About and Contact

Live at your local is a weekly email listing of music, entertainment and community events in Hackney and Islington and close by. At present there are 1,933 subscibers and this number is growing!

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Credits

Editor
Suzy Roston

Photography
John Clarke
Alex Swain

Graphic and Web Design
Alex Swaine
Didem Ogmen
Company

Programming
John Campbell
ClubPlan.org
Dan Farrow
squarebracket.net

Data Protection

Live at Your Local is a registered member of ICO. All details are protected under the 1998 Data Protection Act and will not be used for any other purposes other than advertising on the Live at Your Local website or weekly email listing.

Privacy Policy

Venues Policy

1. LAYL agrees to send out the listing form each week on Tuesday or Wednesday prior to the Friday which is the first day of the LAYL weekly calendar of events. This will continue to happen 52 weeks a year unless LAYL encounters technical difficulties.

2. Venues, peroformers and non-paying community groups agree to submit the information they require for the months listing by the date stated by the reminder letter. Where late entries are submitted on a weekly basis they must be submitted by noon Monday the week before the list is sent (normally on the Tuesday prior to that listing week which starts on the Friday). If sent between 2-10 days prior to that week’s listing they will be listed. LAYL can not be held responsible if it is too late to advertise the event on time.

3. LAYL agrees to send two reminder emails on the 10th and 15th of every calendar month for the 17th day of the month deadline, for example. for the February monthly list:
  * LAYL’s 1st reminder would be sent on or 10thJanuary and the 2nd on the 15th of January.
  * Venues would need to submit the months listing form on or before 17th January.
  * Updates, 10 days prior to their event, can be submitted by 12noon on the Monday prior to the week of that listing .

4. The venue agrees to follow our writing guidelines (at the top of the listing form ) when writing their event details.

5. Where the venue has permission from the performers they agree to obtain and write all web links onto the form including; Myspace, Youtube and the appropriate websites.

6. The venue agrees to use the LIVE FROM YOUR LOCAL box wisely for best effect to advertise their venue. The limit for the number of words in this box is 150 characters (including spaces).

7. LAYL reserves the right to edit the text using our writing guidelines and where the text could be more concise.

8. It is free to advertise free events for Venues, performers and community groups. Events/performances that are ticketed require a 2/3 ticket exchange for LAYL staff. (for each performance or per week depending on agreement with LAYL ). To obtain their free tickets LAYL staff will be required to show the venue their staff pass.

Advertising Policy

1. General approach

(i) LAYL will permit advertising wherever possible, but any advert proposed will need to be approved by LAYL.

(ii) LAYL reserves the right to refuse any advertising, which it deems not to be appropriate.

(iii) The specific categories of organisations, products or services which may not advertise or be advertised on LAYL are as follows:
a. Political organisations
b. Manufacturers of tobacco products
c. Manufacturers of alcohol products
d. Advertising from any organisation associated with ‘adult industries’

(iv) The types or products and services which may not advertise or be advertised on LAYL are as follows:
a. Tobacco
b. Alcohol
c. Gambling
d. Pornography
e. Adult content
f. Any content or advertising which has an overtly sexual nature

(v) Advertisers will not have any influence over editorial content or reviews that appear on LAYL.

2. Advertising procedures
(i) Website adverts are posted in blocks of 2,3 and 6 months  Local and Recommended adverts are posted in blocks of 6 and 12months.  The month will start at the beginning of each calendar month.
Special Offers and Noticeboard adverts that appear on the weekly email listing are in blocks of 1,2,3,and 4, weeks.  

(ii) In unusual circumstances it will be possible to advertise Website adverts on weekly basis up to and including the 3 month period. Any advertising on this basis is at the sole discretion of LAYL.

(iii) The weekly fee for advertising will be calculated using the monthly fee as a baseline and agreed with the client verbally and then by email. (Current prices will be on the website).

(iv) An advert will not be varied or used for another purpose without the prior consent of the Customer by phone, email or written letter. LAYL reserves the right to edit the  text to make the advert visually more readable and textually more concise.  In this case LAYL would check the final version with the Customer before posting it on the website.  If delays are due to LAYL editing, the term of advertising will be extended accordingly.

(v) The Customer will pay by Paypal or standing order and in exceptional circumstances, and only with the express permission of LAYL, by cash or cheque within 3 days of receiving their confirmation acceptance email. Instructions regarding payment will be sent by LAYL to the Customer by email.

(vi) In the case of Website and Local and Recommended adverts a renewal letter will be sent out a week before the advertising term is over with any changes in the terms and conditions. If the client wants to renew the term they will have 7 days to make the payment through Paypal or to renew their standing order. If no payment is received then when the term is up the advert will be removed from the website.

(vii) The advert will be kept on the files of LAYL till 31st December of the year after the end of the advertising term unless the client requests for its’ deletion. LAYL reserves the right to refuse inappropriate adverts or in exceptional cases where we are unhappy as to the source of the advertising and the implications for our LAYL readership.

(viii) LAYL undertakes to keep adverts posted for the agreed length of time. Where there are technical or other time delay problems and LAYL accepts responsibility, the length of agreed advertising will be extended accordingly.

Advertising Contract

Email List Contract