Copyright and DMCA

Our rights

All photographs, texts, place descriptions and other materials on backpack.travel are protected by copyright and belong to their authors or to the platform. Copying, republishing or commercial use without written permission is not allowed. Authorship is evidenced by the metadata inside the files and by the date of publication.

The directory of countries, cities, places and border crossings is also a database: building and verifying it took substantial investment, so the Site holds the database maker's exclusive right (article 1334 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and equivalent database rights elsewhere). Extracting a substantial part of it is not allowed, regardless of whether an individual record is protected by copyright.

Automated collection of the content and its use for training machine learning models are prohibited — see clause 13 of the Terms of Service.

If your rights have been infringed

Believe that material published on the site infringes your copyright? Send a notice to hello@backpack.travel stating:

• your contact details (name, email);
• a description of the work whose rights are infringed, and a link to the original;
• the exact URL of the page on our site carrying the infringing material;
• a statement of your good faith belief that the use is not authorised;
• a statement, under penalty for false information, that you are the rights holder or their authorised representative;
• your signature (electronic).

We review properly filed notices and remove or block the disputed material within a reasonable time.

Counter-notice

If your material was removed by mistake, you may send a counter-notice to the same address with your reasoning and proof of rights. After review the material may be restored.

Repeat infringers

Accounts that repeatedly infringe copyright are blocked.