Intellectual Property & AI Use

Overview

This Intellectual Property and AI Use Policy governs access to and use of intellectual property, proprietary materials, brand assets, website content, client-facing materials, demonstrations, and other work owned, controlled, or lawfully used by Branded with Honor LLC.

This Policy applies to brandedwithhonor.com and to any material made available through the website, email, proposals, consultations, presentations, downloads, shared workspaces, demonstrations, case studies, social platforms, or other communications that reference Branded with Honor.

Throughout this Policy, “Branded with Honor,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Branded with Honor LLC. “You” and “your” refer to any visitor, prospective client, client, contractor, competitor, organization, automated system operator, or other party accessing or using protected materials.

This Policy is incorporated into the Branded with Honor Terms of Service. By accessing the website, accepting the Terms of Service, submitting an inquiry, receiving materials, or participating in an engagement, you agree to comply with this Policy.

Access does not create ownership. Visibility does not create permission. Technical accessibility does not create a license.

Ownership

Branded with Honor LLC owns, controls, or lawfully licenses the original materials it creates, publishes, displays, provides, or uses in connection with its business and services.

Ownership may include rights arising under copyright, trademark, service-mark, trade-secret, contract, confidentiality, unfair-competition, database, licensing, and other applicable laws.

Except for third-party materials expressly identified or otherwise incorporated under license, all rights in Branded with Honor’s original content and proprietary materials remain with Branded with Honor LLC.

No right, title, ownership interest, or license is transferred merely because material is publicly displayed, discussed during a consultation, provided for evaluation, included in a proposal, demonstrated to a potential client, delivered through a digital platform, or accessible through a website or electronic system.

All rights not expressly granted in writing are reserved.

Protected Materials

For purposes of this Policy, “Protected Materials” include original materials owned, controlled, created, commissioned, developed, or lawfully licensed by Branded with Honor.

Protected Materials may include website copy, articles, case studies, reports, graphics, photographs, illustrations, videos, audio, presentations, proposals, workbooks, binders, templates, documents, digital assets, brand systems, messaging, positioning, naming systems, taxonomies, research structures, strategic frameworks, methodologies, workflows, prompt structures, documentation, software, code, interface elements, visual compositions, content arrangements, data structures, internal tools, operational materials, and other original expressions or proprietary business materials.

Protected Materials also include nonpublic drafts, rejected concepts, working files, source materials, internal notes, research libraries, evaluation materials, system documentation, access-controlled materials, and information disclosed during consultations, demonstrations, audits, strategy sessions, or client engagements.

Protection applies to complete works and to original selections, arrangements, combinations, expressions, documentation, and implementations contained within those works.

This Policy does not claim copyright protection over an idea, procedure, method, system, or concept in the abstract. It governs access to and use of Branded with Honor’s specific expression, documentation, implementation, confidential information, contractual materials, and proprietary business assets.

Limited Permission to View Public Materials

Branded with Honor grants website visitors a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to view publicly accessible website materials for legitimate personal review or internal business evaluation.

This permission does not authorize reproduction, distribution, publication, commercial use, dataset creation, model training, competitive analysis, adaptation, extraction, reconstruction, sublicensing, resale, or development of derivative or competing work.

You may share a direct link to a public page, provided that you do not misrepresent the source, bypass access restrictions, remove ownership notices, reproduce substantial portions of the page, or imply endorsement, affiliation, authorization, or partnership.

No other use is permitted without prior written authorization from Branded with Honor.

No Implied License

No license arises through silence, technical availability, website access, a failure to block a particular crawler, the absence of a technical restriction, participation in a consultation, receipt of a proposal, review of a demonstration, or possession of a file.

The ability to view, capture, download, inspect, transmit, or process material does not establish permission to do so.

An attribution, citation, backlink, disclaimer, alteration, or statement that material was “inspired by” Branded with Honor does not replace the need for written authorization.

No employee, contractor, platform, client, service provider, automated system, or third party may grant rights in Branded with Honor materials unless expressly authorized to do so in writing by Branded with Honor LLC.

Prohibited Copying and Reproduction

Unless prior written authorization has been granted, you may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, display, transmit, sell, license, sublicense, translate, adapt, modify, archive, mirror, frame, or commercially exploit Protected Materials.

You may not create substantially similar materials by changing surface-level wording, colors, terminology, formatting, software, platforms, images, or visual styling while retaining Branded with Honor’s original expression, organization, structure, or proprietary implementation.

You may not remove, obscure, alter, or separate a copyright notice, trademark notice, watermark, attribution, metadata record, rights statement, identifier, or other ownership information from Protected Materials.

You may not present Branded with Honor materials as your own work or as work independently developed by another person or organization.

These restrictions apply whether copying is performed manually, electronically, photographically, programmatically, through automated tools, or through a third party.

Scraping and Automated Extraction

You may not use a crawler, scraper, bot, browser automation, extraction tool, data-mining system, automated agent, script, extension, API client, or similar technology to access, collect, monitor, download, reproduce, organize, classify, or retain Protected Materials without prior written authorization.

Prohibited extraction includes collecting text, images, page structures, metadata, links, case-study information, brand language, taxonomies, layouts, content relationships, navigation patterns, service descriptions, or other website material.

You may not create a mirror, archive, searchable repository, commercial index, structured dataset, content feed, vector database, or substitute service based on Protected Materials.

Public search engines may index publicly available pages solely for ordinary search discovery, subject to applicable machine-readable instructions and access controls. Permission for ordinary search indexing does not authorize model training, dataset creation, automated answer generation, commercial archiving, or other secondary use.

Attempts to bypass technical controls, rate limits, access restrictions, authentication, blocked paths, or machine-readable instructions are prohibited.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Unless Branded with Honor provides prior written permission, Protected Materials may not be submitted, uploaded, copied, transmitted, exposed, or otherwise provided to an artificial-intelligence system, machine-learning system, large language model, multimodal model, automated agent, or similar technology.

This restriction applies to public, private, commercial, nonprofit, open-source, locally operated, cloud-based, custom, and third-party systems.

Protected Materials may not be used for:

Model Training and Improvement

Protected Materials may not be used to train, pretrain, fine-tune, align, reinforce, evaluate, benchmark, test, improve, validate, or otherwise develop an AI or machine-learning model.

Dataset Development

Protected Materials may not be collected, labeled, classified, transformed, summarized, tokenized, or incorporated into a training dataset, evaluation dataset, synthetic dataset, benchmark set, corpus, or content library.

Retrieval and Knowledge Systems

Protected Materials may not be converted into embeddings, vector representations, indexes, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation systems, searchable repositories, internal knowledge bases, or agent memory systems.

Prompt and Agent Development

Protected Materials may not be used to create prompt libraries, system prompts, workflow instructions, automated agents, decision systems, content generators, strategic assistants, or other tools intended to reproduce or apply Branded with Honor’s work.

Generated Imitations and Derivative Outputs

Protected Materials may not be used to generate imitations, substitutes, derivative frameworks, competing documents, reconstructed methodologies, similar brand systems, digital replicas, synthetic case studies, or outputs designed to reproduce Branded with Honor’s original language, expression, positioning, content organization, strategic structures, or proprietary materials.

Competitive and Commercial Use

Protected Materials may not be used to build, improve, support, market, or operate a competing product, consulting service, agency service, software platform, content business, strategic framework, educational product, or commercial offering.

These restrictions apply whether Protected Materials are entered manually, uploaded as files, copied through screenshots, extracted from a website, transcribed from a meeting, obtained from a client, collected by an automated tool, or provided by another person or organization.

Responsibility for Automated Systems

A person or organization that deploys, operates, instructs, funds, controls, commissions, or benefits from an automated system is responsible for that system’s access to and use of Protected Materials.

You may not avoid responsibility by claiming that copying, extraction, processing, or generation was performed by software, a contractor, an employee, a vendor, an AI provider, or another automated service.

You are responsible for configuring systems under your control to comply with this Policy and for preventing unauthorized ingestion, retention, training, or secondary use.

A service provider’s separate terms or default settings do not grant permission to use Branded with Honor materials.

No Reconstruction or Reverse Engineering

You may not use Protected Materials, website access, demonstrations, consultations, case studies, proposals, documents, or delivered work to reconstruct Branded with Honor’s nonpublic systems, methods, processes, internal structures, specifications, operating logic, or proprietary implementation.

You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, map, document, analyze, benchmark, or test Branded with Honor materials for the purpose of creating a replacement, replica, derivative system, competing offering, or functionally similar implementation.

You may not convert observations, screenshots, meeting notes, recordings, descriptions, demonstrations, or public materials into specifications, development instructions, prompts, wireframes, architecture documents, process maps, or build requirements for another product or service.

Changing the underlying technology, codebase, software, provider, terminology, visual style, or personnel does not create authorization to reconstruct protected work.

Demonstrations and Evaluation Materials

A demonstration, consultation, preview, audit, proposal, walkthrough, strategy session, presentation, prototype, or sample is provided only for the specific evaluation or business purpose communicated by Branded with Honor.

Evaluation access does not authorize production use, implementation, reconstruction, recording, redistribution, specification development, commercial exploitation, or creation of derivative work.

You may not record, photograph, screenshot, transcribe, share, publish, or distribute nonpublic evaluation materials without written authorization.

You may not provide evaluation materials to a developer, designer, consultant, agency, contractor, AI system, investor, partner, or other third party for the purpose of recreating or implementing what was observed.

A demonstration does not constitute delivery, transfer of ownership, assignment of rights, or permission to build.

Confidential and Nonpublic Materials

Nonpublic Protected Materials may also constitute confidential information or trade secrets.

You may not disclose, copy, retain, export, upload, distribute, summarize, teach, commercialize, or use nonpublic materials outside the purpose for which access was granted.

Access must be limited to authorized individuals who have a legitimate need to receive the material and who are bound by confidentiality and use restrictions at least as protective as those applicable to the recipient.

You may not place nonpublic materials into a public repository, shared AI system, unrestricted cloud folder, public workspace, public database, unsecured device, or third-party environment that has not been approved for that purpose.

When access ends or Branded with Honor requests return or deletion, you must stop using the materials and return or permanently delete all copies, subject to any lawful record-retention obligation.

No right to retain knowledge, structure, documentation, or proprietary information for later reconstruction is granted.

Client Deliverables and Background Intellectual Property

Client rights in final deliverables are governed by the applicable signed client agreement.

Payment for a deliverable does not automatically transfer Branded with Honor’s underlying methods, systems, frameworks, templates, internal tools, working files, research libraries, prompt structures, documentation, strategic logic, or other Background Intellectual Property.

A client may receive ownership or a limited license to specific approved final deliverables only as expressly stated in the applicable agreement and only after all required payments have been made.

Where Background Intellectual Property is incorporated into a final deliverable, the client may use the embedded material only to the extent reasonably necessary to use the final deliverable for its authorized purpose.

The client may not extract, repackage, sublicense, resell, teach, commercialize, distribute, reconstruct, or separately exploit underlying Background Intellectual Property unless Branded with Honor expressly authorizes that use in writing.

Case Studies and Portfolio Materials

Case studies and portfolio materials may contain Branded with Honor’s original writing, strategic analysis, presentation structure, graphics, commentary, and selection or arrangement of project information.

They may also contain names, trademarks, assets, or work belonging to clients or third parties and displayed with permission, under license, or for an authorized purpose.

Viewing a case study does not grant permission to copy its structure, language, strategy, conclusions, visual presentation, process, or underlying work.

You may not treat a case study as a build specification, template, training example, strategic brief, dataset, AI input, or source material for a competing service.

Rights associated with client or third-party materials remain with their respective owners.

Trademarks and Brand Assets

Branded with Honor, its logos, trade names, service names, slogans, source identifiers, visual brand elements, and related brand expressions are trademarks, service marks, trade dress, or proprietary brand assets of Branded with Honor LLC to the extent recognized under applicable law.

You may not use a Branded with Honor name, logo, slogan, design, or confusingly similar identifier in a manner that suggests affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, partnership, certification, licensing, employment, or approval without prior written permission.

You may not register or attempt to register a domain name, social-media handle, company name, product name, service name, trademark, keyword advertisement, or other identifier that incorporates or is confusingly similar to a Branded with Honor mark.

You may not use Branded with Honor’s brand assets in merchandise, marketing, advertising, training materials, case studies, presentations, software, AI outputs, or commercial materials without written authorization.

Use of the trademark symbol “TM” or “SM” reflects a claim of rights and does not require federal registration. The federal registration symbol “®” will be used only where legally appropriate.

Third-Party Materials

The website and Branded with Honor deliverables may include third-party software, fonts, templates, components, photographs, stock media, trademarks, platforms, plugins, libraries, or other licensed materials.

Third-party materials remain owned by their respective owners and are governed by their applicable licenses and terms.

Nothing in this Policy grants rights in third-party materials.

Branded with Honor cannot grant broader rights than those provided under the applicable third-party license.

The presence of third-party material does not authorize copying of Branded with Honor’s original modifications, arrangement, selection, commentary, surrounding content, or proprietary implementation.

Permission Requests

Permission to use Protected Materials must be requested in writing before the proposed use begins.

A permission request should identify the specific material, intended use, audience, distribution method, commercial purpose, duration, territory, format, technologies involved, and whether artificial intelligence or automated processing will be used.

Branded with Honor may approve, deny, limit, condition, or charge a fee for any requested use.

No permission is effective unless it is provided in a written authorization signed or expressly approved by Branded with Honor LLC.

Approval for one use does not authorize another use. Permission is limited to the scope expressly granted and may not be transferred or sublicensed unless the authorization states otherwise.

Reporting Suspected Infringement

Suspected copying, unauthorized AI use, brand impersonation, scraping, distribution, or other misuse may be reported to:

honor@brandedwithhonor.com

Use the subject line:

Intellectual Property Report

A report should identify the Protected Material, describe the suspected unauthorized use, provide the location of the material, and include supporting screenshots, links, dates, or other available evidence.

Submitting a report does not guarantee a particular response or enforcement action.

Branded with Honor may investigate, preserve evidence, communicate with involved parties, contact service providers, issue removal demands, or pursue other lawful remedies.

Monitoring and Evidence Preservation

Branded with Honor may use reasonable technical, contractual, administrative, and evidentiary measures to identify, document, prevent, and respond to unauthorized access, extraction, reproduction, AI processing, disclosure, or use.

Those measures may support verification of authorship, ownership, chronology, provenance, access, modification, similarity, or unauthorized use.

Nothing in this Policy requires Branded with Honor to identify, disclose, explain, or make those measures publicly available.

Attempts to locate, remove, alter, defeat, interfere with, or conceal activity from protective or evidentiary measures are prohibited.

Branded with Honor may preserve relevant access records, communications, submissions, files, technical information, and other evidence where reasonably necessary to investigate misuse, protect legal rights, enforce agreements, or comply with law.

Enforcement

Unauthorized use of Protected Materials may violate this Policy, the Terms of Service, a client agreement, a confidentiality obligation, a license, or applicable law.

Branded with Honor may suspend access, revoke permission, terminate an engagement, preserve evidence, demand deletion or return of materials, request removal from a website or platform, submit an infringement report, contact a hosting provider, pursue contractual remedies, or seek other available relief.

Branded with Honor may seek temporary, preliminary, or permanent injunctive relief where unauthorized use may cause harm that cannot be adequately remedied through monetary damages alone.

Branded with Honor also reserves the right to pursue actual damages, statutory remedies where available, profits attributable to unauthorized use, costs, legal fees where recoverable, and any other lawful remedy.

Failure to enforce a right immediately does not waive that right.

Lawful Rights and Exceptions

Nothing in this Policy is intended to prohibit conduct that Branded with Honor has expressly authorized in writing or conduct that cannot lawfully be restricted.

Applicable copyright exceptions, defenses, statutory rights, and other nonwaivable legal rights remain subject to the facts and law governing the particular use.

The existence of a possible exception or defense does not create advance permission, establish that a particular use is lawful, or eliminate contractual restrictions accepted through a separate agreement.

You are responsible for obtaining independent legal advice before relying on an exception, defense, or claimed right.

Changes to This Policy

Branded with Honor may update this Policy to reflect changes in its materials, services, technologies, business practices, licensing practices, legal requirements, or protection measures.

The revised Policy will be posted with an updated effective date.

Changes apply prospectively unless a signed agreement or applicable law provides otherwise.

Continued access to or use of Protected Materials after a revised Policy becomes effective constitutes acknowledgment of the updated Policy to the extent permitted by law.

Relationship to Other Agreements

This Policy supplements the Branded with Honor Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Signed client agreements, confidentiality agreements, licenses, proposals, statements of work, access terms, and other written agreements may establish additional or more restrictive obligations.

Where a signed agreement provides stronger protection or more specific restrictions, that agreement will control for the materials and relationship it governs.

Separate products, platforms, communities, applications, and services owned or operated by Branded with Honor LLC may maintain their own intellectual-property, platform, community, or AI-use terms. Those separate terms govern the applicable product or environment.

Survival

Provisions concerning ownership, confidentiality, limited licenses, prohibited copying, automated extraction, AI use, reconstruction, trademarks, enforcement, evidence preservation, and remedies survive the expiration or termination of website access, permission, evaluation, or a business relationship.

Contact

Questions, permission requests, and reports regarding this Policy may be submitted to:

Branded with Honor LLC
Fort Worth, Texas
honor@brandedwithhonor.com

© 2026 Branded with Honor LLC. All rights reserved. Original content, brand materials, case studies, frameworks, methodologies, systems, and proprietary materials may not be copied, scraped, reproduced, reverse engineered, submitted to artificial intelligence systems, or used to create derivative or competing work without prior written permission.