Effective Date: 2026-06-20
Ownership
The Veteran Benefit Desk is operated by Aurelis LLC. All materials on this site (including text, graphics, design, user interface, calculators, the condition library, rating-criteria summaries, the accredited-representative directory, underlying databases, source code, and the selection, coordination, and arrangement of all content) are the exclusive property of Aurelis LLC or its licensors and are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.
Trademarks
"The Veteran Benefit Desk," our logo, and related names and marks are trademarks of Aurelis LLC. You may not use them without our prior written permission. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or any government agency.
What you may not do
Without our prior written consent, you may not:
- Copy, reproduce, republish, mirror, or frame any part of the site;
- Scrape, crawl, harvest, or bulk-download our content or data;
- Use our content or data to train, fine-tune, or evaluate machine-learning or AI models;
- Sell, license, or commercially exploit any part of the site;
- Create derivative works from our content, design, or databases.
Limited personal, non-commercial use of the public pages (such as reading and printing a single copy for your own reference) is permitted.
Proof of authorship
Our pages, sitemap, and machine-readable manifest (`/llms.txt`) carry dated authorship and ownership metadata. These records help establish the date of first publication if we need to enforce our rights.
Report infringement / DMCA notice
If you believe your copyrighted work has been used on this site without authorization, or if you have found our content copied elsewhere and are reporting it to us, send a written notice that includes:
1. Your name, mailing address, email, and phone number; 2. Identification of the copyrighted work and the URL where it appears; 3. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the rights holder, its agent, or the law; 4. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder; 5. Your physical or electronic signature.
Send notices to our designated agent:
- Aurelis LLC, doing business as The Veteran Benefit Desk
- Attn: Copyright Agent, c/o Northwest Registered Agent, 2108 N Street, Suite N, Sacramento, CA 95816, United States
- Or use the Contact page and select a legal or copyright matter.
We will respond to valid notices consistent with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) and may remove or disable access to allegedly infringing material and terminate repeat infringers.
Counter-notice
If material you posted was removed and you believe it was a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a counter-notice with the same contact details, identification of the removed material, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed in error, along with your consent to jurisdiction as required by the DMCA.