The legal stuff - our terms & conditions

Please note that by purchasing you are agreeing to these terms and conditions. These terms and conditions apply to the use of this site, any social media page and by accessing this page and/or placing an order you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to be bound by these T&C’s you may not use or access this page or any of the other accounts. You may visit and/or use the Services only if you fully agree to this Privacy Policy – and by accessing and/or using any of the Services, you signify and affirm your informed consent to this Privacy Policy, including to the collection and processing of your Personal Information as defined and explained below.

Please note that by purchasing from us and entering into a contract you give your full consent to receiving product and sale marketing communications from us such as emails. You can unsubscribe from these marketing and product emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email from us or contacting us by email to request your removal.

These terms and conditions abide by The consumer contract regulations.

The company is Sweetpea & Treacle. Our registered address is Sempar Accountancy & Tax Limited. Ground Floor, Unit 3. Riverside 2. Campbell Road
Stoke-on-Trent ST4 4RJ. 

Please can we highlight the following:

PRICES
We are not required to honour any glitches, typos or errors. If an error is discovered at any time we will make contact with you and give you the option to amend your order to the correct price, or cancel your order before it has been made or dispatched.

In the instance that a customer wishes to cancle their order for some reason, we will assess whether this is possible on an individual basis. If no item has been made or ordered at the time of contact wishing to cancle, we will provide a refund as long as we are not at a loss. Most payment processors do not refund their charges to us when we refund and therefore we would be at a loss. In this instance depending on the payment method we will refund the amount of the order less 5% to cover our payment processing fees. All customers are required to accept our T&C prior to placing their order so we kindly request customers do read these policies before accepting them.

DELIVERY
Should your order not arrive, please contact us for tracking if available. If there are any problems a refund or replacement will be offered once a complaint/claim has been completed with Royal Mail. Please note this can take a number of weeks.

Our website sends automated emails to advise of order completion, but many can go into spam so if you have any queries please contact us immediately so that we may help in a timely manner. If you are not in for delivery – please ensure you collect your order ASAP otherwise the delivery company (Royal Mail usually) will return the order to sender typically after 3 weeks holding it without collection. They usually leave a card to advise of a missed delivery but on some postal services they also send an email advising of delivery. We are not responsible for this & it is not a guarantee that they will. However they are usually very reliable in leaving missed parcel type cards & sending the automated emails. We try to contact customers if we receive an order back but this is not our responsibility and it is the responsibility of the customer to contact us if a parcel has not arrived. If you require a redelivery there will be another delivery charge as per the original order. This will need to be paid before we resend the package.

Please ensure you check your delivery and billing details at point of order, Ensuring the full correct delivery address is on the order as this is where orders will be sent. We are not responsible for checking and validating these details. If a order is sent and the address is incorrect or not complete, the courier usually returns the package to us. We will try to contact customers to advise, but it is not our responsibility. We will need to charge for repostage of the package before resending it to you. Refunds are not available for personalised, custom, seasonal or sale items. If we do accept a refund on any other type of item, it is at our discretion, and a 15% admin fee will be deducted as well as the P&P charge.

If a product arrives faulty or damaged please contact us with details and photos. We will advise what to do about returning the item. All returns must be returned with sufficient protective packaging to ensure a safe return to us, the senders address, and must be sent via a signed for courtier such as royal mail signed for. Proof of postage must also be obtained. A refund or replacement will only be issued once the item has been received by us in the condition the sender received it. Should a damaged item arrive we will require clear photos of all packaging and issues. You will be required to retain the item and its packaging whilst the complaint process with our courier occurs incase they request the items as proof. Failure to do this may mean we can not issue a replacement or refund, and would be at our discretion.

Any issues with the product needs to be notified to us in writing by email within 7 days of delivery.

Customs – We are not liable for any customs charges that may be applicable for international orders. Customers will be liable for any customs charges required & it is recommended that the buyer is aware of any potential fees before ordering.

RETURN POLICY
Custom Items: Custom made items are exempt from the consumer contract regulations, the only exception being is if they’re faulty.
We do not offer refunds on any handmade, custom or personalised items. Please note we do not accept returns on sale items. We aim for high quality items and trust you never need to return an item.

If you purchase one of the unpersonalised handmade to order items we make then we may accept returns but this would be decided on a case by case basis. If we do accept a return on a non personalised item, the customer would need to cover all return costs associated with getting the item back to us in a perfect condition. The item needs to be sent by tracked delivery to ensure we receive it. The item would be inspected by us and if there is any damage to the item then no refund will be given. We would charge for redelivery back to the customer in this case. If the item is in perfect condition once received by us and we have agreed to accept the return, we will then refund the amount paid for the item less any p&p costs on the original order. We will deduct a 15% admin fee before processing your refund which includes your payment processors fees. Any request to return needs to be made within 7 days of delivery.

Any agreed returns need to be received by us within a reasonable amount of time, we would kindly require that items are returned to us within 7 days from our agreement in order to process any refund.

NATURE OF VARIATIONS
Please note that designs/materials are subject to availability and due to the items being handmade in most cases, variations will occur from the standard photos used online. Please note that colours/designs of items may appear differently from the screen due to editing and lighting. We feel that the handmade nature of our products mean that your item is typically unique and this is a lovely keepsake.

Privacy Policy

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website www.sweetpea-treacle.co.uk and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. Sweetpea & Treacle acts as controller of data through the website database.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information [ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

We also use Facebook pixel data. Please refer to your own privacy settings within facebook.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

By subscribing (including to any of our newsletters, launches, blogs, social media accounts or public events) and providing Sweetpea & Treacle with your e-mail address or any other contact information (such as your phone number or social media handle), you expressly agree to receive promotional content or messages from Sweetpea & Treacle through such means.

Customers entering into a contract with us must express their consent to receive communications such as product news or sales and offers in email format by agreeing to our T&C before entering into the agreement and purchasing.

Accordingly, Sweetpea & Treacle shall be entitled to call you or send you promotional content or messages by e-mail and similar forms of communication. If you wish not to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify Sweetpea & Treacle at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.

Sweetpea & Treacle may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use thereof.

For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain product/service is unavailable or we need to communicate with you regarding an order. You will not be able to opt-out of receiving such Service and Billing Messages.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Depending on whether you have subscribed to hear information from us or are a customer, our lawful basis for processing your data will either be consent (such as completing a subscription form), contract or legitimate interests. Our online website host provides a system that categorises customers and subscribers. Your data shall be saved for a reasonable period of time to comply with our obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and/or protect our legitimate interests. Or until you request its removal. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing us on the corporate email address provided below.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].
This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Terms and Conditions Of Use

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.3 If you [register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services], we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4 You must be at least [18] years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least [18] years of age.

1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our [privacy and cookies policy].

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (http://www.seqlegal.com).

3. Copyright notice

3.1 Copyright (c) 2017 Sweetpea & Treacle

3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

4. Licence to use website

4.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(c) [stream audio and video files from our website]; and

(e) [use [our website services] by means of a web browser],

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3 You may only use our website for [your own personal purposes], and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(c) show any material from our website in public;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute [our newsletter] in [print and electronic form] to [any person].

4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

5. Acceptable use

5.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) [conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent];

(e) [access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means[, except for the purpose of

(f) [violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website]; or

(g) [use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing)].

[additional list items]

5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is [true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading].

6. Registration and accounts

6.1 To be eligible for [an account] on our website under this Section 6, you must [be resident or situated in the United Kingdom].

6.2 You may register for an account with our website by [completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you].

6.3 You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website.

6.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.

6.5 You must not use any other person’s account to access the website[, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so].

7. User login details

7.1 If you register for an account with our website, [we will provide you with] OR [you will be asked to choose] [a user ID and password].

7.2 Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person.

7.3 You must keep your password confidential.

7.4 You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password.

7.5 You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

8. Cancellation and suspension of account

8.1 We may:

(a) [suspend your account];

(b) [cancel your account]; and/or

(c) [edit your account details],

at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

8.2 You may cancel your account on our website [using your account control panel on the website].

9. Your content: licence

9.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means [all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website].

9.2 You grant to us a [worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence] to [use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media] OR [reproduce, store and publish your content on and in relation to this website and any successor website] OR [reproduce, store and, with your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this website].

9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

9.6 You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website.

9.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

10. Your content: rules

10.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

10.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

10.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime[, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity];

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) [depict violence[ in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner]];

(m) [be pornographic[, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit]];

(n) [be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading];

(o) [consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage];

(p) [constitute spam];

(q) [be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory]; or

(r) [cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person].

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11. Limited warranties

11.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or

(c) that the website or any service on the website will remain available.

11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

12. Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

13. Breaches of these terms and conditions

13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our website;

(d)

No block ID is set

;

(e)    [contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website];

(f)    commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g)    [suspend or delete your account on our website].

[additional list items]

13.2  Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking[ (including without limitation [creating and/or using a different account])].

14.    Variation

14.1  We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

14.2  [The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.] OR [We will give you written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date that we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and conditions, you must stop using our website.]

14.3  If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

15.    Assignment

15.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2  You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

16.    Severability

16.1  If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

16.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

17.    Third party rights

17.1  A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

17.2  The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

18.    Entire agreement

18.1  Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions[, together with [our privacy and cookies policy],] shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

19.    Law and jurisdiction

19.1  These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with [English law].

19.2  Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the [exclusive] OR [non-exclusive] jurisdiction of the courts of [England].

20.    Our details

20.1  This website is owned and operated by Pink Rabbit Designs Limited. We are a limited company.

20.4  You can contact us:

(a)    [using our website contact form];

(b)    [by email, using claire@sweetpea-treacle.co.uk