Terms of use

The giveaway

The full official rules for the $250 in Local Gift Cards giveaway — eligibility, the drawing, the prize and how the winner is notified — are on the entry page: the official rules. Those rules govern the giveaway; this page doesn't.

The directory

Listings are free and we check the details with the business before publishing them. Even so, things change: a phone number moves, a shop closes, hours shift. Treat a listing as a good-faith pointer, not a guarantee, and tell us if something is wrong so we can fix it.

A listing is not an endorsement. We don't vet the quality of anyone's work, and being on the card means a business bought a slot, not that we vouch for them.

If your business is listed and you'd rather it wasn't, ask and we'll take it down.

Coupons and offers

Every offer on this site is the business's own, honoured by that business, on the terms and expiry date shown. If one isn't honoured, tell us — we'd want to know, and it affects whether that offer runs again. We don't publish an offer a business hasn't agreed to in writing.

Advertising

Prices shown are for a single slot on a single card and are current at the date above. Category exclusivity applies to one issue at a time: buying the plumbing slot on one card doesn't reserve it on the next. Artwork deadlines and mail dates are confirmed with each advertiser directly before anything prints, and are shown on the advertise page once an issue's dates are set. A slot is held once it's confirmed with us directly.

This website

The design, copy and photographs here belong to Alamo Heights Spotlight or to the businesses that supplied them. Business names and logos belong to those businesses. You're welcome to link to anything on the site.

Text messages (SMS)

We run a small SMS programme under the name Spotlight Editions, a DBA of Forbis Productions LLC. It exists so we can answer people who ask about advertising on the card, and so advertisers can approve artwork without a phone call.

You have to ask for it, and there are two separate asks. Our contact and advertising forms carry two independent SMS boxes: one for texts about your own enquiry, and a separate one for occasional promotional texts about advertising categories opening up. Ticking one never ticks the other. Neither is pre-ticked, both forms send perfectly well without either, and receiving our postcard in the mail is not consent to anything — we do not have a phone number for you.

What we send. If you ticked the first box: replies to your enquiry, and for advertisers, ad proof approvals, artwork deadlines and invoice reminders. If you ticked the second: occasional notes when a category on the card opens up, and offers. Message frequency varies. We never text a number that did not tick a box, we do not buy or rent lists, and we do not text people because they received the postcard.

Stopping them.Text STOP to any message and they stop. Text HELP for help, or reach us on 210-361-5582 or [email protected].

Costs. Message and data rates may apply. We don't charge for the messages, but your mobile carrier may, depending on your plan.

Delivery. Mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages, and neither we nor they can guarantee that any particular message arrives. Don't rely on a text for anything time-critical — if a deadline matters, we will also email you.

Age. You must be at least 18 years old to give consent and receive messages from us.

How we handle the number itself is in our privacy policy. In short: we never share mobile information or SMS opt-in consent with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.

Getting in touch

210-361-5582 or [email protected]. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas.