Legal & Notices

iPonkis is a fan-made, non-commercial tribute to iGoogle as it was in 2007-2009. It is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google, and isn't connected to Google in any way. This page says which parts of the site are mine, which aren't, and who they belong to.

iGoogle, Google and the Google logo are trademarks of Google LLC. iGoogle was Google's personalized homepage from 2005 until it was retired in 2013.

Some of this site's layout, style sheets, scripts and images come from, or are closely based on, the pages Google served at www.google.com/ig between 2007 and 2010, as preserved by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. That includes:

• the page layout, class names and colours (iGoogle's ig.css), the gadget boxes, title-bar buttons and drop-down menus, the tab and settings designs, and the gadget and theme directory;
• ideas and markup from iGoogle's scripts, such as dragging gadgets (libdrag.js) and tabs inside a gadget (libtabs.js);
• small images: buttons, the +/- icons, the rating stars, the Weather gadget's icons and welcome picture, and the calendar's corners (from Google Calendar);
• the coloured frame of the favicon, after iGoogle's (the P inside it is from this site's logo);
• the header themes and their thumbnails (see Themes below).

All of that remains the property of Google LLC. I don't own it and I don't claim to; it's used here only to bring back how iGoogle looked and felt, for nostalgia, history and fun. The previews in the theme directory are screenshots of this site, not Google's, so they show the iPonkis logo instead of Google's.

The iPonkis logo is my own, drawn after the look of Google's logo of the time. The search box searches this site only.

The header themes (Classic, Beach, Bus Stop, City Scape, Sweet Dreams, Tea House, Seasonal Scape, Aja Tiger, JR, Solar System, Holiday Village and Autumn) were made for iGoogle and published by Google in 2007-2008. Their pictures are shown here exactly as Google served them.

Their artwork belongs to Google LLC and to the artists and illustrators who drew it. I didn't draw any of it and I don't own it. The archived theme files credit them only as "Google", so the individual artists aren't named here. If you drew one of these themes, I'd love to credit you by name: write to [email protected]. If you'd rather it weren't here at all, write to the same address and I'll take it down.

• YouTube and its 2005 logo are trademarks of Google LLC. Videos belong to their uploaders.
• Last.fm is a trademark of Last.fm Ltd. Track and artist details come from Last.fm's API.
• Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc. My Discord status comes through Lanyard.
• Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0); exchange rates by ExchangeRate-API.
• Album art, video thumbnails and the names and pictures of linked sites belong to their owners.

Being named or linked here doesn't mean any of them endorse this site.

The blog entries, the profile and "about" texts, my photos and Mystral are mine, ©2026 ponkis, unless an entry says otherwise. Please ask before reusing them.

The site's own code is open source under the MIT License. That license covers only the code I wrote: not Google's files and images described above, and not the open-source libraries the site uses, which keep their own licenses.

Files in the Asset Directory, and files people share with an upload key, belong to whoever made them. If one of them is yours and shouldn't be here, see below.

I respect the rights of artists and copyright owners. If you believe something on ponkis.xyz infringes your copyright, send a notice to [email protected] and I'll remove it or credit you. You can copy the template below; a notice needs every part of it to count under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)).

To: [email protected]
Subject: DMCA notice - ponkis.xyz

1. The copyrighted work I believe has been infringed:
   [Describe the work, or link to where it is published.]

2. Where it is on ponkis.xyz:
   [The full address of each page or file, e.g. https://ponkis.xyz/files/...]

3. My contact information:
   Name:
   Address:
   Telephone:
   Email:

4. I have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner
   complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or
   the law.

5. The information in this notice is accurate, and under penalty of
   perjury, I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner,
   of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Signature: [Your full name, typed, counts as an electronic signature]
Date:

If something of yours was removed and you think it was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice to the same address. Knowingly false notices can make the sender liable for damages, so please only send one if you're sure.