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Terms of Use

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Fair Isaac Third-Party Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements

These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements ("Usage Requirements") set forth Fair Isaac Corporation's rules for third parties using or referring to Fair Isaac's brand names, trademarks, service marks, product and service names, logos, and slogans (collectively referred to as "Fair Isaac Marks"). They apply to all non-Fair Isaac parties using or making reference to Fair Isaac Marks unless a separate license agreement applies. Other requirements apply to Fair Isaac licensees and are set forth in a specific license agreement.

General

Fair Isaac's Marks are Fair Isaac intellectual property and are important and valuable assets of the company. Any use of Fair Isaac Marks that is inconsistent with these Usage Requirements, or other unauthorized use of Fair Isaac Marks or marks that are confusingly similar to Fair Isaac Marks, may violate Fair Isaac's legal rights. Fair Isaac appreciates your compliance with these Usage Requirements and will take steps to protect the Fair Isaac Marks against improper use and infringement. Fair Isaac reserves the right to object to any use of Fair Isaac Marks (or anything confusingly similar to a Fair Isaac Mark) that Fair Isaac deems to be unlawful under the circumstances, even if that use is not expressly prohibited by these Usage Requirements.

Fair Use of Fair Isaac Marks
 
You may refer to Fair Isaac products and services by their appropriate Fair Isaac Mark (other than logos and stylized marks), so long as such references (a) are truthful, fair, and not misleading, and (b) comply with these Usage Requirements.

Fair Isaac Logos and Stylized Marks

You should never use Fair Isaac logos or stylizations of Fair Isaac Marks unless you have a license agreement or other explicit written permission from Fair Isaac to do so.

Proper Use of Trademark Symbols

Always use the proper trademark symbol (TM, sm, or ®) immediately following at least the first reference to the trademark on any page.

The exception to the above rule is when the "Fair Isaac" name is used as our company name, as opposed to an identifier of one of our products or services. In this case you should not use the ® symbol.

Note the correct spelling of "Fair Isaac" (not Issac).

Examples of Correct Uses of Some Fair Isaac Marks

The following examples illustrate the correct use of ™, (sm), or ® and the use of the trademark as an adjective with the correct generic noun or phrase:

Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system
Fair Isaac® products and services
FICO® scores (note all caps - not Fico)
Fair Isaac MarketSmart Decision System® solution
Falcon™ Fraud Manager
myFICO® service
TRIAD™ adaptive control system

Check the list of Fair Isaac trademarks below to verify how the Fair Isaac Marks should appear.

FICO® Trademark

FICO® is a trademark that refers to Fair Isaac credit scores and other products and services, and should not be used as an abbreviation for our company name. In normal usage and text, refer to the company as Fair Isaac and do not abbreviate it.  Under no circumstances may the FICO trademark (or any variation such as "Fico") be used as a synonym for or to describe credit scores that are not Fair Isaac credit scores. FICO and Fico are not generic terms for other types of scores.

Acknowledgment of Trademark Rights

Assuming your use of a Fair Isaac trademark is permitted, you should always acknowledge that Fair Isaac Corporation owns the trademark. If it is not clear from the context of the use of the Fair Isaac Mark (e.g., Fair Isaac's FICO® scores), you should include a separate acknowledgment. The acknowledgment should appear in legible type in any materials in which a Fair Isaac Mark appears. The following language is acceptable:

"Fair Isaac and [Insert Fair Isaac Marks used] are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation."

Materials that mention Fair Isaac only:
"Fair Isaac is a registered trademark of Fair Isaac Corporation."

Remember that the inclusion of a trademark symbol and acknowledgment does not turn an improper use of a Fair Isaac Mark into a proper use or entitle you to use any Fair Isaac Mark in a way prohibited by law or otherwise not allowed under these Usage Requirements.

Prohibitions

• Do not use any Fair Isaac Mark, and do not adopt a "look and feel" with respect to any publication or Web site, in a way that might cause confusion about the relationship between Fair Isaac and any other party or any non-Fair Isaac product or service (e.g., as to source, origin, sponsorship, or endorsement). 
• Do not incorporate any Fair Isaac Mark into your own product names, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names, and do not adopt marks or logos that are confusingly similar to any Fair Isaac Marks. 
• Do not use or reproduce any Fair Isaac logos unless you have explicit written permission to do so. 
• Do not use any Fair Isaac Marks as a meta tag for your web pages. 
• Do not use any Fair Isaac Mark or any confusingly similar words as your domain names or as parts of your domain names. 
• Do not use any Fair Isaac Mark or any confusingly similar words as the alphabetic equivalent of a phone number (e.g., 1-800-GET-FICO).  
• Do not use Fair Isaac Marks as Internet search "keywords" or in any other way that is intended to or has the effect of directing traffic to a non-Fair Isaac Web site. 
• Do not state or imply that you have or are claiming rights in any Fair Isaac Mark. 
• Do not use Fair Isaac Marks in any improper way that would disparage Fair Isaac Corporation, its subsidiaries, its products, or its services (i.e., unfair competition, false or misleading, etc.).

Questions

Any questions regarding these Usage Requirements should be directed to webmanager@fairisaac.com.

Version and Right to Make Changes

These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements were originally posted on October 15, 2003. Fair Isaac reserves the right to change these Usage Requirements at any time by posting a revised version on this Web site.
 
Fair Isaac Trademarks in the United States and/or Other Countries

300-850® score (words and logo)
A3® service
Actionable Analytic Advantage® service
ActiView® service
AutoAdvisor® medical bill review
Blaze Advisor™ business rules management system
Capstone® Decision Manager
CompAdvisor® medical bill review software
Context Vectors™ technology
CreditDesk® origination and underwriting software
CreditSync® service
CustomerHD™ segmentation
Data Spiders™ module
Debt Manager™ solution
Fair Isaac® (words and logo)
Fair Isaac ContactBuilder® service
Fair Isaac Korea®
Fair Isaac MarketSmart Decision System® solution
Fair Isaac Qualify™ score
Fair Isaac SmartAdvisor® medical bill review software
Fair Isaac SmartLink® customer data integration service
Falcon® Compromise Score
Falcon® Express
Falcon® Fraud Manager
Falcon® ID solution
Falcon® Rules Recommendation Service
FastPanel® diagnostics
FICO® Capacity™ index
FICO® Expansion® score
FICO® score
FICO® Score Delivery
FICO® Score Simulator
FICO - the score lenders use™ (tagline)
FICO - the score to know™ (tagline)
FICO.org® service
Global FICO® score     (note: The trademark is FICO)
Identity Theft Security® service
It's just a smarter way to do business® (tagline)
LiquidCredit® service
MIRA™ Claims Advisor for Reserving
myFICO® service
NextGen FICO® score
OfferPoint™ transaction analytics solution
Payment Optimizer® solution
Peacock™ technology
Placement Optimizer^sm service
PlacementsPlus® service
PrecisionView™ transaction analytics solution
PreScore® Service
Recovery Management System™ solution
RMS™ solution
RMS NG™ solution
RoamEx™ roamer data exchanger
SBSS^sm-CreditDesk® system
ScoreNet® network
ScoreWare® software
See how lenders see you^sm (tagline)
Segmentation ART™ module
Small Business Scoring Service^sm (SBSS^sm) solution
State Compliance Decision Manager™ solution
Strategy Machine® solution
StrategyWare® decision engine
TelAdaptive® account management service
TreeView™ software
TRIAD™ adaptive control system
UniScore^sm service
Vectus® software
VeriComp® Fraud Manager
Vista® account management risk score service

Questions about Fair Isaac trademarks and their usage may be referred to webmanager@fairisaac.com.