Member agreement.

AK Owned confirms three things about a business: that it is registered in Alaska, that it is headquartered in Alaska, and that more than half of its ownership is held by people who live in Alaska. We check these against public records at signup and again every six months.

Certification is not an endorsement and it is not a rating. It says nothing about the quality of a member’s work, their pricing, their licensing beyond business registration, their safety record, or their financial condition.

Members may not represent it as any of those things. Describing an AK Owned listing as an endorsement, an accreditation, a rating, or a recommendation by Alaska Operator is grounds for removal.

Every six months we ask you to confirm the listing is still accurate: ownership, headquarters, employee range, and contact details.

If a reconfirmation lapses, the listing goes dormant. A dormant listing is removed from the public directory and the map until you confirm. Nothing is deleted and reactivating takes a reply to an email. If ownership or headquarters change so that the business no longer meets the criteria, tell us and we will remove the listing.

Members may display the AK Owned decal in a window or on a vehicle, and may use the mark on their own website, on signage, and on printed material identifying the business as a member.

Using the AK Owned mark in paid advertising requires a separate written license. That covers broadcast, print, and paid digital placement. The license is available and it is not difficult to get, but paid media is where a certification mark starts carrying commercial weight and it needs terms of its own.

The mark remains the property of Alaska Operator. Rights to use it end when membership ends, and the decal comes out of the window.

Your public profile shows the business name, any trade name, community, industry, year founded, employee count as a range, number of locations, website, a one-line description, and the profile written from your interview. You see that profile before it goes live.

Revenue never appears on a public profile. Neither do contact details or your business license number. The full picture is in the privacy page.

Membership costs nothing and obliges you to nothing. You are not agreeing to hire us, to meet with us beyond the interview, to sell your business, or to hear from us about anything you did not consent to.

You should know what else we do. Alaska Operator advises Alaska business owners on succession and transitions, and occasionally acquires businesses. Being in the registry does not put your business in front of a buyer, does not start a sale conversation, and does not give us any right of first refusal or any claim on a future transaction.

If we ever want to talk to you about either of those things, we will ask plainly, and no is a complete answer that changes nothing about your listing.

Tell us and we will take the listing down. No notice period, no exit conversation. Deletion of the underlying record is covered in the privacy page.

We may remove a listing if the business no longer meets the criteria, if a reconfirmation lapses for an extended period, if the mark is misused, or if certification is represented as an endorsement. We will say why.