Sponsor terms
What you pay, what you get, and how to stop
Who you are dealing withThe basics
These terms are between your business and Coastal Eventures LLC. They cover a paid placement in the Coastal Eventures app, on coastaleventures.com and in the Thursday weekend email. Your free listing is separate: it never depends on buying anything, and stopping a placement never removes it.
Payment runs through Stripe. Coastal Eventures never sees or stores your card number.
What you buyOne placement, labelled Sponsored
Every placement includes a listing in our sponsor directory, on coastaleventures.com and in the app. Each placement is marked Sponsored wherever it shows. It sits beside the list of events, never inside it, and it never changes where any listing appears, what a listing says, or whether a competitor is listed.
For now each placement is exclusive: one sponsor per spot. We also take one sponsor per category at a time across the paid placements, so while yours runs nobody in your category buys a placement beside you. A directory-only listing does not hold a category. If your spot or category is taken, checkout tells you and offers the waitlist instead.
Nothing goes live until we have reviewed your name, line and link. We may ask you to change anything that is untrue, unsafe or not suitable for families, and we may decline a placement and refund it in full.
PriceYour rate is locked for the term you choose
You choose a term of 1, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months and pay the rate shown at checkout. A 1-month term renews month to month. A 3, 6 or 9-month term is paid at the start of each term, and a 12-month term costs about the same as ten months. The first ten sponsors who choose a 3, 6, 9 or 12-month term get one month free, taken off their first bill.
Your rate does not change during your first term. After that, rates may change, but only for inflation or availability: the fewer spots open, the higher the price may be. If your rate changes, we email you the new rate at least 30 days before it starts, and you can cancel before then without paying it.
StoppingCancel any time
You can cancel at any time from the billing link in your Stripe receipt, which also lets you change your card. Cancelling stops your next charge, and your placement keeps running to the end of the time you already paid for.
On a 3, 6, 9 or 12-month term you can also stop early and get money back. Email us, and we take your placement down that day and refund what you paid for the term, minus the monthly rate for each month that has started. Stopping early never costs less than paying month to month, so the 12-month saving and any free launch month don't carry over. A 1-month plan has nothing to refund: it simply doesn't renew.
If a payment fails, Stripe retries it and emails you. If it still fails after the retries, your placement is paused and your spot and category are released.
If we stopRefunds for unused months
If Coastal Eventures stops publishing, we refund the months you paid for and did not get, within 30 days. If the business is sold, the new owner either honors your remaining months and your locked rate, or you get the same refund.
If a placement does not run for part of a month because of something on our side, we refund those days.
QuestionsTalk to us
Email hello@coastaleventures.com. If these terms change, we tell current sponsors by email at least 30 days before the change applies to them.
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