1. Definitions
“Catalogue” means the website (in whatever form, whether paper or electronic) in which these Conditions are set out.
“Company” means Embassy Components Ltd
“Conditions” means these terms and conditions.
“Contract” means any contract between the Company and the Customer for the sale and purchase of Supplies.
“Customer” means the person(s) or company whose order for the Supplies is accepted by the Company.
“Goods” means any goods supplied or to be supplied by the Company to the Customer.
“Services” means any services supplied or to be supplied by the Company to the Customer.
“Supplies” means any Goods or Services.
“in writing” includes electronic communications.
2. Conditions
All orders are accepted by the Company subject to and in accordance with these Conditions.
These Conditions override and exclude any terms or conditions in or referred to in any negotiations or course of dealing between the Company and the Customer or set out in the Customer’s standard terms and conditions. If there is any conflict between
• the other provisions of this Website and these Conditions; or
• the provisions of the order and these Conditions
these Conditions will prevail unless the Company agrees otherwise in writing. Together with any terms accepted by the Company in connection with an order, these Conditions constitute the entire agreement between the Company and the Customer in relation to the Supplies ordered. No variation to these Conditions is permitted unless expressly authorised in writing by a director of the Company.
3. Prices
Prices are in Euro (€), exclusive of VAT, which will be added at the time of despatch.
Invoices will be sent electronically to the email address provided during the sale This can be changed or a printed invoice requested by contacting the Embassy Components Accounts Receivable department (contact details can be found on the invoice). If a printed invoice is required, Embassy reserves the right to levy a charge to cover postal costs.
The price stated in Seller's quotation for Products excludes the cost of delivery (which will be invoiced to Buyer) and any value added or other tax duty or charge which may
be imposed upon the production, storage, sale, transportation, import or export of the Products. Any such tax, duty or charge shall be for the account of Buyer.
If Buyer does not comply with the payment terms Seller may at its discretion suspend or cancel deliveries of Products and the supply of Services.
4. Orders
The Company reserves the right to decline to trade with any company or person.
To avoid duplication, written confirmation of telephone orders must be clearly marked ‘Confirmation only’. The Company will not accept liability for orders not so marked and duplicate orders will be charged accordingly. Once accepted, no order may be cancelled without the prior written agreement.
Orders for Goods are accepted by the Company by despatching the Goods provided, however, that despatch will not be acceptance where the price for the Supplies has been incorrectly quoted or referenced by the Customer in its order. The Company reserves the right to make a small order handling charge of €5 on all orders of €20 or under excluding VAT.
5. Delivery
Save as set out below, the Company will use all reasonable endeavours to despatch Goods ordered before 5p.m Monday to Friday on the same day and all Goods ordered after such time the next working day. Delivery will be made to the address specified by the Customer.
The Company may use any method of delivery available to it. The Company will use reasonable endeavours to meet delivery and/or performance estimates but, except as set out in 8 below, in no circumstances shall it be liable to compensate the Customer for non-delivery, non-performance or late delivery or performance. Time for delivery and/or performance by the Company will not be of the essence. The Company reserves the right to delay despatch for a number of reasons, including to perform any necessary credit or anti-fraud checks or procedures or to ensure that payment has been received in cleared funds in full. Where despatch is delayed for such reasons, the Company will use reasonable endeavours to inform the Customer. Deliveries of Products will be made to the address given on the Order. Any additional costs caused by a change of delivery address will be borne by Buyer.
6. Inspection, defects and non delivery
The Customer must inspect the Supplies as soon as is reasonably practicable after delivery or, in the case of Services, performance and, except as set out in 15 below, the Company shall not be liable for any defect in the Supplies unless written notice is given to the Company within 2 days of such date. The quantity of any consignment of Goods, as recorded by the Company upon despatch from the Company’s place of business, shall be conclusive evidence of the quantity received by the Customer on delivery, unless the Customer can provide conclusive evidence to the contrary. The Company will not be liable for any non-delivery of Goods or non-performance of Services unless written notice is given to the Company within 2 days of the date when Goods should have been delivered or the Services performed in the ordinary course of events. Subject to Condition 16(i), any liability of the Company for non-delivery or non-performance or for Goods notified as defective on delivery or Services notified as defective following performance in accordance with this Condition 8 will be limited to replacing the Goods or re-performing the Services within a reasonable time or to refunding the price then paid in respect of such Supplies.
7. Returns
Prior to returning any Goods to the Company for any reason, the Customer should contact the Company to obtain a returned materials authorisation number (‘RMA’). All Goods are returned at the Customer’s risk and expense and should be undamaged by the Customer and in their original packaging. The Customer is responsible for returning Goods to the Company and for providing proof of delivery of such return.
This Company operates on a 3 day return policy. To be accepted for return on this basis, Goods should be returned for receipt by the Company within 3 days of despatch. The Customer should return the Goods to “The Returns Department, Embassy Components, Annacotty Business Park, Annacotty, Limerick, Ireland” clearly quoting the Returns Material Authorisation Number (RMA), Customer’s account number and order number on the outside of the package.
Any Goods returned after 3 days as ‘unwanted’ or ‘incorrectly ordered’ may be accepted at the discretion of the Company but will be subject to a minimum restocking fee of 20% of the invoice value of the Goods or €25, whichever is greater.
Any static-sensitive Goods or moisture sensitive components (MSL) supplied in sealed packaging may not be returned if the blister or ‘peel’ packs in which they are supplied have been opened, tampered with or damaged.
8. Distance selling regulations
If, notwithstanding the terms of Condition 25, the Customer is buying as a ‘consumer’, as defined in the European Communities (Protection of Consumers in respect of Contracts made by means of Distance Communications) Regulations 2001, the Customer may, provided he or she has taken reasonable care of the Goods, return the Goods and be repaid the price paid in respect of them within 7 working days (excluding Saturday and Sunday and any Irish Bank Holiday) of their delivery.
To return Goods on this basis, the Customer must notify the Company in writing and return the Goods, in their original packaging, within the 7 day period to “The Returns Department, Embassy Components” clearly quoting the Returns Material Authorisation Number (RMA), Customer’s account number and order number on the outside of the package. Goods should be returned first class with proof of posting and the Customer is responsible for payment of all postage costs. In respect of certain Goods the Company may prefer to arrange collection itself and, if requested, the Customer will allow the Company to collect the Goods and will assist in the arrangements for the Goods’ collection. All reasonable costs of collection will be borne by the Customer. The Customer is responsible for the care and custody of the Goods pending their return or collection. Following receipt of Goods which comply with this Condition 10, the Company will refund to the Customer the price paid in respect of the Goods.
9. Description
All specifications, drawings, illustrations, descriptions and particulars of weights, dimensions, capacity or other details including, without limitation, any statements regarding compliance with legislation or regulation (together “Descriptions”) wherever they appear (including without limitation in this Catalogue on, data sheets, application notes, despatch notes, invoices or packaging) are intended to give a general idea of the Supplies, but will not form part of the Contract. If the Description of any Goods differs from the manufacturer’s description, the latter shall be deemed to be correct. The Company shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of Descriptions but relies on such information, if any, as may have been provided to it by its suppliers and accepts no liability in contract or tort or under statute or otherwise for any error in or omission from such Descriptions whether caused by the Company’s negligence or otherwise. The Company may make changes to the Supplies as part of a continuous programme of improvement or to comply with legislation. Without prejudice to this Condition 11, Customers are recommended to check the Company’s website for the latest descriptions of the Goods, in particular, but without limitation, with regard to statements regarding RoHS.
10. Risk and ownership
The risk of damage to or loss of Goods will pass to the Customer when the Goods are unloaded from the Company’s carriers at the Customer’s premises. Ownership of the Goods shall not pass to the Customer until the Company has received in full (in cash or cleared funds) all sums due from the Customer on any account whatsoever. Until ownership passes to the Customer, the Customer must hold the Goods on a fiduciary basis as the Company’s bailee. If payment is not received in full by the due date, or the Customer passes a resolution for winding up or a court shall make an order to that effect, or a receiver or administrator is appointed over any assets or the undertaking of the Customer or an execution or distress is levied against the Customer, the Company shall be entitled, without previous notice, to retake possession of the Goods and for that purpose to enter upon any premises occupied or owned by the Customer.
11. Quality Assurance
All Goods detailed in the Catalogue have been processed in strict accordance with standard quality procedures approved to BS EN ISO 9001: 2000, unless indicated otherwise on the dispatch documentation.
12. Performance and fitness for purpose
Unless any performance figures, tolerances or characteristics have been specifically and expressly warranted by a director of the Company in writing, the Company accepts no liability for any failure of the Supplies to comply with such criteria, whether attributable to the Company’s negligence or otherwise. The responsibility for ensuring that Supplies are sufficient and suitable for a particular purpose is the Customer’s, unless specifically stated in writing by a director of the Company. Any advice or recommendation given by an employee of the Company which is not confirmed in writing by a director of the Company is acted on entirely at the Customer’s risk and the Company shall not be liable for any such advice or recommendation which is not so confirmed. Except as set out in Condition 16(i), the liability of the Company to the Customer, should any warranty, statement, advice or recommendation confirmed in accordance with this Condition 14 prove to be incorrect, inaccurate or misleading, will be limited to the refund of the price paid for the Supplies or, at the Company’s option, the supply of replacement Supplies which are sufficient and suitable.
13. Warranty/Guarantee
The Company will endeavour to transfer to the Customer the benefit of any warranty or guarantee given by the manufacturer of Goods.
In addition, the Company will replace Goods which are proved to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company to be damaged or defective due to faulty materials, workmanship or design. This obligation will not apply:
if the defect arises because the Customer has altered or repaired such Goods without the written consent of the Company;
because the Customer did not follow the manufacturers’ instructions for storage, usage, installation, use or maintenance of the Goods;
if the Customer has failed to notify the Company of any defect in accordance with Condition 8 where the defect should have been reasonably apparent on reasonable inspection; or
if the Customer fails to notify the Company of the defect within 1 week (or such other period as the Company shall specify at the time of acceptance of the order for the Supplies) of the date of despatch of the Goods or performance of the Services.
Any replacement Supplies made or Goods repaired under this Condition 15 will be guaranteed on these terms for any unexpired portion of the period of guarantee given on the original Supplies. Any Goods which have been replaced will belong to the Company.
The Customer grants to the Company and its employees, agents and representatives a right to enter onto its premises to affect any repair or replacement under this Condition 15. The Customer shall ensure that the Company’s employees, agents and representatives are provided with a safe and secure working environment while at its premises and the Customer shall be responsible for isolating any computers or processors requiring repair or replacement from its network and for making back-up copies of any information on such computers or processors before the Company’s arrival on site.
Except as set out in Condition 16(i), the Company’s sole obligation and liability, should any Supplies prove damaged or defective in accordance with this Condition 15, shall be limited to, at the Company’s option, the repair or replacement of the relevant Goods or the re-performance of the relevant Services or the refund of the price paid for the relevant Supplies.
Except as set out in 16(i) below and 8 above, this Condition is the Company’s sole obligation and the Customer’s sole remedy for defective Supplies and is accepted by the Customer in substitution for all express or implied representations, conditions or warranties, statutory or otherwise, as to the satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or performance of the Goods (or any materials used in connection therewith) or the standard of workmanship of the Services and all such representations, conditions and warranties are excluded.
14. Exclusion of Liability
The Company does not exclude its liability to the Customer:
For breach of the Company’s obligations under sections 12, 13, 14 or 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1893, as amended by the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980 (the “Act”) (otherwise than as permitted by Section 55 of the Act), or any statutory rights of a Customer who deals as a “consumer” within the meaning of the Act;
For personal injury or death arising as a result of the Company’s negligence;
Under Section 10 of the Liability for Defective Products Act 1991;
For any matter which it would be illegal for the Company to exclude or to attempt to exclude its liability; or
For fraud including fraudulent misrepresentation.
Except as provided in Conditions 8 (Inspection, defects and non delivery), 14 (Performance and fitness for purpose), and 15 (Warranty / Guarantee) and Condition 16(i) the Company will be under no liability to the Customer whatsoever (whether in contract, tort, (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, restitution or otherwise) for any injury, death, damage or direct loss, pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, loss of use, depletion of goodwill, business interruption, increased purchasing or manufacturing costs, loss of opportunity, loss of contracts and like loss and for any loss or damage which is not a reasonably foreseeable result of any breach of the Conditions howsoever caused or arising out of or in connection with:
Any of the Supplies, or the manufacture, sale, performance or supply or failure or delay in performance or supply of the Supplies by the Company or on part of the Company’s employees, agents or sub-contractors;
Any breach by the Company of any of the express or implied terms of the Contract;
Any use made or resale or on-supply of any of the Supplies or any product incorporating any of the Goods or developed using the Supplies;
Any acts or omissions of the Company at the Customer’s premises;
Any statement made or not made or advice given or not given by or on behalf of the Company including as to compliance with legislation or regulation; or
Otherwise under the Contract.
And the Company hereby excludes to the fullest extent permissible at law all conditions, warranties and stipulations, express (other than those set out in these Conditions or given in accordance with Condition 14) or implied, statutory, customary or otherwise which but for such exclusion, would or might subsist in favour of the Customer.
The Company’s total liability in contract, tort, (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, misrepresentation or otherwise shall be limited to repairing or replacing Goods or in the case of Services, re-performing the Services or, at the Company’s option, refunding monies already paid in respect of the Supplies.
Save as set out in Condition 16(i), the Company enters into Conditions 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 17 on behalf of itself and on behalf of the Company’s employees, agents and sub-contractors. Therefore each of the Company’s employees, agents and sub-contractors may rely on and enforce the exclusions and restrictions of liability in Conditions 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 17 in that person’s own name and for that person’s own benefit.
the Goods are suitable for the Customer’s intended use and no representations or warranties are provided in this regard.
15. Intellectual property rights
The Supplies in this Catalogue may be subject to the intellectual and industrial property rights including patents, knowhow, trademarks, copyright, design rights, utility rights, database rights and or other rights of third parties. No right or licence is granted to the Customer, except the right to use the Supplies or re-sell the Goods in the Customer’s ordinary course of business. The Company shall have no liability whatsoever in the event of any claim of infringement of any such rights howsoever arising. In particular, without limiting the above, title in any software program forming all or any part of the Goods is reserved to the Company and/or its suppliers. The Customer is responsible for informing itself of the terms its licence or use and paying any royalty payable.
16. Use of Personal Data
“Personal Data” means, in relation to any Customer, or any representative of a Customer who is (in either case) a living individual, any data from which (whether alone or in combination with other information held by the Company) the Company can identify that Customer or that representative, regardless of how and when that data is provided. The Company may process Personal Data for all purposes contemplated in these Conditions or arising in the context of the relationship between the Company and the Customer including:
Deciding whether to enter into any contract or arrangement with that Customer. This may include conducting credit reference searches against a Customer or its representatives and the disclosure of information to the relevant agency as to how that Customer conducts its account, and other anti-fraud or identity checks;
Order fulfilment, administration, customer services, profiling the Customer’s purchasing preferences and to help to review, develop and improve the Company’s business and the goods and services it offers.
Direct marketing of the Company’s products and services whether by post, fax, telephone, email, SMS, MMS or otherwise, to the extent that it is lawfully entitled to do so;
Crime prevention or detection.
The processing of the Personal Data may involve:
The disclosure of that Personal Data to the Company’s service providers and agents;
The transfer of Personal Data outside of the EEA, including to countries whose laws may not provide adequate protection to Personal Data. The Company will only transfer Personal Data outside the EEA to companies who have guaranteed to the Company the same level of protection as that Personal Data would have received in Ireland.
The Customer agrees that the Company may use and process Personal Data for all these purposes and the Customer further agrees that he or she has the authority of any representative of the Customer to consent to the processing of the Personal Data on their behalf. If, at any time, the Customer or its representatives does not wish his or her Personal Data to be used for any or all of the above purposes, he or she should contact the Marketing Manager, Embassy Components, Annacotty Business Park, Annacotty, Limerick or notify any of the Company’s sales representatives when placing an order by phone. The cost of such letter or phone call shall be reimbursed to the Customer or representative.
Customers or representatives of a Customer who are living individuals have the right under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 to request a copy of any Personal Data relating to them. Such Customers also have the right to have any inaccuracies in such data corrected.
17. Promotions
In the event that the Company sends promotional material to the Customer in relation to goods or services available from the Company, these Conditions shall apply to all Supplies purchased from such material.
18.Country of origin
Unless otherwise confirmed by the Company in writing, nothing on our website is to be taken as representation of the source of origin, manufacturer or production of the Goods or any part of them.
19. Export
Separate Conditions of Supply apply to export transactions and are available on request from the Company’s export department. The Customer is responsible at its own expense for obtaining any licence and complying with any export regulations in force within Ireland and in the country for which the Goods are destined. Certain Goods imported from the United States of America by the Company are subject to specific restrictions. With respect to goods manufactured in or originating from the United States, the Customer agrees to comply with all applicable export laws, restrictions and regulations of the United States or foreign agencies or authorities and shall not import, export or transfer for the purpose of re-export, any product to any prohibited or embargoed country or to any denied, blocked or designated person or entity as mentioned in any such U.S. or foreign law or regulation. The Customer represents and warrants that is not on the Denied Persons List and is not otherwise prohibited by law from purchasing the Supplies. The Company reserves the right not to supply certain customers or countries and to require from the Customer full details of the end use and final destination of the Goods.
20. Prohibited Applications
The Goods are not designed, authorised or warranted to be suitable for use in anti-personnel landmines, nuclear facilities or weapons, chemical or biological weapons, missile technology, space or aircraft or air traffic applications, life support or life sustaining equipment, surgical implantation equipment or for any other purpose where the failure or malfunction of the Goods could reasonably be expected to result in personal injury, death, severe property or environmental damage. Use or inclusion of the Goods in any such equipment, system or applications is strictly prohibited (unless the Company agrees in writing that such prohibition does not apply to a particular product) and any such use will be at the Customer’s own risk. The Customer will indemnify the Company and its suppliers against any and all liability and expense (including costs) resulting from any such inclusion or use.
21. Force Majeure
The Company shall not be liable to the Customer in any manner or be deemed to be in breach of these Conditions because of any delay in performing or any failure to perform any of the Company’s obligations under these Contract if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond the Company’s reasonable control (which shall include, but not be limited to government actions, war, fire, explosion, flood, import or export regulations or embargoes, labour disputes or inability to obtain or a delay in obtaining supplies of Goods or labour). The Company may, at its option, delay the performance of, or cancel the whole or any part of a Contract.
22. Legal construction
All Contracts shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Irish law and the Customer submits to the jurisdiction of the Irish Courts, but the Company may enforce such Contract in any court of competent jurisdiction.
23. General
Any provision of these Conditions of Supply which is held by any competent authority to be invalid, void, voidable, unenforceable or unreasonable (in whole or in part) shall to the extent of such invalidity, voidness, voidability, unenforceability or unreasonableness be deemed severable and the other provisions of these Conditions of Supply and the remainder of such provision shall not be affected. Failure by the Company to enforce or partially enforce any provision of these Conditions of Supply will not be constrained as a waiver of any rights under these Conditions of Supply. The Company may assign all or any of its rights and/or obligations under or in connection with these Conditions or any contract for supply entered into pursuant to them to any other company which is the parent company or subsidiary of the Company or any subsidiary of such parent company at any time. Except as set out in Condition 16, the parties to the Contract do not intend that any of its terms will be enforceable by any person not a party to it. All transaction information passed between this website and our payment systems is encrypted using 128-bit SSL certificates.