Orkut API Brand Use Guidelines

Updated: June 7, 2011

Attribution

When integrating the API into your website, you should feature the badge on any web page where the Orkut API has a presence. The badge should appear next to the location where the API implementation appears on the page. In addition, all badges on web pages must be clickable and link back to any web page on http://www.orkut.com.

The badges are available below for download and use (right-click to download low-resolution, or click to get hi-resolution image).

You may resize the badges to an appropriate size for your application, but any badge that you display must be at least 60x38 pixels. In addition, all badges must be displayed in a single color that is complimentary to the overall creative or surrounding.

Requirements

• Orkut API users may only use the badges shown above. Use of these badges is governed by the Orkut developers terms of service.
• You can change a badge's color as long as the badge content is in one single color. You can also choose the background on which the badge appears.
• Ensure that there is sufficient contrast between the badge color and the background color for the badge to be clearly visible.
• Do not change the mark in any way. Do not remove, obstruct, distort, or alter any element of an Orkut trademark. Similarly, you cannot modify the Orkut word mark in any way, including hyphenation, combination, abbreviation, or acronym such as: orkuters, Orkuting, etc.
• Make sure the badge is fully and clearly visible. It should never be altered or partially covered.
• Do not display the badge as the most prominent element on your web page.
• Do not use a badge in ways that
  1. imply an association with or endorsement of any other product, service, event, sponsorship, or organization;
  2. can be reasonably interpreted to suggest that editorial content was authored by Orkut; or
  3. suggest that you are representing the views or opinions of Orkut or Orkut personnel without prior written permission from Orkut. All of the aforementioned usages must be approved via written permission.
• Do not adopt marks, logos, slogans, or designs that are confusingly similar to the Orkut trademarks or that imitate Orkut's trade dress, including the look and feel of Orkut web design properties, Orkut brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with Orkut.
• Do not register the Orkut trademarks as second-level domain names or incorporate Orkut trademarks into your own names for products, services, features or companies. Similarly, do not incorporate Orkut trademarks into your own trademarks or logos.
• Never display a Orkut trademark in a manner that is misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to Orkut.
• Never display a Orkut trademark on any web site or user interface that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, promotes violence, contains hate speech, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, violates other applicable laws or regulations or is otherwise objectionable.

When creating a feature or product utilizing the API, the name of the feature or product cannot use Orkut in the name of the software or feature. If for marketing or other strategic reasons it would be valuable to have Orkut referenced, it may be permissible for the developer to use the phrase "for Orkut". However, this should be the exception and not the rule. You may not state or otherwise imply any affiliation with Orkut.