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Branding Policy

Last Updated: 26 Jun 2026Version 1

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 without prior approval. Narrow and specific exceptions are detailed below. Any other uses must obtain prior approval from White Collar Professional.

Our trademarks and other brand features are protected by law. For permission requests, please contact [email protected].


General Prohibitions :

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

  1. Use our trademarks (e.g., White Collar Professional) in the name of your business, group, event, product, service, app, domain name, social media account, or other offering.
  2. Use our trademarks more prominently than your own product or service name.
  3. Use our trademarks on promotional materials that you are distributing or selling.
  4. Modify our trademarks, combine them with any other symbols, words, images, designs, or incorporate them into a slogan.
  5. 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 must include appropriate attribution 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:

  1. White Collar Professional® Professional Networking Services
  2. White Collar Professional™ Community Services

The White Collar Professional name should always be accompanied by either the ® or ™ symbol.


White Collar Professional Logos :
  1. 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 to promote you or your organization's presence on the platform.
  2. For Use By Third-Party Developers: As a third-party developer of White Collar Professional, you must request permission to use our logos. 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 APIs. 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.
  3. 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 your 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.
  4. 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.

For specific logo requests, please contact [email protected].


Screenshots and Media :

You may use a standard White Collar Professional screenshot (an image of our homepage, 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 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:

  1. The screenshot includes only your personally identifiable information;
  2. All images and/or personal information of individual users (including member identification numbers) is fully obfuscated and such user(s) cannot be identified; or
  3. 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 the 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. If you are interested in using the name or logos in a publication, please contact [email protected]. For use of screenshots in a book or other printed materials, see "Screenshots and Media" above.


Film And TV :

If you would like to use White Collar Professional's logos in a television, film, or video production, please contact [email protected].


Blogs :

White Collar Professional does not allow the use of the name in the title of blogs or otherwise in the blog except as a descriptive reference to White Collar Professional or its services. We do not allow use of our logos in blogs except as permitted for members 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 our marks on manufactured items, please contact [email protected].


Use Requirements And Terms :

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

  1. Logo Display: The White Collar Professional logo must stand alone. You must maintain a standard area of "clear space" between the logo and other graphic or textual elements to preserve its integrity and clarity.
  2. Logo Size: Do not enlarge beyond native/maximum size to prevent degradation. Logos may be provided in different sizes/resolutions in transparent PNG format.
  3. No Modification: Use marks exactly as provided with no modifications. Do not remove, distort, change colors, abbreviate, pluralize, or create acronyms out of the marks.
  4. No Confusingly Similar Marks: Don't use the marks in a manner that might create potential confusion as to the owner or imply that White Collar Professional is the source of your products or services.
  5. No Incorporation: Do not incorporate the White Collar Professional marks into your own branding, domain names, product names, service names, trademarks, logos, company names, website title, publication title, application icon, favicon, or trade dress. Do not incorporate or use the "Collar & Tie" logo as part of a word.
  6. No Generic Use: Don't use the marks in a way that suggests a common, descriptive, or generic meaning.
  7. No Plural Or Possessive Use: Never use the marks in the plural or possessive form.
  8. Domain Names: Don't register the marks as domain names or as any part of a domain name.
  9. Trade Dress: Don't copy or imitate White Collar Professional's website design, typefaces, distinctive color, graphics designs, or imagery.
  10. Endorsement: Do not display the White Collar Professional marks in any manner that might imply a relationship or affiliation with, sponsorship, or unauthorized 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.
  11. Prominence: Do not display the White Collar Professional marks as the primary or most prominent feature on your web page or in any other materials.
  12. Disparagement: Do not use the White Collar Professional marks in a manner that would disparage White Collar Professional Corporation or its products or services.
  13. Violation Of Law: Don't display the White Collar Professional marks on any website that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, involves illegal sales, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, or otherwise violates any law or regulation.
  14. 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.
  15. Attribution: The White Collar Professional marks must be accompanied by the appropriate ® or ™ symbol.


Reporting Infringement :

If you suspect misuse or infringement of our brand features, please report it immediately to [email protected].


Termination & Reservation Of Rights :

We reserve all rights to terminate permission to use our 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 the request. 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 our rights.


Disclaimer :

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 these guidelines, you must seek prior written permission by contacting [email protected].

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