FT Investor Relationships

These terms and conditions (the “Terms and Conditions”) are a legally binding contract between the Client and FT and apply to the acceptance of all Financial Listings submitted for insertion in any FT Publication. These Terms and Conditions are supplemental to the FT Advertising Terms and Conditions to be found at http://www.fttoolkit.co.uk/advertising/pages/html/terms.html which also apply to the acceptance of all Financial Listings submitted for insertion in any FT Publication. In the case of conflict or ambiguity between any provision contained in these Terms and Conditions and the FT Advertising Terms and Conditions, the provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall take precedence to the extent of such conflict or ambiguity for the insertion of Financial Listings in a FT Publication. The insertion of a Financial Listing shall constitute an agreement to these Terms and Conditions and the FT Advertising Terms and Conditions. No variation or addition to these Terms and Conditions without the prior written consent of FT shall be effective unless agreed to in writing by FT and any additional terms the Client may seek to impose shall be void and/or unenforceable.

1.Definitions:
“Client” means the person or legal entity placing with FT the order for the Insertion whether such person or legal entity is the actual Client or the Client’s advertising agency, media buyer or administrator;
“Investor Relations” means Financial Times Share Service and any other FT related products or services;
“Managed Funds” means Managed Funds Service and other FT related products or services;
“Fee” means the retail price for any given Financial Listing, exclusive of VAT and any trade or negotiated discount;
“Financial Listing” means the pricing data related to the Client and its associated companies published in Investor Relations or Managed Funds;
“FT Forms” means forms supplied by the FT including Application Form, Deletion Form and Amendment Form and any other form required;
“FT Publication” means the Newspaper, the FT Site and/or any other material in, on or within which the Insertion is included which is disseminated by FT in any medium, including, without limitation, printed material, digital editions, websites, and emails
“FT Site” means the website http://www.ft.com and any online or wireless service operated by a member entity of the FT group of companies;
“Newspaper” means any or all editions of the ‘Financial Times’ newspaper, including any reprints, supplements, magazines or other insertion;
“Client Trade Mark” means Client and its associates companies’ or its licensors trade marks, trade names, fund names, logos, URL’s and other branding of Client.

2. Term & Termination
2.1 Each term of an order for a Investor Relations Package (for the publication of Financial Listings) will be for a period of twelve months effective from the first date of insertion of the Financial Listing and will automatically renew for additional terms of twelve months each, unless either party gives at least 25 days’ written notice to the other party to terminate with effect from the end of a 12 month term.
3. Payment
3.1 Fees are specified in £Sterling. Payment in respect of a Financial Listing is required in advance and payable within 25 days of the date specified in the FT invoice.  All prices quoted are exclusive VAT.
3.2 Where payment is not received in accordance with this clause 3, FT reserves the right to remove the Financial Listing from any or all FT Publications without prior warning to the Client.
3.3 The Client may be required to complete FT Forms from time to time.
3.4 FT shall have the right to retain the Fee and no refund shall be provided in the event that the Client cancels a Financial Listing during a 12 month term.
4. Licence
4.1 The Client grants FT an irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free licence to reproduce, publish, republish and do all things necessary to publish the Financial Listing within the relevant FT Publication.
4.2 Subject to these Terms and Conditions, Client hereby grants to FT a revocable, limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, royalty-free licence to use the Client Trade Marks in order to comply with and perform its obligations in this Agreement.
4.3 FT shall have at its absolute discretion the right to refuse, omit, postpone, change the position of, or require changes to, any insertion of a Financial Listing at any time.
5. Miscellaneous
5.1 Client Trade Marks shall be supplied to FT at least 10 working days prior to the intended publication date. FT reserves the right to replicate Client Trade Marks after giving Client notice of intention to do so.
5.2 The Client may not assign or transfer any of its rights under these Terms and Conditions to any third party.
5.3 Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, no provision of these Terms and Conditions shall confer any right on any third party. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the parties hereby exclude any such right (including any such right arising under statute).
5.4 If any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be invalid or unenforceable, it shall not affect any other provision, which shall remain in full force and effect.
5.5 FT shall have the right to modify these Terms and Conditions and may publish new terms or otherwise notify the Client of changes to these Terms and Conditions. Such changes will apply to any Insertion subsequently placed by the Client.
5.6 FT reserves the right to upgrade the Client’s package, from time to time, to include additional products and services.
5.7 If the Client is an Agent representing an Advertiser, the Agent and Advertiser shall each be a party to these Terms and Conditions and shall be jointly and severally liable to FT. The Agent shall be solely responsible for making the Advertiser aware of these Terms and Conditions or any subsequent amendments that may be made by FT.
5.8 These Terms and Conditions are governed by English Law. The parties agree that the English courts shall (subject to the following sentence) have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of these Terms and Conditions and submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of those courts. However, for the exclusive benefit of FT, FT shall retain the right to bring proceedings in the courts of the country (or state) of the Client’s place of business.