Intellectual Property and Trademark Use.
- Limited License. Subject to your ongoing compliance with these Affiliate Terms and any applicable Program Rules, DigitalOcean grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license without the right to sublicense, to use the DigitalOcean Marks and Program Assets solely to identify yourself as a participant in the Program and to promote DigitalOcean Services in accordance with these Affiliate Terms.
- Trademark Guidelines. DigitalOcean may provide written trademark or brand usage guidelines from time to time (the “Trademark Guidelines”). When provided, you must comply with the Trademark Guidelines in all uses of the DigitalOcean Marks and Program Assets. If there is a conflict between these Affiliate Terms and the Trademark Guidelines regarding how the DigitalOcean Marks may appear (for example, format, color, spacing, or placement), the Trademark Guidelines control.
- Quality Control and Misuse. You must not:
- Modify, distort, or alter any DigitalOcean Marks or Program Assets, including changing colors, proportions, or design elements.
- Use DigitalOcean Marks in a way that is confusingly similar to, or combined with, any other brand, logo, or mark.
- Use DigitalOcean Marks in any company name, product name, domain name, social handle, paid search keyword, or other identifier without prior written consent.
- Use DigitalOcean Marks in a way that is misleading, implies sponsorship or endorsement beyond the Program, or is inconsistent with DigitalOcean’s brand or publicly stated values.
- If DigitalOcean notifies you that any use of the DigitalOcean Marks or Program Assets is non-compliant, you must promptly (and in any event within the time period specified in our notice, or if none is specified, without undue delay) correct or remove the non-compliant use. DigitalOcean may suspend or terminate your participation in the Program, disable Links, or withhold commissions for continued or material misuse.
- Termination and Expiration. Upon termination or expiration of your participation in the Program, you must immediately discontinue all use of the DigitalOcean Marks and Program Assets, and remove all references to the Program and DigitalOcean as an affiliate from your websites, emails, and other promotional channels, except for historical references that cannot reasonably be removed from archived materials. You receive no rights in the DigitalOcean Marks or Program Assets after termination, and any goodwill arising from your use of the DigitalOcean Marks inures solely to the benefit of DigitalOcean.
- Ownership. As between you and DigitalOcean, all right, title, and interest in and to the DigitalOcean Marks, Program Assets, and DigitalOcean Websites and Services remain with DigitalOcean and its licensors. Nothing in these Affiliate Terms transfers ownership of any intellectual property rights to you. All goodwill arising from your use of the DigitalOcean Marks accrues solely to DigitalOcean.
