Intellectual Property & Brand Use Policy

#Dobro, LLC owns or licenses the original elements of the Site, including original text, editorial works, diagrams, visual systems, interface designs, code, graphics, prototypes, research presentations, photographs or renders we create, and distinctive combinations of those elements, except where third-party ownership or an open-source license is identified.

#DOBRO, the #DOBRO wordmark and logo treatments, # / DO / BRO, DO SOMETHING THAT MATTERS., CONNECT. ACT. HUMAN., THERE IS A DO INSIDE EVERYTHING WE BUILD., and related source-identifying names, slogans, logos, visual treatments, and trade dress may function as trademarks or service marks of #Dobro, LLC where used to identify our goods or services.

We may use ™ or SM to identify marks claimed under common law. The ® symbol will be used only for a mark and goods or services covered by an effective federal registration. Nothing in this Policy represents that every phrase listed above is federally registered or registrable.

You may make truthful, non-misleading references to #Dobro for news reporting, commentary, criticism, scholarship, comparison, citation, customer identification, or other lawful nominative uses, provided you do not imply sponsorship, affiliation, certification, or endorsement that does not exist.

You may link to public pages on hashtagdobro.com if the link does not frame the Site in a misleading way, obscure its source, or falsely suggest that #Dobro controls or endorses your site.

Unless applicable law gives you a right that cannot be waived, written permission is required to:

• use a #Dobro logo or stylized mark as your own branding, app icon, product badge, or source identifier;
• register or use a confusingly similar company name, domain, social handle, product name, or account identity;
• sell merchandise or products bearing #Dobro branding;
• reproduce substantial portions of Site content for commercial republication, resale, training material, or a competing content library;
• remove authorship, trademark, copyright, provenance, or rights notices; or
• modify a #Dobro mark or combine it with another mark in a way that suggests a joint product or endorsement.

Automated systems must respect the Site’s published technical access directives, including robots.txt and other machine-readable controls. Search indexing expressly permitted by those controls is allowed subject to law.

Unless we provide written permission or applicable law gives you a non-waivable right, you may not systematically copy or extract #Dobro content to create a commercial dataset, train or fine-tune a model, reproduce our editorial corpus, clone our interface or trade dress, or build a substitutive content service. Technical crawler permissions do not independently grant an intellectual-property license beyond the access they authorize.

Third-party names, marks, software, libraries, photographs, research, and other materials remain subject to the rights of their respective owners. Reference to a third party does not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation unless expressly stated.

If you believe material on the Site infringes your copyright, trademark, or other rights, submit a detailed report through the Legal / Privacy Request form. Identify the work or right at issue, the specific Site material, the basis for your claim, your authority to act, and reliable contact information.

The current Site does not host public user-generated content and #Dobro has not represented that it is relying on a DMCA service-provider safe harbor for user-hosted content. If future products host user content at scale, we will separately evaluate DMCA agent registration, notice-and- takedown procedures, repeat-infringer policy, and related requirements before launch.

#Dobro reserves all rights not expressly granted. We may object to uses that create confusion, dilute source identification, misappropriate original content, violate contractual restrictions, or otherwise infringe rights recognized by applicable law.

Nothing in this Policy limits lawful fair use, nominative fair use, criticism, commentary, interoperability rights, reverse-engineering rights that cannot be waived, or other rights applicable law expressly preserves.