May I be required to provide content for City Publications' Internet marketing?
City_Publications Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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- We have established and maintain an Internet website at www.citypublication.com that provides information about the CITY PUBLICATIONS System and the services that you and we provide. We will establish a website for your Franchised Business with a link to our website. You are responsible for maintaining the website created for your Franchised Business. We may (but are not required to) include an interior page at our website about your Franchised Business. If we include information about your Franchised Business on our website, we may require you to prepare all or a portion of the page at your expense using our template. We review and approve all information you prepare prior to posting it. We retain the sole right to market on the Internet, including all use of websites, domain names, URL's linking, meta-tags, marketing, auction sites, e-commerce and co-branding arrangements. You may be required to provide content for our Internet marketing. You must follow our intranet and Internet usage rules, policies and requirements. We retain the sole right to use the Marks on the Internet, including on websites, as domain names, directory addresses, search terms, meta-tags, and in connection with linking, marketing, digital marketing, social
Source: Item 11 — FRANCHISOR'S ASSISTANCE, ADVERTISING, COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND TRAINING (FDD pages 19–24)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to City Publications' 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, as a franchisee, you may be required to provide content for City Publications' Internet marketing. City Publications maintains a website, www.citypublication.com, providing information about the City Publications system. City Publications will also establish a website for your franchised business with a link to their website.
As a City Publications franchisee, you are responsible for maintaining the website created for your franchised business. City Publications may include an interior page on their website about your franchised business and if they do, they may require you to prepare all or a portion of the page at your expense, using their template. City Publications reviews and approves all information you prepare before posting it.
City Publications retains the sole right to market on the Internet, including all use of websites, domain names, URLs, linking, meta-tags, marketing, auction sites, e-commerce, and co-branding arrangements. You must follow City Publications' intranet and Internet usage rules, policies, and requirements. City Publications also retains the sole right to use the marks on the Internet, including on websites, as domain names, directory addresses, search terms, meta-tags, and in connection with linking, marketing, digital marketing, and social media platforms.