Dickimaw Books Store Terms and Conditions of Sale

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This page (together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Website Use) tell you information about us and the legal terms and conditions (Terms) on which we sell any of the products (Products) listed on our website (our site) to you.

These Terms will apply to any contract between us for the sale of Products to you (Contract). Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them, before ordering any Products from our site. Please note that before creating an account you will be asked to agree to these Terms. If you refuse to accept these Terms, you will not be able to create an account or order any Products from our site.

You should print a copy of these Terms or save them to your computer for future reference.

We amend these Terms from time to time as set out in clause 5. Every time you wish to order Products, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms which will apply at that time. These Terms were most recently updated on 12th October 2013.

These Terms, and any Contract between us, are only in the English language.

1. Information about us

1.1: This website is run by Dr Nicola Talbot trading as Dickimaw Books (“We”, “Our”). We operate from 47 The Street, Saxlingham Nethergate, Norwich, NR15 1AJ. To contact us, please see our Contact page .

2. Our Products

2.1: The images of the Products on our site 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 reflect the colour of the Products. Your Products may vary slightly from those images.
2.2: All Products shown on our site are subject to availability. We will inform you by e-mail as soon as possible if the Product you have ordered is not available and we will not process your order if made.

3. General

3.1: If you are a consumer, you may only purchase Products from our site if you are at least 18 years old.
3.2: As a consumer, you have legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described. Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office. Nothing in these Terms will affect these legal rights.

4. How the contract is formed between you and us

4.1: Our order process allows you to check and amend any errors before submitting your order to us. Please take the time to read and check your order at each page of the order process.
4.2: After you place an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order. This does not mean that your order has been accepted.
4.3: We will confirm our acceptance to you by sending you an e-mail that confirms that the Products have been dispatched (Dispatch Confirmation). The Contract between us will only be formed when we send you the Dispatch Confirmation.
4.4: If we are unable to supply you with a Product, we will inform you of this by e-mail and we will not process your order.

5. Our right to vary these terms

5.1: We may revise these Terms from time to time to, among other things, reflect changes in how we accept payment from you and changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements.
5.2: Every time you order Products from us, the Terms in force at that time will apply to the Contract between you and us. We recommend that you revisit this page regularly to check whether any changes have been made by checking the date on which they were most recently updated (see above).

6. Your right of return and refund

6.1: As a consumer, you have a legal right to cancel a Contract (under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000) during the period set out below in clause 6.3. This means that during the relevant period if you change your mind or for any other reason you decide you do not want to keep a Product, you can notify us of your decision to cancel the Contract and receive a refund. Advice about your legal right to cancel the Contract under these regulations is available from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.
6.2: Please note that if you choose to take advantage of our Inscription Service which is offered on the Checkout page the Product containing the inscription will be deemed to be a bespoke product and as such you will not have the right to cancel the Contract in relation to that Product. This is in line with provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
6.3: Your legal right to cancel a Contract starts from the date of the Dispatch Confirmation, which is when the Contract between us is formed. If the Products have already been delivered to you, you have a period of 7 (seven) working days in which you may cancel, starting from the day after the day you receive the Products. Working days means that Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays are not included in this period.
6.4: To cancel a Contract, please contact us via our Contact Page or use the shop's email address (the reply address in order confirmation emails). You may wish to keep a copy of your cancellation notification for your own records. If you send us your cancellation notice by e-mail then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail.
6.5: You will receive a full refund of the price you paid for the Products and any applicable delivery charges you paid for. We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 calendar days of the day on which you gave us notice of cancellation as described in clause 6.4. If you returned the Products to us because they were faulty or mis-described, please see clause 6.6.
6.6: If you have returned the Products to us under this clause 6 because they are faulty or mis-described, we will refund the price of a defective Product in full, any applicable delivery charges, and any reasonable costs you incur in returning the item to us.
6.7: We refund you on the credit card or debit card used by you to pay.
6.8: If the Products were delivered to you:
6.9: Details of your legal right to cancel and an explanation of how to exercise it are provided in the Dispatch Confirmation.

7. Delivery

7.1: Your order will be fulfilled by the estimated delivery date set out in the Dispatch Confirmation, unless there is an Event Outside Our Control (see clause 12 below). If we are unable to meet the estimated delivery date because of an Event Outside Our Control, we will contact you with a revised estimated delivery date.
7.2: Delivery will be completed when our the Products are delivered to the address you gave us.
7.3: We only use Royal Mail Signed For™/International Signed For™ delivery service or the Royal Mail Special Guaranteed Delivery Service™, further information is available on our delivery page. If you are not available to sign for delivery then the Products will be taken to your local sorting office, it is your responsibility to either arrange a different time for delivery or collect the Product from the sorting office.
7.4: If you have not received the Products within 10 days or the date of the Dispatch Confirmation, please contact us either by sending an email to the shop or by using the site's contact form.
7.5: You own the Products once we have received payment in full, including all applicable delivery charges.

8. International delivery

8.1: We only deliver to countries supported by PayPal.
8.2: If you order Products from our site for delivery to one of the International Delivery Destinations, your order may be subject to import duties and taxes which are applied when the delivery reaches that destination. Please note that we have no control over these charges and we cannot predict their amount.
8.3: You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.
8.4: You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the Products are destined. We will not be liable or responsible if you break any such law.

9. Price of products and delivery charges

9.1: The prices of the Products will be as quoted on our site from time to time. We take all reasonable care to ensure that the prices of Products are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the system.
9.2: Prices for our Products may change from time to time, but changes will not affect any order which we have confirmed with a Dispatch Confirmation.
9.3: The price of a Product includes VAT (where applicable) at the applicable current rate chargeable in the UK for the time being. However, if the rate of VAT changes between the date of your order and the date of delivery, we will adjust the VAT you pay, unless you have already paid for the Products in full before the change in VAT takes effect.
9.4: The price of a Product does not include delivery charges. Our delivery charges are as quoted on our site from time to time. To check relevant delivery charges, please refer to our Delivery Charges page or if you require further information please contact us via the shop email address or our Contact page.
9.5: Our site contains a number of Products. It is always possible that, despite our reasonable efforts, some of the Products on our site may be incorrectly priced. If we discover an error in the price of the Products you have ordered we will contact you by email to inform you of this error and we will give you the option of continuing to purchase the Product at the correct price or cancelling your order. We will not process your order until we have your instructions. If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the order process, we will treat the order as cancelled and notify you by email. Please note that if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mispricing, we do not have to provide the Products to you at the incorrect (lower) price.

10. How to pay

10.1: You can only pay for Products using PayPal. When you arrive at the payment screen you will be redirected to PayPal to make the payment. Once the transaction has been completed via PayPal you will be redirected to our website. PayPal’s security details can be found here. Information on how the PayPal works and how to set up an account can be found here. Using PayPal also means you are covered by PayPal’s Buyer Protection.

11. Our liability

11.1: Any Product we supply to you will be of satisfactory quality. If they are not you should contact us for a repair or replacement. If we are unable to repair or replace the Product we will offer you a refund.
11.2: If we fail to comply with these Terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our negligence. Loss or damage is foreseeable if they were an obvious consequence of our breach or if they were contemplated by you and us at the time we entered into the Contract.
11.3: We only supply the Products for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the product for any commercial, business or re-sale purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. Please note that we will look favourably on any requests for permission to use the Products within an academic setting (e.g. as a set course book), please contact us if you require further details.

12. Events outside our control

12.1: We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by an Event Outside Our Control. An Event Outside Our Control is defined below in clause 12.2.
12.2: An Event Outside Our Control means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks or impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.
12.3: If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under a Contract:

13. Communications between us

13.1: When we refer, in these Terms, to "in writing", this will include e-mail.
13.2: If you are a consumer you may cancel a Contract by acting in accordance with clause 6. If you wish to contact us in writing for any other reason, you can email the shop or use our Contact Page or send by pre-paid post to Dr Nicola Talbot at 47 The Street, Saxlingham, Nethergate, Norwich, NR15 1AJ. If we have to contact you or give you notice in writing, we will do so by e-mail or by pre-paid post to the address you provide to us in your order.

14. Other important terms

14.1: We may transfer our rights and obligations under a Contract to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these Terms.
14.2: You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing.
14.3: This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.
14.4: Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
14.5: If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations.
14.6: Please note that these Terms are governed by English law. This means a Contract for the purchase of Products through our site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it will be governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.