Contract Conditions
- a. Invoices are rendered at date of publication.
- b. Advanstar Communications, Inc. holds both the advertiser and its
designated advertising agency responsible for paying all duly
authorized advertising inserted in or attached to Aftermarket
Business. All overdue payments will be reinvoiced directly to the
advertiser, who will be held fully responsible for payment.
- c. Terms: Invoices are rendered on the publication date of each issue
and are due within 30 days of invoice date. Agency commission will
be disallowed on all overdue invoices. In the event the account is
placed for collection, customer agrees to pay Publisher for all
reasonable collection costs and/or attorney's fees incurred. Customer
also agrees to pay finance charges on the unpaid balance at the rate
of 1-1/2% per month or a percentage not to exceed the maximum
permitted by law.
- d. Publisher will not be bound by conditions appearing on insertion
orders or copy instructions which conflict with provisions of this rate
card, including sequential liability statement from advertising agencies.
- e. All advertisements are accepted and published by the publisher on
the representation that the agency and/or advertiser are properly
authorized to publish the entire contents and subject matter thereof.
- f. It is understood that, in the consideration of the publication of
advertisements, the advertiser and/or agency will indemnify and save
the publisher harmless from and against any claims or suits for libel,
violation of right of privacy, plagiarism, copyright infringement,
liability for use of classified material, and any other claims based on
the contents or subject matter of such advertisements.
- g. Publisher reserves the right to reject any advertising which Publisher
feels is not in keeping with the publication's standards or for any
reason, even if it has been published previously.
- h. Publisher shall not be liable for any omitted, misplaced or
mispositioned advertisements.
- i. Orders accepted subject to change in rate on notice from Publisher.
- j. Contracts may be cancelled at the time a change of rates becomes
effective without incurring a shortrate adjustment, provided contract
rate has been earned up to date of cancellation.
- k. Cancellation policy: An ad may be cancelled thirty (30) days prior
to the issue's ad close date. Publisher reserves the right to request
payment for ads cancelled less than thirty (30) days prior to ad close.
- l. A 1/6 page ad is the minimum rate holder.
- m. Shortrates and rebates: Advertisers will be shortrated if, within a
12-month period from the date of the first insertion, they do not
use the amount of space upon which their billings have been based.
Advertisers will be rebated if, within a 12-month period from the date
of the first insertion, they have used sufficient additional space to
warrant a lower rate than that at which they have been billed.
- n. Costs incurred by the publisher for production work on
advertisements will be charged to the advertiser regardless of
whether or not the ad runs. Advertiser will be charged for any
artwork, separations, halftone, stripping or typography provided by
the publisher.
- o. When change of copy is not received by the closing date, copy run in
the previous issue will be inserted.
- p. Publisher will hold advertiser's materials for a maximum of one year
from last issue date. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to
arrange for the disposition of artwork or film materials prior to that
time, otherwise materials will be destroyed. All requests must be
submitted in writing.
- q. Publisher will not be held responsible for consequential costs or
other damages due to loss or damage of film materials, art
and transparencies.
- r. Reader response inquiries are provided as a service. Publisher does
not accept responsibility for inaccuracies.
- s. Under no circumstances shall Publisher be liable for any indirect,
special or consequential damages (including, without limitation, loss
of profit or impairment of goodwill) of any advertiser. Under no
circumstances shall Publisher's direct or indirect liability to any
advertising agency or advertiser exceed the invoiced cost of
the advertisement.
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