Advertising terms

This agreement is between you (the advertiser, including whoever you are buying on behalf of) and the operator of ATX Things, austintexasthings.com. It covers every placement you buy here, whether you buy it instantly on the site or agree it in a conversation first.

If you are buying on behalf of a client or employer, you confirm you are authorised to bind them to this agreement.

Submitting an order is an offer to buy, not a completed sale. A placement is only confirmed once payment has cleared and we have accepted the creative.

We may decline any advertisement, from anyone, for any lawful reason, before or after payment. Some categories never run here at all; others need a person to look before they can. If we decline before anything has run, you get a full refund of the amount paid for that placement — declining is not a way for us to keep your money.

We may also remove a live placement if it turns out to breach this agreement. Where we do that and the breach was not yours, you get a refund for the unrun portion.

Prices shown on the rate card are in US dollars and are what you pay — instant purchases are always at list price, with no negotiated discount applied at checkout.

Payment is taken through Stripe. We never see or store your full card details. Your purchase is charged when you complete checkout, before the placement runs.

Monthly placements renew automatically until cancelled, and each renewal is charged at the start of the period it covers.

Placements go live within two business days of payment clearing, or on your requested start date if it is later.

Reschedule free up to three business days before the start date.

Cancel before anything runs and you get a full refund. Once a placement has run, that portion is not refundable.

A monthly placement can be cancelled any time and stops at the end of the month you have paid for.

If we fail to run something you paid for, or run it wrong, you get the run again at no charge or your money back for that unit. Your choice, not ours.

Sponsored articles stay up permanently unless you ask us to take one down.

You keep ownership of everything you supply — your copy, your images, your marks. You grant us permission to display that material on this site for the length of the placement, and to keep an internal record of what ran and when.

You confirm that you own or are licensed to use everything you supply, including any photograph, logo, font or person appearing in it, and that displaying it here will not infringe anyone else's rights.

You confirm that what your advertisement says is truthful, that any claim in it can be substantiated, and that both the advertisement and the page it links to comply with applicable law — including the FTC's rules on endorsements and deceptive advertising, and any licensing or disclosure rules specific to your industry.

You agree to cover us for any third-party claim, and our reasonable costs in dealing with it, that arises from material you supplied or from the destination you sent readers to. This is the term that matters most to us, and it is the ordinary bargain in advertising: you are the only party in a position to know whether you have the rights to your own creative.

Every paid placement on this site is labelled as advertising or as sponsored, clearly and next to the placement itself, and that labelling is not negotiable. Sponsored articles carry the same disclosure at the top, before the copy.

Buying advertising here does not buy editorial coverage, a rating, a ranking, a review, or removal from anything. Our data pages and guides are produced independently of who is advertising, and an advertiser's inclusion in or absence from any of them is not for sale. If that is the thing you actually want to buy, we are the wrong publisher and we would rather tell you that now.

We will not accept an advertisement designed to be mistaken for our own editorial or data reporting. This is the one creative rule we enforce on look and feel rather than content.

We report impressions and clicks from our own server-side measurement, and those figures are what we bill and report against. They will not match your analytics exactly; no two measurement systems ever do.

Audience figures quoted anywhere on this site — traffic, reach, subscriber counts — are historical and are estimates of what a placement may deliver. They are not a guaranteed delivery, and we do not promise any particular number of impressions, clicks, leads, sales, or search ranking. Where a package states a specific guaranteed quantity, that guarantee is the exception and it is honoured under the make-good term above.

We do not sell your customers' personal data, and we do not require you to place any tracking of your own on this site.

The site is provided as it is. We do not guarantee it will be available without interruption, and a brief outage is not a failure to deliver.

Where we get something wrong, the make-good above is the primary remedy: we run it again, or we refund that unit. Beyond that, our total liability to you for anything connected with a placement is limited to what you actually paid us for that placement, and neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential losses such as lost profits.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for fraud.

These terms are versioned by date. The version that applies to your purchase is the one in force when you accepted it, and we record that version, the moment you accepted, and the IP address it came from, against your order. The current version is 2026-08-04.

We can change these terms for future purchases at any time by publishing a new version. We cannot change the terms of a placement you have already bought.

This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, and any dispute goes to the state or federal courts sitting in Travis County, Texas.

Advertising here is handled by an automated assistant that can quote prices, agree placements and take payment on our behalf. Anything it agrees within these terms is binding on us — but it cannot agree a term that contradicts this document, and if it appears to have done so, this document is what governs.

You can reach a human about any order at any time by replying in your order thread, or at hello@austintexasthings.com. If you want a person rather than the assistant, say so and you will get one.