These Advertiser Terms set out the terms under which Paid Content is sold by Us to customers through this website, www.investinginwomen.co.uk (“Our Site”). Please read these Advertiser Terms carefully and ensure that you understand them before purchasing and submitting Paid Content. You will be required to read and accept these Advertiser Terms when completing your purchase. If you do not agree to comply with and be bound by these Advertiser Terms, you will not be able to purchase and submit Paid Content to Our Site. These Advertiser Terms, as well as any and all Contracts are in the English language only.
1. Definitions and Interpretation
1.1 In these Advertiser Terms, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:
“Advertiser” means a User that posts Paid Content on Our Site;
“Ad Confirmation” means Our acceptance and confirmation of your purchase of Paid Content;
“Ad ID” means the reference number for your Paid Content;
“Contract” means a contract for the purchase of a Paid Content, as explained in Clause 5;
“Paid Content” means an advertisement, editorial, client description, banners, offers, blogs, sponsored posts or content posted on Our Site by an Advertiser, in exchange for a fee, providing details of the item or service offered by the Advertiser;
“User” means a user of Our Site; and
“We/Us/Our” Investing in Women Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 13040680, whose registered office is at 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
2. Information About Us
2.1 Our Site is operated by Investing in Women Limited, which is a company incorporated in England and Wales with company number 13040680, whose registered office is at 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
3. Access to and Use of Our Site
3.1 Access to Our Site is free of charge.
3.2 It is your responsibility to make any and all arrangements necessary in order to access Our Site.
3.3 Access to Our Site is provided “as is” and on an “as available” basis. We may alter, suspend or discontinue Our Site (or any part of it) at any time and without notice. We will not be liable to you in any way if Our Site (or any part of it) is unavailable at any time and for any period.
4. Paid Content, Pricing and Availability
4.1 We may, from time to time, change Our pricing. Changes in price will not affect any Paid Content that you have already purchased but will apply to any subsequent renewal of Paid Content or new Paid Content.
4.2 We make reasonable efforts to ensure that all prices shown on Our Site are correct at the time of going online. Changes in price will not affect any order for Paid Content that you have already placed (please note sub-Clause 4.4 regarding VAT, however).
4.3 All prices are checked by Us before We accept your order for Paid Content. In the unlikely event that We have shown incorrect pricing information, We will contact you in writing to inform you of the mistake. If the correct price is lower than that shown when you made your order, We will simply charge you the lower amount and continue processing your order. If the correct price is higher, We will give you the option to purchase the Paid Content at the correct price or to cancel your order. We will not proceed with processing your order in this case until you respond. If We do not receive a response from you within 10 days, We will treat your order as cancelled and notify you of this in writing.
4.4 Prices on Our Site are shown exclusive of VAT. If the VAT rate changes between your order being placed and Us taking payment, the amount of VAT payable will be automatically adjusted when taking payment.
5. Orders – How Contracts Are Formed
5.1 Our Site will guide you through the process of purchasing Paid Content. Before completing your order, you will be given the opportunity to review it and amend it. Please ensure that you have checked your order carefully before submitting it.
5.2 If, during the order process, you provide Us with incorrect or incomplete information, please Contact Us as soon as possible. If We are unable to process your order due to incorrect or incomplete information, We will contact you to ask to correct it. If you do not give Us accurate or complete information within a reasonable time of Our request, We will cancel your order and treat the Contract as being at an end. We will not be responsible for any delay in the completion of the transaction or in the appearance of your Paid Content on Our Site that results from you providing incorrect or incomplete information.
5.3 No part of Our Site constitutes a contractual offer capable of acceptance. Your order to purchase Paid Content constitutes a contractual offer that We may, at Our sole discretion, accept. Our acceptance is indicated by Us sending you an Ad Confirmation by email. Only once We have sent you an Ad Confirmation will there be a legally binding Contract between Us and you.
5.4 Ad Confirmations shall contain the following information:
5.4.1 Your Ad ID;
5.4.2 Confirmation of the Paid Content purchased, including full details of the main characteristics of Our services and the details included in your Paid Content;
5.4.3 Fully itemised pricing for your Paid Content including, where appropriate, taxes and other additional charges and
5.4.4 The period of time for which your Paid Content will be available on Our Site (including the start date and the expiry and/or renewal date).
5.5 In the unlikely event that We do not accept or cannot fulfil your order for any reason, We will explain why in writing. No payment will be taken under normal circumstances. If We have taken payment, any such sums will be refunded to you.
5.6 Any refunds due under this Clause 5 will be issued to you as soon as possible, and in any event within 14 calendar days of the day on which the event triggering the refund occurs.
5.7 Refunds under this Clause 5 will be made using the same payment method that you used when purchasing your Paid Content.
6. Payment
6.1 Payment for Paid Contents must always be made in advance. Your chosen payment method will be charged when We process your order and send you an Ad Confirmation and on each renewal date.
6.2 Payments due must be made in full, without any set-off, counterclaim, deduction, or withholding (except where any deduction or withholding of tax is required by law).
6.3 We accept the following methods of payment on Our Site:
6.3.1 debit card, credit card and PayPal or invoice (on request).
6.4 If you do not make any payment due to Us on time, We will not make your Paid Content available on Our Site or, in the case of a renewal, will suspend its availability on Our Site. If you do not make payment within 10 days of Our reminder, We may cancel the Contract and will inform you of the cancellation in writing.
7. Paid Content
7.1 You agree that you will be solely responsible for your Paid Content and its content. We accept no responsibility for the content of Paid Content. Specifically, you agree, represent, and warrant that you have the right to submit the Paid Content, that all the information in the Paid Content is accurate and truthful, that all such information will be kept accurate and up-to-date, that no personal data will be included that you do not have the right to include and that the Paid Content will comply with Our Acceptable Usage Policy, detailed below in Clause 8.
7.2 You agree that you will be liable to Us and will, to the fullest extent permissible by law, indemnify Us for any breach of the warranties given by you under sub-Clause 7.1. You will be responsible for any loss or damage suffered by Us as a result of such a breach.
7.3 You (or your licensors, as appropriate) retain ownership of the content of your Paid Content and all intellectual property rights subsisting therein. By submitting Paid Content, you grant Us an unconditional, non-exclusive, fully transferrable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide licence to use, store, archive, syndicate, publish, transmit, adapt, edit, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works from, display, perform, and sub-licence that Paid Content for the purposes of operating and promoting Our Site.
7.4 Your Paid Content will be made available on Our Site immediately when We send you an Ad Confirmation and will continue to be available for the period stated in the Ad Confirmation (including any renewals), or until the Contract is otherwise ended.
7.5 We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of or for any opinions, views, or values expressed in Paid Content. Any such opinions, views, or values are those of the relevant Advertiser and do not reflect Our opinions, views, or values in any way. We have no control over, nor any involvement in, Paid Content, and We accept no responsibility for any actions taken or for any products or services provided by any Advertiser.
8. Acceptable Usage Policy
8.1 When submitting Paid Content, you must not submit or otherwise do anything that:
8.1.1 is obscene, deliberately offensive, hateful, or otherwise inflammatory;
8.1.2 promotes violence;
8.1.3 promotes or assists in any form of unlawful activity;
8.1.4 discriminates against, or is in any way defamatory of, any person, group or class of persons, race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age;
8.1.5 is intended or otherwise likely to threaten, harass, annoy, alarm, inconvenience, upset, or embarrass another person;
8.1.6 is calculated or is otherwise likely to deceive;
8.1.7 is intended or otherwise likely to infringe (or threaten to infringe) another person’s right to privacy or otherwise uses their personal data in a way that you do not have a right to;
8.1.8 misleadingly impersonates any person or otherwise misrepresents your identity or affiliation in a way that is calculated to deceive (obvious parodies are not included within this definition provided that they do not fall within any of the other provisions of this sub-Clause 8.1);
8.1.9 implies any form of affiliation with Us where none exists;
8.1.10 infringes, or assists in the infringement of, the intellectual property rights (including, but not limited to, copyrights, patents, trademarks, and database rights) of any other party; or
8.1.11 is in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party including, but not limited to, contractual duties and duties of confidence.
8.2 We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Paid Content and your access to Our Site if you materially breach the provisions of this Clause 8. No refunds will be given in the event of such suspension or termination. In addition, We may take one or more of the following actions:
8.2.1 issue you with a written warning;
8.2.2 take legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of any and all relevant costs on an indemnity basis resulting from your breach;
8.2.3 take further legal action against you as appropriate;
8.2.4 disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as required or as We deem reasonably necessary and/or
8.2.5 any other actions which We deem reasonably appropriate (and lawful).
8.3 We hereby exclude any and all liability arising out of any actions (including, but not limited to those set out above) that We may take in response to breaches of these Advertiser Terms.
9. Ending the Contract
9.1 You may cancel the Contract and remove your Paid Content at any time. We cannot offer any refunds and you will remain free to reactivate your Paid Content up until the renewal or expiry date, as applicable, whereupon the Contract will end.
If you wish to exercise your right to cancel under this Clause 9, you may inform Us of your cancellation in one of the following ways:
9.1.1 Email address: hello@investinginwomen.co.uk;
9.1.2 Contact us page: https://investinginwomen.co.uk/contact-us/; and
9.1.3 Postal Address: 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
In each case, providing Us with your name, address, email address, telephone number, and Ad ID.
10. Our Liability
10.1 Subject to sub-Clause 10.3, We will not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any loss of profit, loss of business, interruption to business, for any loss of business opportunity, or for any indirect or consequential loss arising out of or in connection with any contract between you and Us.
10.2 Subject to sub-Clause 10.3, Our total liability to you for all other losses arising out of or in connection with any contract between you and Us, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall be of the total sums paid by you under the contract in question.
10.3 Nothing in these Advertiser Terms seeks to limit or exclude Our liability for death or personal injury caused by Our negligence (including that of Our employees, agents, or sub-contractors); for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or for any other matter in respect of which liability cannot be excluded or restricted by law.
11. Events Outside of Our Control (Force Majeure)
11.1 We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing Our obligations where that failure or delay results from any cause beyond Our reasonable control. Such causes include, but are not limited to: power failure, internet service provider failure, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, riots and other civil unrest, fire, explosion, flood, storms, earthquakes, subsidence, acts of terrorism (threatened or actual), acts of war (declared, undeclared, threatened, actual, or preparations for war), epidemic or other natural disaster, or any other event that is beyond Our reasonable control.
11.2 If any event described under this Clause 11 occurs that is likely to adversely affect Our performance of any of Our obligations under these Advertiser Terms:
11.2.1 We will inform you as soon as is reasonably possible;
11.2.2 We will take all reasonable steps to minimise the delay;
11.2.3 To the extent that We cannot minimise the delay, Our affected obligations under these Advertiser Terms (and therefore the Contract) will be suspended and any time limits that We are bound by will be extended accordingly;
11.2.4 We will inform you when the event outside of Our control is over and provide details of any new dates, times or availability as necessary; and
11.2.5 If the event outside of Our control continues for more than 30 days, We will cancel the Contract and inform you of the cancellation. Any refunds due to you as a result of that cancellation will be paid to you as soon as is reasonably possible and, in any event, within 14 calendar days of the date on which the Contract is cancelled and will be made using the same payment method that you used when purchasing your Paid Content;
12. Feedback and Contact Details
12.1 We always welcome feedback from Our customers and, whilst We always use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that your experience as a customer of Ours is a positive one, We nevertheless want to hear from you if you have any cause for complaint.
12.2 If you wish to give Us feedback on any aspect of your dealings with Us, please contact Us in one of the following ways:
12.2.1 Email address: hello@investinginwomen.co.uk;
12.2.2 Contact us page: https://investinginwomen.co.uk/contact-us/; and
12.2.3 Postal Address: 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
13. How We Use Your Personal Information (Data Protection)
We will only use your personal information as set out in Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
14. Other Important Terms
14.1 We may transfer (assign) Our obligations and rights hereunder to a third party (this may happen, for example, if We sell Our business). If this occurs, you will be informed by Us in writing. Your rights hereunder will not be affected, and Our obligations hereunder will be transferred to the third party who will remain bound by them.
14.2 You may not transfer (assign) your obligations and rights hereunder without Our express written permission.
14.3 The Contract is between you and Us. It is not intended to benefit any other person or third party in any way, and no such person or party will be entitled to enforce any provision of these Advertiser Terms.
14.4 If any of the provisions of these Advertiser Terms are found to be unlawful, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable by any court or other authority, that / those provision(s) shall be deemed severed from the remainder of these Advertiser Terms. The remainder of these Advertiser Terms shall be valid and enforceable.
14.5 No failure or delay by Us in exercising any of Our rights under these Advertiser Terms means that We have waived that right, and no waiver by Us of a breach of any provision of these Advertiser Terms means that We will waive any subsequent breach of the same or any other provision.
14.6 We may revise these Advertiser Terms from time to time in response to changes in relevant laws and other regulatory requirements.
15. Law and Jurisdiction
15.1 These Advertiser Terms and the relationship between you and Us (whether contractual or otherwise) shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.
15.2 Any disputes concerning these Advertiser Terms, the relationship between you and Us, or any matters arising therefrom or associated therewith (whether contractual or otherwise) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.