Terms and conditions

1. Intellectual Property

The Shoppers Website including all content, software, categories offered by The Shoppers Website are the property of The Shoppers Website. This site is copyright protected and/or other intellectual property laws of the United Kingdom.The Shoppers Website will not tolerate any copyright infringement be it creations of mind, both artistic and commercial and will pursue any infringement to the fullest extent of the law.

2. Use Restriction

  1. You are hereby permitted solely to view and keep a copy of this site for personal use only. You are not authorised to change, duplicate, publish or distribute any material on this site unless authorised specifically in writing by The Shoppers Website.
  2. Nor are you authorised to use the data to compile subsequent databases, directories or lists to contact the individuals or companies/organisations featured on The Shoppers Website.
  3. The Shoppers Website data is prohibited from being used as a target for any telemarketing, direct marketing, electronic or viral or any other marketing activity on someone else's behalf or yours. Our email facility cannot be used for any other individual or company to contact our compiled database.

3. Access and Use

  1. We endeavour to ensure full 24 hour access to our website but will not be liable for any costs, expenses or losses that your company may suffer due to unavailability to this website, or if access is delayed, interrupted or restricted for any reason. Access may temporarily be suspended without notice and without being consulted due to repair for any reason beyond our control to this website.
  2. With authorisation to this website, are in agreeance not to transmit to or inform nor post on any of the following material:
    1. Obscene, offensive, discriminatory, threatening, indecent or criminal in breach of confidence of privacy which may result in inconvenience or annoyance.
    2. Or which is harmful technically to our website which includes viruses, worms, trojan horses, harmful components or other malicious software.
    3. If any breach of these terms and conditions occur your permission to use this website will be automatically terminated and we will co-operate with any law enforcement authorities.

4. Website Links

  1. Once an account has been opened and you have registered with us, we will create a link from our website to your website. You may not replicate the homepage or content of our website nor are you permitted to.
    1. Link from any other website that is not owned by you.
    2. State that we endorse any services or products other than ours.
    3. You may not use our trademarks or content without written permission.
    4. Create any other information on or around this website.
    5. Re-link our site to any other third party site, via logo/banner.
  2. We hereby state that we reserve the right to revoke any permission we grant to you to display your logo or link to our website should you breach any of these terms and conditions. Therefore by linking to and displaying your logo to the website, you indemnify us for any of the following damages, losses, liabilities, expenses or costs that we or any of our group companies may incur or suffer due to your breach of any of the terms laid out in paragraph 4 a above.

5. Acceptance of Advertisement

  1. Advertisements are accepted subject to the following conditions.
    1. the advertiser shall supply the advert in such forms as The Shoppers Website shall specify in the advertisement specifications.
    2. The Shoppers Website has at its absolute discretion the right to omit or suspend any advertisement accepted including but not limited to the following reasons:
    3. In each category you would like your logo/banners to be displayed in, your business must offer those products and or services in order for those logo/banners to be entered in those categories of business, in all cases checked by The Shoppers Website prior to entry.
  2. To comply with legal or moral obligations placed by The Shoppers Website; and
    1. To avoid infringing third party's rights, the British code of advertising practice and all other codes under the general supervision of the Advertising Standards Authority.
  3. If The Shoppers Website decides that the advertisement is unsuitable in accordance with clause 5b, The Shoppers Website will notify the advertiser via email, writing or fax who must supply an alternative within 5 days, meaning each day excluding Saturday and Sundays and English bank and other public holidays of receiving the notification unless otherwise agreed by The Shoppers Website in writing. If the advert is not accepted, The Shoppers Website shall be entitled at its discretion to repeat a previous accepted advertisement or to publish other suitable material and shall be paid by the advertiser in full; and
    1. For only the one category of business/section booked and chosen by the advertiser, not other added costly areas of business/sections.
  4. In the event that the advert does not comply with the advertisement specification The Shoppers Website shall not be permitted to either reject or change the advert to comply with the advertising specification. Such changes may include (But are not limited to ) reformatting, resizing and editing.
  5. In the event that The Shoppers Website fails to publish any advertisement in accordance with clause 5b, 5c and 5d, The Shoppers Website shall not incur any liability to the advertiser for any damage or loss in respect of non-publication.
  6. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to check that the advertisement is correct without prejudice to clause 5b. The Shoppers Website accepts no liability for any error in the advertisement, or in the case of multiple advertisements the repetition of an error unless notified to The Shoppers Website immediately at the point at which the error occurs.

6. Advertisement Content and Advertisement Warranties

  1. The advertiser warrants that:
    1. It has the full power and authority to enter into and perform these terms;
    2. It complies with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and any industry codes or rules ( by which the advertiser or The Shoppers Website may be bound) that are in force at the time the advertisement is to be inserted.
    3. the advertisement does not contain any material that shall breach any contract or infringe or violate and copyright, trademark or any other personal or proprietary right of any person or render The Shoppers Website liable to any claim or proceedings whatsoever.
    4. In respect of any advertisement submitted which contains the name or pictorial representation of any living person and/or any part of any living person and/or copy by which any living person is or can be identified, the advertiser has obtained any authority of such living person to make use of such name, representation and/or copy;
    5. The advertisement submitted is not obscene or libellous
    6. The advertisement and any information submitted must be legal, decent, honest and truthful and comply with the British Code of Advertising Practice and all other relevant codes under the general supervision of the Advertising Standards Authority;
  2. The advertiser agrees to indemnify The Shoppers Website and keep it indemnified against all claims, costs, proceedings, demands, losses, ,damages or expenses whatsoever arising directly or indirectly as a result of any breach or non-performance of any of the representations, warranties or other terms herein contained or implied by law.

7. Payment

  1. The Shoppers Website will invoice the advertiser for the agreed advertising rate. Invoices will be due and payable for the whole amount within 14 days of the date of invoice.
    1. Charges are priced in Pound Sterling (£) exclusive of V.A.T. which, if payable, will be added to your invoice and which you must pay in addition.
  2. Subject to clause 7c below the advertising rate to be paid by the advertiser is the rate displayed within The Shoppers Website pricing plan at the time when the booking is received by The Shoppers Website subject to any discounts agreed in writing by The Shoppers Website. The Shoppers Website reserves the right to change the advertising rate at any time without notice.
    1. Always displayed in our pricing plan.
  3. In the event that The Shoppers Website discovers an error in the price of the advertising rate booked by the advertiser, The Shoppers Website shall notify the advertiser as soon as possible providing the advertiser the option of either reconfirming the booking at the correct price or cancelling the booking. If The Shoppers Website is unable to contact the advertiser for the purposes of this clause 7c, the booking shall be deemed cancelled and where the advertiser has already made a payment for the advert this shall be refunded in full.

8. Contract Cancellation

  1. The advertiser shall have a period of 7 working days from the date of The Shoppers Website sending the advertiser the correct priced invoice in which it may issue a notice of cancellation fee thereafter.
  2. The Shoppers Website have the right to close your account subject to obligations 9 a) and or i) are not conformed with.

9. Obligations

  1. The advertiser must inform The Shoppers Website if their website or business is no longer active or ceases to exist for any reason or is bought or taken over by another entity.
    1. Your website is closed temporarily due to any reason, longer than a 72 hour period.

Disclaimer

  1. The Shoppers Website does not endorse, neither support any claims regarding the reliability, adequacy or accuracy of any information, advertisements or content contained, linked to, distributed through or downloaded from the business products, services, information or business advice featured on this website.
  2. The Shoppers Website is in no way responsible for the legality or decency, copyright compliance or accuracy of material contained in any of the sites listed in this online directory and so use them and rely on them at your own risk.
  3. The Shoppers Website reserve the right to revoke any guarantee of the quality of any of the information or materials displayed or products, services purchased by you as a result of any advert or any other information on The Shoppers Website. The Shoppers Website hereby reserves the right without any obligation to correct errors, omissions, review, or the maintenance to, or remove business listings from any part of the directory.

Governing Law

These terms and conditions and your use of the website will be governed in accordance with English law and if any infringement should occur in accordance with the same it will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.