Coat of Arms?

[wozcav]

Right William, as we all are so in seeing our Family connections or associations. I'm not being critical in this but if the Emblazon is not indeed yours by right, there is always the chance that the actual owner or theirs might take umbridge and litigate, that was my only concern in posting the rough guide of previous. Even then it may not really hold water?

[Stephen J F Plowman]

It is a bit of a grey area and I suppose it depends on "intent".  It would be very bad form to display the Arms of someone else as your own.  A colleague of mine had to take a prominent professional genealogical company to task for displaying his Arms in their promotional literature & website without permission.

Displaying them as a sign of putative kinship might be viewed in a different light.  Especially if the image is one produced by one of those heraldic "bucket shops".  That said, I would take a very dim view of someone "borrowing" my Arms - as in my avatar.