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Terms & Conditions

Effective date: Jan 26, 2022

1. General These are the main terms of business of the Company (“the terms”). In the terms: “the Company” shall mean Great Circle Limited (Registered in Jersey no: 106878) and any successors or assigns. “Authorised Representatives” means in the case of the Company, any director, and in the case of the Client, any director, partner or sole proprietor. “The Client” shall mean any individual, firm, company or other party with whom the Company contracts or seeks to contract. “The Contract” means any agreement for the provision of Services and/or Materials by the Company to the Client. “Estimate” means any estimate or revised estimate sent to the Client by the Company on the Company’s headed notepaper or by email detailing, inter alia, the description and price of the Materials and/or Services. “The Services” means any contracts for the provision of design consultancy services to the Client of whatsoever nature, including the Materials. “The Sub Contractor” shall mean exhibition display organisers, bureaus, printers and other suppliers engaged by the Company. “Materials” shall mean design visuals, disc located digital reproduction/artwork, films, display material, printed items, digital media and all matter analogous to the above.

 

2. Costs 2.1: The Client has 30 days within which to accept the Estimate of the Company to provide the Services in accordance with these terms. For the avoidance of doubt, the current costs for any Contract shall be the costs indicated on the latest Estimate (by date). 2.2: The Client shall pay the Company for the Services and the Materials such sums at such times as specified in the Estimate, which shall include any revised charges for changes to the Contract. 2.3: Estimates are based on the client’s current costs of production and, unless otherwise agreed, the Company reserves the right to amend on or at any time after acceptance of an Estimate on giving notice to meet any rise or all in such costs which is due to any factor beyond the Company’s control. 2.4: Where a Sub Contractor is employed by the Company, the Company shall get an estimate from the Sub Contractor and seek the client’s approval to the Sub Contractor’s fees. 2.5: The Client may not cancel, rescind or repudiate any Contract which has been accepted by the Company except with the prior written agreement of the Company and on terms that the Client shall indemnify the Company in full against all loss (including loss of profit), costs (including the cost of all labour and materials used), damages, charges and expenses incurred by the Company as a result of cancellation, recission or repudiation for all work up to and including the date of cancellation, recission or repudiation. 2.6: Time for payment for the Services and/or the Materials shall be of the essence. 2.7: The Client shall be deemed to have authorised the Company to purchase all Materials once any Estimate is accepted. 2.8: Except as otherwise agreed between the parties, the Materials and/or Services are accepted by the Client on the basis that the price quoted is ex works and is exclusive of any value added tax, special packing materials, carrier charges, delivery, insurance or customs duties, which costs shall be borne directly by the Client.

 

3. Tax The Company reserves the right to charge the amount of any Value Added Tax or GST payable whether or not included on the estimate or invoice.

 

4. Copyright Where advertising, photography, artwork or design has been commissioned, the parties agree that copyright for all work carried out is retained by the Company. Where any such material has been supplied to the Client for its use the parties agree it shall only be used directly for the purposes authorised by the Company. Once the Company has received payment in cleared funds, the reproduction and publication rights shall transfer to the Client, but until such time shall remain vested in the Company and the Client shall hold such material as bailee until the Company has been paid in full.

 

5. Client’s property 5.1: Except in the case of a client who is not contracting in the course of a business or holding himself out as doing so Client’s property and all property supplied to the Company by or on behalf of the Client shall while it is in the possession of the Company or in transit to or from the Client be deemed to be at the Client’s risk unless otherwise agreed and the Client should insure its property accordingly. 5.2: The Company shall be entitled to make a reasonable charge for the storage of any Client’s property left with the Company before receipt of the order or after notification to the Client of completion of the work.

 

6. Variations Variations to these Terms shall only be permissible if agreed in writing by Authorised Representatives of the parties.

 

7. Illegal matter 7.1: The Company shall be under no obligation to print any matter which in its opinion is or may be of an illegal or libellous nature or an infringement of the proprietary or other rights or any third party. 7.2: The Company shall be indemnified by the Client in respect of any claims, costs and expenses arising out of any libellous matter or any infringement of copyright, patent, design or of any other proprietary or personal rights contained in any material printed for the Client. The indemnity shall extend to any amounts paid in respect of legal costs in settlement of any claim.

 

8. Liability 8.1: Apart from damages claimed from death or personal injury, only direct other losses directly arising from the Company’s work shall be the Company’s responsibility and all other claims are expressly excluded. 8.2: Advice of damage, delay or partial loss of goods in transit or of non-delivery must be given in writing to the Company and the carrier within three clear days of delivery (or, in the case of non-delivery, within 28 days of dispatch of the goods) and any claim in respect thereof must be made in writing to the Company and the carrier within seven clear days so delivery (or, in the case of non-delivery, within 42 days of dispatch). All other claims must be made in writing to the Company within 28 days of delivery. The Company shall not be liable in respect of any claim unless the aforementioned requirements have been complied with except in any particular case where the Client proves that (i) it was not possibly to comply with the requirements and (ii) advice (where required) was given and the claim made as soon as reasonably possible.

 

9. Clients obligations The Client undertakes to do the following: 9.1: Give clear and precise instructions and in respect of matters important to the Client, these must be confirmed in writing. 9.2: To pay in full, within 30 days of invoice date, each and every invoice or as otherwise detailed in any Estimate; in default, the Company reserves the right to charge interest from the invoice date at the rate of four percent over the base rate from time to time of NatWest Bank PLC both before and after judgment. 9.3: Any variation of cancellation of the Agreement by the Client shall give the Company the right to recover losses flowing therefrom on a full indemnity basis. 9.4: The Client is to adhere to any agreed interim or stage payment billing and payment agreement as agreed between the parties from time to time.

 

10. Proofs 10.1: Proofs of all work may be submitted for Client’s approval and the Company shall incur no liability for any errors not corrected by the Client in proofs so submitted. Client’s alterations and additional proofs necessitated thereby shall be charged at an extra cost. 10.2: When style, type or layout is left to the Company’s judgment, any changes made by the Client shall be charged as extra items and shall be invoiced to the Client at the Company’s then current hourly rate. 10.3: If the Client fails to notify the Company of any amendments, the Client shall be deemed to have checked and accepted the proof and the Company shall have no liability in respect of claims, charges or variations subsequently necessitated.

 

11. Standard terms The Company will use reasonable endeavors to comply with the Printing Industry’s Best Practice documents and Codes of Practice provided from time to time and in the event of a conflict between those and these Terms, then these Terms shall prevail.

 

12. Delivery and payment 12.1: Delivery of work shall be accepted when tendered. 12.2: Unless otherwise specified, the price quoted excludes delivery (of physical goods). 12.3: Should expedited delivery be agreed an extra charge may be made to the Client to cover any overtime or any other additional costs involved. 12.4: Should work be suspended at the request of or delayed through any default of the Client for a period of 30 days the Company shall immediately upon the expiry of the 30 day period be entitled to payment for work already carried out, materials specially ordered and other additional costs including storage. 12.5: The Client will either pay each invoice in full in cash or cleared funds within thirty days from the date of such invoice or on terms detailed in any relevant Estimate, failing which the Company shall be entitled to cease all further work on behalf of the Client without liability in respect of any loss or damage sustained by the Client as a result. 12.6: Notwithstanding the Company’s liability to cease any further work in accordance with clause 12.5 of these Terms, the Client shall not in any respect be released from its obligations to the Company under any Contract.

 

13. Estimates All prices quoted are dependant upon sight of relevant instructions, brief, copy, images, artwork and other such materials.

 

14. Timetable If a timetable is agreed between the parties, the Company will only be expected to comply with the deadlines if the Client does likewise and in as much as the Client has not delayed or altered the brief in any way.

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15. Risk Risk in the Materials shall pass to the Client on delivery.

 

16. Property 16.1: Notwithstanding delivery of the Goods (or of any documents representing the Goods) the property in the Goods shall remain with the Company until the Client has paid the Company in full in cash or cleared funds and the Client shall hold such Goods in a fiduciary capacity as the Company’s bailee until such payment has been made in accordance with Clause 12 above. 16.2: Until property in the Goods has passed to the Client in accordance with clause 16.1 above and without prejudice to the Agency’s other rights: 16.2.1: The Client shall (unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing) take all reasonable steps to ensure that all Goods which are in the possession or control of the Client or the Client’s agents or customer are kept fully insured and labelled or otherwise marked and kept apart from all other goods so that they may be readily identified and separated from other goods of the Client and third parties. 16.2.2: The Company shall have the right to require the Client to deliver up the Goods and if the Client fails to do so to re-possess the Goods and for that purpose to go upon any premises of the Client or any third party where the Goods are stored. 16.2.3: The Company may maintain an action for the price of the Goods.

 

17. Variations in quantity Every endeavour will be made to deliver the correct quantity ordered, but estimates are conditional upon margins of five percent for work in one colour only and 10 per cent for other work being allowed for overs or shortage (4 per cent and 8 per cent respectively for quantities over 50,000) the same to be charged or deducted.

 

18. Delay 18.1: The Company will use reasonable endeavours to comply with any date or dates for the supply of the Services and/or the Materials, save that unless the Contract otherwise expressly provides, such date or dates shall constitute only statements of expectation and shall not be binding. Accordingly, the time of the supply of the Services or the Materials shall not be of the essence of the Contract and if the Company fails to supply the Services or the Materials by any specified date, such failure shall not constitute a breach of the Contract and the Client shall not be entitled to treat the Contract as thereby repudiated or to rescind it or any related contract in whole or in part or claim compensation for such failure or for any consequential loss or damage resulting therefrom. 18.2: If the Company shall be prevented or hindered from supplying the Services and/or the Materials or any part thereof by any circumstances beyond its reasonable control (Force Majeure) for any Materials and/or Services deliverable (within the United Kingdom, by close of business on the fiftieth day from the date of acceptance of the Contract and for any Materials and/or Services deliverable outside the United Kingdom, by close of business on the one hundredth day from the date of acceptance of the Contract), performance of the Contract shall be suspended for so long as the Company is so prevented or hindered PROVIDED THAT if the performance of the Contract shall be suspended for more than one hundred and fifty days the Company shall be entitled by notice in writing to the Client forthwith to terminate the Contract or cancel any outstanding part thereof and in such circumstances the Client shall pay at the rates specified above for all the Services and/or the Materials supplied and materials used by the Company to the actual date of such termination and the Company shall not have any liability to the Client for any direct or consequential loss or damage suffered by the Client as a result of the Company’s inability to perform its obligations under the Contract in the circumstances mentioned above. 18.3: For the purposes of clause 18.2, Force Majeure shall mean fires, strikes, insurrection or riots, embargoes, or delays in transportation, inability to obtain supplies and raw materials or any other circumstances of any kind whatsoever beyond the reasonable control of the Company which results in the party being in breach of its obligations under this Agreement. 18.4: The Company shall not be liable for any claim or claims for direct or indirect consequential or incidental injury, loss or damage (other than for death or personal injury as a result of the Company’s negligence) made by the Client against the Company (whether in contract or in tort including negligence on the part of the Company, its servants or agents) arising out of or in connection with the Services or the Materials or any act, omission, neglect or default (whether or not the same constitutes a fundamental breach of the Contract or a breach of a fundamental term thereof) of the Company, its servants or agents in the performance of the Contract. 18.5: Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing nothing herein contained shall operate to exclude or restrict liability for breach of any obligation arising from the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 as against the Client if he is dealing as a consumer as defined by Section 12 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. 18.6: The Company makes no representations as to the benefit of the Customer arising out of the provision of the Services and there is neither expressed nor shall there by implied into the Contract any conditions or warranties as to the same.

 

19. Lien Without prejudice to any other remedies which the Company may have, the Company shall in respect of all debts due and payable by the Client to the Company have a general lien on all goods and property belonging to the Client in its possession and shall be entitled upon the expiration of fourteen days’ notice to the Client to dispose of such goods or property as it thinks fit and to apply any proceeds of sale thereof to the payment of such debts.

 

20. Non-assignment The Client may only assign any claims and obligations under these terms of business to third parties after having obtained the prior written approval of the Company.

 

21. Waiver Any waiver of any breach of these Terms shall not prejudice the Company’s rights in respect of any subsequent breach.

 

22. Dispute resolution All disputes, differences or questions arising out of these terms of business or as to the rights and liabilities of the parties hereto or as to the construction or interpretation hereof shall be referred to the decision of a single arbitrator to be agreed between the parties or in default of agreement to be appointed at the request of either party by the President for the time being of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. The arbitrator shall act as an expert whose decision (including as to costs) shall, expect in the case of manifest error, be final and binding on the parties.

 

23. Notices Any notices required to be given to the Client or to the Company must be given in writing and delivered by hand, by mail, by eMail, by facsimile with mail confirmation, at the addresses set out in the main contract (or such other addresses as shall have been notified to the other party in writing). If hand delivered, notices are deemed served upon the day following delivery. If sent by first class mail, notices are deemed served on the second day following posting. If sent by eMail, notices are deemed served if no failure of delivery notice is received by the sender. If sent by facsimile, notices are deemed served upon receipt of the sender’s confirmation provided that such facsimile notice is followed by confirmation by first class mail.

 

24. Severability If any part of these terms of business shall be found by any court to be invalid, the invalidity should not affect the remaining conditions and the parties shall attempt to substitute therefore invalid condition having as near the same effect as the invalid condition as shall be legally permissible.

 

25. Entire agreement The Client agrees that he will have no remedy in respect of any untrue statement made to him upon which he relied in entering into these terms of business and that his only remedies will be for breach of contract. The Client irrevocably and unconditionally waives any right it may have to claim damages for any misrepresentation, whether or not contained in these terms of business, or breach of any warranty not contained in this agreement (unless such misrepresentational warranty was made fraudulently) and/or to rescind these terms of business.

 

26. Insolvency 26.1: If the Client ceases to pay his debts in the ordinary course of business or cannot pay his debts as they become due or being a company is deemed to be unable to pay its debts or has a winding-up petition issued against it or being a person commits an act of bankruptcy or has a bankruptcy petition issued against him, the Company without prejudice to other remedies shall: 26.1.1: have the right not to proceed further with the contract or any other work for the customer and be entitled to charge for work already carried out (whether completed or not) and materials purchased for the customer, such charge to be an immediate debt due to him, and 26.1.2: in respect of all unpaid debts due from the customer have a general lien on all goods and property in possession (whether worked on or not) and shall be entitled on the expiration of 14 days’ notice to dispose of such goods or property in such manner and at such price as he thinks fit and to apply the proceeds towards such debts.

 

27. Law These conditions and all other express terms of the contract shall be governed and construed in accordance with the Laws of Jersey. These Terms do not affect your statutory rights.

 

28. Third party suppliers The Company shall not be liable in respect of any act or omission of any third party and any agreement made between the Client and any third party shall be a contract between the Client and the third party and the Company shall not be a party to that contract, even if the Company introduced the Client and the Third Party.

 

29. Websites The Company does not and will not host any websites for the Client and responsibility for hosting will remain solely with the Client. The Company does not have control over the content of the Client’s website and shall not be liable in relation to any action made relating to inaccurate or incorrect information and shall not be liable in relation to any other action brought in relation to the content of the website. Any dispute between the Client and the Party hosting the website will be dealt with in accordance with Clause 28 above.