Intellectual Property Policy
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This Intellectual Property Policy explains who owns the content on printlane.shop, how you may and may not use it, how we keep our shirts clear of other people’s names and logos, and what that means for the text you type onto a personalised tee. It also explains how to report a trademark, design or other intellectual property concern. For copyright notices about material on our site, see our DMCA page.
At a glance
- The Print Lane name, our designs, product pictures and page text belong to Print Lane or our licensors.
- You are welcome to share links to our pages with your family, but not to copy our designs or content.
- Every Print Lane design is original. We never use team, league, college, cruise-line, resort, theme-park, character or brand names or logos.
- We print personalised text exactly as typed, and we may cancel and refund an order whose text names a protected name or is hateful.
- Report a concern to support@printlane.shop with the subject line “IP concern”. Our support inbox replies within 24 hours on business days.
1. What belongs to Print Lane
The content on printlane.shop is owned by Print Lane or used under licence. That includes:
- the Print Lane name and the way we present it;
- our shirt designs, such as the roll call reunion design, the family tree branches design and the name tag design;
- product pictures, illustrations and previews;
- product descriptions, the names of our lanes and the text of our help and policy pages;
- the homepage roll call, the count-back planner and the size list format, including their wording and layout;
- the site’s design, graphics and code.
This content is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws in the United States and in the other countries where our shirts are delivered.
2. What you may do
- Browse and print pages for your own personal, non-commercial use, for example printing the size guide to bring to a family planning meeting.
- Share links to our products, lanes and planning tools in your family group chat, by email or on your own social media.
- Paste the size list from the roll call into a message to your relatives. That list is yours.
- Quote a short extract from a page, with a link back to the original.
- Take and share photos of your own family wearing the shirts you bought. The group photo at the reunion is yours to keep and post.
3. What you may not do
- Copy, reproduce, resell or republish our designs, product pictures or descriptions, including on marketplaces, other online stores or print services.
- Have our designs reprinted elsewhere, or create new products or derivative designs from them, without our written permission.
- Use the Print Lane name, or anything confusingly similar, in a way that suggests a connection with us that does not exist.
- Scrape or bulk-download the site’s content with automated tools, other than normal search engine indexing.
- Copy the roll call or count-back planner into another site or app.
4. Our designs are original
We build every design ourselves from everyday elements: family names, years, places, simple shapes and words that belong to everyone, such as “reunion”, “lake week” or “crew”. We do not use the names or logos of sports teams, leagues, colleges, cruise lines, resorts, theme parks, characters or brands, and we do not sell designs that imitate them.
Names and marks owned by other people that may be mentioned anywhere on our site belong to their owners. Mentioning them does not mean those owners endorse us or are connected with us.
5. Personalised text: what you can type and what we will not print
Three of our tees carry text you type yourself: the family name and year tee, the destination and year crew tee, and the “Hello” name tag tee. We print that text exactly as typed, with no proof step, and you are responsible for having the right to use it. Because the shirts carry our work as well as your words, the same rules about protected names apply to both.
| Field | Good uses | Text we will not print |
|---|---|---|
| Family name and year, optional place | Your surname or a family nickname, the year of the gathering, the town or county where it happens. | A team, college or brand name added to the family name, or a place name that is really a resort or theme park. |
| Destination and year, optional crew name | A town, island, lake, state or region, and a crew name your family made up. | The name of a cruise line, a resort, a theme park or a character, or a crew name borrowed from a team or a show. |
| First name, optional whose-family line | A first name or nickname and a line such as “Grandma June’s oldest”. | A character’s name used as a costume, a brand slogan, or anything hateful, threatening or harassing. |
If an order’s text includes a team, league, college, cruise-line, resort, theme-park, character, brand or other protected name, or is hateful, we may cancel that order or the affected item and refund what you paid for it in full. We email you to explain, and you are welcome to order again with different wording. The decision is about the text as typed and nothing else.
Tips that keep your order moving
- Use the name your family actually calls itself. “The Harper Crew” or “Lake Murray Weekend” is ideal.
- For a cruise, use the ports, the sea or the year rather than the cruise line or ship.
- For a theme-park trip, use the city or the state rather than the park.
- Read the read-back line under the preview before you add to cart. What it shows is what we print.
6. Respecting other people’s rights
We do not knowingly sell anything that infringes a trademark, copyright, design right or right of publicity. If we learn that a design, picture or description on our site may infringe someone’s rights, we review it and remove or change it when that is the right outcome. Personalised text on every order is subject to the rules in section 5.
7. How to report an intellectual property concern
Email support@printlane.shop with the subject line “IP concern” and include:
- Your name, email address and postal address, and your relationship to the rights owner, for example owner, employee, agent or lawyer.
- The right you believe is affected, such as a trademark with its registration number and country, or a description of the design or work.
- The full page address of each product or page concerned. If your concern is about text we may print, quote the exact wording.
- A short explanation of why you believe it infringes your rights.
- A statement that the information in your report is accurate and that you are the rights owner or are authorised to act for them.
For a copyright notice about material on our site, please follow the steps on our DMCA page, which lists the extra elements the law requires.
8. What happens next
Our support inbox replies within 24 hours on business days (Monday to Friday) to confirm your report arrived. We then look at each page address you gave and compare it with the right you described. If we need more information, we ask before making a decision. If your report is valid, we remove or change the content and let you know by email. If we disagree, we explain why in writing. How long a review takes depends on how complete the report is and how many items it covers.
If you want to discuss a report, reply in the same email thread so the whole history stays together.
9. If you think we removed something by mistake
If we removed or changed something you provided, or cancelled an item because of its text, and you believe that was a mistake, email us with the subject line “IP review” and explain why. For copyright removals, the counter-notification steps on our DMCA page apply.
10. Copies of our designs elsewhere
If you see a Print Lane design being sold somewhere else, or a site using our pictures or page text, we would like to know. Email the address of the other listing to support@printlane.shop. You do not need to prove anything; a link is enough for us to start.
11. Questions organisers ask
Can we use our school’s name for a class reunion?
School and college names are often protected, so we do not print them. A reunion tee that says “Class of” with the year, your city and your family or group name gives the same feel without the risk of the order being cancelled.
Our family has a nickname that sounds like a team. Is that a problem?
A nickname your family made up is fine. The line we draw is at the actual name of a team, league, college or brand. If your nickname is the same as one of those, choose a variation, or expect that we may cancel and refund that item.
Can I put a well-known person’s name on a shirt?
Family members’ names are what the fields are for. The names of celebrities and public figures can carry publicity rights, so treat them as protected names and leave them off.
Can I print my own artwork or a family crest?
Our shirts carry our designs with the text you type. There is no upload on the site, so we cannot print your own artwork, photos or crests.
If one item is cancelled for its text, is the whole order cancelled?
Not necessarily. We may cancel only the affected item and refund it, and the rest of the order goes ahead. We tell you by email either way, so you can reorder that size with new wording. With 1–3 business days to make an order and 7–14 business days in transit, a reorder may need extra time before your event.
12. Ideas and feedback
Organisers often send us ideas, such as a new event type, a new field for the roll call or a colour they would like to see. We are grateful for them. If you send an idea, you agree that we may use it freely without paying you. We never publish your name, your family’s names or other personal information without your permission, as our Privacy Policy explains.
13. Permission requests
To ask for permission to use one of our designs, pictures or page texts, for example on a reunion invitation, a family newsletter or a printed programme, email support@printlane.shop with the subject line “Permission request”. Tell us what you would like to use, where it will appear and how many copies you plan to make. Permission is only given in writing.
14. Contact
Print Lane, 245 Kinsey Drive, Sumter, SC 29150, US. Email support@printlane.shop; support is by email only. This policy forms part of our Terms of Service, and general questions about orders are answered in the Help Center.