Terms and Conditions

GLOVER & SMITH Limited [terms and conditions of trade]
1. APPLICATION
1.1 Application of these Terms and Conditions: These Terms and Conditions are incorporated into any contract between Glover & Smith and the Customer for the supply of goods and/or services by Glover & Smith to the Customer and shall apply to the exclusion of all terms and conditions conflicting with or purporting to modify them, except where otherwise agreed in writing between Glover & Smith and the Customer.
2. QUOTES AND ORDERS
2.1 Glover & Smith may supply Quote: Where the Customer requests Glover & Smith to supply goods and/or services to the Customer, Glover & Smith may give the Customer a written quote specifying:
(a) the Work required to be done in order to fulfil the Customer's instructions; and
(b) an Estimate for that Work.
2.2 Acceptance by Customer: When Glover & Smith has given the Customer the Quote:
(a) Glover & Smith need not commence work until the Quote has been accepted by the Customer;
(b) the Customer may accept the Quote in writing (including email) and unless and until that time a Quote does not give rise to a binding contract;
(c) acceptance by the Customer of the Quote will constitute acceptance by the Customer of these
Terms and Conditions;
(d) Glover & Smith reserves the right to correct any obvious errors in the Quote, whether technical, stenographic or otherwise.
2.3 Quote evidence of instructions: If a written Quote is accepted by the Customer:
(a) the Quote shall be carried out and the Customer shall pay for the Work in accordance with these Terms and Conditions;
(b) the Quote will be conclusive proof of the Customer's instructions (written and verbal) and the
Order;
(c) unless otherwise agreed in writing by Glover & Smith the Order may not be cancelled by the
Customer.
2.4 Validity of Quote: A Quote:
(a) only remains valid for 30 days from the date it is given; and
(b) may be withdrawn by Glover & Smith at any time by notice to the Customer.
2.5 Variations and Estimates: An Estimate is based on the current cost of production and is subject to amendment before or after acceptance of the Quote to meet any cost variation between the date of the Quote and the date of execution of the Order. Glover & Smith may amend an Estimate at any time before the Order is completed to take into account any rise or fall in the cost of performing the Order.
3. CHARGES
3.1 Invoice: When the Order has been completed, Glover & Smith may issue an invoice to the Customer for the amount of the Estimate or, if no Estimate was given, an amount representing the Glover & Smith's charge for the Work done, and for any of the other charges specified in clause 3.2.
3.2 Charges additional to Estimate: In addition to the Estimate, Glover & Smith may charge to the Customer the following, except to the extent that such costs are expressly included in any Quote:
(a) fees for any Preliminary Work performed at the Customer's request;
(b) fees for Additional Work required to be done as a result of the Customer changing the
Customer’s instructions;
(c) fees and other charges for work required to be done urgently, including any overtime costs;
(d) fees for handling or storing material or equipment supplied by the Customer for the purposes of the Order;
(e) fees for changing or correcting, in order to ensure that the Goods are properly produced, any
plates, mold, film, bromides, artwork or any document including computer files, or any other materials which are unsuitable or substandard (including any supplied in accordance with clause 10., supplied for the purposes of the Order by the Customer;
(f) freight and/or installation costs and charges;
(g) other charges, fees or disbursements referred to in these Terms and Conditions and not
specified in this clause.
3.3 Under / Over-Supplies: The Customer acknowledges that while Glover & Smith will make every endeavour to produce the exact number of items in the Order, owing to human and/or machine/computer error the number of items actually produced may be up to 5% over or under the number specified in the Order.
Where such a discrepancy occurs, Glover & Smith will adjust the amount charged to the Customer at a pro rata rate to reflect the actual number of items produced.
3.4 Alterations to style etc: If, before the Quote is prepared, the Customer does not give Glover & Smith specific instructions in relation to style, type or layout:
(a) Glover & Smith may use any style, type and layout which, in Glover & Smith's opinion, is appropriate; and
(b) Glover & Smith may charge an additional amount for any additional work required to be done
(including the production of additional proofs) as a result of the Customer subsequently altering
the style, type or layout used by Glover & Smith.
3.6 VAT and Taxes: The Estimate shall be increased by the amount of any VAT and other taxes and duties which may be applicable, except:
(a) to the extent such taxes are expressly included in the Quote; and
(b) all out-of-pocket expenses referred to in these Terms and Conditions are VAT exclusive.
4. DELIVERY
4.1 Time and place: Delivery is to be made at the place specified in the Quote. Any time stated for delivery is an estimate only. Glover & Smith is not liable for any delay in delivery.
4.2 Collection: Where the Customer is to collect the Goods, the Customer must do so from Glover & Smith's premises upon being notified by Glover & Smith that the Goods are ready for collection.
4.3 Freight costs: If Glover & Smith agrees to deliver the Goods, the Customer shall bear all freight costs and charges associated with that delivery, which shall include (but not be limited to) all costs and expenses incurred by Glover & Smith in removing the Goods from its premises, whether by way of actual or attempted delivery to the Customer or otherwise.
4.4 Rejection: The Customer may only reject the Goods if they do not comply with the Order. If the Customer wishes to reject or make a claim for discrepancy in respect of an Order, the Customer must notify Glover & Smith in writing with full details and supporting evidence of the alleged non-compliance:
(a) if Glover & Smith is required to deliver the Goods to the Customer's premises - within 7 days of delivery;
(b) otherwise - within 7 days of notification that the Goods are ready for collection.
4.5 Refusal: If the Customer refuses to accept delivery of any Goods, Glover & Smith may charge the Customer for any additional costs incurred as a result, including storage and transportation costs.
5. PAYMENT
5.1 Time for payment: All orders are supplied on a proforma basis. Glover & Smith may:
(a) alter terms of payment with effect from the date it notifies the Customer of such change; and
(b) impose a credit limit at any time, which may be altered at Glover & Smith's discretion with effect from the date Glover & Smith notifies the Customer of such alteration. Where the credit limit is exceeded then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Glover & Smith may with immediate effect and without further notice;
(i) refuse to supply Goods to the Customer; or
(ii) require security in a form satisfactory to Glover & Smith; or
(iii) alter terms of payment to cash on delivery
5.2 Interest: If the Customer does not make payment by the due date, Glover & Smith may charge interest at 5 % on amounts not paid within the time specified in clause 5.1, and may cancel any Orders in existence (without prejudice to any other rights or remedies of Glover & Smith).

5.3 Advance and progress payments: Glover & Smith may:
(a) issue a pro forma invoice for the amount of the Estimate before commencing the Order, if
Glover & Smith has not previously done work for the Customer or otherwise considers it prudent;
(b) if Glover & Smith is of the view that completing the Order will take more than a month, at any time before the Order is completed, issue one or more invoices for a proportion of the amount of the Estimate (the proportion to be at Glover & Smith's discretion) or require a proportion of the Estimate to be paid in advance of any Work being done.
5.4 Suspension of Work: If the Order is suspended for more than 30 days at the request of the Customer or as a result of something for which the Customer is responsible, Glover & Smith may issue an invoice for a particular sum (to be specified by Glover & Smith) for the Work already done and for other costs incurred by Glover & Smith (including, by way of example but without limitation, storage costs).
5.5 Damages: The Customer must pay to Glover & Smith any costs, expenses or losses incurred by Glover & Smith as a result of the Customer's failure to pay to Glover & Smith on the due date all sums outstanding from the Customer to Glover & Smith (including, without limiting the generality of the obligation set out in this clause, any debt collection and legal costs).
6. RISK
6.1 Risk: The risk of any loss, damage or deterioration of the Goods passes to the Customer:
(a) if Glover & Smith is required to deliver the Goods to the Customer's premises - at the time of delivery;
(b) otherwise - at the time Glover & Smith notifies the Customer that the Goods are ready for collection.
6.2 Risk on rejection: If the Customer validly rejects the Goods in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, risk in the rejected Goods reverts to Glover & Smith:
(a) if the Goods are at Glover & Smith’s premises, at the time the Customer notifies Glover & Smith that the Goods are rejected;
(b) if the Goods are in the possession of the Customer, at the time that the Goods are returned to
Glover & Smith (in the same condition in which they were delivered to the Customer) during usual
business hours and Glover & Smith acknowledges receipt of them.
7. OWNERSHIP
7.1 Retention of ownership: Until the Customer has paid all sums outstanding in relation to the Goods and all the other amounts owing by the Customer to Glover & Smith from time to time:
(a) title in the Goods shall not pass from Glover & Smith to the Customer;
(b) if the Goods are in the Customer's possession, the Customer holds the Goods as trustee for Glover & Smith and must store the Goods separately and clearly identify them as the property of Glover & Smith;
(c) Glover & Smith may call for and recover possession of the Goods (for which purposes Glover & Smith's employees or agents may enter the Customer's premises and take possession of the Goods without liability to the Customer) and the Customer must deliver the Goods to Glover & Smith if so directed by Glover & Smith.
7.2 Ordinary business: The Customer may, in the ordinary course of the Customer's business, use the Goods or sell the Goods to a third party for full consideration but:
(a) the proceeds of sale and any book debt created upon the sale of the Goods to the third party
shall be held by the Customer as trustee for Glover & Smith and the Customer must account to
Glover & Smith for those sums; and
(b) if Glover & Smith requires, the Customer must assign to Glover & Smith the Customer's claim against the third party and must execute all documents necessary to effect that assignment;
provided that the authority under this clause shall be revoked from the time that an Event of Default occurs or Glover & Smith notifies the Customer that is revoked.
7.3 General lien: Glover & Smith shall, in respect of all sums owed by the Customer to Glover & Smith, have a general lien on all property of the Customer in Glover & Smith's possession and may, after 14 days' notice to the Customer, sell that property and apply the proceeds (net of any sale costs) in satisfaction of all or any part of the sums owed. In the event that any of the Customer’s property held by Glover & Smith as aforesaid enjoys copyright protection in favour of the Customer, the Customer hereby grants to Glover & Smith a licence to exercise the rights conferred on Glover & Smith under this clause.
7.4 Insurance: Until property in the Goods passes to the Customer, the Customer shall keep the Goods insured in the name of Glover & Smith and the Customer for their respective rights and interests and will produce to Glover & Smith, upon demand, evidence of such insurance. If the Customer fails to so insure the Goods, Glover & Smith may do so and the cost of such insurance shall be payable by the Customer to the Glover & Smith upon demand.
8. LIABILITY
8.1 Non-excludable Rights: The parties acknowledge that, under applicable English law, certain clauses, conditions, guarantees and warranties may be implied in these Terms and
Conditions and there are rights and remedies conferred on the Customer in relation to the provision of the Goods or of services which cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement ("Non excludable Rights").
8.2 Disclaimer of Liability: Except for Non-excludable Rights, Glover & Smith accepts no liability for:
(a) any claim by the Customer or any other person, including without limitation, any claim relating to or arising from all clauses, conditions, guarantees and warranties expressed or implied, and all
rights and remedies conferred on the Customer, by statute, the common law, equity, trade,
custom or usage or otherwise; and
(b) any representations, warranties, conditions or agreement made by any agent or representative which are not expressly confirmed by Glover & Smith in writing;
and the liability of Glover & Smith for any such matters is hereby excluded.
8.3 Defective Goods: Where (and to the extent) permitted by law, the liability of Glover & Smith for a breach of a Non-excludable Right is limited, at Glover & Smith's option, to the remedy or repair, replacement or re-supply of the Goods and/or any services whichever is the lesser provided that:
(a) all claims for defective Goods are reported to Glover & Smith within 48 hours of delivery; and
(b) all such claims are fully documented giving details of supply and the alleged damage or defect.
8.4 Indirect losses: Notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, Glover & Smith is in no circumstance (whatever the cause) liable in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence or breach of statutory duty) or otherwise to compensate the Customer for:
(a) any increased costs or expenses;
(b) any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts or anticipated savings;
(c) any loss or expense resulting from a claim by a third party; or
(d) any special, indirect or consequential injury loss, damage or expense whatsoever and
howsoever arising.
8.5 Force Majeure: Glover & Smith will have no liability to the Customer in relation to any loss, damage or expense caused by Glover & Smith's failure to complete the Order or to deliver the Goods as a result of act of God, fire, flood, tempest, earthquake, riot, civil disturbance, industrial dispute, theft, crime, strike, lockout, work stoppage or other labour hindrance, breakdown, act of war (whether declared or not), sabotage, insurrection, epidemic, national emergency (whether in fact or law), requirements of restriction of, or failure to act by, any government, local body or judicial entity, the inability of Glover & Smith's normal suppliers to supply necessary materials or any other matter beyond Glover & Smith's control.
8.6 Electronic data: Without limiting the generality of the foregoing clauses, Glover & Smith will not be liable to the Customer for loss, however caused, of any data stored on disks, tapes, compact disks or other media supplied by the Customer to Glover & Smith.
8.7 Proofs and Samples: If Glover & Smith submits to the Customer a proof or sample of the Goods Glover & Smith will not be responsible for any errors in the Goods which appeared in the proof or sample and which were not corrected by the Customer before the Order was completed. There is no guarantee that production of items will exactly match colour because of variations in preparations methods. However Glover & Smith will use all reasonable endeavours to provide a commercially acceptable finished product.
9. OUTSIDE WORK
9.1 Liability: If Glover & Smith has to obtain goods (including typefaces, bromides, film, plates, ornaments or artwork) and/or services not normally stocked or supplied by Glover & Smith from a third party in order to carry out the Customer's instructions:
(a) Glover & Smith will not be liable for any breach of these Terms and Conditions if that breach is a result of or is connected with the supply by the third party of the goods and/or services;
(b) Glover & Smith acquires the goods and/or services as agent for the Customer and not as principal and will have no liability to the Customer in relation to the supply of those goods and/or services. Any claim by the Customer in relation to the supply of those goods and/or services must be made directly against the third party;
(c) the Customer must pay for such goods and/or services;
(d) property in any goods obtained from a third party and incorporated into the Goods passes to Glover & Smith at the time of incorporation.
10. CUSTOMER'S PROPERTY
10.1 Material supplied by Customer: If Glover & Smith and the Customer agree that the Customer is responsible for supplying materials or equipment for the purposes of the Order:
(a) the Customer must supply sufficient quantities of materials to allow for spoilage, such quantity to be specified by Glover & Smith;
(b) Glover & Smith will not normally count or check the materials and if requested by the Customer to do so, may charge for counting or checking;
(c) Glover & Smith will not be responsible for any defects in the Goods which are caused by defects in or the unsuitability of materials or equipment supplied by the Customer;
(d) property in any materials supplied by the Customer and incorporated into the Goods passes to
Glover & Smith at the time of incorporation.
10.2 Property left with Glover & Smith: If the Customer leaves property in Glover & Smith's possession without specific instructions as to what is to be done with it, Glover & Smith may, six months after gaining possession of the property, dispose of or sell the property and retain any proceeds of sale as compensation for holding and handling the property.
10.3 Responsibility to insure: Glover & Smith has no obligation to insure any property of the Customer in Glover & Smith's possession. The Customer must pay the cost of any insurance arranged by Glover & Smith at the request of the Customer.
10.4 Customer's property: Glover & Smith will hold any property of the Customer at the Customer's risk.
11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS
11.1 Ancillary materials: Unless Glover & Smith and Customer agree otherwise in writing, drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs, designs, typesetting, dummies, models, negatives, positives, blocks, engravings, stencils, dies, plates, molds or cylinders, electros, stereos, disks, tapes, compact disks or any other media and other material produced by Glover & Smith in the course of or in preparation for performing the Order (whether or not in fact used for the purposes of performing the Order) are the property of Glover & Smith.
11.2 Copyright: The copyright in all artistic and literary works and products authored or produced by Glover & Smith shall be the property of Glover & Smith. The Customer:
(a) warrants that the Customer has copyright or a licence to authorise Glover & Smith to reproduce all artistic or literary works supplied by the Customer to Glover & Smith for the purposes of the Order and the Customer hereby expressly authorises Glover & Smith to reproduce all and any of such works for those purposes; and
(b) must indemnify Glover & Smith against all liability, losses or expenses incurred by Glover & Smith in relation to or in any way directly or indirectly connected with any breach of copyright or of any rights in relation to copyright; and
(c) is hereby granted a non-exclusive licence to use the copyright in any literary and/or artistic works authored by Glover & Smith for the purposes of the Order, provided that the exercise of such licence is conditional upon Glover & Smith having received all monies due to Glover & Smith under these Terms and Conditions.
11.3 Intellectual Property Rights: The Customer warrants that the use by Glover & Smith of any designs or instructions supplied by the Customer will not infringe any intellectual property of any other person and the Customer indemnifies Glover & Smith against any claim relating to or arising from the infringement of any intellectual property of any other person.
11.4 Illegal matter: Glover & Smith is not obliged to produce any illegal or libellous matter and the Customer agrees to indemnify Glover & Smith against any claim relating to or arising from the production of such matter.
11.5 Ideas: The Customer must keep confidential and not use any ideas communicated by Glover & Smith to the Customer without Glover & Smith's prior written consent.
11.6 Electronic/magnetic media: All disks, tapes, compact disks or other media (other than media supplied by the Customer) used by Glover & Smith to store data for the purposes of completing the Order are the property of Glover & Smith. The Customer cannot require Glover & Smith to supply to the Customer any data so stored, but in the event that Glover & Smith agrees to do so, Glover & Smith may charge for supplying such data to the Customer.
11.7 Storage of electronic data: Glover & Smith will not be responsible for storing any data on disks, tapes, compact disks or other media when the Order has been completed. If Glover & Smith agrees to store such data, Glover & Smith may charge for doing so.
12. GENERAL
12.1 Severability: Any provision in these Terms and Conditions which is invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction must be read down for the purposes of that jurisdiction, if possible, so as to be valid and enforceable. If that provision cannot be read down, then it is capable of being severed to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability without affecting the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions or affecting the validity or enforceability of that provision in any other jurisdiction.
12.2 Governing law and jurisdiction: These Terms and Conditions are governed by the law in force in England and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England in respect of any proceedings in connection with these Terms and Conditions.
12.3 Waiver: If Glover & Smith exercises or fails to exercise any right or remedy available to it this shall not prejudice the rights of Glover & Smith in exercising that or any other right or remedy. Waiver of any term of this contract by Glover & Smith must be specified in writing and signed by an authorised officer of Glover & Smith.
12.4 Use of information: The Customer agrees that any information given to Glover & Smith by the Customer may be disclosed to a referee or a credit agency in order to establish information relating to the Customer’s credit worthiness.
12.5 Termination: Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, Glover & Smith may terminate a contract or all or any contracts with the Customer by notice in writing to the Customer.
13. INTERPRETATION
13.1 In these terms and Conditions:
“Additional Work” includes all Work undertaken by Glover & Smith as a consequence of the Customer’s variation, alteration or modification of its instructions in relation to the Order.
“Business Day” means a day on which banks are open for general banking business.
“Customer” means the customer for whom the Work is being carried out and where the Customer is more than one person or entity, liability of the Customer shall be joint and several.
“Estimate” means an estimate of cost for the Work contained in any Quote, as varied pursuant to these Terms and Conditions.
“Event of Default” means an event where the Customer:
(a) fails to comply with the terms of any contract between the Customer and Glover & Smith including these Terms and Conditions; or
(b) being an individual is declared bankrupt or becomes of unsound mind; or
(c) enters into any composition or arrangement with its creditors or goes into liquidation (voluntarily or otherwise) or has a receiver or liquidator or trustee or statutory manager or administrator or inspector or similar official under any companies or securities or other legislation appointed over all or part of its assets, or any other such similar event;
(d) undergoes a change in its control or ownership, or has a conflict with the Glover & Smith’s interests or the interest of any party related to it which Glover & Smith considers sufficiently inappropriate;
(e) ceases or threatens to cease to carry on all, or substantially all of its business or operations;
(f) becomes or is declared insolvent or is unable or deemed to be unable to pay its debts, or stops or threatens to stop payments generally.
“Goods” means the final goods produced by Glover & Smith by completing an Order.
“Order” means an order in respect of which a Quote has been given by Glover & Smith and accepted by the Customer in accordance with these Terms and Conditions
“Glover & Smith” means Glover & Smith Limited, Unit 10 Wilton Business Centre, Kingsway, Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 OAH.
“Preliminary Work” means all and any work performed by Glover & Smith at the Customer’s express or implied request, the performance of which work was necessary to enable the Order to be commenced and which work was not within the reasonable contemplation of Glover & Smith at the time when Glover & Smith supplied the Estimate.
“Quote” means the quote described in clause 2.1.
“Work” means the work that is the subject of the Order.
13.2 General: In these Terms and Conditions, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
(b) a reference to a clause is a reference to a clause in these Terms and Conditions;
(c) a reference to a party to these Terms and Conditions or any other document or arrangement
includes that party's executors, administrators, substitutes, successors and permitted assigns;
(d) where an expression is defined, another part of speech or grammatical form of that expression
has a corresponding meaning;
(e) a reference to a period of time (including, without limitation. A year, a quarter, a month and a
day) is to a calendar period.
13.3 Headings: In these Terms and Conditions, headings are for convenient reference only and do not affect interpretation.
13.4 Business Day: If the day on which any act, matter or thing is to be done under this agreement is not a Business Day, that act, matter or thing:
(a) if it involves a payment other than a payment which is due on demand, must be done on the
preceding Business Day; and
(b) in all other cases, may be done on the next Business Day.
13.5 Notices : Any notice, claim, demand or other communication (“notice”) under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions shall be in writing and may be given or sent by registered letter or facsimile transmission. Any notice given or sent by facsimile (provided the sending facsimile machine produces a printout of the time, date and uninterrupted transmission of the message) shall be deemed to have been served immediately upon completion of transmission if such completion is within business hours in the place where the addressee’s facsimile machine is located but, if not, then at 9 am on the following business day in such place. In any event a notice shall be sufficiently given or served if actually received by a party or party’s solicitor or if delivered to and left at a party’s registered office.

 

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Wiltshire
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