Advertiser terms

1. Who we are

The Ad Console is run by induwara.lk. Operated by Induwara Ashinsana. Sri Lanka. “We” means that business; “you” means the person or business that opens an account or books a campaign. Contact: contact page.

2. Your account

You sign in with Google or an email link. You are responsible for everything done under your account and for giving true business details. You must be old enough and able to enter a contract under Sri Lankan law, and if you book for a business you confirm you may bind it.

3. Campaigns and payment

• A campaign is prepaid. You choose the spaces, dates, hours and a budget, see the price, and pay for the whole campaign before it starts. Prices are in Sri Lankan rupees and are shown before you pay. There is no automatic or recurring charge.
• Money is used only as your ad is seen, at the rate card price for the space and time of day when each view happens. A campaign cannot spend more than you paid for it, and it ends when its money is used or its last day passes.
• A view counts when at least half of the ad is on screen for one full second in a real browser. We do not charge for robots, repeat refreshes, or traffic we judge invalid, and we may keep views out of billing to keep delivery even across your dates.
• Card payments are processed by PayHere. We never see your card number. Each paid order gets a numbered receipt by email and in the console.
• Prices shown are the total. Where tax applies to our services, the price shown includes it or we say so before you pay.

4. Review and approval

A person reviews every ad and its landing page against the advertising policy before it runs, and we may check again at any time, including automatically. We can refuse, pause or stop any ad or campaign that breaks the policy or the law, or whose landing page changes or stops working. We tell you why. You are not charged for anything that did not run.

5. What we promise, and what we do not

We will show your approved ad in the spaces and hours you chose, spread across your dates, until its money is used or its dates end. We cannot promise a number of views, clicks, sales or any other result. Views depend on how many people visit our pages and whether their devices show ads. If a visitor blocks ads, nothing is shown or counted. The service is provided as it is; to the extent the law allows, our total responsibility to you for any one campaign is limited to the amount you paid for it.

6. Your content and responsibilities

• You confirm you have the right to use everything in your ad and landing page, that it is true, lawful in Sri Lanka, and not misleading.
• You give us permission to store, copy and display your ad and its text for the campaign and to show it to our reviewers.
• You are responsible for your claims, your products, your prices and your customers. We are not a party to anything you sell.
• You will not use the console to attack, overload or probe our systems, to click on or view your own or a competitor’s ads to distort results, or to hide what your landing page really does.

7. Refunds and unused money

See the refund policy. In short: money for views that did not run is yours, to reuse on another campaign or to have refunded.

8. Suspension and ending

You can end a campaign at any time in the console and close your account when nothing is open. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, the ad policy or the law, or that we reasonably believe is committing fraud, including payment reversals. Money not used is returned as set out in the refund policy, less any amount you owe us.

9. Payment reversals

If a bank reverses a card payment, we stop the related campaign, set any unused money against the reversed amount, and may stop you booking or taking refunds until anything still owed is paid. Please contact us first; we resolve most problems the same day.

10. Intellectual property

You keep ownership of your ad. The console, our software, our brand and the induwara.lk name belong to us. Nothing here transfers either side’s rights.

11. Notices

We send notices to the email address on your account and show them in the console. Keep your email up to date. Send notices to us through the contact page.

12. Changes

We may change these terms and the rate card. We tell advertisers by email before a change that affects them takes effect, and each booking is made under the version in force when you accept it. Rates apply as views happen.

13. Events outside our control

Neither side is responsible for a delay or failure caused by something outside its reasonable control, such as a power, internet or payment-network outage.

14. Sponsorships (monthly spots)

• A sponsorship gives you the first ad space on the pages named in your booking, on every device, for the days you booked (30 days for each month). While it runs, no other advertiser’s ad is shown in that space on those pages. The other ad space on those pages stays open to everyone.
• The price is fixed, shown before you pay, and paid in full before it starts. It is not charged by the view. The views a month we show are an estimate from recent traffic, for your information. They are not a promise, and traffic goes up and down.
• The dates are held for you for 24 hours while you pay. If you cancel before the first day you get everything back, as credit or to your card. Once it has started it runs for the full period and cannot be paused. If we fail to show your approved ad as booked, for reasons that are ours, we add the days lost or return their share as credit. If your landing page stops working, we pause the sponsorship until it is fixed and those days are not credited.
• We may refuse a booking, or end one that breaks the ad policy. If we end it, you get back the part for the days that did not run.

15. Changing an ad

You can edit or replace an ad at any time in the console. Anything a visitor can see or follow (the picture, the description or the link) is reviewed by a person again. An ad that is already approved keeps running as it was until the new version is approved. If we do not approve a change, the previous version carries on and you are told why.

16. Referral programme and ad credit

• You may share your referral link with businesses you know. You must not send spam, mislead anyone, offer prizes for sign-ups, refer yourself, or refer another account or business of your own, including under a different email address.
• When a business signs up through your link and has paid at least the minimum shown in your console, you earn a share of what we earn from it. The rate, the period and the most one business can earn are shown in your console and can change for future sign-ups. We work it out as the referred business’s money is spent, not when it pays, so refunded or reversed money earns nothing, and spending paid for with ad credit earns nothing.
• Rewards and gifts are paid as ad credit. It can only be used to pay for campaigns and sponsorships in the console. It is not money: it cannot be withdrawn, transferred or refunded, and it has no cash value. What is left of ad credit after a campaign returns to your ad credit, never to your card.
• An account that looks linked to the referrer (the same company email domain or network) is checked by a person before anything is earned. We may remove rewards that were earned by breaking these terms, and end a referral, an account or the programme. Credit you have already earned honestly stays yours to use.
• Any tax on rewards is your responsibility.

17. General

These terms, the ad policy and the refund policy are the whole agreement for advertising through the console. If a part is found unenforceable the rest stays in force. They are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka, and the courts of Sri Lanka decide any dispute we cannot settle ourselves.