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Terms of Service

  1. Introduction
    • This document (together with any documents referred to in it) tells you the terms and conditions (the 'Conditions') upon which we will supply the Services to you. You may print a copy for future reference.
    • 'Business Day' means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday when banks in Edinburgh are open for business.
    • 'Event Outside Our Control' has the meaning given in clause 14.
    • 'Services' means the services listed on the Website which we may supply.
    • Before confirming your order please read through these Conditions and in particular our cancellations and returns policy at clause 10 and limitation of our liability and your indemnity at clause 12.
    • By ordering any of the Services, you agree to be legally bound by these Conditions. You will be unable to proceed with your transaction if you do not accept these terms and conditions.
  2. About us
    • We, Practical Ventures Limited (trading as Practical Media), own and operate this Website. We're a limited company registered in Scotland under company number: SC394547. Our registered office is at 21 Abercorn Court, Paisley Drive, Edinburgh, EH8 7LP. Our VAT Number is 179060591. Our business address is 10 Bainfield Drive, Fountain Park, Edinburgh EH11 1AR.
    • Our telephone number is 07988805579.
    • Our email address is .
  3. Eligibility to purchase from the Website

To be eligible to purchase the Services and lawfully enter into and form a contract with us, you must be 18 years of age or over.

  1. Price
    • The prices of the Services are quoted on the order page.
    • Prices and any other charges quoted on the order page are based on performance of the Services in the United Kingdom unless otherwise specified.
    • Unless otherwise stated, the prices quoted exclude VAT which will be added at the current rate, to the total amount due from you.
  2. Payment
    • We use Stripe to accept payment from any major credit or debit card or by using a PayPal account. Payment can also be accepted by direct bank transfer to the designated company account number supplied through the invoice for the Services.
    • By placing an order, you consent to payment being charged to your debit/credit card account or PayPal account as provided on the order form.
    • You must pay 40 percent of the price of the Services in advance. If you pay us by credit or debit card or by using your PayPal account, we will take payment from your card or PayPal account in advance for the advance payment. We will take payment for the balance when we have sent you an invoice for the Services after we have performed the Services.
    • You must pay the amount of our invoice within 5 days of the date of invoice.
    • We shall contact you should any problems occur with the authorisation of your card or payment through your PayPal account.
  3. Interest
    • Unless clause 2 applies, you must pay us interest on any amounts you owe us and fail to pay us on the due date at the rate of 3% a year above the base lending rate of Bank of England from time to time, accruing daily from the due date until the date of payment, whether before or after judgment.
    • We will not charge you interest
      • for the period of dispute in respect of an invoice that you dispute in good faith, provided you have advised us within a reasonable time of receiving it that you dispute it and your basis for disputing it.
      • until after we have performed the services again if we have a duty to do so.
  1. Order process and formation of a contract
    • All orders are subject to acceptance and availability. If we are unable to supply you with the Services in your order due to matters such as unavailability of stock, materials, key staff or an Event Outside Our Control or because we have identified a mistake in the description of the Services or the price stated by us, we will notify you. We will not proceed with the order and will refund any sums you have paid us.
    • Any order placed by you for the Services constitutes an offer to purchase them from us.
    • You agree that if we contact you to acknowledge receipt of your order such communication shall not amount to our acceptance of your offer to purchase the Services.
    • A 'Confirmation Notice' means an email which we send to you to confirm that we shall be providing the requested Services. A Confirmation Notice will be our acceptance of the offer made in the order to which that Confirmation Notice relates.
    • A contract between you and us for the supply of the Services (the 'Contract') incorporating the version of these Conditions in force at the time of your order will come into existence when we send you the Confirmation Notice relating to your order. You may print and keep a copy of the Confirmation Notice for future reference.
    • If you think that there is a mistake in the Confirmation Notice or if you wish to make any changes, please contact us to discuss this. If you request a change, we will tell you if that is possible and about any changes to the price, delivery or performance dates or any other changes that we need to make as a result of your request. We will ask you if you wish to go ahead with the change.
    • We may make
      • changes to these Conditions as a result of changes in any relevant laws and regulatory requirements,
      • changes to these Conditions as a result of changes in how we accept payment from you,
      • changes in the amount payable by you to the extent of any changes in the VAT included in the price or payable in relation to the price.
    • If we make any changes in accordance with clause 7 we will give you written notice of the changes before we supply the Services. You can choose to cancel the contract if the change would be significantly to your disadvantage.
    • Any variation to these Conditions which have been incorporated into the Contract or to the Contract other than those mentioned in clause 7 shall only be binding when agreed in writing and signed by you and us.
  2. Performance of Services
    • The Services will be performed at the address or by the means specified by us when we accept the order.
    • When we accept the order, we will confirm estimated start and completion dates for the performance of the Services. We will endeavour to perform the Services in accordance with these estimated dates and will perform the Services within a reasonable time from the date we accept the order.
    • In the event that an Event Outside Our Control prevents us from performing the Services within a reasonable time from the date we accept the order, clause 14 will apply.
    • If we need to provide the Services at the premises occupied by you, you will provide access to the premises on the date we have agreed for the Services to be carried out.
    • If you fail to provide access to the premises on the agreed date,
      • you must pay us any additional costs incurred by us in providing the Services to you
      • in the event that despite our reasonable efforts we are unable to obtain access to the premises to provide the Services, we may end the contract with you. We will refund you any money you have paid less our reasonable costs incurred in attempting to perform the Contract.
    • If we ask you to provide us with information in order for us to provide the Services, you must provide us with complete and accurate information by the date we request that you provide it by, otherwise:
      • you must pay us any reasonable sum we charge you to cover any extra work that is necessary as a result of you providing incomplete or inaccurate information.
      • you must pay us any additional costs incurred by us in providing the Services to you resulting from you not providing such information to us by the date we have requested.
      • we may suspend the Services by giving you written notice unless you agree to pay such extra costs.
      • in the event that despite our reasonable efforts we are unable to obtain the requested information from you and are therefore unable to supply the Services, we may end the contract with you. We will refund you any money you have paid less our reasonable costs incurred in attempting to perform the Contract.
    • We will not be liable for any delay or non-performance due to your failure to provide us with complete and accurate information by the time we have requested.
    • If we suspend the Services under this clause, you do not have to pay for the Services while they are suspended, but you will remain liable to pay any invoices we have already sent you for Services we have already performed.
  3. If there is a problem with the Services
    • If the Services provided do not conform to the Contract due to them not being provided with reasonable care and skill:
      • you should provide us with details of the problem as soon as reasonably possible;
      • if we repeat performance of the Services to fix the problem, we will do so at our own cost and as soon as reasonably practicable.
    • As a consumer, you have legal rights in relation to Services not carried out with reasonable skill and care, or if the materials we use are faulty or not as described. Nothing in these Conditions will affect these legal rights.
  4. Cancelling your Contract and returns
    • Cancelling before Confirmation Notice
      • You may cancel your order for the Services by notifying us of your decision to cancel at any time prior to us sending you a Confirmation Notice.
      • You may notify us of your decision to cancel by:
        • completing a cancellation form found on our Website, printing it and emailing or posting it as detailed below, or
        • sending a statement saying that you wish to cancel quoting your name, address, the name or a description of the Services and your order reference number by:
          • Telephone on 01316080668
          • Email at
          • Post at Bright Red Ventures, Room D74, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 10 Colinton Road
        • Cancellation after Confirmation Notice
          • The 'Cancellation Period' means the period of 14 days starting with and including the day after we send you a Confirmation Notice.
          • If you wish us to begin to supply the Services during the Cancellation Period, you must request us to do this and you must acknowledge that you will lose the right to cancel once the Services have been fully performed.
          • Unless the Services have been fully performed under the Contract in accordance with your request and acknowledgement referred to in clause 2.2 and subject to clause 10.4, you may cancel the Contract within the Cancellation Period by notifying us of your decision to cancel.
          • You will lose your right to cancel the Contract once the Services have been fully performed in accordance with your request and acknowledgement.
          • You may notify us of your decision to cancel by:
            • completing a cancellation form found on our Website, printing it and emailing or posting it as detailed below, or
            • sending a statement saying that you wish to cancel quoting your name, address, the name or a description of the Services and your order reference number by:
              • Telephone on 01316080668
              • Email at
              • Post at Bright Red Ventures, Room D74, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 10 Colinton Road
            • If you cancel the Contract after we have begun the supply of the Services in accordance with your request, you must pay us for the Services we supplied to you before we received notice of your cancellation.
          • Refunds on cancellation
            • So long as you are entitled to cancel and have complied with your obligations under clause 2, we will refund you the balance of the price and VAT you paid to us after deducting:
              • the value of the Services we supplied before we received your cancellation notice together with VAT payable in respect of that value.
            • If the Contract is for the supply of services only or for the supply of goods and services with the main purpose being the supply of services, we will refund you the sum in clause 3.1 within 14 days of our receipt of your cancellation notice.
            • We will refund you the sum in clause 3.1 using the same method of payment used by you, unless you agree to a refund by a different method of payment.
          • Exception to the right to cancel

You will not have a right to cancel in the following situations:

  • The Contract is for goods which are bespoke or have been personalised or which may deteriorate (such as food).
  • The Contract is for goods and/or services the price of which is dependent on fluctuations in the financial market which cannot be controlled by us.
  • You have specifically requested a visit from us to carry out urgent repairs or maintenance.
  • The Contract is for the sale of land or financial services.
  • The Contract is for rental of accommodation for residential purposes.
  • The Contract is for construction or conversion of buildings.
  • The Contract is for gaming, betting and lottery services.
  • The Contract is for accommodation, transport of goods, vehicle rental services, catering or services related to leisure activities where there is a specific date or period for performance.
  • The Contract is for the supply of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, except for subscription contracts.
  1. Complaints

If you have a comment, concern or complaint about any Services you have purchased from us, please contact us by telephone on 01316080668, by email at or by post at Bright Red Ventures, Room D74, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 10 Colinton Road.

  1. Liability and indemnity
    • We have a duty to supply Services to you that conform to the Contract including a duty to ensure that
      • the Services are carried out with reasonable care and skill
    • We cannot exclude our liability for a failure to comply with these duties mentioned in this sub-clause. Nothing in these Conditions affects your legal rights if these duties are not complied with. You can obtain advice about your legal rights from Citizens Advice if you need to.
    • We cannot exclude or limit our responsibility to you for:
      • Death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our employees
      • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
      • A claim for a defective product against us if we do not give you the name of the person who supplied the product to us within a reasonable time of your request for us to do so.
    • We are responsible for foreseeable loss or damage which you suffer as a result of a breach by us of the Contract or as a result of our failure to act with reasonable care and skill. Loss or damage is foreseeable if either it is obvious that it will happen or if, at the time the contract was made, both we and you knew it might happen, for example, if you discussed it with us during the sales process. We are not responsible for unforeseeable losses.
    • You are purchasing the Services as a consumer. If you purchase the Services for any business purpose including for re-sale, we will not be liable for any business losses, loss of profits, loss of contracts, loss of business opportunities, loss of management time, loss of business data or losses due to interruption of your business.
    • We will not be responsible for any delay in performing the Services if
      • we have asked you to provide specified information that is necessary for performing the Services and
      • you have failed to provide complete and accurate information or you have provided such information later than the date we have asked you to supply it by.
    • We will not accept liability for any damage caused by pre-existing defects in any fittings, walls, pipes, wiring, gas installations in your premises or to any goods to which we connect or install or attach the Goods unless we have been negligent in not realising that such damage may occur or in the way we did the work.

 

 

  1. Our rights of termination

We reserve the right to terminate the Contract by writing to you if you fail to make any payment to us when due and you still do not make payment within 14 days of us reminding you that payment is due.

  1. Events outside our control
    • Except for our obligations under this clause, we shall not be responsible for delays or failures in delivery or performance of our obligations to you resulting from any act, event, omission, failure or accident outside our reasonable control ('Event Outside Our Control').
    • We will take all reasonable steps to minimise a delay in performing our obligations to you which arises from an Event Outside Our Control.
    • We will promptly notify you of any Event Outside Our Control which prevents us from or delays us in performing our obligations to you, giving details of it and (where possible) the extent and likely duration of any delay.
    • Our performance will be deemed to be suspended for the period that the Event Outside Our Control continues.
    • You may end the Contract after we have notified you of an Event Outside Our Control and we will then refund you any money you have paid to us under the Contract for the Services which we have been unable to deliver to you.
  2. Use of personal data
    • We envisage that we will request personal information from you whilst you use our website. This information will only be requested and processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which can be found at https://www.practicalmedia.co.uk/privacy-policy.
    • In brief, we will act fairly in connection with personal information requested from you, when we request information we will alert you to our Privacy Policy, and unless the information is necessary for a reason specified in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) we will only process it with your consent. Before receiving your information we'll endeavour to provide the information required by the UK GDPR.
  3. Third party rights

Except for our affiliates, directors, employees or representatives, a person who is not a party to the Contract has no right under the Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017 to enforce any term of the Contract but this does not affect any right or remedy of a third party that exists or is available apart from that Act.

  1. Alternative Dispute Resolution

In the event of a dispute concerning these Conditions or the Contract, including their interpretation and their application to the circumstances giving rise to the dispute, you or we may refer the dispute to Alternative Dispute Resolution 'ADR'.

  1. Other important terms
    • We reserve the right to change the domain address of this Website and any services, products, product prices, product specifications and availability at any time.
    • Every effort is made to keep information regarding stock availability on the Website up to date. However, we do not guarantee that this is the case, or that stock will always be available.
    • If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions of the Contract and the remainder of the provision in question will not be affected.
    • All Contracts are concluded in English only.
    • If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under it or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with your obligations.
    • A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.
    • If you need to postpone a project, this will need to be approved by Practical Media management and shall be no longer than 2 weeks. If approved, payments must continue after 2 weeks.
  2. Governing law

These Conditions and the Contract are governed by the laws of Scotland. However, if you live outside Scotland, you are always entitled to any compulsory consumer protections applicable in the country where you live.

  1. Governing jurisdiction

You can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Services in the Scottish courts. If you live in England or Wales you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Services in either the courts of Scotland or England and Wales. If you live in Northern Ireland you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Services in either the courts of Northern Ireland or Scotland. If you live in the EU, you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Services in either the courts of your home country or Scotland.

 

    Subscription Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions apply to the access and use of the subscription plans on our website, under the domain name www.practicalmedia.co.uk. This site is managed and operated by Practical Ventures Limited. By using our website or any of our services, you will be bound to these Terms & Condition’s and we will require an e-signature of them to start work.

We reserve the right to change these Terms & Conditions ‘Contract Agreement’ at any time and will automatically apply after 30 days’ notice.

 

    Definition of the terminology used

The terms “Your” or “You” is the end user accessing the website or using our services. “Us” or “We” or “Our” stands for our business Practical Media.

The term ‘Project’ stands for any work Practical Media undertake or any service provided by us, described on our website based upon the applicable plan.

The term ‘Live Date’ describes the date your website will be published.

The term ‘Hosting’ describes an essential service required for your website to work online.

The term ‘Domain’ describes your websites address, which specifies an available domain name or self-owned domain name, which will be used for the client’s website.

The term ‘Open Source’ is describing the use of software freely available for anyone to use under the GNU General Public License.

The term ‘Content’ describes both the images and text used on a client’s website.

The terms ‘Contract’, ‘Contract Agreement’ and ‘Terms & Conditions’ is all terms used for this Contract Agreement.

The term ‘SEO’ stands for ‘Search Engine Optimisation’ in full.


 

 

Cancellation Form

Date:

 

To: Practical Ventures Limited

10 Bainfield Drive, Fountain Park, Edinburgh EH11 1AR

 

Email address:

 

I/We[*] hereby give you notice that I/We[*] cancel my/our[*] contract for:

 

Order number:

 

Ordered on:

 

Received on:

 

Name(s) of consumer(s):

 

Address(es) of consumer(s):

 

Signature of consumer(s):