Barclay Communications

Barclay Communications


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E-Business T&C's

eBusiness FAQ
The following terms and conditions apply to all web site development and hosting services offered by Barclay Communications E-Business Department. By accepting a quote either verbally or in writing or ordering a product from Barclay Communications you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

General Terms 
1.All prices are VAT Free.
2. Quotes are valid for 28 days.
3. It is the customers responsibility to ensure that any web site is lawful, does not infringe any copyright or any other laws. It is also the customers responsibility to carry out any market research as to the viability and profitability of any project before accepting any quote. 
4. We reserve the right to refuse to construct a web site that we may judge as unfit due to content or otherwise. This includes, but is not limited by, sites containing adult oriented material such as pornography, sites which promote hatred towards persons belonging to any ethnic group, religion or sexual orientation and sites which infringe copyright or are contrary to UK laws. 
5. The acceptance of a proposal either verbally or in writing shall be deemed as a contractual agreement between the client and Barclay Communications. 
6. At project acceptance Barclay Communications can provide an estimated completion date, however we cannot guarantee this date as a final completion date.
7. A deposit of no less than 50% of the total quoted price must be provided before project commencement, unless other arrangements have been made and signed off by both parties. 
8. Once a project has commenced it will be completed using the information, data, text and images provided at project commencement or during the design phase. Once the design process has been completed, Barclay Communications will require full receipt of content from the client before the project moves into the development phase.
9. Barclay Communications will initially place the client's web site on a development server in order that the client may view and comment upon the project. Once the client has approved the project a final invoice will be presented. 
10. Barclay Communications Design reserve the right to alter our prices at any time without prior notice. If a quote at an original price has been made it will be valid for 28 days and subsequently during the life of the current commission, however additional work may be charged for using the new pricing structure. 
11. A clients site will be hosted once approval of the design and content is given however we reserve the right to remove the site at any time until the invoice is paid in full.
12. When a proposal has been accepted and a developed project approved by the client the invoice must be paid within 28 days regardless of the amount of content that the client still has to provide to Barclay Communications. 
13. Content or features listed in the original quote but not provided during the development phase by the client will be added at any time in the future, however invoices must be paid in full including sections which the client still has to provide content for.
14. All material, both text and images, supplied by the client and used in the construction of the client's web site, will remain the client's property.  All such material will be assumed to be the property of the client and free to use without fear of breach of copyright laws.
15. The copyright for all material provided by Barclay Communications, such as source code, graphics, photographs video, animation and text, will remain the property of Barclay Communications until such time as payment has been made in full whereupon they will become the property of the client.   This excludes source relating to the content management system and any 3rd party code used in implementing the site.
16. Barclay Communications produce projects where every effort is made to display the pages acceptably on most current browsers available, however we cannot accept responsibility for pages which don’t display properly on versions of browsers released after the project is completed and those browsers that are no longer supported.
17. The client is ultimately responsible for checking the correctness of the site before they give Barclay Communications the go ahead to make the site publicly available.
18. When a client agrees that a site can be made publicly available they are agreeing that the design and development of the site has satisfied all their requirements.
19. For security reasons we do not provide any client or 3rd parties with FTP access - if requested website files can be provided on disc.


Payment
1. By agreeing to these terms and conditions your statutory rights are not affected.
2. Our payment terms are 28 days, payment must be made by cheque or cash and delivered to our premises unless otherwise agreed.
3. Any payment returned by the bank will incur a £15 administration charge. This will be invoiced and will be added to the total outstanding debt owed by the customer. 
4. Late payments will be charged interest at our rate of 8.5%.
5. We accept payment by cheque , credit card or bank transfer.
6. It is the responsibility for customers outside the UK to transfer funds internationally to our account and pay any fees relating to same. 


Hosting, support and updating service agreements
1. Barclay Communications offer annually renewable packages of hosting and updating service agreements which can be purchased as part of a package or separately. These include hosting, content updating and search engine submissions.
2. These packages are quoted for either on application or at time of quoting for a full project.
3. Hosting, support and updating services are annually renewable, package start dates are based on when the package or domain name is first registered and not when the web project goes live.
4. Our content update service refers to any content, photographs or text which replaces any current content. It does not extend to producing new sections or pages unless otherwise noted.
5. Quoted prices generally stay the same year on year but can change depending on the amount of content updated, additional sections added, bandwidth or web space used.
6. We cannot guarantee inclusion or accept responsibility or liability if any search engine, online directory or search site chooses not to list a client's web site. 
7. Hosting support and updating packages are renewed annually, invoices are provided approximately one month before the renewal date, however our usual payment terms apply from the invoice date. 
8. Customers wishing to cancel a hosting, support or updating package must inform us before the invoice date otherwise full annual payment will be required.
9. No partial refunds will be given for hosting, servicing or updating packages cancelled during the current agreements time period.
10. While we and our hosting partners take many steps to ensure that clients sites are always backed-up it is the clients responsibility to inform us when they make a change to the site so that we can then backup that specific part. For example databases of database driven sites.


By agreeing to these terms and conditions your statutory rights are not affected.
Barclay Communications Design will reserve the right to alter any of the above terms and conditions at any time.


Company registration number : NI40916   |   Place of registration : Northern Ireland   |   Registered office address : 145- 149 Donegall Pass, Belfast, BT7 1DT