Advertising terms & conditions

1. All Advertiser materials for publication within this Media Package must be provided to Building Control Communications in accordance with the current technical requirements and its content must comply with the current guidelines of the Advertising Standards Authority.

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2. Building Control Communications reserves the right

a. To position and/or to change the size of any advertisement unless such position or size is specifically agreed on this order.

b. To reject, remove or suspend any advertisement or to modify the content/copy of the advertisement.

c. To include an advertisement reference number on all artwork they publish or broadcast.

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3. The Advertiser warrants to Building Control Communications that

a. It has all necessary rights in the advertisement and/or video and its contents.

b. The advertisement and/or video do not contravene any law, regulation or code of practice nor infringe any rights of any third party.

c. The advertisement complies with the Advertising Standards Authority's current code of practice and with all other requirements of any relevant authority.

d. Whereby a video is supplied, it complies with the Advertising Standards Authority’s current codes including both non-broadcast and broadcast codes of practice. Building Control Communications assumes no liability for the content or images of the video.

e. Insofar as the Advertiser requires any consent from any third party in connection with the advertisement and/or video and its contents, it has obtained all such consents.

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4. The Advertiser grants Building Control Communications a worldwide non-exclusive fully paid licence to use and reproduce and display the Advertiser materials including any artwork, video, trademarks, brand features and any other content contained in the advertisement.

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5. Building Control Communications accepts no liability for any movement in the date of publication. It is hereby agreed that any alteration of publication date will not constitute a breach of this contract.

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6. All original hard copy artwork provided by the Advertiser shall remain the property of the Advertiser and remain at the Advertiser's risk. Building Control Communications does not accept liability for any damage or loss whilst in its custody nor during transit.

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7. The Advertiser is solely responsible for supplying suitable copy (including any blocks or artwork which may be required to be reproduced) to Building Control Communications within fourteen days of this order or by a predefined date.

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8. Under the terms of this agreement the term ’publish’ refers to Building Control Communications’s methods of producing publications including but not limited to print, eBook, digital and social media formats.

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9. In the event of Building Control Communications not receiving video content in the correct format within fourteen days of this order, Building Control Communications reserve the right to print the advertisement without the video embedded; but the advertiser will remain liable for the full cost of the media package. In this circumstance, Building Control Communications will allow a period of fourteen days after the date of publication in which they will upload video content to a website and provide a hyperlink from the e-book. After this period, any video upload will be subject to a mandatory charge of one hundred and fifty pounds excl. VAT.

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10. In the event of Building Control Communications not receiving suitable advertising copy, Building Control Communications reserve the right to produce artwork on behalf of the Advertiser whereby the Advertiser will incur an artwork fee of a minimum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Excl VAT which will be payable to Building Control Communications within seven days of completing such artwork. In producing such artwork Building Control Communications will print either

a. The name, address, telephone number and basic business category details of the Advertiser (if supplied), or

b. A previous advertisement printed on behalf of the Advertiser by the Publisher, and in respect of any case, Building Control Communications will not be responsible for any error or omission arising therefrom.

c. Other information, artwork or other material relating to the Advertiser which Building Control Communications is able to obtain from sources generally available to the public. In such circumstances, to the extent that the Advertiser shall own (or shall be deemed to own) intellectual property rights in such information, artistic/literary works or other material, the Advertiser shall be deemed to have granted to Building Control Communications a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to reproduce such works and to exploit such intellectual property rights for the purposes of that particular publication only. The Advertiser in accepting these terms also agrees to indemnify Building Control Communications against all costs, expenses, damages, fees and penalties which Building Control Communications may incur or suffer as a result of the use of such publicly-available material.

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11. Building Control Communications excludes all warranties as to the quality, accuracy or performance for any particular purpose of our websites.  Other than in respect of death or personal injury caused by its own negligence, Building Control Communications will not be liable for any damages arising as a result of the use of our websites.  Building Control Communications makes no warranty that our websites or their contents are free from infection by viruses.  Certain links on our websites may lead to resources located on servers maintained by third parties over which the Building Control Communications has no control and Building Control Communications accepts no liability in respect thereof.

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12. Building Control Communications shall not be liable for any loss in connection with the advertisements on the websites including any technical malfunction, computer error, a defect in software, loss of data or other damage or disruption to advertisements except to the extent to which it is unlawful to exclude such liability under the law applicable to this contract.

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13. Building Control Communications will periodically notify the advertiser of any sum(s) paid in error to Building Control Communications within 12 months of any such payment(s) being made. After 12 months of the date of such payment(s), Building Control Communications will not provide any further notification and will not be liable for any refund; instead, any sums will belong absolutely to Building Control Communications.

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14. If Building Control Communications fails to publish the advertisement in accordance with the terms of this agreement the sole liability of Building Control Communications to the Advertiser shall be limited to (at Building Control Communications’s option) either a refund of the fee or placement of the advertisement at a later time in a comparable position or publication. Furthermore, acceptance by the Publisher of this order is conditional upon either; 

a. permission being given by the Local Authority, for the advertisement (or any part thereof) to appear in the publication or

b. sufficient numbers of Advertisers being obtained to complete the publication. If either condition is unfulfilled the Publisher will not accept any liability for damage or loss.

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15. The Advertiser shall indemnify and keep indemnified Building Control Communications against all expenses, damages and losses of any kind incurred by Building Control Communications in connection with any claim arising from the advertisement and/or video.

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16. Payment is strictly due in full within fourteen days of the date of invoice. Invoices are normally issued within fourteen days from the date of order.

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17. Building Control Communications reserves the right to charge a late payment fee in compliance with the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998

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18. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United Kingdom and Ireland under the relevant jurisdiction of England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Ireland.