{"page":{"id":546,"title":"Intellectual Property Policy","handle":"intellectual-property-policy","url":"https://sixyard.shop/intellectual-property-policy/","body_html":"<p class=\"policy-updated\">Last updated: <time datetime=\"2026-11-12\">November 12, 2026</time></p>\n<p>This Intellectual Property Policy explains what on sixyard.shop belongs to Six Yard, what you are welcome to do with it, what you may not do, how we keep club, league and brand marks off our shirts, and how to report a trademark, design or other intellectual property concern. Keeper kit is a world full of famous crests and brand stripes; our shop is built to stay clear of all of them. For copyright notices specifically, see our <a href=\"/dmca/\">DMCA</a> page.</p>\n<section class=\"policy-summary\">\n<h2>At a glance</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Six Yard name, the corner-bracket logo, our designs, drawings and text belong to Six Yard.</li>\n<li>Share links to our pages freely; do not copy our designs or text.</li>\n<li>Our shirts carry no club crests, league patches, sponsor marks, brand stripes or real player names.</li>\n<li>Names typed for printing must not use someone else&#8217;s trademark.</li>\n<li>Report concerns to <a href=\"mailto:support@sixyard.shop\">support@sixyard.shop</a>, subject &#8220;IP concern&#8221;; we acknowledge within 24 hours on business days.</li>\n</ul>\n</section>\n<h2>1. What belongs to Six Yard</h2>\n<p>Everything on the site that we created is owned by Six Yard or used with permission. That includes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the name Six Yard and the logo: a goal-frame corner bracket with a ball-dot in the top bin;</li>\n<li>the five corner colourway names as we use them together: Top Bins Magenta, Upper 90 Volt, Near Post Orange, Far Post Teal and Middle Graphite;</li>\n<li>our product designs, such as the Diamond Net, Angle Lines, Crossbar, Six-Yard Box Chalk Line, Clean Sheet, Parry Splash, Half-and-Half and Number One designs;</li>\n<li>the drawn goal frame, keeper silhouette, keeper bag, pitch diagram and jersey illustrations on our pages;</li>\n<li>product descriptions, category texts, size and fit guidance, FAQs and policy pages;</li>\n<li>product photographs made for this store, and the layout and code of the site.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Common football words such as top bins, upper 90, near post, far post, clean sheet and six-yard box are part of the game and belong to everyone. What we claim is our particular designs, drawings, text and the way we combine them, not the words of the sport.</p>\n<h2>2. What you are welcome to do</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Browse, read and print pages for your own personal use, for example the size guide before measuring a young keeper.</li>\n<li>Share links to our product pages, shelves or guides by message, email or social media.</li>\n<li>Quote a short passage with a link back to the page it came from.</li>\n<li>Wear and photograph the Six Yard shirt you bought, on the pitch and anywhere else.</li>\n<li>Show our clash-check idea to your team: tell them the colours, send the link.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>3. What you may not do</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy, reprint or resell our designs, illustrations, photos or descriptions, including on marketplaces, print-on-demand platforms or other stores.</li>\n<li>Recreate a Six Yard design with small changes and sell it as your own.</li>\n<li>Use the Six Yard name, logo or anything confusingly similar in a way that suggests a connection with us or an endorsement by us.</li>\n<li>Bulk-download or scrape the site&#8217;s content with automated tools, other than normal search engine indexing.</li>\n<li>Use our drawings or copy to train or prompt tools that produce competing products.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>If you would like to use something in a way that is not listed above, for example in a coaching handout or a club newsletter, write to us first. We are happy to say yes when it makes sense.</p>\n<h2>4. How we respect other people&#8217;s rights</h2>\n<p>Keeper apparel is often sold next to famous brand logos and club kits. Six Yard takes a different path, and we hold ourselves to these rules:</p>\n<table>\n<caption>What never appears on a Six Yard shirt or page</caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Never used</th>\n<th scope=\"col\">What we use instead</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Club crests, badges or club names</td>\n<td>Our own small corner-bracket mark</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>League, competition or federation logos and patches</td>\n<td>Nothing; sleeves stay plain or carry our own prints</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sports brand logos and signature stripe patterns</td>\n<td>Our own drawn details: net, angle lines, chalk lines, splashes</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Names or likenesses of real professional players</td>\n<td>Invented sample names such as ALEX and SAM, clearly marked as samples</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copies of a club&#8217;s home or away kit colours combined with its crest</td>\n<td>Five keeper colourways named after corners of the goal</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cartoon characters or other licensed artwork</td>\n<td>Drawings made for Six Yard</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<p>A colour on its own is not a club&#8217;s property, and many teams share colours. If one of our colourways happens to resemble a team&#8217;s kit, that is because there are only so many colours; we do not add anything that ties a shirt to a particular club.</p>\n<h2>5. Names and text you ask us to print</h2>\n<p>On personalised shirts you type a name and a number. That text must be yours to use. Please do not ask us to print a club name, a league name, a brand name, a slogan that belongs to a company, or the name and number of a real professional player in a way that copies their shirt. We may decline or cancel such an order and refund it in full. Your own name, a nickname or a family name is always fine. The text you type is printed on your order only and is not shown on our site.</p>\n<h2>6. Reporting an intellectual property concern</h2>\n<p>If you believe something on sixyard.shop infringes your trademark, design right, right of publicity or another intellectual property right, email <a href=\"mailto:support@sixyard.shop\">support@sixyard.shop</a> with the subject &#8220;IP concern&#8221; and include:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>your name and contact details, and your relationship to the rights owner (owner, employee, legal representative);</li>\n<li>the right concerned, for example a trademark registration number and country, or a description of the protected design;</li>\n<li>the exact URL of each product or page you are concerned about, and what on that page you mean;</li>\n<li>a short explanation of why you believe it infringes;</li>\n<li>a statement that the information you give is accurate and that you are authorised to act for the rights owner.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>For copyright, please use the six-element notice on our <a href=\"/dmca/\">DMCA</a> page, which follows a specific legal process.</p>\n<h2>7. What happens next</h2>\n<p>We acknowledge your report within 24 hours on business days. We then compare the material with the right you describe. If we need more detail, such as a registration certificate or a clearer link, we ask before deciding. If the concern is valid, we remove or change the product, image or text and confirm what we did. If we disagree, we explain why in writing, and you remain free to take any further step the law allows.</p>\n<p>While a product is under review, we may take its listing offline so nobody buys something that might need to change. Orders already placed for an affected design are handled by email with each customer.</p>\n<h2>8. Ideas and suggestions</h2>\n<p>You may want to send us an idea: a sixth colourway, a design for a futsal keeper, a better name for a pair. We are glad to read it. If you send an idea, we may use it freely without paying for it, so please do not send anything you want to keep confidential. We will never publish your name or personal details with it unless you agree.</p>\n<h2>9. Our own trademarks</h2>\n<p>Six Yard and the corner-bracket logo identify our store and our products. Other names that may appear on the site in general text, such as the names of countries we ship to or the carrier delivering your parcel, belong to their owners, and mentioning them does not mean they endorse us.</p>\n<h2>Common questions about this policy</h2>\n<h3>Can our club print its crest on a Six Yard shirt?</h3>\n<p>We do not add crests, badges or club names to any order. If your club owns its crest and wants it on the shirt, a local print shop chosen by the club can add it after delivery; please ask that shop how they handle printed fabric first. A shirt changed after delivery by someone else is not something we can take back as a return in its changed state.</p>\n<h3>My team&#8217;s colours match one of your corners. Is that a problem?</h3>\n<p>No. Colours are shared by thousands of teams around the world, and no club owns a colour by itself. Our five colourways are named after corners of the goal and are sold without any club detail.</p>\n<h3>Can I use a Six Yard drawing in a coaching handout?</h3>\n<p>Often yes. Write to us first with a short description of where it will appear, and we will usually agree to non-commercial coaching use with a link back to the page it came from.</p>\n<h3>Can I resell Six Yard shirts I bought?</h3>\n<p>You can sell a shirt you bought for yourself second-hand, as you would any piece of clothing. You may not use our photos or descriptions to sell new shirts that are not ours, or present a copy of our design as a Six Yard product.</p>\n<h3>I want my real professional idol&#8217;s name and number on my shirt.</h3>\n<p>We ask customers not to recreate a real professional player&#8217;s name and number as a copy of their shirt. Your own name and favourite number are always fine; many keepers choose 1, 13 or 23 for their own reasons.</p>\n<h2>When we get something wrong</h2>\n<p>We check designs, drawings and product text before they go on the site, but nobody is perfect. If we ever publish something that looks too close to someone else&#8217;s work, we want to fix it quickly rather than argue. Telling us with a clear link is the fastest way to get it changed.</p>\n<h2>Content made by customers</h2>\n<p>If you send us a photo of your keeper wearing a Six Yard shirt, it stays yours. We will not show it on our site or anywhere else without asking you first and agreeing how it will be credited. Photos sent to us for an order question are deleted 30 days after delivery, as our <a href=\"/privacy-policy/\">Privacy Policy</a> explains. If you ever see a photo of you or your child on our site that you did not agree to, write to us and we will take it down without needing a formal notice.</p>\n<h2>Links to and from our site</h2>\n<p>You may link to any page on sixyard.shop without asking, as long as the link does not suggest a partnership or an endorsement that does not exist, and the page is not framed inside another site so that it looks like part of it. Our pages may link to other sites, such as a carrier&#8217;s tracking page; those sites and their content belong to their owners.</p>\n<h2>Changes to this policy</h2>\n<p>We update this page when our range or our practices change, for example when new designs join the shelves. The &#8220;Last updated&#8221; date at the top shows the latest version, and the version on the site at the time of your request is the one we apply.</p>\n<h2>10. Permission requests and contact</h2>\n<p>To ask for permission to use our content, or for any question about this policy, email <a href=\"mailto:support@sixyard.shop\">support@sixyard.shop</a>. Postal address: Six Yard, 3468 Cedar Grove Dr, Fort Pierce, FL 34946, US. See also our <a href=\"/terms-of-service/\">Terms of Service</a>, <a href=\"/about-us/\">About Six Yard</a> and the <a href=\"/product-category/keeper-jerseys/\">Keeper Jerseys</a> shelf to see the designs this policy protects.</p>\n","visible_characters":10213,"meta_description":"What belongs to Six Yard, why our keeper shirts carry no club, league or brand marks, what you may do with our content and how to report an IP concern.","parent":null,"published_at":"2026-11-12T02:58:46+00:00","updated_at":"2026-11-12T04:35:10+00:00"}}