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By registering as a Seller you will be able to upload your work to The Gallery or submit it in response to a currently open creative pitch, thus offering it for sale to Buyers who have subscribed to OpenAd.net.

If you would like to register as Buyer, proceed to Buyer's registration section.

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User type

Your user type depends on who owns the material rights to an idea.

Register as	Company	Freelance

If you are going to upload company owned ideas, register as a company. If you are uploading your own ideas, register as freelance. IMPORTANT: If you are contracted to a company as an employee or as a regular freelancer or contract worker, but would like to have 'freelance' status on OpenAd.net, please make sure you have your employer's written permission (waiver) to work on business outside your company (agency), with which they waive any rights to Ideas you enter on OpenAd.net. This will minimise the possibility of disputes regarding ownership of Ideas you are selling. Also, do watch out that you are not pitching for business that may be in conflict with your existing clients. If you are registering as a company (agency), note that all Ideas entered will be considered company property. If you are not the owner or managing director of the company, make sure you have written permission from your employer to enter company owned Ideas on OpenAd.net. You can download draft waiver letters for the employers to sign: Freelance Accounts: draft waiver letter (1) Company Accounts: draft waiver letter (2)

Terms and conditions

You must read the Terms and Conditions in full to continue.

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OpenAd.net provides its service to you subject to the following conditions. If you visit, or use the site as a (pre)subscriber or author of creative material, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. A separate network of legal documents governs creative material on the website and irrespectively of whether you are buying or selling you will also be subject to the guidelines and agreements as set out in the legal section of the OpenAd.net website.

WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE ATTENTION: THIS LEGAL NOTICE APPLIES TO THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE UNDER THE DOMAIN NAME WWW.OPENAD.NET (“WEBSITE”) AND TO ANY CORRESPONDENCE BY E-MAIL BETWEEN US AND YOU. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. USING THIS WEBSITE INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU CHOOSE TO REGISTER WITH US. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS, WE ADVISE YOU NOT TO USE THIS WEBSITE. THIS NOTICE IS ISSUED BY OpenAd AG, Innere Gueterstrasse 4, 6304 Zug, Switzerland.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 You will be able to access most areas of this Website without registering your details with us. Certain areas of this Website are only open to you if you register.

1.2 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.3 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.

2. LICENSE

2.1 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:

(a) no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;

(b) no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text; and

(c) the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices and this permission notice appear in all copies.

2.2 Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

2.3 Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.

2.4 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

3. SERVICE ACCESS

3.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that this Website is normally available 24 hours a day, the Company will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

3.2 Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control.

4. VISITOR MATERIAL AND CONDUCT

4.1 Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company will have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

4.2 You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:

(a) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;

(b) for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals;

(c) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or

(d) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).

4.3 You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).

4.4 The Company will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraphs 4.2 or 4.3.

5. LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES

5.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.

5.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so with the Company’s prior written consent and on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:

(a) you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Company logo;

(b) you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;

(c) you do not in any way imply that the Company is endorsing any products or services other than its own;

(d) you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;

(e) you do not otherwise use any Company trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Company;

(f) you do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and

(g) your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

5.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in paragraph 5.2 for breach of these terms or otherwise and to take any action it deems appropriate.

5.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 5.2.

6. REGISTRATION

6.1 Each registration is for a single user only. The Company does not permit you to share your user name and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.

6.2 Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.

7. DISCLAIMER

7.1 While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

7.2 The material on this Website is provided “as is” without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.

8. LIABILITY

8.1 The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Company’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company’s liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

8.2 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

9. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

Issue Date: 22.3.2005

I have read and agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

More about User types

User type depends on who owns the material rights to an idea. Whether you register as a company or as freelance, you must ensure that you have full copyright ownership of all the elements of the material submitted. Freelance Sellers who are students must ensure that copyright ownership of any material they submit is not held by their educational institution; educational institutions must be registered as a company and may upload ideas created by students, when the institution owns the material rights to these ideas.

To find out more about the various types of account and user, please use OpenAd.net's Help section.

More about registering on OpenAd.net

To open your Seller's account you will be asked to provide accurate personal details (your full name, registered address, etc) and send us two signed hard copies of the Assignment, thereby confirming that you agree to the terms of the Author Agreement, a document which legally binds you to the terms and conditions of doing business with OpenAd.net. Please make sure that the information you provide is accurate, truthful and complete.

In all cases you may not upload creative work that has been published before, nor must any work uploaded contain any brandnames or trademarks. All third-party copyright issues, such as the right to use photography or music within an idea, must be cleared prior to sale on OpenAd.net.

At the end of the registration process you will receive a validation email. Clicking the link within the validation email activates your Seller's account. This means you have completed the registration process. You can now log into OpenAd.net using your username and password and begin using the upload features. All these processes are free of charge.

Please note that you may begin uploading your ideas as soon as you have completed the registration process, but your ideas will not be available to Buyers to view until we have received the two signed copies of the Assignment.

If you would like to register as a Buyer, please proceed to the Buyers' Registration section. You may choose to be both a Buyer and a Seller, but you must register separately for both account types.