Under what conditions can a franchisee use Healthsource Chiropractic's Marks and confidential information?
Healthsource_Chiropractic Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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Advertising and Marketing
Advertising by You
You may develop, at your cost, advertising and promotional materials for your own use, but may not use them until after we have approved them in writing. You must submit to us for our approval samples of all advertising and promotional materials not prepared or previously approved by us that you wish to use. We will not unreasonably withhold our approval. If we do not disapprove any materials submitted to us within 15 days of receiving them, they will be deemed approved. Our actual or deemed approval will not mean that we have analyzed or approved any such materials with respect to any state, local or administrative law, rule or regulation that may be applicable to a franchise's practice of chiropractic in its State of licensure. In addition to any Advertising Fees for an Ad Fund (see below) and the Technology Fee, each HealthSource Chiropractic Clinic must spend, at a minimum each month, the greater of $3,000 or 5% of its gross revenues for local advertising, promotion, and marketing. Your 60-day marketing plan expenditures (see Item 7) and telephone and internet directory advertising expenditures (see below) count towards this requirement.
We may require you to list and advertise your franchise in the professional trade association directories and certain directories distributed within your Protected Territory, and with such internet-based directories as we may specify. These listings must be made in the directory categories we specify, using our standard forms of listing and classified directory advertisements.
Source: Item 11 — Franchisor's Assistance, Advertising, Computer Systems, and Training (FDD pages 34–44)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Healthsource Chiropractic's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees can use advertising and promotional materials they develop themselves, but only after receiving written approval from Healthsource Chiropractic. Franchisees must submit samples of all advertising and promotional materials not already prepared or approved by Healthsource Chiropractic for approval. Healthsource Chiropractic will not unreasonably withhold approval and if they do not disapprove the materials within 15 days of receiving them, the materials are considered approved. However, Healthsource Chiropractic's approval does not mean they have analyzed or approved the materials with respect to any state, local, or administrative law applicable to a franchise's chiropractic practice in its state of licensure.
Healthsource Chiropractic may require franchisees to list and advertise their franchise in professional trade association directories and specified internet-based directories within their protected territory. These listings must be made in the directory categories Healthsource Chiropractic specifies, using their standard forms of listing and classified directory advertisements. Healthsource Chiropractic may also place classified directory advertisements on a national or regional basis, listing the franchisee's and other Healthsource Chiropractic franchises operating within the directories' distribution area, with the cost of the advertisements being reasonably apportioned among all franchises listed.
Furthermore, if a franchisee purchases a franchise, they irrevocably consent to the use of their name and likeness, including voice and image, by Healthsource Chiropractic and its affiliates for all commercial purposes, including advertising and promotion, in any media, throughout the world in perpetuity, including on the internet.