DMCA and takedowns

Effective date: 2026-11-09

AI Photo Combiner (aiphotocombiner.com) is operated by an individual based in Hong Kong. It combines two photos that a user uploads into one image. We host content supplied by users, so we are a service provider under 17 U.S.C. § 512, and we remove material that infringes copyright when we receive a valid notice. This page explains how.

Who we are and how to contact us

AI Photo Combiner is operated by an individual based in Hong Kong. Contact: aiwebbase@gmail.com.

There is no separate legal department. Email aiwebbase@gmail.com for copyright notices; a support form or social account is not the right channel.

Buying an image pack is a separate matter. Purchases are sold to you by Waffo.com Limited as merchant of record, which handles payment, tax, invoices and refunds. Notices about content on this site go to the email above, not to Waffo.

Sending a notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a notice must contain all six of the following:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the copyrighted work you say is infringed. If one notice covers several works, a representative list is enough.
Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. Give the exact URLs: the page on this site and, if you have it, the URL of the generated image. "Your whole website" is not enough for us to act.
Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

Send it to aiwebbase@gmail.com with the subject line "DMCA notice". PDF attachments are fine.

A notice is a legal declaration. If you knowingly materially misrepresent that material is infringing, § 512(f) makes you liable for the damages we and the uploader suffer, including costs and legal fees. Check your rights before you send one.

What happens next

We acknowledge within 2 business days. One person handles these, so this is the realistic turnaround.
If the notice is complete, we remove or disable the material expeditiously, normally within 5 business days of acknowledgement.
We tell the person who uploaded it what was removed and why, and give them the notice, unless you ask us to withhold your contact details. If the material came from a guest session we may have no address to write to, which is another reason to include the exact URLs.
If the notice is incomplete, or the material is already gone, we tell you either way.

Retention periods are described in our Privacy Policy. If the material has already been deleted, say so and we will confirm in writing, which is often all you actually need.

If your concern is not copyright

The DMCA covers copyright only. For anything else, email aiwebbase@gmail.com with the URL and the facts, and we act under our own rules, usually faster:

Your face or likeness used without your consent, or someone impersonating you: we remove the upload and the outputs made from it. You do not need an account and you do not need to own a copyright.
Intimate or sexual imagery of a real person, threats, or anything involving a minor: we remove it immediately and, where the law requires, report it to the competent authority. Do not use the counter-notice process for these.

Counter-notices

If your image was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send a counter-notice to aiwebbase@gmail.com. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) it must contain:

Your physical or electronic signature.
Identification of the material that was removed and where it appeared before it was removed.
A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
Your name, postal address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district where your address is located (or, if you live outside the United States, any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice or that person's agent.

What happens after a counter-notice

We forward the counter-notice to the person who complained, with your contact details. If they do not tell us within 10 to 14 business days that they have filed a court action against you, we may restore the material. We say "may" because restoring a generated image means running the generation again with the same inputs, which is not always possible, and because we will not restore anything that breaches our terms of service or acceptable use rules.

Repeat infringers

We remove material on valid notices and keep a record of every notice against the account or guest session involved. Running this site as one individual does not change the policy: accounts are closed on the counts below.

First valid notice against an account: material removed, written warning issued. Notices within the same 12 months count together.
Second valid notice within 12 months: account suspended and remaining images cancelled.
Three or more, or a single notice where the account is plainly built for infringement: permanent termination. Images are not refunded in these cases, as our terms of service and refund policy state.
Guest sessions: we record the session ID and IP address and block further free use from them.
We also refuse service to anyone we know is using the tool mainly to infringe.

We screen prompt text before generation using Waffo's content-safety service, and our AI model provider screens input images and output images automatically as part of generation. We do not manually review every upload in advance. We act on every valid notice we receive, and we do not reinstate accounts closed under this policy.

Misrepresentation

If you send a notice or counter-notice you know to be false, § 512(f) makes you liable for the damages the other side suffers, including costs and legal fees. We keep notices and counter-notices for as long as needed to defend claims, and we may publish how many notices we received and how many we acted on, without naming anyone.

Changes to this page

We post a new version with a new "Last updated" date. The requirements above come from the statute, so they do not change with our policy.

Contact

AI Photo Combiner is operated by an individual based in Hong Kong. Email: aiwebbase@gmail.com.