This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells the Customer (“you”) the terms and conditions on which Plastics By Post (“we”) supply any of the products (“Products”) listed on our website plasticsbypost.co.uk (“our site”) to you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully and make sure that you understand them, before ordering any Products from our site. You should understand that by ordering any of our Products, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

1.0      SERVICE AVAILABILITY

1.1  We do not accept orders from addresses outside the European Union.

2.0      YOUR STATUS

2.1 By placing an order through our site, you warrant that:

(a)  you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and

(b)  you are at least 18 years old;

(c)  you are resident in one of the countries in the European Union; and
(d)  you are accessing our site from that country.

3.0      OUR CONTRACT

3.1 After placing an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order.  Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to us to buy a Product. All orders are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an email that confirms that the Product has been despatched (“Despatch Confirmation”).  The contract between us (“Contract”) will only be formed when we send you the Despatch Confirmation.

4.0 CONSUMER RIGHTS
4.1  If you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel a Contract at any time within fourteen working days, beginning on the day after you received the Products. In this case, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the Products in accordance with our refunds policy (set out in clause 8.0 below). Bespoke products such as Heavy Duty Tarpaulins are made to order. In this case there will be a cancellation fee and your delivery will not be refunded. 

4.2  To cancel a Contract, you must inform us in writing. You must also return the Products to us as soon as reasonably practicable, and at your own cost. You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the Products while they are in your possession. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.

5.0 AVAILABILITY AND DELIVERY
5.1 Your order will be fulfilled usually within the stated delivery time (depending which service you select – see ‘Delivery Info’) but certainly within 30 days of accepting your order, unless there are exceptional circumstances.   We accept no liability for direct or consequential loss or damage arising from delay in delivery. If we are unable to deliver within the stated time, you will be given the option of cancelling your order by notifying us accordingly prior to goods being despatched.

5.2 We use carrier companies to deliver the Products to you.  These carrier companies cannot give an exact time of delivery and will require a valid signature as proof of delivery.  If you are not available to receive the Products when the delivery is made by the carrier company and have not given instructions (at the time of order) as to where to leave or deliver the Products, you must contact us to arrange for the Producs to be re-delivered on another date within 30 days of the failed delivery.  This may be subject to a re-delivery charge.  If we are unable to arrange a date for re-delivery we reserve the right to cancel the order and refund to you the price paid for the goods less the failed delivery costs.

5.3 We accept no liability for lost or stolen goods where you were not available to sign for the goods and the carrier company has left the goods in accord with instructions given by you at the time of order.  We accept no liability for missing goods where they have been signed for by a person not authorised by you or delivered to an incorrect address due to you giving incorrect details at the time of order.

6.0 RISK AND TITLE

6.1 The Products will be your responsibility from the time of delivery.

6.2  Ownership (also known as “Title”) of the Products will only pass to you when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Products, including delivery charges.

7.0 PRICE AND PAYMENT

7.1  The price of the Products and our delivery charges will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.

7.2  Product prices include VAT. However, if the rate of VAT changes between the date of your order and the date of delivery, we will adjust the VAT you pay, unless you have already paid for the Products in full before the change in VAT takes effect.

7.3  Product prices and delivery charges are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Despatch Confirmation.

7.4  Our site contains a large number of Products and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Products listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our despatch procedures so that, where a Product's correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge the lower amount when despatching the Product to you. If a Product’s correct price is higher than the price stated on our site, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before despatching the Product, or reject your order and notify you that we are rejecting it.

7.5  If the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably recognised by you as an error, we do not have to provide the Products to you at the incorrect (lower) price.

7.6  Payment for all Products must be by credit or debit card, prior to despatch of the Products.  No Products will be despatched until payment has been received in full (including any delivery charges) and cleared.  We accept payment with all credit cards, debit cards, business cards and premier cards, but we do not accept American Express. We will charge your credit or debit card on acceptance of your order.

8.0 OUR REFUNDS POLICY

8.1  If you return a Product to us:

(a)        because you have cancelled the Contract between us within the fourteen-day cooling-off period (see clause 4.1 above), we will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 14 days of the day on which you gave us notice of cancellation. You will be responsible for the cost of returning the item to us. Once the item has been received, we will inspect the item as long as no damage is there. We will issue you a refund less a 15% handling fee and the carriage it cost us to send the item to you.

(b)  for any other reason (for instance, because you have notified us in accordance with clause 20.0 that you do not agree to a change in these terms and conditions or in any of our policies, or because you consider that the Product is defective), we will examine the returned Product and will notify you of your refund via e-mail within a reasonable period of time. We will usually process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 14 days of the day we confirmed to you via e-mail that you were entitled to a refund. We will refund the price of a defective Product in full, any applicable delivery charges and any reasonable costs you incur in returning the item to us, but we ask that you allow us to nominate the carrier.

8.2  We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. 

9.0 WARRANTY

9.1 We warrant to you that any Product purchased from us through our site will, on delivery conform in all material respects with its description, be of satisfactory quality, and be reasonably fit for all the purposes for which products of that kind are commonly supplied.

10.0    OUR LIABILITY

10.1    Subject to clause 10.3, if we fail to comply with these terms and conditions, we shall only be liable to you for the purchase price of the Products.

10.2    Subject to clause 10.3, we will not be liable for losses that result from our failure to comply with these terms and conditions that fall into the following categories even if such losses result from our deliberate breach:

(a)  loss of income or revenue;

(b)  loss of business;

(c)  loss of profits;

(d)  loss of anticipated savings;

(e)  loss of data; or

(f)  waste of management or office time.

However, this clause 10.2 will not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your physical property that are foreseeable or any other claims for direct loss that are not excluded by categories (a) to (f) inclusive of this clause 10.2.

10.3    Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits our liability for:

(a)  death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

(b)  fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)  any breach of the obligations implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982;

(d)  defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987; or

(e)  any other matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability.

11.0    IMPORT DUTY

11.1    If you order Products from our site for delivery outside the UK, they may be subject to import duties and taxes which are levied when the delivery reaches the specified destination. You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please note that we have no control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.

11.2    Please also note that you must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the products are destined. We will not be liable for any breach by you of any such laws.

12.0    WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS

12.1    Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on our website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

13.0    NOTICES

13.1    All notices given by you to us must be given to Plastics By Post at sales@plasticsbypost.co.uk  We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when placing an order, or in any of the ways specified in clause 12.0 above. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

14.0    TRANSFER OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

14.1 The contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assignees.

14.2    You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.

14.3    We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.

15.0    EVENTS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL

15.1    A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:

(a)  strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action;

(b)  civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war;

(c)  fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster;

(d)  impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport;

(e)  impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks;

(f)  the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government; and

(g)  pandemic or epidemic.

15.3    Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.

16.0    WAIVER

16.1    If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this will not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and will not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.

16.2    A waiver by us of any default will not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

16.3    No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions will be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 13.0 above.

17.0    SEVERABILITY

17.1    If any court or competent authority decides that any of the provisions of these terms and conditions or any provisions of a Contract are invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, the term will, to that extent only, be severed from the remaining terms, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

18.0    ENTIRE AGREEMENT

18.1    These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the whole agreement between us and supersede all previous discussions, correspondence, negotiations, previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between us relating to the subject matter of any Contract.

18.2    We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us relies on any representation or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these terms and conditions or the documents referred to in them.

18.3    Each of us agrees that our only liability in respect of those representations and warranties that are set out in this agreement (whether made innocently or negligently) will be for breach of contract.

18.4    Nothing in this clause limits or excludes any liability for fraud.

19.0    OUR RIGHT TO VARY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

19.1    We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities.

19.2    You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order products from us, unless any change to those policies or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions before we send you the Despatch Confirmation (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the Products).

20.0    LAW AND JURISDICTION

20.1    Contracts for the purchase of Products through our site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by English law. Any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with such Contracts or their formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. 

21.0    THIRD PARTY RIGHTS

21.1    A person who is not party to these terms and conditions or a Contract shall not have any rights under or in connection with them under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

22.0    INFORMATION ABOUT US

22.1    We operate the website plasticsbypost.co.uk.  Plastics By Post is a trading name of Allplas.co.uk Ltd with a trading address at Unit 1 Focal Point, Lacerta Court, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.