This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms and conditions on which bookings may be agreed for any of the provisional meeting room bookings ("Services") listed on our website [www.shortleadmeetings.com] ("our site"). Please read these terms and conditions carefully before ordering any Services from our site. You should understand that by ordering any of our Services, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions on the acceptance of that offer by the Supplier of those Services. You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference. Please note that use of our website denotes that you accept these terms and conditions. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these terms and conditions, you should not use this site.
www.shortleadmeetings.com is a site operated by Shortleadmeetings Limited ("we"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 5942767 and have our main trading address and registered office at The Wellhouse, 4 Stable Court, Herriard Park Estate, Herriard, Hampshire RG25 2PL. Our VAT number is 895 9258 50.
By placing an order (submitting a provisional booking form and/or registering a venue) through our site, you warrant that:
2.1 You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and
2.2 You are at least 18 years old;
3.1 Any order that you may make on our Website constitutes an offer to our supplier to buy a Service. We agree to forward to the relevant supplier any provisional booking that you may make on our Website but will not be bound by any contract with you. We act solely as marketing agent for the supplier(s) and any 'booking' that is made by you on our website is treated as an offer to and capable of acceptance only by the relevant supplier who has listed that Service. Any 'booking' is provisional and under no circumstances can the supplier be bound by a ‘booking’ by you on our website until that Supplier accepts your offer.
3.2 The Contract will relate only to those Services whose reservation the Supplier has confirmed to you.
3.3 Please note that we are not authorised to accept orders as agents on behalf of third party sellers (“Seller(s)”), and any legal contract resulting from any offer made by you is between you and that Seller, and is subject to the terms and conditions of that Seller, which they will advise you of directly. You should carefully review their terms and conditions applying to the transaction.
3.4 We may also provide links on our site to the websites of other companies, whether affiliated with us or not. We cannot give any undertaking, that Services you purchase from Sellers through our site, or from companies to whose website we have provided as a link on our site, will be of satisfactory quality, and any such warranties are DISCLAIMED by us absolutely. This DISCLAIMER does not affect your statutory rights against the Seller. We will notify you via email, once a provisional booking request form has been submitted, to confirm which third party is involved in the transaction, and we will disclose your customer information related to that transaction to the Seller.
If you are contracting as a consumer, you must check the terms and conditions of the Seller in order to be aware of your rights under its refunds policy.
5.1 The price of any Services will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.
5.2 Our site contains a large number of Services and Suppliers and it is always possible that some of the Services listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. The responsibility for the listing of prices of Services advertised on our Website will be exclusively with the Supplier and is not our responsibility in any way.
5.3 Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which you have already received confirmation from the Supplier.
As your contract is made with the Supplier, it will be necessary for you to view the Supplier’s refund policy in order to be aware of any entitlements that you may have.
7.1 We will have no liability for losses you suffer as a result of the Supplier breaking their agreement with you.
7.2 This does not include or limit in any way our liability:
7.2.1 For death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
7.2.2 Under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987;
7.2.3 For fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
7.2.4 For any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.
7.3 We are not responsible for indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage whether or not they were foreseeable by you and us (such as loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, waste of management or office time) however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise.
7.4 Where you buy any Service from a Seller through our site, the Seller's individual liability will be set out in the Seller's terms and conditions.
All notices given by you to us must be given to Shortleadmeetings.com Limited at The Wellhouse, 4 Stable Court, Herriard Park Estate, Herriard, Hampshire RG25 2PL OR info@shortleadmeetings.com. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when requesting a booking, Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.
We are not party to the contract between you and any supplier and you will have to check within the terms and conditions of any supplier whether any contract you enter into is binding on any of your or their successors and assigns.
If any of these terms and Conditions or any provisions of a Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11.1 These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter hereof and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.
11.2 We each acknowledge that neither of us has relied on any representation, undertaking or promise given by the other or be implied from anything said or written except as expressly stated in these terms and conditions.
12.1 We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time [to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities).
12.2 You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order Services via us, unless any change to those policies or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions before we send you the confirmation email advising that your booking has been submitted to the venue selected by yourself (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the above mentioned email).
Contracts for the purchase of Services through our site will be governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, such Contracts shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.