A1 Bacon Company Polices Overview
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Terms & Conditions
TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.a1bacon.co.uk (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.a1bacon.co.uk is a site operated by A 1 Bacon Company Limited (“We”). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 01461813 and have our registered office at 1 High Street, Roydon, Essex, CM19 5HJ. Our main trading address is Brook House, Lovet Road, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5TB. Our VAT number is 388853486.
ACCESSING OUR SITE
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to our website users.
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 terms of use.
When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our Acceptable Use Policy. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
UPDATES TO OUR SITE
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
OUR LIABILITY
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law we hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including:
loss of income or revenue; o loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts; o loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill;
wasted management or office time; and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse our site by knowingly 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 co-operate 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.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
LINKING TO OUR SITE
You may link to our home page, 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.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to info@a1bacon.co.uk.
LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
TRADE MARKS
A1 Bacon is a UK registered trade mark of A 1 Bacon Company Limited and which is registered under trade mark number 2231156.
VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact info@a1bacon.co.uk.
Thank you for visiting our site.
Privacy Policy
Welcome to A1 Bacon Company Limited 's privacy notice.
A1 Bacon Company Limited respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
You can download a pdf version of the policy here. Please also use the Glossary to understand the meaning of some of the terms used in this privacy notice.
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how A1 Bacon Company Limited collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a product or service or take part in a competition.
This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Controller
A1 Bacon Company Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as A1 Bacon Company Limited, "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice).
We have appointed a data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.
Contact Details
Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: A1 Bacon Company Limited
Name or title of DPO: Terry Brooke
Email address: info@a1bacon.co.uk
Postal address: Brook House, Lovet Road, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5TB
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Your duty to inform us of changes
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us by emailing info@a1bacon.co.uk.
Third-party links
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data includes your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
Apply for or purchase our products or services;
create an account on our website;
subscribe to our service or publications;
request marketing to be sent to you;
enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
give us some feedback.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. This information helps us to build a profile of our customers and users. Most of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Technical Data from the following parties:
analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
advertising networks such as Google Adwords based outside the EU; and
search information providers such as Google based outside the EU.
Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services based inside the EU.
4. How we use your personal data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us at info@a1bacon.co.uk
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us at info@a1bacon.co.uk if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity Type of data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer (a) Identity
(b) Contact Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transaction
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
(c) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)
To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
(b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(f) Technical
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences
(a) Technical
(b) Usage
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(d) Usage
(e) Profile
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us [or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside A1 Bacon Company Limited for marketing purposes.
Opting out
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by emailing us at info@a1bacon.co.uk.
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, product/service experience or other transactions.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Change of purpose
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us by emailing info@a1bacon.co.uk.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Disclosures of your personal data
We may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table in paragraph 4 above..
External Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
6. International transfers
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
7. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us by emailing info@a1bacon.co.uk
No fee usually required
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
10. Glossary
LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us by emailing info@a1bacon.co.uk
Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.
THIRD PARTIES
External Third Parties
Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Updated July 2024
Acceptable Use Policy
This Acceptable Use Policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.a1bacon.co.uk (our site). This Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site.
Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this Acceptable Use Policy, which supplement our Terms of Website Use.
www.a1bacon.co.uk is a site operated by A 1 Bacon Company Limited (we or us). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 01461813 and have our registered office at 1 High Street, Roydon, Essex, CM19 5HJ. Our main trading address is Brook House, Lovet Road, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5TB. Our VAT number is 388853486.
PROHIBITED USES
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation. • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our Terms of Website Use.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
INTERACTIVE SERVICES
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site.
Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered.
We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not.
SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of the Terms of Website Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:
Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
Issue of a warning to you.
Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.
We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this Acceptable Use Policy. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise this Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in this Acceptable Use Policy may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Terms & Conditions of Sale
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. Definitions
1.1 In these conditions unless the context otherwise requires:
'Buyer' means the person, firm or company who purchases the Goods from the Company.
'Company' means A1 Bacon Company Limited, a company incorporated in England & Wales with company number 01461813 and whose registered office address is Brook House, Lovet Road, Harlow, Essex, CM19 5TB.
'Conditions' means the terms and conditions of sale set out in this document.
'Contract' means any contract between the parties for the sale and purchase of the Goods following acceptance of an Order and incorporating these conditions.
'Delivery Date' means the date specified by the Company for delivery of the Goods or the actual date of delivery (whichever is the earlier).
'Delivery Note' means the Company's delivery note on the reverse of which these conditions are printed and including quantity and description of Goods delivered.
'Delivery Point' the place where delivery of the Goods is to take place pursuant to condition 4.1 on the Delivery Date.
'Goods' means any goods Ordered by the Buyer to be supplied by the Company.
'Order' means the Buyer's order for Goods howsoever placed with the Company and
'Ordered' shall be construed accordingly.
2. Conditions Applicable
2.1 The Contract shall be on these conditions to the exclusion of all other terms and conditions (including any terms or conditions which the Buyer purports to apply under any purchase order, confirmation of order, specification or other document).
2.2 No terms or conditions endorsed on, delivered with or contained in the Buyer's purchase order, confirmation of order, specification or other document shall form part of the Contract simply as a result of such document being referred to in the Contract.
2.3 These conditions apply to all the Company's sales (including future sales between the Buyer and the Company) and any variation to these conditions and any representations about the Goods shall have no effect unless expressly agreed in writing and signed by a director of the Company. The Buyer acknowledges that it has not relied on any statement, promise or representation made or given by or on behalf of the Company which is not set out in the Contract.
2.4 Each Order or acceptance of a quotation for Goods by the Buyer from the Company shall be deemed to be an offer by the Buyer to buy Goods subject to these conditions.
2.5 No Order placed or quotation accepted by the Buyer shall be deemed to be accepted by the Company until a written acknowledgement of the Order is issued by the Company or (if earlier) the Company delivers the Goods to the Buyer at the Delivery Point and acceptance of the delivery of the Goods shall be conclusive evidence of the Buyer's acceptance of these conditions.
2.6 The Buyer shall ensure that the Order is complete and accurate and the Company shall not be liable for any error on the part of the Buyer to accurately place its Order with the Company and the quantity and description of the Goods shall be as set out in the Delivery Note.
3. The Price and Payment
3.1 Unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing the price for the Goods shall be the price set out in the Company's price list published on the Delivery Date.
3.2 The price for the Goods shall be exclusive of any value added tax which shall be due at the prevailing rate on the date that the invoice is created.
3.3 Payment for the Price of the Goods is due in pounds sterling within 28 days of the Delivery Date and time for payment shall be of the essence.
3.4 No payment shall be deemed to have been received until the Company has received cleared funds.
3.5 All payments payable to the Company under the Contract shall become due immediately on its termination despite any other provision.
3.6 The Buyer shall make all payments due under the Contract in full and without any deduction whether by way of set-off, counterclaim, discount, abatement or otherwise unless the Buyer has a valid court order requiring an amount equal to such deduction to be paid by the Company to the Buyer.
3.7 If the Buyer fails to pay the Company any sum due pursuant to the Contract the Company may (without prejudice to any other rights available to it at law or otherwise):
(a) suspend or cancel deliveries of any goods due to the Buyer whether under this Contract or otherwise;
(b) appropriate and apportion any payment made by the Buyer to such of the Goods or goods supplied under any other contract with the Buyer as the Company may in its sole discretion think fit;
(c) charge the Buyer interest on such sum from the due date for payment at the annual rate of 4% above the base lending rate from time to time of HSBC Bank plc or 8% (whichever is the higher) and accruing on a daily basis until payment is made, whether before or after any judgement. The Company further reserves the right to claim interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
3.8 In the case of an insolvency situation arising in relation to the Buyer (as detailed in condition 5.6) then all sums due and owing to the Company on any account by the Buyer shall become immediately due and payable without any requirement for notice to be given.
4. Delivery & Acceptance of the Goods
4.1 Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Company, delivery of the Goods shall take place at the Company's place of business. If the Company has agreed to deliver the Goods then the Company shall deliver the goods to the Buyers stated delivery address on the Delivery Date.
4.2 The Delivery Date is intended to be an estimate and time for delivery shall not be made of the essence.
4.3 Subject to condition 7 the Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss (including, without limitation, pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and similar loss), costs, damages, charges or expenses caused directly or indirectly by any delay in the delivery of the Goods (even if caused by the Company's negligence).
4.4 The Buyer shall provide at the Delivery Point and at its expense adequate and appropriate equipment and manual labour for loading and unloading (if applicable) the Goods.
4.5 The quantity of any consignment of the Goods as recorded on the Delivery Note shall be conclusive evidence of the quantity received by the Buyer on delivery once the delivery has been accepted and signed for by any representative of the Buyer and following acceptance of the Delivery Note the Buyer shall not be entitled to reject any Goods which are not in accordance with the Contract.
4.6 The Company shall not be liable for any non-delivery of Goods (even if caused by the Company's negligence) unless the Buyer gives written notice to the Company of the non-delivery within 24 hours of the Delivery Date.
4.7 Any liability of the Company for non-delivery of the Goods shall be limited to replacing the Goods within a reasonable time or issuing a credit note at the pro rata Contract rate against any invoice raised for such Goods.
5 . Title & Risk
5.1 The Goods are at the risk of the Buyer from the time of delivery.
5.2 Ownership of the Goods shall not pass to the Buyer until the Company has received in full (either in cash or cleared funds) all sums due to it in respect of the Goods and all other sums which are or which become due to the Company from the Buyer on any account.
5.3 Until ownership of the Goods has passed to the Buyer, the Buyer shall:
(a) hold the Goods on a fiduciary basis as the Company’s bailee;
(b) store the Goods (at no cost to the Company) separately from all other goods of the Buyer or any third party in such a way that they remain readily identifiable as the Company’s property;
(c) not destroy, deface or obscure any identifying mark or packaging on or relating to the Goods;
(d) maintain the Goods in a satisfactory condition such that chilled Goods will be stored below +5ºc and frozen Goods will be stored below -18ºc; and
(e) insure and keep insured the Goods to their full re-instatement value against all usual risks and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Company.
5.4 Notwithstanding that the Goods remain the property of the Company the Buyer may sell or use the Goods in the ordinary course of the Buyer’s business provided that they have been disposed of at the full retail market value that the Goods could be expected to fetch in relation to the Buyer’s business and provided the Buyer holds all proceeds of any sale of the Goods as agent for the Company in a separate bank account until such time as the Goods have been paid for in full, pursuant to condition 3.
5.5 If the Buyer disposes of any of the Goods by way of a retail market sale, pursuant to condition 5.4, then the Buyer shall at all times be responsible for the safe and proper storage and sale of those Goods and shall fully indemnify the Company for any liability that it might incur as a consequence of permitting the Buyer to dispose of the Goods in this way.
5.6 The Buyer’s right to possession of the Goods shall terminate immediately if any insolvency proceedings (except a solvent voluntary liquidation for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation) are brought against the Buyer under the Insolvency Act 1986.
5.7 The Company shall be entitled to recover payment for the Goods notwithstanding that ownership of any of the Goods has not passed from the Company.
5.8 Until such time as property in the Goods passes from the Company (pursuant to these conditions) the Buyer shall upon request deliver up such of the Goods as have not been sold by the Buyer and if the Buyer fails to do so the Company may enter upon any premises owned, occupied or controlled by the Buyer where the Goods are situated and repossess those Goods.
5.9 On termination of this Contract (for what ever reason) the Company’s rights under this condition 5 shall remain in effect.
6. Warranties
6.1 The Company warrants that (subject to the other provisions of these conditions) on delivery the Goods will be of a satisfactory quality which corresponds to the description given to the Buyer by the Company.
6.2 The Company shall not be liable for a breach of the warranty at condition 6.1 unless the Buyer gives written notice of any defect to the Company within 24 hours of delivery.
6.3 The Company shall not be liable for a breach of the warranty at condition 6.1 if the defect arises because the Buyer failed to follow the Company’s storage instructions or if the Buyer failed to store the Goods in a prudent manner given the perishable nature of the Goods.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
7.1 Subject to condition 4 the entire financial liability of the Company (including any liability for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents and sub-contractors) to the Buyer in respect of any breach of these conditions or any use made or resale by the Buyer of any of the Goods and any representation, statement or tortious act or omission (including negligence arising under or in connection with the Contract) shall be limited to the Contract Price.
7.2 Nothing in these conditions is intended to exclude or limit the Liability of the Company for death or personal injury caused by the Company’s negligence; or under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (so far as it is relevant); or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or for any matter which it would be illegal for the Company to attempt to exclude its liability.
7.3 All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law (save for the conditions implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979) are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract.
8. General
8.1 The Company may assign the Contract or any part of it to any person, firm or company. The Buyer shall not be permitted to assign this Contract.
8.2 Neither party shall be liable for any default due to any act of god, war, strike, lock-out, industrial action, fire, flood, drought, tempest or other event beyond the reasonable control of either of the parties.
8.3 If any provision of the Contract is found to be wholly or partly illegal, invalid, void or voidable, unenforceable or unreasonable then that part of the Contract shall be deemed severable and the remaining provisions of the Contract shall continue in full force and effect.
8.4 Failure or delay by the Company in enforcing any provision of the Contract shall not be construed as a waiver of those rights under the Contract and any waiver by the Company of any provision of the Contract shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default.
8.5 This Contract and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
8.6 All communications between the parties under this Contract shall be in writing and delivered to the address notified to each party by the other.
Modern Slavery Statement
Full statement: here.
The Company is committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in any part of our business as far as possible requiring our suppliers to have a similar ethos.
The Company is committed to improving our practises to combat slavery and human trafficking.
Modern slavery is a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. It takes various forms such as being compelled, coercion, servitude, forced and compulsory labour, human trafficking and slavery.
All of which have in common the deprivation of a person's liberty by another in order to exploit them for personalor financial gain.
The Company has a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery. The Company is committed to actingethically and with integrity in all its dealings and relationships. Implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in the business or in any of our supply chains.
The Company is committed to ensuring there is transparency in our own business and in our approach to tackling modern slavery throughout our supply chains, consistent with our disclosure obligations under the Modern Slavery Act 2015. We expect the same high standards from all our contractors, suppliers, and other business partners and as part of our contracting processes, we include specific prohibitions against the use of forced, compulsory or trafficked labour, or anyone held in slavery.
This policy applies to all persons working for the Company or on our behalf, in any capacity including employees (at all levels), directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third party representatives and business partners.
This policy does not form any part of a contract of employment, and we may amend it at any time.
Responsibility for the Policy
The Board of Directors has overall responsibility for ensuring this policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it.
The HR Manager has primary and day-to-day responsibility for enforcing this policy, monitoring its use and effectiveness, and dealing with any queries about it. Auditing internal control systems and procedures to ensure they are effective in combating modern slavery.
Management at all levels are responsible for ensuring those reporting to them understand and comply with this policy and are given adequate and regular guidance on it and the issues of modern slavery in the supply chain.
The Company has in place a policy to protect whistle blowers, who may highlight to us any risk of slavery or human trafficking within our business operations or supply chain.
Compliance with this Policy
The prevention, detection and reporting of modern slavery ni any part of our business or supply chain is the responsibility of all those working for us or under our control. Any activity that might lead to or suggest a breach of this policy must be avoided. At the earliest opportunity personnel are encouraged to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any parts of our business, or supply chains of any supplier tier. If a member of staff asks for payroll payments to be made to a third party, this will be a short-term arrangement to accommodate their wishes. This is not advised and will be discouraged. Employees will be expected to have their own accounts set up within 4 weeks to avoid potential exploitation.
If a person believes or suspects that the treatment of workers, or their working conditions within any tier of our supply chain, conflicts with this policy or may occur in the future the HR Manager must be notified as soon as possible. The Company aims to encourage openness and will support anyone who raises genuine concerns in good faith under this policy, even if they turn out to be mistaken.
The Company is committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment, as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion that modern slavery may be taking place in any part of the business or in any of our supply chains.
Sexual Harassment Policy
All members of staff are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect in our place of work. Sexual harassment takes many forms but whatever form it takes, it is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010 as amended. We will not tolerate it.
Visitors to A1 Bacon should be aware of our zero tolerance policy to sexual harassment.
If you are deemed to have breached our Sexual Harassment Policy you will be asked to leave the premises, and any criminal acts will be reported to the police.