Copyright & Trademark

Our marks

THE PLACE TO SHOP LOCAL™ is a trademark of The Place To Shop Local, LLC. We claim common-law rights in the mark; it is not federally registered. Our name, logo, wordmark and the distinctive elements of this site’s design are our property and are protected by United States trademark and copyright law.

These are the only two versions. There is no third, and there is no version you make yourself.

The name is The Place To Shop Local™ — the full name, capital To. “Shop Local” on its own is not our name and is not our mark.

No use of our name, marks, logo, wordmark or brand is permitted without our prior written permission. That applies to every use, commercial or not, paid or unpaid, online or in print — including advertising, marketing, packaging, signage, merchandise, apparel, websites, social media, applications, domain names, business names, search keywords, metadata, and any listing, directory, comparison, article or review.

Permission is granted in writing or not at all. Verbal approval is not permission. Any permission we do give is limited to the specific use approved, is not transferable to anyone else, does not extend to any other use, and may be withdrawn.

Approved partners use Company-supplied materials only. Section 19(g) of our Terms of Use sets out what that means: you may not create, alter or distribute your own marketing materials, offers or pricing under our brand without written approval.

We monitor use of our marks and we act on misuse.

Our colors and type

The palette is black, white and grey, plus one signal blue. The blue is the scan line on the home portrait and on TECH TICKET. It is not a second logo colour — do not recolor the mark with it.

These are the screen values. If you have permission to use our mark, use them exactly. Print builds ship with the branding kit, because a hex value converted by eye is how a logo ends up muddy on a banner.

The one rule about the greys

#6E6E6E on light. #949494 on dark. Never swapped. They look interchangeable and they are not — each one fails legibility standards on the background the other belongs on. If you are reproducing anything of ours in grey, this is the rule that matters.

Type

We do not own Inter. It is released by Rasmus Andersson under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, it is free for anyone to use, and nothing on this page grants or restricts any right to it.

What we actually claim

To be plain about the limits: we do not claim to own the colour black, or grey, or a public typeface. Nobody can. What is protected is our wordmark and logo, and the distinctive design of this site as a whole — the specific combination of mark, palette, type and layout as we have applied it.

This website

All rights reserved. The text, layout, graphics, code and compilation of this site are owned by The Place To Shop Local, LLC. Nothing here is licensed for reuse.

Without our prior written permission, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, redistribute, print for distribution, scrape, mirror, index into or train an automated system on, or create derivative works from any part of this site — in whole or in part, in any medium.

Requests are usually granted and rarely refused. Ask.

Work we produce for you

Design and development work is governed by Sections 11, 14 and 17 of our Terms of Use. The short version:

• On payment in full, the final approved deliverable is yours. Your logo, your gift card artwork, your menu, the custom design and content of your website.
• Concepts, drafts and unused directions remain ours. Those are working material, not the deliverable.
• Our underlying tools stay ours. Frameworks, templates and reusable components we built before your project remain our property, licensed to you as embedded in your site.
• We do not perform trademark searches. A logo we design being original to us does not mean it is available for you to register, or free of another party’s prior rights. Before you invest in a mark, have it searched by someone qualified to do it.
• Portfolio use. We may show work we produced for you as a sample unless you ask us in writing not to.

Content you supply

Text, images, logos, menus and photography you give us remain yours. By supplying them you confirm you hold the rights necessary to use them and to let us use them for building, hosting and maintaining your site. If you supply something you do not have the rights to, that is a problem you carry — see Section 27 of our Terms.

Third-party names and marks

Product names, logos and brands appearing on this site — including Clover, Dejavoo, PAX, First Data, Valor, Square, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, CardConnect and any others — are the property of their respective owners and are used for identification only.

Their appearance does not imply that those companies endorse us, or that we have any affiliation with them beyond what is expressly stated elsewhere on this site.

Fonts, images and licensed components

This site uses third-party typefaces, imagery, software libraries and platform components under their own licenses. Those licenses remain with their owners. Where we supply such components as part of a project, their licenses pass through to you, and any ongoing license or subscription fees are yours unless a written proposal says otherwise.

Some equipment photography originates with the manufacturer or distributor and is used to identify products we sell and support.

Request the branding kit

Do not pull our logo off this site. Screenshots and scraped artwork are the wrong files — wrong format, wrong colors, wrong proportions — and using them is not permission.

Ask instead, and we will send the kit. It contains:

• Logo files in the formats you actually need — vector for print and signage, raster for screen, on light and dark backgrounds
• Our color values, for print and for screen
• A short boilerplate description of who we are, so you do not have to write one
• The naming rules — full name, capital To, and what not to shorten it to
• What the kit permits, in writing, so you are not guessing

Who this is for: the organizations we sponsor and support — children’s and youth programs, service dog organizations, and veterans’ groups — who need our logo for an event banner, a sponsor page, a program, a shirt or a sign. Approved partners under Section 19(g) as well.

If you are putting our name on something for one of those, ask for the kit and tell us what it is going on. It is free, we answer within one business day, and we would rather send you the right file than have you rebuild our logo from a screenshot.

How not to use our mark

We have put the common mistakes on one sheet, using our actual logo, so there is no guessing about what “stretched” or “recolored” means. If you are unsure whether something is allowed, it is faster to ask than to reprint a banner.

Our copyright agent

We host material our clients give us — logos, menus, photography and similar. If you believe something we host infringes your copyright, the notice goes to the agent we have designated to receive it:

These details are also on file with the United States Copyright Office, and can be found in its public directory of designated agents.

Reporting infringement

Send your notice to the agent above, and include all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature, as a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right you say is infringed.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed — or, if there are several at one location, a representative list of them.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail for us to find it. A direct link is best.
4. Your contact details — address, telephone number, and an email address if you have one.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and — under penalty of perjury — that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the right you say is infringed.

If your notice is incomplete we will normally tell you what is missing rather than ignore it. On receiving a complete notice we will act promptly to remove the material or disable access to it, and we will tell whoever supplied it.

Consider fair use first. Commentary, criticism, news reporting, comparison and transformative use can all be lawful without permission. The law requires a copyright owner to consider whether a use is fair before sending a takedown notice. Please do.

Sending a notice that misrepresents material as infringing can carry liability for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, under Section 512(f). We read notices carefully, we consider fair use ourselves, and we do not remove things simply because somebody asked.

If your material was removed

If we removed something you supplied and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, write to the same address and include:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before removal.
3. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
4. Your name, address and telephone number, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the district where your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, any district in which we may be found — and a statement that you will accept service of process from the party who sent the original notice, or from that party’s agent.

We will pass a valid counter-notification to the party who sent the original notice, and tell them the material may go back up in ten business days. Unless they tell us they have filed a court action to stop it, we may restore the material between ten and fourteen business days after receiving your counter-notification.

Repeat infringement

We end, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts and services of clients who repeatedly infringe the copyrights of others. We apply judgment rather than a fixed count — but repeated, substantiated notices against the same client will end the relationship.

We may also remove material, suspend a service, or decline to continue work wherever we believe on reasonable grounds that carrying on would infringe somebody’s rights.

Contact

The Place To Shop Local, LLC
Contact
ATTN: Legal
ATTN: Office of Compliance
Mailing: 22424 S. Ellsworth Loop Rd, #2222, Queen Creek, AZ 85142.
Service of process: Northwest Registered Agent LLC, 4539 N. 22nd St, Ste N, Phoenix, AZ 85016-4396, as registered with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
copyright@theplacetoshoplocal.com

This page is a summary for convenience. Where it differs from our Terms of Use, the Terms control. Nothing here is legal advice.