What must an Annex Brands franchisee do to post a website they develop or move an existing website to Annex Brands' website?
Annex_Brands Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
To post a website that you develop or to move an existing website to our website, you must submit the programming code to us to facilitate our development of your website.
Source: Item 22 — Contracts (FDD pages 109–110)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 FDD, an Annex Brands franchisee who wishes to post a website they developed or move an existing website to Annex Brands' website must submit the programming code to Annex Brands. This allows Annex Brands to develop the franchisee's website.
Annex Brands must approve any website (or equivalent electronic advertising) that utilizes the Marks before publication and approve any modification prior to publishing updates. Annex Brands may, but is not required to, maintain a corporate website on the Internet to market and promote the System and the products and services marketed by Franchisee. If Annex Brands maintains a website, Annex Brands may, but is not required to, establish and maintain a private Intranet, newsgroups, bulletin boards, and libraries, for use by Franchisee.
Annex Brands may, but is not required to, maintain a designated area on its corporate website for the purpose of promoting the Center or otherwise permitting an electronic link from Franchisor's website to a website that Franchisee maintains, subject to Franchisor's prior written consent. Franchisee may not establish or use another email addresses without Franchisor's prior written consent. The corporate website (if established), related websites, the private Intranet, the Center's email addresses, and any other Franchisee website or email addresses, will be governed by Franchisor's Internet Policies and Procedure Agreement, or otherwise may be modified by us.
Annex Brands may make various e-commerce services available to franchisees for reasonable fees and will periodically notify franchisees of available e-commerce services, together with a schedule of applicable fees. Currently, franchisees are not required to use any of these e-commerce services, but Annex Brands reserves the right to make this a requirement in the future and also reserves the right to discontinue or modify these e-commerce services, in its sole discretion.