Current business and nonprofit members are entitled to use our logo in advertising and communications, as outlined below in our Logo Usage Authorization. Please contact us for an electronic file of our logo.

Examples of how members have used the logo in their ads (click each link for a large version): Downeast Maytag, Longfellow Books, Videoport. (Send us your example and we'll post it here.)

AUTHORIZATION TO USE THE PORTLAND BUY LOCAL LOGO

a. Eligibility. Only locally owned, independent businesses are permitted to use this logo.

b. Permission to Identify. The Portland Buy Local Campaign grants participants of this campaign a limited, nonexclusive, nonassignable and non-transferable license to use the BUY LOCAL: KEEP PORTLAND INDEPENDENT logo only as prescribed. Licensee agrees that Licensee will not otherwise use, copy, reproduce, or alter the Logo in any manner. Nothing in this agreement, or in Licensee's use of these marks may be construed as granting Licensee any right whatsoever in the Logo, or in any similar log, beyond the right granted in this Agreement. Portland Buy Local may rescind this License at any time that Portland Buy Local, in its sole discretion, determines that the Licensee is misusing the Logo.

c. Advertising. Licensee may display the Logo without alternation in the formats provided. Licensee is permitted to use the Logo in documents, websites, and other applications pertaining only to the Portland Buy Local Campaign.

d. Selling. Licensee is permitted to use the Logo to promote their local and independently owned business in many creative promotional uses, but may not use the Logo on any merchandise intended for re-sale (including clothing, cards, magnets, posters, etc.)

e. Indemnification. Licensee agrees to indemnify fully and hold Portland Buy Local harmless against any loss, damage, or expense arising out of any misuse of the Logo, or of any violation of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. Licensee also agrees to indemnify fully and hold Portland Buy Local harmless against any loss, damage or expense, including reasonable attorney's fees, with respect to all third party claims of any kind, including product liability, arising in connection with its product(s), events or service(s).

f. Relationship of Parties. Licensee is not, and will not represent itself as an agent, representative, partner, joint venture, or employee of Portland Buy Local, nor can Licensee bind or obligate, or represent that it has any authority to bind or obligate, Portland Buy Local in any manner or in any thing. Specifically, nothing contained herein shall be construed to create any such employer-employee, joint venture, agency, or partnership relationship between the parties.

Nothing in this Agreement or in Licensee's use of the Logo shall confer any endorsement or approval of Licensee's product(s), event(s) or service(s). Licensee's use of the Logo is intended only to covey coordination with the Portland Buy Local Campaign for purposes of furthering the campaign's objectives.