Legal
Trademarks
Our marks, and how they may be used.
Using our marks
You do not need our permission to refer to Altimist or Finternet accurately — in an article, a comparison, a job advertisement, or documentation that describes working with us. That is nominative use and it is yours to make.
You do need our written permission to use either mark in a way that suggests we produced, endorsed or partnered with something we did not: in a product or company name, in a logo, in a domain name, or on merchandise.
Finternet and the protocol
Altimist Ltd owns the Finternet® trade mark. The protocol itself is open, and it is meant to be implemented by people who are not us. Holding the name is not a claim over the protocol — it is how the name stays attached to the thing it describes rather than to whoever markets hardest.
If you are implementing the protocol and want to say so, that is nominative use and it needs no permission. If you want to call your implementation Finternet-something, write to us first.
Getting it right
- Write Altimist and Finternet capitalised, as one word, and never in the plural or the possessive.
- They are adjectives, not nouns or verbs: an Altimist workspace, a Finternet handle.
- Include ® on first and most prominent use.
- Do not alter, recolour, stretch, outline or animate the marks, and do not build them into another mark.