5. New accounts

A Customer wishing to open a credit account must furnish such information as may be requested by the Company and the Company may make a search with a credit reference agency. The Company reserves the right in its absolute discretion to grant, refuse or discontinue any credit facilities or reduce or suspend any credit limit at any time.

6. Orders

The Company reserves the right to decline to trade with any company or person. To avoid duplication, written confirmation of telephone orders must be clearly marked ‘Confirmation only’. The Company will not accept liability for orders not so marked and duplicate orders will be charged accordingly. Once accepted, no order may be cancelled without the prior written agreement of a director of the Company. Without limiting the generality of this, orders for Goods which are not in catalogue or non stock items may not be cancelled. Orders for Goods are usually accepted by the Company by despatching the Goods provided, however, that despatch will not be acceptance where the price for the Supplies has been incorrectly quoted or referenced by the Customer in its order. The Company reserves the right to charge the following handling charges/restocking charges:
(i) £10.00 on all orders unless a 2 for 1 value of order is placed.
(ii) Cost plus 10% for all non-stock items to be returned to our Supplier.
(iii) Orders for certain Goods, in particular Goods which are not in catalogue or are non-stock items, may be subject to a minimum order quantity or value which the Company will use its reasonable endeavours to notify to the Customer prior to accepting its order.

7. Delivery

Save as set out below, the Company will use all reasonable endeavours to despatch Goods ordered before 3 p.m. Monday to Friday on the same day and all Goods ordered after such times the next working day, provided that those Goods are in stock. Such deliveries are usually offered free of charge but the Company reserves the right to charge for delivery of certain items, including non-stock items, items that are very large, heavy or hazardous, and the Company reserves the right to charge for delivery as standard on certain accounts. Any such charge will be notified to the Customer at the time of establishment of its account or placing of the order to which such charge applies.
Where Goods ordered are not in our catalogue or are non-stock items, it may not be possible for the Company to arrange next day despatch but the Company will make reasonable endeavours to notify the lead times for such Goods, where known.
For more urgent deliveries the Company offers a special next day and same day delivery, the details and cost can be advised by contacting our Telephone Sales Staff.
The Customer may request delivery by instalments or call-off by agreement.
Delivery will be made to the address specified by the Customer. The Company reserves the right to arrange delivery of Goods directly from the manufacturer or supplier of those Goods to the Customer.
The Company may use any method of delivery available to it. The Company will use reasonable endeavours to meet delivery and/or performance estimates but, except as set out in 8 below, in no circumstances shall it be liable to compensate the Customer for non-delivery, non-performance or late delivery or performance. Time for delivery and/or performance will not be of the essence. The Company reserves the right to delay despatch for a number of reasons, including to perform any necessary credit or anti-fraud checks or procedures or to ensure that payment has been received in cleared funds in full. Where despatch is delayed for such reasons, the Company will use reasonable endeavours to inform the Customer.

8. Inspection, defects and non delivery

The Customer must inspect the Supplies as soon as is reasonably practicable after delivery or, in the case of Services, performance and, except as set out in 15 below, the Company shall not be liable for any defect in the Supplies unless written notice is given to the Company within 10 days of the date of inspection. The Company does not write software comprised in the Goods and it is the Customer’s responsibility to check for the presence of computer viruses before the Goods are used.
The quantity of any consignment of Goods, as recorded by the Company upon despatch from the Company’s place of business, shall be conclusive evidence of the quantity received by the Customer on delivery, unless the Customer can provide conclusive evidence to the contrary. The Company will not be liable for any non-delivery of Goods or non-performance of Services unless written notice is given to the Company within 10 days of the date when Goods should have been delivered or the Services performed in the ordinary course of events. Subject to condition 16(i) below, the liability of the Company for non-delivery or non-performance or for Goods notified as defective on delivery or Services notified as defective following performance in accordance with this Condition 8 will be limited to replacing the Goods or re-performing the Services within a reasonable time or to refunding the price then paid in respect of such Supplies.

9. Returns

Prior to returning any Goods to the Company for any reason, the Customer must contact the Company to obtain a returns authorisation number (‘RAN’). All Goods are returned at the Customer’s risk and expense and should be undamaged by the Customer and in their original packaging. The Customer is responsible for returning Goods to the Company and for providing proof of delivery of such return.
The Company operates a 21 day return policy. To be accepted for return on this basis, Goods should be returned for receipt by the Company within 21 days of despatch. The Customer should return the Goods to “The Returns Department, R&M; Distribution Limited, Unit 1 Carwhinny, Mitchelston Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY1 3LS” clearly quoting the Returns Authorisation Number (RAN), Customer’s account number and order number on the outside of the package. Any Goods returned after 21 days as ‘unwanted’ or ‘incorrectly ordered’ may be accepted at the discretion of the Company but will be subject to a minimum restocking fee of 20% of the invoice value of the Goods or £10, whichever is the greater.
Goods that consist of software or are specially constructed or contain any of the hazardous substances referred to in Directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical or Electronic Equipment (‘RoHS’) may not be returned under this Condition 9. Any Goods which are not in catalogue or are non-stock items may not be returned under this Condition 9. Any static-sensitive Goods supplied in sealed packaging may not be returned if the blister or ‘peel’ packs in which they are supplied have been opened, tampered with or damaged.

10. Distance selling regulations

If, notwithstanding the terms of Condition 25, the Customer is buying as a ‘consumer’, as defined in The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000, the Customer may, provided he or she has taken reasonable care of the Goods, return the Goods and be repaid the price paid in respect of them within 7 working days (excluding Saturday and Sunday and any UK Bank Holiday) of their delivery. To return Goods on this basis, the Customer must notify the Company in writing and return the Goods, in their original packaging, within the 7 day period to “The Returns Department, R&M; Distribution Limited, Unit 1 Carwhinny, Mitchelston Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY1 3LS” clearly quoting the Returns Authorisation Number (RAN), Customer’s account number and order number on the outside of the package. Goods should be returned first class with proof of posting and the Customer is responsible for payment of all postage costs. In respect of certain Goods the Company may prefer to arrange collection itself and, if requested, the Customer will allow the Company to collect the Goods and will assist in the arrangements for the Goods’ collection. All reasonable costs of collection will be borne by the Customer. The Customer is responsible for the care and custody of the Goods pending their return or collection. Following receipt of Goods which comply with this Condition 10, the Company will refund to the Customer the price paid in respect of the Goods.
This Condition 10 shall not apply to software that has been unsealed by the Customer.

11. Description

All specifications, drawings, illustrations, descriptions and particulars of weights, dimensions, capacity or other details including, without limitation, any statements regarding compliance with legislation or regulation (together “Descriptions”) wherever they appear (including without limitation in our Catalogue, on data sheets, application notes, despatch notes, invoices or packaging) are intended to give a general idea of the Supplies, but will not form part of the Contract. If the Description of any Goods differs from the manufacturer’s description, the latter shall be deemed to be correct. The Company shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of Descriptions but relies on such information, if any, as may have been provided to it by its suppliers and accepts no liability in contract or tort or under statute or otherwise for any error in or omission from such Descriptions whether caused by the Company’s negligence or otherwise. The Company may make changes to the Supplies as part of a continuous programme of improvement or to comply with legislation. Without prejudice to this Condition 11, Customers are recommended to check the Company’s website for the latest descriptions of the Goods, in particular, but without limitation, with regard to statements regarding RoHS.

12. Risk and ownership

The risk of damage to or loss of Goods will pass to the Customer when the Goods are unloaded from the Company’s vehicles or carriers at the Customer’s premises. Ownership of the Goods shall not pass to the Customer until the Company has received in full (in cash or cleared funds) all sums due from the Customer to the Company on any account whatsoever. Until ownership passes to the Customer, the Customer must hold the Goods on a fiduciary basis as the Company’s bailee. If payment is not received in full by the due date, or the Customer passes a resolution for winding up or a court shall make an order to that effect, or a receiver or administrator is appointed over any assets or the undertaking of the Customer or an execution or distress is levied against the Customer, the Company shall be entitled, without previous notice, to retake possession of the Goods and for that purpose to enter upon any premises occupied or owned by the Customer.

13. Quality Assurance

All Goods detailed in our Catalogue have been processed in strict accordance with our in-house standard quality procedures, unless indicated otherwise on the dispatch documentation. Further details can be obtained from the Company’s telephone sales office at the time of ordering.

14. Performance and fitness for purpose

Unless any performance figures, tolerances or characteristics have been specifically and expressly warranted by a director of the Company in writing, the Company accepts no liability for any failure of the Supplies to comply with such criteria, whether attributable to the Company’s negligence or otherwise. The responsibility for ensuring that Supplies are sufficient and suitable for a particular purpose is the Customer’s, unless specifically stated in writing by a director of the Company. Any advice or recommendation given by an employee of the Company which is not confirmed in writing by a director of the Company is acted on entirely at the Customer’s risk and the Company shall not be liable for any such advice or recommendation which is not so confirmed. Except as set out in Condition 16(i), the liability of the Company to the Customer, should any warranty, statement, advice or recommendation confirmed in accordance with this Condition 14 prove to be incorrect, inaccurate or misleading, will be limited to the refund of the price paid for the Supplies or, at the Company’s option, the supply of replacement Supplies which are sufficient and suitable.

15. Warranty/Guarantee

The Company will endeavour to transfer to the Customer the benefit of any warranty or guarantee given by the manufacturer of Goods.
In addition, the Company will, free of charge, repair or, at the Company’s option, replace Goods or, in the case of Services, re-perform Services which are proved to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company to be damaged or defective due to faulty materials, workmanship or design. Software programs are supplied on the strict understanding that the Company does not warrant their function to be free from defects or error.
This obligation will not apply:

1. if the defect arises because the Customer has altered or repaired such Goods without the written consent of the Company;
2. because the Customer did not follow the manufacturers’ instructions for storage, usage, installation, use or maintenance of the Goods;
3. if the Customer has failed to notify the Company of any defect in accordance with Condition 8 where the defect should have been reasonably apparent on reasonable inspection; or
4. if the Customer fails to notify the Company of the defect within 12 months (or such other period as the Company shall specify at the time of acceptance of the order for the Supplies) of the date of despatch of the Goods or performance of the Services.

 

Any replacement Supplies made or Goods repaired under this Condition 15 will be guaranteed on these terms for any unexpired portion of the period of guarantee given on the original Supplies. Any Goods which have been replaced will belong to the Company.
The Customer grants to the Company and its employees, agents and representatives a right to enter onto its premises to effect any repair or replacement under this Condition 15. The Customer shall ensure that the Company’s employees, agents and representatives are provided with a safe and secure working environment while at its premises.
Except as set out in Condition 16(i), the Company’s sole obligation and liability, should any Supplies prove damaged or defective in accordance with this Condition 15, shall be limited to, at the Company’s option, the repair or replacement of the relevant Goods or the re-performance of the relevant Services or the refund of the price paid for the relevant Supplies.
Except as set out in 16(i) below and 8 above, this Condition is the Company’s sole obligation and the Customer’s sole remedy for defective Supplies and is accepted by the Customer in substitution for all express or implied representations, conditions or warranties, statutory or otherwise, as to the satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or performance of the Goods (or any materials used in connection therewith) or the standard of workmanship of the Services and all such representations, conditions and warranties are excluded.

16. Exclusion of Liability

(i) The Company does not exclude its liability to the Customer:

1. For breach of the Company’s obligations under section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982;
2. For personal injury or death arising as a result of the Company’s negligence;
3. Under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987;
4. For any matter which it would be illegal for the Company to exclude or to attempt to exclude its liability; or
5. For fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

(ii) Except as provided in Conditions 8 (Inspection, defects and non delivery), 14 (Performance and fitness for purpose), and 15 (Warranty/Guarantee) and Condition 16(i), the Company will be under no liability to the Customer whatsoever (whether in contract, tort, (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, restitution or otherwise) for any injury, death, damage or direct loss or pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, loss of use, loss of data, computer downtime, depletion of goodwill, business interruption, increased purchasing or manufacturing costs, loss of opportunity, loss of contracts and like loss and for any loss or damage which is not a reasonably foreseeable result of any breach of the Conditions howsoever caused or arising out of or in connection with:

1. Any of the Supplies, or the manufacture, sale, performance or supply or failure or delay in performance or supply of the Supplies by the Company or on part of the Company’s employees, agents or sub-contractors;
2. Any breach by the Company of any of the express or implied terms of the Contract;
3. Any use made or resale or on-supply of any of the Supplies or any product incorporating any of the Goods or developed using the Supplies;
4. Any acts or omissions of the Company at the Customer’s premises;
5. Any statement made or not made or advice given or not given by or on behalf of the Company, including as to compliance with legislation or regulation; or
6. Otherwise under the Contract.

 

And the Company hereby excludes to the fullest extent permissible at law all conditions, warranties and stipulations, express (other than those set out in these Conditions or given in accordance with Condition 14) or implied, statutory, customary or otherwise which but for such exclusion, would or might subsist in favour of the Customer.
Save as set out in Condition 16(i) the Company’s total liability in contract, tort, (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, misrepresentation or otherwise shall be limited to repairing or replacing Goods or in the case of Services, re-performing the Services or, at the Company’s option, refunding monies already paid in respect of the Supplies.
Each of the Company’s employees, agents and sub-contractors may rely on and enforce the exclusions and restrictions of liability in Conditions 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 in that person’s own name and for that person’s own benefit.

17. Customer Service

The Customer acknowledges that these services are, as at the date of issue of these Conditions, provided free of charge. Without limiting the generality of Condition 16:
The Company will make all reasonable efforts to inform the Customer of the pending obsolescence or replacement of any Goods but accepts no liability for failing to do so in a timely manner or at all, nor for failing to provide details of possible or appropriate substitutes or for failing to provide the service in the manner or at the times anticipated. It is the responsibility of the Customer to determine whether the Goods suggested are suitable for the Customer’s intended use and no representations or warranties are provided in this regard.
The Company will make all reasonable efforts to assist the Customer in identifying and/or procuring suitable Goods but accepts no liability for failing to do so in a timely manner or at all nor for failing to source possible or appropriate Goods or for failing to provide the service in the manner or at the times anticipated. It is the responsibility of the Customer to determine whether the Goods are suitable for the Customer’s intended use and no representations or warranties are provided in this regard.

18. Intellectual property rights

The Supplies in our Catalogue may be subject to the intellectual and industrial property rights including patents, knowhow, trademarks, copyright, design rights utility rights, database rights and or other rights of third parties. No right or licence is granted to the Customer, except the right to use the Supplies or re-sell the Goods in the Customer’s ordinary course of business. The Company shall have no liability whatsoever in the event of any claim of infringement of any such rights howsoever arising. In particular, without limiting the above, title in any software program forming all or any part of the Goods is reserved to the Company and/or its suppliers. The Customer is responsible for informing itself of the terms of its licence or use and paying any royalty payable. The Company owns full copyright in respect of this Catalogue and its reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without the Company’s prior written consent.

19. Use of Personal Data

“Personal Data” means, in relation to any Customer, or any representative of a Customer who is (in either case) a living individual, any data from which (whether alone or in combination with other information held by the Company) the Company can identify that Customer or that representative, regardless of how and when that data is provided. The Company may process Personal Data for all purposes contemplated in these Conditions or arising in the context of the relationship between the Company and the Customer including:
i. Deciding whether to enter into any contract or arrangement with that Customer. This may include conducting credit reference searches against a Customer or its representatives and the disclosure of information to the relevant agency as to how that Customer conducts its account, and other anti-fraud or identity checks;
ii. Order fulfilment, administration, customer services, profiling the Customer’s purchasing preferences and to help to review, develop and improve the company’s business and the goods and services it offers;
iii. Direct marketing of the Company’s products and services and/or of the products and services of suppliers or third parties which the Company believes may be of interest to the Customer or its representatives, whether by post, fax, telephone, email, SMS, MMS or otherwise, to the extent that it is lawfully entitled to do so;
iv. Crime prevention or detection.
The processing of the Personal Data may involve:
i. The disclosure of that Personal Data to the Company’s service providers and agents;
ii. The disclosure of that Personal Data to other companies in the Premier Farnell Group whose products and services the Company believes may be of interest to that Customer or representative;
iii. The disclosure of that Personal Data to third parties whose products and services the Company believes may be of interest to that Customer or representative;
If, at any time, the Customer or its representatives does not wish his or her Personal Data to be used for any or all of the above purposes, he or she should contact the Managing Director, R&M; Distribution Limited, Unit 1 Carwhinny, Mitchelston Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy, Fife KY1 3LS or notify any of our sales representatives when placing an order by phone.
For more information on the Company’s use of personal data please see the Company’s privacy policy on its website.

20. Promotions

In the event that the Company sends promotional material to the Customer in relation to goods or services available from the Company, these Conditions shall apply to all Supplies purchased from such material.

21. Country of origin

Unless otherwise confirmed by the Company in writing, nothing in this Catalogue is to be taken as representation of the source of origin, manufacturer or production of the Goods or any part of them.

22. Trade counter

Goods can only be supplied at the trade counter against official orders for credit, credit card, debit card or cash transactions. A purchase order is required when collecting Goods. Cash transactions will only be accepted at the trade counter.

23. Age requirements for certain Goods

Where the law requires a minimum age for the purchase of certain Goods, the Customer confirms that he or she is over the required age and that delivery of the Goods will be accepted by a person over the relevant age limit.

24. Euro

In the event that the UK changes to a single unified European currency (known as the Euro or otherwise), or agrees to the fixing of conversion rates between European Union member states, it will not have the effect of altering any term, or discharging or excusing performance under a Contract.

25. Force majeure

The Company shall not be liable to the Customer in any manner or be deemed to be in breach of these Conditions because of any delay in performing or any failure to perform any of the Company’s obligations under these Contract if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond the Company’s reasonable control (which shall include, but not be limited to government actions, war, fire, explosion, flood, import or export regulations or embargoes, labour disputes or inability to obtain or a delay in obtaining supplies of Goods or labour). The Company may, at its option, delay the performance of, or cancel the whole or any part of a Contract.

26. Recording of telephone calls

The Company reserves the right to monitor, intercept or record telephone calls and may monitor or intercept all email or other electronic communications made to or from its premises for training, security and quality purposes.

27. Legal construction

All Contracts shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Scottish law and the Customer submits to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Courts, but the Company may enforce such Contract in any court of competent jurisdiction.

28. General

Any provision of these Conditions of Supply which is held by any competent authority to be invalid, void, voidable, unenforceable or unreasonable (in whole or in part) shall to the extent of such invalidity, voidness, voidability, unenforceability or unreasonableness be deemed severable and the other provisions of these Conditions of Supply and the remainder of such provision shall not be affected.
Failure by the Company to enforce or partially enforce any provision of these Conditions of Supply will not be constrained as a waiver of any rights under these Conditions of Supply.
The Company shall be entitled, without the consent of or notice to the Customer, to assign the benefit, subject to the burden, of these Conditions and/or any Contract to any company in its group (as defined in section 53(1) of the Companies Act 1989) at any time.
Except as set out in Condition 16, the parties to the Contract do not intend that any of its terms will be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person not a party to it.

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