Advertising Terms

The Ash Ambirge Newsletter
Version 1.0 · Effective September 1, 2026

These terms apply to every advertising booking. Placing an order means you accept them.

1. Booking and payment

• Single bookings and 4-packs are paid in full at checkout.
• Bookings over $5,000 may be paid in three equal monthly installments. Installment bookings receive a 10% package discount rather than 20%; the full 20% is reserved for payment in advance.
• On an installment plan, issues run only as far as payment has been received. A missed installment pauses the schedule.
• Rates are net, in USD, and exclusive of any taxes you may owe in your own jurisdiction.
• A booking is confirmed when payment clears and dates appear in your advertiser portal. Nothing is held before that.
• Published rates apply on the date of booking. Rate changes do not affect confirmed bookings.

2. Briefs and deadlines

All materials are due 7 days before the send date, for every product.

• Materials are submitted through the advertiser portal. Anything sent another way may not be seen in time.
• What you submit is a brief, not finished copy: what the product does, who it's for, your destination URL, any claims that must appear, and any claims that must not.
• If materials arrive late, the booking runs on the next available date, or is forfeited if no date remains in your window. Late materials are not grounds for a refund.
• If nothing has arrived by the deadline, we may run a house advertisement in your slot. You remain responsible for payment.

3. Creative

• We write everything. Primary, The Week, Takeover, and Classifieds are all written in-house, in the newsletter's editorial voice, from the brief you supply. This is a condition of every product, not an option.
• You get one round of factual corrections. Corrections are limited to accuracy: pricing, features, names, claims. Tone, structure, and word choice are ours.
• We reserve the right to decline or remove any advertisement, before or after booking, for any reason. If we decline before it runs, you receive a full refund.
• All paid placements are labeled as paid. This is not negotiable.
• Placement is not an endorsement unless the copy explicitly says so.

4. Delivery guarantee

• We guarantee a floor of 5,000 opens per issue, measured by our sending platform.
• If an issue delivers fewer than 5,000 opens, you receive a free re-run in the next available issue of the same product. This is the sole remedy for underdelivery.
• We do not guarantee clicks, conversions, signups, or sales. No refund, credit, or re-run is available on the basis of campaign performance.
• Our sending platform's measurements are final for all delivery questions.
• Open-rate measurement is affected by privacy features outside our control, including Apple Mail Privacy Protection. Reported numbers are the industry-standard measurement, not a precise count of human beings.

5. Cancellation and refunds

By you:

• Multi-issue packages: unused issues are refundable on the same schedule, calculated from the next unrun date. Issues already run are non-refundable and are billed at the single-issue rate, with the package discount removed.
• Packages expire six months from purchase. Unused issues after that date are forfeited.

By us:

• If we cancel or fail to run a confirmed booking for any reason, you receive a full refund or a re-run at your choice.
• If we decline your advertisement on content grounds, you receive a full refund.
• If a technical failure prevents your advertisement from appearing in an issue that otherwise sent, you receive a free re-run.

Not refundable:

• Campaign performance below your expectations
• Late or missing materials
• Change of mind inside 7 days
• Anything already delivered

6. Rescheduling

• One free reschedule per booking, requested at least 10 days before send, subject to availability.
• Additional reschedules are $50 each.
• Rescheduling does not extend a package's six-month expiry.

7. Your representations

You confirm that:

• You own or are licensed to use all names, marks, images, and material you supply.
• Your product and its landing page comply with applicable law, including advertising, consumer protection, and privacy law in the jurisdictions you target.
• Every claim in your brief is truthful and substantiated.
• You are authorized to place this booking on behalf of the advertiser.

You indemnify us against any claim arising from your brief, your product, your marks, or your landing page.

8. Liability

• Total liability for any booking is capped at the amount you paid for that booking.
• We are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost business opportunity.
• We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events outside our reasonable control, including platform outages, deliverability disruptions, illness, or acts of God. In those cases you receive a re-run or a refund.

9. Data and reporting

• Performance reports are delivered through the advertiser portal within 72 hours of send, generated automatically from our sending platform.
• We do not share subscriber lists, email addresses, or any personally identifiable subscriber data. Ever, at any price.
• Reports contain aggregate metrics only.
• You may cite the reported figures publicly. You may not present them as audited or independently verified.

10. General

• These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.
• We may update these terms. Changes apply to bookings made after the effective date of the new version.
• If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
• These terms, together with your booking confirmation, are the entire agreement between us.

Questions: ash@ashambirge.com

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