Copyright and DMCA Policy

Last updated: October 25, 2026

Sweatlist is an iPhone app and a website (sweatlistapp.com) for rating and ranking fitness instructors. It is operated by BLRB Digital LLC (“we,” “us”). We respect copyright, and we expect everyone who uses Sweatlist to do the same. This page explains how to tell us about content on Sweatlist that you believe infringes your copyright, how to respond if your content was removed, and what we do in each case. It follows the notice and takedown process of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. 512.

What this policy covers

Sweatlist members post content that other people can see. On Sweatlist that is:

• Ratings and reviews. Star ratings, love-tags and written reviews of instructors, shown on the instructor’s profile in the app and in the app’s activity feed.
• Profiles. A member’s display name, username, home city and the disciplines they follow, which other signed-in members can see.
• Lists. The names of public lists and the instructors on them. When a member shares a list by link, its name and instructors also appear on a sweatlistapp.com/l/ page for anyone who opens the link.
• Activity. Posts in the activity feed that repeat a member’s rating and review or announce a public list.
• Claimed instructor profiles. If an instructor verifies and claims their profile, the bio (up to 500 characters) and the headshot photo they add. We review every headshot before it appears. Instructors who claim a profile confirm that the photos and bio text they add are theirs to share.

If you believe something we published ourselves, such as a studio or instructor listing in the app or on this website, uses your work without permission, write to the same address below and we will review it.

Our copyright agent

Send copyright notices and counter-notices to our designated agent:

Copyright Agent, BLRB Digital LLC
377 Main St, West Haven, CT 06516
Email: adam@blrbdigital.com

Email is the fastest way to reach us. Please put “Copyright notice” or “Counter-notice” in the subject line. This address is for copyright matters. Other requests are covered under “Other complaints” below.

Before you send a notice

Some uses of copyrighted material are allowed without permission, for example quoting a short passage in a review or commentary. This is called fair use (17 U.S.C. 107). Before you send a notice, please consider whether the use may be fair use or otherwise allowed by law. If you are not sure whether something infringes your copyright, consider talking to a lawyer first.

How to send a notice

Your notice must be in writing, sent to our copyright agent, and include all of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or of a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf. Your typed full name at the end of an email works as an electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you believe has been infringed. If one notice covers several works on Sweatlist, a representative list of those works.
3. Identification of the material you believe is infringing and want removed, with enough information for us to find it. Most Sweatlist content lives in the app, so tell us the instructor’s name and studio, the display name or username of the member who posted it, and the exact text or a screenshot. For a page on this website, include its link (URL).
4. Your contact information: your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.
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 your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

If a notice is missing some of these items but includes items 2, 3 and 4, we will try to contact you to complete it. A notice that does not substantially include these items may not be treated as a valid notice.

What we do when we receive a notice

• We review the notice. If it is complete, we remove or disable access to the material expeditiously.
• We take reasonable steps to promptly notify the member who posted the material, using the contact details on their account, and tell them how to send a counter-notice.
• We may send that member a copy of your notice, which includes your name and contact details, so they can respond to it.
• We keep a record of the notice against the member’s account (see “Repeat infringers” below).

Counter-notice

If material you posted was removed or disabled because of a copyright notice, and you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentification, you can send our copyright agent a written counter-notice that includes all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed or disabled and where it appeared before it was removed or disabled (for example the instructor’s name and studio, or the link).
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.
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, any judicial district in which BLRB Digital LLC may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice or that person’s agent.

When we receive a complete counter-notice:

• We promptly send a copy of it, including your contact details, to the person who sent the original notice, and tell them that we will restore the material in 10 business days.
• We restore the material, or stop disabling access to it, 10 to 14 business days after we receive your counter-notice, unless our copyright agent first receives notice from that person that they have filed a court action seeking an order to stop you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material.

A counter-notice applies only to material removed because of a copyright notice. It does not restore content removed for breaking our Terms of Service in other ways.

Repeat infringers

We keep a record of valid copyright notices against each account. An account that receives three valid notices that have not been resolved by a successful counter-notice or a retraction is terminated. We may terminate an account sooner, including after a single notice, when the infringement is clear or willful. A person whose account was terminated under this policy may not open a new Sweatlist account.

False notices and counter-notices

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that material was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees. Please do not send a notice or counter-notice unless you are sure of your facts.

Other complaints

The copyright agent handles copyright only. For anything else:

• A review or activity post that is abusive, false or otherwise breaks our Terms of Service: tap Report review or Report activity on it in the app, or email adam@blrbdigital.com.
• An instructor who wants their listing removed, or whose profile was claimed by someone else: tap “Not you, or want this listing removed?” on the instructor’s profile in the app, or email adam@blrbdigital.com.
• Trademark, privacy or other legal concerns: email adam@blrbdigital.com. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. When we do, we post the new version on this page and change the “last updated” date at the top.

Contact

BLRB Digital LLC, 377 Main St, West Haven, CT 06516. Email adam@blrbdigital.com.

Sweatlist is free on iPhone. Get it on the App Store.