Terms and Conditions
Welcome to the Mark Melia Fashions website conditions
for use. These conditions apply to the use of this Website and by
accessing this Website and/or placing an order you agree to be bound
by the conditions set out below. If you do not agree to be bound by
these conditions you may not use or access this Website.
Before you place an order, if you have any questions relating to these
conditions please contact us by e-mail.
Access
You are provided with access to this Website in accordance
with these Conditions and any orders placed by you must be placed
strictly in accordance with these Conditions.
Indemnity
You agree fully to indemnify, defend and hold us,
and our officers, directors, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless
immediately on demand, from and against all claims, liability, damages,
losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising
out of any breach of the Conditions by you or any other liabilities
arising out of your use of this Website, or the use by any other person
accessing the Website using your shopping account and/or your Personal
Information.
Purchase of Products
Each Product purchased is sold subject to its Product
Description. We will take all reasonable care to ensure that all details,
descriptions and prices of Products appearing on the Website are correct
at the time when the relevant information was entered onto the system.
Although we aim to keep the Website as up to date as possible, the
information including Product Descriptions appearing on this Website
at a particular time may not always reflect the position exactly at
the moment you place an order. We cannot confirm the price of a Product
until your order is accepted in accordance with our Order acceptance
policy.
Orders
We will take all reasonable care, in so far as it
is in our power to do so, to keep the details of your order and payment
secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part we cannot be
held liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures
unauthorised access to any data you provide when accessing or ordering
from the Website.
The technical steps required to create the contract
between you and us are as follows:
You place the order for your products on the web-site by pressing
the confirm order button at the end of the check-out process. You
will be guided through the process of placing an order by a series
of simple instructions on the web-site. We will send to you an order
acknowledgement email detailing the products you have ordered. As
your product is shipped from our warehouse we will send you a dispatch
confirmation email.
Order acceptance and the completion of the contract between you and
us will take place on the dispatch to you of the Products ordered
unless we have notified you that we do not accept your order or you
have cancelled it in accordance with our conditions set out below.
Non acceptance of an order may take place in the following circumstances:
• The product you ordered being unavailable from stock.
• Our inability to obtain authorisation for your payment.
• The identification of a pricing or product description error.
• You not meeting the eligibility to order criteria set out
in the main Conditions of Use.
The contract will be concluded in English.
Refusal of Transaction
We reserve the right to withdraw any Products from
this Website at any time and/or remove or edit any materials or content
on this Website. We may refuse to process a transaction for any reason
or refuse service to anyone at any time at our sole discretion. We
will not be liable to you or any third party by reason of our withdrawing
any Product from this Website whether or not that Product has been
sold; removing or editing any materials or content on the Website;
refusing to process a transaction or unwinding or suspending any transaction
after processing has begun.
To be eligible to purchase Products on this Website and lawfully enter
into and form contracts on this Website under English law you must:
• Register by providing your real name, phone number, postal/delivery
address, e-mail address, payment details and other requested information.
• Possess a valid credit or debit card issued by a bank acceptable
to us
By making an offer to buy a Product, you specifically authorise us
to transmit information (including any updated information) or to
obtain information about you from third parties from time to time,
including but not limited to your debit or credit card number or credit
reports, to authenticate your identity, to validate your credit card,
to obtain an initial credit card authorisation and to authorise individual
purchase transactions.
Payment
All prices are stated in £sterling and are
inclusive of VAT (where applicable) at the current rates and are correct
at the time of entering the information onto the system. The total
cost of your order is the price of the Products ordered plus delivery
charges.
Payment can be made by any of the methods specified in the payment
section of this Website and payment will be debited and cleared from
your account prior to despatch of orders.
Payment will be processed either in person by the customer or over
the telephone confidentially between the customer and Mark Melia Fashions.
You confirm that the credit or debit card that is being used is yours.
All credit/debit cardholders are subject to validation checks and
authorisation by the card issuer.
If the issuer of your payment card refuses to or does not, for any
reason, authorise payment to us, we will not be liable for any delay
or non-delivery.
Shipping & Returns
Our charge for standard delivery is £4.95 per
order on all orders to all mainland UK addresses. Areas outside the
UK will be charged at £10.
Orders will be delivered to the address specified
by the customer to Mark Melia Fashions at the point of the after ordering
service within 21days of order being first submitted. All deliveries
must be signed for and any damages notified to us within two days
of receipt of delivery. Someone must be available to sign for the
goods during normal working hours and this person should be known
to you. We will not be responsible where the person signing for the
goods is not the person who has placed the order/paid for the goods.
Privacy policy
We will treat all your Personal Information as confidential
(although we reserve the right to disclose this information in the
circumstances set out below). We will keep it on a secure server and
we will fully comply with all applicable UK Data Protection and consumer
legislation from time to time in place.
When you shop on this Website, we will ask you to input and will collect
Personal Information from you such as your name, e-mail address, billing
address, delivery address, telephone number, product selections, credit
card or other payment information and a password. We may also collect,
and our third party providers of advertisements and content may collect,
information about where you are on the internet (eg the URL you came
from, IP address, domain types like .co.uk and .com), your browser
type, the country and telephone area code where your computer is located,
the pages of our website that were viewed during your visit, the advertisements
you clicked on, and any search terms that you entered on our website
("User Information"). We may collect this information even
if you do not register with us.
You should be aware that this site is being monitored and may capture
information about your visit that will help us improve the quality
of our service.
We confirm that any Personal Information which you provide to us (or
which is available on public registers) and any User Information from
which we can identify you, is held in accordance with the registration
we have with the Data Commissioner's Office. We use your information
only for the following purposes:
• Processing your orders;
• For statistical purposes to improve this Website and its services
to you;
• To serve website content and advertisements to you;
• To administer this website;
• If you consent, to notify you of products or special offers
that may be of interest to you.
You agree that you do not object to us contacting you for any of the
above purposes whether by telephone, e-mail or in writing and you
confirm that you do not and will not consider any of the above as
being a breach of any of your rights under the Privacy and Electronic
Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed to other
reputable third parties who will help process your order. Mark Melia
Fashions requires all such third parties to treat your personal information
as fully confidential and to fully comply with all applicable UK Data
Protection and consumer legislation from time to time in place.
You should be aware that if we are requested by the police or any
other regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal
activities to provide your Personal Information and /or User Information
we are entitled do so.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to us at:
Mark Melia Fashion Studio,
33 -35 School Lane,
Liverpool.
L1 3DA.