If HealthSource Chiropractic chooses not to have the franchisee assign telephone numbers to it after termination, what is the Healthsource Chiropractic franchisee prohibited from doing with those numbers?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
If HealthSource Chiropractic chooses not to have you assign the telephone numbers to it, you may not assign the telephone number to any competitive business, use automatic forwarding to the telephone number of any competitive business, or otherwise make the telephone number directly or indirectly available to any competitive business.
Source: Item 23 — Receipts (FDD pages 77–282)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 HealthSource Chiropractic Franchise Disclosure Document, if HealthSource Chiropractic does not want the franchisee to assign telephone numbers to them after the franchise agreement is terminated, the franchisee is restricted from using those numbers in specific ways.
The franchisee cannot assign the telephone number to any business that competes with HealthSource Chiropractic. Additionally, the franchisee is prohibited from using automatic call forwarding to direct calls to a competitor's telephone number.
Finally, the franchisee is not allowed to make the telephone number directly or indirectly available to any business that competes with HealthSource Chiropractic. This is to ensure that upon termination of the franchise agreement, the franchisee does not use previously used telephone numbers to divert business away from HealthSource Chiropractic to a competing business.