OWNERSHIP & COPYRIGHT

All preparation materials, sketches, visuals, including the electronic files used to create the project remain the property of Päivi Luoma. The final artwork/digital files will become your property ONLY upon final payment of the project. 

If final payment is NOT received as agreed, all designs and concepts will remain the property of Päivi Luoma until payment is received.

If there are issues with final payment, I reserve the right to reuse or amend any of these ideas for other clients, or to be used freely as concepts in my portfolio. 

Should the client attempt to use/modify/alter/replicate or steal any of my ideas without making agreed final payment, I will take immediate legal counsel.

Päivi Luoma reserves the right to show any artwork, ideas, sketches created for this project in a portfolio as examples of client work. This is typically, but not limited to the completion of the project. If you have any specific ‘secrecy/stealth mode’ or NDA requirements, please mention this before agreeing to the proposal.

Final payment ensures that ONLY the agreed logo design becomes your property. Any previous ideas/concepts remain mine, unless any prior agreement has been made.

TRADEMARK & COPYRIGHT

Due to the lengthy and often costly procedures required to initiate any form of Trademark, Copyright and legal name search, I am unable provide any practical help with this. 

If you require the logo to be registered as a trademark, then you must seek your own legal advice.

BRAND NAMING

You take full responsibility for ensuring that your company/product/name is legally free/available before work is started. Should any legal issue arise with the naming after the project has been completed, no refunds are possible, neither am I legally responsible for any problems thus arising.

Please ensure the name you are using is free and legally safe to use before committing to a logo project. Project name changes during a project are exceptionally costly, challenging to implement, and cause significant delays. 

If a change of name is required mid-way during a project, and significant logo exploration work has already been presented, then I will have no choice but to recalculate the total cost of the project, to allow for the reworking involved. Please ensure that the name you are using has been subject to appropriate checks, is not in use by someone else, and/or infringes on any other registered trademark, business name etc.

FONTS & TYPEFACES

Licensing of any used fonts or typefaces

Any fonts/typefaces that are purchased for the final logo, and/or supporting brand identity assets, are subject to commercial licensing laws. A font/typeface licence gives only the owner full rights to use the font/typeface as necessary.

In my initial presentation of concepts, I will provide information of the typefaces used and where they can be acquired. It is the responsibility of the client to acquire any necessary font licenses (paid or unpaid), so please bear this in mind when approving designs.

It is against the law for me to provide any client a ‘copy’ of any font/typeface that I own, and have personally purchased. 

If you would like to use a copy of a font/typeface that I have purchased, to be used commercially, you must purchase the respective font/typeface licence, and register it in your name. 

Typically, a font used in a logo will not need to be licensed, as the graphics are converted to vector artwork and can no longer be edited. However, should you require a font to use in your own artwork for editing purposes, such as on a website or a print presentation, then you will need your own license through a desktop license purchase.

These can typically be found at:
Fontspring
MyFonts or Fonts.com
Type Network

RESTRICTIONS

Restrictions to the signing of this agreement 

These Terms of Service do not give you the rights or permission to use/modify/alter/replicate or borrow any of the previous ideas/concepts/sketches that I present. All original preparation materials, sketches, visuals and unused ideas shown and considered will remain the property of Päivi Luoma. You are not allowed to change or reproduce my designs for your own business or personal projects.

I am free to use these unused and previous ideas for future conceptual and client work. Where a previously unused idea/design retains a similar look and style to the finished logo, I shall repurpose and style so that the end design is sufficiently different as to not cause conflict.

Unless otherwise agreed and arranged, I reserve the right to showcase the finished logo and associated designs in my portfolio and in any number of online galleries/portfolio/showcases/awards as well as in printed literature including books and magazines, now and in the future. Associated designs and artwork can include commercial print design/business card/stationery design/signage/desktop icons/mobile phone and other portable device application icons and imagery. 

ANY supporting artwork and designs required by this project can be used as indicated by myself for personal and professional reasons.

You are free to adapt the finished logo design as you see fit, but you do so at your own risk.