Effective Date: 01.07.2012
1. Introduction
1.1 This website is owned and operated by Letter Candy. Our trading address is Letter Candy, Sweet Briar Industrial Estate, 4 Frensham Road, Norwich NR3 2BT.
1.2 These terms and conditions apply when you buy any goods via this site or otherwise use this site.
1.3 We may change these terms and conditions at any time. Please check them carefully as they will apply to any new purchases made after the effective date shown above.
2. Right to cancel under “Distance Selling Regulations”
2.1 The right to cancel under the Distance Selling Regulations does not apply as our goods are made to your specifications.
3. Discount codes
3.1 We may offer discount codes from time to time. Such codes may only be applied to purchases made through the account in respect of which the discount code was offered and registered. Unless otherwise stated codes are only available for orders placed online, and can only be redeemed once per customer
3.2 All discount codes refer to the price excluding delivery charges. We reserve the right to discontinue or otherwise modify any discount codes at any time without prior notice.
4. Specification of goods
4.1 You acknowledge that in order to achieve the optimum quality stamp impression you must follow the instructions provided with the goods.
5. Payment and price
5.1 Payment is in advance by the means stated on our website. Despatch of the goods is subject to our receipt of full payment in cleared funds.
5.2 The price for the goods you order is as stated on our site at the time you send us your order. VAT or sales tax is included unless we say otherwise.
5.3 If we have mis-priced any item by mistake, we are not obliged to supply the item at that price provided we notify you before we despatch it. If we do notify you, then you can decide if you want to order the item at the correct price but, if you don’t, we will provide a full refund of any payments already made.
6. Your order
6.1 Your order is an offer to buy from us.
6.2 You must ensure that your order and any other information you supply to us is correct and you must promptly update us if there are any changes.
7. Acceptance / unavailability
7.1 The contract is accepted once payment is taken. In such case no changes to the order or any cancellation may be made except in accordance with your legal rights (eg if there is a fault).
8. Delivery
8.1 Delivery will be to the address which you specify when ordering. We may deliver different parts of your order on different dates.
8.2 Delivery costs are charged extra at the rate shown on our site when you place your order. These will depend on the delivery method chosen. NB The delivery charges do not include customs or import duties which may be applied to your order by the relevant authorities. It is your separate responsibility to pay for these.
8.3 We will do our best to arrange delivery within the time specified on our website or, if none, a reasonable period. We are not liable for late delivery to the extent that this is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
8.4 An extra delivery charge may become payable if no-one is present to accept delivery and either you haven’t provided alternative delivery instructions or else you don’t collect the item from a holding depot within 7 days.
8.5 Risk of damage or loss to the goods passes to you on delivery or if you wrongfully refuse delivery when delivery is attempted.
9. Liability
9.1 Nothing in this agreement in any way limits or excludes our liability for negligence causing death or personal injury or for fraudulent misrepresentation or for anything which may not legally be excluded or limited.
9.2 You must give us a reasonable opportunity to remedy any matter for which we are liable before you incur any costs remedying the matter yourself.
9.3 We are not responsible for any loss or damage caused by us or our employees or agents in circumstances where:
9.3.1 there is no breach of a legal duty of care owed to you by us or by any of our employees or agents;
9.3.2 such loss or damage was not reasonably foreseeable by both parties;
9.3.3 such loss or damage is caused by you, for example by not complying with this agreement; or
9.3.4 such loss or damage relates to a business.
9.4 You will be responsible to us for any reasonably foreseeable loss or damage we suffer arising from your breach of this agreement (subject of course to our obligation to mitigate any losses).
10. Intellectual property rights
10.1 All trade marks, logos, content (including our website’s structure and layout), graphics, images, photographs, animation, videos, text and software used on this site are our intellectual property or that of our partners or suppliers. For the purposes of your personal non-commercial use only, you may view such material on your screen and print a single copy. You may not otherwise use, sublicense, retrieve, display, modify, copy, print, sell, distribute, download, hire, reverse engineer (unless permitted by applicable law) or create extracts of, or derivative works from, such material without our specific prior written consent.
11. Your content on our site
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11.2 you must ensure that such information is accurate, that it complies with all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct and that it does not infringe any third party intellectual property or other rights. Also, your content must not be defamatory, offensive, vulgar, racist, obscene, abusive, threatening, harassing, invasive of another’s privacy or similarly inappropriate.
11.3 We reserve the right without notice or refund to suspend, alter, remove or delete any content or to disclose to the relevant authorities any such content if it is the subject of complaint or where we have reason to believe that it breaches our terms and conditions, or that such steps are necessary to protect us or others, or that a criminal act has been committed, or if we are required to do so by law or appropriate authority. If so, you must not attempt to re-publish or re-send the relevant content.
12. Availability of our site
12.1 We cannot guarantee that our site will be uninterrupted or error-free. We are entitled without notice and without liability to suspend the site for repair, maintenance, improvement or other technical reason.
13. Third party websites
13.1 We may link to third party websites which may be of interest to you. We do not recommend or endorse those sites or the products or services which they offer nor are we legally responsible for them as they are outside our reasonable control. You use such third party sites at your own risk.
14. “Act of God”
14.1 Neither you nor we are liable for failure to perform or delay in performing any obligation (excluding payment) under this agreement if the failure or delay is caused by any circumstances beyond its reasonable control including third party telecommunication failures.
15. English law
15.1 These T&Cs shall be governed by English law and any disputes will be decided only by the courts of the United Kingdom.
16. General
16.1 We may send all notices under this agreement by email to the most recent email address you have supplied to us (unless otherwise stated in this agreement). Headings used in this agreement are for information and not binding. Any failure by either party to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this agreement does not mean this is a “waiver” (ie that it cannot be enforced later). If any part of this agreement is ineffective or unenforceable for any reason, then it will be replaced with a provision which as far as possible achieves the same thing and the rest of the agreement shall continue to apply. A person who is not a party to this agreement shall have no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this agreement except insofar as expressly stated otherwise.
17. Complaints
17.1 If you have any complaints, please contact us via the contact details shown on our website or write to our address shown at the start of these T&Cs.
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