CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE OF ADVERTISEMENTS

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Orders for insertion of advertisements in Freead Mart are accepted subject to the following conditions:

1) The placing of an order constitutes an assurance that the advertisement is legal, decent, honest and truthful complying with the British codes of Advertising and Sales Promotion, with any relevant codes of practice and with the requirements of current legislation.

2) Advertisement orders are issued by an advertising agency as a principal and must be on the agency's official form. When copy instructions not constituting an official order are issued they shall be clearly marked 'Copy instruction - not an order'

3) The advertiser/advertising agency agrees to indemnify the publisher in respect of all costs, damages or other charges falling upon the newspaper as the result of legal actions or threatened legal actions arising from the publication of the advertisement(s).

4) It is the policy of Freead Mart to provide the best possible service to all our advertisers. While every endeavour will be made to meet the wishes of the advertisers, the publisher does not guarantee the insertion of any particular advertisement.

5) (i) In the event of any error, misprint or omission in the printing of an advertisement or part of an advertisement the publisher will either re-insert the advertisement or relevant part or the advertisement as the case may be or make a reasonable refund of or adjustment to the cost. No re-insertion, refund or adjustment will be made where the error, misprint or omission does not materially detract from the advertisement. (ii) In no circumstances shall the total liability of the publisher for any error, misprint or omission exceed (A) the amount of a full refund of any price paid to the publisher for the advertisement in connection with which liability arose or (B) the cost of a further corrective advertisement of a type and standard reasonably comparable to that in connection with which liability arose. The sales department must be notified of any errors in Trade advertisements within 48 hours of publication, failing which any right to a credit or refund will be lost. (iii) It is the responsibility of the advertiser/advertising agency to check the first insertion of any series of advertisements and notify the publisher or any errors. The publisher assumes no responsibility for the repetition of errors unless notified by the advertiser. (iii) The publisher shall not be liable for any loss or damage occasioned by any total or partial failure (however caused) of publication or distribution of any newspaper or edition in which any advertisement is scheduled to appear.

6) The publisher reserves the right to: (i) cancel the order at any time giving reasonable notice before the next insertion, but in that event the advertiser/advertising agency shall not be liable for payment of the difference (if any) between the rates for the series specified in the order and the usual price for the series of insertions which has appeared when the order is stopped: (ii) make any alteration it considers necessary or desirable in an advertisement and to require artwork or copy to be amended to meet its approval: (iii) reclassify any advertisement at its sole discretion.

7) An advertising agency may cancel any unexpired part of an order without penalty in the event of death or failure to its client.

8) The copyright for all purposes in all artwork, copy and other material which the publisher or its employees have originated, contributed to or reworked shall vest in the publisher.

9) The placing of an order by an advertiser, or an advertising agency on behalf of a client, constitutes an assurance that all necessary authority and permission has been secured in respect of the use in the advertisement(s) of pictorial representations of (or purporting to be of) living persons, and of references to the word attributed to living persons and of references to the words attributed to living persons.

10) The advertisers artwork, film and all other property is held at the advertisers risk and should be insured by him against loss or damage from whatever cause. The publisher reserves the right to destroy without notice all artwork, film and other property which has been in his custody for six months from the date of its last appearance in an advertisement unless the advertiser has given instructions to the contrary.

11) The Business Advertisement Disclosure Order 1977 requires that all advertisements placed by persons seeking to sell goods in the course of business must make the fact clear. Readers should be able to tell immediately if the advertisement has been placed by a private advertiser or a trader. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to comply with this requirement. Classified Trade advertisements are published as BOLD ADS or may be followed by (T) denoting trade.

12) All advertising must be prepaid. Once copy has been accepted for publication no cancellation or refund can be made. Deferral of advertisements by arrangement only.

13) (i) Every endeavour will be made to forward replies to box numbers to the advertiser as soon as possible after receipt by the publisher, but the publisher accepts no liability in respect of any loss or damage alleged to have arisen through delay in forwarding or omitting to forward such replies (howsoever caused). The advertiser authorises the publisher to return to its originator any communication which, in the opinion of the publisher, should not be delivered to the advertiser. (ii) The newspaper reserves the right to disclose the name and address of advertisers and/or agencies to the police, trading standards officials, or any other relevant authority and, where the publisher in its sole discretion deems it reasonable, to other third parties.

14) The placing of an order for the insertion of an advertisement, howsoever placed, shall amount to an acceptance of the above conditions and any conditions stipulated on an agency's order form or elsewhere by an agency or an advertiser shall be void in so far as they are in conflict with them.

15) Advertisement bookings are accepted for a maximum of 13 weeks at a time.