our official terms
and conditions

This is a legal agreement between ‘you’ (which term hereinafter, along with ‘your’, shall also apply to any company on whose behalf you are purchasing) and The Advertising Shop Limited, hereinafter also referred to as 'The Advertising Shop', ‘TAS’ , ‘we’ or ‘us’.

Please read it from start to finish and in particular before ordering any 'visibility' package/s or product/s online. By ticking the box on our order form you agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. If you do not tick, we will be unable to accept or process your order.

Parts of this agreement cover bespoke work and some is pertinent to 'visibility' packages only, as made clear in the text. Where unspecified this legal agreement and all clauses relate to any work produced by The Advertising Shop for its clients.

in brief

All quoted prices offered by The Advertising Shop in print or online are subject to VAT.

'Visibility' prices are valid as published on this website for our customisable, copyrighted ‘visibility' packages  only, which term shall be taken to mean that each offer includes a package comprising copywriting, design and printing/web-building as seen on our website at www.theadvertisingshop.com. Prices may be changed without notice and the price you pay will be the price shown on this website at the time when you place your order. Offers include up to an hour’s amendments (including time taken on associated phone calls, emails etc) to each product and assume that you email your logo & images in high res, ready-to-go format. Further changes/photo manipulation etc are chargeable at our hourly rate. Logo designs, bespoke designs and many other services are available by arrangement.

Bespoke fees are variable and estimates will be submitted only after consultation.

All changes and amendments to 'visibility' packages must be briefed to us within two weeks of the date we first email your proof; or within one month of presenting bespoke work.

Whether bespoke or 'visibility', y ou are not permitted to resell or alter any of our copywriting or designs or make derivatives of it for your own use. Partial refunds may be offered on cancelled orders prior to printing but no refunds whatsoever can be made once work has gone to print or a website has been launched, and we will not be held responsible for any errors that you did not bring to our attention before authorising publication.

If you’re still with us, please read on to see the full terms before ordering:

in full

All quoted prices offered by The Advertising Shop in print or online are subject to VAT.

Our customisable, copyrighted 'visibility' packages include copywriting, design and printing/web-building. We offer them on a non-exclusive basis with no rights protection whatsoever. The only right granted to you is to use them for your marketing in accordance with this agreement.

We reserve the right to reject any request for bespoke or 'visibility' work if we believe the work we produce won't be legal, truthful or decent, or for any reason whatsoever, without giving any explanation.

copyright and ownership of all work

Copyright of any and all designs, artwork and copywriting created for you by us is retained by TAS and does not pass to you. Likewise, no ownership or copyright of any materials or products on this site or in our literature, or derivatives thereof, shall pass to you or any other third party. Thus any and all reprints or any changes to your printwork and/or website must be booked through and carried out by TAS. You are not permitted to resell or alter any designs seen on our site for your own use or for anybody else’s.

Designs and copywriting created by TAS may only be used on printwork or websites created for you by us. Each separate purchase is for single use only and products may be utilised by you for any purpose in advertising, printed promotional literature and stationery or online but only as stipulated in the description of the particular product/s listed on your invoice. You are not permitted to create or publish new derivative works from any item/s we create for you and you cannot transfer our designs, text or any derivatives to any other items or products – whether in print, online or in downloadable format – without written agreement from TAS and subject to payment of any fee requested by us for this.

If you are entering into this agreement on behalf of your company or employer, these restrictions and limitations apply to both your employer and to you as their agent. Should you cease working for this employer, the agreement continues to apply to both you and them. However, in the event that the company involved is sold, any remaining product/s may be used by the new owner.

You acknowledge that the content on this website is the property of The Advertising Shop Limited or its third party suppliers and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. TAS reserves the right to replace or withdraw any designs or products and change prices and fees at any time and for any reason but will honour orders made before these changes are published online unless circumstances are beyond our control. No variation of any of the terms in this agreement shall be effective unless agreed in writing by us and in the event of any disparities, this agreement shall take precedence.

Subject to your compliance with the terms of this agreement, The Advertising Shop Limited grants to you the non-exclusive, non-transferable rights to use each item of literature or website we create and print for your company, subject, in the case of websites, to you paying for your annual hosting when it becomes due, whether via TAS or a third party supplier of your choice.

images

You take full responsibility for ensuring that you are in possession of the appropriate rights to use any images that you supply to us for publication.

The images and illustrations used on our site in 'visibility' packages or shown to you for demonstration purposes in bespoke work are intended to provide inspiration and positioning guidance only for each design and are not included in the price of our products. However, if you particularly like a particular image and would like to use it in your artwork we may be able to purchase the rights on your behalf, subject to availability and at an additional cost.

The rights to publish any royalty free images you ask us to provide for you will be purchased on your behalf in good faith and shall be at your risk, so it is your responsibility to advise us on potential usage and satisfy yourself that the licence we offer is appropriate for your marketing needs.

If we consider that any images or logos you supply to us are not of a high enough resolution to be printed without blurring or pixelation we will advise you accordingly, and it will be your decision as to whether to: proceed with them (in which case you must provide us with a disclaimer to this effect); provide us with different images - please note that there will be an additional half hour minimum charge for checking more than two new images; or ask us to search for high res alternatives at an additional charge.

amendments, refunds and sign-offs

With the exception of very simple changes (decided at our discretion) we cannot accept telephone amendments for bespoke or 'visibility' work as these can be misinterpreted.

All changes and amendments to 'visibility' work must be briefed within two weeks of the date we first email your eproof; or within one month of showing you bespoke work. After this time we will assume that you are happy with the work carried out by us and the balance of payment for bespoke artwork and copy becomes due whether or not you decide to go into production.

The price of each 'visibility' package allows for one hour’s consultation, corrections and amendments (in total, to include time we spend on telephone calls or sending and responding to emails in connection with your artwork). 'Visibility' packs (ie: Stationery and Business Booster) allow for one hour’s work as detailed above on each of their components, ie: one hour on the stationery pack + (where appropriate) one hour on your choice of printed literature + one hour on the website. Thereafter amendments will be chargeable at the prevailing 'visibility' hourly rate with a minimum half-hour's fee.

Similarly, the quoted fee for each component of bespoke piece of work allows for an hour of amendments. Thereafter we will charge our prevailing bespoke hourly rate for further changes.

All initial amendments included free of charge must be provided by you to us in writing in a single communication, by email, post or in person, so please make sure you inspect all elements of your work thoroughly before advising us. Since an hour’s initial amendments are carried out free of charge, no monies will be owing to you by us if you do not require any changes.

Any further amendments, such as a change of colours, images and/or fonts, and including the provision of further proofs for you to sign off, will be charged in addition to the quoted price with a minimum half-hourly 'visibility' or bespoke fee as appropriate. You will be advised of the exact charge once you have let us know what changes you require and additional payments must be made before we will carry out the work.

Should you request significant alterations once initial artwork has been completed – such as a change of design or product – our initial remit will be considered fulfilled and full payment will be required for generating the new artwork.

Once artwork and copywriting have been completed in accordance with your order and have been sent or shown to you for approval we will have fulfilled our contractual obligations with regard to providing the design element of your product even if it does not go into production for any reason whatsoever. No refunds for creative work will be made in these circumstances.

You are responsible for signing off all work we create for you by email or in person and we will not send your work to print, or, where applicable, launch your website, until we have received this consent, which indicates that you take responsibility for all contents therein. Please note that TAS will have no liability whatsoever for any uncorrected errors once you have done this.

If we do not receive sign off or any communications from you within six weeks of the completion of your artwork we shall consider the order cancelled by you and no refund whatsoever will be due. Before six weeks have passed, partial refunds may be offered on cancelled orders prior to printing at our discretion.

liabilities

Without limitation TAS makes no warranty, express or implied, of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Neither we nor our third party suppliers shall be liable to you or any other person or entity for any general, special, direct, indirect, consequential, incidental, lost profits or other damages arising out of the products we supply to you. Any liability to you or your employer for any reason shall be limited to the sum paid by you for the use of the product/s involved. Without prejudice TAS shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by you, your company or any third party, whether directly or indirectly, arising from any alleged or actual defect in any materials supplied or their reproduction.

You agree to indemnify and hold TAS, our third party suppliers and their respective directors, officers, affiliates and representatives harmless against any claim for damages, losses or any costs, including legal fees, arising in any manner whatsoever from the unauthorised use of any product or portion thereof supplied to you by us, or for your breach of any of the terms of this agreement.

timescales and delivery

Timing is not the essence of any contract between TAS and its clients and we shall not be liable for late despatch or delivery howsoever caused. Neither shall we accept any responsibility for any loss or damage to goods in transit that are supplied by, posted or delivered to customers.

force majeure

Should delivery of any goods be prevented or delayed by reason of strike, war, fire, accident to or breakdown of machinery, delay in delivery of materials by third parties, acts of God, government action or any cause whatsoever beyond the control of The Advertising Shop, we shall not be held responsible. In any event, we shall not be liable in any way for loss or damage arising directly or indirectly as a consequence of such happenings.