Gulf News

> Column Widths:
- 1 col = 45mm.
- 2 col = 95mm.
- 3 col = 145mm.
- 4 col = 195mm.
- 5 col = 245mm.
- 6 col = 295mm.

> Height of Ad sizes:
- 0.5M = 45.86mm.
- 1M = 98.78mm.
- 1.5M = 151.7mm.
- 2M = 204.61mm.
- 3M = 310.47mm.
- 4M = 416.31m.

> Positions and Sizes:
- 3 col x 1.5M (Main Front Pg & Bus. Front Pg only).
- 6 col x 1.5M (Front Pg only).
- Qtr Pg Reg (Front Pg only).
- Half Pg (Hor) (Front Pg only).

- DPS.
- Half DPS.
- Full Pg.
- 4 col x 3M.
- Quarter Pg DPS.
- Half Pg (Hor/Ver).
- 4 col x 2M / 2 col x 4M.
- Qtr Pg (Reg) 3 col x 2M / Qtr Pg (Hor) 6 col x 1M.
- 2 col x 3M.
- 2 col x 2M; 4 col x 1M.
- 3 col x 1M.
- 2 col x 1M.

- The grid provided shows 3 commitment slabs.
- he advertiser commits to the proposed no. of ads and is invoiced at the applicable rates.

- The credit note cannot be encashed but can only be adjusted against expenditure in products/services of Al Nisr Publishing LLC and its subsidiary/associate companies. If the advertiser has a Gulf News Classifieds Exclusive Agreement during the Contract period, the advertiser will have to advertise exclusively in the publications of Al Nisr Group.

- Advertisers signing up on Contract will have the facility of getting debit/credit at the end of the agreement period depending upon actual consumption and the effective rate thereby.

- Contract agreements may be signed from any month in 2026 before the first insertion, effective from the month in which the first insertion is released, but not effective beyond December 31, 2026.

- All agreements will be for periods beginning on the first day of a calendar month and ending on the last day of December within the same year.

- Al Nisr Publishing LLC reserves the right to refuse or alter any advertisement or change its position without prior notice and providing any reason for doing so. While every care is taken in compiling the advertisements, neither Al Nisr Publishing LLC nor its agents accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissions or for any consequences arising from the publication of any advertisement, or for any loss or damage to any advertising material submitted to the publisher. The advertiser agrees to indemnify Al Nisr Publishing LLC against any damages, losses or claims by third parties arising from publication of the advertisement.

- All advertisements must comply with all government and other statutory regulations and stipulations and is solely the responsibility of the advertisers or their representatives and or advertising agencies. Any discounts, commissions or contract rates offered are subject to payments being received by the publisher within the stipulated credit period last announced by the publisher. Al Nisr Publishing LLC reserves the right to charge the casual rate and levy a surcharge in the event of payments not being received within the stipulated credit period.

- The publisher reserves the right to charge the full rate for advertisements cancelled beyond these deadlines.

> TERMS & CONDITIONS OF THE VALUEAD AGREEMENT:
- The Agreement commences on the 1st day of the starting month and ends on the last day of the closing month (irrespective of the first and last insertion dates within the starting / closing month).

- The date of release of the 1st insertion must be within the starting month.

- The Agreement must be signed before the first insertion.

- If the advertiser has a Gulf News Classifieds Exclusive Agreement during the Contract period, the advertiser will have to advertise exclusively in the publications of Al Nisr Group.


- The credit note cannot be encashed but can only be adjusted against expenditure in products/services of Al Nisr Publishing LLC and its subsidiary/associate companies.

- An agency signing on behalf of the advertiser is responsible for maintaining the commitments, inclusive of advertising released by the
advertiser, directly or through other agencies.

- Any revision in the terms of the Agreement will be mutually agreed to by both the parties in writing.

- The Conditions of Acceptance of advertisements, which forms part of this Agreement, have been read, fully understood and agreed.
- The Agreement is applicable only for the UAE.

> PANELS SERIES DISCOUNT AGREEMENT:
- Discounts are applicable on the above advertisements only.

- A Debit Note will be issued at the end of the contract period, in case the number of bookings falls below the committed level of bookings.

- The Agreement must be signed before the first insertion.

- An Agency, signing on behalf of the advertiser, is responsible for maintaining the commitments stated, inclusive of advertisements released by the advertiser directly or through other agencies.

- Any revision in the terms of the Agreement will be mutually agreed to by both the parties in writing.

- Any and all supplied materials are presumed to be correct and in accordance with Al Nisr Group stated requirements.
- Al Nisr Group will not be held liable for printing complications which may arisedue to receipt of non-conforming materials.
- All Transparencies should be fl attened. It should be noted that the Asura system will not check this.
- Al Nisr Group will not be held liable for discrepancies arising due to non-fl attening of transparencies.
- Al Nisr Group cannot guarantee legibility of 4-colour reverse type below 10 point and black & white reverse type below 6 point.

> Handling & Disposition Of Advertising Materials:
- Please follow material deadlines for sending materials.
- All advertising materials should be provided specifying details regarding the publication & date of insertion, advertiser, agency and special instructions, if any. Materials received for insertion will not be released until after publication of issue.
- All materials will be kept electronically by publisher for 15 days following the original date of insertion, after which, these will be destroyed.
- Please Note: If white space is required in an advertisement without a border, use crop marks only. Note that the crop marks should exactly defi ne the Booking Size.

> Overprint Attributes:
- Only Black text can be ‘overprint’ on colour ground. Colour textshould be ‘knockout’. Gulf News will not be responsible for any discrepancies, which may arise due to not conforming to overprint guidelines.
- The Agreement must be signed before the first insertion.

Material Format & PDF Specifications :
- PDF Version: 1.4 / PDFX-3
- Resolution: 300dpi.
- Mode: CMYK.
- CMYK Colour Profile “Coated Fogra39”
- All Fonts Embedded.
- All Transparencies should be flattened.
- The PDF fi le should match the exact booking size without any extra white space.
- PDF fi les should not have crop marks, trim marks, document header or any other page information.
- The dimensions of the PDF fi le for Bleed artworks should match the exact bleed size without crop marks or extra information.

Not accepted at any stage:
- DCS.
- Multitone.
- Multichannel (more than 4 channel i.e. CMYK).
- Duotone Images.

Bleed Advertisements :
Keep live matter 10mm from trim edges—head, face, foot and scuff . Additionally, for double page spread bleed advertisements,
keep live matter 5mm from the spine.

Colours :
- All colours must be built from process colours (CMYK).
- Always use Coated Fogra39 ICC Colour profile as working space for all your advertisements.
- Advertisements received in RGB / Wrong CMYK Profile will be converted to working CMYK with best nearest conversion.
- Gulf News will not be responsible for any colour shift which may arise due to this action.
- All Spot colour advertisements, two and three colour advertisements will be converted to CMYK with best nearest conversion.
- Gulf News will not be responsible for any colour shift which may arise due to this action.

> Watermarks :
- The minimum standard values for screens in highlight areas (e.g. watermarks) is 5% + 2% extra in all colours for printing on Newspaper web.

- Pricing excludes VAT and applies only to VAT-registered customers.
- Payment Terms: Prepayment. Credit, if approved, will be for maximum 30 days from the date of invoice.

- Cancellation deadlines are the same as booking deadlines.
- Cancellations will be allowed only for bonafide reasons, but not later than 15 days prior to release date.
- Cancellation deadlines are the same as booking deadlines. The publisher reserves the right to charge the full rate for advertisements cancelled beyond these deadlines.

- All bookings will be firm bookings.
- Bookings will be for pre-specified clients only.
- Cancellation deadlines are the same as booking deadlines. The publisher reserves the right to charge the full rate for advertisements cancelled beyond these deadlines.