American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Trademark and Brand Policy

The following are general guidelines for the proper use of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation trademarks, service marks, wordmarks, and trade names (collectively, '€œtrademarks'€). American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has established strong goodwill and valuable rights through proper and continuous use of its trademarks. By adhering to these guidelines, you help us protect our valuable trademark rights and strengthen the integrity of our brands. Any use of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s trademarks that is inconsistent with these guidelines may violate American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s trademark rights.

The following is a list of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation's trademarks and service marks. The absence of a product or service name or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation's trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name or logo.

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation™(stylized logo(s)

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation ACE and Bones™ (stylized logo(s)

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation™

American Clandestine Equipment™(stylized logo(s)

American-Clandestine-Equipment.com™

A.C.E.™(stylized logo(s)

ACE™(stylized logo(s)

SMG9-SC™

SMG9-SB™

SMG9-LB™

SMG45™

SMG45-S™

SMG Series™

Threaded Lug Mount™

Scorpion Mount™

5.5LB Trigger Spring™(stylized logo(s)

General Fair Use Guidelines

You may make fair use of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation trademarks to: Make factual statements about American Clandestine Equipment Corporation, our products, or truthfully communicate your interest in American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s products.

Also, you do NOT need permission to use our trademarks when making factual statements about the fact that you use authentic American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products. When you do, please follow the proper form and guidelines outlined in this policy.

Please note that to use any American Clandestine Equipment Corporation trademarks for commercial use, or to use American Clandestine Equipment Corporation logo, stylizations, or copyrighted materials for any purpose, you must first obtain written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

1. Only use the wordmark (text version) American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s trademarks.

You should never use American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s logos or stylizations of trademarks without the express written consent of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

2. Write our name and trademarks properly American Clandestine Equipment Corporation or American-Clandestine-Equipment.com.

The first letter of each word in American Clandestine Equipment Corporation is typically capitalized. Hyphens are placed between words when referring to our website domain name(s) or web pages.

Correct use: American Clandestine Equipment Corporation
Correct use: American-Clandestine-Equipment.com

3. Use our marks only as adjectives.

The trademark American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has no meaning in any language other than the brand name of this company. Do not use American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in the place of the trademark name of one of our products and do not use it as a description of a product or a products function. The American Clandestine Equipment Corporation trademark must never be used as a common verb, as a noun, or as a generic term. The trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the brand and should never be used in abbreviated or appended form.

A trademark is an adjective that modifies a noun. In other words, a trademark identifies a brand, not a product or service. It should always be used in connection with a generic product name, and never as a possessive or plural.

4. Use appropriate markings along with American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s marks.

When using American Clandestine Equipment Corporation's marks in publications that will be distributed only in the United States, include the appropriate ™, ℠, ® symbol on first use. For publications that will be distributed outside the United States, do not include the trademark symbols. Instead use an appropriate trademark attribution notice, for example: American Clandestine Equipment Corporation and Fast Throttle Cam are trademarks of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

This notice should be at the bottom of your home page or at the bottom of the web pages that contain our marks and logos. For printed materials, please place the notice in an appropriate location with other legal notices.

5. Notify us when someone is NOT using our marks or logos properly.

Thank you in advance, please contact us via the email link on the Contact Us page.

Common Fair Use Examples

The following are common examples of fair use, and recommended guidelines to ensure you use our trademarks properly when talking about American Clandestine Equipment Corporation, or referring to our products.

1. Talking About American Clandestine Equipment Corporation

We encourage you to talk about American Clandestine Equipment Corporation. If you talk about American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in a non-commercial context, you do NOT need our permission. The only thing we ask is that you be honest, make truthful, accurate, non-disparaging statements about our trademarks, and use proper form.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO:

a. USE INCORRECT FORM of our trademarks.

b. LIE or DISPARAGE by making statements that are misleading, fraudulent, inaccurate, disparaging, potentially damaging or otherwise untrue about the American Clandestine Equipment Corporation brand, or our products.

c. IMPLY FALSE SPONSORSHIP OR ENDORSEMENT by referring to us in a way that implies a false sense of partnership or endorsement.

d. MAKE COMMERCIAL USE of our trademarks, logos, designs, and copyrighted material without first obtaining explicit written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in advance.

2. Referring To, or Recommending Our Products

Our products bear our trademarks to make sure that you know when you are dealing with authentic products manufactured by American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

As mentioned above, whenever you make fair, non-commercial use of our trademarks, please always use the correct form of the mark when referring to, describing, or recommending our products.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO:

a. FALSELY CLAIM that a product is manufactured by American Clandestine Equipment Corporation when it is not manufactured by American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

b. ASSOCIATE COUNTERFEIT or FAKE PRODUCTS with our trademarks, logo, copyright, and designs.

c. MAKE COMMERCIAL USE our trademarks without first obtaining explicit written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in advance.

3. Declaring a Product to be Compatible with American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Products.

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation is the only manufacturer of authentic American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products. American Clandestine Equipment Corporation does not grant 3rd party companies license to use our trademarks and copyright in production or marketing of 3rd party products. If you want to use our trademarks and copyright for commercial purposes, you must first obtain express written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

Prohibited Uses of Our trademarks

All of the below examples are prohibited uses of our trademarks.

BE CERTAIN NOT TO:

1. Use of trademarks in Your Company, Product or Service Name

You may NOT use any of our trademarks anywhere within the name of your company, product name, service name, or logos such as American Clandestine Equipment Corporation parts, American Clandestine-Equipment-Corporation-Rifle.com, or XYZ.com/American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

2. Adopt a Confusingly Similar Variation of Our trademarks

You may NOT adopt a name, mark, or logo that is confusingly similar to our trademarks.

You may NOT use any of our trademarks in variations or to derive new words or phrases, including but not limited to phonetic variations, foreign language equivalents, take offs, abbreviations or conjunctions.

You also may NOT use altered versions of our copyrighted materials, or derive new graphics or text from our copyrighted materials for any purpose.

3. Use of trademarks in Domains, Online Identities, Usernames, Avatars, Icons, Keywords, and URLs

You may NOT use any of our trademarks or misspellings of our trademarks in your domain name(s), host names, website subdomain(s), or any online identity, including website usernames, group names, avatars, member names, or community web pages.

We retain the exclusive right to use our trademark(s) and copyright materials to establish our brand identity on all publicly available web platforms, including independently published websites (blogs, vlogs, news sources, online magazines), e-commerce enabled websites (online stores and 3rd party marketplaces), and community-based websites (forums, social networks) so that web users can easily distinguish authentic American Clandestine Equipment Corporation identities and content sources from counterfeit or false persons inaccurately identifying themselves as American Clandestine Equipment Corporation, or a American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Authorized Reseller.

Therefore, we do NOT permit our trademarks, copyrights, and any variations or alterations thereof to be used as part of your online identity, including but not limited to domain names, sub-domains, member names, usernames, avatars, profile or business icons, category-level website URLs, or web page meta data related to any web page.

4. Use of Slogans or Tag-lines

You may NOT use stylized versions of our trademarks, tag-lines and slogans. Only American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has the right to do so.

5. Hyphenate or Concatenate Our trademarks

You may NOT connect our trademarks to other words, prefixes or suffixes, such as with hyphenation or concatenation.

6. Use of Visual Designs Confusingly Similar to American Clandestine Equipment Corporation

You may NOT make use of our graphical brand identity, visual designs, or copy the look and feel of our products, packaging, websites, and logos, as this can create confusion for viewers trying to discern your real identity as distinct from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation'€™s.

7. Falsely Imply Affiliation, Sponsorship, Endorsement, or Association

You may NOT imply any affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, or other association with us unless you received prior written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation to do so.

8. Attempt to Obtain Rights in Our trademarks or Copyright

Only American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has rights to and ownership of our trademarks and copyrighted materials. Therefore, do NOT attempt to obtain rights in our trademarks whether by trademark registration, domain registration, or otherwise.

9. Use trademarks in Meta Data of Web Pages Not Relevant to American Clandestine Equipment Corporation

You may NOT use our trademarks in meta data of informational web pages that are irrelevant to American Clandestine Equipment Corporation, American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products, or commercial web pages without first receiving written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

10. Use in Merchandise and Manufactured Items

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation does not license its trademark(s), logo, or copyrighted materials, or any variations or derivations thereof, to 3rd parties for use in manufactured items. Therefore, you may NOT manufacture, sell or give-away merchandise items that bear any American Clandestine Equipment Corporation trademark, including symbols, logos, or icons.

Any commercial Use Requires Permission

All of the below commercial uses are strictly prohibited without first receiving prior written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

1. Claim to be a American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Authorized Reseller

Unless you possess a signed contractual agreement between you, your company and American Clandestine Equipment Corporation that designates you as an American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Authorized Reseller, you may NOT advertise yourself as such, and you may NOT use our trademarks and/or copyright commercially.

2. Claim to be Sponsored or Endorsed by American Clandestine Equipment Corporation

Without first obtaining written approval of your sponsorship application from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation, you may state that you, your organization, or your project is sponsored or endorsed by American Clandestine Equipment Corporation in any way.

3. Use of trademarks and Copyrighted Materials on Commercial Web Pages

You may NOT use our trademark(s) or copyrighted materials in the information design of any website designed for commercial purpose, whether for promotion or sale of products or services without first obtaining written permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation.

4. Use of trademarks and Copyright In Advertising and Promotions

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has an obligation to defend our rights to our registered trademark(s) and copyright materials, and thereby protect the interests of consumers interested in learning about or buying authentic American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products by steering them away from counterfeit products or untrustworthy sources of information, and toward the only reliable, accurate sources of information about American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products, services, product availability, or where to buy.
Therefore, to use our trademarks and copyrighted material in advertising and promotional materials, such as print ads, online ads, classified ads and product listings, fliers, tv ads, video ads, or online conversations you must first obtain specific permission from American Clandestine Equipment Corporation to use our trademarks and copyrighted material.

5. Depict American Clandestine Equipment Corporation Products in 3rd Party Advertising Materials

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation does not permit the unauthorized use of images of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products in 3rd party advertising and promotional materials. Such use of American Clandestine Equipment Corporation products in 3rd party advertising and promotional materials without first obtaining prior written permission to do so may create a false perception that American Clandestine Equipment Corporation sponsors or otherwise endorses the advertised or promoted person, product, company, or service when no such relationship exists.

6. Use trademarks and Copyright in Broadcast, Film, TV, and Online Media

To legally use our trademark(s) and copyrighted materials in broadcast or online media in any way not already covered by this document, you need prior written permission to do so.

7. Incorporate trademarks, Copyright, or Technology Into Commercial Products or Services

American Clandestine Equipment Corporation has the exclusive right to use our trademark(s) and copyrighted materials commercially. Therefore, if you want to offer a compatible product or related service that leverages our trademark(s) and copyright for advertising or promotional purposes, you need permission.