Terms and Conditions

 

Thompson Media Partners - Terms and Conditions for Use and Sales
Last updated 3rd January 2009.

1. Thompson Media Partners websites

Your use of the Thompson Media Partners websites www.eastmag.com / www.tmediapartners.com & www.tmediasearch.com and any service contained within these sites constitutes acceptance of these Terms & Conditions.

 

2. Customer Information

2.1 You should always check that the contact information you provide is correct before creating a customer account or proceeding to payment.

2.2 You are responsible for maintaining your own username and password, where required to access your customer account. You should ensure that you store your username and password securely and that the details required to access your customer account are not provided to another party.

2.3 As a customer you are responsible for your customer account and actions taken within it. If you are aware or suspect that your customer account username and password or other details have become known to a third party, you should inform Thompson Media Partners immediately.

2.4 The Thompson Media Partners websites are only intended for use by adults.

 

3. Privacy

Thompson Media Partners takes your privacy seriously. We are registered under and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. For further details please see our Privacy Policy.

 

4. Product Pricing and Title

4.1 Thompson Media Partners makes every effort to ensure that the pricing displayed on our websites is correct. However, if an error in the pricing of a product is found we reserve the right to either cancel your order or contact you to arrange payment of any extra sum due or refund any over-payment made by you (as applicable). The processing of an order can be cancelled or corrected by Thompson Media Partners at anytime up to the shipment of that order and any related items.

4.2 Thompson Media Partners reserves the right to alter all products pricing without notice.

4.3 Title in any products ordered from Thompson Media Partners does not pass to the purchaser until Thompson Media Partners has received and processed a valid payment.

4.4 All prices quoted by Thompson Media Partners to the Customer are in pounds sterling and shall be inclusive of Value Added Tax at the applicable rate from time to time, but exclusive of delivery charges, details of which may be obtained by the Customer on the Thompson Media Partners websites.

4.5 Thompson Media Partners accepts, as a method of payment the following:-

Mastercard, Visa, Solo, Switch, Delta, Electron and JCB. Thompson Media Partners also accepts cheques and direct bank transfer.

4.6 Save as agreed between Thompson Media Partners and the Customer, the Customer will pay all sums due under these Terms in full before the Products are delivered to the Customer.

4.7 Prices are subject to change without notice.

4.8 The Customers obligations under the terms of Clause 4 shall not be satisfied until Thompson Media Partners is in the receipt of cleared funds.

4.9 Unless as part of any scheme or arrangement operated by Thompson Media Partners, Thompson Media Partners shall not offer any Customer any discounts.

 

5. Your Order

5.1 When you place an order with us you will automatically receive a confirmation email from us to confirm your order. Your order constitutes an offer made to Thompson Media Partners to purchase the goods specified in the order.

5.2 Your offer is only accepted by us once we have emailed you to confirm the dispatch of your order.

5.3 Product items not included within the dispatch email are not included in the order and contract between you and us.

5.4 Thompson Media Partners reserves the right to delay or refuse orders where a transaction contains incomplete details or details that cannot be verified or where fraud is suspected.

5.5 If Thompson Media Partners is unable to reasonably ascertain these details or resolve these issues a full refund will be made against the card used at the time or purchase. No other form of refund or credit will be offered nor will a refund be made to any third party card or account.

5.6 Any orders received by Thompson Media Partners after 4.00 pm GMT/BST shall be deemed by Thompson Media Partners to be received the following day.

 

6. Shipping

6.1 All orders received by Thompson Media Partners are shipped subject to availability.

6.2 Thompson Media Partners reserves the right to ship products at a later date (up to 28 days after purchase) where the product ordered is not in stock at the time of purchase. In this situation you will be contacted and offered a full refund instead of delivery of the product.

6.3 Thompson Media Partners cannot be held responsible for disruption to shipping caused by industrial disputes or action outside our direct control. If such disruption occurs you will be offered delivery via an alternative delivery or fulfillment company or a full refund.

6.4 Delivery can only be made to mainland UK and Northern Ireland addresses.

 

7. Cancellation Rights, Returns and Refunds

7.1 Under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 you have a right to cancel your purchase. However, to exercise this right you must notify Thompson Media Partners in writing, (email or letter) within seven working days from the day after you receive your goods. Please note the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 only apply to consumers, the regulations do not apply to business purchasers or individuals purchasing on behalf of a business.

7.2 As stated above notification of cancellation must be in writing, a telephone call is not a valid cancellation.

7.3 No right of cancellation, refund or return exists under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 once you have used your product, unless the product is defective and you are returning it for this reason.

7.4 Please observe the following procedure for all returns to us:

7.4.1. On the back of your delivery note or on another piece of paper, (if you no longer have your delivery note), include your order number and the reason for the return.

7.4.2 If you are returning your product because it is defective, please state the defect or defects.

7.4.3 Repackage the product in its original packaging, including any accessories, brochures, manuals, guarantees or warranties that came with the product. Thompson Media Partners will not issue a refund where the product is in an incomplete state.

7.5 If the original packaging surrounding the product has been damaged or destroyed Thompson Media Partners will only issue a refund if the product is being returned due to a defect. If the original packaging of a defective product has been damaged or destroyed you should ensure that the returned product is adequately packed for shipment back to us.

7.6 You are responsible for paying any postage or shipping costs incurred when returning the product.

7.7 We recommend that all returns be sent by registered post, so that a record of the return is available for you.

7.8 Thompson Media Partners will not issue refunds for any items lost or stolen in transit to us.

7.9 Where a return is lost or stolen in transit to us you should claim compensation from the company that shipped the return.

7.10 If you fail to return a product to us we may make arrangements to have the product collected from you. The cost of this will be passed on to you.

7.11 Unused products may be returned promptly by you to the address listed below:

 

Thompson Media Partners Limited Avenue House, 35 Smith Street
Elsworth, Cambridge, CB3 8HY.

 

7.12 Subject to the above, Thompson Media Partners will refund the purchase price of a returned product within thirty days of receiving written notification of your intention to return the product.

7.13 Thompson Media Partners will also refund the cost of standard or recorded postage incurred returning a product incorrectly sent by us, or a defective product. Please note that Thompson Media Partners will not refund any courier, overnight or express element of any delivery or postage charge, including Royal Mail Special Delivery.

7.14 When cancelling a seminar or in-house training day booking, the following conditions apply. If any of the delegates booked on a seminar or in-house-training day cannot make the date booked, you can transfer their booking on to other members of staff or to a future agreeable date. If for whatever reason this is not possible, then following cancellation charges will apply. With 7 + days notice prior to the event a full 100% refund of the booking fee
With less than 7 days notice -  0% refund of the booking fee.

7.15 When cancelling any advertisement space booked into one of Thompson Media Partners publications, the following conditions apply. Thompson Media Partners must receive written confirmation of the cancellation thirty days prior to the print deadline of that magazine.

8. Customer Complaints

Thompson Media Partners endeavors to respond to complaints within five working days.

 

9. Faulty Products
Where a Customer experiences a fault with a product it can be returned to us, subject to our returns policy above.

 

10. Events outside our control

Thompson Media Partners shall not be liable for delay or failure to perform any obligation under these Terms & Conditions if the delay or failure is caused by any circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to acts of god, war, civil disorder or industrial dispute.

 

11. License

11.1 Thompson Media Partners grants you a license to access the content, information and services contained within the Thompson Media Partners websites for personal use only.

11.2 This license allows you to download and cache (using your browser) individual pages from the Thompson Media Partners websites.

11.3 This license does not allow you to download and modify individual pages or substantial parts of the Thompson Media Partners websites nor to make the Thompson Media Partners websites available via an intranet, where the Thompson Media Partners websites or a substantial part of it is hosted locally on the intranet in question.

11.4 The Thompson Media Partners websites design, layout, content or text cannot be copied, edited or otherwise manipulated without the express written permission of Thompson Media Partners

11.5 The Thompson Media Partners websites cannot be placed within the frame-set of another site.

11.6 Third parties are not allowed to link to pages within the Thompson Media Partners websites, without the express written permission of Thompson Media Partners. All links (unless expressly permitted by us) should be to the main index page of the Thompson Media Partners websites. Furthermore, the content of such links, whether graphic or text should not be misleading, false, derogatory or in any other way offensive.

 

12. Copyright

12.1 All content, databases, graphics, buttons, icons, logos, layouts and look & feel are the copyright of Thompson Media Partners, unless expressly acknowledged as otherwise.

12.2 The data mining, extraction or utilization of product information from the

Thompson Media Partners websites is not permitted without the express written permission of Thompson Media Partners.

 

13. Reasonably Foreseeable Losses

13.1 Thompson Media Partners will be liable for any losses incurred by you due to breaches of these Terms & Conditions by us, where losses were reasonably foreseeable at the time the contract between Thompson Media Partners and you was made.

13.2 All business, indirect or consequential losses not reasonably foreseeable at the time of the contract between Thompson Media Partners and you are excluded.

13.3 Thompson Media Partners does not exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury caused by the negligence or breach of duty of Thompson Media Partners Ltd, its employees or officers.

 

14. Severability

The foregoing paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses of these Terms & Conditions shall be read and construed independently of each other. Should any part of this agreement or its paragraphs, sub-paragraphs or clauses be found invalid it shall not affect the remaining paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses.

 

15. Waiver by Thompson Media Partners Ltd

Failure by either Thompson Media Partners to enforce any accrued rights under these Terms & Conditions is not to be taken as or deemed to be a waiver of those rights unless Thompson Media Partners acknowledges the waiver in writing.

 

16. Entire Terms & Conditions

These terms & conditions set out the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Thompson Media Partners reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, without giving notice to you.

 

17. Jurisdiction

These Terms & Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and enforced in accordance with English law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Your statutory rights are unaffected.

Our contact details are as follows:

 

Thompson Media Partners Limited
Avenue House
35 Smith Street
Elsworth
Cambridge
CB3 8HY

Email: enquiries@eastmag.com
Tel: 01954 267 232


Thompson Media Partners Limited is registered in England