ValorScore Badge License

1. What the badge is

The "Approved by ValorScore" badge is an image (SVG) that displays the ValorScore of a specific work — a 0-to-100 number summarizing our "worth watching" reading (content cleanliness, value, and audience rating). Any site may embed the badge for a work in our catalog, free of charge, under the terms below.

IMPORTANT: the badge is a labeled BRAND MARK / EDITORIAL EVALUATION — "Approved by ValorScore" — not a neutral third-party certification and not a factual or official verdict. The number is opinion with evidence, the same way we describe it in our Methodology (es/metodologia). Anyone embedding the badge must preserve that framing: the badge represents our evaluation, and the decision to watch remains the end user's.

2. License terms

(a) Attribution required: the badge must remain visually identified as "ValorScore" (the text embedded in the image itself). Do not crop, remove, or hide that attribution.

(b) Link back required: the badge must be wrapped in an `<a>` link pointing to the corresponding work's page on valorscore.com (see the snippet below). The badge must never be displayed without that link.

(c) No alteration: do not modify the colors, text, proportions, or content of the badge image. Do not crop out just the bare number apart from the rest of the badge, nor re-present it outside the "Approved by ValorScore" / opinion-with-evidence context.

(d) No implied undue endorsement: the badge shows our evaluation of the WORK, not an endorsement of the site embedding it, nor a commercial partnership, unless expressly agreed otherwise.

(e) Revocable: this is a free, revocable license grant, terminable at any time without notice, particularly in case of misleading use, alteration of the badge, missing attribution link, or use suggesting an official/neutral certification that the badge is not.

(f) Non-exclusive, no warranties: the license is non-exclusive; the badge and the ValorScore are provided as-is, may change over time (the score is adaptive — see Methodology), and may cease to exist for a given work.

3. How it works technically

The badge is served by a public endpoint (`/api/badge/{work-id}`) that returns an SVG image with the work's current ValorScore. Because the score is adaptive, the image can change over time — by design: it reflects the most current reading, not a frozen old number.

For works without a computed ValorScore yet, the badge shows "Under review" instead of a number — we never fabricate a placeholder score.

4. Embed snippet (copy and paste)

Replace "ID-DA-OBRA" with the work's identifier (visible in the work's page URL on our site) and "en" with "pt" if you prefer the Portuguese badge. The attribution link is already included — do not remove it.

<a href="https://valorscore.com/en/media/ID-DA-OBRA" rel="noopener" target="_blank">
  <img src="https://valorscore.com/api/badge/ID-DA-OBRA?locale=en" alt="ValorScore badge — ValorScore" width="216" height="60" />
</a>

The badge is 216×60px. Resizing the image is allowed (keeping proportions); cropping parts of it is not.

5. Contact

Questions about this license, requests for differentiated use, or revocation/removal requests may be sent to: