1. GENERAL
These terms and conditions apply to all orders. Receipt of order confirmation from you, constitutes your acceptance that our conditions apply to the contract notwithstanding any purported terms put forward by you.

2. PAYMENT TERMS
Payment is required before any order is collected unless credit facilities have been approved with us in advance of the order. Payment on pre-approved credit accounts shall be made in full within 30 days of invoice. These terms apply unless special settlement terms have been agreed by us in writing. Credit facilities may be withdrawn without notice. A deposit may be required on larger orders, even for account customers.

3. DISCOUNT
Any discounts are offered on the strict understanding that accounts are paid by the due date. We reserve the rights to invoice any such discounts to accounts, which become overdue. A 5% early settlement discount is available upon request for account customers that have shown good payment term adherence.

4. PASSING OF TITLE AND RISK
4.1 The risk in the goods shall pass to you on delivery.
4.2 All goods, delivered or not, remain our property until payment is received in full.
4.3 Until such time as payment in full is made you shall retain such goods separately from other goods and clearly mark them in such a way that they can be readily identified as being our property and any payment received by you for any sale of such goods must be held in a separate account in trust for us. In the event of non-payment by you for such goods we will, without loss of any rights or remedy, remove from your possession those goods belonging to us in accordance with these conditions and we shall be entitled to enter upon the property where the goods are stored and repossess and remove the same. You hereby grant us irrevocable licence to enter your premises for the said purposes.

5. PRODUCTS & PRICES
We reserve the right to alter any prices or detail or design of products illustrated without notice and while every effort is made to describe goods accurately in the catalogues & website no warranty is given as to accuracy and no responsibility will be accepted for error or misdescription and any resulting loss. Where applicable all prices quoted are subject to V.A.T at the current rate. Magazines and clothing prices include VAT where applicable.

6. QUOTATIONS & CONTRACTS
Orders are accepted subject to our right to adjust prices quoted to take account of any charges in the law or government regulations requiring us to increase prices by way of direct taxation, import duties, customs and excise duties or otherwise. The prices are based on today’s current costs of production and in the event of any increase in wages or costs of materials to us occurring after the confirmation or accepted contract, we shall be entitled to charge such increases to you. All quoted prices are subject to site of artwork. E & OE.

7. DELIVERY
7.1 Every effort will be made to deliver on time, but any delivery day specified is a best estimate and no liability is accepted for any loss arising from delay or error in the delivery of the goods. Orders over £100 in the Plymouth area are delivered for free. All deliveries either under £100 or outside the Plymouth area will be charged at the prevailing rates applying at the dates of such delivery. Magazines and orders from our website are shipped within 3 working days and carriage is free unless otherwise stated on your order. Most deliveries are sent by Royal Mail or APC Nationwide.
7.2 Special express deliveries can usually be arranged but will usually be subject to additional charges (e.g. Express print charges and Express delivery charges) which will be charged to you at current quoted rates.

8. QUANTITY VARIATION
We shall be deemed to have fulfilled our contract by delivery of a quantity within 5% plus or minus of the quantity of printed goods ordered and you will be charged at the contract rate for the quantity delivered.

9. CLAIMS
9.1 Claims arising from damages or partial loss in transit must be made in writing to us, so as to reach us within 7 days of delivery.
9.2 All claims with regard to the quality or quantity of the goods shall be made in writing to us so as to reach is with 7 days of receipt of goods or such goods shall be deemed to comply as to quality and quantity with the terms of contract.
9.3 You must examine all goods delivered at the time of delivery. We shall not be liable for any loss arising from damage caused to the goods in transit unless loss or damage is noted in the delivery note at the time of delivery.

10. LIABILITY
10.1 Save in so far as defects in the goods cause to death, injury or damage to personal property, our liability for any loss or damage suffered by you in respect of the goods shall be limited to the contract value of the good.
10.2 We can accept no responsibility for loss or damage arising from the supply of goods under this contract unless you have fully complied with the notification of claims procedure set out in clause 10.
10.3 Nothing in these terms and conditions shall affect the statutory rights of the consumer.

11. CANCELLATION CHARGES
A charge will be made on all cancelled orders, together with the charge for all work carried out up to the date of written cancellation. Upon cancellation any proofs or ideas passed to the client shall be returned or destroyed to uphold Shred’s copyright entitlement. If no work is undertaken at time of cancellation then there will be no charge.

12. PROOFS
Proofs will always be supplied for artwork created by Shred. These proofs will need approval prior to print. Upon ‘signing off’ the liability for mistakes, omissions and errors in the artwork will fall on the client. Shred doesn’t supply proofs for artwork supplied by the client and accepts no responsibility for errors occurring in the client’s artwork.

13. OVERDUE ACCOUNTS
13.1 No goods will be delivered on accounts which remain unpaid 30 days after payment is due. Invoices not paid by the due date may be charged interest at 2% per month calculated on a daily basis until payment has received and cleared into our bank account. After 90 days a fixed charge of £40 for accounts under £1000, £70 for accounts over £1000 (but under £10,000) and £100 for accounts over £10,000 will be issued. At 120 days all accounts will forwarded to the county court for collection. This does not prevent us from pursuing payment of overdue accounts at any time after payment becomes due and shall be in addition to and without prejudice to any other rights we may have against you.
13.2 We reserve the right to charge you for any legal collection charges where it is necessary to obtain payment from you of an overdue account through a third party or Court proceedings.

14. QUANTITY CHANGES TO ORDER
Any change in the quantity of an order must be made in writing to us prior to commencement of processing. Any increase in the order must be regarded as a separate contract unless written notification is received before work commences on the original order.

15. ARTWORK AND PRINTING
All artwork and printing charges will be levied where necessary unless previously stipulated by us. These are often on top of our quoted printing prices. All artwork and design work created by Shred will remain under the copyright of Shred unless otherwise advised in writing.

16. FORCE MAJEURE
We will not be held responsible for failure or delay in the carrying out of our obligations under the contract arising or any cause outside our reasonable control or by inability to procure materials or articles except at higher prices due to any such circumstances we shall be entitled by notice to terminate the contract in whole or in part without incurring any liability whatsoever to you.

17. REFUNDS & ORDER CANCELLATION ON WEBSITE ORDERS

For clothing orders from our website we will happily exchange or refund if it is not the correct size or you are unhappy with your purchase. Simply return the item undamaged to Shred. Magazine subscriptions are paid for in advance but we will refund you purchase if any unopened promo item is returned with the unused magazine within 30days of purchase. All refunds will be dealt with within 14days of complaint.

18. PRIVACY

Shred does not store any credit card information, nor do we share any of our mailing list information with third parties. We will retain client contact information for our own marketing and accounting purposes only. We will contact you from time to time with new offers or news, this is never more than once a month and you can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at anytime by using the link provided at the foot of each email.