Terms of Service

Last updated: 1 June 2026

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the What's On East Lothian website at https://whatsoneastlothian.com (the "Site").

By using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

2. What the Site is, and what it is not

The Site is a free, informational guide to events in East Lothian. It lists events gathered from venues, councils, festivals and community submissions, and links out to original sources where you can find more detail or buy tickets.

The Site is not a ticket agent or box office. We do not sell tickets and we are not party to any transaction between you and an event organiser or ticket seller; the organiser of the events listed; or a guarantee that any event will take place, or take place as described.

3. Accuracy of event information (disclaimer)

We take reasonable care, but event details are obtained from third-party sources and from community submissions, and they change. Dates, times, prices, venues and availability may be wrong or out of date. Always check the original source or the event organiser before making plans, travelling or buying tickets. We are not responsible for your reliance on any listing.

Nothing on the Site is professional, legal, financial or travel advice. Event information is provided for general interest only.

4. Submitting an event

If you submit an event through the Site:

• you confirm that the information is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you are entitled to share it;
• you must not submit content that is unlawful, misleading, fraudulent, defamatory, infringing, spam, or that promotes illegal activity;
• you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, edit, format, categorise, reproduce and publish the event details you submit, so that we can display them on the Site and in related listings and communications (for example our newsletter);
• you give us your email address for confirmation and queries only. It will not be published.

All submissions are manually reviewed. We may edit, reject or remove any submission or listing at any time, at our discretion and without notice. for example if it is inaccurate, breaches these Terms, or no longer fits the Site. We are under no obligation to publish any submission.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the Site for any unlawful purpose;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, its servers or its database;
• scrape, harvest or systematically extract content from the Site except as permitted by our robots.txt, or interfere with its normal operation;
• submit malicious code, or attempt to overload or disrupt the Site;
• misrepresent your identity or submit content on someone's behalf without authority.

6. Intellectual property

The Site's design, original text, branding, layout, code, and the categorisations and summaries we generate are owned by or licensed to us. Event listings include information drawn from third-party sources, which remains the property of those sources; we link to originals where possible. Images are sourced from third parties or used under licence (some local images are used under Creative Commons licences, with attributions documented on the Site). You may share links to pages on the Site, but you may not copy or republish substantial parts of the Site without our permission.

If you believe content on the Site infringes your rights, contact hello@whatsoneastlothian.com and we will review it promptly.

7. Third-party links

The Site links to external websites we do not control. We are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, privacy practices or cookies. Following an outbound link is at your own risk.

8. Availability

The Site is provided free of charge and on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, and we may change, suspend or withdraw all or part of it at any time without notice.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law: we exclude all implied warranties and conditions relating to the Site and its content; we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Site, from reliance on any listing, or from any event you attend or transaction you enter into with a third party; and we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, business or opportunity.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the law of Scotland, and you agree that the courts of Scotland have jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or in connection with them.

11. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date shows when they last changed. Continued use of the Site after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

12. Contact

Questions about these Terms: hello@whatsoneastlothian.com.