Terms and Conditions of use of this website, bourneendcommunitycentre.org.uk

I / We are Bourne End (Buckinghamshire) Community Association, a charity registered in England and Wales, number 300236. Our address is Bourne End Community Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne End, Bucks SL8 5SX.

You are: Anyone who uses Our Website.

Please read this agreement carefully and save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave Our Website immediately.

The terms and conditions:

1. Definitions

In this agreement:
“Carrier” means any person or business contracted by us to carry Goods from us to you.
“Consumer” means any individual who, in connection with this agreement, is acting for a purpose which is outside his business.
“Content” means any content in any form published on Our Website by us or any third party with our consent.
“Goods” means any of the goods we offer for sale on Our Website, or, if the context requires, goods we sell to you.
“Our Website” means any website of ours, and includes all web pages controlled by us.
"Post" means display, exhibit, publish, distribute, transmit and/or disclose information, Content and/or other material on to Our Website, and the phrases "Posted" and "Posting" shall be interpreted accordingly.

2. Interpretation

In this agreement unless the context otherwise requires:
2.1. a reference to a person is a reference to one or more individuals, whether or not formally in partnership, or to a corporation, government body, or other association or organisation.
2.2. these terms and conditions apply to all supplies of Goods by us to any customer. They prevail over any terms proposed by you.
2.3. any agreement by any party not to do or omit to do something includes an obligation not to allow some other person to do or omit to do that same thing;
2.4. any obligation of any person arising from this agreement may be performed by any other person;
2.5. in this agreement references to a party include references to a person to whom those rights and obligations are transferred or passed as a result of a merger, division, reconstruction or other re-organisation involving that party.
2.6. the headings to the paragraphs and schedules (if any) to this agreement do not affect the interpretation;
2.7. a reference to an act or regulation includes new law of substantially the same intent as that act or regulation.
2.8. in any indemnity, a reference to costs or expenses shall be construed as including the estimated cost of management time of the indemnified party.
2.9. these terms and conditions apply in any event to you as a buyer or prospective buyer of our Goods and so far as the context allows, to you as a visitor to Our Website.
2.10. this agreement is made only in the English language. If there is any conflict in meaning between the English language version of this agreement and any version or translation of this agreement in any other language, the English language version shall prevail.

3. Our contract with you

3.1. This agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all previous agreements and understandings between the parties.
3.2. Each party acknowledges that, in entering into this agreement, he does not rely on any representation, warranty, information or document or other term not forming part of this agreement.
3.3. If you use Our Website in any way and make an order on behalf of another person you warrant that you have full authority to do so and you accept personal responsibility for every act or omission by you.
3.4. We do not guarantee that Goods advertised on Our Website are available. We may change these terms from time to time. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on Our Website on the day you order Goods.
3.5. The price of Goods may be changed by us at any time. We will never change a price so as to affect the price charged to you at the time when you buy those Goods.
3.6. If in future, you buy Goods from us under any arrangement which does not involve your payment via Our Website; these terms still apply so far as they can be applied.
3.7. We only sell Goods to customers with an address in the United Kingdom.

4. Acceptance of your order

4.1. Your order is an offer to buy from us. Nothing that we do or say will amount to any acceptance of that offer until we actually dispatch the Goods to you. At any point up until then, we may decline to supply the Goods to you without giving any reason.
4.2. If we do not have all of the Goods you order in stock, we will offer you alternatives. If this happens you may:
4.2.1 accept the alternatives we offer;
4.2.2 cancel all or part of your order.

5. Price and payment

5.1. The Price is as set out in the order.
5.2. It is possible that the price may have increased from that posted on Our Website. If that happens, we will not despatch the Goods until you have confirmed that you wish to buy at the new price.
5.3. Where applicable prices include UK value added tax (“VAT”).
5.4. Bank charges by the receiving bank on payments to us will be borne by us.
5.5. If, by mistake, we have under-priced Goods, we will not be liable to supply that those Goods to you at the stated price, provided that we notify you before we dispatch it to you.
5.6. If we owe you money (for this or any other reason), we will credit your credit or debit card as soon as reasonably practicable but in any event no later than 14 days from the date when we accept that repayment is due.

6. Security of your credit card

We take care to make Our Website safe for you to use.
6.1. Card payments are not processed through pages controlled by us. We use one or more online payment service providers who will encrypt your card or bank account details in a secure environment.

7. Cancellation and refunds

This and the following paragraph apply if you buy as a consumer as defined in the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 (the “Regulations”). Provided the Regulations apply to the transaction concerned, then the following terms apply to the contract.
7.1. We now inform you that information relating to all aspects of our Goods is not in this document but in our marketing material, whether that is in the medium of Our Website or in hard copy.
7.2. The option to cancel your order is not available:
7.2.1 If the Goods are tickets for an event or events and the tickets purchased relate to specific date(s).

8. Delivery and pick up

8.1. Tickets are supplied from the website to you as an attachment to an email sent to the email address that you supplied as part of the purchase process.
8.2. If you have not received your tickets within 24 hours of completing the purchase please contact us either via email or telephone and we will resend the email containing the purchased tickets.

9. Disclaimers

9.1. We claim no expert knowledge in any subject. We disclaim any obligation or liability to you arising directly or indirectly from information you take from Our Website.
9.2. You agree that in any circumstances when we may become liable to you, the limit of our liability is the amount you have paid us in the immediately preceding 12 month period for the Goods concerned.
9.3. We shall not be liable to you for any loss or expense which is:
9.3.1 indirect or consequential loss; or
9.3.2 economic loss or other loss of turnover, profits, business or goodwill, even if such loss was reasonably foreseeable or we knew you might incur it.
9.4. This paragraph (and any other paragraph which excludes or restricts our liability) applies to our directors, officers, trustees, employees, subcontractors, agents and affiliated companies (who may enforce this provision under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, as well as to us.
9.5. If you become aware of any breach of any term of this agreement by any person, please tell us by email. We welcome your input but do not guarantee to agree with your judgement.

10. Your account with us

10.1. You agree that you have provided, and will continue to provide accurate, up to date, and complete information about yourself. We need this information to provide you with the Goods.
10.2. If you use Our Website and have created an account, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for preventing any unauthorised person from using your account.
10.3. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should tell us immediately if you believe some person has accessed your account without your authority and also log in to your account and change your password.

11. Restrictions on what you may Post to Our Website

You agree that you will not use or allow anyone else to use Our Website to Post Content which is or may:
11.1. be malicious or defamatory;
11.2. consist in commercial audio, video or music files;
11.3. be illegal, obscene, offensive, threatening or violent;
11.4. be sexually explicit or pornographic;
11.5. be likely to deceive any person or be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity, age or affiliation with any person;
11.6. give the impression that it emanates from us or that you are connected with us or that we have endorsed you or your business;
11.7. solicit passwords or personal information from anyone;
11.8. be used to sell any goods or services or for any other commercial use;
11.9. include anything other than words (i.e. you will not include any symbols or photographs) except for a photograph of yourself in your profile in such place as we designate;
11.10. link to any of the material specified above, in this paragraph.
11.11. send age-inappropriate communications or Content to anyone under the age of 18.

12. Your Posting: restricted content

In connection with the restrictions set out below, we may refuse or edit or remove a Posting which does not comply with these terms.
In addition to the restrictions set out above, a Posting must not contain:
12.1. hyperlinks, other than those specifically authorised by us;
12.2. keywords or words repeated, which are irrelevant to the Content Posted.
12.3. the name, logo or trademark of any organisation other than yours.
12.4. inaccurate, false, or misleading information.

13. How we handle your Content

13.1. Our privacy policy is strong and precise. It complies fully with current UK law.
13.2. If you Post Content to any public area of Our Website it becomes available in the public domain. We have no control who sees it or what anyone does with it.
13.3. Even if access to your text is behind a user registration it remains effectively in the public domain because someone has only to register and log in, to access it. You should therefore avoid Posting unnecessary confidential information.
13.4. We need the freedom to be able to publicise our Goods and your own use of them. You therefore now irrevocably grant us the right and licence to edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use any Content that you place on Our Website, in public domains and in any medium. You represent and warrant that you are authorised to grant all such rights.
13.5. We will use that licence only for purposes of the charity running Our Website and will stop using it after a commercially reasonable period of time.
13.6. You agree to waive of your right to be identified as the author and your right to object to derogatory treatment of your work as provided in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s80.
13.7. You now irrevocably authorise us to publish feedback, comments and ratings about your activity through Our Website, even though it may be defamatory or critical.
13.8. Posting content of any sort does not change your ownership of the copyright in it. We have no claim over it and we will not protect your rights for you.
13.9. You understand that you are personally responsible for your breach of someone else’s intellectual property rights, defamation, or any law, which may occur as a result of any Content having been Posted by you.
13.10. You accept all risk and responsibility for determining whether any Content is in the public domain and not confidential.
13.11. Please notify us of any security breach or unauthorised use of your account.
13.12. We do not solicit ideas or text for improvement of our Service, but if you do send to us material of any sort, you are deemed to have granted us a licence to use it in the terms set out at sub paragraph five above.

14. Removal of offensive Content

14.1. For the avoidance of doubt, this paragraph is addressed to any person who comes on Our Website for any purpose.
14.2. We are under no obligation to monitor or record the activity of any customer for any purpose, nor do we assume any responsibility to monitor or police Internet-related activities. However, we may do so without notice to you and without giving you a reason.
14.3. If you are offended by any Content, the following procedure applies:
14.3.1 Your claim or complaint must be submitted to us in the form available on Our Website, or contain the same information as that requested in our form. It must be sent to us by post or email.
14.3.2 we shall remove the offending Content as soon as we are reasonably able;
14.3.3 after we receive notice of a claim or complaint, we shall investigate so far as we alone decide;
14.4. We may re-instate the Content about which you have complained or not.
14.5. In respect of any complaint made by you or any person on your behalf, whether using our form of complaint or not, you now irrevocably grant to us a licence to publish the complaint and all ensuing correspondence and communication, without limit.
14.6. You now agree that if any complaint is made by you frivolously or vexatiously you will repay us the cost of our investigation including legal fees, if any.

15. Security of Our Website

If you violate Our Website we shall take legal action against you.
You now agree that you will not, and will not allow any other person to:
15.1. modify, copy, or cause damage or unintended effect to any portion of Our Website, or any software used within it.
15.2. link to Our Website in any way that would cause the appearance or presentation of the site to be different from what would be seen by a user who accessed the site by typing the URL into a standard browser;
15.3. download any part of Our Website, without our express written consent;
15.4. collect or use any product listings, descriptions, or prices;
15.5. collect or use any information obtained from or about Our Website or the Content except as intended by this agreement;
15.6. aggregate, copy or duplicate in any manner any of the Content or information available from Our Website, other than as permitted by this agreement or as is reasonably necessary for your use of Our Website;
15.7. share with a third party any login credentials to Our Website.
15.8. Despite the above terms, we now grant a licence to you to:
15.8.1 create a hyperlink to Our Website for the purpose of promoting an interest common to both of us. You can do this without specific permission. This licence is conditional upon your not portraying us or any product or service in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You may not use any logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark of ours as part of the link without our express written consent.
15.8.2 you may copy the text of any page for your personal use in connection with the purpose of Our Website.

16. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against all costs, claims and expense arising directly or indirectly from:
16.2. your failure to comply with the law of any country;
16.3. your breach of this agreement;
16.4. any act, neglect or default by any agent, employee, licensee or customer of yours;
16.5. a contractual claim arising from your use of the Goods;
16.6. a breach of the intellectual property rights of any person.

17. Intellectual Property

17.1. We will defend the intellectual property rights in connection with our Goods and Our Website, including copyright in the Content whether provided by us or by any other content provider (including copyright in: text, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data, and software).
17.2. Except as set out below, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part.
17.3. You may not use our name or logos or trademarks or any other Content on any website of yours or that of any other person.
17.4. Subject to the other terms of this agreement, you may download or copy Content only for your own personal use, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in it. You may not store electronically any significant portion of any Content.

18. Dispute resolution

In this paragraph the term “ADR Provider” means an approved body under the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Dispute Regulations 2015.
The following terms apply in the event of a dispute between the parties:
18.1. If you are not happy with our services or have any complaint then you must tell us by email message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or an updated address which you will find on Our Website.
18.2. If a dispute is not settled as set out above, we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration.
18.3. We can propose an ADR Provider or will listen to your proposal. If you are in any way concerned, you should read the regulations at: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.

19. Miscellaneous matters

19.1. When we communicate with you we do so by email. You agree that email communications are contractually binding in the same way as properly signed and dated paper sent by post.
19.2. Where we provide goods or services without specific charge to you, then it (or they) is deemed to be provided free of charge, and not to be associated with any other Goods for which a charge is made. Accordingly, there is neither contractual nor other obligation upon us in respect of those goods or that service.
19.3. If any term or provision of this agreement is at any time held by any jurisdiction to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then it shall be treated as changed or reduced, only to the extent minimally necessary to bring it within the laws of that jurisdiction and to prevent it from being void and it shall be binding in that changed or reduced form. Subject to that, each provision shall be interpreted as severable and shall not in any way affect any other of these terms.
19.4. The rights and obligations of the parties set out in this agreement shall pass to any permitted successor in title.
19.5. No failure or delay by any party to exercise any right, power or remedy will operate as a waiver of it nor indicate any intention to reduce that or any other right in the future.
19.6. Any communication to be served on either party by the other shall be delivered by hand or sent by first class post or recorded delivery.
It shall be deemed to have been delivered:
if delivered by hand: on the day of delivery;
if sent by post to the correct address: within 72 hours of posting;
19.7. This agreement does not give any right to any third party under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.
19.8. Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance of this agreement which is caused by circumstances beyond his reasonable control.
19.9. In the event of any conflict between any term of this agreement and the provisions of the articles of a limited company or any comparable document intended to regulate any other corporate or collective body, then the terms of this agreement shall prevail.
19.10. The validity, construction and performance of this agreement shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales.

January 2018