2025 Best-Of Awards Trademark License Agreement and Terms of Use
This Agreement is entered into between NerdWallet, Inc. (“NerdWallet” or “we” or “us”), 55 Hawthorne Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 and your company (“Company” or “Licensee” or “you/your”). The effective date of this Agreement is the date you download the Awards Badges described herein. WHEREAS, NerdWallet has awarded Company a NerdWallet 2025 “Best-Of” Award for one or more financial product subcategories (the “Award”); WHEREAS, NerdWallet has provided Company with NerdWallet Award Badge(s) (the “Award Badges”) for your use in the promotion and advertising of the Award; THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Company agrees that by using the Award Badges as described herein, it agrees to the following terms:
NerdWallet hereby grants to Licensee a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and non-assignable license to use the 2025 Awards Badges (“Awards Badges”) provided to Licensee under separate cover, in the promotion and advertising of Licensee’s receipt of the Award. As between NerdWallet and Licensee, NerdWallet retains ownership of all rights, including, but not limited to, all trademark and copyrights in and to the Awards and Awards Badges. In the event Company fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement and fails to cure within five (5) days written notice from NerdWallet, the license shall be terminated upon the expiration of the five (5) days and all rights granted to the Licensee herein shall cease.
Licensee shall not display the Awards Badges: (a) with any material that relates to violence, sex, profanity, racism, sexism, religion, gambling, pornography, abortion, or any other highly explosive subject matter or subject matter which may reflect negatively on NerdWallet; (b) in any way that denigrates a competitor of Licensee; or (c) in any manner which may reflect poorly on or may damage the goodwill associated with or reputation of NerdWallet.
In each instance of use of the Awards Badges, Licensee shall include and display the following notice with the Awards Badges: ©2017-2025 and TM, NerdWallet, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Except as expressly provided herein, Licensee may not make any modifications to the Awards Badges (including but not limited to adding or omitting links) without NerdWallet’s express prior written approval. For clarification, Licensee may not disassociate or separately use any images that are delivered to Licensee with any item of the Awards Badges. If NerdWallet requests that Licensee delete, amend or correct any item of the Awards Badges, Licensee will comply with such request within one (1) business day after Licensee’s receipt of such request.
Licensee shall comply with all applicable laws in connection with its business operations and in connection with its publication and distribution of the Awards Badges.
Licensee may not publicly refer to or announce receipt of the Best-Of Award or use the Award Badges until the earlier of (i) January 9, 2025, or (ii) NerdWallet has publicly announced the Awards and provided express written consent to publicly refer to or announce your receipt.
Licensee must refer to their Award using the specific subcategory for which they won and the specific year in which they won (e.g., “2025 Best Credit Card for Travel Rewards” not “Best Credit Card”).
Licensee must refer to the year they won the award if they continue to use the Badge after the year the award was granted (e.g., “2025 Best Credit Card for Travel Rewards”).
Licensee must seek NerdWallet’s prior express written permission to use the Awards Badges in television advertising.
If Licensee shares an Award in a particular category or subcategory with another winner, both winners may refer to themselves only as “An Award Winner” or “Named an Award Winner for [product category/subcategory]”. Licensee may neither state nor imply that they are the only winner in that category or subcategory.
NerdWallet reserves the right to rescind the Award and to terminate this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the limited license provided herein, at any time for any reason. In addition to and not in limitation of the foregoing, we note the following: Your product or service has been chosen as the winner in its category based on qualities or features identified by the NerdWallet editorial team as best-in-class. Please be advised that if you make a material change to the qualities or features for which your product or service was chosen as a winner, such that it impacts the NerdWallet editorial team’s evaluation criteria (“Material Changes”), we reserve the right to rescind the award and grant it to another product or company. Moreover, NerdWallet may immediately terminate this Agreement and rescind the Award upon written notice, if at any time your Company (or its affiliates and/or employees) engages in any conduct or activities that NerdWallet, in its sole discretion, considers to be materially damaging to the business or reputation of NerdWallet, including without limitation: (a) committing any illegal act; (b) making offensive, incendiary, racist, violent, lewd, or profane comments in public, particularly when disseminated widely; or (3) engaging in any other conduct that insults, shocks, or offends the community or any segment of it (“Morality Clause”). If we rescind an Award, in no event will NerdWallet be liable for any direct, consequential, special, indirect, punitive, or other damages, including but not limited to money spent by you in reliance on your initial win or the NerdWallet Awards program.
All notices to NerdWallet will be in writing and sent to NerdWallet at the address set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement or to the email address or such other address as NerdWallet may provide to Company from time to time. All notices to Company will be in writing and will be sent to the email address NerdWallet has on file for Company for the point person in connection with the administration of this Award or such other address as Company may provide to NerdWallet from time to time.
Company shall indemnify and hold harmless NerdWallet and each of its Affiliates (as defined below) and their shareholders, directors, officers and employees (“NerdWallet Indemnitees”) from and against any and all losses, claims, damages (compensatory and punitive), liabilities and expenses, including reasonable costs of investigation and reasonable legal counsel fees and disbursements, which may be imposed upon or incurred by any of the NerdWallet Indemnitees as the result of: (a) any breach by Company of any provision of this Agreement; (b) any willful misconduct of Company; or (c) any claim or allegation of intellectual property infringement. As used herein, an “Affiliate” is any corporate entity that controls, is controlled by or under common control of NerdWallet hereto.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement of the Parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications, understandings and agreements, oral or written, regarding such subject matter. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision will be deemed restated, in accordance with applicable law, to reflect as nearly as possible the original intentions of the Parties, and the remainder of the Agreement will remain in full force and effect. This Agreement may be modified only in a writing signed by both Parties. The waiver or failure of either Party to exercise any right provided for herein will not be deemed a waiver of any further right hereunder. Company may not assign its rights or delegate its duties or obligations under this Agreement to any third party in whole or in part, without NerdWallet’s prior written consent. This Agreement shall be interpreted and construed according to, and governed by, the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflicts of laws rules. Any disputes under this Agreement must be brought in the state and federal courts located in San Francisco, California and the Parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of these courts.