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Terms & Conditions
Definitions
These definitions apply:
"
The Terms of Engagement" means the client specific written terms of agreement between the client and Branded Web Sites Ltd.
which incorporate these
Terms of Business.
Where no formal written
Terms of Engagement exist, then these
Terms of Business still apply to all proposals and contracts
whether written, verbal or implied.
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The Consultant" means Branded Web Sites Ltd.or a consultant employed or contracted by Branded Web Sites Ltd.
Additional Conditions
These standard conditions also apply to Branded Web Sites' Terms of Business, unless otherwise specifically superseded by terms in
The Terms of Engagement:
- Quotations are valid for 3 months from the date of the proposal.
- Standard Rate Work Hours are the hours during Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) from 09:00 to 18:00.
- Overtime Rate Work Hours are hours at all other times (including bank holidays).
- Overtime Rate Work Hours are charged at an hourly rate of 1.5 times the standard hourly rate.
- Overtime Rate Work Hours have to be requested and authorised by the client.
- Travel hours to and from client sites are charged at 75% of the applicable hourly rate.
- Work is billed in 15 minute intervals, rounded up.
- VAT at the standard rate (if applicable) is applicable to all fees and expenses.
- Car mileage is charged at 50p per mile.
- Default standard hourly rate is £50.
- Work, fees & expenses will be invoiced either monthly or at the end of the project.
- Invoice payments are due within 14 calendar days of the invoice date.
Cancellation Charges
The following cancellation charges apply once a proposal for an assignment, including (but not limited to) training
courses, hire of our facilities and consultancy projects, has been accepted by the client and a start date has been
agreed.
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All direct costs already incurred by Branded Web Sites in relation to the assignment will
be re-charged in full to the client with a 10% administration charge. This could include, for example, recruitment, facility hire or printing costs.
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If the assignment is cancelled or postponed up to and including 10 working days before the scheduled start date,
we will charge up to 50% of the fee.
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If the assignment is cancelled or postponed less than 10 working days before the scheduled start date we will
charge up to 100% of the fee.
Acceptance of Terms
This is a legal agreement ("Agreement") between you, the user, together with any company or other business entity you are representing, if any (collectively and henceforth known as the "Member") and Branded Web Sites Ltd. This Agreement governs the access and use of all products and services, including but not limited to Branded Web Sites Ltd websites, for which Member registers and which are provided by or through any website or co-branded website owned or controlled by Branded Web Sites Ltd., or any successor websites (collectively, the "Service").
IF MEMBER DOES NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT PURCHASE, USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICE.
The Service is offered to Member conditioned upon Member's acceptance without modification of this Agreement. Member acknowledges that, from time to time, it may be necessary for Branded Web Sites to update or revise certain provisions of the Agreement. By signing up for any Branded Web Sites Service and accepting this Agreement, Member agrees that Branded Web Sites may change the terms of the Agreement in its sole discretion without specific notice to Member. If Member does not agree to the changes proposed by Branded Web Sites, or to any terms in this Agreement, Member's sole and exclusive remedy is to cancel Member's Branded Web Sites Service ("Member's Account").
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Branded Web Sites reserves the right to cancel, suspend or refuse access to the Service to anyone in its sole discretion. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or products that change, augment or enhance the current Service shall be subject to this Agreement.
Branded Web Sites's Terms of Business
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Branded Web Sites Terms of Business
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These terms are Branded Web Sites's generic terms and conditions of business referred to as Terms of Business and shall apply to the provision
of services, goods and software to clients under written or verbal contracts unless other terms of business are expressly incorporated.
The Terms of Engagement is the written client specific terms of agreement between the client and Branded Web Sites which incorporate
(a) The Assignment (the specific services, goods and software provided to the client); and
(b) Branded Web Sites's Terms of Business.
(c) The Terms of Reference / Project Charter (describes the purpose and structure of a project)
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Once incorporated, these Terms of Business shall apply to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions including any terms
which a Client may purport to apply under any confirmation of instruction or similar document. The Branded Web Sites Terms of Business terms shall
continue to apply to all services provided by the Consultant to the Client under any contract hereafter until expressly
excluded in writing.
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The Assignment and The Terms of Reference
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The Consultant agrees to carry out The Assignment in accordance with The Terms of Reference.
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The Client agrees to cooperate with the Consultant in the performance of the Consultant's services and to give
such support, facilities and information as may be reasonably required.
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Charges and Payments
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The Client agrees to pay the charges and expenses in accordance with the provisions of The Terms of Engagement.
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All sums due from the Client which are not paid on the due date (without prejudice to the rights of the Consultant
under these terms) shall bear interest from day to day at the same annual rate as is prescribed from time to time
pursuant to section 6 of the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 with a minimum rate of 10%
per annum.
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The Consultant may from time to time increase the hourly rates (if applicable) referred to in The Terms of Engagement
by such amount as is reasonable and unless the Client objects to such increased rates within seven days of notification
in writing all services shall thereafter be provided at the increased rates notified. If the Client objects to the increased
rates, the Client shall remain liable for the existing contractual rate payable in accordance with the terms hereof plus
such additional rate as shall be reasonable.
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During any period in which payments from the Client are overdue, the obligations of the Consultant may be suspended.
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Expenses incurred by the Consultant and recoverable from the Client hereunder shall be subject to an administration
charge of 10% of cost (plus VAT where applicable) payable by the Client.
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Confidentiality
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The Consultant undertakes not at any time to divulge or allow to be divulged to any person any confidential information
relating to the business or affairs of the Client other than to sub-contractors who have signed an appropriate secrecy
undertaking or others where the Client has expressly or impliedly consented to the disclosure.
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Delegation
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The Consultant (if an individual) undertakes to consult with the Client before delegating any of the Consultant's
obligations hereunder.
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The Consultant shall have discretion as to which of its employees are assigned to perform its services but shall
consult with the Client concerning any significant changes.
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Intellectual Property of Parties to Contract
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The copyright of all parts of all computer systems, databases, document management systems and other electronic systems that have been
conceived, designed, or built by Branded Web Sites belongs to Branded Web Sites unless otherwise assigned in writing to the client or a third party
as part of The Terms of Engagement.
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All data of all forms existing within or entered by any party into any part of any computer system, database, document management system or other electronic system
whose copyright belongs to Branded Web Sites is also the copyright of Branded Web Sites unless otherwise assigned in writing to the client or a third party
as part of The Terms of Engagement.
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Excluding data covered in 6.2, Branded Web Sites undertakes not to cause or permit anything which may damage or endanger the intellectual property of the Client or
the Client's title to it or assist or allow others to do so.
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Liability and Insurance
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The Consultant shall not be liable to the Client for loss or damage to the Client's property unless due to
the negligence or other failure of the Consultant to perform its obligations under this agreement or the general law.
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The Consultant shall have no liability to the Client for any indirect, special or consequential loss to the Client arising
out of or in connection with the provision of any goods or services pursuant to this agreement (except in respect of death
or personal injury resulting from negligence) and the total liability of the Consultant for any other loss of the Client arising
pursuant to this agreement in respect of any one event or series of connected events shall not exceed the indemnity cover
(if any) arranged pursuant to the Terms of Engagement or if no such cover has been agreed between the Client and the
Consultant the charges payable by the Client in respect of the Consultant's services hereunder.
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Termination for Breach
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The following obligations are conditions of this agreement and any breach of them shall entitle the party not in breach
to terminate this agreement by immediate written notice and the rights and liabilities of the parties shall then be determined
in accordance with clause 9:
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| 8.1 |
Failure on the part of the Client to make punctual payment of all sums due to the Consultant under the terms of this
agreement.
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Failure on the part of the Consultant to remedy any breach of its obligations hereunder within a reasonable time
following written notice from the Client which: refers to this clause; specifies the breach with full particulars; indicates
how the breach is to be remedied and specifies the Client's opinion of a reasonable time for remedy.
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The levying of distress or execution against the Client or the making by it of any composition or arrangement with
creditors or the presentation of a petition for the Client's liquidation or bankruptcy or administration or the appointment
of a receiver over any part of the Client's assets.
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The doing or permitting of any act by which the Consultant's rights in any intellectual property may be prejudiced or
put in jeopardy.
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Any serious or persistent breach by the Client of its obligations hereunder.
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Termination and Consequences
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In the event of this agreement being terminated whether by effluxion of time, notice, breach or otherwise and
without prejudice to any other remedy available to the Consultant the Client shall immediately pay to the Consultant:
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any sums due under the terms of this agreement, and
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in the event of termination by reason of sub-clauses 8.1, 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5, any further sums which would but for the
termination of this agreement have fallen due by the end of the Consultant's engagement less a discount for any
accelerated payment at the rate of 5% per annum.
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Recruitment of the Consultant's Staff
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The Client undertakes that it (including for this purpose any subsidiary or associated company) or any person connected
with it will not directly or indirectly recruit as an employee or engage as an independent contractor any person employed
or so engaged by the Consultant in connection with the services provided hereunder for a period of twelve months after such
person last provided services to the Client.
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In the event that the Client is in breach of the undertaking in sub-clause 10.1, the Client and the Consultant agree and
the Client will pay liquidated damages of a sum equal to 33% of the annual remuneration or payment and any other
benefits payable to the relevant individual by the Consultant at the rate payable during the week immediately prior
to such individual ceasing to provide services to the Consultant.
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Consultant's Outputs, Materials and Information
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All intellectual property rights including copyright which are capable of existing in any documents, computer software or
information or (without limit) other materials created or provided pursuant to this contract by the Consultant shall be
and remain the Consultant's property.
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The Client undertakes to keep all materials, documents and information provided to it by the Consultant confidential
to itself and its employees and not to distribute any product of the services provided hereunder to any third party
without the Consultant's prior written consent.
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Any materials produced or supplied to the Client by the Consultant in which intellectual property rights are capable of
subsisting shall be licensed to the Client for internal use only in connection with the purposes of The Terms of Reference
and such licence shall forthwith terminate if notice is given by the Consultant terminating this contract pursuant to clause 8.
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The Client and the Consultant undertake with each other not during the course of this contract to infringe the intellectual
property rights of any third party.
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Consultant's References to Client
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Subject to clause 4 (Confidentiality) the Consultant shall be entitled to refer to its provision of services to the Client
for any purpose in connection with the Consultant's business provided that prior to any published reference to the
Client the Consultant shall give the Client an opportunity to object to such reference and in the event of objection upon
reasonable grounds shall not refer to the Client as proposed.
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Force Majeure
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Both parties shall be released from their respective obligations in the event of national emergency, war, prohibitive
governmental regulation or if any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the parties or either of them renders
the performance of this agreement impossible, whereupon all money accrued due under this agreement shall be paid.
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Miscellaneous
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Warranty
Each of the parties warrants its power to enter into this agreement and has obtained all necessary
approvals to do so.
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Whole Agreement
Each party acknowledges that this agreement (as varied) and the conditions contain the whole
agreement between the parties and that it is not relied upon any oral or written representations made to it by the
other or its employees or agents and has made its own independent investigations into all matters relevant to it.
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Change of Address
Each of the parties shall give notice to the other of the change or acquisition of any address or telephone, telex or
similar numbers at the earliest possible opportunity but in any event within 24 hours of such change or acquisition.
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Notices
Any notice to be served on either of the parties by the other shall be sent by pre-paid recorded delivery or registered
post to the address of the relevant party shown at the head of this agreement or such other address substituted in
writing under clause 14.3 (and if more than one address any such address) or by facsimile transmission or by electronic
mail or by telex and shall be deemed to have been received by the addressee within 72 hours of posting or 24 hours
if sent by facsimile transmission or by electronic mail or by telex to the correct facsimile number or electronic mail
number of the addressee (with correct answer back).
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Headings
Headings contained in this agreement are for reference purposes only and should not be incorporated into this
agreement and shall not be deemed to be any indication of the meaning of the clauses to which they relate.
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Joint and Several
All agreements on the part of either of the parties which comprise more than one person or entity shall be joint
and several and the neuter singular gender throughout this agreement shall include all genders and the plural
and the successor in title to the parties.
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Proper Law and Jurisdiction
14.7.1 - This agreement shall be governed by English law in every particular including formation and interpretation
and shall be deemed to have been made in England.
14.7.2 - Any proceedings arising out of or in connection with this agreement may be brought in any court of
competent jurisdiction in England or Wales.
14.7.3 - The submission by the parties to such jurisdiction shall not limit the right of the Consultant to commence
any proceedings arising out of this agreement in any other jurisdiction it may consider appropriate.
14.7.4 - Any notice of proceedings or other notices in connection with or which would give effect to such proceedings
may without prejudice to any other method of service be served upon any party in accordance with clause 14.4.
14.7.5 - In the event that the Client is resident outside England, its address for service in England shall be the
address for such service nominated in this agreement and any time limits in any proceedings shall not be extended
by virtue only of the foreign residence of the Client.
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Waiver
Failure by either party to enforce at any time or for any period any one or more of the terms or conditions of this
agreement shall not be a waiver of them or the right at any time subsequently to enforce all terms and conditions
of this agreement.
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Status of Consultant
14.9.1 - The Consultant (if an individual) shall be an independent contractor and not the employee of the Client.
14.9.2 - In such capacity, the Consultant shall bear exclusive responsibility for the payment of his or her National
Insurance contributions as a self-employed person and for the discharge of any income tax and VAT liability arising
out of remuneration for the work performed by him or her under this agreement.
14.9.3 - The Consultant shall not be subject to directions from the Client as to the manner in which he or she shall
perform his or her work.
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Assignment or Sub-Contracting
The Consultant shall be entitled to sub-contract any of its rights or duties under this agreement.
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Set-off
The Client shall not be entitled to withhold payment of any sum otherwise payable to the Consultant by reason
of any claim, set-off or for damages in relation hereto.
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Mediation
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In the event of any dispute arising between the parties in connection with this agreement, the parties will in good
faith seek to resolve that dispute through mediation. The mediator shall be agreed upon within seven days of one
party requesting mediation, failing which the mediator shall be appointed by the then Professional Standards
Manager of the Institute of Management Consultancy. Unless otherwise agreed, the parties shall share equally the
costs of the mediation. If the dispute is not resolved within 30 days or one of the parties refuses to participate in
mediation, the dispute shall be resolved by way of litigation. Nothing in this clause shall prevent either party seeking
a preliminary injunction or other judicial relief at any time if in its judgment such action is necessary nor shall the
Consultant be precluded from issuing proceedings or taking any other step in relation to the non-payment of monies
due.
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Definitions
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"The Assignment" means the Assignment referred to in The Terms of Engagement
"The Terms of Reference" means the Terms of Reference referred to in The Terms of Engagement
"The Terms of Engagement" means the written terms of agreement between the client and Branded Web Sites
which incorporate these Terms of Business
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