahoo, MSN Search and AOL (for the Open Directory) to have violating pages and/or sites permanently removed from their search results.
• Seek financial compensation for any loss caused to use due to duplicate content penalties in search engines.
• In certain circumstances we may alert governmental agencies or law enforcement authorities where appropriate.

If we choose to do so, we may give the violator up to three working days notice to remove infringing text or graphics. Should the infringing material not be removed within this timescale then further action will be taken with no warning. However, in certain circumstances it will be in our best interests to immediately file a complaint with the violator's web host and/or other agencies as we see fit.