Thank you for encouraging others to know more about their hearing. Please follow these guidelines when using campaign resources.
Permissions
Outside entities may:
- Directly link to any pages on the Hearing Number website.
- Share Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-generated social media posts about the Hearing Number and hearing health on your social media platforms.
Permissions with Conditions
Outside entities may use and distribute Hearing Number campaign downloadable assets in print, media, and other communications, subject to the following conditions:
- All for-profit, commercial entities must first notify and receive permission from the Bloomberg School of Public Health to use these visual assets, as well as get final review of usage in layout before content is disseminated. Non-profit, governmental, academic, and professional society organizations are requested, but not required, to first notify Bloomberg School of Public Health before using these assets. Please email hearingnumber@jhu.edu and describe your use case, expected frequency/volume of usage, planned duration of usage, and contact information.
- Visual assets shall not be manipulated or altered in any way. Proportionate increases or decreases in size are permitted, but any other manipulation or alteration, including cropping or color changes, is prohibited. In certain situations, other variations of these downloadable assets may be developed by the Bloomberg School of Public Health for outside use. Please contact hearingnumber@jhu.edu with your proposed use case.
- Outside entities shall not depict any outside entity logos or brandmarks (including, but not limited to, company, organization, product, campaign, or project/initiative logos or brandmarks) in juxtaposition to Hearing Number assets in any way that may imply an affiliation between the outside entity and the Johns Hopkins Hearing Number campaign or the Johns Hopkins University, or an endorsement of a product by the Johns Hopkins Hearing Number campaign or the Johns Hopkins University.
- Commercial entities that use technologies to provide consumers with their four-frequency pure tone average (e.g., consumer technology companies, retailers, over-the-counter or prescription hearing aid manufacturers, app developers) must meet the “Four Frequency Pure Tone Average Testing Methodology and Reporting Metrics for Consumer Facing Hearing Solutions” (ANSI/CTA-2118) Standard or a related clinical standard in order to use any of the downloadable assets described above.
Outside entities may paraphrase and summarize copy from the Hearing Number website with appropriate attribution/citation to the Hearing Number website. Conditions:
- In running copy, include attribution as follows: “According to HearingNumber.org, a website by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, …”
- For citation, use your preferred standard, e.g., AMA style: Hearing Number, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Accessed [month, date, year], https://hearingnumber.org.
Prohibitions
- Any Johns Hopkins Hearing Number content (including visual assets, paraphrasing copy, etc.) cannot be used in any way by outside entities that implies a direct affiliation, partnership, collaboration, endorsement, or other relationship between the outside entity and the Hearing Number campaign or Johns Hopkins University. This includes visual juxtapositions of Hearing Number downloadable assets adjacent to outside visual marks, as well as any related copy that describes the Hearing Number campaign.
- The Hearing Number logo is a trademark of Johns Hopkins University and cannot be used without express permission.
- Other visual assets and graphics on the Hearing Number website cannot be used without express written permission from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Please contact hearingnumber@jhu.edu with inquiries about other use cases.
