Policies

Returns Policies

  1. Introduction

1.1     We understand that from time to time you may wish to return a product to us.

1.2     We have created this policy to enable you to return products to us in appropriate circumstances.

1.3     This policy shall apply to all of our customers, irrespective of their geographical location.

1.4     This policy shall apply to all orders submitted through our website.

1.5     This document does not affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer (such as rights under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013).

  1. Returns

2.1     If you have no other legal right to return a product and receive a refund or exchange, then you will nonetheless be entitled to return a product to us and receive a refund in accordance with this policy if:

(a)      we receive the returned product within 30 days following the date of dispatch of the product to you;

(b)      the returned product is unused, in its original unopened packaging (with any seal or shrink-wrap intact), with any labels still attached, and otherwise in a condition enabling us to sell the product as new;

(c)      you comply with the procedure set out in this policy in relation to the return of the product; and

(d)      none of the exclusions set out in this policy apply.

  1. Returns procedure

3.1     In order to take advantage of your rights under this policy, you must contact us to obtain a return authorisation number, and then send the product to us with a covering note quoting that number.

3.2     Products returned under this policy must be sent by Royal Mail Signed For delivery to Ryefield Investments Limited, ARUN House, ARUN Building, Arundel Road, Uxbridge, London, UB8 2RP, United Kingdom.

3.3     You will be responsible for paying postage costs associated with returns under this policy.

  1. Refunds

4.1     We will give you a refund for the price you paid to us in respect of any product properly returned by you in accordance with this policy.

4.2     We will not refund to you the original delivery charges relating to the returned product.

4.3     We will refund to you your reasonable postage costs incurred returning the product to us. / We will not refund to you any costs you incur in returning the product to us.

4.4     We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.

4.5     We will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any event, within 30 days following the day we receive your returned product.

  1. Improper returns

5.1     If you return a product in contravention of this policy, and you do not have any other legal right to a refund or exchange in respect of that product:

(a)      we will not refund the purchase price or exchange the product;

(b)      we may retain the returned product until you pay to us such additional amount as we may charge for re-delivery of the returned product; and

(c)      if we do not receive payment of such additional amount within 14 days of issuing a request for payment, we may destroy or otherwise dispose of the returned product in our sole discretion without any liability to you.

  1. Our details

6.1     This website is owned and operated by Ryefield Investments Limited.

6.2     Our principal place of business is at Ryefield Investments Limited, ARUN House, ARUN Building, Arundel Road, Uxbridge, London, UB8 2RP, United Kingdom.

6.3     You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form or by email to [email protected] or [email protected]

Delivery Policies

  1. Introduction

1.1     This policy contains details of the delivery methods, periods and charges that apply to orders for our products made through our website, https://classicbookscompany.com/

1.2     This policy is a legally binding document, and forms part of the contract of sale between you and us made under our terms and conditions of sale.

1.3     This policy does not create legally enforceable rights and obligations; it merely indicates our usual practice in relation to the delivery of products.

  1. Free delivery

2.1     We offer free standard delivery to all mainland UK addresses on all orders over GBP £ 30.00.

2.2     All other orders will be subject to delivery charges.

2.2     We advise customers to purchase multiple books to save on postage costs.

  1. Geographical limitations

3.1     We will usually be able to deliver to the following countries and territories: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

3.2     We also deliver to other countries and territories worldwide.

  1. Delivery methods and periods

4.1     The methods that we use to deliver our products are by the Royal Mail Standard service. We will provide a tracking number wherever available. We will dispatch your ordered item promptly. However, the delivery schedule is dependent on the postal services.

4.2     If you place your order before 4pm on a working day, these time periods run from the close of business on that day; if you place your order after 4pm on a working day, or on a non-working day, these time periods run from the close of business on the next following working day.

4.3     The delivery periods set out in this Section 4 are indicative only, and whilst we will make every effort to ensure that you receive your delivery in good time, we do not guarantee delivery before the end of the stated period.

  1. Delivery charges

5.1     Delivery charges will be calculated by our website and automatically applied to your order during the checkout process, or alternatively quoted by us.

5.2     Applicable delivery charges will depend upon the delivery method you select, the location of the delivery address, and the size and weight of the products in your order.

5.3     For wholesale orders, please always write to us for competitive pricing on the books and also the shipping costs.

  1. Delivery tracking

6.1     Delivery tracking is provided wherever available.

6.2     Orders are normally dispatched by Royal Mail Standard Delivery service. A tracking number is not always available.

  1. Receipt and signature

7.1     All deliveries must be received in person at the delivery address.

  1. Additional deliveries

8.1     If an initial delivery attempt is unsuccessful, our delivery service provider may leave a card for your item to be collected at your local sorting office. Please refer to Section 9.

  1. Collection

9.1     If your products remain undelivered, the delivery service provider will leave a card at your address, with instructions on how you may collect your products, including a time limit for collection.

  1. Delivery problems

10.1    If you experience any problems with a delivery, please contact us at [email protected] or [email protected]  quoting your order number and the item that you’ve ordered.

10.2    Please give us 24-hours to reply to you.

10.3    If our delivery service provider is unable to deliver your products, and such failure is your fault, and you do not collect your products from our delivery service provider within the relevant time limit, we may agree to arrange for re-delivery of the products. However, we reserve the right to charge you for the actual costs of re-delivery (even where the initial delivery was free of charge).

10.4    An indicative list of the situations where a failure to deliver will be your fault is set out below:

(a)      you provided the wrong address for delivery;

(b)      there is a mistake in the address for delivery that was provided;

(c)      the address for delivery is not reasonably accessible;

(d)      the address for delivery cannot safely be accessed;

(e)      if in-person receipt is not required, there is no easy and secure means of leaving the products at the address for delivery and there is no person available to accept delivery; or

(f)      if in-person receipt is required, there is no person available at the address for delivery to accept delivery and provide a signature.

Privacy and Cookies Policies

Part 1: Personal information and privacy

  1. Introduction

1.1     We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1.2     We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website. The message will be thus: “By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.”

  1. Collecting personal information

2.1     We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a)      information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);

(b)      information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address);

(c)      information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);

(d)      information relating to any purchases you make of our goods (including your name, delivery address, payment address, telephone numbers, email address and card details;

(e)      information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, profile pictures and reviews);

(f)      information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication);

(g)      any other personal information that you choose to send to us; and

(h)      provide details of other personal information collected.

2.2     Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

  1. Using your personal information

3.1     Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2     We may use your personal information to:

(a)      administer our website and business;

(b)      personalise our website for you;

(c)      enable your use of the services available on our website;

(d)      send you goods purchased through our website;

(e)      send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;

(f)      send you non-marketing commercial communications;

(g)      send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;

(h)      send you our email newsletter (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);

(i)       send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar communication technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);

(j)      provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);

(k)      deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;

(l)       keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

(m)     verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website; and

(n)      other uses.

3.3     If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

3.4     We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

3.5     All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, PayPal. You can review the provider’s privacy policy at www.paypal.co.uk. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

  1. Disclosing personal information

4.1     We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.2     We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.3     We may disclose your personal information:

(a)      to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)      in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)      in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d)      to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(e)      to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4     Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

  1. International data transfers

5.1     Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

5.2     Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.

5.3     Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

5.4     You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

  1. Retaining personal information

6.1     This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

6.2     Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

6.3     Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

(a)      to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)      if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and

(c)      in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

  1. Security of your personal information

7.1     We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

7.2     We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

7.3     All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

7.4     You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

7.5     You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

  1. Amendments

8.1     We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

8.2     You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

8.3     We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

  1. Your rights

9.1     You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

(a)      the payment of a fee currently fixed at GBP 10; and

(b)      the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

9.2     We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

9.3     You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

9.4     In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

  1. Third party websites

10.1    Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

10.2    We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

  1. Updating information

11.1    Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Part 2: Cookies

  1. About cookies

1.1     A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

1.2     Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

1.3     Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

1.4     Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.

  1. Our cookies

2.1     We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

2.2     The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

we use cookies on our website to recognise a computer when a user visits the website, track users as they navigate the website, enable the use of a shopping cart on the website, improve the website’s usability, analyse the use of the website,  administer the website,  prevent fraud and improve the security of the website,  personalise the website for each user,  target advertisements which may be of particular interest to specific users

  1. Analytics cookies

3.1     We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.

3.2     Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.

3.3     The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: _utma, _utmb, _utmc and _utmz

3.4     The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.

3.5     Our analytics service provider’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

  1. Third party cookies

4.1     Our website also uses third party cookies.

4.2     We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using the DoubleClick cookie. We publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the web using the DoubleClick cookie. This behaviour tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements you see on other websites to reflect your interests (we do not publish interest-based advertisements on this website). You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: http://www.google.com/settings/ads/. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the NAI’s (Network Advertising Initiative’s) multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-in available at: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin.

  1. Blocking cookies

5.1     Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

(a)      in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;

(b)      in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and

(c)      in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.

5.2     Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

5.3     If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

  1. Deleting cookies

6.1     You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:

(a)      in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);

(b)      in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies”, and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and

(c)      in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customise and control” menu, and clicking “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Clear browsing data”, and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data”.

6.2     Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.