File:Seal of the Council of Congleton.png

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Description	The seal/logo of the Council of Congleton
Author or copyright owner
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	https://www.congleton-tc.gov.uk/your-council/meet-the-councillors-2023/
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Congleton Town Council
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Any derivative work based upon the logo would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The image will be used once, in reduced quality, at the top of the article in question as the primary means of visual identification for the article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution image of an organization's logo in the article about that organization will not impact the commercial viability of the logo.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Congleton Town Council//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_Council_of_Congleton.pngtrue

Licensing

This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals

to illustrate the government or agency in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for seals. Do not use it for other purposes.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:03, 10 July 2023		310 × 322 (119 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	16:04, 9 July 2023	No thumbnail	373 × 387 (172 KB)	Freedom4U (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

Horizontal resolution	37.79 dpc
Vertical resolution	37.79 dpc

File:Seal of the Council of Congleton.png

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