Sponsoring Partner Terms

These terms apply to a company that pays the annual Partner fee published on the Club's website.

They take effect when you complete the partner form on the Club's website, accept these terms and sign. Ticking the box and typing your name is your signature, and it binds the company you name as much as a signature on paper would.

Nothing here replaces the Membership Terms. A partner is not a member, and holds no member entitlement unless the Club admits it as one separately.

The fee is the one published on the Club's website on the day you sign, payable annually in advance in United States dollars. It renews at the fee then in force, and the Club gives you at least thirty days' notice of any change before your renewal.

It includes five permanent seats and five guests on request at the Club's gatherings, everything a Member receives for each of those seats, a page of your own on the Club's website, an hour-long podcast about your company, a dedicated post on the Club's LinkedIn page, your logo on the partners page and on invitations, fifteen minutes on the floor at a Club gathering, and one private roundtable a year.

Rates published for 2026 are founding rates. They apply to any partnership signed in that calendar year.

The fee is not refundable in whole or in part where you end the partnership early. Where the Club ends it without cause, it refunds the unused months.

You supply the substance and the Club supplies the format. The Club records and publishes the podcast, writes the post with you rather than about you, and hosts the page.

The Club keeps final editorial control over anything published under its name, and may decline or amend material that is misleading, that disparages a third party, that breaches the Code of Conduct, or that reads as advertising for a product rather than an introduction to a company. Where the Club declines something, it says why and offers the chance to replace it.

You keep every right you hold in your own name, marks and materials. The Club keeps the recording and the published pieces, and may keep them online after the partnership ends unless you ask in writing for their removal.

The five seats are named. You may change who holds a seat by telling the Secretary, at no charge; the seats are not transferable to another company.

The fifteen-minute slot is scheduled with you at a gathering agreed between us. It is not a sales pitch to a captive room: the Code of Conduct applies to it as it does to everything else.

Each of us may use the other's name to describe the partnership factually, and neither of us may use the other's name or marks to suggest an endorsement of a product, a price or a third party.

The Club publishes your logo only once you have given permission in writing, and displays it according to any brand rules you supply. Until then the Club writes your name in plain text — and the Club's own database refuses to store a logo against a partnership that is not signed.

Either of us may withdraw that permission at any time, in writing. The Club removes the logo at its next publication of the site and in any event within seven days.

This is not a contract for services, an agency, a partnership in the legal sense, a joint venture, or an employment relationship. Neither of us may commit the other to anything.

It is not exclusive. The Club may accept partners in the same sector, and you are free to support any other organisation.

The Club does not promise attendance numbers, business introduced, coverage, or any commercial outcome. What the Club promises is what this document says it gives, and nothing beyond it.

The partnership runs for twelve months from the date you sign, and renews for a further twelve months unless either of us says otherwise.

Either of us may end it at any time, in writing, without giving reasons. Your name comes off the partners page at the next publication of the site.

Ending the partnership does not undo an occasion already held, and does not entitle either of us to a refund or a payment, except where the section on fees says so.

The Club holds the details you give on the form to run the partnership, and handles them as set out in its Privacy Policy. Your signature record — the version of these terms, the name signed and the moment — is kept for as long as the partnership runs and for six years afterwards.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, and sit alongside the Terms of Use, the Code of Conduct and the Privacy Policy.

Questions, or a change to what you provide, go to legal@lvbbc.org.