Legal Notices and Terms of Service

Last updated: 20th January 2016

Legal Notices

This site and the Assist(a)nt service is owned by Services Rendered Limited, a company registered in England & Wales (number 8026373). Our registered office is 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. VAT Registration Number: GB132 4381 40.

Terms of Service

1. Introduction
1.1. This document (together with any documents referred to in it) define the terms and conditions (the 'Conditions') upon which we will supply the Services listed on this website (the 'Website') to you.
1.2. Before confirming your order please:
1.2.1. Read through these Conditions and in particular our cancellations policy at clause 11 and limitation of our liability and your indemnity at clause 15
1.2.2. Print a copy for future reference
1.2.3. Read our privacy policy regarding data and personal information
1.3. By ordering any of the Services listed on this Website, you agree to be legally bound by these Conditions. You will be unable to proceed with your transaction if you do not accept these terms and conditions as may be modified or amended and posted on this Website from time to time.
1.4. We reserve the right to revise and amend the Website, our disclaimers and the Conditions at any time without notice to you. Your continued use of the Website (or any part thereof) following a change shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether we have changed these Conditions.

2. About us
This Website is owned and operated by Services Rendered Limited, a limited company registered in England & Wales under company number 8026373 having our registered office at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ. Our VAT Number is: GB132 4381 40..

3. Communications
3.1. You agree that email and other electronic communications can be used as a long-distance means of communication and acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
3.2. We will contact you by email or provide you with information by posting notices on our Website.

4. Overseas orders
4.1. Our Website is only intended for use by customers resident in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (the United Kingdom).
4.2. We may accept your order if you are resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), subject to reserving a right to amend the specifications or standards of the services offered on the Website and/or these Conditions or to refuse to accept an order for our services from you, if it will put an excessive strain on our business or if we have an objective reason for doing so. If we accept your order, you will be liable to pay for all and any additional costs that we incur in order to facilitate your order. You will have an opportunity to cancel your order in case the additional costs are not acceptable.
4.3. If we agree to supply any services ordered from the Website for delivery outside the United Kingdom they may be subject to import duties and/or additional taxes or expenses incurred due to complying with foreign regulatory requirements or laws. You will be responsible for payment of any such duties and/or taxes in addition to our price including VAT. Please note that we have no control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. Please contact your local customs office or taxation authority for further information before placing your order.
4.4. You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the Services are destined. We will not be liable for any breach by you of any such laws.

5. Registration
5.1. When registering on the Website you will authenticate using your FreeAgent account. You are responsible for all actions taken under your authenticated FreeAgent account.
5.2. By registering on the Website you undertake that you are appropriately authorised to access any third party accounts that you link to the Website including, but not limited to, FreeAgent and Dropbox.

6. Eligibility to purchase from the Website
6.1. To be eligible to purchase the Services on this Website and lawfully enter into and form contracts with us, you must:
6.1.1. Be duly authorised to represent the company or legal entity that is purchasing the service.
6.1.1. Be 18 years of age or over
6.1.2. Be legally capable of entering into a binding contract
6.1.3. Provide full details of an address for the performance or delivery of the Services
6.2. If you are under 18, you may only use the Website in conjunction with, and under the supervision of, a parent or guardian. If you do not qualify, you must not use our Website.

7. Price
7.1. The prices of the Services are quoted on the Website.
7.2. Unless otherwise stated, the prices quoted exclude VAT which will be added at the current rate, to the total amount due from you.
7.3. We reserve the right, by giving notice to you at any time before delivery or performance of our obligations to you, to increase the price of the Services to reflect any increase in the cost to us due to any factor beyond our control (such as without limitation, any foreign exchange fluctuation, significant increase in the costs of labour, materials or other costs of manufacture). In the unlikely event of this occurring, you shall be entitled to cancel the order at any time before delivery or performance of our obligations to you or the expiry of the Cancellation Period in clause 11.2 whichever is later.

8. Payment
8.1. Payment can be made by any major credit or debit card as explained on the order form.
8.2. By placing an order, you consent to payment being charged to your debit/credit card account as provided on the order form.
8.3. Payment will be debited and cleared from your account before the provision of the Service to you.
8.4. When you pay for your order by card, we carry out certain checks which include obtaining authorisation from your card issuer to ensure you have adequate funds and for security reasons. This may involve validating your name, address and other personal information supplied by you during the order process against appropriate third party databases including the card issuer, registered credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies.
8.5. By accepting these Conditions you:
8.5.1. Undertake that all the details you provide to us for the purpose of purchasing the Services are correct and that the payment card you are using is your own and that there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of the Services ordered
8.5.2. Undertake that any and all Services ordered by you are for your own private or domestic use only and not for resale
8.5.3. Authorise us to transmit the payment and delivery information provided by you during the order process (included any updated information) for the purpose of obtaining authorisation from your card issuer to ensure you have adequate funds, to authenticate your identity, to validate your payment card and for other security reasons, such as fraud prevention
8.6. We shall contact you should any problems occur with the authorisation of your card.
8.7. We will take all reasonable care, in so far as it is in our power to do so, to keep the details of your order and payment secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part, we cannot be held liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures unauthorised access to any data you provide when accessing or ordering from our Website.

9. Order process and formation of a contract
9.1. All orders are subject to acceptance and availability. If any Services ordered are not available, you will be notified by email and you will have the option either to wait until the item is available or to cancel your order. It is your responsibility to provide us with a valid email address so that we can contact you if necessary.
9.2. Any order placed by you constitutes an offer to purchase the Services from us.
9.3. All such offers received from you are subject to acceptance by us and we reserve the right to refuse any order placed by you at any time prior to acceptance, without providing an explanation.
9.4. You shall be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the details provided by you during the order process and we will not accept an order unless all details requested from you have been entered correctly.
9.5. You agree that if we contact you to acknowledge receipt of your order such communication shall not amount to our acceptance of your offer to purchase the Services ordered by you from the Website.
9.6. A contract between you and us (the 'Contract') incorporating these Conditions will only subsist after we have debited your payment card and have confirmed that we shall be providing the requested Service We will send you an email to confirm this (a 'Confirmation Notice'). The Confirmation Notice will amount to an acceptance of your offer to purchase from us. The Contract will be formed when we send you the Confirmation Notice (whether or not you receive it).
9.7. The Contract will relate only to the Services stated in the Confirmation Notice. We will not be obliged to supply any other Services which may have been part of your order until we have sent you a separate Confirmation Notice relating to it.
9.8. You must check that the details contained in the Confirmation Notice are correct and you should print out and keep a copy of it.
9.9. You will be subject to the version of our policies and Conditions in force at the time that you order the Services from us, unless:
9.9.1. Any change to those policies or these Conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority
9.9.2. We notify you of any change to our policies or these Conditions before we send you the Confirmation Notice, in which case, we are entitled to assume that you have accepted it, unless we receive written notification from you to the contrary within seven calendar days of receipt of the Confirmation Notice

10. Performance of Services
10.1. The Services will be performed within a reasonable time from the date of the Confirmation Notice.
10.2. We will not be liable for any delay in performing the Services, however caused.

11. Cancelling your Contract
11.1. Cancelling before receiving a Confirmation Notice
11.1.1. You may cancel your order for the Services at any time prior to receiving a Confirmation Notice from us by notifying us of your decision to cancel.
11.1.2. You may notify us by sending us an email to Email address or a letter to quoting your name, address, the name or a description of the Services and your order reference number.
11.2. Cancellation after receiving a Confirmation Notice
11.2.1. If you wish us to begin to supply the Services before the expiry of 14 calendar days after the date of the Confirmation Notice (the 'Cancellation Period'), you must request us to do this and you must acknowledge that you will lose the right to cancel once the Services have been fully performed.
11.2.2. Unless the Services have been fully performed under this Contract in accordance with your request and acknowledgement referred to in clause 11.2.1 you may cancel this Contract within the Cancellation Period by notifying us of your decision to cancel. You will lose your right to cancel this Contract once the Services have been fully performed in accordance with your request and acknowledgement.
11.2.3. You may notify us of your decision to cancel by sending us by email to Email address or by post to
11.2.3.1. the fully completed cancellation form found on the Website, or
11.2.3.2. a statement of your name, address, the name or a description of the Services and your order reference number.
11.2.4. If you cancel this Contract after we have begun the supply of the Services in accordance with your request, you must pay us for the Services we supplied to you before we received notice of your cancellation.
11.2.5. Upon receiving notice of your cancellation, we will contact you providing any necessary instructions which you will be required to follow.
11.3. Refunds on cancellation
11.3.1. So long as you are entitled to cancel and have complied with your obligations under clause 11.2, we will refund you the balance of the price and VAT you paid to us after deducting:
11.3.1.1. the value of the Services we supplied before we received your cancellation notice together with VAT payable in respect of that value.
11.3.2. We will refund you the sum in clause 11.3.1 within 14 days of our receipt of your cancellation notice.

12. Complaints
If you have a comment, concern or complaint about any Services you have purchased from us, please contact us via email at support@assistnt.com.

13. Intellectual property
13.1. Services sold or licensed by us and Website content may be subject to copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property rights in favour of third parties. We acknowledge those rights.
13.2. The content of the Website is protected by copyright (including design copyrights), trade marks, patent, database and other intellectual property rights and similar proprietary rights which include (without limitation), all rights in materials, works, techniques, computer programs, source codes, data, technical information, trading business brand names, goodwill, service marks, utility models, semi-conductor topography rights, the style or presentation of the goods or services, creations, inventions or improvements upon or additions to an invention, confidential information, know-how and any research effort relating to moral rights and any similar rights in any country (whether registered or unregistered and including applications for and the right to apply for them in any part of the world) and you acknowledge that the intellectual property rights in the material and content supplied as part of the Website shall remain with us or our licensors.
13.3. You may download or copy the content and other downloadable items displayed on the Website subject to the condition that the material may only be used for personal non-commercial purposes. Copying or storing the contents of the Website for other than personal use is expressly prohibited.
13.4. You may retrieve and display the content of the Website on a computer screen, store such content in electronic form on disk (but not any server or other storage device connected to a network) or print one copy of such content for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you keep intact all and any copyright and proprietary notices. You may not otherwise reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content on the Website.
13.5. You acknowledge that any other use of the material and content of this Website is strictly prohibited and you agree not to (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, reproduce, transmit, publish, display, distribute, commercially exploit or create derivative works from such material and content.
13.6. No licence is granted to you in these Conditions to use any of our trade marks or those of our affiliated companies.

14. Website use
You are permitted to use the Website and the material contained in it only as expressly authorised by us under our terms of use.

15. Liability and indemnity
15.1. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Conditions, nothing will affect or limit your statutory rights; or will exclude or limit our liability for:
15.1.1. Death or personal injury resulting from our negligence
15.1.2. Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
15.1.3. Action pursuant to section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987
15.1.4. Any matter for which it would be unlawful for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability
15.2. The Website is provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis without any representation or endorsement made and we make no warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise (unless otherwise expressly stated in these Conditions or required by law) in relation to the information, materials, content or services found or offered on the Website for any particular purpose or any transaction that may be conducted on or through the Website including but not limited to implied warranties of non-infringement, compatibility, timeliness, performance, security, accuracy, condition or completeness, or any implied warranty arising from course of dealing or usage or trade custom.
15.3. We will not be liable if the Website is unavailable at any time.
15.4. We make no representation or warranty of any kind express or implied statutory or otherwise regarding the availability of the Website or that it will be timely or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
15.5. We will not be responsible or liable to you for any loss of content or material uploaded or transmitted through the Website and we accept no liability of any kind for any loss or damage resulting from action taken in reliance on material or information contained on the Website.
15.6. We cannot guarantee and cannot be responsible for the security or privacy of the Website and any information provided by you. You must bear the risk associated with the use of the internet. In particular, we will not be liable for any damage or loss caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, any viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful that may infect your computer, peripheral computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material as a result of your use of the Website or as a result of your downloading, streaming or otherwise accessing any Digital Content supplied on the Website or from any website linked to it.
15.7. We will use all reasonable endeavours to carry out our obligations within a reasonable period of time but will not be liable to you for any loss, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from any delays in doing so.
15.8. We will not be liable, in contract or tort (including, without limitation, negligence), or in respect of pre-contract or other representations (other than fraudulent misrepresentations) or otherwise for:
15.8.1. any economic losses (including without limitation loss of revenues, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings and any loss related to your business, the extent of which was not foreseeable at the time of the contract); or
15.8.2. any loss of goodwill or reputation; or
15.8.3. any special losses or losses not normally reasonably foreseeable at the time of the contract; or
15.8.4. any loss of data; or
15.8.5. wasted management or office time; or
15.8.6. any other loss or damage of any kind suffered or incurred arising out of or in connection with the provision of any matter under these Conditions and/or the Contract and/or the use of this Website or any aspect related to your agreement to purchase the Services even if such losses are foreseeable or result from a deliberate breach of these Conditions by us that would entitle you to terminate the Contract between us or as a result of any action we have taken in response to your breach of these Conditions. Without prejudice to the terms of this clause and in the event that we are unable to rely upon it, our liability for all and any losses you suffer as a result of us breaking the Contract, whether or not deliberate, including those listed in clauses 15.8.1 to 15.8.6, is strictly limited to the total of the price of and any delivery charges you paid for the Services.
15.9. You agree to fully indemnify, defend and hold us, and our officers, directors, employees and suppliers, harmless immediately on demand, from and against all claims, including but not limited to losses (including loss of profit, revenue, goodwill or reputation), costs and expenses, including reasonable administrative and legal costs, arising out of any breach of these Conditions by you, or any other liabilities arising out of your use of this Website or any other person accessing the Website using your personal information with your authority.
15.10. This clause does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer, nor does it affect your contractual cancellation rights.

16. Termination
16.1. We reserve the right to terminate an agreement formed with you pursuant to clause 9 and to suspend or terminate your access to the Website immediately and without notice to you if:
16.1.1. You fail to make any payment to us when due
16.1.2. You breach these Conditions (repeatedly or otherwise)
16.1.3. You are impersonating any other person or entity
16.1.4. When requested by us to do so, you fail to provide us within a reasonable time with sufficient information to enable us to determine the accuracy and validity of any information supplied by you, or your identity
16.1.5. We suspect you have engaged, or are about to engage, or have in anyway been involved, in fraudulent or illegal activity on the Website

17. Events outside our control
17.1. Except for our obligation under clause 17.4, we shall have no liability for delays or failures in delivery or performance of our obligations to you resulting from any act, event, omission, failure or accident outside of our control ('Event Outside Our Control'), which, without limitation, includes:
17.1.1. A strike, lock-out or other industrial action
17.1.2. Shortages of labour, fuel, power, raw materials where we could not take reasonable action to obtain alternative supplies in time to perform this contract
17.1.3. Late, defective performance or non-performance by suppliers where we could not by taking reasonable action obtain alternative supplies in time to perform this contract
17.1.4. Private or public telecommunication, computer network failures or breakdown of equipment
17.1.5. Civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war
17.1.6. Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster or extreme weather conditions
17.1.7. Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport
17.1.8. Acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government
17.1.9. Other events, beyond our reasonable control
17.2. Our performance will be deemed to be suspended for the period that the Event Outside Our Control continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use reasonable endeavours to minimise any delay caused by the Event Outside Our Control or to find a solution by which our obligations may be performed despite this event. We shall promptly notify you of any Event Outside Our Control giving details of it and (where possible) the extent and likely duration of any delay.
17.3. Where an Event Outside Our Control prevents us from performing our obligations to you within 25 days from the date we sent you the Confirmation Notice, either you or we may terminate the Contract by giving 5 days written notice to the other.
17.4. If the Contract is terminated due to an Event Outside Our Control, we will refund you any money you have paid to us under the Contract.

18. Privacy policy
18.1. In order to monitor and improve customer service, we sometimes record telephone calls.
18.2. We shall be entitled to process your data in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy. Please view this document for further information. All information provided by you will be treated securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (as amended).

19. External links
19.1. To provide increased value and convenience to our users, we may provide links to other websites or resources for you to access at your sole discretion and risk. You acknowledge and agree that, as you have chosen to enter the linked website we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not review or endorse and are not responsible or liable in any way, whether directly or indirectly, for:
19.1.1. The privacy practices of such websites
19.1.2. The content of such websites, including (without limitation) any advertising, content, products, goods or other materials or services on or available from such websites or resources
19.1.3. The use which others make of these websites; or
19.1.4. Any damage, loss or offence caused or alleged to be caused to you, arising from or in connection with the use of or reliance upon any such advertising, content, products, goods, materials or services available on and/or purchased by you from such external websites or resources

20. Linking to the Website
20.1. We have no obligation to inform you if the address of the Website home page changes and it is your responsibility to ensure that any link you provide to our homepage is at all times accurate.
20.2. Any link that you create must be:
20.2.1. Established from a website or document that is owned by you and does not contain content that is offensive, controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or does not comply in any way with the law in the UK and the law in any country from which it is hosted
20.2.2. Provided in such a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it
20.2.3. Established in such a way that does not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists

21. Notices
21.1. All notices given by you to us must be given to us at Services Rendered Limited, 25 Esmond Road, London W4 1JG, UK or by using support@assistnt.com. We may give notice as described in clause 3.
21.2. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our Website, 24 hours after an email is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an email, that such email was sent to the specified email address of the addressee.

22. Entire agreement
22.1. The Contract represents the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of the Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.
22.2. We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us has relied on any express or implied representation, undertaking or promise given by the other from anything said or written in any negotiations between us prior to such Contract except as has been expressly incorporated in such Contract.
22.3. Neither of us shall have any remedy in respect of any untrue statement made by the other, whether orally or in writing, prior to the date of any Contract (unless such untrue statement was made fraudulently) and the other party's only remedy shall be for breach of contract as provided in these Conditions.

23. General
23.1. We reserve the right to change the domain address of this Website and any services, products, product prices, product specifications and availability at any time.
23.2. All prices and descriptions supersede all previous publications. All product descriptions are approximate.
23.3. Every effort is made to keep information regarding stock availability on the Website up to date. However, we do not guarantee that this is the case, or that stock will always be available.
23.4. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the other provisions of the Contract and the remainder of the provision in question will not be affected.
23.5. All Contracts are concluded and available in English only.
23.6. If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under it or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with your obligations.
23.7. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.
23.8. No waiver by us of any of these Conditions or of any other term of a Contract shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 3
23.9. Any Contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns. You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of the Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.

24.Governing law and jurisdiction
24.1.The Website is controlled and operated in the United Kingdom.
24.2.Every purchase you make shall be deemed performed in the United Kingdom.