SCOTSIN - Editorial Policy

Editorial Policy

Written by Maclay Murray and Spens LLP

Thursday, 19 July 2007

EDITORIAL POLICY

Editorial Guidelines for submitting news and features to SCOTSIN (the Site).

These guidelines are to help you understand what is acceptable for inclusion on www.scotsinlondon.com / www.scotsin.com. While we keep our website as free and open as possible, you need to ensure that all editorial submissions abide by the guidelines outlined below.

Any article you submit will be covered by this Editorial Policy. SCOTSIN reserves the right to change, modify, remove, move or close any posting or content without warning. By using our website and / or registering you agree to follow these guidelines as well as the SCOTSIN Terms and Conditions [LINK TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS] , Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy; any violation may result in material being removed or a ban being enforced on your access to the website.

By uploading content you give SCOTSIN the worldwide and perpetual right to electronically publish and distribute content on the website, in email format and within hard copy newsletters without any prior notice to the Author. Copyright remains with the Author who will be credited in all circumstances where SCOTSIN has control.

Your submission should:

•    be of interest and relevant to the SCOTSIN social and business networking news and events community and its clients;

•    not contain any content that may be considered abusive, defamatory, hateful, threatening, libellous, infringes on the legal rights of others, any material that may breach applicable laws, any material that attempts to impersonate any SCOTSIN employee, or any material that breaches SCOTSIN terms and conditions. You agree not to post, or encourage others too post any such submission;

•    not contain blatant self-promotion;

•    not be a repeat submission of a previous article on SCOTSIN;

•    not include html tags in your article;

•    not be submitted in CAPS, we will change to "Upper and Lower Case.";

•    not include your contact details at the bottom of your article. They will be removed. Details of, and in some cases a link to, the author(s) appears automatically at the end of each article;

•    not include duplicate identical URLs, only one link is allowed for each company mentioned within the article or press release.

You should also understand that there will be no compensation from SCOTSIN for the content submitted unless previously agreed. You further understand that a submission to SCOTSIN does not automatically guarantee publication. The editor's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding non-publication other than referring to this Editorial Policy.

Submission of news items and articles on SCOTSIN third parties is not guaranteed or implied nor does this form part of any contract with SCOTSIN.

The Site reserves any and all rights not expressly stated herein.

NOTICES

All notices given by you to us must be given to SCOTSIN at our registered office at Scots in London Ltd, Q Court, 3 Quality Street, Edinburgh, EH4 5BP, Scotland. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provided to us at registration. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about the services SCOTSIN provides, wish to make a complaint, or wish to report a violation then please contact our office at Scots In London Ltd, Scotsin.com, 37 King Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 8JS. Telephone 07748 148080 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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