Terms & Conditions

GENERAL INFORMATION

a. Accounts payable net 30 days from date of invoice. No cash discounts or agency commissions allowed. Advertisers billed at special contract rates based on frequency who fail to fulfill the contract will be billed for the difference to reflect the actual rate that was earned, plus a cancellation penalty as stipulated in the contract. No advertiser will be allowed to reserve, hold, or occupy booth space at any Health & Fitness Association-sponsored trade show unless all advertising payments are current within 30 days. First-time advertisers and nonmembers must prepay before the issue prints. Pastdue accounts are subject to a 1.5% service charge per month (18% annually).

b. Dual responsibility: Advertiser and advertising agency are jointly and severally liable for payment. Health & Fitness Association will not release any advertising agency from liability even if sequential liability clauses are included in contracts, insertion orders, purchase orders, etc. Billing directed to an agency is approved on the condition that the advertiser accepts responsibility for payment if the agency does not remit payment within 60 days.

COPY & CONTRACT CONDITIONS

a. All advertisements are accepted and published entirely on the representation that the agency and/or advertiser are properly authorized to publish the entire contents and subject matter thereof. It is understood that, in consideration of the publication of advertisements, that advertiser and/ or agency will indemnify and hold Health & Fitness Association harmless from and against any claims or suits from libel, violation of rights of privacy, plagiarism, trademark and copyright infringement, and other claims based on the contents or subject matter of such publication.

b. Health & Fitness Association reserves the right to reject any and all advertising which Health & Fitness Association feels is not in keeping with the publication’s standards, policies, and principles.

c. Health & Fitness Association reserves the right to add the word ”Advertisement” at the top and/or bottom of, or anywhere within any page, that in Health & Fitness Association’s sole judgment, too closely resembles editorial pages of the publication.

d. Health & Fitness Association will not be bound by any conditions, printed or otherwise, appearing on any order blank, insertion order, or contract when they conflict with the terms or conditions of this rate card, or any amendment thereof.

e. Health & Fitness Association shall not be subject to any liability whatsoever for any failure to publish or circulate all or any part of any issue or issues due to strikes, work stoppages, accidents, fires, acts of God, or any circumstance not within the control of Health & Fitness Association.

f. Health & Fitness Association is not responsible for the accuracy of any corrections or changes made to any advertiser’s materials.

g. If complete material is not received in accordance with confirmed material due dates, it is agreed that Health & Fitness Association is to insert material on file or, lacking that, the advertiser’s name, address, and phone number.

h. Health & Fitness Association reserves the right to penalize any advertiser that does not fulfill its contract obligations by deducting 100 AMPS points per cancelled insertion order.

ISSUANCE & CLOSING DATES

Health & Fitness Business is published around the first of each month. Closing date is generally the 15th of two months prior. Cancellations must be in writing and received before the issue closing date. Cover positions and special positions are sold by contract and may not be cancelled. A $400.00 production fee will be assessed to advertisements cancelled after the posted closing date. Health & Fitness Association Members need to be in good member standing all year to qualify for member frequency rates.