Banzai International, Inc. (“Banzai”) considers its trademarks and the goodwill represented by such trademarks to be extremely valuable assets. It is therefore important that you follow these guidelines when using any of the Banzai Trademarks identified in these Guidelines. Banzai will take all appropriate legal and equitable steps necessary or advisable to preserve the strength and retain the exclusive rights to use its trademarks. For the purposes of these guidelines, the “Banzai Trademarks” include all registered and unregistered trademarks and service marks (such as words, names, symbols, devices, slogans or any combination thereof) owned by Banzai.
General Guidelines
Banzai is the exclusive owner of the Banzai Trademarks and reserves all rights not expressly granted herein or pursuant to a separate license agreement. Accordingly, any goodwill derived from using a Banzai Trademark inures solely to Banzai's benefit. By using a Banzai Trademark, in whole or in part, you are acknowledging that Banzai is the sole owner of the trademark and promising that you will not interfere with Banzai's rights in the trademark, including challenging Banzai's use of, registration of, or application to register such trademark, alone or in combination with other words, anywhere in the world, and that you will not harm, misuse, or bring into disrepute any Banzai trademark.
To the extent that Banzai has entered into a business relationship with you, Banzai may have provided you with specific requirements for how the Banzai Trademarks are to be used in terms of size, typeface, colors, other graphic characteristics of the trademarks, or other limitations and you must abide by those requirements when using the Banzai Trademarks.
Permitted Use of Banzai Trademarks
- You may use the Banzai Trademarks to accurately describe how your products or services relate to Banzai's products and services, so long as you observe these guidelines and it is clear that your products and services are not offered, sponsored, associated with or endorsed by Banzai. See Compatibility below.
- You may use taglines that refer to Banzai's Trademarks; provided that such taglines always appear in smaller and less prominent type than your company's own brand name and use a different typeface, colors or other graphic characteristics.
- You must make the Banzai Trademarks distinguishable from the surrounding text in some manner, such as capitalizing the trademark, enclosing it in quotes, and/or using a different typeface or font for the trademark.
- You may use the Banzai Trademarks only in the form provided by Banzai and may not use them in plural or modified forms.
- You must always use the appropriate trademark symbol, such as ™, ℠ or ® as specified by Banzai and include written text in a footnote to indicate the trademark is owned by Banzai and used by you with permission. Use the following format:
- "Banzai" and the "Banzai logo" are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Banzai International, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries.
- You must always use a Banzai Trademark as an adjective followed by the generic category name of the product or service it modifies, such as Banzai® or Banzai® software. Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Banzai" functions not only as a trademark and service mark identifying its goods and services, but also as a trade name or company name referring to Banzai International, Inc. Trade names are nouns and, therefore, should not be followed by a generic descriptor and may be used in the possessive form. When used as a trade name, "Banzai" should not be followed by a trademark symbol. Within documents, the first reference to the trade or company name should be "Banzai International, Inc." Thereafter, "Banzai" can be used for subsequent references
Prohibited Use of Banzai Trademarks
- You may not incorporate a Banzai Trademark into your company's name, publication title, conference title, website name, product or service name or domain name without Banzai's prior written consent which may require a license agreement in Banzai's sole discretion.
- You may not use a Banzai Trademark as a noun or verb, only as an adjective describing the generic category name of the product or service of which it represents.
- You may not use misspellings, abbreviations, phonetic equivalents, or trademarks that rhyme with or sound like, or any marks that are confusingly similar to the Banzai Trademarks. You may not use abbreviations or foreign language translations of the Banzai Trademarks.
- You may not use company names, product names, url names or domain names that combine a Banzai Trademark with other words, terms or trademarks so as to create a unitary mark. For example, you should not use www.MYBanzai.com as your domain name or name your product "BanzaiLINK."
- You may not use a Banzai logo or design in connection with your products or services except under a license agreement with Banzai.
- You may not incorporate any Banzai logo or design in your own company or product logos.
- You may not display any Banzai logo or design on your website or other promotional materials except under a license agreement with Banzai.
- You may not use Banzai Trademarks in a disparaging, false or misleading way.
- You may not use Banzai Trademarks on or in connection with any defamatory, scandalous, pornographic, or other objectionable materials of any sort.
- You may not use typefaces for your company name, product name or service name that look like those of a Banzai Trademark and create the potential impression of an association, affiliation or sponsorship between Banzai and your company. You may not use logos or designs that incorporate design elements of or look similar to those of Banzai.
- You may not adopt Banzai's distinctive trade dress elements in your company website, packaging, marketing or other materials.
- You may not manufacture, sell or give-away merchandise items, such as T-shirts, key chains, and mugs, bearing any Banzai Trademark, including symbols, logos, or icons, except under a license agreement with Banzai.
Compatibility
With the exception of the Banzai logos (the use of which requires a license agreement with Banzai), you generally may use the Banzai Trademarks to refer to Banzai's products or services in advertising, promotional, and sales materials, assuming that you have the necessary authority to sell or promote Banzai's products or services, e.g. authorized reseller, licensee, etc.
You may indicate the relationship of your products and services to Banzai's products or services by using an accurate referential phrase in connection with your product or service, for example, "for use with Banzai® software" or "compatible with Banzai® software" provided that: (a) the Banzai Trademark appears less prominent than the product or service name; (b) the Banzai Trademark is not a part of or incorporated in your product or service name; and (c) the referential phrase is accurate and complies with the requirements of these guidelines and as set forth in any license agreement with Banzai.
Misuse of Banzai Trademarks by Others
If you learn of any uses of any trademarks that are confusingly similar to the Banzai Trademarks, please notify Banzai by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. Similarly, if you become aware of any use of a Banzai Trademark that violates any of the rules described above, including failure to identify Banzai Trademarks as belonging to Banzai, please notify us at [email protected]. If possible, please provide a copy of the article or other medium in which the trademark violation appeared.
Changes to Trademark Usage Guidelines
Banzai may add to, change, update or modify these guidelines or the Banzai Trademarks by posting such addition, change, update or modification on this website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the website.