{"page":{"id":633,"title":"Intellectual Property Policy","handle":"intellectual-property-policy","url":"https://jerzon.shop/intellectual-property-policy/","body_html":"<p class=\"policy-updated\">Last updated: <time datetime=\"2026-11-09\">November 9, 2026</time></p>\n<p>This Intellectual Property Policy covers two things. First, what belongs to Jerzon on jerzon.shop and how you may use it. Second, how we respect other people&#8217;s names, marks and designs, especially on custom team jerseys where you choose the text. If you believe something on our site uses your rights without permission, this page tells you how to reach us. For copyright notices in particular, also see our <a href=\"/dmca/\">DMCA</a> page.</p>\n<section class=\"policy-summary\">\n<h2>Fair play at a glance</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Every jersey design in our catalogue is original to Jerzon.</li>\n<li>Custom jerseys carry your own name, nickname and number. We cannot print team names, logos or trademarks.</li>\n<li>You may share links to our pages, but not copy our photos, designs or text.</li>\n<li>Rights owners can report a concern to <a href=\"mailto:support@jerzon.shop\">support@jerzon.shop</a> with the subject &#8220;IP concern&#8221;. We reply within 24 hours on business days.</li>\n<li>If a concern is valid, we remove or change the content and tell you what we did.</li>\n</ul>\n</section>\n<h2>What belongs to Jerzon</h2>\n<p>The Jerzon name and wordmark, the product designs, product photographs, the live name and number preview, page text, size and fit guidance, page layout and site code are owned by Jerzon or used with the permission of their owner. They are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.</p>\n<h3>Our designs</h3>\n<p>The looks in our catalogue were drawn for Jerzon: the shoulder yoke and hem stripes of the Power Play Stripe Hockey Jersey, the Lace-Up Collar Hockey Jersey, the shoulder stripes of the flag football jersey, the Digital Camo Football Jersey, the Pinstripe Full-Button Baseball Jersey, the sash and hoops on our soccer jerseys, and the stripe patterns on our hockey and soccer socks. They are generic sports looks put together our own way, not copies of any club&#8217;s kit.</p>\n<h3>Our words and photos</h3>\n<p>Product descriptions, guides such as the <a href=\"/size-guide/\">Size Guide</a>, and the policy pages you are reading were written for this store. Product photos and previews were made for this store. Please do not lift them for another listing.</p>\n<h2>What you are welcome to do</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Browse, print or save pages for your own personal, non-commercial use, for example to share sizing notes with your roster.</li>\n<li>Share links to products and collections, such as <a href=\"/collections/custom-name-number/\">Custom Name &amp; Number</a>, in a team chat, email or social post.</li>\n<li>Post photos of your team wearing jerseys you bought from us. Those photos are yours.</li>\n<li>Quote a short extract from a page with a link back to the original.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>What is off limits</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Copying, reselling or republishing our product photos, designs or descriptions, including on marketplaces or another store.</li>\n<li>Using the Jerzon name, or anything confusingly similar, in a way that suggests we made, sponsor or approve your product.</li>\n<li>Scraping or bulk-downloading the site with automated tools, other than normal search engine indexing.</li>\n<li>Producing jerseys or other goods from our designs without our written permission.</li>\n<li>Reselling Jerzon products while presenting them as made by someone else.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Names, numbers and marks on custom jerseys</h2>\n<p>The four custom jerseys let you type a Name on back (up to 12 characters, printed in capitals), a Number (0-99) and a Lettering colour. Those fields are for you and your teammates. They are not a way to reproduce someone else&#8217;s brand.</p>\n<h3>What we print</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Your own surname, first name or nickname.</li>\n<li>A teammate&#8217;s name, when they have agreed to it.</li>\n<li>Any number from 0 to 99, including 00.</li>\n<li>Our original jersey designs in the colourways listed on each product page.</li>\n</ul>\n<h3>What we cannot print</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pro team names, league names or club names, and city-plus-nickname team names.</li>\n<li>Logos, crests, mascots, badges or any trademark.</li>\n<li>A famous athlete&#8217;s name combined with their number to imitate a pro jersey.</li>\n<li>Words or symbols taken from another company&#8217;s products.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Say a rec-league captain asks for a pro team&#8217;s logo on the chest and a star player&#8217;s name on the back. We have to say no. What we can do is print each player&#8217;s own name and number on one of our designs, in a colourway close to the team&#8217;s colours, and that usually gets the team exactly the look it wants. If an order arrives with text we cannot print, we email you to change it or cancel that cart line with a full refund.</p>\n<h3>Your team&#8217;s own name or mark</h3>\n<p>The personalisation fields cover names on back and numbers only, so there is no field for a team name or crest. Please do not try to fit one into the Name on back field. If your team has its own original name or badge and you want to know your options, email us and we will tell you honestly what the store can and cannot do.</p>\n<table class=\"policy-table\">\n<caption>Quick check before you type</caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">You want to print</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Can we print it?</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Why</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Your own surname and number 17</td>\n<td>Yes</td>\n<td>Your own name and number</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A teammate&#8217;s nickname, with their agreement</td>\n<td>Yes</td>\n<td>Personal, not a brand</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Number 00 or 99</td>\n<td>Yes</td>\n<td>Any number from 0 to 99 is accepted</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A pro team&#8217;s name or logo</td>\n<td>No</td>\n<td>Belongs to that team</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A star player&#8217;s name and number to copy their jersey</td>\n<td>No</td>\n<td>Uses a real person&#8217;s identity and a club&#8217;s look</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A league&#8217;s emblem</td>\n<td>No</td>\n<td>Trademark</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>How we respect other people&#8217;s rights</h2>\n<p>We do not knowingly sell items that infringe anyone&#8217;s trademark, copyright, design right or right of publicity. Every design we sell is original to Jerzon, and we check personalisation text against the rules above. Names of other businesses that might appear on the site, for example a payment provider at checkout, belong to their owners, and their appearance does not mean they endorse Jerzon. If we learn that a product, image or order text may infringe someone&#8217;s rights, we look into it and take it down when that is the right call.</p>\n<h2>Reporting a trademark, design or publicity concern</h2>\n<p>Email <a href=\"mailto:support@jerzon.shop\">support@jerzon.shop</a> with the subject line &#8220;IP concern&#8221; and include:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Your name, contact details and your relationship to the rights owner.</li>\n<li>The right you believe is affected, such as a trademark registration number, a description of the design, or the person whose name is involved.</li>\n<li>The URL of each product, image or page concerned.</li>\n<li>A short explanation of why you believe it infringes.</li>\n<li>A statement that the information in your report is accurate and that you are the rights owner or authorised to act for them.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>For a copyright claim, such as a photo or text you believe we copied, please follow the notice steps on our <a href=\"/dmca/\">DMCA</a> page so that all the details the law asks for are included.</p>\n<h2>What happens after you report</h2>\n<table class=\"policy-table\">\n<caption>Steps after we receive an IP concern</caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Step</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">What we do</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1. Acknowledge</td>\n<td>We confirm we received your report, within 24 hours on business days</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2. Review</td>\n<td>We look at the page, product or order text you identified and compare it with the right you describe</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3. Ask, if needed</td>\n<td>If something is unclear, we ask before deciding</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4. Act</td>\n<td>If the concern is valid, we remove or change the content</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5. Report back</td>\n<td>We tell you the outcome by email</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>If a report is unclear or incomplete, the review takes longer, so the five details above save everyone time.</p>\n<h2>Common situations from the bench</h2>\n<h3>A team wants to match its pro idols</h3>\n<p>A flag football group loves a certain pro club and wants its colours, its wordmark and its players&#8217; names. Colours on their own are not anyone&#8217;s property, so picking the Navy or Red colourway of the Shoulder Stripe Flag Football Jersey is fine. The wordmark and the players&#8217; names are not ours to print, so each player puts their own name and number on the back instead. The result is a team that looks like a team, without borrowing anyone else&#8217;s identity.</p>\n<h3>A nickname that sounds like a brand</h3>\n<p>Nicknames are part of rec-league life, and most are fine. If a nickname is spelled exactly like a well-known product or company name, we may ask you to pick something else, because printing it could look like that company&#8217;s merchandise. We would rather send one short email than print something that causes trouble for you or for us.</p>\n<h3>Someone copied our photos</h3>\n<p>If you spot our product photos or descriptions on another site or marketplace, we would like to hear about it. Send the link to <a href=\"mailto:support@jerzon.shop\">support@jerzon.shop</a>. You do not need to fill in a formal notice for a tip like this; a link and a line of explanation are enough.</p>\n<h3>You think one of our designs looks like yours</h3>\n<p>Classic sports looks such as hoops, pinstripes and shoulder stripes have been around for generations, so two designs can share a general idea without one copying the other. If you believe a specific Jerzon design copies your original work, tell us which product and which of your designs it resembles, ideally with images and dates, and we will look at it carefully and answer you honestly.</p>\n<h3>A player asks us to remove their name</h3>\n<p>Names on back are personal information as well as print text. If a player asks us not to use their name on a future order, or to remove it from an order that has not yet gone into production, email us within the 24-hour change window and we will update the order. Our <a href=\"/privacy-policy/\">Privacy Policy</a> explains how we handle names and other order details.</p>\n<h3>Reselling jerseys you bought</h3>\n<p>Once you own a jersey, you can give it away or sell it second-hand, for example passing last season&#8217;s Practice Hockey Jersey to a new teammate. What you cannot do is present it as another brand&#8217;s product, or use our photos and descriptions to sell copies made elsewhere. Browse the full range in our <a href=\"/shop/\">shop</a> to see what is ours.</p>\n<h2>If you disagree with a removal</h2>\n<p>If we change or remove content after an IP concern and you believe we made a mistake, reply to our email with your explanation and any evidence, such as proof that the design is yours or that you have permission to use a name. We will look again and tell you our answer. For copyright removals, the counter-notice process on our <a href=\"/dmca/\">DMCA</a> page applies.</p>\n<h2>Ideas and feedback you send</h2>\n<p>Customers sometimes email suggestions, like a new colourway or a sock length. We are grateful for them. If you send an idea, we may use it to improve the store without owing you payment, and we will never publish your name or photos without asking first.</p>\n<h2>Asking permission or asking a question</h2>\n<p>To ask for permission to use our content, or for any question about this policy, email <a href=\"mailto:support@jerzon.shop\">support@jerzon.shop</a>. Support is by email only. Our postal address is Jerzon, 1735 East Carson Street Ste 226, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, US. See also our <a href=\"/terms-of-service/\">Terms of Service</a>, <a href=\"/privacy-policy/\">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href=\"/contact-us/\">Contact Us</a>.</p>\n","visible_characters":10118,"meta_description":"What belongs to Jerzon, what you may share, why we print only your own name and number, never team logos or trademarks, and how to report an IP concern.","parent":null,"published_at":"2026-11-09T02:10:08+00:00","updated_at":"2026-11-09T02:10:08+00:00"}}