WEB GIFTS ONLINE LIMITED
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
FOR SUPPLY OF SERVICES
WEB GIFTS ONLINE
LIMITED
These terms and
conditions (together with the documents referred to in them) (Conditions)
set out the terms and conditions on which we supply any of the services
(Services) listed on our website www.pennygifts.com (Our
Site) to you. Please read these Conditions carefully before ordering
any Services from Our Site. You should understand that by ordering any
of our Services, you agree to be bound by these Conditions.
You should print
a copy of these Conditions for future reference.
Please click
on the button marked "I Accept" at the end of these Conditions
if you accept them. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these
Conditions, you will not be able to order any Services from Our Site.
Agreed terms
- Interpretation
- The definitions and
rules of interpretation in this clause apply in these terms and conditions
(Conditions).
Confirmation
Email: a written acknowledgement issued and executed by the
Supplier and sent to the Customer by email.
Contract:
the contract between the Customer and the Supplier for the provision
of the services to which these Conditions apply which is formed on the
Supplier's acceptance of the Customer's Registration form in accordance
with clause 2.2 and clause 7.
Customer:
the person, firm or company who requests Services from the Supplier.
Document:
includes, in addition to any document in writing, any drawing, map,
plan, diagram, design, picture or other image, tape, disk or other device
or record embodying information in any form.
Due Date:
the date that the Customer is to pay the Supplier for the Services being
the date that the Customer sends the Supplier the Registration Form.
Intellectual
Property Rights: all patents, rights to inventions, utility models,
copyright and related rights, trade marks, service marks, trade, business
and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, rights in goodwill
or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights in designs,
rights in computer software, database right, topography rights, moral
rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade
secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether
registered or unregistered and including all applications for and renewals
or extensions of such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or
forms of protection in any part of the world.
Notification
Email: an email sent to the Recipient by the Supplier notifying
the recipient that he has been sent the Pennygift.
Pennygift:
an email gift which is delivered to the Recipient each day for a period
defined under the heading "more information" on each topic, the
subject matter of which shall relate to a particular topic which is
selected by the Customer through the website www.pennygifts.com.
Recipient:
the person, firm or company who will receive the Services and is named
by the Customer on the Registration Form.
Registration
Form: the request delivered to the Supplier by the Customer for
the provision of Services in accordance with Clause 7.
Services:
the provision of the Pennygifts to the Recipient by the Supplier under
the Contract, together with any other services which the Supplier provides
or agrees to provide to the Customer.
Supplier:
Web Gifts Online Limited a company registered in England and Wales under
company number 06031813 whose registered office and main trading
address is Carn Brea Studios, Barncoose Industrial Estate, Redruth,
Cornwall, TR15 3RQ, email: enquiries@pennygifts.com and whose VAT number
is 912940042.
Topic:
the topic on which the Services will be supplied. The topics available
will be specified on the Website from time to time and the Topic that
the Customer has chosen will be confirmed by the Supplier to the Customer
in the Confirmation Email.
VAT:
value added tax chargeable under English law for the time being and
any similar additional tax.
- Clause, schedule and
paragraph headings shall not affect the interpretation of these Conditions.
- A person
includes a natural person, corporate or unincorporated body (whether
or not having separate legal personality) and that person's legal and
personal representatives, successors and permitted assigns.
- Words in the singular shall
include the plural and vice versa.
- A reference to a statute or
statutory provision is a
reference to it as it is in force for the time being, taking account
of any amendment, extension, or re-enactment and includes any subordinate
legislation for the time being in force made under it.
- A reference to writing or written includes
faxes but not e-mail.
- Where the words include(s), including or
in particular are used in these Conditions, they are deemed to have
the words without limitation following them and where the context
permits, the words other and otherwise are illustrative
and shall not limit the sense of the words preceding them.
- Any obligation in the Contract
on a person not to do something includes an obligation not to agree,
allow, permit or acquiesce in that thing being done.
- References to clauses and schedules are to the clauses
and schedules of the Contract.
- Application
of conditions
- These Conditions shall:
- apply to and be incorporated
into the Contract; and
- prevail over any inconsistent
terms or conditions implied by law, trade custom, practice or course
of dealing.
- No offer for Services
in the Registration Form placed by the Customer shall be accepted by
the Supplier other than by a Confirmation
Email, when a contract for the supply of those Services on these Conditions
shall be formed. The Customer's standard terms and conditions (if any)
attached to, enclosed with or referred to in any Registration Form or
any other Document shall not govern the Contract.
- This Contract sets
out the full extent of the Supplier's obligations and liabilities
in respect of the supply of the Services. All conditions, warranties
or other terms concerning the Services which might otherwise be implied
into this agreement or any collateral contract (whether by statute or
otherwise) are hereby expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted
by law.
- Commencement
and duration
- The Services supplied
under the Contract shall be provided by the Supplier to the Customer
from the date on which the Supplier sends a Confirmation Email. The
Services supplied under the Contract shall continue to be supplied for
a period defined in ‘more information' on each topic,from such date.
- How
the contract is formed between the supplier and the customer
- In order to request
the Services the Customer must first submit a Registration Form to the
Supplier in accordance with clause 7 which constitutes an offer to the
Supplier to buy the Services. Please note that this does not mean that
the Customer's request has been accepted.
- Any request for the
provision of Services by the Customer shall, unless otherwise permitted
by the Supplier, be through the submission of a Registration Form to
the Supplier.
- All requests for Services
are subject to acceptance by the Supplier, and the Supplier will confirm
such acceptance to the Customer by sending the Customer a Confirmation
Email. The Contract will only be formed once the Supplier has sent the
Customer a Confirmation Email.
- The Registration Form
may be completed in the following languages [English]
which shall be the languages that are offered by the Supplier for the
conclusion of the Contract.
- The Customer may identify
and correct any errors on the Registration Form before submitting it
to the Supplier by clicking on the profile tab and changing the details
in the profile. Once a gift has been accepted, only the recipient can
change their own profile.
- The Supplier confirms
that it will not file the Contract. [The filed Contract will not be
accessible by the Customer, but a list of gifts purchased and received
is viewable in the profile section, with an opportunity to update the
daily message].
- The Registration Form
must be submitted in accordance with clause 23.
- SERVICES
- The Supplier shall
endeavour to provide the Services so long as the Customer complies with
its obligations under these Conditions, or until the Contract is terminated
whether by expiry in accordance with clause 3.1 or in accordance with
clause 14.
- Once the Supplier
has received payment for the Services in accordance with clause 9, the
Supplier shall send the Recipient a Notification Email. The Recipient
can then choose to accept or decline the Services by clicking on a link
in the Notification Email. If the Recipient accepts the Services, they
commence on the date specified on the Registration form, or if that
date has already passed, the date that the Recipient accepts the Services.
The supplier will then send the Customer an email confirming that the
Recipient has accepted the Services.
- If the Recipient declines
to receive the Services, the Supplier shall notify the Customer by email.
The Customer will receive a credit in their profile account and may
then choose another Topic and / or another Recipient, by following the
instructions online.
- If the Recipient does
not accept the Services within 30 days of receipt of the Notification
Email, clause 5.3 shall apply.
- The
Supplier will communicate with the Recipient by e-mail, however, the
practice cannot guarantee the quality, confidentiality, reliability,
receipt of or speed of these communications, or of any attached documents.
- The Supplier offers
the service of introducing the Customer to third party sellers.
The Supplier's involvement is only as an introducer between the Customer
and the third party seller. No contract for the sale of goods
will be formed between the Supplier and Customer. Contracts for
the sale of goods formed through the Website are governed by the third
party seller's terms and conditions of sale of goods. You agree
to be responsible for making all payments due to the third party seller
in accordance with their terms and conditions.
- Substitution
- If for any reason
the Supplier is unable to provide a Topic that is or has been specified
on the Website, the Supplier at its sole discretion reserves the right
to remove the relevant Topic and substitute it with another Topic that
it deems suitable.
- Customer's
obligations
- The
Customer shall:
- co-operate with the
Supplier in all matters relating to the Services;
- where applicable,
obtain and maintain all necessary licences and consents and comply with
all relevant legislation in relation to the Services, before the date
on which the Services are to start;
- ensure that the Registration
Form includes;
- the correct contact
email addresses for the Customer and the Potential Recipients.
- confirmation of the
Topic on which the Services will be supplied. The Topics available
will be specified on the Website from time to time and the Topic chosen
by the customer shall be confirmed by the Supplier in the Confirmation
Email
- the dates on which
the Services are to commence
- Limitation of liability
THE CUSTOMER'S
ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CLAUSE
- This clause 8 sets
out the entire financial liability of the Supplier (including any liability
for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents and sub-contractors)
to the Customer in respect of:
- any breach of the
Contract;
- any use made by the
Customer of the Services; and
- any representation,
statement or tortuous act or omission (including negligence) arising
under or in connection with the Contract.
- If the Supplier's
performance of its obligations under the Contract is prevented or delayed
by any act or omission of the Customer, its agents, sub-contractors
or employees, the Supplier shall not be liable for any costs, charges
or losses sustained or incurred by the Customer arising directly or
indirectly from such prevention or delay.
- The Customer shall be liable
to pay to the Supplier, on demand, all reasonable costs, charges or
losses sustained or incurred by the Supplier (including any direct,
indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit and loss of reputation, loss or damage to property and those
arising from injury to or death of any person and loss of opportunity
to deploy resources elsewhere) arising directly or indirectly from the
Customer's fraud, negligence, failure to perform or delay in the performance
of any of its obligations under the Contract, subject to the Supplier
confirming such costs, charges and losses to the Customer in writing.
- Charges
and payment
- The Customer shall
pay the Supplier the price for each Pennygift which will be £2.99 per
topic delivered.
- Prices are liable
to change at any time and the Supplier reserves the right to make such
price changes as it deems appropriate. Any price change will not affect
any existing contract.
- All
prices includes VAT. at the appropriate
rate.
- The
Customer shall pay the price for the Services through the Merchant Account
link on the Registration Form on the Due Date. The Supplier shall confirm
in the Confirmation Email that the payment in respect of the Services
has been deducted from the Customer's account.
- Without prejudice
to any other right or remedy that it may have, if the Customer fails
to pay the Supplier on the due date, the Supplier may:
- charge interest on
such sum from the due date for payment at the annual rate of 3% above
the base lending rate from time to time of Barclays Bank plc, accruing
on a daily basis and being compounded quarterly until payment is made,
whether before or after any judgment and the Supplier may claim interest
under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998; and
- suspend
all Services until payment has been made in full.
- Time
for payment shall not be of the essence of the Contract.
- All
sums payable to the Supplier under the Contract shall become due immediately
on its termination, despite any other provision. This clause 9.7 is
without prejudice to any right to claim for interest under the law,
or any such right under the Contract.
- Consumer rights
- If you are contracting
as a consumer (as defined in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, the
Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 and Consumer Protection
(Distance Selling) Regulations 2000) (Consumer), you may cancel
the Contract at any time within seven working days, beginning on the
day after you first start to receive the Services. In this case, you
will receive a full refund of the price paid for the Services in accordance
with our refunds policy (set out in clause 11 below).
- This provision does
not affect your statutory rights and nor will any provision of these
Conditions adversely affect the rights of any Consumer.
- To cancel the Contract
you must inform us in writing in accordance with clause 23.
- Our refunds policy
- When you have cancelled
the Contract between us within the seven-day cooling-off period (see clause 10.1
above), we will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and,
in any case, within 30 days of the day you have given notice of your
cancellation. In this case, we will refund the price of the Services
in full.
- If, for any other
reason, you believe that you are entitled to claim a refund, we will
examine the grounds of your claim and will notify you of our decision
via e-mail within a reasonable period of time. If we decide to provide
you with a refund, we will usually process the refund due to you as
soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day we confirmed
to you via e-mail that you were entitled to a refund.
- We will usually refund
any money received from you using the same method originally used by
you to pay for your purchase.
- Intellectual property
rights
- The Supplier is the
owner or the licensee of all Intellectual Property rights on the Website
as set out in the Supplier's Terms of Website Use.
- Data
protection
The Customer
acknowledges and agrees that details of the Customer's name, address
and personal data will be processed by and on behalf of the Supplier
in connection with the Services in accordance with the Supplier's
privacy policy.
- Termination
- Without
prejudice to any other rights or remedies which the parties may have,
the Supplier may terminate the Contract without notice and without liability
to the Customer if, in particular, but without limitation:
- the Customer commits
a material breach of any of the terms of the Contract and (if such a
breach is remediable) fails to remedy that breach within 30 days of
that party being notified in writing of the breach; or
- a bankruptcy petition
is presented or a bankruptcy order is made or an order is made or a
resolution is passed for the winding up of the Customer, or circumstances
arise which entitle a court of competent jurisdiction to make a winding-up
order of the Customer; or
- an order is made for
the appointment of an administrator to manage the affairs, business
and property of the Customer, or documents are filed with a court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of an administrator of the
Customer, or notice of intention to appoint an administrator is given
by the Customer or its directors or by a qualifying floating charge
holder (as defined in paragraph 14 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency
Act 1986); or
- a receiver is appointed
of any of the Customer's assets or undertaking, or circumstances arise
which entitle a court of competent jurisdiction or a creditor to appoint
a receiver or manager of the Customer, or if any other person takes
possession of or sells the Customer's assets; or
- the Customer makes
any arrangement or composition with its creditors, or makes an application
to a court of competent jurisdiction for the protection of its creditors
in any way; or
- there is a change
of control of the Customer (as defined in section 574 of the Capital
Allowances Act 2001); or
- the Customer takes
or suffers any similar or analogous action in any jurisdiction in consequence
of debt; or
- the Customer transmits,
sends or uploads Inappropriate Content (as defined in the Supplier's
Terms of Website Use) on the Website.
- On
termination of the Contract for any reason the accrued rights of the
Supplier as at termination and the continuation of any provision expressly
stated to survive or implicitly surviving termination shall not be affected.
- Force
majeure
The Supplier
shall have no liability to the Customer under the Contract if it is
prevented from or delayed in performing its obligations under the Contract
or from carrying on its business by acts, events, omissions or accidents
beyond its reasonable control, including strikes, lock-outs or other
industrial disputes (whether involving the workforce of the Supplier
or any other party), failure of a utility service or transport network,
act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance
with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, accident,
breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, storm or default of suppliers
or sub-contractors.
- Variation
No variation
of the Contract or these Conditions or of any of the documents referred
to in them shall be valid unless it is in writing and signed by or on
behalf of each of the parties.
- Waiver
- A waiver of any right
under the Contract is only effective if it is in writing and it applies
only to the party to whom the waiver is addressed and the circumstances
for which it is given.
- Unless specifically provided
otherwise, rights arising under the Contract are cumulative and do not
exclude rights provided by
law.
- Severance
- If
any provision (or part of a provision) of the Contract is found by any
court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
unenforceable or illegal, the other provisions will remain in force.
- If any invalid,
unenforceable or illegal
provision would be valid, enforceable or legal if some part of it were
deleted, that provision will apply with whatever modification is necessary
to make it valid, enforceable and legal.
- The parties agree, in the circumstances
referred to in clause 18.1
and if clause 18.2 does not apply, to attempt to substitute
for any invalid, unenforceable or illegal provision a valid, enforceable
and legal provision which achieves to the greatest extent possible the
same effect as would have been achieved by the invalid or unenforceable
provision. The obligations of the parties under any invalid or unenforceable
provision of the Contract shall be suspended while an attempt at such
substitution is made.
- Status
of pre-contractual statements
- Each of the parties
acknowledges and agrees that, in entering into the Contract it does
not rely on any undertaking, promise, assurance, statement, representation,
warranty or understanding (whether in writing or not) of any person
(whether party to these Conditions or not) relating to the subject matter
of the Contract, other than as expressly set out in the Contract.
- In particular the
Customer acknowledges that the words "Pennygifts" and "Web Gifts
Online Limited" do not amount to a representation or warranty, express
or implied, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted
by the Supplier in connection with the use of the words "Pennygifts"
and "Web Gifts Online Limited".
- Assignment
- The Customer shall
not, without the prior written consent of the Supplier, assign, transfer,
charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of
its rights or obligations under the Contract.
- The Supplier may at
any time assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other
manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under the Contract.
- No
partnership or agency
Nothing in
the Contract is intended to, or shall operate to, create a partnership
between the parties, or to authorise either party to act as agent for
the other, and neither party shall have authority to act in the name
or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way (including
the making of any representation or warranty, the assumption of any
obligation or liability and the exercise of any right or power).
- Rights
of third parties
The Contract
is made for the benefit of the parties to it and (where applicable)
their successors and permitted assigns and is not intended to benefit,
or be enforceable by, anyone else.
- Notices
- All notices between
the parties about the Contract shall be in writing and delivered by
hand, email or sent by pre-paid first class post:
- (in case of communications
to the Supplier) to its registered office, or such changed address as
shall be notified to the Customer by the Supplier, or (if sent by email)
to contact us);
or
- (in the case of the
communications to the Customer) to the registered office of the addressee
(if it is a company) or (in any other case) to any address of the Customer
set out in any document which forms part of the Contract or such other
address as shall be notified to the Supplier by the Customer.
- Communications shall
be deemed to have been received:
- if delivered by hand,
on the day of delivery; or
- if sent by email,
if the notice was sent during the business hours of the addressee then
on the day of transmission, and otherwise on the next following Business
Day. For the purpose of this clause business hours means the hours
of 9.00 am to 5.30 pm local time in the country of the addressee; or
- if sent by pre-paid
first class post, two days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and bank and
public holidays) after posting (exclusive of the day of posting).
- Governing
law and jurisdiction
- The Contract and any
dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject
matter, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the
law of England and Wales.
- The parties irrevocably agree
that the courts of England
and Wales shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute
or claim that arises out of or in connection with the Contract or its
subject matter.