Terms & Conditions

This section (together with the documents expressly referred to on it, Terms of Website Use and Website Acceptable Use Policy tells you information about us and the legal terms and conditions (Terms) on which we sell any of the products (Products) listed on our website (our site) to you. 

These Terms will apply to any contract between us for the sale of Products to you (Contract).  Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them, before ordering any Products from our site.  Please note that by ordering any of our Products, you agree to be bound by these Terms and the other documents expressly referred to in it.

Please click on the button marked "I Accept" at the end of these Terms if you accept them.  If you refuse to accept these Terms, you will not be able to order any Products from our site.

You should print a copy of these Terms or save them to your computer for future reference.

We amend these Terms from time to time as set out in clause 8.  Every time you wish to order Products, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms which will apply at that time.  These Terms were most recently updated January 2013.
These Terms, and any Contract between us, are only in the English language.

1. Information about us

1.1 We operate the website www.verdongrey.co.uk.  We are Verdon Grey Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08187607 and with our registered office at Symonds Farm Business Park, Newmarket Road, Risby, Suffolk, IP28 6RE.  Our main trading address is as above. Our VAT number is 152 2336 41.
1.2 To contact us, please see our Contact Us page.

2. Our Products

2.1 The images of the Products on our site are for illustrative purposes only.  Although we have made every effort to display the colours accurately, we cannot guarantee that your computer's display of the colours accurately reflect the colour of the Products.  Your Products may vary slightly from those images.
2.2 Although we have made every effort to be as accurate as possible, because some of our Products are handmade or hand finished, all characteristics, sizes, weights, capacities, dimensions and measurements indicated on our site have a 5% tolerance.
2.3 The packaging of the Products may vary from that, if shown, on images on our site.
2.4 All Products shown on our site are subject to availability.  We will inform you by e-mail as soon as possible if the Product you have ordered is not available and we will not process your order if made.

3. Use of our site

Your use of our site is governed by our Terms of website use and Website Acceptable Use Policy.  Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

4. How we use your personal information

We only use your personal information in accordance our Privacy Policy.  For details, please see our Privacy Policy.  Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

5. If you are a consumer

This clause 5 only applies if you are a consumer.

5.1 If you are a consumer, you may only purchase Products from our site if you are at least 16 years old.
5.2 As a consumer, you have legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described.  Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.  Nothing in these Terms will affect these legal rights.

6. How the contract is formed between you and us

6.1 For the steps you need to take to place an order on our site, please proceed to and follow the checkout process.
6.2 Our order process allows you to check and amend any errors before submitting your order to us.  Please take the time to read and check your order at each page of the order process.
6.3 After you place an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order.  However, please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted.  Our acceptance of your order will take place as described in clause 6.4.
6.4 We will confirm our acceptance to you by sending you an e-mail that confirms that the Products have been dispatched (Dispatch Confirmation).  The Contract between us will only be formed when we send you the Dispatch Confirmation.
6.5 If we are unable to supply you with a Product, for example, because that Product is not in stock or no longer available or because of an error in the price on our site as referred to in clause 13.5, we will inform you of this by e-mail and we will not process your order.  If you have already paid for the Products, we will refund you the full amount as soon as possible.

7. Our right to vary these terms

7.1 We may revise these Terms from time to time in the following circumstances:
(a) changes in how we accept payment from you;
(b) changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements;
7.2 Every time you order Products from us, the Terms in force at that time will apply to the Contract between you and us.
7.3 Whenever we revise these Terms in accordance with this clause 8, we will keep you informed and give you notice of this by stating that these Terms have been amended and the relevant date at the top of this page.

8. Your consumer right of return and refund

This clause 8 only applies if you are a consumer.

8.1 If you are a consumer, you have a legal right to cancel a Contract under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling Regulations 2000) during the period set out below in clause 8.3.  This means that during the relevant period, if you change your mind or for any other reason you decide you do not want to keep a Product, you can notify us of your decision to cancel the Contract and receive a refund.  Advice about your legal right to cancel the Contract under these regulations is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.
8.2 However, this cancellation right does not apply in the case of any made-to-measure or custom-made products.
8.3 Your legal right to cancel a Contract starts from the date of the Dispatch Confirmation, which is when the Contract between us is formed.  If the Products have already been delivered to you, you have a period of 7 (seven) working days in which you may cancel, starting from the day after the day you receive the Products.  Working days means that Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays are not included in this period.
8.4 To cancel a Contract, you must contact us in writing by sending a registered letter to Customer Services, Verdon Grey Ltd, Symonds Farm Business Park, Newmarket Road, Risby, Suffolk, IP28 6RE.  Alternatively, please contact our Customer Services telephone line or e-mail us at sales or info@verdongrey.co.uk.  You may wish to keep a copy of your cancellation notification for your own records. If you send us your cancellation notice by e-mail or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us. Please note that we only accept cancellations if expressly provided. We are unable to accept cancellations via the telephone.
8.5 You will receive a full refund of the price you paid for the Products.  We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 calendar days of the day on which you gave us notice of cancellation as described in clause 8.4.  If you returned the Products to us because they were faulty or mis-described, please see clause.
8.6 If you have returned the Products to us under this clause 8 because they are faulty or mis-described, we will refund the price of a defective Product in full.
8.7 We will refund you only on the credit card or debit card used by you to pay.
8.8 If the Products were delivered to you:
(a) you must return the Products to us in perfect condition with all original packaging, as soon as reasonably practicable.  If the Products require collection, we will collect the Products from the address to which they were delivered.  We will contact you to arrange a suitable time for collection.
(b) unless the Products are faulty or not as described (in this case, see clause 8.6), you will be responsible for the cost of returning the Products to us or, where relevant, the cost of us collecting the Products from you.  We charge a minimum charge of £100.00 for collection of all furniture and non-furniture items.  This includes our handling fee.
(c) you have a legal obligation to keep the Products in your possession and to take reasonable care of the Products and packaging while they are in your possession.
8.9 Details of your legal right to cancel and an explanation of how to exercise it are provided in the Dispatch Confirmation.
8.10 As a consumer, you will always have legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described.  These legal rights are not affected by the returns policy in this clause 8 or these Terms.  Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

9. Delivery

9.1 Your order will be fulfilled by the estimated delivery date set out in the Dispatch Confirmation, unless there is an Event Outside Our Control.  If we are unable to meet the estimated delivery date because of an Event Outside Our Control, we will contact you with a revised estimated delivery date. 
9.2 Delivery will be completed when we deliver the Products to the address you gave us.
9.3 We require you to inspect and sign for receipt of all goods.
9.4 If no one is available at your address to take delivery, we will leave you a note that the Products have been returned to our premises, in which case, please contact us to rearrange delivery.  Please note that if we need to redeliver the Products to you, you will be charged for the cost of redelivery at a minimum of £100.00.  This includes our handling fee.
9.5 The Products will be your responsibility from the completion of delivery.
9.6 You own the Products once we have received payment in full, including all applicable delivery charges.

10. International delivery

10.1 We deliver to the UK only currently.  However, if you require delivery to any International Destinations, please contact us and we shall see if we can help.  However there are restrictions on some Products for certain International Delivery Destinations, so please ensure you check with us first before ordering Products. 
10.2 If we do agree to deliver to an international delivery destination, your order may be subject to import duties and taxes which are applied when the delivery reaches that destination. Please note that we have no control over these charges and we cannot predict their amount.
10.3 You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes.  Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.
10.4 You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the Products are destined.  We will not be liable or responsible if you break any such law.

11. Price of products and delivery charges

11.1 The prices of the Products, which are in Pounds Sterling (£), will be as quoted on our site and are payable in Pounds Sterling (£).  We take all reasonable care to ensure that the prices of Products are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the system.  However if we discover an error in the price of Product(s) you ordered, please see clause 11.5 for what happens in this event.
11.2 Prices for our Products may change from time to time, but changes will not affect any order which we have confirmed with a Dispatch Confirmation.
11.3 The price of a Product includes VAT (where applicable) at the applicable current rate chargeable in the UK for the time being. 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.
11.4 The price of a Product includes delivery charges for most UK destinations.  Where a delivery charge is applicable you will be advised of the amount.  Our delivery charges, where relevant, are as quoted on our site.  To check relevant delivery charges, please refer to our Delivery Charges page.
11.5 Our site contains a number of Products.  It is always possible that, despite our reasonable efforts, some of the Products on our site may be incorrectly priced.  We will normally check prices as part of our dispatch procedures so that:
(a) where the Product's correct price is less than the price stated on our site, we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Products to you.  However, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mispricing, we do not have to provide the Products to you at the incorrect (lower) price; and
(b) if the Product's correct price is higher than the price stated on our site, we will contact you as soon as possible to inform you of this error and we will give you the option of continuing to purchase the Product at the correct price or cancelling your order.  We will not process your order until we have your instructions.  If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the order process, we will treat the order as cancelled and notify you in writing.

12. How to pay

12.1 You can only pay for Products using a debit card or credit card.  We accept the following credit and debit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express.
12.2 Payment for the Products and all applicable delivery charges is in advance.  We will not charge your debit card or credit card until we dispatch your order.

13. Manufacturer guarantees

13.1 Some Products we sell to you may come with a manufacturer’s guarantee.  For details of the applicable terms and conditions, please refer to the manufacturer’s guarantee provided with the Products.
13.2 If you are a consumer, a guarantee, is in addition to your legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described.  Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

14. Our warranty for the Products

14.1 For Products which do not have a manufacturer's guarantee, we provide a warranty that on delivery and for a period of 12 months from delivery, the Products shall be free from material defects.  However, this warranty does not apply in the circumstances described in clause 16.2.
14.2 The warranty in clause 16.1 does not apply to any defect in the Products arising from:

(a) fair wear and tear;
(b) wilful damage, abnormal storage, or working conditions, accident, negligence by you or by any third party;
(c) if you fail to operate or use the Products in accordance with the user instructions;
(d) Inappropriate use;
(e) any alteration or repair by you or by a third party; or
(f) any specification provided by you.

14.3 If you are a consumer, this warranty is in addition to your legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described.  Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

15. Our liability

This clause 15 only applies if you are a consumer.

15.1 If we fail to comply with these Terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our negligence, but we are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable.  Loss or damage is foreseeable if they were an obvious consequence of our breach or if they were contemplated by you and us at the time we entered into the Contract.
15.2 We only supply the Products for domestic and private use.  You agree not to use the product for any commercial, business or re-sale purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
15.3 We do not in any way exclude or limit our liability for:

(a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
(b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) any breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (title and quiet possession);
(d) any breach of the terms implied by section 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (description, satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and samples); and
(e) defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

16. Events outside our control

16.1 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by an Event Outside Our Control.  An Event Outside Our Control is defined below in clause 16.2.
16.2 An Event Outside Our Control means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks or impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
16.3 If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under a Contract:

(a) we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you; and
(b) our obligations under a Contract will be suspended and the time for performance of our obligations will be extended for the duration of the Event Outside Our Control.  Where the Event Outside Our Control affects our delivery of Products to you, we will arrange a new delivery date with you after the Event Outside Our Control is over. 

17. Communications between us

17.1 When we refer, in these Terms, to "in writing", this will include e-mail.
17.2 If you are a consumer:

(a) To cancel a Contract in accordance with your legal right to do so as set out in clause 8, you must contact us in writing by sending an e-mail to customerservices@verdongrey.co.uk or by sending a registered letter to Customer Services Verdon Grey Ltd Symonds Farm Business Park Newmarket Road Risby Suffolk IP28 6RE OR please contact our Customer Services telephone line or e-mail us at customerservices@verdongrey.co.uk.  You may wish to keep a copy of your cancellation notification for your own records.  If you send us your cancellation notice by e-mail or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us.  Please note that we cannot accept cancellation via telephone all cancellations must be in writing as described above.
(b) If you wish to contact us in writing for any other reason, you can send this to us by e-mail or by pre-paid post to Verdon Grey Ltd at the address and email address as above.  You can always contact us using our Customer Services telephone line.

17.3 If we have to contact you or give you notice in writing, we will do so by e-mail or by pre-paid post to the address you provide to us in your order.
17.4 If you are a business, please note that any notice given by you to us, or by us to you, 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.  The provisions of this clause shall not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action.

19. Other important terms

19.1 We may transfer our rights and obligations under a Contract to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these Terms.  We will always notify you by posting on this webpage if this happens.
19.2 You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing.
19.3 This contract is between you and us.  No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 or otherwise.
19.4 Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately.  If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
19.5 If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations.  If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.
19.6 If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms are governed by English law.  This means a Contract for the purchase of Products through our site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it will be governed by English law.  You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.  However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
19.7 If you are a business, these Terms are governed by English law.  This means that a Contract, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), will be governed by English law.  We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
19.8 We are the owner of all intellectual property rights.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.  You may print off one copy and down load extracts of any pages(s) from our website for your personal reference.  You must not use any part of the materials on our website for commercial purposes without getting our permission to do so.
19.9 You must not knowingly misuse our website nor gain unauthorised access to our website, the server on which our website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our website.
19.10 You may link to our home page, provide that you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.  You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.
19.11 You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.  Our website must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our website other than the home page.  We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.  The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with our content standards.
19.12 If you wish to make use of any material on our website other than set out above, please contact us.

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