Advertising terms

1. Who we are

Competition Brands (competitionbrands.co.uk) is run by RCommerce (“we”, “us”). Contact: [email protected]. No VAT is charged on placements.

2. The service

• Featured brand: your brand (name, short description, optional logo and a link to your website) shown in the sponsor slots next to the directory, brand pages, new-company lists and guides, and in the featured sponsor box on the home page. When there are more live ads than slots, they rotate.
• Platform spotlight: your platform or service shown in the top sponsor slot on the platforms page, and in the sponsor slots on other pages.
• Newsletter slot: one sponsor slot in one issue of the weekly Comp Brands brief.

Every placement is clearly labelled “Sponsored” and its links carry rel="sponsored". Paying for a placement never changes company data, checks, labels or the order of listings in the directory. We decide where exactly a placement appears on a page. We don't guarantee any number of views, clicks or sales.

3. Who can advertise

Placements are only for businesses, and the person ordering must be 18 or over. We accept prize competition operators, platforms and suppliers to the industry. Operators must show 18+ eligibility and a free entry route on their website. We don't accept ads that are unlawful or misleading, that are aimed at or likely to appeal to under-18s, that promote gambling products other than lawful prize competitions, or that infringe other people's rights.

4. Ordering and going live

• You order with the form on the advertise page or in a “Your brand here” sponsor slot (placement, company, website, email, short description and, optionally, a logo) and pay by card on Stripe's checkout page.
• There is no approval step before publication: your ad goes live automatically as soon as Stripe confirms the payment, and we email you a link to your private order page. The contract starts at that moment.
• Ordering is a condition of these terms: you confirm you are 18 or over and ordering for a business, and, if you run prize competitions, that your site offers a free entry route and 18+ eligibility. We check ads after they go live (see section 8).

5. Prices, renewal and payment

• Featured brand: £29 per month (launch price; regular price £59 per month). Platform spotlight: £49 per month (launch price; regular price £99 per month). Newsletter slot: £39 per issue, one-off. No VAT is charged.
• Featured brand and platform spotlight are monthly subscriptions. You pay the first month when you order; the month starts on the day you pay, and your card is then charged automatically on the same day each month until you cancel.
• Your launch price stays the same for as long as your subscription stays active. If you cancel and order again later, the price shown on the day of the new order applies.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card details. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries it over the following days; if it still fails, the subscription and the placement end, with no further charges.
• For a newsletter slot, we confirm the issue date by email after payment. If we can't run it within 8 weeks of payment, we refund it in full.

6. Cancellation

• You can cancel at any time, using the private order link in our emails or by replying to any of our emails ([email protected]).
• After you cancel, the placement stays live until the end of the month you have paid for and you won't be charged again. We don't refund part-months.

7. Your ad content

• You confirm that the details in your order are true and that you have the right to use the logo, names and text you send us.
• You can ask for changes to your ad text by email.

8. Removal of ads

• Ads are not approved in advance, but we review them after they go live. We may remove an ad at any time, and cancel its subscription, if it or the site it links to breaks these terms or the law, in particular if it: is aimed at or likely to appeal to under-18s; promotes prize competitions without a free entry route or without 18+ eligibility; is misleading or inaccurate; or promotes something unlawful or infringes others' rights.
• When we remove an ad, we decide at our discretion whether to refund the unused part of the paid period pro rata, refund the full amount, or (for a serious or repeated breach) make no refund. If we remove an ad when you are not at fault, we always refund the unused part pro rata.
• We tell you by email when we remove an ad and why. You can reply if you think we got it wrong.

9. Complaints

Tell us about any problem with a placement at [email protected]. We reply within 14 days. For every full day a paid placement was not shown because of a fault on our side, we extend your paid period by one day or, if you prefer, refund that day pro rata.

10. Personal data

We use the details in your order to provide the placement, take payment, send receipts and service emails, and keep accounting records. Our privacy notice explains how, including our use of Stripe for payments.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The version that applied when you ordered governs that order; for subscriptions, we will email you at least 30 days before any change that affects you, and you can cancel before it takes effect.