Sponsor Agreement

Summary

This Agreement covers every sponsorship we sell: directory sponsorships (Professional, Premier and Strategic), newsletter sponsorships and webinar sponsorships. You pay for visibility and the deliverables listed in your order. You do not get editorial control or guaranteed results. Any contact details we share with you must be used only as section 7 allows.

1. The agreement

This Sponsor Agreement ("Agreement") is between CorporateLegal.tech LLC, a Missouri limited liability company ("CorporateLegal.tech", "we", "us"), and the Company buying a sponsorship ("Sponsor", "you"). You accept it by completing checkout on our Site, signing or accepting an order form or proposal, or paying an invoice that refers to it. The person accepting confirms that they are authorized to bind the Sponsor.

Your "Order" is the checkout confirmation, order form, proposal or invoice that sets out your package, deliverables, dates and fees. If the Order conflicts with this Agreement, the Order controls.

2. Definitions

• Company: a business listed in the directory on www.corporatelegal.tech (the "Site").
• Product: a software product or service offered by a Company and listed on the Site.
• Sponsorship Package: the Professional, Premier or Strategic directory package, as described on our Sponsor page at the time of purchase.
• Campaign: a newsletter or webinar sponsorship, or another deliverable described in an Order.
• Sponsor badge: the badge on a Sponsor's Company profile and Product listings identifying it as a paying Sponsor.
• Term: the period stated in your Order, such as one, two or three years for a Sponsorship Package, or the run dates for a Campaign.

3. Deliverables

We will deliver what your Order describes. For Sponsorship Packages these are:

• Professional: the Sponsor badge and trust signals, technical SEO and a direct website link, and AI/LLM schema optimization for your listings.
• Premier: everything in Professional, plus direct lead capture and CRM integration, category-driven leads, and a featured media and video header.
• Strategic: everything in Premier, plus a quarterly social spotlight article, features on our social media channels, and category priority presence.

The features of each package are those on the Sponsor page at the time of purchase. We may improve features during your Term, but we will not materially reduce them.

4. The Sponsor badge

• The Sponsor badge means the Company is a paying Sponsor. It is a paid advertising designation, not an independent review, test, audit, certification, ranking or endorsement.
• You may describe yourself as a "Sponsor on CorporateLegal.tech". You must not describe the badge as a certification, award, review or endorsement, in your marketing or anywhere else.
• The badge and all paid features end when your Term ends or this Agreement is terminated.

5. Editorial independence and labelling

• Sponsorship does not buy editorial control. We decide which Companies and Products are listed, and we write our own descriptions, categories and articles.
• We will correct factual errors in your listing, but we are not required to adopt your marketing language.
• All paid placements are labelled, for example with the Sponsor badge, "Sponsored" or "Presented by [Sponsor]". See our Advertising, Sponsorship & Editorial Independence Policy.

6. Your materials and our approval

• You will provide logos, copy, images, video and links ("Materials") by the deadline in your Order. For newsletter Campaigns, Materials are due 5 business days before the run date.
• We may edit Materials for length, format and style, and we may decline Materials that are inaccurate, misleading, unlawful, off-topic or harmful to our audience. If we decline them, you may supply replacements.
• For sponsored copy we write for you, such as a social spotlight article, we will share a draft for your factual review before publishing. Factual review does not give you control over our editorial content.
• You are responsible for the accuracy and legality of your Materials, including any certification, security, customer or performance claims.
• You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use your trademarks, logos, Product names and Materials to deliver the sponsorship and to identify you as a Sponsor during the Term. We may keep published newsletter issues and articles in our archive after the Term.
• If delays in receiving your Materials mean we cannot deliver on the scheduled date, we will reschedule once. We are not required to refund or extend for missed deadlines on your side.

7. Leads and personal information

• If your package includes lead capture, we forward only requests from readers who have asked to be introduced to you, after a moderator reviews them.
• You must handle any personal information you receive lawfully, in line with your own privacy policy, and honor any opt-out.
• Apart from these requested introductions, sign-ups to a webinar you sponsor, and contact lists we choose to share with you (name, email address, job title and company of people who have not opted out, and in the EU and UK only those who agreed), we do not give you individual reader, subscriber or visitor data.
• Contact details we share with you. You are an independent controller of any personal information we share with you. You will: use it only to tell those people about your own products and services, or to answer the request it came with; comply with applicable privacy and anti-spam laws, including giving an opt-out in every message; not sell, rent or pass it to anyone else; honour any opt-out or deletion request we pass on to you within 10 business days; keep it secure; and delete it when you no longer need it for that purpose. A message someone sends us about your product is shared only with you.

8. Fees and payment

• Fees: you agree to pay the fees in your Order. Current directory package fees are listed on our Sponsor page. Multi-year Terms are discounted and paid in advance.
• Checkout purchases: Sponsorship Packages bought on our Site are paid in full at checkout through our payment processor.
• Invoiced sponsorships: invoices are due within 30 days of the invoice date, unless the Order says otherwise. We may require payment before a Campaign runs.
• Taxes: fees exclude taxes. You are responsible for any sales, use or similar taxes, other than taxes on our income.
• Late payment: if payment is late, we may pause the Sponsor badge, paid features and Campaigns until the balance is paid.

9. Renewals

Sponsorship Packages do not renew automatically and are not charged automatically. Before your Term ends, we will contact you with renewal options. If you do not renew, paid features end on the last day of the Term.

10. Cancellations and refunds

• Sponsorship Packages: fees are non-refundable once the Term has begun. We do not give prorated refunds for early cancellation.
• Campaigns: you may cancel a scheduled newsletter or webinar Campaign by written notice at least 14 days before its run date for a full refund or credit. Later cancellations are non-refundable, but we will try to reschedule once.
• If we cannot deliver: if we cancel a Campaign or cannot deliver a paid feature for reasons within our control, we will reschedule it or refund the unused portion of the fee.

11. Reporting and no guaranteed results

• We will provide performance reporting described in your Order, such as listing impressions and clicks, page views, newsletter open and click rates, webinar registrations and aggregate audience composition.
• Reports are aggregated and anonymous. Email opens and some analytics are estimates, because email apps and privacy tools can block or pre-load tracking.
• We do not guarantee any number of impressions, clicks, leads, registrations, sales or search rankings, or any particular placement in AI tools or search engines.

12. Representations

Each party confirms that it has authority to enter into this Agreement. You also confirm that your Materials and Products comply with applicable law, including advertising, consumer protection and privacy law, and do not infringe anyone's rights.

13. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless CorporateLegal.tech LLC and its members, officers and agents from claims, damages, liabilities, costs and reasonable legal fees arising from:

• your Materials, including any claim that they infringe someone's rights or are misleading;
• your Products or services;
• your use of personal information you receive through introductions or lead capture;
• any description of the Sponsor badge that breaches Section 4; or
• your breach of this Agreement.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, including lost profits, arising from this Agreement. Our total liability under this Agreement will not exceed the fees you paid us in the six months before the claim arose.

15. Termination

• Either party may terminate this Agreement if the other materially breaches it and does not fix the breach within 15 days of written notice.
• We may terminate immediately, without a refund, if you misrepresent the Sponsor badge, provide unlawful Materials, or fail to pay.
• When this Agreement ends, we will remove the Sponsor badge and all paid features. Your standard free listing may remain on the Site under our Directory Listing Terms.

16. General

• Entire agreement: this Agreement and your Order are the entire agreement about the sponsorship.
• Changes: we may update this Agreement for future Orders by posting a new version. The version in effect when your Term begins governs that Term.
• Assignment: you may not assign this Agreement without our written consent.
• Force majeure: neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• Publicity: we may list your Company name and logo as a Sponsor during the Term.

17. Governing law and venue

This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Christian County, Missouri.

18. Notices

Send notices to partners@corporatelegal.tech, with a copy to hello@corporatelegal.tech. We will send notices to the email address in your Order or checkout.