| TERMS
AND CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS
DAVID GREEN
- Interpretation
1.1 In these Conditions:-
"COMPANY" means David Green
"CUSTOMER" means any individual, firm, company
or other with whom the Company contracts.
"CONTRACT" means the agreement (Order placed by
the Customer and accepted by the Company) between the Company
and the Customer to which these terms and conditions of
business shall apply unless agreed in writing between the
parties.
"GOODS" means the goods (including any instalment
of the goods or any parts for them) which the Company is
to supply in accordance with these Conditions
"CONDITIONS" means the standard terms and conditions
of business set out in this document and (unless the context
otherwise requires) includes any special terms and conditions
agreed in writing between the Customer and the Company.
"ORDER" means an offer made by the Customer to
the Company in writing accepting the Tender given by the
Company.
"SERVICES" means the services which the Company
is to provide in accordance with these Conditions
"TENDER" means any quotation or estimate given
by the Company to the Customer inviting the Customer to
make an Order within 30 days commencing with the date of
the Tender.
"WRITING" includes telex, cable, facsimile transmission
and comparable means of communication.
1.2 Any reference in these Conditions to any provision of
a statute shall be construed as a reference to that provision
as amended, re-amended or extended at the relevant time.
1.3 Unless the context requires otherwise, references to
a clause are references to a clause of these Conditions.
1.4 "the Parties" or "Party" means the
Company and/or the Customer only;
1.5 The headings in these Conditions are for convenience
only and shall not affect their interpretation.
- Basis of the Sale
2.1 All Tenders shall be invitations to treat and no Contract
shall be or be deemed to have been made by the Customer's
Order in respect of a Tender by the Company or otherwise
until it has been accepted in writing by the authorised
representative(s) of the Company.
2.2 Any Contract between the Company and the Customer shall
incorporate and be subject to these Conditions regardless
of any other terms and conditions prevailing in any previous
dealing or transaction between the Parties and to the exclusion
of any other terms and conditions subject to which any Tender
is accepted or purported to be accepted, or any Order is
made or purported to be made, by the Customer.
2.3 No variation to these Conditions shall be binding unless
agreed in Writing between the authorised representative(s)
of the Company and the Customer.
2.4 The Company's employees or agents are not authorised
to make any representations concerning the Goods or the
Services unless confirmed by the Company in Writing. In
entering into the Contract the Customer acknowledges that
it does not rely on any such representations which are not
so confirmed.
2.5 Any advice or recommendation given by the Company or
its employees or agents to the Customer or its employees
or agents as to the application or use of the Goods or the
Services which is not confirmed in Writing by the Company
is followed or acted upon entirely at the Customer's own
risk, and accordingly the Company shall not be liable for
any such advice or recommendation which is not so confirmed.
2.6 Any typographical, clerical or other error or omission
in any sales literature, quotation, price list, acceptance
of Offer, invoice or other document or information issued
by the Company shall be subject to correction without any
liability on the part of the Company.
- Orders and Specifications
3.1 The quantity, quality and description of and any specification
for the Goods or the Services shall be those set out in
the Company's Tender (if accepted by the Customer) or by
the Customer's Order (if accepted by the Company).
3.2 The Customer shall be responsible to the Company for
ensuring the accuracy of the terms of any Order (including
any applicable specification) submitted by the Customer,
and for giving the Company any necessary information in
Writing relating to the Goods within a sufficient time to
enable the Company to perform the Contract in accordance
with its terms.
3.3 If the Goods are to be manufactured or any process is
to be applied to the Goods by the Company in accordance
with a specification submitted by the Customer, the Customer
shall indemnify the Company against all loss, damages, costs
and expenses awarded against or incurred by the Company
in connection with or paid or agreed to be paid by the Company
in settlement of any claim for infringement of any patent,
copyright, design, trade mark or other industrial or intellectual
property rights of any other person which results from the
Company's use of the Customer's specification.
3.4 The Company reserves the right to make any changes in
the specification of the Goods or the Services which are
required to conform with any applicable statutory or European
Union requirements or, where the Goods or the Services are
to be supplied or provided to the Company's specification,
which do not materially affect their quality or performance.
3.5 No Order which has been accepted by the Company may
be cancelled by the Customer except with the agreement in
Writing of the Company and on terms that the Customer shall
indemnify the Company in full against all loss (including
loss of profit), costs (including the cost of all labour
and materials used), damages, charges and expenses incurred
by the Company as a result of cancellation.
- Price of the Goods or the Services
4.1 The price of the Goods or the Services shall be the
price quoted in the Tender or as otherwise agreed in Writing
between the Customer and the Company. All prices quoted
are valid for 30 days only or until earlier acceptance by
the Customer, after which time they may be altered by the
Company without giving notice to the Customer.
4.2 The Company reserves the right, by giving notice to
the Customer at any time before delivery, to increase the
price of the Goods or the Services to reflect any increase
in the cost to the Company which is due to any factor beyond
the control of the Company (such as, without limitation,
significant increase in the costs of labour, materials,
charge imposed by any government authority or other costs
of manufacture), any change in delivery dates, quantities
or specifications for the Goods or the Services which is
requested by the Customer, or any delay caused by any instructions
of the Customer or failure of the Customer to give the Company
adequate information or instructions.
4.3 Except as otherwise stated under the terms of any Tender
or unless otherwise agreed in Writing between the Customer
and the Company, all prices are given by the Company on
an ex works basis, and where the Company agrees to deliver
the Goods or provide the Services otherwise than at the
Company's premises, the Customer shall be liable to pay
the Company's any charges for transport, packaging and insurance.
4.4 The price is exclusive of any applicable value added
tax, which the Customer shall be additionally liable to
pay to the Company.
- Terms of Payment
5.1 Subject to any special terms agreed in Writing between
the Customer and the Company, the Company shall be entitled
to invoice the Customer for the price of the Goods or the
Services on or at any time after delivery of the Goods or
provision of the Services, unless the Goods are to be collected
by the Customer or the Customer wrongfully fails to take
delivery of the Goods, in which event the Company shall
be entitled to invoice the Customer for the price at any
time after the Company has notified the Customer that the
Goods are ready for collection or (as the case may be) the
Company has tendered delivery of the Goods.
5.2 The Customer shall pay the price of the Goods or the
Services and any other cost or expense provided for in clause
4.3 and clause 4.4, without any other deduction, within
30 days of the date of the Company's invoice, and the Company
shall be entitled to recover the price, notwithstanding
that delivery may not have taken place and the property
in the Goods has not passed to the Customer. The time of
payment of the price shall be of the essence of the Contract.
Receipts for payment will be issued only upon request.
5.3 If the Customer fails to make any payment on the due
date then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy
available to the Company, the Company shall be entitled
to:-
5.3.1 cancel the Contract or any other Contract between
the Parties; and, or
5.3.2 suspend further performance of the Contract pending
payment;
5.3.3 appropriate any payment made by the Customer to such
of the Goods or the Services (or the Goods supplied under
any other contract between the Customer and the Company)
as the Company may think fit (notwithstanding any purported
appropriation by the Customer); and
5.3.4 charge the Customer interest (both before and after
any judgment) on the amount unpaid, at the rate of Four
per centum (4%) above the base rate of Lloyds TSB Bank PLC
(or any successor bank or any other United Kingdom clearing
Bank) 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).
5.4 Unless otherwise agreed in Writing the Customer shall
not be entitled to set off against any moneys due to the
Company under the Contract any amount claimed by or due
to the Customer from the Company whether pursuant to the
Contract or on any other account whatsoever.
- Delivery of the Goods
6.1 Delivery of the Goods shall be made by the Customer
collecting the Goods at the Company's premises at any time
after the Company has notified the Customer that the Goods
are ready for collection or, if some other place for delivery
is agreed by the Company in Writing, by the Company delivering
the Goods to that place.
6.1.1 Where goods comprise (in whole or in part) computer
software and/or images and/or computer data of whatosever
description then the Customer shall prior to delivery give
to the company such usernames and/or passwords and/or permissions
and/or such other electronic/physical facilities so as to
allow the Company to deliver such Goods by any agreed electronic/computer/mechanical
methods to the Customer.
6.1.2 If the Customer does not give to the Company the information
and/or facilities referred to in clause 6.1.1 above then
the Company shall not e deemed to have failed to deliver
the Goods to the Customer or to meet any previously agreed
delivery time and/or date.
6.1.3 If the Customer fails to comply with clause 6.1.1
above despite two separate reminders from the Company then
(unless such failure is due to factors beyond the Customer’s
reasonable control) the Customer shall be deemed to have
refused delivery of the Goods and the Company can then terminate
the Contract and retain the Goods whereupon the Customer
shall immediately pay the Company for the price of the Goods.
6.1.4 If the Customer’s failure to comply with Clause
6.1.1 above is due to failures beyond the Customer’s
reasonable control then delivery of the Goods will be deemed
to have occurred when the Company delivers such Goods to
the Customer at the Customer’s Registered Office or
other place of business in such alternative medium as the
Company shall relent
6.2 Unless otherwise agreed by the Company in Writing, where
the Company agrees to deliver the Goods otherwise than at
the Company's premises, the Company shall be under no obligation
under Section 32(2) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979.
6.3 The Company will use its reasonable endeavours to comply
with any date or dates for despatch or delivery of the Goods
as stated in the Contract. Notwithstanding the aforesaid,
time for delivery shall not be of the essence of the Contract
unless previously agreed by the Company in Writing and any
dates quoted for delivery of the Goods are approximate only
and the Company shall not be liable for any loss by any
delay in delivery of the Goods however caused.
6.4 The Goods may be delivered by the Company in advance
of the quoted delivery date upon giving reasonable notice
to the Customer.
6.5 Unless previously agreed by the Parties in Writing,
the Company reserves the right to make delivery of the Goods
in instalments.
6.6 Where the Goods are to be delivered in instalments,
each delivery shall constitute a separate contract to which
these Conditions shall apply and failure by the Company
to deliver any one or more of the instalments in accordance
with these Conditions or any claim by the Customer in respect
of any one or more instalments shall not entitle the Customer
to treat the Contract as a whole as repudiated.
6.7 If the Company fails to deliver the Goods (or any instalment)
for any reason other than any cause beyond the Company's
reasonable control or the Customer's fault, and the Company
is accordingly liable to the Customer, the Company's liability
shall be limited to the excess (if any) of the cost to the
Customer (in the cheapest available market) of similar goods
to replace those not delivered over the price of the Goods.
6.8 If the Customer fails to take delivery of the Goods
or fails to give the Company delivery instructions at the
time stated for delivery (otherwise than by reason of any
cause beyond the Customer's reasonable control or by reason
of the Company's fault) then, without prejudice to any other
right or remedy available to the Company, the Company may:-
6.8.1 store the Goods until actual delivery and charge the
Customer for the reasonable costs (including insurance)
of storage; or
6.8.2 sell the Goods at the best price readily obtainable
and (after deducting all reasonable storage and selling
expenses) account to the Customer for the excess over the
price under the Contract or charge the Customer for any
shortfall below the price under the Contract.
- Risk and Property
7.1 Risk of damage to or loss of the Goods shall pass to
the Customer:-
7.1.1 in the case of Goods to be delivered at the Company's
premises, at the time when the Company notifies the Customer
that the Goods are available for collection; or
7.1.2 in the case of Goods to be delivered otherwise than
at the Company's premises, at the time of delivery or, if
the Customer wrongfully fails to take delivery of the Goods,
the time when the Company has tendered delivery of the Goods.
7.2 Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in
the Goods, or any other provision of these Conditions, the
property in the Goods shall not pass to the Customer until
the Company has received in cash or cleared funds payment
in full of the price of the Goods and all other goods agreed
to be sold by the Company to the Customer for which payment
is then due.
7.3 Until such time as the property in the Goods passes
to the Customer, the Customer:
7.3.1 shall hold the Goods as the Company's fiduciary agent
and bailee; and
7.3.2 shall keep the Company fully indemnified in respect
of any loss or damage to the Goods; and
7.3.3 shall keep the Goods separate from those of the Customer
and third parties and properly stored, protected and insured
and identified as the Company's property,
7.3.4 shall not be entitled to resell or use the Goods in
the ordinary course of its business.
7.4 Until such time as the property in the Goods passes
to the Customer (and provided the Goods are still in existence
and have not been resold by way of a bona fide sale at full
value), the Company shall be entitled at any time to require
the Customer to deliver up all copies and/or versions and/or
parts and/or routines of the Goods to the Company and to
expressly warrant to the Company that all copies and/or
versions and/or parts and/or routines have been so delivered
up and, if the Customer fails to do so forthwith, to enter
upon any premises of the Customer or any third party where
the Goods are stored and repossess the Goods.
7.5 The Customer shall not be entitled to pledge or in any
way charge by way of security for any indebtedness any of
the Goods which remain the property of the Company, but
if the Customer does so all moneys owing by the Customer
to the Company shall (without prejudice to any other right
or remedy of the Company) forthwith become due and payable.
- Warranties
8.1 Any claim by the Customer which is based on any defect
in the quality or condition of the Goods or their failure
to correspond with specification shall (whether or not delivery
is refused by the Customer) be notified to the Company within
10 days from the date of delivery or (where the defect or
failure was not apparent on reasonable inspection) within
a reasonable time after discovery of the defect or failure.
If delivery is not refused, and the Customer does not notify
the Company accordingly, the Customer shall not be entitled
to reject the Goods and the Company shall have no liability
for such defect or failure, and the Customer shall be bound
to pay the price as if the Goods had been delivered in accordance
with the Contract. 8.2 Notwithstanding the aforesaid, in
no event shall the Customer be entitled to reject the Goods
or any computer hardware used by the Customer in connection
with the Goods
8.2.1 on the basis of any defect or failure which is so
slight that it would be unreasonable for him to reject them,
8.2.2 on the basis of any defect in the Goods arising from
any drawing, design or specification supplied by the Customer
or any computer hardware used by the Customer in connection
with the Goods
8.3 The above warranty does not extend to parts, materials
or equipment not manufactured by the Company, in respect
of which the Customer shall only be entitled to the benefit
of any such warranty or guarantee as is given by the manufacturer
to the Company.
8.4 Where any valid claim in respect of any of the Goods
which is based on any defect in the quality or condition
of the Goods or their failure to meet specification is notified
to the Company in accordance with these Conditions, the
Company shall be entitled to repair or replace the Goods
(or the part in question) free of charge subject to the
Customer providing the Company with the information and/or
facilities referred to in Clause 6.1.1 above or, at the
Company's sole discretion, refund to the Customer the price
of the Goods (or a proportionate part of the price), but
the Company shall have no further liability to the Customer.
8.5 Except in respect of death or personal injury caused
by the Company's negligence, the Company shall not be liable
to the Customer by reason of any representation (unless
fraudulent), 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, special or consequential
loss or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise),
costs, expenses or other claims for compensation whatsoever
(whether caused by the negligence of the Company, its employees
or agents or otherwise) which arise out of or in connection
with the supply of the Goods or their use or resale by the
Customer or the provision of the Services and the Customer
hereby indemnifies the Company against such loss or damage
or costs or expenses or other claims and the and the entire
liability of the Company under or in connection with the
Contract shall not exceed the price of the Goods or the
Services, except as expressly provided in these Conditions.
8.6 Subject as expressly provided in these Conditions, and
except where the Goods are sold or the Services are provided
to a person dealing as a consumer (within the meaning of
the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977), all warranties, conditions
or other terms implied by statute or common law are excluded
to the fullest extent permitted by law.
8.7 Where the Goods are sold or the Services are provided
under a consumer transaction (as defined by the Consumer
Transactions (Restrictions on Statements) Order 1976) the
statutory rights of the Customer are not affected by these
Conditions.
8.8 The Company shall not be liable to the Customer 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
Company's obligations in relation to the Goods or the Services,
if the delay of failure was due to any cause beyond the
Company's reasonable control. Without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing, the following shall be regarded as causes
beyond the Company's reasonable control:-
8.8.1 Act of God, explosion, flood, tempest, fire or accident;
8.8.2 war or threat of war, sabotage, insurrection, civil
disturbance or requisition;
8.8.3 acts, restrictions, regulations, bye-laws, prohibitions,
or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental,
parliamentary or local authority;
8.8.4 import regulations or embargoes;
8.8.5 strikes, lock-outs or other industrial actions or
trade disputes (whether involving employees of the Company
or of a third party);
8.8.6 difficulties in obtaining raw materials, labour, fuel,
parts or machinery;
8.8.7 power failure or breakdown in machinery.
8.9 In the event of any delay in performing, or any failure
to perform, any of the Company's obligations in relation
to the Goods or the Services, for a period in excess of
3 consecutive calendar months, either Party shall be entitled
by notice in writing to the other to cancel the contract.
8.10 If the Contract is cancelled in this way, the Company
shall refund any payment to the Customer which the Customer
has already made on account of the price (subject to deduction
of any amount which the Company is entitled to claim from
the customer) but the Company accepts no liability to compensate
the Customer for any further loss or damage caused by the
failure to deliver.
- Drawings and Specifications
9.1 Unless expressly stated in the Contract any figures
or statements therein or in the Company's catalogues, sales
literature or in any relevant drawings or other documents
supplied by the Company as to the performance of Goods are
not binding as to detail.
9.2 The Company gives no guarantee or representation that
the Goods or the Services will in all cases be identical
with the illustrations weights and dimensions specified
in such catalogues and literature drawings or other documents
due to improvements and modifications to the Goods or their
specification that may be made from time to time.
9.3 In the event of any material alterations to any specification
relating to the Goods or the Services being agreed by the
Customer and the Company then such material alterations
shall be recorded in writing and such record shall be signed
by both the Customer and the Company.
- Property belonging to
the Customer
10.1 The Customer warrants that he is either the owner or
agent of the owner of the property supplied by, through
or on behalf of the Customer for use by the Company in or
in connection with the Services and that such property is
of sound construction and fit and proper for such use.
10.2 The Customer accepts that the Company is under no obligation
to monitor or approve information or third party information
and that the Company does not examine the use to which the
Customer puts the services.
10.3 The Company excludes all liability of any kind for
any material sold or otherwise made available by means of
the services comprising information or third party information
and is not responsible for the proving or delivery of any
Goods and Services (including information) advertised.
10.4 All such property and such other property as may be
added to or incorporated in the Services by or under the
arrangements of the Customer shall be and remain at the
risk of the Customer and the Customer shall hold the Company
harmless from and indemnified against claims in respect
of loss or destruction of or damage to such property or
other property whether or not there be any negligence by
the Company its employees agents or sub-contractors.
10.5 If the Services are to be performed in part in premises
or on property belonging to or for which the Customer is
responsible the Customer shall effect all necessary insurances
of such premises or property and hold the Company harmless
from and indemnified against loss or destruction of or damage
to such premises or property however caused and whether
or not there be any negligence by the Company its employees
agents or sub-contractors.
10.6 If such property and such other property come into
the possession or under the control of the Company in the
provision of the Services the Customer appoints the Company
as its Attorney for the purpose of storing and selling such
property and such other property in the event that the Customer
fails to instruct the Company as to the disposal of such
property and such other property within thirty (30) days
of such property and such other property coming into the
possession or under the control of the Company and after
such sale to pay to the Customer or to hold to the Customer's
order the sale proceeds less the Company's costs of storage
and sale and all other monies due and owing by the Customer
to the Company.
10.7 The Power of Attorney contained in clause 10.6 above
is given by way of security to secure the performance of
an obligation owed to the Company and the Customer declares
that this Power of Attorney is irrevocable.
- Insolvency of Customer and Breach
Of Contract
11.1 This clause applies if:-
11.1.1 the Customer shall commit any breach of the Contract
and shall fail to remedy such breach (if capable of remedy)
within a period of 7 days from receipt of notice in writing
from the Company requesting such breach to be remedied;
or
11.1.2 the Customer makes any voluntary arrangement with
its creditors (or being an individual or firm) becomes bankrupt
or (being a company) becomes subject to an administration
order or goes into liquidation (otherwise than for the purposes
of amalgamation or reconstruction); or
11.1.3 an encumbrancer takes possession, or a receiver is
appointed, of any of the property or assets of the Customer;
or
11.1.4 the Customer ceases, or threatens to cease, to carry
on business; or
11.1.5 the Company reasonably apprehends that any of the
events mentioned above is about to occur in relation to
the Customer and notifies the Customer accordingly.
11.2 If this clause applies then, without prejudice to any
other right or remedy available to the Company and without
any liability to the Customer, the Company shall be entitled
forthwith:
11.2.1 to suspend any further performance of the Contract
and any other contract between the Company and the Customer
until the default has been made good; or
11.2.2 to cancel the Contract.
11.3 In either event:
11.3.1 if the Goods have been delivered or the Services
have been provided but not paid for the price shall become
immediately due and payable notwithstanding any previous
agreement or arrangement to the contrary; and
11.3.2 the Customer shall indemnify the Company against
any resulting loss, damage or expense incurred by the Company
in connection with the Customer's non-performance and/or
breach of the Contract.
- Intellectual Property Rights
The customer agrees with the Company that the Company shall
retain all intellectual property rights of whatsoever nature
and whether past or present or future in or on the goods
and the services and the Company hereby licenses the customer
on a non-exclusive basis to use or alter or modify the goods
and the services PROVIDED THAT the Customer does not re-sell
or distribute the goods and services in any way or by any
means.
- Unfair Contract Terms
In so far as Goods are sold or the Services are provided
to a person dealing as a consumer (within the meaning of
the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1994)
these Conditions are considered by the Company to be fair
and reasonable, but if the Customer considers any of them
to be unreasonable in whole or in part it must inform the
Company in writing before any contract is made otherwise
the Customer will be deemed to have accepted that they are
reasonable.
- Assignment
14.1 The Customer shall not assign the benefit of the Contract
without the prior consent of the Company in Writing.
- Notice
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 giving the notice.
- Waiver
The rights and remedies of the Company under this Contract
or in law shall not be diminished, waived or extinguished
by the granting of any indulgence, forbearance or extension
of time by the Company nor by the failure of or delay by
the Company in asserting or exercising any such rights or
remedies.
- Severability
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
- Law and Jurisdiction and Arbitration
The Contract shall be governed by the laws of England, and
the Customer agrees to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction
of the English Courts.
18.2 In the event of any dispute between the Company and
the Customer concerning these terms and conditions and/or
the Contract the Company and the Customer hereby agree to
such dispute being referred to an arbitrator to be appointed
on the application of either party by the Institute of Arbitrators
and such arbitration shall be conducted in accordance with
the Arbitration Act 1996.
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David Green
t. +44 (0)207 617 7798
e. dg@dggreen.co.uk
skype. davidggreen
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