This page (together with any documents referred to on it) tells you the terms and conditions (Conditions) on which we supply any of the goods (Goods) listed on our website www.signsforchurches.co.uk (our site) to you. These Conditions shall govern any contract for the sale or hire of Goods listed on our site which is made at a distance between us and any customer (you) by any method, including but not limited to telephone, email and fax and also via our site. You must tick the checkbox when asked if you wish to be able to order Goods from our website.
It is important to read and understand these Conditions before placing your order.
1. Information About Us:
www.signsforchurches.co.uk is a website owned and operated by Signs Scott Ltd t/as Signs for Churches (we). VAT Number: 948 8252 76 - We are a company registered in England and Wales and our company number is 6987882 with our registered offices at 72a High Street, Battle, East Sussex. TN33 0AG and our main trading address at
Signs Scott Ltd, Unit 9, Munday Industrial Estate, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN9 1RA
Tel: 01732 770 775 Facsimile: 01732 770 885 Email: sales@signsforchurches.co.uk
2. Service Availability:
It is prohibited to access our site from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful. If you access this site from a location outside the United Kingdom, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with your local laws.
3. Your Status
By placing an order through our site, you warrant that:
(a) you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and
(b) you are at least 18 years of age. (c) you have the authority to place the order
4. How The Contract Is Formed Between You and Us
4.1 After placing an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order. Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to us to buy Goods. All orders are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an e-mail that confirms that the Goods have been dispatched (the Dispatch Confirmation). The contract between us (Contract) will only be formed when we send you the Dispatch Confirmation.
4.2 The Contract will relate only to those Goods whose dispatch we have confirmed in the Dispatch Confirmation. We will not be obliged to supply any other Goods which may have been part of your order until the dispatch of such Goods has been confirmed in a separate Dispatch Confirmation.
4.3 Each order for Goods by you to us will be deemed to be an offer by you to purchase Goods subject to these Conditions.
4.4 You must ensure that the terms of your order and any applicable specification are complete and accurate.
4.5 These Conditions will be incorporated in the Contract to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions.
5. Consumer Rights
5.1 For the purposes of these Conditions, you shall be contracting as a consumer if you are not acting for the purposes of your business, trade or profession in purchasing Goods from us. All other customers shall be contracting as business customers. If you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel a Contract at any time within 7 working days, beginning on the day after you received the Goods and you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the Goods in accordance with our refunds policy (set out in clause 9 below). This right of cancellation does not apply to any Goods which are personalised, customised, made to your specification or manufactured to a visual proof which has been approved by yourself or somebody in your organization.
5.2 To cancel a Contract, you must inform us in writing and you must return the Goods to us immediately thereafter, at your own cost and risk. You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the Goods while they are in your possession. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.
6. Availability & Delivery
6.1 All Goods are offered by us subject to their current availability and we reserve the right to cancel any order placed by you if we have insufficient stock to deliver the Goods that you have ordered.
6.2 Due to our policy of continuous product development, we reserve the right to change any product specifications without prior notice and without liability to you.
6.3 Orders for standard stock items may be cancelled by you prior to dispatch at no extra charge if confirmed by you in writing. Non-stock items or specially ordered Goods may only be cancelled by arrangement with us and any costs incurred in connection with your order will be levied.
6.4 Your order will be fulfilled by the delivery date set out in the Dispatch Confirmation or, if no delivery date is specified, then within 30 working days if you are contracting as a consumer, or within a reasonable time of the date of the Dispatch Confirmation if you are contracting as a business customer.
6.5 For stock items we offer a next day courier delivery service at an additional charge provided that your order is received by us no later than 1:00 pm on the previous business day (i.e. between Monday and Friday inclusive, but excluding bank or public holidays). We will take all reasonable steps to deliver the Goods within the agreed period but shall not incur any liability whatsoever due to any consequences of delayed delivery or damage in transit. We do not guarantee to get delivery on site to meet any installers and will accept no liability arising from any delayed delivery or from damaged or defective goods received and consequently delaying prearranged installation.
6.6 Any orders for non-stock items or specially bespoke ordered Goods will be treated as separate orders and will be subject to an additional carriage charge.
6.7 We will deliver the Goods ordered by you to the address you give us for delivery when you place your order. It is your responsibility to ensure that the delivery address is accurate and complete; you must also ensure that there will be somebody to sign for and take delivery of the Goods upon delivery. Delivery is usually between 7am and 20.00. Please Note: We cannot and do not guarantee any delivery times.
6.8 Any attempted delivery which is refused at the delivery address will be returned to our warehouse. In this case a re-delivery charge will be applied to your order. The amount of the re-delivery charge depends on the carrier used to effect re-delivery.
6.9 All Goods must be inspected immediately while the delivery driver is still present. If found to be damaged in any way, the Goods must be refused, otherwise claims for any damages cannot be entertained. Please write "Refused due to damage" on the consignment note and hand the Goods back to the driver.
6.10 Without prejudice to the provisions of clause 6.9, if we, acting reasonably, are satisfied that the deficiency in the Goods would not have been reasonably apparent to you upon delivery of the Goods to you, or that the deficiency in the Goods only manifested itself following delivery of the Goods to you, then the provisions of Condition 9.1 (b) (ii) will apply.
6.11 In the event that you are in breach of the Contract, we reserve the right to refuse to supply you with any additional Goods, or to suspend the delivery of any Goods, without limiting any other remedy available to us. We may exercise this right until such time as the breach has been remedied, where such breach is remediable.
7. Risk and Title
7.1 The Goods will be at your risk from the time of delivery.
7.2 Ownership of the Goods will only pass to you when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Goods, including any carriage charges.
7.3 If you are contracting as a business customer, ownership of the Goods will only pass to you upon:
(a) our receipt of the sums detailed in clause 7.2 above, together with
(b) all other sums which are or which become due to us from you on any account.
7.4 Until ownership of the Goods has passed to you, if you are contracting as a business customer, you must:
(a) store the Goods (at no cost to us) separately from all your other goods and any goods of any third party in such a way that they remain identifiable as our property;
(b) not destroy, deface or obscure any identifying mark or packaging on or relating to the Goods, maintain the Goods in satisfactory condition and keep it insured on our behalf for the full price of the Goods against all risks to our reasonable satisfaction. On request you shall produce the policy of insurance to us; and
(c) hold the proceeds of the insurance referred to in sub-clause (b) on trust for us and not mix them with any other money, nor pay the proceeds into an overdrawn bank account.
7.5 If you are contracting as a business customer, your right to possession of the Goods shall terminate immediately, if:
(a) you have a bankruptcy order made against you or make an arrangement or composition with your creditors, or otherwise take the benefit of any statutory provision for the time being in force for the relief of insolvent debtors, or (being a body corporate) convene a meeting of creditors (whether formal or informal), or enter into liquidation (whether voluntary or compulsory) except a solvent voluntary liquidation for the purpose only of reconstruction or amalgamation, or have a receiver and/or manager, administrator or administrative receiver appointed of its undertaking or any part thereof, or a resolution is passed or a petition presented to any court for your winding up or for the granting of an administration order in respect of you, or any proceedings are commenced relating to your insolvency or possible insolvency; or
(b) you suffer or allow any execution, whether legal or equitable, to be levied on your property or be obtained against you or you are unable to pay your debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986, or you cease to trade, or you encumber or in any other way charge the Goods.
8. Prices and Payments
8.1 The price of the Goods will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.
8.2 All prices exclude VAT and delivery charges, which will be added to the total amount due.
8.3 Our prices do not include installation. If you wish to arrange for the Goods to be installed following delivery, please call us for prices.
8.4 Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Dispatch Confirmation.
8.5 Our site contains a large number of Goods and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Goods listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our dispatch procedures so that, where the correct price of the Goods is less than our stated price we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Goods to you. If the correct price of the Goods is higher than the price stated on our site, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Goods, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.
8.6 We are under no obligation to provide the Goods to you at the incorrect (lower) price, even after we have sent you a Dispatch Confirmation, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognized by you as a mispricing.
8.7 A 30 day credit account is available to Churches, Places of Worship, Area Diocese, Parish, Town and local authorities as well as registered charities. You can download an order form on our site’s home page and fax it to 01732 770 885 or email sales@signsforchurches.co.uk Alternatively, you can send us your official order.
8.9 Payment can be made by BACS to Account No. 01604384 Sort Code 40-44-20. Please call our sales office on 01732 770 775 if you wish to be sent a pro-forma invoice.
8.10 We also accept cheque payments. Please make cheques payable to "Signs Scott Ltd" and send to the following address: Signs Scott Ltd, Unit 9, Munday Industrial Estate, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN9 1RA
8.11 Payment is required prior to dispatch unless credit terms have been agreed.
8.12 If you send us a cheque payment, Goods will not be dispatched until your cheque has been received by us and has cleared.
8.13 Our credit terms of payment are 30 days from date of invoice. All payments must be made in sterling. If you are in default, we reserve the right to charge interest on overdue accounts at a rate of 5% above HSBC Bank plc’s base lending rate for each month or part thereof that you remain in default. We reserve the right to withhold dispatch of Goods if your account is in arrears.
9. Our Refunds Policy
9.1 When you return Goods to us:
(a) because you are contracting as a consumer and you have cancelled the Contract between us within the seven-day cooling-off period (see clause 5.1 above), we will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day you have given notice of your cancellation. In this case, we will refund the price of the Goods in full, including the cost of sending the item to you. However, you will be responsible for the cost of returning the item to us;
(b) when you return Goods to us for any other reason, returns will be subject to the following process:
(i) returns of non-faulty Goods by business customers under this clause 9.1 (b) (i) shall only be refunded or replaced without charge if you contact us within 7 days of receipt of the Goods, informing us of your wish to return them. The Goods must be returned in accordance with our standard authorization procedure (Contact Customer Services on 01732 770 775 for details). Without limitation, you must take reasonable care of the Goods in your possession and the Goods must be returned at your risk, in the same condition in which you received them and securely re-packed in their original packaging. A handling charge of 20% of the invoiced value of the Goods plus the delivery and return carriage costs will be levied. There will be an additional charge for re-boxing if the original packaging is not in a suitable condition for re-stocking. Any Goods which are personalised, customised, made to your specification or manufactured to a visual proof which has been approved by yourself or somebody in your organization cannot be returned unless the Goods are found to be damaged or defective;
(ii) without limiting any of the provisions of clause 6.9, if you wish to return Goods to us because they are damaged or defective, or do not materially conform to their specification, any such damage, defect or nonconformity must be notified to us as soon as possible, but in any event within 7 days of the date that you discovered or ought to have discovered the damage, defect or nonconformity, (within 48 hours if damage in transit is alleged), and no further use of the Goods must be made following discovery of the damage, defect or nonconformity. We will examine the returned Goods and will notify you of your refund via e-mail within a reasonable period of time. We will usually process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day we confirmed to you via e-mail that you were entitled to a refund for the damaged, defective or nonconforming Goods. Goods returned by you because of damage, defect or nonconformity will be refunded in full, including a refund of the delivery charges for sending the item to you and the cost incurred by you in returning the item to us.
9.2 We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.
9.3 You have an obligation to take reasonable care of the Goods whilst they are in your possession. The consequences of failing to discharge this obligation with respect to any Goods to which clause 9.1 (a) applies are set forth in clause 5.2; we may also, at our discretion and without limitation, refuse to refund or replace any Goods to which clause 9.1 (b) applies if we consider that you have failed to discharge this obligation.
9.4 In accordance with clause 9.3, you must not make any improper use of, or make any unauthorized modifications or repairs to, the Goods, and you must otherwise take reasonable care to avoid any risk of damage occurring to the Goods by any means.
9.5 Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 10.1.(a) which relate to fitness for purpose, unless otherwise agreed by us in writing in any particular instance, you shall be solely responsible for selecting Goods which are suitable for use for the specific purpose for which they are to be used.
9.6 For the avoidance of doubt, if any failure to discharge the obligation in clause 9.3 results in any loss or damage pursuant to clause 10, any such loss or damage may be considered as having been caused by you or contributed to by you.
9.7 Goods can be purchased on a Sale or Return basis subject to the following conditions:
(a) the Goods are returned securely in their original packaging within 7 days of despatch, otherwise full payment will immediately become due and payable; and
(b) a handling charge of 20% of the invoiced value of the Goods plus the delivery and return carriage costs will be levied. There will be an additional charge for re-boxing if the original packaging is not in a suitable condition for re-stocking.
10. Our Liability
10.1 If you are contracting as a consumer:
(a) we warrant to you that any Goods purchased from us through our site are of satisfactory quality and reasonably fit for all of the purposes for which goods of that kind are commonly supplied; but
(b) we shall only be liable to you for:
(i) losses that are caused as a result of any breach of Contract by us (up to the value of the purchase price of the Goods you purchased); and
(ii) losses that are caused as a result of our negligence; and
(c) we shall not be liable for any loss pursuant to clause 10.1.(b) if:
(i) any such loss is not foreseeable. Losses are foreseeable if they could have been contemplated by both of us at the time that your order was accepted by us; or
(ii) any such loss (or any part thereof) was caused by or contributed to by your breach of any of these Conditions; and
(d) for the avoidance of doubt, we shall not be liable for any indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage, and which are not foreseeable by you and us (such as loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, waste of management or office time) howsoever arising and whether caused by breach of contract, negligence, or otherwise.
10.2 If you are contracting as a business customer:
(a) all warranties, representations, terms, conditions and duties implied by law relating to fitness, quality or adequacy are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law;
(b) without limiting the generality of clause 10.2.(a), we shall not be liable to you if any monies due from you to us have not been paid in full;
(c) without prejudice to any of the provisions of this clause 10.2, we shall have no liability to you for any:
(i) consequential losses;
(ii) loss of profits and/or damage to goodwill;
(iii) economic and/or other similar losses;
(iv) special damages and indirect losses;
(v) business interruption, loss of business, contracts and/or opportunity; and/or
(vi) inconvenience, delay or loss of production;
(d) without limitation to any of the foregoing, our aggregate liability to you (whether for breach of Contract or for negligence or otherwise howsoever), for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature and howsoever caused, shall be limited to and in no circumstances shall exceed the price of the Goods purchased from us; and
(e) without limitation or prejudice to any of the foregoing, you shall indemnify and hold us, our partners, affiliates, officers and their employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising from any breach of the Contract by you, or the infringement by you, or anybody else using your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
10.3 Nothing in these Conditions shall exclude or limit in any way our liability:
(a) for death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
(b) under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987;
(c) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
(d) for any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.
11. Written Communications
Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on our website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This clause does not affect your statutory rights.
12. Notices
All notices to us shall be in writing and shall be made either via e-mail or post to the addresses in the Contact Us section of our site. We may broadcast notices or messages through our site or contact you by email and notification by either of these methods shall constitute notice to you.
13. Transfer of Rights and Obligations
13.1 Any Contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns.
13.2 You shall not assign or delegate all or any of your rights or obligations under the Contract without our prior written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
13.3 We reserve the right to assign, subcontract or transfer all or any of our rights and obligations under the Contract to any person, firm or company without notice to you.
14. Events Outside our Control
14.1 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under the Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (Force Majeure Event).
14.2 A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:
(a) strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action;
(b) civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war;
(c) fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster;
(d) impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport;
(e) impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; or
(f) the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.
14.3 Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.
15. Waiver
15.1 If we fail, at any time during the pendency of the Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these Conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.
15.2 A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.
15.3 No waiver by us of any of these Conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 12 above.
16. Severability
If any of these Conditions or any provisions of the Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
17. Entire Agreement
17.1 These Conditions and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.
17.2 We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us has relied on any representation, undertaking or promise given by the other or be implied from anything said or written in negotiations between us prior to such Contract except as expressly stated in these Conditions.
18. Our Right To Vary These Conditions
18.1 We have the right to revise and amend these Conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities.
18.2 You will be subject to the policies and Conditions in force at the time that you order Goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these Conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these Conditions before we send you the Dispatch Confirmation.
19. Law and Jurisdiction
The Contract will be governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, the Contract shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.
Terms of Use
These Terms of Use apply to your use of our site and by accessing our site, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use set out below.
"Personal Information" means any information about or related to you which is provided by or collected from you or otherwise received by us, including but not limited to any personal data from which you may be identified;
"Services" means the services described on our site;
"Terms of Use" means these Terms of Use;
"Users" means the users of our site collectively;
"us/our/we" means Signs Scott Ltd t/as Signs for Churches, a company registered in England and Wales under the number 6987882 whose registered office is located at 72a High Street, Battle, East Sussex, TN33 0AG, United Kingdom and whose main trading address is located at Signs Scott Ltd, Unit 9, Munday Works, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN9 1RA
"our site" means the website located at www.signsforchurches.co.uk or any subsequent URL which may replace it; and
"you/your" means a user of our site.
1. Communications
We consider that we have appropriate policies, rules and technical measures in place to protect any information transmitted to or from us by electronic means from improper use or disclosure, unauthorized access, unauthorized modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss. However, we ask that you please read all the sections below to understand the risks involved in communicating and transmitting sensitive information by email.
Please note that email is not a 100% secure communications medium. In the interests of preserving confidentiality in your personal details, we strongly advise that you take this into consideration before you send us any information by email. By proceeding, you agree that you will send us information by email at your own risk.
Messages sent by email may not be secure and may be intercepted by third parties. If you disregard this warning and choose to send us confidential information, you agree that you do so at your own risk and that you will not hold us responsible for any loss that you suffer as a result.
The email address you provide to us is where we will send our response. If you have chosen to discuss your personal account details via email we will try to respond to you in the same manner. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information by this communications medium.
2. Use of Our Website
Access
We will provide you with access to our site in accordance with these Terms of Use. We give no authority (whether implied or express) to deep link to or frame any of the content which appears on our site or to use a representation of our trademarks as a link button without our express agreement.
Your Obligations
You:
• agree not to use our site (or any part thereof) for any illegal purpose and agree to use it in accordance with all relevant laws;
• agree not to upload or transmit through our site without limitation, any computer viruses, macro viruses, trojan horses, worms or anything else designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of a computer;
• agree not to attempt to breach any security or privacy mechanisms associated with our site or attempt to collect information about any other person through our site;
• will not upload or transmit through our site any material which is defamatory, offensive, or of an obscene or menacing character, or that may cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
• will not use our site in a way that may cause our site to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or rendered such that the effectiveness or functionality of our site is in any way impaired;
• will not use our site in any manner which violates or infringes the rights of any person, firm or company or the rights thereof (including, but not limited to, rights of intellectual property, rights of confidentiality or rights of privacy);
• will not attempt any unauthorized access to any part or component of our site; and,
• agree that in the event that you have any right, claim or action against any other User arising out of that User's use of our site, then you will pursue such right, claim or action independently of, and without recourse to us;
• shall ensure that the Personal Information which you are required to provide when you register as a customer is true, accurate, current and complete in all respects; and
• will notify us immediately of any changes to the Personal Information by contacting our customer service representatives by e-mail at sales@signsforchurches.co.uk or calling us on 01732 770 775 between 8am-5pm (Monday-Friday);
• will not impersonate any other person or entity or use a false name or a name that you are not authorized to use; and
• agree that the security of any password issued to you rests with you and that if you know or suspect that someone else knows your password, you will contact us immediately.
Indemnity
You agree to be fully responsible for all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees on a full indemnity cost basis, suffered by us and arising out of any breach of the Terms of Use by you and for any other liabilities arising out of your use of our site, or the use by any other person accessing our site of your personal account details and/or your Personal Information.
Our Rights
We reserve the right to:
• modify or withdraw, temporarily or permanently, our site (or any part thereof) with or without notice to you and you confirm that we shall not be liable to you for any modification to or withdrawal of our site; and/or
• change these Terms of Use from time to time, and your continued use of our site (or any part thereof) following such change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether the Terms of Use have been changed. If you do not agree to any change to the Terms of Use then you must immediately stop using our site.
We will use our reasonable endeavours to maintain our site. You will not be eligible for any compensation because you cannot use any part of our site or because of a failure, suspension or withdrawal of all or part of our site.
We reserve the right to withdraw any Services from our site at any time and/or remove, screen or edit any materials or content on our site.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your use of our site immediately at our reasonable discretion, or if you breach any of your obligations under these Terms of Use.
Third Party Links
In an attempt to provide increased value to our Users, we may provide links to other websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not endorse and shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, including (without limitation) any advertising, goods or other materials or services on or available from such websites or resources, nor for any damage, loss or offence caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with, the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on such external sites or resources.
Monitoring
We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor any activity and content associated with our site. We may investigate any reported violation of these Terms of Use or complaints and take any action that we deem appropriate (which may include, but is not limited to, issuing warnings, suspending or terminating service, denying access and/or removing any materials from our site).
3. Your Privacy
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the ''Act''), the data controller is Signs Scott Ltd t/as Signs for Churches, Unit 9, Munday Works, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN9 1RA, Company number 6987882
Personal Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following Personal Information about you:
• Information that you provide to us in your dealings with us. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, or when you request further information from us.
• We may also ask you for information when you enter a promotion conducted by us, or when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
• Details we receive from credit reference and fraud detection agencies.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and the resources that you access.
We may hold Personal Information that you provide to us (such as on an application or registration form) or that we may obtain from another source (such as our suppliers, marketing organizations or credit reference agencies). This information may include your name, address, date of birth, gender, telephone numbers, email address, bank and credit/debit card information, occupation and employment data and details of how you use our products together with general information about the way you pay and manage your account. In the event that we undergo re-organization or are sold to a third party you agree that your Personal Information may be transferred to that re-organized entity or third party for the purposes and subject to these Terms of Use.
IP Addresses
We may collect information about your computer, including where relevant your IP address, operating system and browser type. This data is processed for the purposes of fraud prevention, for various administrative purposes and may also be used by us to promote certain offers and advertisements according to your general location.
Cookie Policy
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other Users. This helps us to provide you with an enjoyable experience when you browse our site, and also enables us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors, and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can delete existing cookies off your hard drive and choose to block new cookies from our site. You can find out how to do this by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. However, should you choose to block cookies then some features on our site might not work as expected.
Where we store your personal data
Data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by employees operating outside the EEA who work for us or for our suppliers. Such employees may be engaged in, among other things, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. Here we will ensure that we have the necessary contracts and other mechanisms in place to make sure your data continues to be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Act. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
Uses made of the information
Your Personal Information may be held and used by us for a number of purposes, including, without limitation:
• processing your orders; administering your account and billing; settling accounts with those who provide related services to us; disclosing your data to bank and debit and credit card companies to validate your debit or credit card details; dealing with requests, enquiries or complaints and other customer care related activities; conducting debt recovery and legal actions;
• where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes, telling you about our products, special offers, discounts and promotional schemes which we believe may be of interest to you; contacting you regarding the products and services of carefully selected third parties;
• carrying out activities connected with the running of our business such as personnel training, quality control, network monitoring, testing and maintenance of computer and other systems, developing new products and services and in connection with the transfer of any part of our business in respect of which you are a customer; and
• carrying out any activity or disclosure in connection with a legal, governmental or regulatory requirement on us or in connection with legal proceedings, and for the prevention and detection of crime or fraud and the prosecution of offenders or suspected offenders.
If you are an existing customer, we may also contact you with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
Disclosure of your Personal Information
We may disclose your Personal Information for processing to our employees, third party consultants, contractors or other service providers who may access your personal information when providing services to us.
We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties:
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your Personal Information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; and
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any legal, governmental or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use.
Your rights in relation to your Personal Information
If you would like us to tell you what Personal Information we hold about you, please write to: The Data Controller, Signs Scott Ltd t/as Signs for Churches, Unit 9, Munday Works, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN91RA
We will require proof of your identity before providing you with details of any Personal Information we may hold about you. Any request may be subject to an administration fee of £15.00 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. You can also call us on 01732 770 775 to correct or update any inaccurate or incomplete information and to advise us of any preferences you may have concerning how you can be contacted for marketing purposes.
When you speak to us on the phone, some calls may be monitored or recorded in case we need to check that we have carried out your instructions correctly and to help improve our quality of service.
4. General
Intellectual Property and Right to Use
You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content supplied as part of our site shall remain at all times vested in us, our suppliers or our licensors. You are permitted to use this material only as expressly authorized by us, our suppliers or our licensors.
You acknowledge and agree that the material and content contained within our site is made available for your personal non-commercial use only and that you may download such material and content onto only one computer hard drive for such purpose. Any other use of the material and content on our site is strictly prohibited. You agree not to (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display, distribute, commercially exploit or create derivative works of such material and content.
Limitation of Liability
While we will use reasonable endeavours to verify the accuracy of any information we place on our site, we make no warranties, whether express or implied in relation to its accuracy.
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Our site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without any representation or endorsement made. We make no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, in relation to our site. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we hereby expressly exclude any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from, or in relation to, our site.
We make no warranty that our site will meet your requirements or that your use of our site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy or reliability of the materials. We will not be responsible or liable to you for (i) any loss of content or material uploaded or transmitted through our site; or (ii) any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from downloading or using any material or data from our site.
Severance
If any part of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use.
Waiver
No waiver by us shall be construed as a waiver of any preceding or succeeding breach of any provision.
Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use (as amended from time to time) comprise the entire agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter thereof and supersede any previous agreements, arrangements, undertakings, representations or proposals, written or oral, between you and us in relation to such matters. You confirm that you have read these Terms of Use and, you fully understand them and you also agree that these Terms of Use are the only terms that govern your relationship with us regarding the use of our site.
Law
The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.
Handling Complaints
There may be occasions when you are not happy with the service that we provide to you. In these cases, we will endeavour to be fair and efficient in handling any complaint you should have and to process your complaint confidentially.
If you have a complaint, please send us a letter to this address: Signs Scott Ltd, Unit 9, Munday Works, 58-66 Morley Road, Tonbridge, Kent. TN9 1RA, United Kingdom, or an e-mail to this address: sales@signsforchurches.co.uk
We will endeavour to provide you with a likely timescale for resolving the dispute. We will keep you informed about the progress of your complaint. We undertake to check our system regularly for handling complaints and we welcome any suggestion you may have in relation to how this system may be improved.
