These are the terms on which we (Extend Your House) will provide you with our services. Your continuing instructions in this matter will indicate your acceptance of the terms of business.
Carrying out your work
We will act with proper skill and care and with appropriate speed, and we will keep you informed of progress and the issues raised until the transaction is completed.
Calculating our Fees
We will inform you if any unforeseen additional work becomes necessary
Carrying out your work
We will act with proper skill and care and with appropriate speed, and we will keep you informed of progress and the issues raised until the transaction is completed.
Billing arrangements
We may at any time require you to pay to us reasonable sums on account of anticipated fees, disbursements, expenses and value added tax. We will not be obliged to start (or as the case may be continue) work until we receive such sums.
Payment of our bills
We will act with proper skill and care and with appropriate speed, and we will keep you informed of progress and the issues raised until the transaction is completed.
E-mail and fax
We may communicate with you by e-mail and send faxes to you on any number you have notified to us. We reserve the right to stop acting for you if you do not allow us to communicate with you by email.
Files and documents
We may make a charge for the time spent at your request in retrieving or delivering papers or documents.
Data Protection Act 1998
We will not, except with your consent or as required by law, disclose to any third party any personal data which we obtain from you for the purposes of or in performing services which we provide to you.
Your name and contact details will be placed on our marketing database which we use for the purpose of sending out mailings by post and by email which you have requested or which we believe may be of interest to you. If you have any objection to your details being held on our marketing database you can require us to remove your details from our database.
Our liability to you
You agree that any claim of any kind arising out of or in connection with this engagement will be brought only against Extend Your Home and that no claims in respect of our engagement will be brought personally against any of our partners, employees or consultants. This provision will not limit or exclude our liabilities as a partnership for the acts or omissions of our partners, employees and consultants.
If we engage other professionals (such as surveyors or architects) on your behalf we do so as your agent and accept no responsibility for their advice, acts or omissions.
The exclusions and limitations in this paragraph 14 will not operate to exclude or limit any liability for fraud or any liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Force Majeure
We will not be liable to you if we are unable to provide our services as a result of any cause beyond our reasonable control.
Third party rights
None of these terms (other than paragraph 14.1) is intended to be enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Accordingly no third party (other than a partner, employee or consultant wishing to rely on paragraph 14.1) shall have any right to enforce or rely on any of these terms.
Termination
You may terminate your instructions to us by giving notice in writing at any time.
We may decide to stop acting for at any time. We will notify you in writing of any such decision.
Governing Law
These terms are governed by English law and both you and we agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.