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Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC053815
Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Friends of Argyll Estates Archives, a warm, friendly group of people who understand the importance of this unique archive and want to ensure its preservation for future generations. We do this through volunteering, fundraising and delivering projects which use the collection to support education, art, culture and heritage. It is important to us that you understand our terms and conditions of use on our web site www.argyllestatesarchives.org
You may have been pointed to this web site by our forwarded domain www.argyllestatesarchives.com. You can also refer to our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.
By accessing www.argyllestatesarchives.org and its linked websites, services, applications or tools you are agreeing to the following terms, including those available by hyperlink, which are designed to make sure that our service works for everyone. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these Terms & Conditions, you will not be able to participate in any Services via our site.
We operate the website www.argyllestatesarchives.org (site). We are Friends of Argyll Estates Archives a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC053815 with our registered office at Argyll Estates, Cherry Park, Inveraray, Argyll, PA32 8XE
These Terms of Use constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Friends of Argyll Estates Archives and are effective as of 1 March 2025 for current users, and upon acceptance for new users. You accept these Terms of Use by clicking the accept these terms and conditions and by otherwise accessing or using the Argyll Estates Archives website, services, applications and tools, or as otherwise indicated on a specific site, service, application or tool.
Should you wish to contact us about these terms and conditions please do so via our Contact us web page. https://argyllestatesarchives.org/contact/
Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC053815
Disclaimer
Though we try our best, we cannot and do not guarantee that (i) our services will be available at any given time or location, (ii) that defects or errors will be remedied (iii) that our services will be free of viruses or malware or (iv) that use of our services will meet your expectations. The service is provided without any warranty or guarantee; neither express or implied.
Your use of our website and services is entirely at your own risk. Our website may also contain links to third-party websites or services that we don’t own or control. You may need to use a third party’s product or service in order to use some of our website services (such as using our payment gateways or signing up to our mailing lists). When you access these third-party services, you do so at your own risk. The third parties may require you to accept their own terms of use. Friends of Argyll Estates Archives is not a party to those agreements; they are solely between you and the third party.
To the fullest extent permitted by law neither Friends of Argyll Estates Archives, nor any of our employees, contractors or trustees shall be liable to you for any loss of profit or revenue; or for any consequential, incidental, indirect, special or punitive damages arising from connection with our website or Terms.
General Terms and Conditions
IMPORTANT NOTE: As well as reading the following Terms & Conditions to which you have agreed by using this Site, you should also refer to the terms and conditions of each individual seller (“Seller”) on their product pages before making any order.
Acceptance of terms
These provisions (including the Privacy Policy together with any other documents referred to in these provisions) set out the terms and conditions on which you may make use of the argyllestatesarchives.org website (the “Site”) whether as a guest or registered user (“Customer Terms”).
We may update these Customer Terms (and the documents referred to in them) and any aspect of the Service from time to time and will notify such changes to you by uploading details of them on the Site. You should review the Customer Terms periodically for changes. By using the Site you agree to be bound by these Customer Terms. If you do not agree to these Customer Terms, then please do not use the Site.
1. About us
The Services are operated by Friends of Argyll Estates Archives, trading as a charity Argyll Estates Archives (“we”). We are registered in Scotland as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC053815 and with our registered office address at Argyll Estates, Cherry Park, Inveraray, Argyll, PA32 8XE.
2. Accessing our Service
Access to the Services is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the services we provide through the Site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason any of the Services are unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to any or all of the Services, to users who have registered with us. Any personal data and other information provided by you is processed by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By providing any such personal data or other information you agree to the terms of this policy.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Customer Terms.
It is your responsibility to ensure that all information (including your name and address) you upload to the Site is correct and accurate. Ensure that you check all information before making a purchase.
3. Intellectual property rights
We own, or are the licensee to, all right, title and interest in and to the Site, including all rights under patent, copyright, trade secret or trademark law, and any and all other proprietary rights, including all applications, renewals, extensions and restorations thereof. You will not modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Site or any part thereof.
You must not extract or otherwise use any of the content on the Site and/or Service for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our Sellers to do the same. If you are aware that any of your intellectual property rights have been infringed on the Site, please contact friends@argyllestatesarchives.org here to report the concern.
4. Description of Friends of Argyll Estates Archives service
Please note that when you decide to purchase goods and/or services the resulting legal contract is between you and that Seller and such contract shall comprise of these Customer Terms, the email confirmation of your order and the applicable details on the product page and you agree to be bound by all such provisions.
You should carefully review the Customer Terms, the email confirmation of your order and the applicable details on the product page in relation to the order. If there is any conflict or inconsistency between these Customer Terms and the email confirmation of your order or the applicable details on the product page, these Customer Terms shall prevail to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency.
We cannot guarantee that goods and/or services you purchase from Sellers through the Site will be of satisfactory quality, and this and any other such warranties (whether express or implied) are disclaimed by us absolutely to the fullest extent permitted by law. This disclaimer does not affect your statutory rights in relation to the Seller. Where you order goods and/or services through the Site we may disclose your customer information related to that transaction to the relevant Seller.
Beyond the point of upload, we have no responsibility for listings provided by Sellers and at no time do we possess any items offered for sale by Sellers through the Site.
5. Disclaimer of Warranties and limitation of liability
(a)To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, we disclaim responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of any part of the Site.
(b) The Site is provided “as is” and “as available” and we expressly disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by law all express, implied and statutory warranties.
(c) Neither we nor our licensors are liable to you or any user for any use or misuse of the Site. Such limitation: (a) includes direct damages, whether such claim is based on warranty, contract, tort or otherwise (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages);
(c) includes indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary and punitive damages, whether such claim is based on warranty, contract, tort or otherwise (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages);
(d) applies whether damages arise from use or misuse of and reliance on this Site, from inability to use the Site, or from the interruption, suspension or termination of the Site (including any damages incurred by third parties).
(e) Nothing in these Customer Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our agents or employees or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
6. How contracts are formed between you and Sellers
Each order you place shall be deemed to be an offer by you to purchase the goods and/or services specified within it subject to the Customer Terms and the applicable details on the product page.
No order shall be deemed to be accepted by Friends of Argyll Estates Archives until we (acting as the commercial agent of the Seller) issue an email acknowledgement of order. The contract between you and a Seller will relate only to those goods and/or services notified in the email acknowledgement of order.
7. Payment methods
Purchases for goods and/or services you make with the Friends of Argyll Estates Archives may only be paid for using the payment methods we make available through our payment facility
You acknowledge that these Customer Terms, and/or any transaction made by you via argyllestatesarchives.org do not create or imply any partnership, joint venture or trust relationship between us, you and/or the Seller. The Seller further agrees that it will not seek recourse (legal or otherwise) against you for payment of items if you have validly paid us. All prices shall be shown in the applicable currency and payable in that currency. You accept that some banks may charge you an additional fee for certain transactions (for example, international transactions). You accept that item prices in the currencies displayed do not vary according to your location; delivery charges will vary depending on the destination you choose to have the item delivered. All prices shown on the Site are inclusive of VAT or other sales taxes due in the United Kingdom or the EU. For delivery destinations outside of the United Kingdom, prices do not include other customs duties which will, if applicable, be payable by you.
8. Refusal of transaction
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 so refusing or by reason of unwinding or suspending any transaction after processing has begun.
9. Delivery arrangements
Your shopping basket on the Site displays the goods you have chosen, the Seller who shall provide them and details of postage and packing. Argyllestatesarchives.org is in no way responsible for the packaging, postage or handling of your item(s), this is the sole responsibility of the Seller whose goods you have purchased. The delivery costs for each Seller vary according to the delivery methods they offer. Any delivery times quoted are in working days.
10. Import regulations and duty
If you order goods from our Site for delivery outside the UK, they may be subject to import duties and taxes which are levied when the delivery reaches the specified destination. You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please note that we have no control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.
10. Returns
Please see our Returns & Refunds Policy if you wish to discuss or organise a return, replacement or refund of an item purchased through the Site. Unfortunately, some items are non-cancelable and non-refundable, please see our Returns & Refunds Policy for more information.
11. Links
You may link to our home page on the Site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke the right granted in this clause for breach of these Customer Terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.
The Site provides links to other websites for your information. If you use these links, you leave the Site. We have not reviewed these third-party websites, and we have no control over such sites or resources. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to the Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. We accept no responsibility for third party websites or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them, including the group gifting application which is provided by a third party.
12. Uploading material to the Site
Uploaded material must not: (i) be defamatory of any person; (ii) contain material which is obscene, discriminatory, offensive, hateful, threatening or inflammatory; (iii) infringe any copyright, database right or trademark of any other person; (iv) be likely to deceive any person; (v) promote any illegal activity; (vi) be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person; or (vii) be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
Any material a user uploads to the Site will be considered non-confidential. We have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose a user’s identity to any third party who is claiming that any material posted or uploaded by such a user constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by users. We have the right to remove any material or posting a user makes on the Site.
13. Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our Site or any part of it by introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
14. Waiver
If we fail at any time to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under these Customer Terms, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under them, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default. No waiver by us of any of these Customer Terms shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing.
15. Severability
If any of these Customer Terms 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.
16. Entire agreement
These Customer Terms, and any documents expressly referred to in them, constitute the entire agreement between us and supersedes and extinguishes all previous drafts, agreements, arrangements and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter. Each of us agrees that neither we nor you shall have any remedies in respect of any representation or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Customer Terms or any documents expressly referred to in them. Neither of us shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation based upon any statement in these Customer Terms and any documents expressly referred to in them.
17. Force majeure
Where we or a Seller are prevented from or delayed in carrying out obligations under these Customer Terms due to circumstances beyond our or the Seller’s reasonable control including, without limitation, governmental actions, war or national emergency, riot, civil commotion, fire, explosion, flood, inclement weather, epidemic, lock-outs, strikes or other labour disputes (whether or not relating to the Seller’s workforce), or restraints or delays affecting carriers or an inability or delay in obtaining supplies of adequate or suitable materials then either our or the Seller’s (as the case may be) performance of its obligations shall be postponed for the period of time that the circumstances continue.
18. Rights of Third Parties
No provision of these Customer Terms shall be enforceable by any third party (which includes for these purposes any third party: employee, officer, agent, representative or sub-contractor of either Friends of Argyll Estates Archives or the Seller) under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise. Nothing in this clause excludes the rights of argyllestatesarchives.org when acting as commercial agent of any Seller.
19. Law and jurisdiction
Contracts for the purchase of goods or services through our Site shall be governed by Scottish law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, such contracts shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Scotland.
20. Feedback and Complaints
General comments about the Site are welcome, please contact us by e-mailing friends@argyllestatesarchives.org Complaints about a specific Seller, goods must first be directed to the Seller via the contact details provided on the order confirmation email that you receive. If contacting the Seller directly does not solve your issue, you can contact us at the support e-mail above (friends@argyllestatesarchives.org ) for further assistance.
Friends of Argyll Estates Archives
Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation SC053815