Guidelines for business listings
Guidelines for business listings
Head to the Visit Barnsley Business Portal today to register your business!
As we look to promote all of Barnsley to visitors of the borough, we invite you to register (for free!) on our business portal where you can showcase your business and access features as our website develops over time. As part of our future development of the website, we will be looking to provide access to event listings and a space for you to promote your offers, as well as premium features such as additional advertising opportunities.
Register today and manage your business listing to help more visitors enjoy their trip to Barnsley!
GUIDELINES FOR BUSINESS LISTINGS
Overall guidance:
- Your business must be based within the Barnsley borough, or be nearby with an obvious link to or market in Barnsley. You can check this on Barnsley Council’s interactive map.
- Your business must be of potential interest to a visitor to Barnsley. This includes things like hospitality, retail, venues, accommodation or events. We reserve the right not to list businesses such as business-to-business, corporate services, or other non-tourism related business.
- Your business must be providing legal, safe, and appropriate products and services.
- Your business listing must adhere to Barnsley Council’s advertising and sponsorship policy. We will not promote certain categories of business.
- Your business listing must be checked and updated at least every six months. Your listing may be deactivated if not checked within those time frames.
- You must be the business owner, or have permission to own and edit the listing.
- You give permission for us to potentially promote your listing on Visit Barnsley marketing channels.
Your business description must be:
- An up-to-date, accurate representation of what your business offers.
- Written in plain, simple English. Try to use short sentences, no abbreviations, and if there’s an easier word available – use it!
Images must be:
- Clear and non-blurry
- Smaller than 2MB
- Without text or logos overlaid
- An accurate representation of your business, products or services
- Owned by you
- If people are in the images, you must have UK-GDPR compliant approvals to use those photos for promotional purposes
- Must not infringe the copyright of any third party or any laws
WHY HAS MY LISTING BEEN REJECTED?
Please see the most common reasons for a listing to be rejected below:
- Image quality is too low, or the image isn’t relevant to the listing
- Listing description isn’t clear enough for visitors
- Key information is missing
- Business isn't based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire
If you still aren't sure why your listing has been rejected, please get in touch by emailing us - visitbarnsley@barnsley.gov.uk
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While every effort has been made to make sure the accuracy of the content of the advertisements, we cannot accept any liability for errors or omissions contained in any of the advertisements provided by an advertiser.
We do not accept any liability for any information or claims made by the advertisement or by the advertisers. Any inclusion of the Barnsley Council name on a publication should not be taken as an endorsement by Barnsley Council.
We reserve the right to refuse to place an advert or accept any sponsorship. We also reserve the right to withdraw any advert or any sponsorship at any time, which is not in accordance with this policy or the terms and conditions of advertising and sponsorship.