Trademark and Copyright Usage Guidelines

 

Techcardi’s trademarks and copyrighted works include: brand names, logos, website content, videos and other matter protected under trademark or copyright law. These are among our most valuable assets. These Guidelines are intended to help our partners, customers, developers, consultants, publishers, and/or any other third party understand when and how they may use our trademarks and copyrighted works properly in promotional, commercial, educational or reference materials, and when they may not.

 

We have included a summary of high level points below for your reference; however, you are responsible for carefully reviewing these Guidelines in their entirety before using any of Techcardi’s trademarks or copyrighted works.

 

Summary of our Usage Guidelines:

 

● You must always use Techcardi’s trademarks and copyrighted works in accordance with these Trademark and Copyright Usage Guidelines (“Guidelines”) as well as any other guidelines Techcardi has provided you.

● Techcardi can modify or revoke at any time, in its sole discretion, any permission we grant you to use our trademarks and copyrighted works unless specifically prohibited in a separate agreement.

● All rights we grant you to use our trademarks and copyrighted works require that you specify that the trademarks and copyrighted works belong to Techcardi.

● You agree not to challenge Techcardi’s ownership of its trademarks and/or copyrighted works.

● We make no warranties of any kind with any permissions we grant of Techcardi’s trademarks and copyrighted works.

● You may not transfer the rights granted in these Guidelines to anyone else.

 

What Is a Trademark?

 

A trademark is a word, name, symbol, design or device (or a combination of these) that identifies the goods or services of a person or company and distinguishes them from the goods or services of others. A trademark assures consumers of consistent quality with respect to those goods or services and aids in their promotion.

 

Unless we grant written permission in a contract or other document, or describe below a permitted use, you may not use any of Techcardi’s trademarks. But, even after we grant such permission, we retain the right to modify or revoke such permission in our sole discretion unless

 

1: otherwise prohibited in a separate agreement. If you have questions about these Guidelines as

they pertain to trademarks, please contact us at legal@Techcardi.com.

 

What Is Copyright?

 

Copyrights are exclusive rights in original works, including certain written, pictorial and graphical works, audiovisual works, and computer programs. The owner of a copyright in a work has the right to exclude others from reproducing, displaying, distributing, creating derivative works from, performing, or otherwise using the work. Techcardi owns copyright in its logos, website designs and content, videos and other promotional materials, and its proprietary computer code, as well as other works not specified here. You may not use, reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from any copyrighted work, or any portion of a copyrighted work, owned by Techcardi without first receiving a license or a fully executed Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form accessed here. But even after we grant you permission to use a work by providing you an executed copy of the Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form, we retain the right to modify or revoke that permission in our sole discretion unless prohibited in a separate agreement. If you

have questions about these Guidelines as they pertain to copyright, please contact us at legal@Techcardi.com.

 

Permitted Use of Techcardi's Trademarks and/or Copyrights

 

▪ You may refer to Techcardi’s trademarks in word form only to describe accurately how your products or services relate to our products or services, so long as you follow these Guidelines and make clear that your products and services are not offered, sponsored or endorsed by Techcardi.

▪ Do not shorten or abbreviate any of Techcardi's trademarks or use any of Techcardi's trademarks in plural, possessive or modified form.

▪ Where your reference to any of Techcardi’s trademarks is primarily intended for a Canadian audience or will be distributed through a Canadian. website, publication, or trade show, include the ® or ™ symbol associated with the mark(s) at issue, as appropriate. The ® or ™ symbol need only be used on your first or most prominent reference to said mark(s). Do not include any symbol after any of Techcardi’s trademark(s) if your publication is intended for use or distribution outside of Canada.

▪ You may only use any of Techcardi's logos under license or other written contractual permission. If a specialized logo has been assigned to you in writing to designate your business relationship with Techcardi, use of such specialized logo under these circumstances shall strictly comply with the form and extent of

 

2: Permission granted to you, and must remain in compliance with all applicable then current Techcardi trademark, copyright and/or logo usage guidelines.

▪ When referencing any of Techcardi’s trademarks in text, you must distinguish said mark(s) from the surrounding text by capitalizing the first letter in each word of such Techcardi trademark(s). Prohibited Use of Techcardi's Trademarks and/or Copyrights

▪ You may not incorporate any of Techcardi’s trademarks or logos or any other recognizable portion of any of Techcardi’s trademarks or logos, in your company’s name, app name, publication title, conference title, website name, domain name, social media handle or other source identifying materials (e.g. <TechcardiXYZ.com> as your domain name/website address or name your product “XYZ Social Enterprise,”, without Techcardi’s express prior written permission, which may require a license agreement. Except as otherwise contractually provided, Techcardi reserves the right to modify or withdraw any such permission at any time.

▪ You may not use any trademark or service mark that is likely to be confused with any of Techcardi’s trademarks in your company’s name, app name, publication title, conference title, website name, domain name, social media handle or other source identifying material or otherwise give the impression of affiliation with or endorsement by Techcardi (e.g., a name or brand that may be viewed as being

a part or extension of a Techcardi trademark “family”). You may not use abbreviations or foreign language translations of any of Techcardi’s trademarks.

▪ You may not purchase any of Techcardi’s trademarks as an ad word or advertising key word from any search engine, social media forum, or other online venue without express written permission from Techcardi, which permission may be withdrawn if

you violate these Guidelines or any supplementary guidelines which may apply to you.

▪ You may not display or otherwise use or incorporate any of Techcardi’s logos, designs, website content, videos, testing materials, or any other trademark or copyrighted work of Techcardi on your website, social media forums, marketing collateral, any publicly facing presentation materials, other promotional materials, or otherwise in connection with your products or services without a license or fully

executed Permission to Use Trademark and/or Copyrighted Work form.

▪ You may not modify or alter any of Techcardi’s logos, designs, or other trademarks or copyrighted works in any manner. You may not incorporate any of Techcardi’s logos, designs, or other trademarks or copyrighted works in your own company logo

or product logo, except under license.

▪ You may not use typestyles or fonts for your company name or product name that look like those of Techcardi’s trademarks, logos or stylizations, if the use creates the potential impression of an association between Techcardi and your company. You may not use logos, designs or stylizations that incorporate design elements of, or look similar to, logos, designs or stylizations of Techcardi (e.g., you may not feature your company name or brand name inside the Techcardi design ).

 

3: You may not use any of Techcardi's trademarks or copyrighted works in a disparaging way or in any way which dilutes, tarnishes or otherwise conflicts with Techcardi’s ability to use and/or enforce its trademarks or copyrighted works, even if such use is under license.

▪ Unless provided under a license or covered under terms of service, you may only use Techcardi source code labeled as “sample source code” or the like to run your application on a Techcardi service or to interoperate with a Techcardi service.