Terms & Conditions

Signs and Plastic Products

These conditions shall be deemed to be incorporated in and shall govern all contracts (whether in writing or otherwise) between Signs and Plastic Products The Pearson Building, Bright Street, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AA, and the Customer in relation to the supply of Goods and/or Services by the Company.

No waiver, alteration, or modification to any of the provisions of these Conditions shall have any effect or be binding upon the Company unless the same be in writing and signed by an authorised representative of the Company.

Definitions

"Company" means Signs and Plastic Products Limited. "Customer" means any person, firm, corporation or other body of persons contracting with the Company for the supply of Goods and/or Services by the Company.

Price

No quotation made by the Company constitutes an offer and any quotation may be withdrawn or revised at any time prior to acceptance by the Company of the Customer's order. Prices quoted by the company are subject to variation. (unless otherwise agreed in writing by an authorised representative of the Company) and may be increased prior to delivery to take account of increases in costs incurred by the Company in the supply of the Services and/or the Goods including the cost of any materials, carriage, labour, overheads, the imposition of any tax, duty or other levy, or as a result of interruption or alteration of works through the Customer's instructions or lack of instructions, all of which shall be treated as an additional part of the price.

Prices unless otherwise expressly stated in writing are exclusive of VAT, other duties and taxes.

Product

Every effort is made to ensure that our signs and other products conform to current legislation or standards. These may change without prior notice. It is the purchaser's responsibility to ensure that these products are used in appropriate situations. Our products are sold with the understanding that the buyer will test that the product in question is suitable for the purpose it has been bought for. We will be happy to advise.

We shall be under no liability in respect of any defects in the goods, which come about due to the acts, omissions, negligence or default of the buyer or its agents.

Preliminary work

All work carried out, whether experimentally or otherwise at the customer's request shall be charged at the company's stated prices.

Copy

A charge may be made to cover any additional work involved where copy supplied is not clear and legible.

Proofs

Proofs of all work may be submitted for the customer's approval and the company shall incur no liability for any errors not corrected by the customer in proofs so submitted. Alterations and additional proofs necessitated thereby shall be charged extra. When style, type or layout is left to the company's judgement, changes therefrom made by the customer shall be charged extra.

Variations in quantity

As regards print work every endeavour will be made to deliver the correct quantity ordered, but estimates are conditional upon an allowance of three per cent for one colour work only and five per cent for other works for overs or unders.

Materials supplied by customer

The company may reject any paper, plates or other materials supplied or specified by the customer which appear to be unsuitable. Additional costs incurred if materials are found to be unsuitable during production may be charged by the company.

Where materials are so supplied or specified, the company will take every care to secure the best results, but responsibility will not be accepted for imperfect work caused by defects in or unsuitability of materials so supplied or specified. Quantities of materials supplied shall be adequate to cover normal spoilage.

Illegal matter

The company shall not be required 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 of any third party. The company shall be indemnified by the customer in respect of any claims, costs and expenses arising out of any libellous matter of any infringement of copyright, patent, design or of any other proprietary or personal rights contained in any material printed for the customer.

The Customer must:-

Notify the Company in writing, within five Days of delivery of any shortage or any damage to the Goods or in the event of non-delivery. Afford the Company or its agents reasonable opportunity to verify any shortage and/or inspect any damaged Goods as delivered. If the Customer fails to comply with all or any of sub-clauses above, the company shall not be liable for any such non-delivery or shortage or for Services which are defective, inadequate or not carried out and, in addition, the Customer may not reject Goods for damaged delivery. The Customer undertakes to provide all necessary loading and unloading facilities for Goods. Nothing shall oblige the company to load or unload Goods at the place of delivery or elsewhere.

Payment

Payment is due to the company and shall be made in Sterling, on or before the last working day of the month following the month during which the invoice was dated. All costs incurred in recovering overdue debts including, without limitation, legal expenses will be payable by the Customer.

Retention

Ownership of the Goods shall not pass to the Customer until the Customer has paid the Company the full purchase price of the Goods. The Customer shall be entitled to sell the Goods in the ordinary course of business on the basis that, to the extent permitted by law, the proceeds of sale shall be the property of the Company.

Copyright

Our products, images and copy text, as found on this website, are protected by the Laws of Copyright. No part may be reproduced, transmitted in any form or stored in a retrieval system without prior written permission from the Company.

Risk

All Goods supplied by the Company are at the Customer's risk from the time they are received at the Customer's delivery address or, if the Customer and the Company have agreed in writing that the Customer is responsible for collecting the Goods, from the time they leave the Company's premises.

Force Majeure

The company shall be under no liability if it is unable to carry out any provision of the contract for any reason beyond its control including (without limit) Act of God, legislation, war, fire, flood, drought, failure, of power supply, lock-out, strike to any other action taken by employees in contemplation or furtherance of a dispute or owing to any inability to procure materials required for the performance of the contract.

During the continuance of such contingency the Customer may, by written notice to the Company, elect to terminate the contract and pay for work done and materials used, but subject thereto shall otherwise accept delivery when available.

Set Off

The Company reserves the right to deduct from monies due or becoming due from the Company to the Customer, monies due from the Customer to the Company.

Notices

Any notice required to be given by either the Company or the Customer to the other shall be deemed validly served if served by:- Pre-paid registered letter paid to the address for the recipient or such other address as may from time to time be notified in writing for this purpose; or Personal delivery by hand.

Law

All relevant contracts shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the Customer hereby prorogates the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.