Expert agreement

1. Your expert package includes: a listing and a profile page in the Donut expert directory; one free blog post a year (worth £300 + VAT); 50% discount on further blog posts (£150 + VAT per post inclusive of discount); expert badge in our Facebook group the Donut Small Business Collective. 
2. As part of your package, you may be invited to contribute to the Donut websites and benefit from the associated promotion. Opportunities may include writing content, supplying video content, being interviewed for new content or our podcast, reviewing and approving existing content, participating in social media events (eg expert Q&As, takeovers, live events etc).
3. The expert package is £15 + VAT a month, billed monthly (initial term 12 months, 30 days' notice thereafter).
4. The Donuts are owned by Atom Content Marketing Ltd (Atom). Content submitted to Atom without Atom substantially editing or adapting it (in agreement with you) is your copyright. By sending it to Atom you are agreeing to give Atom a free-of-charge licence to publish the content on the Donut websites and related Donut newsletters and social media channels. 
   Atom syndicates the Donut websites (in part and in its entirety) to third parties, sometimes without the Donut branding. Any content you supply may be reproduced for these sites with appropriate copyright acknowledgement and credit lines. 
5. Copyright of content that you review or help Atom to write (eg supply source content or be interviewed) for the Donut belongs to Atom; Atom agrees that you shall have a licence in perpetuity to use any content that you have reviewed or helped to write provided that this licence is only for your own use (and not to license or resell the content to a third party). Content with Atom copyright may or may not be featured with expert credits on syndicated sites.
6. We do not guarantee publication of submitted content and reserve the right to sub-edit content, including titles, so they fit our house style and conform to our guidelines. If we feel a re-write or substantial edit is required, we will discuss this with you first and agree copyright ownership of the finished item. 
7. You warrant that:
   • Any content that you submit to the Donut website has been created by you and that no third party has any Intellectual Property Rights in respect of that content.
   • None of the content has been copied from existing third party content.
   • You will not engage in any activity that may be expected to bring the Donut website or its partners into disrepute.
8. The initial agreement is for a period of 12 months. After this time you can withdraw as a Donut expert with 30 days’ notice. In this situation, Atom agrees to remove from the website your details and any content that you own the copyright to within the notice period. Any content on the Donut that is credited to you will be amended by Atom and/or credited to another Expert and/or replaced with other content. 
9. Atom can remove you from the Donut websites at any time at its sole discretion. 
10. Atom and you will both perform their obligations under this Agreement with reasonable skill and care. Save as otherwise provided in this Agreement, Atom makes no warranty, undertaking, representation or covenant of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise. Neither party shall have any liability arising from or in connection with this Agreement for any economic losses, or any loss of goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential losses.