By using our site, you indicate that you accept the terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree please don’t use our website.

Terms overview

This page provides information about the following:

• User-Generated Content and Platform Liability
• Services offered by Business Mondays
• Transactions & currency
• Customer service contact details
• Payment terms and invoicing
• Refund policy
• Consumer data privacy policy
• Security capabilities and policy for transmission of payment card details
• Accessing our website
• Uploading content, images and other materials to our site
• Content standards
• Other services
• Intellectual property rights
• Indemnity
• Your personal information
• Copyright terms
• Revisions of terms

User-Generated Content and Platform Liability

Business Mondays is an open publishing platform that facilitates the sharing of many user-generated content, including press releases, articles, and multimedia assets, such as photographs and graphics. We act solely as an intermediary for many of our news stories and do not create, fact-verify, or endorse the content submitted by users.

Business Mondays operates primarily as an automated content publishing system that enables users to upload and publish content. While we may conduct minimal, non-editorial cursory checks of submissions (such as for spam, obviously illegal content, or technical formatting issues), we do not exercise substantive editorial control or make content decisions about the accuracy, quality, or legality of user submissions prior to publication. This limited oversight does not alter our fundamental role as an information society service provider that stores information provided by recipients of the service, as defined under Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.

Due to the automated nature of our platform, Business Mondays has no actual knowledge of potential unlawful activity or information in user submissions prior to publication. We rely on our users’ adherence to these Terms and Conditions and their confirmation that they have all necessary rights to share the content they submit.

By submitting content to Business Mondays, you acknowledge and agree that:

• You are solely responsible for the legality, accuracy, originality, and ownership of all content you upload or submit, including (but not limited to) text, images, graphics, videos, and any third-party materials.
• You confirm that you have obtained all necessary rights, licences, and permissions to publish such content on Business Mondays, and to grant us a non-exclusive right to display and distribute that content.
• You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Business Mondays, its owners, operators, and affiliates, against any claims, costs, damages, or liabilities arising from any breach of copyright, intellectual property rights, or other laws resulting from the content you submit.
  Business Mondays does not assume responsibility for user-submitted content and expressly disclaims any and all liability arising from such content, whether due to errors, omissions, copyright infringement, defamation, or otherwise.
• During the submission process, all users must actively confirm by checking a mandatory box that confirms they have permission from the content / image owner to share on this platform.

While Business Mondays may occasionally make minor formatting adjustments for display purposes, we do not substantially modify or exercise editorial control over the substance of user-submitted content prior to publication. This technical and operational approach reinforces our status as a hosting provider rather than a content publisher under Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.

We operate in accordance with relevant laws, including:

• Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002
• Tamiz v Google Inc. [2013] EWCA Civ 68 (UK case law)
• Article 14 of the E-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC (EU law)
• Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (US law)

In line with these legal frameworks, Business Mondays, as a passive news hosting service, is not liable for content stored at the direction of users, provided we are not aware of unlawful content. As required by Regulation 19 of the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002, upon obtaining actual knowledge or awareness of unlawful activity or information, we act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the information. Upon notification of potential legal infringements, we act expeditiously to review and, where appropriate, remove the content in question, as outlined in our Copyright Takedown Policy.

This model is consistent with the operational and legal frameworks adopted by social platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter).

If you believe any content hosted on Business Mondays infringes your rights, please follow the procedure outlined in our Takedown Policy.

Services offered by Business Mondays

We also provide a range of free and paid-for digital marketing services to PR agencies and business news desks.

Services include:

• Press release sharing, marketing and distribution through the Business Mondays website
• Featured article & enhanced services
• Content uploading to social media & other online platforms
• Other associated digital publicity services

Transactions & currency

Any paid-for digital services are quoted in GBP (£ pounds sterling).

Customer service contact details

Should you need to contact us, please send us an email to: [email protected]. We take customer service very seriously and strive to reply to all customer service enquiries as quickly as possible.

Refund & cancellation policy

If you believe a digital service is not as described or not of satisfactory quality, please contact us at [email protected], and we will review your request and, where appropriate, arrange a refund.

For individual news publication services, all submissions are subject to our editorial guidelines. If a submission does not meet these guidelines and is not published, we will aim to provide feedback explaining our decision. In such cases, a full refund of the individual payment will be issued.

For monthly subscription plans, you may cancel at any time by emailing [email protected]. We require a minimum of 30 days’ notice to process cancellations. This allows us to cancel any scheduled content or services linked to your plan.

If you submit content under a subscription plan that does not meet our editorial guidelines, no full or partial refund of the subscription fee will be provided.

Partial refunds are not available for subscription services once payment has been taken.

Consumer data privacy policy

We collect a variety of information in order to deliver our services and we are committed to upholding the principles of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Why we collect information:

Due to the nature of both our free and paid services we need to collect information about the people and businesses that use our services. Some of this information is collected so that we can share your news/content with the correct attribution to you, the creator of the content. Other information is collected so that we are able to comply with any complaints (for example; copyright breaches, liable, content miss-representation etc).

Information we collect:

• Name of the person using our services.
• Your business name and address
• Your business email address & phone number
• The IP address from which you are sharing your news story

We retain this information for as long as there is a valid business requirement. If you wish to find out what information we hold, please contact us a [email protected].

You can find more information about our privacy policy here.

Where a paid-for digital service is used, you may be asked to provide some personal information to our payment gateway provider (Stripe). You can read more about the Stripe privacy policy here.

Security capabilities and policy for transmission of payment card details

Our website is NOT used for storing, decrypting or transmitting any payment card details. If you choose to use a paid-for digital publishing service, you will be redirected outside of our website to Stripe Payments.  Stripe has been certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1 which is the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry. This gives you the reassurance that your payment card details are kept secure. You can read more about security at Stripe here.

Accessing our website

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend our website service without notice.

We will not be held liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

We reserve the right to restrict or limit access to some parts of our site, or our entire website without notice for technical, security, or maintenance reasons. These restrictions are technical in nature and do not represent editorial decisions about specific user-submitted content.

If you choose a user name and password as part of our website you must treat this information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any password or account at any time if we think you have not complied with any of our terms and conditions.

Articles and other information posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed.  We therefore disclaim any liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

Because our website is updated on a regular basis any of the information on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

The information published on our site is provided without any guarantees or warranties as to its accuracy. This means that we cannot be held responsible for the results of actions that might have occurred as a result of visiting our website:

Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:

• Any loss of income or revenue;
• Any loss of business;
• Any loss of profits or contracts;
• Any loss of anticipated savings;
• Any loss of data;
• Any loss of goodwill;
• Any wasted time.

Uploading content, images and other materials to our site

If you add information, images or other materials to our website you must comply with the content standards set out in these terms of use.  You should assure that your contribution complies with these standards, and undertake to indemnify us and keep us indemnified in relation to any losses, costs and expenses incurred by us as a result of your breach.

Any material you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and we have the right to use, copy, distribute, amend and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.  We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

You should ensure that it is lawful for you to distribute content and images through our website and in the event that you have breached someone else’s copyright you acknowledge that you are responsible for the breach (and not us). If you have any doubt about who owns the copyright please do not upload content to this website.

In uploading written content and images you give permission for the content and images to be re-used across other online (and off-line) publications and websites within our network.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right not to remove any material or content you make on our site if, in our opinion, such material does not comply with our content standards.

Content standards

All website content contributions must:

• Be factually accurate.
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
• Should comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.
• Should not contain any material which is defamatory of any person.
• Should not contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Should not contain promote sexually explicit material.
• Should not promote violence.
• Should not promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Should not infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person.
  Should not be likely to deceive any person.
• Should not be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Should not promote any illegal activity.
• Should not be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
• Should not be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
• Should not be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• We retain full editorial control over contributions to our site and may refuse to publish or take down any material already published for any reason whatsoever.

You retain ownership of the copyright in any contributions made to our site, but upon submission, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, exclusive, royalty-free licence to publish and continue publishing without limit as to time, and whether or not you continue to be a registered user, all such contributions.

Other services

While we offer additional publishing services, these are separate from our core user-generated content platform. Our role as an intermediary under Regulation 19 applies specifically to content uploaded directly by users through our automated publishing system.

Intellectual Property Rights

You warrant that the publication of content and other contributions which you contribute will not infringe the intellectual property rights of any person or organisation.

Responsibility for Your Content:

You alone are responsible for Your Content. You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use and authorise the use of Your Content as described herein. This includes your understanding that you are responsible for obtaining permission from any business or person that you represent in content submitted to this website and that you agree that you have also obtained the express permission of the owners of any images that are submitted. You alone are responsible for any breach of copyright as a result of using images that you do not have agreement from the copyright owner. If you are not sure about the allowed usage permissions of photos or content please do not submit.

You may not imply that Your Content is in any way sponsored or endorsed by us.

Our Right to Use Your Content:

We may use Your Content in a number of different ways, including publicly displaying it, incorporating it into advertisements and other works, creating derivative works from it, promoting it, distributing it, and allowing others to do the same in connection with their own websites and media platforms.

As such, you hereby irrevocably grant us worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, assignable, sub-licensable, transferable rights to use Your Content for any purpose. Please note that you also irrevocably grant the users of the Site and any Other Media the right to access Your Content in connection with their use of the Site and any Other Media. Finally, you irrevocably waive and cause to be waived, against us and its users any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content. By “use” we mean use, copy, publicly perform and display, reproduce, distribute, modify, translate, remove, analyse, commercialise, and prepare derivative works of Your Content.

We may occasionally make minor technical or formatting adjustments to Your Content solely for display purposes (such as resizing images or correcting obvious typographical errors). These minimal technical adjustments do not constitute editorial control over the substance of Your Content and are made solely to ensure proper display within our platform’s technical environment.

Indemnity

You hereby undertake to indemnify us and keep us indemnified in relation to any losses, costs and expenses incurred by us or our employees or representatives as a result of any breach by you of these terms.

Your Personal Information

We may process personal information for certain carefully considered and specific legitimate business purposes that are in our interests and enable us to enhance the services we provide, but which we believe also benefit our customers, which include some or all of the following:

• Where the processing enables us to enhance, modify, personalise or otherwise improve our services/communications for the benefit of our customers
• to identify and prevent fraud
• to enhance the security of our network and information systems
• to better understand how people interact with our websites
• to provide postal and/or email communications which we think will be of legitimate interest to you
• to determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising.

Whenever we process data for these purposes we will ensure that we always keep your Personal Data rights in high regard and take account of these rights. You have the right to object to this processing if you wish, and if you wish to do so please send an email stating your wishes to [email protected]

Copyright Terms

It is important that anyone who chooses to share news, articles, or any other content which includes photographs, videos or any other imagery reads, understand and agree that you understand your responsibilities for ensuring that you have the necessary copyright licence to share photos and content:

All photographs, images and written content are generally protected by copyright. Therefore you will need to have the permission of the copyright licence owner of all material uploaded to our website.

You should ensure that it is lawful for you to distribute both content and photographs through our website and for us to publish and share the content and photographs uploaded by you. In the event that you have breached someone else’s copyright which, in turn, causes us to breach copyright, you acknowledge that you are responsible for any breach (and not us).

By uploading images or other content to this website, you confirm that you have permission to use the content and that it does not breach any copyright or other usage rights. You also agree that you are responsible for any claims, legal fees or costs that result from a breach of copyright or any other rights in the materials you upload.

Images that you have found on the internet are generally protected by copyright unless you have obtained the necessary and correct licence from a photo stock library.

If you have any doubt about who owns the copyright of your photos and content please do not upload content to this website.

If a copyright licence is breached and compensation or fees are claimed by or on behalf of the copyright owner, any costs incurred by Business Mondays or our agents, we will reclaim the costs from you.

Revisions of terms

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending the online version of this document.  Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.

These terms are supplementary to any other terms found elsewhere on our website.