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A notice to stop crawling a website stops it the moment you submit. A copyright notice takes the photos it identifies off Throttle within 24 hours. Nobody has to read either first.

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By email

Rather not? Email your notice to [email protected]. It is read by our founder and answered with a case number. A copyright notice takes the photos it identifies off Throttle within 24 hours, and any other legal notice stops crawling of every domain it mentions within 24 hours.

A copyright notice (DMCA)

A photo, text or other work of yours appears on a throttle.toys page without permission. Within 24 hours we stop showing the photos you identify, and the description if that is your work. The listing's facts stay, because copyright does not protect facts, and it does not stop crawling.

Stop crawling a website

You own a website we crawl, or act for its owner or its platform, and you want ThrottleBot to stop. Crawling of every domain you list stops when you submit.

A dealer opt-out

You would simply rather we did not list your store. No legal claim needed: show us the website is yours and we stop.

What happens next

  • The moment you submit a notice to stop crawling, crawling of every domain it names stops, and you get a case number by email.
  • A copyright notice takes down, within 24 hours, the photos of the listings it identifies — or of every listing from a dealer website it names — and the description text too if that is your work. We keep each listing's facts (price, VIN, year, make, model, trim, specifications, features, mileage and location), because copyright does not protect facts, and a copyright notice does not stop crawling. We email you when the photos are down.
  • Show us the website is yours — a DNS record, a file, an email address at the site's own domain, or business documents — and the stop on crawling is permanent until you withdraw it.
  • If a notice about crawling a site is not backed up within 14 days by proof that the sender owns or acts for it, we write to say so and crawling resumes. We remind you twice first. Someone who says they are a law firm, a website platform or a manufacturer gets 30 days instead, to send a letter of authority; after that the same rule applies unless we have confirmed their authority. A new notice about the same site from someone whose earlier one closed without proof must be backed up within 72 hours.
  • Photos and text a copyright notice identifies stay down whatever happens to the rest of the notice, until you withdraw it or we have a reason we record to show them again, such as the dealer showing they were taken down by mistake.
  • Nothing is deleted because of a notice. We keep what we hold while the notice is resolved, because the law expects us to.