Terms and Conditions of Membership – Flooring and Construction Industry
When applying for membership (see the membership features and options) you accept the following terms and conditions. After membership activation you can login to submit company news and press releases, product updates, project reports and more to promote your business.
If you are in PR and Marketing you need to refer to the Special Terms for agencies representing manufacturers.
1. Membership, in general
- 1.1 Membership is open to all business types involved in flooring matters, this means that an applicant must be a floor covering manufacturer, a floor installation operative, a flooring accessories or preparations manufacturer or supplier, training provider, education research establishment, a marketing specialist or company. Special terms apply for Public Relations and Marketing Agencies
- 1.2 Membership is free for commercial, central and local government procurement departments, specifiers, architects, and training establishments.
- 1.3 On registration you agree to be added to our newsletter mailing list. Members can unsubscribe at any time.
Membership, actual flooring industry personnel:
- 1.3.1 Basic Membership – is free. Members will be able to login but cannot publish news etc. but can download items when made available in the download area.
1.3.2 Author Status – is a subscription membership. Members will be able to publish (without quantity limit for the subscription period) text only news items to the general news category, product updates, project reports, expert advice and events categories.
1.3.3 Author Plus – is a subscription membership, as above but can submit by email or post editorial including up to three images/photos. - 1.4 Members with publishing rights can publish or submit for download, product data sheets.
- 1.5 Members with publishing rights can publish company contact details and business description in the link directory.
- 1.6 All written material and images sent to us by email or post will become our property and we reserve the right to modify any content for publication.
- 1.7 Printing and Copying of Images (except CFM and third party company logos) 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. Active / Inactive accounts
- 2.1 We encourage all members to either submit articles to CFM for publication, or to log into the membership area to actively publish articles. There is simply no point in being an inactive member. We reserve the right from time to time remind you of this and to delete dormant accounts.
- 2.2 Members are resposible for keeping their account details up to date. Accounts will be deleted after three failed attempts to make contact by email.
3. Advertising
- 3.1 Where applicable, membership subscriptions and advertising is paid for in advance. Please refer to the latest membership subscription fees 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 photos. Membership of this type 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.
We reserve the right to modify these terms, advertising prices and membership subscription fees from time to time without prior notice.
Having read the terms and after approval of your application for membership, you agree to abide by them without exception.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.