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Copyright and DMCA Policy

Last updated: October 28, 2026
Effective: October 28, 2026

Nature’s Grove Farm LLC (“Pasturly”) hosts websites for farms. The farms write and upload what is on them. We respect copyright and expect farms to. This policy explains how to tell us that something on a farm’s website infringes your copyright, and what we do.

It covers every website Pasturly hosts, at *.pasturly.farm or at a farm’s own domain, and email farms send through Pasturly.

1. Our designated agent

Send copyright notices to our designated agent:

Andrew Vlcek
Nature’s Grove Farm LLC
138 Penns Grove Lane, Latrobe, PA 15650
Email: admin@pasturly.com
Phone: 724-216-2999

The agent is registered with the US Copyright Office’s directory, under Nature’s Grove Farm LLC with the alternate names “Pasturly” and “Pasturly Direct”. Email is fastest. You may also use “Report this site” at the foot of any farm’s page, choosing “It uses my work without permission,” but a notice by that form must still include everything in Section 2.

2. What a notice must include

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice must be in writing and include:

  1. your physical or electronic signature (typing your full name is enough by email), or that of someone authorized to act for the copyright owner;
  2. what copyrighted work you believe is infringed (or, for several works on one site, a representative list);
  3. what on the site you believe infringes, and where it is: the full web address of each page, and which photo or passage;
  4. your name, postal address, telephone number and email address;
  5. a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
  6. a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

If a notice is missing something, we may ask you to complete it before we act. Please consider whether the use might be fair use before sending a notice. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly misrepresents that material infringes may be liable for damages.

3. What we do with a notice

  1. We acknowledge it, usually within two business days.
  2. If it is complete, we remove or disable access to the material promptly: by taking down the page or photo if the Service allows it, or otherwise by suspending the farm’s website until the material is removed.
  3. We tell the farm and forward it a copy of the notice, including your name and contact details, so that it can contact you or send a counter-notice, and explain how to do so.
  4. We record the notice, the dates, and what was done.

4. Counter-notices (for farms)

If your material was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may send our agent a counter-notice that includes (17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3)):

  1. your physical or electronic signature;
  2. what was removed and where it appeared before removal;
  3. a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed or disabled 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 district where your address is (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which Pasturly may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or their agent.

When we receive a valid counter-notice we will send a copy to the person who sent the original notice, including the farm’s contact details as the law requires, and tell them we will restore the material in 10 business days. We restore it 10 to 14 business days after we receive the counter-notice unless the original sender tells our agent first that they have filed a court action seeking to stop the farm from infringing.

5. Repeat infringers

We will close the account of a farm that is a repeat infringer in appropriate circumstances. As a rule, a farm that receives three valid notices, not successfully countered, within 12 months will have its account closed after notice. We may close an account sooner for a clear or willful infringement.

6. Photos Pasturly supplies

Starter photos in Pasturly’s themes were taken at Nature’s Grove Farm, which operates Pasturly, and are licensed to each farm for its Pasturly website while its account is open. Licensed stock photos are used on Pasturly’s demo farm only. If you believe a photo infringes your rights, send a notice as above.

7. Other reports

Reports that are not about copyright (trademark, deception, unlawful products, harmful content) are handled under the Acceptable Use Policy. Send them to admin@pasturly.com or use “Report this site.” For those reports we do not share the reporter’s email with the farm unless the law requires it. A farm that believes a takedown was wrong for a reason other than copyright may appeal under the Acceptable Use Policy.

8. What we keep

We keep notices, counter-notices and our record of what we did for 3 years after the matter is closed, as our Privacy Policy says.