According to Dermani Medspa, what does the term 'Website' include?
Dermani_Medspa Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
d to pay for the actual advertising spend) and conducting search engine optimization (SEO), establishing a CRM and other related services that we may recommend or require. We may modify what is included under the Management Services at any time. You must pay the Online Management Fee in addition to the Grand Opening Marketing Program, System Marketing Fee, and your local advertising expenditures.
9.8. Websites.
9.8.1. We alone may establish, maintain, modify or discontinue all internet, world wide web, social media and electronic commerce activities pertaining to the System. We have established one or more Websites accessible through one or more uniform resource locators ("URLs") and we may design and provide for the benefit of your Medspa a "click through" subpage at our Website for the promotion of your Medspa. If we establish one or more Websites, social media or other modes of electronic commerce and if we provide a "click
through" subpage at the website(s) for the promotion of your Medspa, we may require you to provide us or our designated vendor with updated copies, photographs and news stories about your Franchised Business and the dermani MEDSPA® in accordance with our standards and specifications as set forth in the Manual or otherwise. We reserve the right to specify the content, frequency and procedure you must follow for updating your "click through" subpage, and to require you to use designated or approved suppliers for the establishment, use, maintenance, and/or updating such "click through" subpage.
- 9.8.2. Any Websites, social media pages or other modes of electronic commerce that we establish or maintain may – in addition to, but without limitation, advertising and promoting the products, programs or services available at dermani MEDSPA® Medspas – also be used by us to exploit the electronic commerce rights which we alone reserve.
- 9.8.3. You are not permitted to promote your Medspa in any manner on any Websites or social media pages without our prior written consent. However, we may require you to establish and maintain social media pages or profiles, which may include, without limitation, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Yelp, Google Business, or any other social media and/or networking site we designate. You must comply with our System Standards regarding the establishment, use, appearance, maintenance, and updating of social media pages and profiles. We reserve the right to require you to use designated or approved suppliers including us for the establishment, use, maintenance, and/or updating of such social media pages or profiles or in connection with the Online Management Services. We reserve the right to conduct collective/national campaigns via local social media on your behalf.
- 9.8.4. We alone will be, and at all times will remain, the sole owner of the copyrights to all material which appears on any website or social media pages we establish and maintain, including any and all material you may furnish to us for your "click through" subpage.
10. RECORDS, REPORTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
10.1. Reports.
Source: Item 23 — RECEIPTS (FDD pages 66–311)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Dermani Medspa's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the term 'Websites' includes internet, world wide web, social media, and electronic commerce activities pertaining to the Dermani Medspa system. Dermani Medspa maintains control over all internet and social media activities related to the brand.
Dermani Medspa may design a "click through" subpage on their website for the benefit of the franchisee's medspa. If Dermani Medspa establishes websites, social media, or other electronic commerce modes, they may require franchisees to provide updated content, photographs, and news about their franchised business. Dermani Medspa also reserves the right to specify the content, frequency, and procedure for updating the "click through" subpage and may require franchisees to use designated or approved suppliers for these updates.
Franchisees are not allowed to promote their medspa on any websites or social media pages without Dermani Medspa's prior written consent. However, Dermani Medspa may require franchisees to establish and maintain social media pages or profiles on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Yelp, and Google Business. Franchisees must adhere to Dermani Medspa's system standards for these social media pages, and Dermani Medspa reserves the right to use designated suppliers for their establishment, maintenance, and updating. Dermani Medspa also retains the right to conduct collective or national campaigns via local social media on the franchisee's behalf.
Dermani Medspa retains sole ownership of the copyrights to all material on any website or social media pages they establish and maintain, including any material franchisees provide for their "click through" subpage. Additionally, franchisees cannot establish any website or listing on the internet without Dermani Medspa's express written consent, which may be denied without reason.