
Standard Conditions of Business
1. General
a) "The Company" shall mean
37point5 Limited.
b) "The Services" shall
mean the services, which are the subject of this contract.
c) "The Customer" shall
mean the person, firm or company who contracts to purchase in full or in part
the services of the Company.
d) Any contract entered into by the
Company for the supply of services is subject to these conditions. Any writing
on or attached to any purchase order form document or correspondence shall not
be included or implied unless previously agreed upon in writing and signed by
an authorised officer of the Company.
e) No order for supply of services
arising from a quotation or otherwise shall be deemed to be accepted or
constitute a legally enforceable contract with the Company until accepted in
writing by the Company or until commencement of the services which ever shall
be the earlier.
f) No responsibility is accepted by
the Company for any inaccuracy or error in orders given by telephone.
2. Descriptions and Specifications
The descriptions, specifications
and illustrations contained in marketing leaflets or descriptive matter produced
by the Company shall not form part of the Contract
and no report, representation or statement made by any servant or agent of the
Company shall be binding by the Company.
3. Time
Any date or period quoted by the
Company for completion of the services is given in good faith by way of
estimate only. While the company will endeavour to complete the services within
the period stated, such date or period is not to be of the essence of the
Contract and the Customer shall be bound to accept completion of the services as
and when possible.
4. Price
a) All prices both quoted and
printed are exclusive of VAT and other costs unless expressly specified to the
contrary.
b) The Company reserves the right
at any time prior to completion of the Contract to adjust the price to take
account of any increase in any taxes or duties or other matters affecting the
cost to the Company in complying with the Contract.
c) The Company reserves the right
to amend any accidental errors and omissions in quotations and invoices.
5. Payment
a) Time for payment shall be of the
essence.
b) The Customer shall have no right
to set off, Statutory or otherwise.
c) The Company reserves the right
at any time at its discretion to demand security for payment before
carrying out or completing a Contract.
d) In the event of non-payment,
late payment or other default by the Customer the Company shall be entitled to
recover all legal costs thereby incurred together also with interest on the
monies outstanding calculated at 5% above the HSBC Bank PLC base rate from time
to time.
6. Liability
a) The Company shall not be liable
for any consequential or indirect loss suffered by the Customer whether this
loss arises from a breach of duty in contract or tort or in any other way,
including loss arising from the Company's negligence. Non-exhaustive llustrations
of consequential or indirect loss would be:
i. loss of profits
ii. loss of contracts
iii. damage to property of the
Customer or anybody else
iv. personal injury to the Customer
or anybody else (except so far as such injury is wholly attributed to the
Company's negligence)
b) The Company shall not under any
circumstances be liable in the event of the clients failure to obtain due
certification from any relevant regulatory authority.
c) The Customer hereby agrees to
indemnify the Company against all claims made against the Company by any of the
Customers' employees, customers or any other person for which liability would have
been excluded by this clause if the claim had been made against the Company by
the Customer.
d) The Customer undertakes and
agrees to take out adequate insurance cover with an insurance office of repute
to cover liability accepted by it in this clause 6c) and at request agrees to
produce a copy of the insurance policy or policies and relevant renewal or
receipts for inspection by the Company.
e) The Company shall not be liable
in any way for any damages direct or consequential as a result of use of its
services other than that agreed, nor for any use not stated and agreed in the
Company's specifications, nor for any fault or defect arising from the Customers
failure to disclose relevant and pertinent information to the Company. Where
the purpose of the services is misrepresented or omitted the Company shall be
under no obligation in any manner and responsibility and liability shall pass
to the Customer.
7. Reports
The Company shall retain all
intellectual property and other rights in any reports prepared for the
Customer. The Company shall have no right to disclose the contents of such
report to any other person whether for payment or otherwise except with the
prior consent of the Customer, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
8. Force Majeure
a) The Company shall not be liable
for any failure to deliver the services arising from circumstances outside the
Company's control.
b) Non-exhaustive illustrations of
such circumstances would be Acts of God, war, riot, explosion, abnormal weather
conditions, fire, flood, strikes, lockouts, Government action or regulations,
delay by suppliers, accidents, shortage of materials, labour or manufacturing facilities.
c) Should the Company be prevented
from proceeding in the above circumstances it shall give the Customer written
notice of this fact as soon as reasonably practical after discovering it.
b) If the circumstances preventing
continuation are still continuing six months after the Customer receives the
Company's notice then either party may give written notice to the other
cancelling the Contract.
e) If the Contract is cancelled in
this way, the Company will refund any payment which the Customer has already
made on account of the price (subject to deduction of any amount the Company is
entitled to claim from the Customer) but the Company will not be liable to compensate
the Customer for any further loss or damage caused by the failure to deliver.
9. Cancellation
a) If the Customer shall fail to
pay the contract price to the Company on the due date, or if an actual person,
die or be the subject of an order under the Mental health Act 1959, or if any
distress or execution is levied up to The Customers property or assets or if
the Customer shall offer to make any scheme or arrangement with creditors or
commit any act of bankruptcy or, being a company, has a receiver appointed for any part of its
undertaking or assets or if a resolution for winding up shall be passed, then
the Company may treat all sums due or to become due on any delivery as
immediately payable or suspend or cancel future works or require payment in
advance therefore.
b) Cancellation of the order by the
Customer for whatever reason shall entitle the Company to payment of all costs
expenses and losses of the Company arising there from. Such notification of
cancellation by the Purchaser shall not be deemed to have been accepted by the Company
in the absence of specific agreement by the Company in writing to that effect.
In all cases the Company reserves to itself any rights that it may have in law.
10. Notices
Any notice to be given hereunder
shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given or sent or
delivered to the arty
concerned at its address specified
overleaf or such other address as the party may from time to time notify in
writing and shall be deemed to have been served, if sent by post, forty-eight
hours after posting.
11. Assignment
Neither the Company nor the
Customer shall assign or transfer or purport to assign or transfer the Contract
or the benefits thereof to any other person without the prior consent of each
other.
12. Proper Law and Jurisdiction
The Contract shall be governed by
and constructed in accordance with English Law and all disputes arising in
connection with the Contract shall be submitted to the jurisdiction of the
English Courts.
