Terms and Conditions

1. About these terms

This website (www.semcommunity.com) and the publication The SEM Dispatch are operated by Booked Up Media Ltd, a company registered in Scotland (company number SC832128), whose registered office is at 5 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 4AN.

In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean Booked Up Media Ltd, and “you” means anyone who uses the Site or submits a contribution to it. By accessing www.semcommunity.com or submitting a contribution, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Site.

If you have any questions about these terms, contact us at info@byltmedia.com.

2. Definitions

The Site

The website published at www.semcommunity.com, together with all of its pages, features and content.

Content

All text, articles, images, data, code and other material made available on the Site, including published Contributions.

Contributor

A person whom we have vetted and approved to write for The SEM Dispatch.

Contribution

Any article, draft, pitch, comment or other material you submit to us for possible publication.

Account

The login profile you create through our authentication provider in order to submit a Contribution or to access contributor features.

User

Any person who accesses or uses the Site.

3. About the publication

The SEM Dispatch is an open, community-contributed publication. Articles are written by vetted practitioners and reviewed by editors before they are published. Open does not mean unchecked: we approve every contributor personally and edit lightly for clarity, accuracy and house style. The standards we hold contributions to are set out in our editorial guidelines.

4. Using the website

We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and revocable licence to access the Site for lawful personal and professional reference.

You must not:

• use the Site for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, any account or any system connected to it, or otherwise breach its security;
• scrape, harvest or systematically copy Content at scale, whether by automated means or otherwise;
• republish a substantial part of the Content without our permission;
• impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation;
• upload or transmit any virus, malware or other harmful or disruptive code.

5. Your account

Authentication for the Site is provided by a third-party provider. When you create an Account, you must give accurate details and keep your login credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity that takes place under your Account.

We may suspend or close an Account that breaches these terms, or where we reasonably consider it necessary to protect the Site, our contributors or our readers.

6. Contributors and contributions

This section applies if you submit a Contribution to us. It sits alongside our editorial guidelines, and you can read more about writing for us on our contribute page.

The promises you make

When you submit a Contribution, you confirm that:

• it is your own original work;
• you have the right to submit it to us and to grant the licence below;
• it is accurate to the best of your knowledge and based on your genuine experience;
• it does not infringe anyone’s intellectual property rights, breach any duty of confidentiality, defame anyone or otherwise break the law;
• it is not recycled or AI-generated material passed off as your own work; and
• you have disclosed to us any commercial interest relevant to what you have written.

The licence you grant us

You keep the copyright in your Contribution. You grant Booked Up Media Ltd a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to copy-edit it lightly (for clarity, accuracy and house style, without changing your meaning), and to publish, reproduce, distribute, display and promote it on the Site, in the The SEM Dispatch newsletter (The Tuesday Briefing) and on our social channels. For Contributions we have published, this licence continues so that we can keep them available in our archive.

Attribution

We publish your Contribution under your byline and will not misrepresent your work as anyone else’s.

Editorial discretion

We personally review and approve every contributor, and we may edit a Contribution, decline to publish it, or remove it, at our discretion. Approval and publication are never guaranteed.

Republishing your own work

You are free to republish your Contribution elsewhere. We ask that you note it first appeared in The SEM Dispatch and link back to it where you can.

Payment

Contributions are unpaid unless we agree otherwise with you in writing.

Removing your work

You may ask us to unpublish a Contribution. We will deal with reasonable requests, subject to legal and archival limits.

7. Intellectual property

The design of the Site, the The SEM Dispatch masthead and brand, our logos, and the selection and arrangement of Content belong to us or our licensors. Copyright in each article stays with its author. You may read the Content, link to it and quote short extracts with attribution, but you must not republish a substantial part of it without our permission.

For automated and AI access to the Site, please see our content policy at /llms.txt.

8. Editorial content is not professional advice

The Content is general information and the personal views of practitioners. It is not professional, legal, financial or commercial advice, and you should not rely on it as a substitute for advice tailored to your own situation. Outcomes vary, and you act on the Content at your own risk.

Views expressed in Contributions are the authors’ own and not necessarily ours. Where a contributor has a relevant commercial interest, it is declared.

9. Third-party links, advertising and sponsorship

The Site may link to third-party websites and services. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, products or practices. Any sponsored or commercial content on the Site is identified as such.

10. Availability of the site

The Site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We may change, suspend or withdraw all or part of it at any time. We do not guarantee that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure or free from errors.

11. Our liability to you

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Subject to that, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for any loss of profit, data, goodwill or business, or for any loss arising from your reliance on the Content.

If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms affects your statutory rights.

12. Your indemnity

If you submit Contributions, you agree to indemnify us against any claims, losses, damages and costs (including reasonable legal costs) arising from your breach of these terms or of the promises you make in section 6.

13. Privacy and cookies

We handle your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy, and we use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. The current version is always the one dated at the top of this page. If you continue to use the Site after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.

15. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the law of Scotland and subject to the courts of Scotland. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, you may also be able to bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK where you live.

16. How to contact us

You can reach us using the details below.