Terms & Conditions

1 Our Contract 
1.1 These Terms and Conditions will apply when you access our Site. If you find yourself unable to agree to these Terms and Conditions, then we must ask you to leave our Site immediately. By using or subscribing to our Site you enter into a binding contract with us on the following Terms and Conditions:

2 Definitions 
In these Terms and Conditions:
2.1 “our Site” means our web site; and
2.2 “our”, “ourselves”, “we” “us” and “MC Signs” means MC Signs UK limited registered in England and Wales under Company Number  4976910 and whose Registered Office is at 23 Crewe Rd, Alsager, Stoke-On-Trent .

3 Use of Data 
3.1 To open an account you must complete the registration process and provide the information requested on the Registration Form
3.2 You agree that all such Registration Data is true, accurate, current and complete and that you will promptly update the Registration Data to reflect any change.
3.3 In order to use certain parts of the Site you may be asked to supply certain personal information which may include credit card or other payment information. We will treat all such personal information as described in our privacy policy . By submitting your information, you consent to the use of that information as set out in our privacy policy.

4 Account ID and Password 
4.1 During the registration process you will need to select an Account ID and Password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account ID and Password. You must keep your password secret and not allow any third party to use your Account ID or Password.
4.2 You are responsible for any and all activities that occur using your Account ID and Password, including the content of any information or other material posted on our Site using your Account ID and Password and you agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your Account ID or any other breach of security of which you become aware.

5 Links to Other Sites 
5.1 Certain links, including hypertext links, in our Site will take you outside our Site. Links are provided for your convenience and inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked Site, its operator or its content. We are not responsible for the content of any web site outside our Site.

6 Trade Marks 
6.1 MC Signs is a registered trade mark and the MC Signs logo is a registered service mark.
6.2 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions grants you any right to use any trade mark, service mark, logo and/or trade name of MC Signs or any other trade mark displayed on our Site without our prior written consent or the consent of the trade mark owner.

7 Copyright 
7.1 The ownership of all intellectual property rights (including copyright) in the design, text, graphics and other material on our Site and the selection or arrangement thereof belongs to us or our licensors. Permission is granted to electronically copy to file and to print in hard copy parts of our Site for the purposes of viewing its content. Any other use of materials on our Site (including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above and alteration, modification, distribution or republication) without our prior written permission is strictly prohibited. This condition is not intended to prevent you from utilising the products resulting from our on-line ordering service in the ordinary manner.
7.2 Any permission granted under or pursuant to condition 7.1 is on the condition that you maintain any notice contained in the content of any material that you use such as copyright notices, trade mark legends or other proprietary rights and notices.

8 Monitoring and Suspension of our Site 
8.1 You acknowledge and agree that we may monitor your use of our Site and retain records of such use in accordance with our privacy policy.
8.2 You further acknowledge and agree that we may suspend or discontinue our Site or your access to all or part of our Site or alter any aspect of our Site, including without limitation:
8.2.1 restricting the time of availability;
8.2.2 restricting the availability and/or scope of the service to you;
8.2.3 restricting the amount of use permitted.

9 Termination of Access 
9.1 We may terminate your access to our Site immediately if you are in breach of any of these Terms and Conditions or if you fail to pay any amount payable to us by the due date for payment.
9.2 In the event of termination, we may delete any data or information or other content in your Account.

10 Unlawful or Prohibited Use 
10.1 You are responsible for ensuring that your use of our Site is in compliance with any applicable laws or regulations.
10.2 You agree not to use our Site for any unlawful purpose.
10.3 You agree not to restrict or inhibit any other User from using and enjoying our Site including without limitation the following:
10.3.1 using or attempting to use any Account without the owner’s permission;
10.3.2 obtaining or soliciting another person’s Password or other personal information;
10.3.3 impersonating another user or otherwise misrepresenting yourself to us.
10.4 You agree not to interfere or attempt to interfere with the operation of our Site including the following: –
10.4.1 interfering with or circumventing any security function of our Site or attempting to do so;
10.4.2 accessing or attempting to access any portion of our Site that you are not authorised to access.
10.5 You agree not to post or transfer to our Site any material which is misleading, inaccurate, unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, profane, or in breach of any copyright or other intellectual property right.
10.6 You agree not to post or transmit any advertising, promotion or solicitation of goods or services for commercial purposes except in any areas of our Site specifically designated for such purpose.
10.7 You agree not to misuse any e-mail function available on or through our Site and in particular you will not:-
10.7.1 continue to send e-mails to a recipient if the recipient has requested that you discontinue such communication;
10.7.2 forge message headers or otherwise conceal an e-mail address or prevent others from responding to a message;
10.7.3 send bulk e-mails, “spam”, chain letters, “mail bombs” or other disruptive transmissions.
10.8 You agree not to use our Site to post or transmit any information or software that contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse, or other harmful or disruptive component or is damaging to data, software of the performance of our or any other party’s computer system.
10.9 You agree not to modify, adapt, translate, resell, re-transmit or disassemble any part of our Site.

11 E-mail Services and Storage 
11.1 We may make e-mail services available to you either directly or through a third party supplier.
11.2 We will not inspect or disclose the contents of private e-mail messages except with the consent of the sender and recipient or unless required by law or by a Court Order.
11.3 We may use automated monitoring devices or techniques to protect our systems and/or users from mass unsolicited mailings (“spam”) and /or other types of electronic communications that we deem inconsistent with our business purposes.
11.4 We will not be responsible for any legitimate communication that is blocked or for any undesired communication that is not blocked.
11.5 By subscribing to the Site you are entitled to 20 megabytes of storage space. If you exceed the maximum permitted storage space we may employ automated devices that delete or block e-mail messages that exceed the limit.
11.6 You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable for the deletion, corruption or failure to store any such blocked or deleted messages data or other information.

12 Viruses 
12.1 Although MC Signs makes every reasonable effort to check and test material at all stages of production, users are advised to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the internet. MC Signs cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or computer system which may occur whilst using material downloaded from our Site.

13 Exclusions and Limitations
13.1 We do not represent or warrant that access to our Site, or any part of it will be uninterrupted, reliable or fault free.
13.2 Although we use all reasonable endeavours to keep our Site accurate and up to date, we do not represent or warrant to you that our Site or any of its contents will be accurate, complete or reliable.
13.3 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept liability for any direct, indirect, consequential, special or other damage (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise and whether or not due to our negligence) which we may otherwise have to you as a result of: –
13.3.1 any technical, factual, textual or typographical inaccuracies, errors or omissions on or relating to our Site or any information on our Site;
13.3.2 the unavailability of our Site (or any part of it);
13.3.3 any misrepresentation on or relating to our Site (other than a fraudulent misrepresentation made by us).
13.4 None of the exclusions or limitations in this condition 13 shall exclude or restrict our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
13.5 None of the above exclusions shall affect any statutory rights which are not capable of being excluded including, where applicable, your statutory rights as a consumer.

14 Indemnity 
14.1 Where you are using our Site on behalf of a business, you agree to indemnify us in respect of any liabilities, losses, expenses or other costs whatsoever incurred as a result of any breach of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions including, but not limited to, any claims made against us by any third party.

15 Variations
15.1 We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our Site and these Terms and Conditions. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions will be posted on our Site and by continuing to use our Site following any such change you will signify that you agree to be bound by the revised Terms and Conditions.

16 Access
16.1 We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny users access to our Site or any part of our Site without notice and to decline to provide our on-line ordering service to any user that is in breach of these Terms and Conditions.

17 Events Beyond our Control 
17.1 We shall not be liable to you for any breach of these Terms and Conditions resulting from any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including without limitation strikes, lock-outs and other industrial disputes, breakdown of systems or network access, fire, explosion or accident.

18 Unenforceability 
18.1 The unenforceability or otherwise of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of these Terms and Conditions.

19 Applicable Law and Jurisdiction 19.1 These Terms and Conditions (and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to them or their formation) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and for these purposes the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Privacy Policy for Buying Signs online at MC Signs

Please be assured that MC Signs uses all reasonable efforts to protect the privacy of its online visitors. As most web sites do, we track the total number of visitors to our site on an anonymous aggregate basis. MC Signs only gathers personally identifiable data when voluntarily submitted by a web site visitor. For example, personally identifiable information may be collected in order to respond to a request for information or to get feedback on the site.
Your information will not be sold or transferred to third parties without your consent. By submitting your information on our Site, you consent to the use of that information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Password protection

The following describes just some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed:

• Our Suppliers
  We engage other businesses to perform functions on our behalf to fulfil orders, deliver goods, send post and email, insert advertisements, analyse data, provide marketing assistance, provide additional product services, process credit card payments and provide customer service. We give these suppliers access to certain personal information needed to enable them to perform their respective functions on our behalf, but we do not allow them to use your information for other purposes.
• Business Transfers
  As we continue to grow our business, we might sell or buy companies or assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that MC Signs, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, or MC Sign ‘s web business is acquired, customer information will be transferred.
• Legal Requirements
  We may release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of MC Signs, our users, or others. This may also include sharing information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Notice

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. The use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. We may, but we shall not be required to, Email you periodic reminders of our notices, unless you have instructed us not to, so you should check our web site frequently to see recent changes.

MC Signs UK Ltd

Tel: 01270 501501

sales@mcsigns.co.uk

Terms and Conditions of supply

1 Definitions 
1.1 In these Terms and Conditions: “the Site” means our web site; “our”, “ourselves”, “we” and “us” means The Printing House Ltd trading as www.mcsigns.co.uk limited registered in England and Wales under Company Number 4976910 and whose Registered Office is at MC Signs, Quakers Coppice, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 6FA; and “you” means the person, firm or company who purchases the products from us.

2 Contract Formation 
2.1 A summary of the steps which you must follow in order to conclude a legally binding contract is set out on our Site.
2.2 By submitting your order on-line using our Site, you confirm your agreement to be bound by these Terms and Conditions and our Terms and Conditions of Use.

3 Description of our products and services 
3.1 We provide the service of printing various products incorporating images of pictures and other data which is made available by us for this purpose on our Site or uploaded by you onto our Site.

4 Delivery 
4.1 The products will be delivered to the address or addresses you give or (where appropriate) which you choose from our mailing list, when you place your order.
4.2 Every effort will be made to deliver the goods as soon as possible after your order has been accepted and in any event, within [30 days] of your order. However, we will not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you through any reasonable or unavoidable delay in delivery.
4.3 Risk in the products passes to you upon despatch, unless you are ordering the goods as a consumer, in which case risk in the products passes to you upon delivery or upon delivery to your carrier.

5 Title 
5.1 Title in the products ordered by you remains with us until such time as payment in cleared funds has been received from you.

6 Charges and payment 
6.1 You agree to pay our charges at the rates applicable from time to time and stipulated on our Site.
6.2 Payment may be made by means of a credit or debit card by completing the payment details page.
6.3 If you fail at any time to pay any charges due in accordance with these Terms and Conditions we may, at our discretion and without prejudice to our other rights, deny you access to those areas of our Site which are exclusively available to subscribers. We need not provide you with advance notice in such circumstances.

7 Warranty 
7.1 We warrant that any services provided by us will be provided with due care and skill and that the products supplied by us will be of satisfactory quality and at the time of delivery will correspond with your specification included in our notification accepting your order. If you are ordering the products as a consumer, this warranty does not affect your statutory rights.
7.2 This warranty does not apply to, and we do not accept any liability for, any defect in the products arising from fair wear and tear, wilful damage, accident, negligence by you or any third party, use otherwise than as recommended by us, failure to follow our instructions (including any instructions on our Site), or any alteration of the products in any way after delivery without our prior written approval.
7.3 We do not give any warranty, express or implied, as to uniformity of shade or exact colour shade of the products, and it is agreed that due to differences between colour proofing and product runs (resulting, for example, from us using 4 colour plates for printing and not spot colours) a reasonable variation in colour between your proof of the products and the product run, and between batches of the same products, will be deemed acceptable.
7.4 If the products fail to comply with this warranty, we shall at our option:
7.4.1 supply, within a reasonable time and free of charge, replacement products for the products or (where applicable) that part of the products which fail to comply; or
7.4.2 refund that part of the price which has already been paid by you and which relates to the products or (as appropriate) that part of the products which fails to comply, or, (where payment has not yet been made) reduce the price accordingly subject to written details of any such claim having been received by us within 7 days from the date of delivery and the defective products having been returned to us at your expense. Unless you are ordering the products as a consumer, we shall have no further liability to you in respect of the products. If you are ordering products as a consumer, this warranty does not affect your statutory rights, and if you have any complaint about the products, you can notify us at the address, email address or telephone number given on our Site.
7.5 The warranties set out in these Terms and Conditions are the only warranties which shall be given by us, and all warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded. This condition does not apply if you are ordering the products as a consumer.

8 Liability 
Conditions 8.1 to 8.5 do not apply if you are ordering the products as a consumer. 8.1 The following provisions set out our entire liability (including any liability for the acts or omissions of our employees, agents and sub-contractors) to you in respect of any breach of these Terms and Conditions and any representation, statement or tortious act or omission including negligence arising under or in connection with the order or supply of products from our Site.
8.2 None of the exclusions or limitations in this Condition 8 shall exclude or restrict our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.
8.3 None of the exclusions in this Condition 8 shall affect any statutory rights which are not capable of being excluded.
8.4 Our total liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation or otherwise, arising in connection with the order or supply of products from our Site shall be limited to the price of all the orders placed by you during the twelve months prior to the date on which the liability arose.
8.5 We shall not be liable for any loss of profit or other economic loss (direct or indirect), indirect or consequential loss or damage, costs, expenses or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) or loss or damage (contractual, tortious, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) which arises out of or in connection with the order or supply of the products, or for any liability incurred by you to any other person for any economic loss, claim for damages or awards howsoever arising from the products or the on-line ordering service or otherwise.
8.6 Where you are ordering the products as a consumer, our liability in respect of our on-line ordering service and the products is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

9 Indemnity 
This Condition 9 does not apply if you are ordering the products as a consumer.
9.1 You irrevocably and unconditionally agree to indemnify us and our employees, sub-contractors and agents (who shall have no duty to mitigate their loss) in full and on demand and keep us and them so indemnified against all claims, demands, actions, proceedings and all damages, losses, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, legal and other professional advisers fees and all consequential and economic loss) made against or suffered by us or any of them directly or indirectly and whether wholly or in part resulting from:
9.1.1 the printing of the products in accordance with your designs, drawings, specifications, or other data or information furnished or instructions given by you;
9.1.2 any claims that any intellectual property or confidential information or other exclusive right of any third party has been infringed through the printing, sale or use of the products (save to the extent that the products have been supplied in accordance with our specifications or designs); or
9.1.3 the cancellation of your order after its acceptance by us.

10 Third Party Rights
No person other than you and us shall have the right (whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise) to enforce any of these Terms and Conditions which expressly or by implication confers a benefit on that person without the express prior agreement in writing between you and us.

11 Variations 
We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our Site (including the services offered by us) and these Terms and Conditions. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions will be posted on our Site and by continuing to use our on-line ordering service following any such change you will signify that you agree to be bound by the revised Terms and Conditions.

12 Events Beyond our Control 
We shall not be liable to you for any breach of these Terms and Conditions or any failure to provide or delay in providing our services or the products resulting from any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including without limitation strikes, lock-outs and other industrial disputes, breakdown of systems or network access, fire, explosion or accident.

13 Applicable Law and Jurisdiction 
These Terms and Conditions (and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to them or their formation) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and for these purposes the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of English Courts.

14 Severability
Notwithstanding that the whole or part of any provision of these Terms and Conditions may prove to be illegal or unenforceable, the other provisions of our agreement and the remainder of the provision in question shall remain in full force and effect.

15 Entire Agreement 
15.1 Unless otherwise specified herein these Conditions contain the entire agreement of the parties relating to the subject matter of these Terms and Conditions.
15.2 Each of the parties agrees that it did not rely on and shall have no remedy in respect of any statement, representation or warranty, whether oral or in writing, of any person other than those expressly set out in these Terms and Conditions (but excluding fraudulent misrepresentation).

16 Waiver 
16.1 A waiver by either party of its rights in connection with any breach or default hereunder shall not be valid unless in writing and shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent breach or default.

17 Our relationship 
17.1 You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between you and us as a result of your order.

18 Right to withdraw 
This condition only applies if you are ordering products as a consumer.
18.1 Subject to condition 18.3 below, you may withdraw from the contract at any time during a period of 7 working days (Monday to Friday inclusive) starting from the day after the date we notify you that we accept your order.
18.2 We agree to reimburse you, free of charge, within 30 days of notification of withdrawal, the purchase price you paid.
18.3 You will lose your right to withdraw if we have commenced printing of your products with your agreement before the end of the 7 working day period.