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Terms and Conditions

1. Information about us

www.royalcrownderby.co.uk (“website”) is a site operated by The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company Limited (“us/we/our”). We are registered in England with company number 3981291 and with our registered address at 194 Osmaston Road, Derby, DE23 8JZ. Our VAT number is GB 745775883 By placing an order through our website, you warrant that:

1.1 you (being the person using our website to purchase goods) are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and

1.2 you are at least 18 years old; and

1.3 you are not impersonating any person or misrepresenting your identity; and

1.4 you are purchasing the goods as a consumer. If you wish to purchase any goods for business purposes then you should contact us at enquiries@royalcrownderby.co.uk and we will direct you to the terms and conditions which will apply to such purchases.

 

2. Opening hours

2.1 You may place orders online at any time; order processing will take place during week day working hours (08:30-16:30 Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays and company shutdowns).

 

3. The contract between you and us

3.1 The contract for the sale of the goods by us to you (“contract”) will only be formed in accordance with this condition 3.

3.2 You place an order on the website by clicking ‘Confirm card details’ on the ‘Payment Information’ section of the Checkout process. Please ensure that you read and check your order and carefully before submitting it.

3.3 Once your order has been placed, we will acknowledge it by email. This email does not mean that your order has been accepted.

3.4 We will contact you again by email to confirm your order or to give you reasons why it has been rejected (for example: the goods are unavailable; your payment has not been authorised; or there has been a mistake in the pricing or description of the goods on the website).

3.5 Only when we have confirmed your order does the contract between us come into existence and you agree to be legally bound by its terms.

3.6 These conditions apply to the sale by us to you of all and any goods purchased through the website or by telephone and govern each contract to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions introduced or submitted by you.

3.7 This contract is provided, and is only available, in English. No other language will apply to this contract.

3.8 Your attention is drawn specifically to conditions 7, 9, 12, 13 and 14.

 

4. Stock Availability

4.1 Whilst every effort is taken to ensure all items are in supply, occasionally some items may be temporarily out of stock. Orders can only be accepted subject to availability of the goods in question. Items on backorder will be made especially for you. Due to the handcrafted nature of the item(s), this can take up to an estimated 10 weeks. Once all of the items in your order are ready your order will be dispatched. Should you require any further information surrounding the progress of your order, please contact our client care team.

 

5. Description of Products

5.1 The website images of the goods are for illustrative purposes only. Although we have made every effort to display the colours accurately, we cannot guarantee that your computer’s display of the colours accurately reflects the colour of the goods and therefore the goods may vary slightly from those images.

 

6. Price and payment

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CONDITION.

6.1 Payments must be authorised when you place an order. Royal Crown Derby payment pages are processed by Sagepay and PayPal. We do not retain any of your credit card information. For more information about Sagepay, please refer to www.sagepay.com. For more information about PayPal, please refer to www.paypal.com. If we are unable to supply any goods for any reason, we will inform you as soon as possible and we will provide you with a refund for these goods within 14 days.

6.2 The price to be paid by you is the price displayed on the website at the time when your order is received by us except in cases of obvious error.

6.3 If we discover an error in the price of the goods ordered by you, we will notify you as soon as possible providing you with the option of either reconfirming the order at the correct price or cancelling the order. If we are unable to contact you for the purposes of this condition 8.3, the order will be deemed cancelled and where you have already made payment for the goods this will be refunded in full.

6.4 We are under no obligation to provide goods to you at an incorrect (lower) price, even after we have issued a Despatch Confirmation if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mis-pricing.

6.5 We accept payment made by Visa, Mastercard, Delta and Maestro. We do not accept American Express. Only if your credit card has been authorised will your credit card be debited. You will receive confirmation of card payment and your unique order number via email. If your card is not authorised, you may be given the opportunity to try again or use a different card. No payment will be deemed to have been received until we have received cleared funds. Payment may be charged before we despatch your order.

6.6 The prices for the goods are inclusive of any value added tax (“VAT”) but do not include delivery charges unless expressly stated otherwise.

6.7 VAT will be included in all orders shipped within the European Community. You are responsible for all duties, sales taxes and any other local charges which are the responsibility of the recipient of goods.

 

7. Packaging

7.1 We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the goods are appropriately packaged prior to despatch but the packaging of the goods is at our discretion and we have the right to pack all the goods in such manner, and in such quantities, as we think fit and we are not obliged to comply with any packaging requests or instructions from you.

7.2 All best items are supplied boxed in Royal Crown Derby branded gift boxes, excluding tableware. Seconds items do not come in a presentation box.

7.3 Royal Crown Derby have many years’ experience of packaging their items for postal delivery. All items are delivered to you in heavy duty cardboard, branded boxes which have been specifically designed to protect your item. In the event of any damaged items please call Internet Sales on 01332 712800 or enquiries@royalcrownderby.co.uk.

 

8. Delivery

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CONDITION.

8.1 Unless otherwise agreed, we will deliver the goods to the cardholder’s address provided to us by you at the time of order. If it is more convenient for you to have the goods delivered to a workplace or any other suitable location, please give us this information when you complete the order delivery details.

8.2 Delivery is free to UK Mainland addresses via UPS. PLEASE NOTE: items will require a signature.

8.3 Delivery date: Subject to condition 8.4 we will use reasonable endeavours to deliver the goods within 7 working days of your payment. Within the UK, goods are guaranteed for delivery via our chosen courier next working day following despatch. PLEASE NOTE: this is following despatch and not from the time of order placement. In any event, if we cannot fulfil your order within 14 days of your payment we will notify you of this situation and you will be entitled to a refund if you do not wish to wait any longer for the goods. In certain circumstances we ask that you allow up to 28 days for delivery. We will advise you of any issues regarding your delivery as soon as possible.

8.4 Any delivery dates given by us are estimates only. Notwithstanding any other provision of this contract time shall not be of the essence in respect of any orders or delivery dates stated.

8.5 Subject to the other provisions of these conditions, we will not be liable to you for any direct, indirect or consequential loss (all three of which terms include, without limitation, pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and similar loss), costs, damages, charges or expenses caused directly or indirectly by any delay in the delivery of the goods (even if caused by our negligence), nor will any delay entitle you to terminate or rescind the contract unless such delay exceeds 30 days.

8.6 If for any reason you fail to accept delivery of any of the goods when they are ready for delivery, or we are unable to deliver the goods on time because you have not provided appropriate instructions, documents, licences or authorisations:

8.6.1 risk in the goods will pass to you;

8.6.2 the goods will be deemed to have been delivered; and

8.6.3 we may store the goods until delivery, whereupon you shall be liable for all related costs and expenses (including, without limitation, storage and insurance).

8.7 We may deliver certain goods to you by separate instalments and in such circumstances this will be notified to you.

8.8 If you do not receive goods ordered by you within 30 days of the date on which you placed an order, you must notify us in writing at our contact address as soon as possible. Only if we have refused to deliver the goods, or if you needed the goods by a certain date that was made clear to us and we have failed to deliver them by that time, are you entitled to treat the contract as at an end. In all other circumstances, you can contact us to specify a time that you require the goods to be delivered by and then, if we have still failed to deliver them by that time, you may treat the contract as at an end. If you do so treat the contract as at an end, we will refund you the cost of the goods.

8.9 We are unable to ship to PO Box addresses.

 

9. International Delivery

9.1 All orders for international delivery are subject to a delivery charge which is calculated at the time of ordering. Delivery is usually via UPS, although we do reserve the right to use other carriers. PLEASE NOTE: PO box addresses are not accepted because a signature is required on delivery. We are also unable to ship to residential addresses in Russia. At the time of shipment, a tracking number is emailed to the customer, which can then be inputted into the delivery carrier’s tracking website.

9.2 Delivery date: For international orders, transit time will vary accordingly to destination. Generally, delivery should be made within 7 days of despatch, although customers should allow up to 14 working days for goods to arrive after despatch from Royal Crown Derby. Royal Crown Derby ask international customers to note that we cannot be held responsible for delays in transit caused by customs and import procedures.

9.3 If you order goods from our site for delivery outside the UK, they may be subject to import duties and taxes which are levied when the delivery reaches the specified destination. You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. PLEASE NOTE: we do not have control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order. Please also note that you must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the goods are destined. We will not be liable for any breach by you of any such laws.

9.4 Conditions 9.4 to 9.8 above apply equally to deliveries made under this condition 10.

 

10. Risk and Title

10.1 Subject to condition 8.6.1, following delivery to you, you will be responsible for the goods and for any loss or damage to them.

10.2 You will become the owner of the goods once we have delivered them to you.

 

11. Consumer rights

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CONDITION.

11.1 We are under a legal duty to supply goods to you that:

11.1.1 are of satisfactory quality;

11.1.2 are fit for purpose; and

11.1.3 match their description, model or sample (subject to condition 5.1 above).

11.2 You are legally entitled to reject goods that do not comply with the requirements stated in condition 12.1 above. If you notify us of such a rejection within 30 days of delivery of the goods to you, you must make the goods available for collection by us and you are entitled to a full refund of the cost of the goods (subject to condition 14.1 below). At any time, you are entitled to require us to repair or replace goods that do not comply with the requirements set out at condition 12.1. Only if we fail to do this are you entitled to either reject the goods for a full or partial refund or to accept the goods for a reduction in their price.

11.3 Right to cancellation:

11.3.1 You are legally entitled to cancel the contract at any time within 14 days beginning on the day after you receive the goods (the “cooling-off period”). In the event that the contract is cancelled in this way within the cooling-off period, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the goods in accordance with our returns and refund policy set out in condition 13

11.3.2 In order to exercise your right of cancellation you must provide us with a clear written notice by letter sent by post or email of your cancellation within the cooling-off period. The goods must then be returned to us in accordance with condition 14.2. You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the goods while they are in your possession. If you fail to do so, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.

11.3.3 You shall not have any right to cancel a contract for the supply of any goods which are personalised or made to your specification in any way.

 

12. Liability

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CONDITION.

12.1 It is your responsibility to check the goods for any damage and that they are what you ordered upon receipt of them and you must inform us of such damage as soon as it is noticed following delivery.

12.2 If you notify a problem to us under this condition, our only obligation will be, at your option:

12.2.1 to make good any accepted shortage or non-delivery;

12.2.2 to replace or repair any goods that are damaged or defective; or

12.2.3 to refund to you the amount paid by you for the goods in question in whatever way we choose.

12.3 Subject to condition 13.4 below, we are not legally responsible for:

12.3.1 any losses that:

12.3.1.1 were not reasonably foreseeable by you and us when the contract was formed; and/or

12.3.1.2 were not caused by any breach on our part;

12.3.2 any business losses; and/or

12.3.3 any losses to non-consumers.

12.4 Nothing in these conditions is intended to limit any rights you might have as a consumer under applicable local law or other statutory rights that may not be excluded nor in any way to exclude or limit our liability to you for any death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or fraud.

 

13. Returns and refund policy

YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THIS CONDITION.

13.1 In the event that you return goods to us:

13.1.1 because you have cancelled the contract within the cooling-off period (under condition 12.3), following receipt of the goods, we will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 14 days of the day we receive the cancelled goods back from you. In such circumstances we will refund the price of the goods in full, including the cost of sending the goods to you.

13.1.2 because you consider that the goods do not comply with the requirements of condition 12.1, we will examine the returned goods and will notify you of the results of such examination within a reasonable period of time. In the event that the goods are found to have been defective then we will offer to repair or replace the goods, or reduce or refund the price of the goods (at your option). We will usually process any refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the confirmation to you that you are entitled to a refund for the defective goods. Goods returned by you because of a defect will be refunded in full, including a refund of the delivery charges for sending the item to you and the cost incurred by you in returning the item to us.

13.2 You may return items if they are not suitable at any time up to 14 days from receipt of your item for a refund or exchange. You must take reasonable care of the goods while in your possession and they must be returned to us at your cost, unused, in the original packaging and in a re-saleable condition with your original proof of purchase. This policy does not affect your legal rights under the Distance Selling Regulations or other legislation.

13.3 The goods must be returned to us at your own risk, unused, in their original packaging, in the same condition in which you received them. Please contact Perfect Setting Internet Sale Department to obtain instructions on how & where to return your items to. IMPORTANT: please ensure that you obtain a proof of posting certificate from the post office for your returned goods. We regret that we cannot be held responsible for loss of returned goods without proof of posting. Please note that goods returns charges are the responsibility of the sender and we regret that we cannot be held liable for any extra returns delivery charges unless goods are defective.

13.4 We will refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for the goods. Credits for returned goods can only be processed back to the original card used for payment.

 

14. Complaints policy

14.1 We are committed to providing a quality service to you and value your views, opinions and feedback on any goods which have been supplied to you or the service which we have provided to you. If we have not performed any of our duties to a satisfactory standard please contact us and we shall endeavour to put right any problems.

14.2 If the complaint relates to the quality or specification of goods please refer to our refund policy at condition 14. For any other complaints, queries or to provide us with feedback, please contact us at enquiries@royalcrownderby.co.uk . We shall endeavour to contact you within 7 working days of receiving your email and shall work closely with you in trying to resolve any problems fairly and quickly and to ensure that both our goods and the services which we have provided to you are to your satisfaction.

 

15. Written communications

15.1 Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using the website, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that you provide to us electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. The provisions set out in this condition do not affect your statutory rights.

 

16. Notices

16.1 All notices given by you to us must be sent either by e-mail to at enquiries@royalcrownderby.co.uk or by post at the address set out in condition 21. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail address or postal address you provide to us when placing an order, or in any of the ways specified in condition 16 above. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on the website, 24 hours after an email is sent, or three days after that date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

 

17. Our right to vary these terms and conditions

17.1 We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system’s capabilities.

17.2 You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order goods from us, unless any minor change to those polices or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions, before we send you the Despatch Confirmation (in which case, we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the goods).

 

18. Intellectual Property

18.1 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights on our website, the material published on it including, without limitation, product, designs, all images, logos, photographs and written text. All such rights are reserved. Unauthorised use of these intellectual property rights is prohibited.

 

19. General

19.1 We may assign the contract or any part of it to any person, firm or company. You may not be entitled to assign the contract or any part of it without our prior written consent.

19.2 We may defer the date of delivery or cancel the contract or reduce the volume of the goods ordered by you (without liability) if we are prevented from or delayed in the carrying on of our business due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, acts of God, governmental actions, war or national emergency, acts of terrorism, protests, riot, civil commotion, fire, explosion, flood, epidemic, lock-outs, strikes or other labour disputes (whether or not relating to our workforce).

19.3 If any provision of the contract or these terms are found by any court, tribunal or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be wholly or partly illegal, invalid, void, voidable, unenforceable or unreasonable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) it will to that extent be severed and the remaining provisions of the contract or these conditions and the remainder of such provision shall continue in full force and effect.

19.4 Failure or delay by us in enforcing or partially enforcing any provision of the contract shall not be construed as a waiver of any of our rights under the contract.

19.5 Any waiver by us of any breach of, or any default under, any provision of the contract by you shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default and shall in no way affect the other terms of the contract.

19.6 No term of the contract shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person that is not a party to it.

19.7 These conditions, together with our current website prices, delivery details, contract details and privacy policy, set out the whole of our agreement relating to the supply of the goods to you by us.

19.8 The formation, existence, construction, performance, validity and all aspects of the contract shall be governed by English law and any disputes shall be resolved exclusively in the English Courts.

19.9 The goods and promotions which are offered on the website may not be available in-store and vice-versa.

 

20. Contact details

Should you wish to contact us regarding your purchase of goods or these terms and conditions, please contact us at: enquiries@royalcrownderby.co.uk or write to us at: Royal Crown Derby 194 Osmaston Road Derby DE23 8JZ. or call us on: Tel: +44(0)1332 712800.

 

21. Promotions

Applicable for all promotions and promo code usage

All offers and promotions are dependent on stock availability

Valid on selected items only. Valid for a limited time only. Royal Crown Derby reserves the right to withdraw or amend this promotion at any time. Any promotional discount or promotional code is non-transferable and has no cash alternative. Any purchase under this promotion is also governed by our general terms and conditions.

Auto-apply promotions will be automatically applied at checkout. Minimum spend my apply.

Manual-code promotions – manually enter the promotional code at checkout. Minimum spend may apply.

Expired promotional discounts – our Customer Service team are unable to reactivate expired promotional discounts.

Royal Crown Derby reserves the right to suspend, change or cancel any offers included in the promotion at any time, in the event of circumstances arising which in Royal Crown Derby deem it necessary to do so. Royal Crown Derby reserves the right to add additional terms and conditions for certain parts of any offer included in the promotion.

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