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Trademark Guidelines

Last Updated: January 2020

These CartMagician Trademarks Usage Guidelines (these “Guidelines) outline how we permit the use of CartMagician’s trademarks, brandnames, tradenames, service marks, service names, domain names and logos (collectively, “CartMagician Trademarks

We have developed these Guidelines with the following goals in mind: We wish to make it easy for anyone to use the CartMagician Trademarks for Community-Oriented Efforts in a manner that helps to spread and improve CartMagician.

Our License

In plain English: If you have a community project, then it’s ok to use CartMagician’s name as long as there is no suggestion that the project is affiliated with CartMagician.

Subject to the terms and conditions hereunder, we grant to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, revocable license to use and display CartMagician Trademarks, solely in accordance with these Guidelines and other written instructions provided by us from time to time, and solely as a part of a Community Oriented Effort.

The CartMagician Trademarks shall not be displayed in a manner that implies that the project is affiliated with CartMagician. This doesn’t just mean that to comply with these Guidelines; you can write, “we are not affiliated with CartMagician” in your footer. Instead, you must refrain altogether from using misleading business practices such as using a domain name comprising solely of the word “CartMagician” or just using our logo as your website’s logo.

Restrictions

In plain English: Don’t make people think you’re affiliated with CartMagician.

Your project must have discernible differences from CartMagician’s Software. Meaning, it is not a redistribution of the Software.
Your use of the CartMagician Trademarks is not displayed in a manner that implies that your project, products and/or services are endorsed or sponsored by CartMagician. <
For example, organizing an “CartMagician Support Forum” might be confusing, and therefore we request that you state that your website is a “Support Forum For CartMagician.”
Using the CartMagician Trademarks’ colors as a part of your website’s branding is ok, but you shall not do so if this misleads people to think that the website is a formal CartMagician site.
Any deceptive practices, such as using domain names that are meant to mislead people to think that they are using an official CartMagician website, are prohibited.

Design

In plain English: We have invested in branding. Don’t change it.
All use of CartMagician Trademarks (including any goodwill arising therefrom) shall solely benefit CartMagician. Any display of the CartMagician Trademarks shall be only in the exact format in which we provide it. No alternate stylization or representation is permitted. Specifically, you may not change the colour proportion, or font of any of CartMagician Trademarks, or make any additions to or remove any elements from CartMagician Trademarks.
CartMagician Trademarks shall not be placed on any background that interferes with the readability or display of that CartMagician Trademarks.
CartMagician Trademarks may not be displayed or used in any manner together with or in the context of any content which is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, harassing, offensive, indecent, pornographic, abusive, discriminatory, fraudulent, threatening or vulgar; or which harms or may harm the goodwill of CartMagician (in CartMagician’s reasonable discretion). The above examples of unlawful and prohibited use do not constitute an exhaustive list
Unless you received our explicit consent, under no circumstances is it permitted to use CartMagician Trademarks as part of a domain name or top-level domain name. We reserve the right to withdraw any abovementioned consent at any time.

Don’t Advertise

In plain English: Don’t use CartMagician trademarks in keyword ads.
We do not allow the use of the CartMagician Trademarks in advertising, including Google Ads and other search engines.

Your Own Risk

In plain English: The usage is at your own risk.

Use of any CartMagician Trademarks is at your own risk. The uses permitted hereunder are provided by CartMagician Trademarks “AS-IS,” without any warranties whatsoever, including (without limitation) any warranty of title and non-infringement. You hereby agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CartMagician and CartMagician affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from your use of the CartMagician Trademarks. Without derogating from or excusing your obligations under this section, CartMagician reserves the right (at your own expense), but are not under any obligation, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter which is subject to indemnification by you if you choose not to defend or settle it. You agree not to settle any matter subject to indemnification by you without first obtaining our express approval.

Amendments

In plain English: We may change this.

We reserve the right to change these Guidelines at any time, at our sole discretion, with immediate effect.

Penalties

In plain English: We can penalise people who abuse these guidelines.
Where we find that you are failing to comply with this policy, we may promptly extract you from our affiliates program and use any and all legal means in its power to stop your activity, including suspension, termination or deactivation of your account.
We reserve the right, exercisable at our sole discretion, to take appropriate action against any use without permission or any use that does not conform to these Guidelines.

Examples

A few examples to help you understand how to apply these Guidelines:

Good:

  • You want to open a Meetup group for CartMagician users in your area, and you call it “CartMagician Developers Meetup Group – Sydney.”
  • You can set up a free, unpaid, plugin named “3D Models For CartMagician” (but not a premium plugin).

Bad:

  • You organise a meetup and call it “CartMagician 2019 Meetup.”
  • You set up a website called “CartMagician-Templates.com.”
  • You set up a website called “CartMagician-Jobs.io.”

Ask Us:

If you’re using the CartMagician brand, trademark or logo for any commercial endeavor, please ask our permission first.
When in doubt about your use of the CartMagician name or logo, please contact [email protected] for clarification.
This may be relevant if you want to use CartMagician Trademarks as a part of your conference, website, group or other logo or if you’re planning on selling any physical product, T-shirts, cups, sweaters or just print stickers.

Last updated: January 2020