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Trademark Policy
People on Wavely talk about brands all the time: they rate restaurants, review products, and post about the things they love. That is welcome. What is not allowed is using someone else’s trademark in a way that misleads people about who is behind an account, a community, or a post. This policy explains the difference, and how to report misuse.
What counts as misuse
Using a trademark in a way that misleads people is not allowed, including:
- Using a company’s or product’s name, logo, or other trademark in a username, display name, profile photo, community name, or post in a way that suggests you are, or are affiliated with, that business when you are not.
- Using a trademark to promote counterfeit goods, or goods passed off as genuine.
How to report trademark misuse
Trademark owners, or people authorized to act for them, can report misuse to legal@usewavely.com. Please include:
- Your name, the trademark owner’s name, and your contact details.
- The trademark, and its registration number and the country where it is registered, if it is registered.
- The username, community, or link to each post on Wavely you are reporting.
- How the use is likely to confuse people about who is behind it.
- A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is not authorized, and that the information you provided is accurate.
What we do
When a report is valid, we may, depending on the case:
- Ask the account holder to change the username, profile, or community so it no longer misleads.
- Remove the posts that use the trademark misleadingly.
- Release a username to the trademark owner when an account was clearly created to exploit the mark.
- Suspend accounts that misuse trademarks repeatedly, or sell counterfeits.
We tell the account holder what we did and why, and they can appeal, as described in Reporting and Appeals.
Wavely’s own trademarks
Wavely™, the Wavely logo, and Wisp™ are trademarks of Wavely. The Brand Guidelines explain how you may refer to them.