Copyright

Last updated: August 16, 2026

This page explains who owns the material on tooldetective.com, what you may do with it, and how to report copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Ownership of Site Content

Except where stated otherwise, the material published on this site is owned by ToolDetective and protected by United States and international copyright law. That includes the written reviews and buying guidance, the category structure, the rankings and the scoring approach behind them, the compilation and arrangement of product data, the site design, and the ToolDetective name and logo.

Copyright ToolDetective. All rights reserved.

Third Party Trademarks and Product Material

Brand names, product names, model designations, logos and trademarks that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners. They are used for identification and descriptive purposes, which is what allows anyone to write about a product at all. Their appearance here does not imply that the owner endorses, sponsors or is affiliated with ToolDetective.

Product images and certain product data are supplied through retailer and manufacturer sources, including the Amazon Product Advertising API, and remain the property of the relevant rights holders. They are displayed under the terms of the programs that provide them. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

If you own rights in material shown here and believe it is being used improperly, the procedure below is the fastest way to reach us.

What You May Do With Our Content

You may read the site, print pages for your own personal and non commercial use, and share links to it freely. Linking to us needs no permission and is always welcome.

You may quote a short passage in your own work, provided you attribute it to ToolDetective and include a working link to the page you took it from.

Without our prior written permission, you may not republish, reproduce or redistribute our content in whole or in substantial part, copy our rankings, comparison tables or compiled product data into another site or publication, use automated means to scrape, harvest or bulk download the site, mirror or frame the site, remove or alter copyright notices or attribution, use our name or logo in a way that suggests endorsement, or use our content to train a machine learning model or to populate a derivative database.

To request permission, write to [email protected] describing what you want to use and where it will appear. Reasonable requests are usually granted.

DMCA Copyright Infringement Notices

We respect the intellectual property of others and respond to valid notices of claimed infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512. If you believe material on this site infringes a copyright you own or are authorized to act for, send a written notice to our copyright agent at [email protected], with DMCA Notice in the subject line.

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

  • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed. If several works at this site are covered by a single notice, a representative list of those works.
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it. A direct URL for each item is the most useful form of this.
  • Information reasonably sufficient to let us contact you, including your name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address.
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  • 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 the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

A notice missing these elements may not be effective. On receipt of a valid notice we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material, and we will make a reasonable effort to notify the person who posted it that it has been removed.

DMCA Counter Notice

If your material was removed or disabled and you believe that happened because of a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter notice to the same address, with DMCA Counter Notice in the subject line.

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3), a counter notice must include the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • Identification of the material that was removed or disabled, and the location at which it appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
  • 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.
  • Your name, address and telephone number, 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 a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the original notification or from an agent of that person.

If we receive a valid counter notice, we will forward a copy to the original complaining party and let them know the material may be restored in 10 to 14 business days. Unless that party notifies us that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity, we may restore the material within that period.

Misrepresentation

Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), a person who knowingly 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 legal fees. Please do not use this procedure to remove material you simply dislike. If you are unsure whether a use is infringing, consult an attorney before sending a notice.

Repeat Infringers

We maintain a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the access of anyone who is a repeat infringer.

Corrections and Contact

For copyright questions, permission requests, attribution issues, or to report a factual error anywhere on the site, write to [email protected] or use our contact page. See also our Terms and Conditions.