If Healthsource Chiropractic designates specific advertising materials, what must those materials include?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
In the event we establish a website, or series of websites, for our Systems and Clinic franchises, you agree to give us information and materials that we may periodically request concerning your Clinic franchise, and to otherwise participate in the System website in the manner that we may require. If we establish a System website, all advertising and promotional materials that you develop for your Clinic franchise must contain the URL of the System website in the manner that we may designate.
Source: Item 16 — Restrictions on What the Franchisee May Sell (FDD page 52)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Healthsource Chiropractic's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, if Healthsource Chiropractic establishes a system website, all advertising and promotional materials that a franchisee develops for their clinic must include the URL of the system website. The URL must be displayed in a manner designated by Healthsource Chiropractic.
Healthsource Chiropractic maintains the right to create advertising funds for its Clinic franchises to execute national, regional, and local advertising and promotional programs. All Healthsource Chiropractic Clinics are required to contribute 2% of their gross revenues to this Ad Fund. Healthsource Chiropractic also has the right to increase or decrease this contribution with a 30-day written notice.
Franchisees can develop their own advertising and promotional materials at their own cost, but these materials require written approval from Healthsource Chiropractic before use. If Healthsource Chiropractic does not disapprove of the submitted materials within 15 days of receipt, the materials are considered approved. However, this approval does not mean that Healthsource Chiropractic has analyzed or approved the materials with respect to any state, local, or administrative laws applicable to the practice of chiropractic in the franchisee's state of licensure. Each Healthsource Chiropractic Clinic must spend a minimum of either $3,000 or 5% of its gross revenues each month on local advertising, promotion, and marketing, with certain expenditures counting towards this requirement.