Intellectual Property Policy
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Our IP rules, quick look
- Kitwave sells blank, logo-free basketball kits and lets you print your own name and number. That is the whole game.
- We do not print team, league, college, player or brand names or logos. Orders asking for them are cancelled and refunded in full.
- The Kitwave name, site text, photos and layouts belong to Kitwave or are used with permission.
- Linking to our pages is welcome. Copying our photos or descriptions to sell elsewhere is not.
- Rights owners can report a concern to support@kitwave.shop. We acknowledge within 24 hours on business days.
- Copyright takedown notices follow the steps on our DMCA page.
1. Why this policy exists
Custom jerseys sit close to a lot of famous marks. People love their teams, and it is tempting to type a club name or a star’s surname into the name field. We get it. But those names and crests belong to someone else, and printing them without permission is not ours to do. This page sets out, in plain words, what belongs to Kitwave, what belongs to other people, what you can do with our content, and how anyone who owns a right can reach us if they think we got something wrong.
It applies to everything on kitwave.shop: product pages, category pages, help and policy pages, images, the live personalisation preview and any order you place.
2. What Kitwave owns
Unless a page says otherwise, the following belong to Kitwave or are used under permission from their owners:
- The Kitwave name and any Kitwave logo or wordmark shown on the site.
- Product descriptions, help pages, policy pages and other written content.
- Product photos, mockups, graphics and the design of the pages themselves.
- The colourways and layouts of our own logo-free kits, such as how a stripe, panel or number style sits on a jersey.
- The structure of the shop: how categories, custom products and help pages are arranged.
This content is protected by copyright, trademark and similar laws. Owning a jersey you bought from us gives you the jersey, not the rights to our photos or text.
3. What you are welcome to do
- Browse, read and print pages for your own personal use, for example printing the size guide to measure at home.
- Share links to any Kitwave page or product with friends, your team chat or your league organiser.
- Post photos of yourself wearing a jersey you bought from us. Your photo is yours.
- Quote a short line from a help page with a link back to it, for example when explaining our return window to a teammate.
4. What is off the court
- Copying our product photos, mockups or descriptions to list items on another store, marketplace or social shop.
- Using the Kitwave name, or anything close enough to confuse people, to suggest you are us or work with us.
- Scraping or bulk-downloading the site with bots or tools, beyond normal search engine indexing.
- Reselling our own kit designs as your own designs, or making copies from them for sale, without our written permission.
- Framing our pages inside another site so that it looks like their content.
If you want to use something that falls in this list, ask first. The contact details are at the bottom of this page.
5. The personalisation rules
This is the part most customers need. Every custom product at Kitwave gives you a Name on back field (up to 12 letters) and a Number field (0 to 99). Some products add an optional front number, and reversible kits print the name and number on both sides. Here is what is fine and what is not.
| Type of text | OK to print? | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Your own name or surname | Yes | “ALVAREZ” |
| A nickname or court name | Yes | “BUCKETS”, “SLIM”, “DOWNTOWN” |
| A family name for a gift | Yes | “DAD”, “GRANDMA”, “OKAFOR” |
| Your pickup crew or rec team name you made up | Yes, if it is not someone else’s mark | “NIGHT RUN”, “PARK 4” |
| A pro, college or league team name | No | Any real club or school name |
| A real athlete’s name used to look like their jersey | No | A famous player’s surname paired with their known number |
| A brand name or slogan you do not own | No | Sportswear brands, soft drink brands, slogans |
| Hateful, threatening or explicit wording | No | Any of it |
Numbers on their own are fine. A number is just a number. What we will not do is help recreate a specific player’s shirt by pairing their name with their known digits.
What happens if an order crosses the line
Before production, we check names typed into orders. If one asks for a team, league, player or brand name or logo, we cancel the order and refund the full amount to the original payment method. We email you to say so, and you are welcome to order again with different text. We do not edit your text for you, because we print exactly what is typed and we will not guess what you meant.
Shared surnames
Plenty of people share a surname with someone famous. If your name really is the same as a well-known athlete’s, you can print it. If an order looks like it may be recreating a known jersey, we may email you to ask before production. A quick reply from you settles it.
6. Our kits are logo-free by design
Kitwave jerseys, reversible kits, shorts, shooting shirts, warm-ups and court gear are sold blank of any team or brand identity. No crests, no league patches, no copied colour schemes built to look like a specific club. That is how we can offer your name and your number on a kit that is truly yours. If you see a product on our site that you think breaks this rule, please tell us. We would rather hear about it than miss it.
7. Other people’s names on our site
Sometimes a help page might mention a generic term, a place or a type of game, like streetball or pickup. That is everyday language, not a claim of a connection with anyone. Kitwave is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any team, league, school, athlete or sportswear brand.
8. Reporting an intellectual property concern
If you own a trademark, a design right, a right of publicity or another right and you believe something on Kitwave infringes it, email support@kitwave.shop with the subject line “IP concern”. Please include:
- Your full name, contact email and postal address, and whether you are the rights owner or act on their behalf.
- The right concerned, for example a trademark name and registration number and the country where it is registered, or a clear description of the design.
- The exact URL of each product, image or page you are concerned about.
- A short explanation of why you believe it infringes your right.
- A statement that the information in your report is accurate and that you are authorised to make it.
For a copyright complaint, such as a photo or text you believe was copied, please use the process on our DMCA page, which asks for a few extra details.
9. What we do with a report
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1. Received | We confirm we have your report within 24 hours on business days. |
| 2. Review | We look at the listing, image or text you named and compare it with the right you described. |
| 3. Questions | If something is missing or unclear, we email you before deciding anything. |
| 4. Action | If the concern is valid, we remove or change the content and tell you what we did. |
| 5. Close | If we decide no change is needed, we explain why in a reply. |
We aim to finish a review promptly. Complex cases may take longer, and if so we keep you posted by email.
10. If someone copies Kitwave
Seen our photos or descriptions on another site that is not ours? Send us the link. It helps us protect customers from shops that use our content to look like Kitwave. We never sell through other storefronts under the Kitwave name, so any copy outside kitwave.shop is not us.
11. Ideas and feedback
We like hearing ideas, like a new colourway or a number style you wish we had. If you send one, you agree we can use it freely without owing you anything. We will never publish your name, photo or personal details with it unless you say yes first.
12. Customer photos
If you email us a photo, for example to show a print issue, we use it only to help with your order. Customer photos are deleted 30 days after delivery. We do not post them on the site or anywhere else.
13. Real situations, straight answers
“I want my rec league team’s name on ten jerseys.”
If your team name is one your group made up, like “Tuesday Bigs” or “East Lot”, go for it. Each jersey gets its own back name and number, so order ten custom jerseys and type each player’s details. If your rec team borrowed the name of a pro or college club, we cannot print it. Pick a name that is yours and the jerseys are yours too.
“Can I get a jersey that looks like my favourite player’s?”
We can print your name and any number from 0 to 99 on a logo-free kit in a colour you like. We will not print that player’s name, their team’s name or any crest. The kit will be yours, not a copy of theirs.
“It is a gift for my dad, and his nickname happens to be a brand.”
Nicknames are great, but if the word is a registered brand name, especially a sportswear brand, we have to pass. Try his real name, “POPS” or the number he wore in high school. If you are not sure whether a word is a brand, email us before you order and we will tell you.
“My school’s name is just my town’s name.”
A place name on its own, like a town or a street, is usually fine. A school name with its crest, mascot or set colours to match is not something we print. When in doubt, ask first; it takes us one reply.
“Can I upload a logo for the front?”
No. Kitwave products do not have an upload field, and we only print text typed into the name and number fields. That keeps every kit clean and keeps us clear of artwork we cannot check.
“My order was cancelled for a name. Do I get my money back?”
Yes, all of it, back to the method you paid with. You are free to place a new order with different text. Our Refund Policy explains how refunds land.
“Can I print my jersey number from my old school team?”
Yes. The number is yours to pick, anywhere from 0 to 99. Put your own name above it and you have a throwback that belongs to you, without any school name or crest on it.
14. Changes to this policy
We may update this page when our products or the law change. The date at the top shows the latest version. Orders are handled under the version in place when you ordered.
15. Contact and permission requests
To ask for permission to use Kitwave content, or for any question about this policy, email support@kitwave.shop. Email is our only contact channel. You can also write to Kitwave, 5317 Panorama Terrace, Panora, IA 50216, US.
Related pages: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Contact Us and the custom name and number basketball jersey where the name rules apply.