Terms & Conditions of Sale
KOMCEPT SOLUTIONS LTD, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. INTERPRETATION
1.1 In these Conditions, unless the context requires otherwise:
1.1.1 the following words and expressions have the following meanings:
“Business Day” means 9 am to 5 pm on any day (not being a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday) when clearing banks in the
City of London are open for the transaction of general sterling banking business;
“Buyer” means the person, firm or company who purchases Goods from the Company;
“Company” means KOMCEPT SOLUTIONS LIMITED, a company registered in England and Wales with company number
4291645 and whose registered office is at Ridgeway Farm, Hartwell Road, Ashton, Northampton. NN7 2JR.
“Contract” means any contract between the Company and the Buyer for the sale and purchase of Goods which incorporates
these Conditions;
“Delivery Point” means as agreed between the Company and the Buyer from time to time;
“Goods” means any goods agreed in the Contract to be supplied to the Buyer by the Company (including any part or parts of
them);
“Loss” means any direct, indirect or consequential loss (all three of which terms include, without limitation, pure economic loss,
loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and any similar loss), costs, damages, charges or expenses howsoever
caused or arising, including as a result of breach of contract, tort and/or negligence; and
1.1.2 words denoting the singular shall include the plural number and vice versa;
1.1.3 unless otherwise stated, a reference to a “condition” is to a condition of these Conditions;
1.1.4 headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these terms and conditions.
2. APPLICATION OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
2.1 Subject to any variation under condition 2.5, the Contract shall be made on the terms and conditions contained in these Conditions
to the exclusion (other than of any set out in the Contract) of all other terms and conditions (including any terms or conditions which
the Buyer purports to apply under any purchase order, confirmation of order, specification or other document). Subject to any
variation under condition 2.5, these Conditions (together with the Contract) are the only terms and conditions on which the
Company is prepared to deal with the Buyer in respect of the Goods.
2.2 Together with the Contract, these Conditions constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the Company and the Buyer in
respect of their subject matter and supersede and extinguish any previous agreement, understanding, undertaking, representation,
warranty and arrangement relating to their subject matter. The Buyer acknowledges that it has not relied on any statement, promise
or representation made or given by or on behalf of the Company which is not set out in the Contract or these Conditions.
2.3 In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of the Contract and these Conditions, the terms and conditions
of these Conditions shall prevail.
2.4 No terms or conditions endorsed on, delivered with or contained in the Buyer’s purchase order, confirmation of order, specification
or other document shall form part of the Contract simply as a result of such document being referred to in the Contract.
2.5 These Conditions apply to all the Company’s sales of Goods to the Buyer and any variation to these Conditions and any
representations about the Goods shall have no effect unless expressly agreed in writing and signed by a director of the Company.
2.6 Each order for Goods or acceptance of a quotation for Goods by the Buyer from the Company shall be deemed to be an offer by
the Buyer to buy Goods subject to these Conditions.
2.7 No order for Goods placed by the Buyer shall be deemed or taken to be accepted by the Company until a written acknowledgement
of order is issued by the Company or (if earlier) the Company delivers the Goods to the Buyer.
2.8 The Buyer shall ensure that the terms of its order and any applicable specification are complete and accurate.
2.9 Any quotation given by the Company in respect of Goods is given on the basis that no contract for the sale and purchase of Goods
shall come into existence until the Company has despatched a written acknowledgement of order to the Buyer or (if earlier) the
Company delivers the Goods. Any such quotation is valid for a period of 30 days from its date, provided that the Company has
not previously withdrawn it.
3. DESCRIPTION OF GOODS
3.1 The quality, quantity and description of the Goods shall be as set out in the Company’s quotation or acknowledgement of order.
3.2 The Company reserves the right at its sole discretion to make minor alterations to the design, specification or construction of Goods
without prior notification to the Buyer.
4. DELIVERY
4.1 Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Company, delivery of the Goods shall take place at the Delivery Point.
4.2 Upon delivery the Buyer shall be required to sign such document to confirm delivery, as the Company may provide, from time to
time.
4.3 Any dates specified by the Company for delivery of the Goods are intended to be an estimate and time for delivery shall not be
made of the essence by notice. If no dates are so specified, delivery shall be within a reasonable time or as may be agreed between
the Company and the Buyer from time to time.
4.4 Save as is provided in condition 5, the Company shall not be liable for any Loss caused by or resulting from any delay in the
delivery of the Goods, nor shall any delay entitle the Buyer to terminate or rescind the Contract.
4.5 If for any reason the Buyer fails to accept delivery of any of the Goods when they are ready for delivery, or if the Company is
unable to deliver the Goods on time because the Buyer has not provided appropriate instructions, documents, licences or
authorisations, then:
4.5.1 risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer (including for loss or damage caused by the Company’s negligence);
4.5.2 the Goods shall be deemed to have been delivered; and
4.5.3 the Company may store the Goods until delivery, whereupon the Buyer shall be liable for all related costs and expenses (including,
without limitation, storage and insurance).
4.6 The Buyer shall provide at the Delivery Point and at its own expense adequate and appropriate equipment and manual labour for
loading the Goods.
4.7 If the Buyer decides that following delivery of, and payment for, the Goods the Buyer wishes to return such Goods to the Company
then the Buyer shall offer to sell such Goods to the Company upon such terms as may be agreed between the Company and the
Buyer at the time. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall be under no obligation to buy the unwanted Goods from the
Buyer and shall do so at the Company’s sole discretion.
5. NON-DELIVERY
5.1 The quantity of any consignment of Goods as recorded by the Company upon despatch from the Company’s place of business
shall be conclusive evidence of the quantity received by the Buyer on delivery unless the Buyer can provide conclusive evidence
proving the contrary.
5.2 The Company shall not be liable for any Loss caused by or resulting from any non-delivery of Goods unless the Buyer gives written
notice to the Company of the non-delivery within seven (7) days of the date when the Goods would in the ordinary course of events
have been received.
5.3 Any liability of the Company for any Loss resulting (whether directly or indirectly) from any non-delivery of Goods shall be limited
to replacing the Goods within a reasonable time or issuing a credit note at a pro rata rate against any invoice raised for such
Goods.
6. RISK AND TITLE
6.1 The Goods are at the risk of the Buyer from the time of delivery.
6.2 Ownership of the Goods shall not pass to the Buyer until the Company has received in full (in cash or cleared funds) all sums due
to it in respect of:
6.2.1 the Goods; and
6.2.2 all other sums which are or which become due to the Company from the Buyer on any account.
6.3 Until ownership of the Goods has passed to the Buyer, the Buyer shall:
6.3.1 hold the Goods on a fiduciary basis as the Company’s bailee;
6.3.2 store the Goods (at no cost to the Company) separately from all other goods of the Buyer or any third party in such a way that they
remain readily identifiable as the Company’s property;
6.3.3 not destroy, deface or obscure any identifying mark or packaging on or relating to the Goods; and
6.3.4 (at its own expense) maintain the Goods in satisfactory condition and keep them insured on the Company’s behalf for their full
price against all risks to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company. On request the Buyer shall produce the policy of insurance
to the Company.
6.4 The Buyer may resell the Goods before ownership has passed to it solely on the following conditions:
6.4.1 any sale shall be effected in the ordinary course of the Buyer’s business at full market value; and
6.4.2 any such sale shall be a sale of the Company’s property on the Buyer’s own behalf and the Buyer shall deal as principal when
making such a sale.
6.5 The Buyer shall inform the Company immediacy if it is declared insolvent or unable to pay its debts as and when they fall due to
any third party.
6.6 The Buyer’s right to possession of the Goods shall terminate immediately if:
6.6.1 the Buyer has a bankruptcy order made against him or makes an arrangement or composition with his or its creditors, or otherwise
takes the benefit of any statutory provision for the time being in force for the relief of insolvent debtors, or (being a body corporate)
convenes a meeting of creditors (whether formal or informal), or enters into liquidation (whether voluntary or compulsory) except
a solvent voluntary liquidation for the purpose only of reconstruction or amalgamation, or has a receiver and/or manager,
administrator or administrative receiver appointed of its undertaking or any part thereof, or documents are filed with the court for
the appointment of an administrator of the Buyer or notice of intention to appoint an administrator is given by the Buyer or its
directors or by a qualifying floating charge holder (as defined in paragraph 14 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986), or a
resolution is passed or a petition presented to any court for the winding-up of the Buyer or for the grant of an administration order
in respect of the Buyer, or any proceedings are commenced relating to the insolvency or possible insolvency of the Buyer;
6.6.2 the Buyer suffers or allows any execution, whether legal or equitable, to be levied on his/its property or obtained against him/it, or
fails to observe or perform any of his/its obligations under the Contract or these Conditions or any other contract between the
Company and the Buyer, or is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or the Buyer
ceases to trade; or
6.6.3 the Buyer encumbers or in any way charges any of the Goods.
6.7 In the event of the Buyer’s right to possession of the goods terminating, the Company shall be entitled to recover payment for the
Goods notwithstanding that ownership of any of the Goods has not passed from the Company.
6.8 The Buyer grants the Company, its agents and employees an irrevocable licence, at any time, to enter any premises where the
Goods are or may be stored in order to inspect them, or, where the Buyer’s right to possession has terminated, to recover them.
6.9 Where the Company is unable to determine whether any Goods are the goods in respect of which the Buyer’s right to possession
has terminated, the Buyer shall be deemed to have sold all goods of the kind sold by the Company to the Buyer in the order in
which they were invoiced to the Buyer.
6.10 If any of the events set out in conditions 6.6.1, 6.6.2 or 6.6.3 occur or if the Buyer shall fail to make payment of any sum in full
when such payment is due to made to the Company, then without prejudice to any other right or remedy to which the Company
may be entitled, the Company may at its absolute discretion suspend all future deliveries of Goods to the Buyer and/or terminate
the Contract (including these Conditions).
6.11 On termination of the Contract, howsoever caused, the Company’s (but not the Buyer’s) rights contained in this condition 6 shall
remain in effect.
7. TERMINATION
7.1 The Company may at any time prior to any Goods being terminate the order for those Goods without any liability for any Loss
caused by or resulting from such cancellation.
8. PRICE
8.1 Unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing in the Contract, the price for the Goods shall be the price set out in the
Company’s price list on the date of delivery or deemed delivery.
8.2 The price for the Goods shall be exclusive of any value added tax and/or sales taxes, but inclusive of all costs or charges in relation
to packaging, loading, unloading and insurance, all of which amounts the Buyer shall pay in addition when it is due to pay for the
Goods, unless otherwise determined by the Company in writing (either in the quotation or order acknowledgement issued by the
Company).
9. PAYMENT
9.1 Payment for the Goods shall be made by the Buyer to the Company in cash or cleared funds prior to delivery of the Goods pursuant
to condition 5, unless the Buyer has an approved credit account with the Company, as set out in condition 9.3.
9.2 At all times payment of the price for the Goods is due in pounds sterling.
9.3 Subject to condition 9.6, if the Buyer is granted a credit account by the Company, then payment of the price for the Goods shall
be made by the Buyer within 30 days from the date of the Company’s invoice, unless otherwise determined in writing by the
Company. For the avoidance of the doubt, in relation to any credit account granted by the Company to the Buyer, the Companymay at its sole discretion and at any time change the payment terms of such credit account, including but not limited to, withdrawing
the credit account, reducing any credit granted or bring forward the due date for any payment.
9.4 Time for payment shall be of the essence.
9.5 No payment shall be deemed to have been made until the Company has received it as cleared funds.
9.6 All payments payable to the Company under the Contract or these Conditions shall become due immediately on its termination
despite any other provision.
9.7 If the Buyer fails to pay the Company any sum due pursuant to the Contract and/or these Conditions on the date due, the Buyer
shall be liable to pay interest to the Company on such sum from the due date for payment at the annual rate of 8%, accruing on a
daily basis until payment is made, whether before or after any judgment. The Company reserves the right to claim interest under
the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
9.8 All amounts due under the Contract and these Conditions from the Buyer to the Company shall be paid in full without any deduction
or set off or withholding other than as required by law (in which event the Buyer shall simultaneously pay to the Company such
additional amounts as will result in the receipt by the Company of a net amount equal to the full amount which would have been
receivable had no such deduction or set off or withholding been required) and the Buyer shall not be entitled to assert any credit,
set-off or counterclaim against the Company in order to justify withholding payment of any such amount in whole or in part.
10. WARRANTY
10.1 Subject always to the other provisions of these Conditions and of the Contract, the Company warrants that upon delivery, and for
a period of twelve (12) months from the date of delivery, the Goods shall:
10.1.1 be of satisfactory quality within the meaning of the Sale of Goods Act 1979; and
10.1.2 be reasonably fit for any particular purpose for which the Goods are being bought if the Buyer has made known that purpose to
the Company in writing prior to the Company accepting the Buyer’s order for those Goods.
10.2 The Company shall not be liable for a breach of any of the warranties in condition 10.1 unless and until:
10.2.1 the Buyer gives written notice of the relevant defect to the Company and, if the defect is as a result of damage in transit to the
Delivery Point, within five (5) days of the date of delivery; and
10.2.2 the Company is given a reasonable opportunity after receiving the notice of examining such Goods and the Buyer (if asked to do
so by the Company) returns such Goods to the Company’s place of business at the Company’s reasonable cost for the examination
to take place there.
10.3 The Company shall not be liable for a breach of any of the warranties in condition 10.1, if:
10.3.1 the Buyer makes any further use of such Goods after giving such notice; or
10.3.2 the defect arises because the Buyer failed to follow the Company’s oral or written instructions as to the storage, installation,
commissioning, use or maintenance of the Goods or good trade practice;
10.3.3 the Buyer alters or repairs such Goods without the written consent of the Company;
10.3.4 the defect arises as a result (directly or indirectly) of the Buyer’s specification or design supplied by the Buyer to the Company in
respect of the Goods; or
10.3.5 the Company (in good faith and to meet the Buyer’s requirements) decides to manufacture the Goods in accordance with
incomplete or informally released specifications, designs or drawings supplied by the Buyer used by the Company to manufacture
the Goods.
10.4 Subject to condition 10.2 and condition 10.3, if any of the Goods do not conform with any of the warranties in condition 10.1, the
Company shall at its option repair or replace such Goods (or the defective part) or refund the price of such Goods at a pro rata
rate provided that, if the Company so requests, the Buyer shall, at the Company’s reasonable expense, return the Goods or the
part of such Goods which is defective to the Company.
10.5 If the Company complies with condition 10.4 it shall have no further liability for a breach of any of the warranties in condition 10.1
in respect of such Goods.
10.6 Any Goods replaced shall belong to the Company and any repaired or replacement Goods shall be guaranteed on these terms for
the unexpired portion of the twelve (12) month period referred to in condition 10.1.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
11.1 Subject to conditions 4, 5 and 10, the following provisions set out the entire financial liability of the Company (including any liability
for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents and sub-contractors) to the Buyer in respect of:
11.1.1 any breach of the Contract and/or these Conditions;
11.1.2 any use made or resale by the Buyer of any of the Goods, or of any product incorporating any of the Goods; and
11.1.3 any representation, statement or tortious act or omission including negligence arising under or in connection with the Contract.
11.2 All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law (save for the conditions implied by section 12 of the
Sale of Goods Act 1979) are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract and these Conditions.
11.3 Nothing in the Contract or these Conditions excludes or limits or purports to exclude or limit the liability of the Company:
11.3.1 for death or personal injury caused by the Company’s negligence;
11.3.2 for any matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for the Company to exclude or attempt to exclude its liability; or
11.3.3 for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
11.4 Subject to conditions 10.1, 10.2 and 10.5:
11.4.1 the Company’s total liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or
otherwise, arising in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Contract and/or these Conditions shall
be limited to the consideration paid pursuant to the Contract by the Buyer to the Company in respect of the Goods; and
11.4.2 the Company shall not be liable to the Buyer for any economic loss, loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill or otherwise
howsoever, in each case whether direct, indirect or consequential, (howsoever caused) which arise out of or in connection with
the Contract and/or these Conditions or the sale of Goods to the Buyer
11.5 The Buyer shall indemnify the Company against, and pay on demand, any liability incurred by the Company arising from any fault
or defect in the specification or design of the Goods and any costs, losses, claims, demands and expenses arising out of or in
connection with that liability, except to the extent the liability arises as a result of the default of the Company (including, failing to
follow any specification provided by the Buyer for the Goods).
11.6 Without prejudice to the right of the Company or any third party to challenge the validity of any Intellectual Property of the Buyer,
the Buyer shall indemnify the Company against, and pay on demand, any liability incurred by the Company arising from any breach
of any third party’s Intellectual Property subsisting in respect of the specification or designs supplied by the Buyer in respect of the
Goods and any costs, losses, claims, demands and expenses arising out of or in connection with that liability. For the purpose of
this condition 11 the term “Intellectual Property” shall mean any patent, copyright, registered design, trademark, database rights
or other industrial or intellectual property right.
11.7 The Buyer hereby acknowledges that it shall not acquire any rights in respect of any Intellectual Property in respect of any
specifications, designs, drawings, manufacturing process, business information, client or customer databases, or any document
or information supplied by the Company to the Buyer pursuant to this Contract, and that all such rights shall remain vested in the
Company.
11.8 The Company will exclusively defend or pursue any claims made in connection with its intellectual property rights.
12. ASSIGNMENT
12.1 The Company may at any time assign, transfer, charge or otherwise in any manner dispose of or deal with the Contract or any of
its rights under it or sub-contract any of its obligations under it.
12.2 The Buyer shall not be entitled to assign, transfer, charge or otherwise in any manner dispose of or deal with the Contract or any
of its rights under it, or purport to do so, without the prior written consent of the Company
13. SEVERANCE
13.1 If any provision (or part provision) of the Contract and/or these Conditions shall be found by any court or administrative body of
competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other
provisions or the rest of the provision (as the case may be) of the Contract and/or these Conditions, which shall remain in full force
and effect.
13.2 If any provision (or part provision) of the Contract and/or these Conditions is so found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable but
would be legal, valid or enforceable if some part of it were to be deleted or modified, such provision (or part provision) shall apply
with such deletion(s) and/or modification(s) (as the case may be) as may be necessary to make it legal, valid and enforceable
14. WAIVER AND REMEDIES
14.1 The failure by the Company to exercise or any delay in exercising any right, power or remedy whether provided by the Contract
and/or these Conditions or otherwise does not constitute a waiver of or impair such right, power or remedy or constitute a waiver
of any other right, power or remedy. A waiver by the Company of a breach of any of the terms of the Contract and/or these
Conditions or of a default under the Contract and/or these Conditions does not constitute a waiver by the Company of any other
breach or default and shall not affect the other terms of the Contract and/or these Conditions. No single or partial exercise by the
Company of any such right, power or remedy shall preclude or impair any other or further exercise of the same or any other right,
power or remedy by the Company whether provided by the Contract and/or these Conditions or otherwise. The rights and remedies
of the Company provided in the Contract and/or these Conditions are not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.
15. FORCE MAJEURE
15.1 The Company reserves the right to defer the date of delivery or to cancel the Contract or reduce the volume of the Goods ordered
by the Buyer (without liability to the Buyer) if it is prevented from or delayed in the carrying on of its business (or part of its business)
due to circumstances beyond the reasonable control of the Company including, without limitation, acts of God, governmental
actions, war or national emergency, acts of terrorism, protests, riot, civil commotion, fire, explosion, flood, epidemic, lock-outs,
strikes or other labour disputes (whether or not relating to its workforce), or restraints or delays affecting carriers or inability or
delay in obtaining supplies of adequate or suitable materials, provided that, if the event in question continues for a continuous
period in excess of 30 days, the Buyer shall be entitled to give notice in writing to the Company to terminate the Contract with
immediate effect.
16. NOTICES
16.1 Any notice or other communication from the Company to the Buyer or vice versa in respect of the Contract and/or these Conditions
or their subject matter shall be in writing.
16.2 Any notice or communication served in accordance with this condition 16 shall be deemed to have been served:
16.2.1 if delivered by hand, on the Business Day following delivery;
16.2.2 if sent by prepaid first-class post, on the second Business Day following posting; and
16.2.3 if sent by facsimile transmission or electronic mail, on the Business Day following transmission.
16.3 In proving service of any such notice or communication, it shall be sufficient:
16.3.1 in the case of delivery by hand, to prove that such notice or communication was properly delivered;
16.3.2 in the case of posting, to prove that such notice or communication was properly stamped, addressed and placed in the post; and
16.3.3 in the case of facsimile transmission or electronic mail, to produce the delivery report evidencing the notice was sent and confirming
that delivery was completed.
17. THIRD PARY RIGHTS
17.1 The Contract and these Conditions are made for the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns and are not
intended to benefit or create any right enforceable by any other person (whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act
1999 or otherwise).
18. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
18.1 The Contract and these Conditions and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or
formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England
and the parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England have non exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising
out of or in connection with the Contract or these Conditions or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes
or claims).
19. CONFIDENTIALITY
19.1 The Buyer undertakes that it shall not disclose to any person any documentation, specifications, research, designs, drawings,
quotations or internal drawings supplied by the Company and other confidential information concerning the business, research
and design process, manufacturing processes, customers, clients or suppliers of the Company, except as provided by condition
19.2.
19.2 The Buyer may only disclose the Company’s confidential information:
19.2.1 to those of its employees, officers, representatives or advisers who need to know such information for the purpose of carrying out
the Buyer’s obligations under this agreement. The Buyer shall ensure that its employees, officers, representatives or advisers to
whom it discloses the Company’s confidential information comply with this condition 19.2; and
19.2.2 as may be required by law, court order or any governmental or regulatory authority.
19.3 The Buyer shall not use the Company’s confidential information for any purpose other than to perform the Buyer’s obligations under
this Contract.
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