Content-rights and takedown process

How the comparison data is produced

Public price values are independently collected from provider-owned pages. PharmacyScore does not use an aggregator, competitor comparison database or third-party price feed as a public-price input. Each published amount must be supported by a dated, provider-owned source and an exact dose-and-price observation.

PharmacyScore does not claim ownership of underlying facts, provider prices, official public records, third-party source material, names or marks. Those rights remain with their respective owners.

PharmacyScore rights

PharmacyScore reserves applicable rights in its original software, writing, evidence taxonomy, research records, and the original selection and arrangement of this compilation. Copyright and UK database rights apply only where the relevant legal requirements are met; this notice does not create rights that do not otherwise exist.

This database is actively maintained. Unauthorised copying, extraction or republication of protected parts may result in DMCA takedown notices, equivalent platform complaints or other enforcement action where appropriate.

“DMCA protected” is not a blanket legal status. The DMCA is a United States notice-and-takedown framework, while PharmacyScore is a UK-focused service. We will still review a sufficiently detailed DMCA notice or equivalent rights complaint through the process below under the law and platform rules that actually apply.

Citation, AI use and automated extraction

Anyone may link to PharmacyScore and quote or cite individual public facts or short passages with clear attribution and a link to the relevant PharmacyScore page. This citation permission applies to people, publishers, search services and AI answers.

PharmacyScore permits the declared search, user-retrieval and model-training crawlers operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google for Gemini, Meta, Microsoft Bing, Apple and Perplexity. Their public crawler tokens may access the public pages and the versioned, machine-readable evidence feed. Private account, administration and API routes remain excluded.

Other services may crawl ordinary public HTML for genuine search and citation when they obey the published robots rules. They may not use restricted bulk feeds, systematically harvest the site, evade access controls, reconstruct the maintained compilation, or populate a competing comparison or database service without written permission. Citation permission is not permission for bulk extraction or republication of a substantial or repeatedly extracted part of any protected compilation.

The machine-readable feeds contain dated, source-linked factual observations only. Private benchmark answers, snapshot tokens, account data, review notes and action tracking are excluded. Crawler names can be impersonated, so PharmacyScore may verify requests, rate-limit access or deny clients that ignore the machine-readable policy.

Prepare a rights notice

Email hello@pharmacyscore.co.uk with the subject “PharmacyScore content-rights notice”. A sufficiently detailed notice should include:

• Your full name, organisation, postal address and email address.
• The right you own or are authorised to enforce.
• A precise description of the protected work, database or mark.
• Every exact URL and item you want reviewed.
• The legal and factual basis of the complaint.
• Evidence of ownership or authority to act.
• A good-faith statement that the disputed use is not authorised by the rightsholder, its agent or law.
• A statement that the notice is accurate.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

What happens next

1. We log and preserve the notice and relevant evidence.
2. We may ask for missing information or proof of authority.
3. We may temporarily restrict genuinely disputed content while reviewing it.
4. We assess the notice under the applicable UK rights and any relevant platform obligations.
5. We may share the notice with the affected provider or source where lawful and necessary.
6. We remove, correct, qualify or retain the material and record the reason.

Scope

PharmacyScore uses provider and medicine names as plain text for identification. Third-party names and marks remain the property of their owners. We do not claim that a provider, manufacturer, GPhC, NHS, LegitScript or another organisation sponsors or approves this comparison.

Calling a notice a “DMCA” notice does not replace the need to identify the exact material, right, URL and authority. Nothing on this page promises immunity from a claim or predetermines its outcome.