Branding Policy

Effective Date: 4th November, 2023
Our trademarks and other brand features are protected by law.  You’ll need our permission in order to use them.  For permission requests, please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com

White Collar Professional ( a unit of TAARAN INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED ) generally does not permit its members, third party developers, partners and the media (“you”) to use its name, trademarks, logos, web pages, screenshots and other brand features.  Narrow and specific exceptions are detailed below.  Any other uses must obtain prior approval from White Collar Professional.

We never approve the following types of requests because they violate our Terms of Service.  So please don’t ask permission to:

•  Use our trademarks such as White Collar Professional in the name of your business, group, event, product, service, app, domain name, social media account, or other offering,
•  Use our trademarks more prominently than your product or service name,
•  Use our trademarks on promotional materials that you are distributing or selling,
•  Modify our trademarks or combine them with any other symbols, words, images, designs, or incorporate them into a slogan, or
•  Use our trademarks in a way that implies affiliation with or endorsement by White Collar Professional of your products or services.

If you have a partner agreement with White Collar Professional, the agreement requires you to seek permission in order to use our trademarks or brand features.

Note that even after you have received specific permission to use our trademarks or brand features, you agree to adhere to these Policies and specifically to the Use Requirements and Terms below.

Our Trademarks

White Collar Professional, the White Collar Professional logo, the Collar & Tie logo, WCP News Bulletin and WCP-Mail are registered trademarks or trademarks of White Collar Professional and its affiliates in INDIA and/or other countries.

You should include this attribution, as applicable, with your other trademark and copyright notices.

Use of the “White Collar Professional” Name in Text

When referring to our services, the White Collar Professional name should be written as one word and used as an adjective followed by a description of our services in a form similar to the following examples:
  • White Collar Professional® professional networking services
  • White Collar Professional™ Community services
The White Collar Professional name should always be accompanied by either the ® or ™ symbol. See Attribution under the Use Requirements and Terms, for further information.

White Collar Professional Logos

Logo for Use by White Collar Professional Members

The only use of White Collar Professional brand features that is permitted without a separate agreement is that if you are a White Collar Professional member, you may use the “Collar with a Tie” Logo to designate a link to your personal profile or to a Group or Company page or to promote you or your organization’s presence on White Collar Professional.
Logos For Use By Third Party Developers

As a Third-Party Developer of White Collar Professional, you must request permission to use our logos. Please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com

Once approved, you may use our logos on your website and in connection with your application which offers access to the White Collar Professional website and  API’s. Your use of the logos is subject to: (i) the applicable API terms of use or such other agreement between you and White Collar Professional; (ii) your compliance with the Platform Guidelines, as well as these Guidelines.

Logos for Use by Partners

If you have a current agreement with White Collar Professional, other than a license to its APIs, you must request permission to use our logos pursuant to the terms of the agreement. Please contact us at the email address provided in your agreement.

Once approved, you may use our logos in accordance with the terms of your agreement with White Collar Professional and these Guidelines.

Logos For Use By the Media

Logos may not be altered, combined with other marks, or used in a misleading manner. Your use of these logos is subject to your compliance with these Guidelines.

Specific Logo Requests

If you are a member of the media and have any specific requirements, please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com

Screenshots

You may use a standard White Collar Professional screenshot (an image of our homepage or company page or product pages) in either print (book, magazine, journal, newspaper) or digital (web page, DVD, CD) formats for an instructive, educational or illustrative purpose. You may not superimpose graphics, photos, or ad copy on the screenshot or otherwise change the look of the screen-captured image.

You may also not use a screenshot of White Collar Professional’s personal profile pages or groups pages, nor may you use a screenshot which discloses an image or personal information about individual White Collar Professional users unless:
  • the screenshot includes only your personally identifiable information;
  • all images and/or personal information of individual White Collar Professional users (including member identification numbers) is obfuscated and such user(s) cannot be identified; or
  • you have obtained written permission from all identified users to have their personally identifiable information displayed on the screenshot and to use such screenshot in the manner you intend. The treatment of personal information of White Collar Professional users is covered by White Collar Professional Privacy Policy.

Books or Printed Materials

White Collar Professional does not allow the use of its logos or the name “White Collar Professional” in the title or otherwise on the cover of books or other publications without prior written permission of White Collar Professional. If you are interested in using the White Collar Professional name or logos in a publication, please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com
For use of screenshots in a book or other printed materials, see “Screenshots” above.

Film and TV

If you would like to use White Collar Professional’s logos in a television or film or video production, please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com

Blogs

White Collar Professional does not allow the use of the name White Collar Professional in the title of blogs or otherwise in the blog except as a descriptive reference to White Collar Professional or its services. White Collar Professional does not allow use of its logos in blogs except as permitted for White Collar Professional members as permitted in these Guidelines.

Manufactured Items

Generally, White Collar Professional does not permit the use of its Marks on manufactured products (T-shirts, packaging, other memorabilia). If you wish to use White Collar Professional’s Marks on manufactured items, please contact contact@whitecollarrpofessional.com

Use Requirements and Terms

All permitted uses of the White Collar Professional Marks must conform to the following guidelines:

Logo Display: The White Collar Professional logo must stand alone. You must maintain a minimum amount of space between the White Collar Professional logo and other graphic or textual elements. To preserve the integrity and clarity of the logo, a standard area of “clear space” should be maintained around the logo in all uses.

Logo Size: The White Collar Professional logos may be provided in different sizes/resolutions in transparent PNG format. To ensure the logo resolution and quality are not degraded, these logos may not be enlarged beyond their native/maximum size.

No Modification: The White Collar Professional Marks must be used as provided by White Collar Professional with no modifications. Don’t remove, distort or alter any element of the Marks, including changing any colors. Do not shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of the Marks.

No Confusingly Similar Marks: Don’t use the Marks in a manner that might create potential confusion as to the owner of the White Collar Professional Marks or imply that White Collar Professional is the source of your products or services.

No Incorporation: Don’t incorporate the White Collar Professional Marks into your own product name, service names, trademarks, logos, company names, domain names, website title, publication title, application icon, favicon, or the like. Don’t incorporate or use the “Collar & Tie” logo as part of a word.

No Generic Use: Don’t use the White Collar Professional Marks in a way that suggests a common, descriptive, or generic meaning.

No Plural or Possessive Use: Never use the White Collar Professional Marks in the plural or possessive form.

Domain Names: Don’t register the White Collar Professional Marks as domain names or as any part of a domain name.

Trade Dress: Don’t copy or imitate White Collar Professional’s website design, typefaces, distinctive color, graphics designs or imagery.

Endorsement: Don’t display the White Collar Professional Marks in any manner that might imply a relationship or affiliation with, sponsorship, or endorsement by White Collar Professional, or that can be reasonably interpreted to suggest that any content has been authorized by or represents the views or opinions of White Collar Professional or White Collar Professional personnel.

Prominence: Don’t display the White Collar Professional Marks as the primary or most prominent feature on your web page or in any other materials.

Disparagement: Do not use the White Collar Professional Marks in a manner that would disparage White Collar Professional Corporation or its products or services.

Violation of Law: Don’t display the White Collar Professional Marks on any website that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, or otherwise violates any law or regulation.

Objectionable Use: Don’t display the White Collar Professional Marks in a manner that is in White Collar Professional’s sole opinion misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to White Collar Professional.
Attribution: The White Collar Professional Marks must be accompanied by the appropriate ® or ™ symbol.

Termination: White Collar Professional may ask you to stop using the Marks at any time. You agree to stop using the Marks within a reasonable period of White Collar Professional’s request, but in no situation, more than seven (7) days after White Collar Professional’s request.

Reservation of Rights: White Collar Professional is the owner of all rights in the Marks and reserves all rights save the limited license granted here. Your use of the Marks pursuant to this license shall not be construed as limiting any of White Collar Professional’s rights in the Marks.

WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONAL DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES THAT MAY BE EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BY LAW REGARDING THE WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONAL MARKS (TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW), INCLUDING WARRANTIES AGAINST INFRINGEMENT.

Additional Information

White Collar Professional requires that you conform to these Guidelines in your use of any Brand Features.  We may modify these Guidelines at any time and your continued use of the Brand Features will constitute your consent to such modifications. White Collar Professional has complete discretion in determining if your use violates any of the Guidelines.
If you would like to make use of the Brand Features in a manner not within the following Guidelines, you must seek prior written permission by contacting contact@Whitecollarprofessional.com