Winchester Wine School: Terms and Conditions
(1) Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.
(2) Licence to use website
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
(a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
(c) show any material from the website in public;
(d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
(e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
(f) redistribute material from this website.
(3) Acceptable use
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.
You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
(4) User generated content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Notwithstanding our rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, our website.
(5) Limited warranties
Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website (excluding user content) is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).
(6) Limitations of liability
Nothing in these terms and conditions (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:
(a) to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature;
(b) we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage;
(c) we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information;
(d) we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;
(e) our maximum liability in relation to any event or series of related events will be limited to £100.
(7) Indemnity
You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions
(8) Winchester Wine School
All goods and services offered for sale by the Winchester Wine School require payment in full prior to said goods and/or services being owed to, or delivered to, the purchaser.
Specific terms are as follows:
(a) Deposits
Deposits may be required by us to secure a booking. In these cases, we will notify you in advance to this effect.
For bookings involving 5 persons or more, including all corporate and bespoke bookings, a deposit is payable in advance, with the date and amount of deposit payment to be determined by us, usually at 30% of the full booking value, and with the balance fully payable at the latest by two weeks in advance of the event.
In all other cases, full payment in advance is required to secure a booking.
Deposits may be refundable in the event of cancellation of the booking by us. Please see Refunds and Cancellation, below.
(b) Refunds and Cancellation
We reserve the right to cancel courses for any reason and with no prior notice
In the event that we cancel an event prior to the event starting, we will notify all concerned parties as soon as possible and refund any monies that have been paid to us in respect of said cancelled goods and/or services, subject to the minimum cancellation period and terms as below. We cannot be held liable for any interest that may have been payable on said monies in the interim period nor can we be held liable for any loss or compensation resulting from the cancellation of said goods and/or services.
Events cancelled after the event has started will not be subject to refunds being paid unless in exceptional circumstances as determined by us.
Refunds are not available for gift vouchers once purchased. If refunds are due for cancelled courses part or fully paid for by a gift voucher(s), the gift voucher will remain valid for future use subject to any expiration date applicable to the voucher. Any balance of payment will be due to the purchaser of the booking.
If payment for events cancelled by us was made using a special offer, this will not remain valid for future bookings unless decreed by us.
If you cancel a booking with us with more than 4 weeks notice, all monies paid are fully refundable to you by us. If you cancel a booking with less than 4 weeks notice before the event is scheduled to take place, we reserve the right to retain any deposit paid. If you cancel a booking with less than 2 weeks notice prior to the event starting, the full payment will be due as a cancellation charge. In certain cases where we deem it appropriate, we will offer some or all of the retained funds against courses re-booked within one calendar month, and to take place within six calendar months of the scheduled date for the cancelled booking.
(c) Special offers
We reserve the right to cancel or suspend any special offers currently or previously published on our website.
Only one special offer may be used at any one time for the same booking.
Special offers cannot be used in conjunction with gift vouchers.
(d) Gift vouchers
We commit to honouring valid gift vouchers purchased through our site.
The nominal value of such vouchers is set at £0.001. Some vouchers may be subject to expiration clauses in which cases this will be made clear to the purchaser prior to the voucher being purchased and on the voucher itself. The expiration date only relates to the date of booking or purchase, not the date of any event.
We reserve the right to declare gift vouchers null and void if we suspect any fraud, theft or other illegal activity.
In cases where gift vouchers are not honoured, such as cancellation of an event by us, the gift voucher will remain valid for future bookings subject to any expiration date applicable to the voucher.
In cases where the value of the booking is less than the full face value of the gift voucher, the balance will remain valid for future bookings subject to any expiration date applicable to the voucher.
We regret that we cannot offer refunds on gift vouchers once purchased unless in exceptional circumstances to be determined by us.
(e) Participant behaviour
We reserve the right to eject any person or persons from our events if we judge their behaviour to be unacceptable or disruptive to others.
In such cases, no refunds will be offered.
We will endeavour to ensure that all participants behave both before, during and after our events, in an acceptable and law-abiding manner. However, we cannot be held responsible for any loss, damage or personal injury caused as a result of actions by participants at our events either prior to, during or after such events.
We will endeavour to behave in an acceptable and courteous manner at all times.
(f) External venues
We may not be held liable for any loss, damage or personal injury caused as a result of actions by participants at our events to any external venues or property in which the events take place. All such liability rests with the venue or property owner.
We will endeavour to ensure all property and venues are treated with respect by participants at our events.
(g) Goods and services as ordered
While we will endeavour to ensure all services we offer are supplied in full and as detailed to participants at our events, we cannot guarantee that all courses and events will take place precisely as detailed in advance.
In such cases, we will endeavour to notify organisers and participants as soon as is possible and provide suitable replacement(s).
We cannot guarantee the quality of goods and/or services supplied to us by third party contractors or suppliers. While we will endeavour to ensure the goods and/or services meet the high standards we require, we cannot be held accountable for any perceived lack of quality of said goods and/or services.
(h) Alcohol
We do not serve alcohol to guests under the age of 18.
We reserve the right to request identification and eject anyone from our courses whom we suspect to be a minor. In these cases, no refunds will be offered.
(i) PLI
If you wish to see details of our Public Liability Insurance policy, please refer to the below:
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Commercial Liability Insurance Public Liability : £5,000,000 |
(9) Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
(10) Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
(11) Assignment
We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
(12) Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
(13) Exclusion of third party rights
These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
(14) Entire agreement
These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy and disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
(15) Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
(16) Our details
The Winchester Wine School is run by Peter and Susie Richards
You can contact us by email.
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