Trademarks

Expanso deeply appreciates the trust that people put in our products, services, and experiences. These Trademark Guidelines outline the ways you can help us protect Expanso's brand assets, including logos, names, icons, and the trust that they represent. We have designed these guidelines to clarify proper usage of our brand assets. Expanso maintains the right to act as required to protect them and, as a result, protect its customers and the public.

Expanso's brand assets such as the logos, icons, trade dress, and the names of Expanso software, products, and services, and any other brand features and elements, whether they are registered or not, are proprietary assets owned exclusively by Expanso. These Trademark Guidelines explain how our brand assets can be used under specific circumstances. Unless you have an express license from Expanso, these Trademark Guidelines will exclusively govern your use of our brand assets. Several uses, including use of our logos, app and product icons, and other designs, are not covered by these Trademark Guidelines and will require a license.

While our software is available under a free and open source software license, the copyright license does not include any right, express or implied, to use our trademarks. These guidelines are where we describe how you may use our trademarks.

We want to encourage and facilitate the use of our software by the community, but do so in a way that still ensures that the trademarks are meaningful as a source and quality indicator for the software and the associated goods and services.

This Policy encompasses the following word trademarks and service marks (the "Marks"):

Expanso™ - "company," "products," "services," "solution"

PLEASE ASK FOR PERMISSION.

Whenever you use our brand assets, you must always do so in a way that does not mislead anyone, either directly or by omission, about exactly what they are getting and from whom. The law reflects this requirement in two major ways: it prohibits creating a "likelihood of confusion" but allows for "nominative use."

This fundamental requirement, that it is always clear to people what they are getting and from whom, is reflected throughout this Policy.

In general, you may do the following with the Marks:

You can distribute unaltered source code or binaries we compiled and label them with the Marks. You can modify, build and test the software without having to remove any Marks or other brand assets when the use is for your internal developmental, testing, and integration purposes.

If your product, service, or solution works with, is compatible with, or integrates with an Expanso product, service, or solution, you can describe that compatibility or integration. You should use your own trademark first, followed by a preposition that describes its relationship to our products or services, such as "compatible with Expanso" or "add-in for Expanso."

You can use the Marks in text to refer to Expanso and its products and services. When using the trademarks in text, please follow the trademark with the category names that are listed above for them, for example, "Expanso™ services."

You should accompany the first or most visible mention of a Mark with the trademark symbol shown above.

Wherever you provide similar information for your own trademarks, please include this trademark legend for our trademarks: "Expanso is a trademark of Expanso Inc."

Without a written license, don't do the following:

Don't use or register, as the name of your business, product, service, app, domain name, social media account, other offering, or business indicator, either the Marks, any trademarks that include the Marks as a component, or any trademarks that closely resemble the Marks, such as misspellings or foreign language equivalents.

Don't use Expanso's visual elements, such as our logos, icons, mascots or designs, without a license agreement.

Don't imply an affiliation, endorsement, sponsorship, or approval with or by Expanso without a license agreement.

Don't modify, animate, or manipulate the Marks. This includes merging them with other words, misspellings, or embedding them within slogans.

For questions about trademark usage not covered by this policy, please contact us at [email protected].