Trademarks & Copyright Policy

This policy applies to VOCLA Limited, whose registered office is Unit 2, Tilson Road, Roundthorn Industrial Estate, Manchester, M23 9GF, United Kingdom, and whose company registration number is 07910951, registered with the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales.

VOCLA® is an authorized brand retailer, offering a guarantee that products are authentic. We have spent over a decade building and fine-tuning our business and products, as have the brands that we supply, at great cost and time. We do not appreciate breaches of our copyright or trademark rights, nor breaches of the rights of those with whom we hold relationships. We therefore reserve the right to take any action to stop breaches. Our trademark and copyright rights are legally registered.

TRADEMARKS

VOCLA Limited, holds the following trademarks:

  • The word VOCLA
  • The VOCLA logo
  • An alternative VOCLA logo
  • The VA logo
  • The phrase 'VA'
  • The word VA Club
  • The VA Club logo

All these trademarks are registered with the UK Intellectual Property Office under classifications 25, 35 and 42.

Under no circumstances may any person, company, organisation or other entity use any of these trademarks without the express written consent of VOCLA Limited. Consent can be obtained by e-mail. 

Our policy is to object to every logo or word that is similar to a trademark of ours, raising opposition through the UK Intellectual Property Office.

We reserve the right to:

  • Complain to any marketplace or e-commerce platform on which you use our trademarks and have the content or products with trademark breach removed, without any warning to yourself.
  • Complain to Trading Standards to have any goods using our trademarks or similar trademarks seized and destroyed, without warning to yourself.
  • Take legal action to have goods seized and to seek compensation for damages to our brands and reputation.
  • Take any other action that we deem necessary to stop breaches and seek compensation.

COPYRIGHT OF OUR CONTENT AND PRODUCTS

The content of this website is registered with the UK Copyright Service, registration number: 284730289. All rights reserved.

You may not copy any or all of the content anywhere on this website. This includes text, images and the design of the website. If we find content that has been substantially copied, we have the right to any of the following action:

  • Contact the marketplace or e-commerce platform on which your content is hosted and request them to remove the content, which they are obliged to do, to avoid action against themselves.
  • Complain to the UK Copyright Service.
  • Complain to other entities and request action to be taken, for example if you copy a product description, we will request the brand to ask you to change it or face removal of your authorisation to sell those branded products.

If we find content that you have copied from any of the brands, suppliers or other entities with whom we hold a relationship, we will also inform them of this breach.

FAKE PRODUCTS

VOCLA guarantees that every product sold on our website is authorized by the brand owner.

If we find fake branded products, which are copies of products designed, marketed and sold by the brands with whom we hold a relationship, which you are selling on or in any e-commerce platform, marketplace, other platform or physical store, we will consider the following:

  • Reporting this breach to the marketplace and/or platform which you use, with a request for removal
  • Reporting the fake products to UK and other international Trading Standards bodies
  • Reporting the breach to the brand owner so they can take action against the marketplace and/or platform and/or yourself

Fake products are a sub-standard quality and we do not wish the reputation of the real brand owners to be tarnished.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

At all times, you must abide by clause 6 of our Terms & Conditions, as follows:

This Website and its original content, features and functionality are owned by VOCLA® and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

This Website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. The intellectual property rights in all software and content made available to you on or through this Website remain the property of VOCLA® and/or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property and copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved by VOCLA® and its licensors. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the Website for your own personal use. You are not permitted to publish, distribute, manipulate or otherwise reproduce, duplicate, sell or rent in any format, any of the content or copies of the content supplied to you or which appears on this Website nor may you use any such content in connection with any business or commercial enterprise without the prior written permission of VOCLA®.

You shall not modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on any software or accompanying documentation supplied by VOCLA® or its licensors.

The word VOCLA, the phrase VA CLUB, the VOCLA and VA brand logos are all registered trademarks belonging to VOCLA Limited. No license or consent is granted to you to use these marks in any way unless written permission is provided by VOCLA®.

Except where expressly stated to the contrary all persons (including their names and images), third party trademarks and images of third party Goods, services and/or locations featured on this Website are in no way associated, linked or affiliated with VOCLA®. Any trademarks featured on this Website are owned by the respective trademark owners. Where a trademark or brand name is referred to it is used solely to describe or identify the Goods and services and is in no way an assertion that such Goods or services are endorsed by or connected to VOCLA®