Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this site

 

A. WEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPPLY (19.05.2016)

This page (together with the documents expressly referred to on it) tells 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 by ordering any of our Products, you agree to be bound by these Terms and the other documents expressly referred to in it.

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 8. 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 19 May 2016.

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

  1. Information about us

1.1            We operate the website www.croque-maman.com. We are Croque-Maman Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 9580043 and with our registered office and main trading address at 46 Cranmer avenue, London W13 9SH. We are not registered for VAT.

1.2            To contact us, please write to helene@croque-maman.com.

  1. 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            Although we have made every effort to be as accurate as possible, all sizes, weights, capacities, dimensions and measurements indicated on our site have a small tolerance.

2.3            The packaging of the Products may vary from that shown on images on our site.

2.4            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.

  1. Use of our site

Your use of our site is governed by our below Terms of Website Use. Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

  1. How we use your personal information

We only use your personal information in accordance our Privacy & Cookie Policy. For details, please see our Privacy & Cookie Policy. Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

  1. If you are a consumer

This clause 5 only applies if you are a consumer.

5.1            If you are a consumer, you may only purchase Products from our site if you are at least 18 years old.

5.2            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.

  1. If you are a business customer

This clause 6 only applies if you are a business.

6.1            If you are not a consumer, you confirm that you have authority to bind any business on whose behalf you use our site to purchase Products.

6.2            These Terms and any document expressly referred to in them constitutes the entire agreement between you and us. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise or representation made or given by or on behalf of us which is not set out in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in them.

  1. How the contract is formed between you and us

7.1            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.

7.2            After you place an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order and confirming your name, your order number and the total price paid. However, please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Our acceptance of your order will take place as described in clause

7.3            We will confirm our acceptance of your order to you by sending you an e-mail (Order Confirmation). The Contract between us will only be formed when we send you the Order Confirmation.

7.4            If we are unable to supply you with a Product, for example because that Product is not in stock or no longer available or because of an error in the price on our site as referred to in clause 12.5, we will inform you of this by e-mail and we will not process your order. If you have already paid for the Products, we will refund you the full amount as soon as possible.

  1. Our right to vary these terms

8.1            We may revise these Terms from time to time in the following circumstances:  

(a)         changes in how we accept payment from you; and,

(b)         changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements.

8.2            Every time you order Products from us, the Terms in force at that time will apply to the Contract between you and us.

8.3            Whenever we revise these Terms in accordance with this clause 8, we will keep you informed and give you notice of this by stating that these Terms have been amended and the relevant date at the top of this page.

  1. Your consumer right of return and refund

This clause 9 only applies if you are a consumer.

9.1            If you are 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 9.3. 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.

9.2            However, this cancellation right does not apply in the case of any products made to your specification or clearly personalised.

9.3            Your legal right to cancel a Contract starts from the date of the Order Confirmation, which is when the Contract between us is formed. If the Products have already been delivered to you, you have a period of 14 (fourteen) 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.

9.4            To cancel a Contract, please contact us in writing to tell us by sending an e-mail to helene@croque-maman.com or by sending a letter to Croque-Maman Ltd, 46 Cranmer avenue, London W13 9SH. 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 or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us.

9.5            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 9.3. If you returned the Products to us because they were faulty or mis-described, please see clause 9.6.

9.6            If you have returned the Products to us under this clause 9 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.

9.7            We will usually refund you using the same method you used to pay.

9.8            If the Products were delivered to you:

(a)         you must return the Products to us as soon as reasonably practicable;

(b)         unless the Products are faulty or not as described (in this case, see clause 9.6), you will be responsible for the cost of returning the Products to us;

(c)         you have a legal obligation to keep the Products in your possession and to take reasonable care of the Products while they are in your possession.

9.9         As a consumer, you will always have legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described. These legal rights are not affected by the returns policy in this clause 9 or these Terms. Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

  1. Delivery

10.1         Your order will be fulfilled by the estimated delivery date set out in the Delivery webpage, unless there is an Event Outside Our Control. 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.

10.2         Delivery will be completed when we deliver the Products to the address you gave us.

10.3         The Products will be your responsibility from the completion of delivery.

10.4         You own the Products from the time they have been selected from our stock and prepared for delivery to you.

  1. International delivery

11.1         We deliver to the countries listed on the Delivery webpage. However there are restrictions on some Products for certain International Delivery Destinations, so please review the information on that page carefully before ordering Products.

11.2         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.

11.3         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.

11.4         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.

  1. Price of products and delivery charges

12.1         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. However if we discover an error in the price of Product(s) you ordered, please see clause 12.5 for what happens in this event.

12.2         Prices for our Products may change from time to time, but changes will not affect any order which we have confirmed with an Order Confirmation.

12.3         Since we are not registered for VAT, the price of a Product does not include VAT.

12.4         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 webpage.

12.5         Our site contains a large 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 inform you 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 in writing. 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.

12.6         Any coupons or codes which we might issue which reduce the price of a Product or reduce any other cost associated with your order shall have no cash value and will not be included in any refund under clause 9.5.

  1.           How to pay

13.1         You can pay for Products using:

(a)           Paypal; or

(b)           the following credit or debit cards:

(i)            Maestro;

(ii)           Visa debit;

(iii)          Visa credit;

(iv)          Mastercard;

(v)           American Express.

13.2         Payment for the Products and all applicable delivery charges is in advance.

  1. Our liability if you are a business

This clause 14 only applies if you are a business customer.

14.1         We only supply the Products for internal use by your business, and you agree not to use the Product for any re-sale purposes.

14.2         Nothing in these Terms limit or exclude our liability for:

(a)         death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

(b)         fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)         breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (title and quiet possession); or

(d)         defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

14.3         Subject to clause 14.2, we will under no circumstances whatever be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with the Contract for:

(a)         any loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

(b)         loss or corruption of data, information or software;

(c)         loss of business opportunity;

(d)         loss of anticipated savings;

(e)         loss of goodwill; or

(f)          any indirect or consequential loss.

14.4         Subject to clause 14.2 and clause 14.3 , our total liability to you in respect of all other losses arising under or in connection with the Contract, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the price of the Products supplied under the Contract.

14.5         Except as expressly stated in these Terms, we do not give any representation, warranties or undertakings in relation to the Products. Any representation, condition or warranty which might be implied or incorporated into these Terms by statute, common law or otherwise is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. In particular, we will not be responsible for ensuring that the Products are suitable for your purposes.

  1. Our liability if you are a consumer

This clause 15 only applies if you are a consumer.

15.1         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, but we are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. 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.

15.2         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.

15.3         We do not in any way exclude or limit our liability for:

(a)         death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

(b)         fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)         any breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (title and quiet possession);

(d)         any breach of the terms implied by section 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (description, satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and samples); and

(e)         defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

  1. Events outside our control

16.1         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 16.2.

16.2         An Event Outside Our Control means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation strikes (including, without limitation, postal 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.

16.3         If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under a Contract:

(a)         we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you; and

(b)         our obligations under a Contract will be suspended and the time for performance of our obligations will be extended for the duration of the Event Outside Our Control. Where the Event Outside Our Control affects our delivery of Products to you, we will arrange a new delivery date with you after the Event Outside Our Control is over.

  1. Communications between us

17.1         When we refer, in these Terms, to “in writing”, this will include e-mail.

17.2         If you are a consumer:

(a)         To cancel a Contract in accordance with your legal right to do so as set out in clause 9, you must contact us in writing by sending an e-mail to helene@croque-maman.com or by sending a letter to Croque-Maman Ltd, 46 Cranmer avenue, London W13 9SH. 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 or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us.

(b)         If you wish to contact us in writing for any other reason, you can send this to us by e-mail or by pre-paid post to helene@croque-maman.com or by sending a letter to Croque-Maman Ltd, 46 Cranmer avenue, London W13 9SH.

17.3         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.

17.4         If you are a business, please note that any notice given by you to us, or by us to you, will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee. The provisions of this clause shall not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action.

  1. Other important terms

18.1         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.

18.2         You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing.

18.3         This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.

18.4         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.

18.5         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. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.

18.6         If you are a consumer, 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. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

18.7         If you are a business, these Terms are governed by English law. This means that a Contract, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), will be governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

 

B. TERMS OF WEBSITE USE (19.05.2016)

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.croque-maman.com (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.
Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as these will apply to your use of our site.

We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference. 
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. 
If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms
These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Our Privacy & Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site and the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • If you purchase goods from our site, our above Terms and conditions of supply will apply to the sales. 

Information about us
We operate the website www.croque-maman.com. We are Croque-Maman Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 9580043 and with our registered office and main trading address at 46 Cranmer avenue, London W13 9SH. We are not registered for VAT. We are a limited company.

Changes to these terms
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. 
Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. 

Changes to our site
We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it . 
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing our site
Our site is made available free of charge. 
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. 
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. 

Your account and password
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. 
We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at helene@croque-maman.com.

Intellectual property rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. 
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site. 
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. 
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. 
You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

No reliance on information
The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date. 

Limitation of our liability
Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.
To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption;
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.
We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Different limitations and exclusions of liability will apply to liability arising as a result of the supply of any goods by use to you, which will be set out in our above Terms and conditions of supply.

Viruses
We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Linking to our site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you. 
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. 
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact helene@croque-maman.com.

Third party links and resources in our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources. 

Applicable law
If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. 
However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. 

Contact us
To contact us, please email helene@croque-maman.com.

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