Trust & how it all works
A clear, honest look at how monitoring, review, and alerts work — so you know exactly what you're getting, and what you're not.
How our monitoring works
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You submit the public targets and terms that matter to your brand — domains, brand and product terms, and protected URLs you own or are authorized to monitor.
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Our scanning technology monitors those approved public targets on a regular schedule — public web monitoring, not a scan of the entire internet.
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Possible matches go to review — every potential hit is queued for a person to look at before anyone is told about it.
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Reviewed findings appear in your portal — what you see has already been checked, organized, and is ready to act on.
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You receive an alert after review — never before. Sanitized, actionable summaries land in your inbox and dashboard, not raw scan output.
How the review gate protects you
Every finding is reviewed by a person before it ever reaches your dashboard or inbox. This filters out false positives and low-confidence matches, so the findings you see are the ones worth your attention — not a flood of noise.
What alerts mean
An alert means a finding has been reviewed and judged worth bringing to your attention — typically because it looks like a genuine match worth assessing or acting on.
What alerts don't mean
An alert is not a legal determination that something is infringing, and it is not a guarantee that a takedown will succeed. It's a starting point for your own judgment — or for the operational takedown packet preparation we can help with.
No guaranteed removal
We can help you organize evidence and prepare clear takedown requests, but we cannot guarantee that any host, platform, search engine, or registrar will act on them, or how quickly. DMCA WatchDog provides monitoring and operational takedown support. This is not legal advice.
Plan transparency
Every plan has clear monitoring limits — how many domains, search terms, and URLs are included, and how often scans run. You can see your usage against your plan at any time from your account, and compare plans on our pricing page.
Privacy and security highlights
- Findings are reviewed before they're ever shown to you.
- Passwords are hashed — never stored or emailed in plain text.
- Billing is handled by Stripe; we don't store full card numbers.
- Sensitive configuration is kept out of our codebase entirely.
Read more on our security page and privacy policy.
Our policies
Terms of service · Privacy policy · Refund policy · DMCA policy
DMCA WatchDog provides monitoring and operational takedown support. This is not legal advice.