Terms and Conditions of Membership - Flooring and Construction Industry

On applying for membership (see the Membership Features) you accept the following terms and conditions. Following membership approval you can login to submit company news and press releases, product updates, project reports and more to promote your business in this sector of industry.

The Terms and Conditions

We keep this very simple for our members.

If you are in PR and Marketing you need to refer to the Special Terms for agencies representing manufacturers.

1. Membership - Direct trade members, commercial and government procurement

• 1.1 Membership is open to all business types related to the flooring covering, and construction industry. Special terms apply for Public Relations and Marketing Agencies
• 1.2 Membership is free for Commercial, Central and Local Government procurement departments, specifiers and architects

Membership, bone fide flooring industry:

• 1.3a Basic Membership - Will be able to login but cannot publish, can download items when made available in the download area.
  1.3b Author Status - Publish text only news items to the general news category, product updates, project reports, expert advice and events.
  1.3c Author Plus - as above but can submit by email or post editorial including up to three images/photos. Our price list applies.
• 1.4 Publish product data sheets.
• 1.5 Publish your company's contact details and business description in the directory.
• 1.6 All written material and images sent to us will become our property and we reserve the right to modify any content for publication.
• 1.7 Printing and Copying of Images and written material is permitted. However, we do not allow the use of content for commercial gain such as paid for articles on third party websites. If you know of any occurance of this, please inform us.

2. Mandatory

• 2.1 A condition of membership is that all flooring trade members submit articles to CFM for publication. There is simply no point in being an inactive member. We reserve the right from time to time remind you of this.

3. Advertising

• 3.1 Membership and advertising is paid for in advance. Please refer to the latest membership fee and advertising prices.

4. Technical Advisor / Writer

• 4.1 Membership is free for flooring and building industry experts wishing to publish items of a technical nature. Contract Flooring Magazine respects your expertise and may at its discretion publish your items, including explanatory photos as this is to the benefit of the industry. That said, membership must not be regarded as a back door to covert advertising.. We reserve the right to monitor this and if we feel content leans more towards advertising, we will contact you to discuss paying advertising fees.

5. Use of the Contract Flooring Magazine logo and link text

• 5.1 Use of the main CFM logo or link text (without modification) in your web pages is permitted for the purpose of hyperlinks to this website. If you link to us, we will reciprocate only if your business website is allied to the flooring industry.
• 5.2 Hot-linking to images or text, or scraping of content for use on another website is not allowed and protected by copyright law.

Contract Flooring Magazine is committed to the betterment of the relationship between the flooring, building industry and all related services.

We reserve the right to modify these terms and advertising prices from time to time without prior notice. Having read these terms and after approval of your application for membership, you agree to abide by them without exception.

That's it, we've kept our terms of membership as simple as possible.

For those opting to advertise, you will see that our advertising prices are set at a sensible and reasonable level.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.