City AM Terms & conditions for external contributors

This agreement sets out the terms and conditions under which City AM accepts material from external contributions for City AM, City AM Bespoke, CityAM.com, its email newsletters and any other physical or electronic publications owned by City AM Limited (the company). These terms and conditions hold unless explicitly varied in a signed contract between the company and the contributor.

Externally contributed material includes any copyright work as set out in the copyright legislation and includes both material intended for publication and background materials used directly or indirectly to prepare material for publication. It includes written and pictorial formats, including but not limited to columns, articles, infographics, videos, illustrations and photographs, as well as user-generated content such as letters or emails to the editor and comments on the website.

By submitting material for publication or accepting a commission to prepare material for publication or by using websites owned by the company you agree to be legally bound by these terms which will take effect immediately. If you do not agree to be legally bound by these terms, please do not contribute to the website or offer your material for publication.

Rights in the material

• Unless stipulated otherwise, for instance in a paid contract or letter of commission, you retain the copyright to material published by the company.
• By submitting material to the company you undertake that you own all necessary rights to submit the material and enter into this licensing agreement.
• You grant the company first publication right to your material through its publications anywhere in the world at its discretion.
• You grant the company a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to republish and retransmit your material anywhere in the world in any of its print or online publications.
• You grant the company the non-exclusive right to use, store, publish or transmit your material in internal and external archives and databases.
• You grant the company the right to authorise NLA Media Access and similar reprographic rights organisations (RRO) in other jurisdictions to distribute or license the distribution of your materialthroughout the world for RROs’ licensed acts and purposes as amended from time to time.
• After first use in the company’s publications, in the event of a request from a third party other than an RRO for paid syndication of your content, 50 per cent of all net receipts to the company attributable to your material will be remitted to you.
• For details of City AM’s privacy policy please visit this page.
  
  

Readership Survey Terms and Conditions

Competition Terms and Conditions 

You must be 18 years or over at the time of entry to enter this competition.

The competition is not open to anyone associated with the promotion, including employees and officers of the Promoter and/or any member of The Hut Group, or the partner brands involved in this campaign, or their families and anyone professionally connected with the competition including (but not limited to) employees of the marketing agencies used by the Promoter or agents. 

This competition closes at 5pm on 30/01/2026. 

This competition will have 1 winner.  

The prize for the winner will be: 

£500 –  Harrods Gift Card

This voucher will be sent to you via your email as an e-voucher and T&C’s of the Harrods Gift card can be found here. You may only enter the competition once.

The winner will be randomly drawn from all eligible entries following the close of the competition under the supervision of an independent observer and will be notified via the email address held by the Promoter within 12 hours of the competition closing. 

If a prize is not claimed within a period of 72 hours after notification, we reserve the right to select an alternative winner and shall have no liability in respect of the entry initially selected. 

By entering the competition you agree to any PR or marketing any member of The Hut Group wishes to undertake to promo its websites or products (using the email address that you provided when you entered the competition). 

The prize cannot be exchanged, refunded or transferred.  No cash alternative is available. Prize’s that are listed may be subject to change dependent on stock levels and availability, if this does happen then these prize’s will be replaced with items that the company/brand see to be a fit substitute. Prizes listed may be ex display but are in excellent condition.  

The winner is fully entitled to gift or rehome any and all items from their prize bundle without exception. 

The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify without notice any entries that it believes are fraudulent. The Promoter’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 

The Promoter reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time (and any such change shall be notified to you by email). 

Entry into the competition will be taken as acceptance of these terms and conditions.  

The competition and these terms and conditions are governed by English law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.