Terms & Conditions
The publisher will not be held responsible for any omission to insert an advertisement and reserves the right to reject or cancel any order without notice or explanation, notwithstanding payment. The publisher is indemnified against all claims, actions, demands, suits, costs and expenses in respect of advertisement published under instructions from any advertising agencies.
Dimensions of advertisements must adhere to the Publisher’s specifications. There will be an extra charge for copy other than material specified.
The Publisher reserves the right to use previous material if copy is not supplied by the deadline, or to charge in full for space cancelled after the deadline.
The Publisher reserves the right to destroy without notice, any material in its possession for longer than three months, if no instructions have been forthcoming from the material owner. The placing of an order in contract will be deemed an acceptance of these conditions. Printed conditions from the advertiser on a contract or order will not be recognised.
Invoice will be generated and sent to advertisers on publishing day.
All payments should be in Malaysian Ringgit (RM) unless otherwise stated.
Any third party services required to fulfill the contract will have to be prepaid by the advertiser before commencement of campaign.
Payment must be received within 30 days of invoice date unless otherwise stated, failing which compounding interest of 10% per month will be imposed. The advertiser, his agent or agency shall bear the costs, legal or otherwise, and incidental expenses incurred by the publisher in the cause of collecting payment. All advertising materials are held by the Publisher at the owner’s risk and are not insured by the Publisher.
Digital Advertisements:
The publisher will endeavor to reach all impressions promised, however, in the event the number of impressions served during the campaign period is more than 10% less than the number of impressions booked by the Advertiser, the publisher will continue to serve the advertisements after the end of the campaign period until the number of booked impressions is reached.
The Advertiser acknowledges and agrees that discrepancies of up to 10% regarding the number of impressions served are common due to a variety of technical reasons. In the event of any disagreement regarding the number of impressions served, the Advertiser agrees that the figures provided by the publisher applicable third party provider will be final and binding.
Digital ads must be submitted 7 working days before the scheduled published date, the advertiser acknowledges and agrees that any late submission may result in delay in publishing start date while the publishing end date of the campaign shall not change. Any impression guaranteed by the publisher will be lower than agreed and will be accepted by the advertiser.
Advertisements will be served via Google DFP based on the guaranteed SOV as stated in the signed booking. Upon request, the Sales person managing your account will give you a screen shot with time stamp of your ad on our website on the day it launches. Further proof of the advertisement running and placement can be obtained via a report generated by google DFP. This report upon request will be available as soon as the campaign ends.
Publishing day is the day when the first ad unit is up and running on the site booked. It is the advertisers’ responsibility to send in all ad units purchased before the artwork deadline.
Invoice will be generated and sent to advertisers on publishing day.
Complaints regarding advertisements must be made in writing within 24 hours when the ad is published. Failure to do so will be considered as acceptance of the advertisement and payment will become due accordingly.
Advertisers must inform the publishers if there are any changes in digital ads publishing dates at least 2 weeks in advanced. New publishing dates are subject to availability. The full amount will be invoiced for any changes after the deadline.
Cancellation of digital advertisement spaces will only be accepted 30 days before the publication date. Between 15-30 days prior to the publication date a levy of 50% of the advertisement cost will borne by the advertiser for cancellation of space. Cancellation less than 15 days prior to publication date will bear a 100% charge on the advertisement cost to be borne by the advertiser.
Print Advertisements:
Loading fees will apply to fixed positions requested by the advertiser.
For any print bookings, due to imposition layout in book / magazine printing, multiple pages are printed on a single sheet of paper. Slight colour variation from time to time is unavoidable against colour separation proofs and such variation shall be accepted by the client.
Cancellation of print advertisement spaces will only be accepted 60 days before the publication date. Between 30-59 days prior to the publication date a levy of 50% of the advertisement cost will borne by the advertiser for cancellation of space. Cancellation less than 30 days prior to publication date will bear a 100% charge on the advertisement cost to be borne by the advertiser.
Invoice will be generated and sent to advertisers when the magazine is published.
Final copy is responsibility of the client and we are not responsible should there be any issues with the advertisement.
Complaints regarding advertisements must be made in writing within 5 days when the ad is published. Failure to do so will be considered as acceptance of the advertisement and payment will become due accordingly.
Events:
For any event bookings, a minimum of 50% of the total event fee must be paid immediately upon signing of this agreement and balance will be invoiced on event day to be paid within 30 days of invoice date, failing which compounding interest of 10% per month will be imposed.
No fulfillment of the event commitment of this contract will commence until payment is received. If payment is received late, the value given by Blade may be lower than agreed and will be accepted by the advertiser.
If an event is cancelled after the order has been signed, 50% cancellation fee will be borne by the client.