Update to Standards Defining Acceptable Use
We have added a new provision to our Membership Terms and Conditions in an effort to clarify acceptable use and marketing of the SaVoa shield logo and accreditation status. The text for this provision is provided below. This provision specifically addresses Members who not only provide voice over services, but also voice-over related services or products (like coaching, demo production and so forth).
We ask our Members to help us establish the limits of SaVoa’s accreditation program by making sure the general public never has any reason to identify the SaVoa logo shield or accreditation as applying to anything other than a Member’s voice over services.
- Members of SaVoa who also provide voice coaching, marketing, demo production, or other talent related services or products acknowledge that their SaVoa accreditation applies solely to their voice over services and is not accreditation nor endorsement of other talent related services or products. Members who also provide talent related services or products agree that they will not market their SaVoa accreditation as to those other services or products nor on web sites (or profile pages) that primarily offer voice coaching, or other talent related services or products. Accreditation may be marketed only on the member ’s web sites or profile pages promoting that member’s voice over services.
When we say marketed, we do not mean a casual reference. It is acceptable to mention your accreditation status in your bio section (e.g. About page) on a site promoting other services or products as long as that reference also clearly states that you currently provide voice over services and you make it clear that your SaVoa accreditation applies only to those voice over services. For example:“Member also provides voice over services and is a SaVoa accredited voice over artist;” or
“Member, a SaVoa accredited voice over artist, is the signature voice of Brand X, in addition to being the owner and developer of . . .”The reference may be text only or a text link back to (a) SaVoa.org, (b) the Member’s primary voice over site or profile page, or (c) the Member’s accreditation certificate.
