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In these Conditions the following words shall have the following
meanings:
“Buyer” means the person whose order for the Services
is accepted by the Seller;
“Conditions” means the standard terms and conditions
of sale set out in this document;
“Contract” means any contract between the Seller and
the Buyer for the purchase and sale of the Services;
“Fees” means the fee to be charged by the Seller for
the Services as set out in Schedule 2;
“Services” means the Services as more specifically set
out in Schedule 1 in accordance with these Conditions;
“Seller” means Its Cold Outside whose registered office
is C/o Roberts Alderson, Clifford House, 13A Corporation Street,
Stalybridge, Cheshire SK15 2JL, Company Number 04530060
“Writing” includes facsimile transmission, e-mail and
comparable means of communication
2. Basis of the Sale
(i) The Seller shall sell and the Buyer shall purchase the Services
in accordance with any order of the Buyer which is accepted by the
Seller, subject to these Conditions, which shall govern the Contract
to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions subject to which
any such order is made, or purported to be made, by the Buyer. No
variation to these Conditions shall be binding unless agreed in
Writing by a director of the Seller. The Seller’s employees
or agents are not authorised to make any representations concerning
the Services unless confirmed in Writing by a director of the Seller.
All descriptions or illustrations contained in the Seller’s
sales literature or website are given for the sole purpose of giving
an approximate idea of the Services described in them and do not
form part of the Contract.
3. Orders and Specifications
(i) No order submitted by the Buyer shall be deemed to be accepted
by the Seller unless and until confirmed in Writing by the Seller’s
authorised representative or (if earlier) the Seller delivers the
Services to the Buyer.
(ii) The description of any specification for the Services shall
be those set out in the Seller’s quotation. The Buyer shall
be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the terms of any Order
and for giving the Seller any necessary information relating to
the Services within a sufficient time to enable the Seller to perform
the Contract in accordance with its terms.
(iii) The Buyer shall be responsible for ensuring that the Services
comply with all local laws, regulations and codes in all countries
where the Buyer’s website is displayed. The Buyer shall ensure
that any necessary licences or permissions to use any third party
material have been obtained. The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller
against any and all liability, loss, damages, claims, costs and
expenses awarded against or incurred by the Seller in connection
of any claim of infringement of any patent, copyright, design, trade
mark or other industrial or intellectual property rights of any
other person, which results from the Seller’s use of and from
material posted or information contained on the Buyer’s website
or arising out of any claim, demand or action alleging that the
Services arising out of the Order are contrary to any law, code
or regulation in any court.
4. Price of the Services
(i) The price of the Services shall be the price set out in the
Seller’s quotation. The Seller reserves the right, by giving
notice to the Buyer at any time, to increase the price of the Services
to reflect any increase in the cost to the Seller which is due to
any factor beyond the control of the Seller or any change in delivery
dates, or specifications for the Services which is requested by
the Buyer, or any delay caused by any instructions, information
or authorisations of the Buyer or failure of the Buyer to give the
Seller adequate information or instructions.
(ii) The price is exclusive of any applicable value added tax which
the Buyer shall be additionally liable to pay to the Seller.
5. Terms of Payment
(i) The Buyer shall pay the Seller the Fees in accordance with
Schedule 2.
(ii) The Seller shall be entitled to invoice the Buyer for the price
of the Services on or at any time after delivery of the Services
and the Buyer shall pay the price of the Services without any set-off
or other deduction immediately upon receipt of the Seller’s
innvoice. The time of payment of the price shall be of the essence
of the Contract. Receipts for payment will be issued only upon request.
(iii) If the Buyer fails to make any payment on the due date then,
without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the
Seller, the Seller shall be entitled to; (a) cancel the Contract
or suspend any further delivery of the Services to the Buyer; and
(b) charge the Buyer interest (both before and after any judgment)
on the amount unpaid, at the rate of 2% per annum above Natwest
Bank plc’s base rate from time to time, until payment in full
is made (a part of a month being treated as a full month for the
purpose of calculating interest). The Seller reserves the right
to claim interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest)
Act 1998.
(iv) All costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Seller in
recovering any debt due by the Buyer shall be paid by the Buyer
on a full indemnity basis.
6. Delivery
(i) Delivery of the Services shall vary depending on the type of
service selected as specified in Schedule 1.
(ii) The Buyer shall be provided with a royalty free licence upon
payment of the Fees, to use the Services. Such Licence shall be
terminated immediately in the event the Buyer fails to pay the Fees
in full.
7. Warranties and Liability
(i) Subject to the conditions set out below the Seller warrants
that the Services will correspond with their specification.
(ii) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the above
warranty is given by the Seller subject to the following conditions:
(a) the Seller shall be under no liability in respect of any defect
in the Services arising from any information request or specification
supplied by the Buyer or a delay caused by the Buyer or a third
party that is used in the supply of the Services;
(b) the Seller shall be under no liability under the above warranty
(or any other warranty, condition or guarantee) if the total price
for the Services has not been paid by the due date for payment;
and
(c) the Buyer acknowledges that the Seller has no control over
third party search engines and as such the Seller shall not be liable
for any change in search engine rules of inclusion or change to
index listings which results in the Buyer’s website being
removed from search engine listings or for total loss of position/ranking
on any search engine.
(d)No refunds will be given where historic positions have been
achieved.
(iii) Except in respect of death or personal injury caused by the
Seller’s negligence, the Seller shall not be liable to the
Buyer by reason of any representation, or any implied warranty,
condition or other term, or any duty at common law, or under the
express terms of the Contract, for any indirect or consequential
loss or damage (whether for loss of profit, loss of business, depletion
of goodwill or otherwise), costs, expenses or other claims for consequential
compensation whatsoever (and whether caused by the negligence of
the Seller, its employees or agents or otherwise) which arise out
of or in connection with the supply of the Services except as expressly
provided in these Conditions. Notwithstanding the generality of
the aforesaid, the Seller expressly excludes liability for any damage
or corruption to the Buyer’s website, software, data or otherwise
which occurs following the provision of the Services.
(iv) The total liability of the Seller in contract, tort or howsoever
arising shall be limited to the Seller’s charges for the Services.
No arrangement to refund the Buyer the price of the goods or a proportionate
part of the price shall be binding on the Seller unless agreed in
Writing by a director of the Seller.
(v) The Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer or be deemed to
be in breach of the Contract by reason of any delay in performing,
or any failure to perform, any of the Seller’s obligations
in relation to the Services, if the delay or failure was due to
any cause beyond the Seller’s reasonable control. Without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such causes shall
include, an act of God, explosion, flood, tempest, fire or accident,
war or threat of war, sabotage, insurrection, civil disturbance,
or requisition, acts, restrictions, regulations, bye-laws, prohibitions
or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental, parliamentary
or local authority, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial actions
or trade disputes (whether involving employees of the Seller or
of a third party).
8. Insolvency of Buyer
(i) This clause applies if:
(a) the Buyer makes any voluntary arrangement with its creditors
or becomes subject to an administration order or (being an individual
or firm) becomes bankrupt or (being a company) goes into liquidation
(otherwise than for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction);
or
(b) an encumbrancer takes possession, or a receiver is appointed,
of any of the property or assets of the Buyer; or
(c) the Buyer ceases, or threatens to cease, to carry on business;
or
(d) the Seller reasonably apprehends that any of the events mentioned
above is about to occur in relation to the Buyer and notifies the
Buyer accordingly;
(ii) If this clause applies, then, without prejudice to any other
right or remedy available to the Seller, the Seller shall be entitled
to cancel the Contract or suspend any further deliveries under the
Contract without any liability to the Buyer, and if the Services
have been delivered but not paid for the price shall become immediately
due and payable notwithstanding any previous agreement or arrangement
to the contrary.
9. Non – Solicitation
The buyer (including its subsidiaries or associated companies,
employees and agents) hereby agrees and undertakes that it shall
not induce or attempt to persuade, directly or indirectly, any employee
of the Seller, its subsidiaries or associated companies, to leave
his/her employment and/or accept employment or engagement with it
both for the duration of any contract subject to these Conditions
and for a period of 12 months following completion of such contract
or termination thereof by either party. The Buyer hereby agrees
and undertakes to indemnify the Seller against any loss it may incur
as a result of a breach of this provision.
10. Cancellation
Except with the prior agreement of the Seller, the Buyer shall
not be entitled to terminate the Contract, or seek any cancellation,
reduction or repayment of the Fee.
11. Intellectual Property Rights
(i) The Seller owns the intellectual property rights in its software
and database and the Buyer shall have no right to access or use
the source code of the Seller’s software. The Buyer agrees
that it shall not attempt to reverse compile, decompile, disassemble
or reverse engineer the Seller’s software nor shall it amalgamate,
amend, incorporate, modify, reproduce, translate or otherwise alter
the same into or with any other software or use the same in conjunction
with any other software. The Buyer shall not attempt to make any
part of the Seller’s software available or otherwise allow
access to the same to any third party except as required by law.
In addition, the Buyer shall not use the Seller’s software
for the benefit of any third party or in the business of website
consultancy.
12. General
(i) Any notice required or permitted to be given by either party
to the other under these Conditions shall be in Writing addressed
to that other party at its registered office or principal place
of business or such other address as may at the relevant time have
been notified pursuant to this provision to the party given the
notice.
(ii) No waiver by the Seller of any breach of the Contract by the
Buyer shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of
the same or any other provision.
(iii) If any provision of these Conditions is held by any competent
authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the
validity of the other provisions of these Conditions and the remainder
of the provision in question shall not be affected thereby.
(iv) A person who is not a party to the Contract shall have no
right to enforce any term of the Contract by virtue of the Contract
(Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
(v) The terms and conditions of the Contract shall be subject to
and interpreted and construed in accordance with English Law, including
English Conflicts of Law and the English Courts shall have the exclusive
jurisdiction in any dispute which may arise save that the Company
may institute and maintain proceedings in respect of this contract
in any country. The Seller reserves the right to have any matter
dealt with in a court residing in its geographical location. The
Buyer acknowledges that matters commenced outside this geographical
location shall be transferred.
Schedule 2
(1) BNPL
Setup fee is £ as per agreement.
Monthly fee £30.00. Plus £10 per month, for each key
phrase in a top 10 position. Capped at £150pm
(2) Paid up front.
Setup fee is £ as per agreement.
Monthly fee £30.00. Plus £10 per month, for each key
phrase in a top 10 position. Capped at £150pm
(3)
PR Link Network.
Setup fee is £ as per agreement.
Monthly fee £100.00.
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