USING THE PSIP NAME.

For certified contractors

• You may say PSIP Certified only while your certification is current. Check your record page.
• PSIP certifies the record of your work, not the concrete. Say it that way.
• Use the seal only on work PSIP recorded. Do not redraw it or recolor it outside the approved files. It carries a small TM, never an R.
• Never say or suggest PSIP licensed you, insured you, approved you or guaranteed your work. Your license is yours.
• Do not promise results, rankings or leads from PSIP.
• Link to your record page wherever you use the name, so a homeowner can check it herself.
• Claiming certification you do not hold, or using the seal on work PSIP never recorded, is grounds for revocation. You answer for what your agency writes.
• Three strikes. First: a written warning and 10 days to fix it. Second: a written warning, 10 days to fix it, and a $100 fine. Third: review, where revocation is the expected result. Strikes never reset, and revocation is permanent.
• Notice goes to the email on file, and the 10 days start the day it is sent. Keep your email current.
• Send this page to whoever builds your website and marketing. "My agency did it" is heard once, and only with proof.

For agencies and marketers

The PSIP name and seal are trademarks of Performance Structural Standards Group. Only a contractor who is currently certified may use them, under a license that ends the day his certification ends. Nobody else is licensed to use them, agencies included.

If you market a contractor as PSIP certified when he is not, or put the seal on work PSIP never recorded, you are misusing PSSG's mark. You are also putting your client at risk of losing his certification for good. PSSG may act directly against anyone who misuses the mark, including the agency that published it.

Before you use the PSIP name, check your client's record page. If it says not currently certified, take the name down.