PlaidCars operates under the good-faith principle that any lister, rights holder, or source platform should be able to request removal of a reference on plaidcars.com quickly and without formality.
1. Who can request removal
- A private seller whose listing is referenced, who no longer wants the reference displayed for any reason.
- A dealer or commercial lister who no longer wants a specific listing or their business name referenced.
- A source platform that wishes a specific listing, a class of listings, or all listings sourced from that platform removed.
- A rights holder (trademark, copyright) that believes content on the Service infringes their rights.
No request category requires legal representation or formal legal process.
2. How to submit a request
Send a direct message or @-mention to our X account: x.com/plaidcars. No specific format is required; neither is legal representation.
Please include:
- Your name and, if applicable, your company / role.
- The URL(s) on plaidcars.com of the content you want removed.
- A short description of what you want removed and — optionally — why. Reasons are helpful but not required.
- If you are a rights holder, a brief description of the rights at issue.
- If you are requesting removal on behalf of another party, your basis for doing so.
3. What we will do
- Acknowledge receipt within one business day.
- Action valid requests within three business days of acknowledgement.
- For platform-wide requests, we will discuss scope (specific URL patterns, a date range, all listings sourced from the platform) and confirm before action.
- For contested requests (for example, where a rights claim is unclear or disputed), we will respond with our reasoning and an invitation to discuss.
4. Counter-requests and restoration
If content is removed and you believe the removal was incorrect, reply on the same X thread to discuss restoration. We maintain an internal log of removal requests and their disposition.
5. No waiver, no admission
Acting on a removal request is not an admission by PlaidCars that the referenced content infringed any right, nor a waiver of any PlaidCars rights. It is a courtesy-first operational approach we follow because we believe it is how a responsible index should behave.