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These Conditions shall apply to all goods and services supplied by the Company. Any provision, stipulation or condition in the conditions of order of the person, firm or company to whom such goods and services are supplied ('the Customer') or otherwise which conflicts with or in any way qualifies or negates any of these Conditions shall have no effect and these Conditions shall prevail. 1. Charges, Estimates and VAT (a) The Company shall charge such costs charges and expenses as shall be agreed in writing with the Customer for the supply of any goods and services. (b) Any estimates given are based on the Company's current costs of production and, unless expressly otherwise agreed in writing are subject to amendment on or at any time after acceptance by the Customer to cover any rise or fall in such costs. (c) Unless otherwise stated all costs, charges and expenses are exclusive of Value Added Tax. (d) Pixelism is not a VAT registered company and hence currently does not charge VAT 2. Additional Charges The Company reserves the right to make additional charges in respect of all costs charges and expenses incurred by the Company beyond normal allowances including but not limited to those caused by or arising out of: (a) copy supplied not being clear and legible; (b) author's corrections or other work not specified in the estimate; (c) overtime working by the Company's staff or subcontractors; (d) additional use of fax, telex, couriers and similar facilities; and (e) additional or expedited deliveries, packing or mailing. 3. Preliminary Work All preliminary work carried out at the Customer's request, whether experimentally or otherwise, shall be charged to the Customer. 4. Terms of Payment (a) The Company reserves the right: (i) to invoice the Customer stage by stage at the companies discretion; (ii) to invoice the Customer for disbursements (including but not limited to postage) incurred by the Company and any such invoice shall be due and payable immediately; (iii) to require the Customer to provide payments on account for work done or to be done and expenses incurred or likely to be incurred on the Customer's behalf; (iv) to suspend work until such payments are made. (b) All other invoices shall be paid in full within 14 days of the date of invoice unless otherwise agreed in writing. (c) Without prejudice to any other remedy available to it the Company shall be entitled to charge interest on overdue invoices at the rate of 8 per cent per annum pursuant to Section 69 of the County Court Act 1984 from time to time in force and such interest shall accrue at such rate after as well as before any judgment. (d) Goods or services supplied to or commenced at the request of an agent for the Customer shall be chargeable to that agent as well as to his principal. 5. Proofs Proofs of all work may be submitted for the Customer's approval and the Company shall not be liable for errors not corrected by the Customer in such proofs. The Customer's alterations and additional proofs necessitated thereby shall be charged as additional charges.When style, type or layout is left to the Company's judgment, changes there from made by the Customer shall be charged as additional charges. No responsibility will be accepted for any errors in proofs approved by the Customer. 6. Variations in Quantity The Company will endeavour to deliver the correct quantity ordered but estimates are conditional on margins of 5 per cent for work in one colour only and 10 per cent for other work being allowed for overs or shortage which shall be charged or deducted as appropriate. 7. Property and Risk in Goods (a) The Customer shall be deemed to have accepted the goods and services on delivery but the Company shall retain ownership of all materials and goods produced by it to the order of the Customer until all goods and services provided to the Customer have been paid for in full. (b) The risk in the goods shall pass to the Customer upon delivery which for the avoidance of doubt means from the commencement of unloading activities or when collected from the Company by the Customer or its Agent as the case may be. (c) Artwork, Designs, Scripting, Software Applications, Metal film, electronic data and other materials owned by the Company or its supplier and used by the Company for example in the production of film setting, negatives, positives, plates, etc shall remain the exclusive property of the Company or its supplier as the case may be. (d) Any material made available to the Company by or on behalf of the Customer shall, while it is in the possession of the Company or in transit, be at the Customer's risk and the Company shall not be liable for any damage to such materials however caused and the Customer shall insure the said material accordingly. (e) (i) Electronic data may be erased from memory and lithographic, or other work effaced immediately after the order is completed unless written arrangements are made to the contrary, whereupon a storage fee may be charged to the Customer. (ii) The Company shall be entitled to destroy any other materials supplied to it by or on behalf of the Customer upon the earlier of 12 months after they come into the Company's possession or one month after written notice has been given by the Company to the Customer. (f) The Company shall be entitled to make a reasonable charge for the storage of any Customer's property left with the Company before receipt of the order or after notification to the Customer of completion of the work. 8. Materials Supplied by the Customer (a) The Company may reject any paper, disks, plates or other materials supplied or specified by the Customer which appear to the Company unsuitable. Additional costs incurred if materials are found to be unsuitable during production may be charged to the Customer. (b) Where materials are supplied or specified by the Customer, the Company will take every reasonable care to secure the best results, but responsibility will not be accepted for imperfect work caused by defects in or unsuitability of materials supplied or specified. (c) Quantities of materials supplied shall be sufficient to cover normal spoilage. (d) Any additional costs incurred by the Company where disks, etc., are supplied by the Customer without adequate instructions, that result in re-running may at the discretion of the Company be charged to the Customer. 9. Indemnity and Illegality (a) The Company shall not be required to print or display any matter which in its opinion is or may be of an illegal or libellous nature or an infringement of any proprietory or other right of any third party. (b) The Customer shall indemnify the Company and keep it indemnified against all or any costs, claims, damages, demands and expenses (including legal costs) which may be incurred by or made against the Company by any third party by reason of the supply of the Company's goods or services in accordance with the Customer's instructions. 10. Claims Against the Company (a) The Company reserves the right at any time to alter its product specification without giving prior notice to the Customer. (b) The Company shall not be liable to the Customer for any damage to goods or delay in delivery of goods in transit unless the Customer notifies the Company in writing within seven days of delivery failing which the goods shall be conclusively deemed to have been accepted by the Customer. (c) In any event the Company shall not be liable for any consequential damage however arising. 11. Insurance The Customer shall be responsible for effecting all necessary insurance in respect of any damage, or expense that it may suffer directly or indirectly in relation to the provision or non-provision of the Company's goods and services. 12. Suspension and Termination The Company shall be entitled: (a) to suspend its performance of the contract if the Customer shall be in breach of any of its obligations; and (b) to determine the contract without notice in the event of the bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation of the Customer at any time or the levying of any distress, execution or other legal process upon the Customer's assets or in the event of a receiver being appointed over all or any part of the Company's assets or in the event of a continuing breach by the Customer of any of its obligations. 13. Waiver The waiver or non-enforcement by the Company of any breach or non observance of any of these Conditions shall not prevent the subsequent enforcement of these Conditions in full and shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach. 14. Force MaJeure The Company shall not be liable for any delay or failure to perform any of its contractual obligations as a result of war, flood, storm, riot, fire, accident, civil commotion, acts of god, government action, failure of power supply, equipment failure, lock out, strike, default or failure of subcontractor or suppliers or any other cause beyond its reasonable control and the Company shall not be liable for any damage or expense suffered by the Customer or any third party arising directly or indirectly from any of such matters. 15. Notice Our business is continually evolving and as such we reserve the right to change our Terms and Conditions when necessary and at anytime without notice. It is your responsibility to ensure that you are up to date with all of our T&Cs. We will, however, notify you of any prominent changes we feel you need to be pro-actively made aware of as and when the need arises. 16. Proper Law and Jurisdiction These Conditions shall be governed and construed according to English Law and the parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. 17. Licences Where a number of design options have been produced for a customer, only the chosen designs are licenced for use by the client. All other designs remain the property of PIXELISM.CO.UK By agreeing to these terms and conditions your statutory rights are not affected. Pixelism will reserve the right to alter any of the above terms and conditions at any time Standard Terms and Conditions for Web Site Design, Web Development and Internet Solutions All Users of services provided by Pixelism, by use of such services, accept the terms of business set out in the form of Service Agreement which follows, irrespective of the mode or manner of ordering employed by the User when ordering the services. All Pixelism clients are assured of personal attention to a specific Web Site Design requirement, subject to technical limitations and any legal issues. The following Terms & Conditions details the relationship between Pixelism and the client regarding the web design and web development services provided by Pixelism and it's agents 1. Every effort is made to ensure the contents of pages authored by Pixelism is accurate as possible 2. Pixelism will not accept any liability for any damages, loss of business, loss of data, failure of security or any losses of any kind. 3. Pixelism makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied for services we provide. 4. Pixelism reserves the right to not place or suspend such pages if the materials, publications do not meet all the current national and international legislation. 5. Pixelism assumes that the client has reviewed the content of the pages and accepts full liability for it's contents. 6. Pixelism cannot accept responsibility of any alterations caused by third party action occuring to the clients site pages once "set live" and in place. 7. The Client agrees to absolve Pixelism (PIXELISM.CO.UK) of any responsibility arising from any third party contractors' accuracy, inaccuracy, reliability, availability and performance which, you acknowledge, are beyond the control and not in any way warranted or supported by Pixelism. 8. A warranty period of 7 days following final sign-off is provided for the correction of errors etc. After this date, an extended warranty or Service Level Agreement (SLA) may be purchased (please see below) Exceptions to this rule include any of the following: (a) On-site work or maintenance work - charged at £240.00 per day (8 hours) or part thereof (b) Change requests that deviate from the agreed specification - Elements that were not included in the original specification are charged at a rate of £30 per hour (c) Service, support and maintenance contract (i.e. extended warranties) Following the 7 day warranty period, we can provide a fixed monthly support agreement The term 'pages' refers to 'WWW.', 'Web', 'html', 'htm' 'php' 'asp' or 'home' pages specifically authored for the World Wide Web, Intranet, CD Rom or DVD Rom. |