Legal Brand Guidelines

What do we mean by our brand?

Name and logos

Our name and logos are among the most recognizable and used parts of our brand. We and our customers use them globally, every day to build credibility and trust and consumers rely on them to help them make better decisions.

Our primary logo is unique and bespoke. It is displayed on all pages of the Trustpilot websites, in our reviews and ratings and by our customers. You can find a list of Trustpilot’s logos in your Business Account.

TrustScore and Star Rating

The TrustScore is an overall measurement of reviewer rating based on all the service and location reviews a business receives on Trustpilot.

After it’s calculated, the TrustScore is visualized into a star rating from 1 to 5 stars, including half stars (“Star Rating”):

The TrustScore and Star Rating are central to our brand, allowing businesses to build trust with new customers and keep existing customers coming back for more. You can find out more about the TrustScore and Star Ratings by visiting our Help Center.

TrustBox widgets

TrustBox widgets allow you to display reviews and other Trustpilot content. They add a dash of familiarity to your website, app or marketing content by showing your most recent reviews, your TrustScore, and/or your Star Rating. TrustBox widgets are available to all businesses who have a Trustpilot Business Account whether free or paying, although the range of widgets you have access to depends on your Trustpilot plan. You can browse the full range of TrustBox widgets by visiting our Help Center.

High resolution marketing assets

Trustpilot’s marketing assets are official and ready-made graphics, logos, and templates. Depending on your Trustpilot plan, you can download and use our marketing assets to showcase your business’ reviews, TrustScore, or Star Rating across all your communication and marketing channels, in both print and digital formats.

I'm on a free or paid Trustpilot plan

If you’re on one of our free or paid plans, you can use the resources available in your Trustpilot Business Account. You can access your Business Account by visiting b2b.trustpilot.com.

The resources you’re able to use will depend on your Trustpilot plan. If you’re not sure what you’re allowed to use, visit the “Showcase” section of your Business Account:

Some resources, such as TrustBox widgets that display reviews, are only available on paid Trustpilot plans.

Special rules apply when using Trustpilot content in advertising. See Advertising below for more information.

I’m not on a Trustpilot plan

Businesses who aren’t on a Trustpilot plan aren’t allowed to display their TrustScore or Star Rating on their websites or in their marketing. They also won’t have access to our TrustBox widgets or our other marketing assets.

The good news is that signing up to Trustpilot couldn’t be easier, and our basic services are free to all businesses. Create a free account today.

Press and Media

Press and Media can use our name, logos and symbols by following these Guidelines and the guidance in our Brand Hub. For Press or Media related queries, please contact press@trustpilot.com.

Trustpilot Partners

If you’re a Trustpilot Partner, you can use our brand in accordance with your Partnership Agreement and these Guidelines. If you’re not sure what you’re allowed to use under your Partnership Agreement, feel free to reach out to your contact at Trustpilot. We’re always happy to help.

Do:

• Use the resources available to you in your Business Account, such as TrustBox widgets and our "social sharing" tools. You don't need our permission to use these resources.

• Follow the style guidance on our Brand Hub when using our logos, such as respecting the "safe space" around our primary logo.

• Display, spell, and capitalise our name correctly. We re "Trustpilot", not "TrustPilot" or "Trust Pilot".

• Link back to your Trustpilot profile page when using our brand on your website.

• Use a date stamp or review count when showcasing reviews, TrustScore, and Star Rating in offline marketing and advertising.

• Take responsibility for ensuring that the Star Rating and TrustScore shown in any online marketing and advertising is accurate and not misleading. An easy way to do this is by including a date stamp or review count in your digital asset.

• When using your TrustScore, make sure that the word "TrustScore" is included next to the number so that consumers don't confuse this with your Star Rating (see "Our brand" above).

• Make sure that you use Trustpilot's logo whenever you display your Star Rating, TrustScore, or reviews.

Don't:

• Alter, amend, or make changes to our brand, including our name and logos.

• Use our brand in a way that suggests we authorise, endorse, or recommend your business or a third-party product or service.

• Use our name as part of your business' name (including brand and product names), even if it's a close misspelling. This will confuse and mislead consumers.

• Compare your TrustScore, Star Rating, Star Label (i.e. Excellent, Great, Good, Poor, or Bad) or Category Ranking to those of other businesses.

• Mislead consumers into believing that hte TrustScore, Star Rating, or reviews relating to another business relate to yours.

• Use any resources that fall outside of your Trustpilot plan.

• Use any unauthorised widgets or applications to display Trustpilot content, including reviews, TrustScore and Star Rating.

• Display your product reviews in a misleading way - for example, by displaying only five star reviews without a disclaimer that explains this is what you're doing

• Display product review widgets on your website's homepage, landing page, or in connection with an unrelated product.

We want you to be able to show off your glowing Trustpilot reviews, TrustScore and Star Rating in your advertising. All we ask is that you follow these Guidelines when doing so.

What’s the difference between “marketing” and “advertising”?

When we refer to “marketing”, we mean any public messaging that promotes your business through non-paid channels. Examples of marketing might include organic social media content and point-of-sale promotional materials. Depending on your Trustpilot plan, you can use the “marketing assets” and “social sharing” resources in your Trustpilot Business Account to showcase Trustpilot content in your marketing.

By “advertising”, we mean paid, public messaging and campaigns relating to your business. Examples of advertising might include paid digital, billboard, radio, and television campaigns. Only customers on one of our paid plans can use Trustpilot content (including reviews) in their advertising.

Do I need approval for my advert?

We require approval for certain kinds of advertising. Please submit a request for approval (“Ad Request”) if your advert relates to:

• Television;

• Radio; or digital audio; or

• Any “out of home” advertising, including print advertising, billboards, buses and posters.

As long as you stick to these Guidelines, you don’t need our approval for other types of advertising.

I need to make an Ad Request. What’s the process?

You can make an Ad Request by emailing your Customer Success Manager (“CSM”) with the name of your business/domain and a short description of your ad creative. We’ll then carry out an internal compliance check and your CSM will get back to you within 5 working days of your Ad Request being submitted.

I’d like to feature Trustpilot in my Google Ads, how can I get approval to do this?

You can ask for permission to feature Trustpilot in your Google Ads by emailing your CSM, who will submit an internal request on your behalf.

Can I use reviews in my advertising?

Though reviews belong to our reviewers, we have a license to display those reviews on Trustpilot and make them available to businesses who use our platform.

Provided that you’re on a paid Trustpilot plan, you can use Trustpilot reviews in your advertising. When using Trustpilot reviews, please make sure that you:

• Don’t use quotes from reviews out of context.

• Make it clear that the reviews come from Trustpilot. All Trustpilot reviews must be accompanied by our name and logo.

• Display the date of the review and the review’s Star Rating beside the review quote.

We recommend asking reviewers for their permission before using their reviews in any advertising.

When you make a ranking claim, it must be easily verifiable on the Trustpilot website and explicitly refer to your current position, category, and number of reviews. For example:

• “Ranked #1 in [category name] based on [xxx] reviews on Trustpilot”

• “Ranked #1 in [category name] among businesses with more than [xxx] reviews on Trustpilot”

• “Among the top rated businesses in [category name] based on [xxx] reviews on Trustpilot” (if the business features in the “Best companies in this category”)

• “Among the top-rated businesses in [category name] on Trustpilot”

• "One of the highest-rated [category name] companies on Trustpilot"

If possible, the ranking claim should be accompanied by a date stamp or a link to the relevant category page so that consumers can easily verify that the content of the claim is accurate.

Businesses can’t refer to a specific market or country in their ranking claims, as consumers aren't able to verify this information on the Trustpilot website.

It’s very important to us that you don’t misuse our brand. Examples of misuse include using:

• an incorrect TrustScore or Star Rating;

• content which is not up to date;

• a static image of your TrustScore or Star Rating on your website;

• your TrustScore or individual review Star Rating in any way that might be misleading as to your overall TrustScore. For example, displaying individual review Star Ratings in a way that suggests it is representative of the overall Star Rating for your business, or displaying the TrustScore for one of your domains on another domain; or

• a TrustBox widget which is not included in your Trustpilot plan, or an unofficial third-party application used to display Trustpilot content.

This is not an exhaustive list. If we discover misuse, we’ll take action to correct it. This is set out further in our Action We Take Policy.

Our brand resources are the property of Trustpilot A/S and shall be protected in accordance with applicable copyright, trademark and other legislation. Nothing in these Guidelines shall be regarded as transferring ownership in the brand resources to you and all goodwill arising from use of the brand resources belongs to us. You are only granted a non-exclusive license to use the brand resources as specified in these Guidelines and our Terms.

The brand resources that you are permitted to use are those shown in your Business Account. You should always display, spell and capitalise the brand resources exactly as they are shown in your Business Account and on our Brand Hub.

You may not use or register, in whole or in part, our brand resources, including our trademarks, Trustpilot-owned graphic symbols, logos or modifications thereof, as or as part of a company name, trade name, product name, or service name without our prior permission.

You may not use other variations of our brand resources for any purpose or use our brand resources or any other Trustpilot-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon in a disparaging manner.

You also agree not to use our brand resources, including our trademarks, Trustpilot-owned graphic symbols/logos, or icons, in a manner that would imply Trustpilot's endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or support of a third party product or service.

We may revoke permission to use the brand resources at any time. We expressly reserve our right to withhold approval of any content that we consider to be inconsistent with the Trustpilot brand. Please note that we also have the right to take action against any unauthorised use of our brand or goodwill and that we may terminate any licenses granted under these Guidelines or our Terms resulting from a breach.