Terms and Conditions

These terms (together with the documents referred to in here) are the terms and conditions on which Bridging to the Future Limited (we, us and ours) supply to you any of the courses and supporting materials (Courses) listed on our website www.bridgingtothefuture.co.uk (our site) and represented by our most current promotional literature. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before ordering any services from our site. You should understand that by ordering any of our services, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

1. Information about us

   1.1 ) www.bridgingtothefuture.co.uk is a site operated by Bridging to the Future Limited which is a trading name for Bridging to the Future Limited (we). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 05919472 and with our registered office at Impact Hub Birmingham, 58 Oxford Street, Digbeth, B5 5NR. Our main trading address is Impact Hub Birmingham, 58 Oxford Street, Digbeth, B5 5NR. Our VAT number is 913 2553 46.

   1.2 ) We are a business support, business consultancy, business advice and coaching organization. We are not an agency.

2. Your status

By placing an order through our site, you warrant that:

   a) You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and

   b) You are at least 18 years old;

3. How the contract is formed between you and us

   3.1 ) After placing an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order. Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to us to ‘buy’ a service, including free courses. All orders are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an e-mail that confirms that the service you have ordered has been agreed (Confirmation). The contract between us (Contract) will only be formed when we send you the Confirmation.

   3.2 ) The Contract will relate only to those services which we have confirmed in the Confirmation. We will not be obliged to supply any other services which may have been part of your order until we have confirmed in a separate Confirmation.

4. Consumer rights

   4.1 ) If you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel a Contract at any time within seven working days, beginning on the day after your payment. In this case, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the service in accordance with our refunds policy set out in clause 7 below.

   4.2 ) To cancel a Contract, you must inform us in writing. You must also return any advanced resources/materials immediately, in the same condition in which you received them, and at your own cost and risk. You have a legal obligation to take reasonable care of the resources/materials while they are in your possession. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation.

   4.3 ) You may transfer to an alternative service without charge, subject to availability and Bridging to the Future’s capacity to deliver at the appropriate market cost.

   4.4 ) The provisions of this clause 4 do not affect your statutory rights.

5. Risk and title

   5.1 ) Resources/materials may be sent to you following dispatch of the Confirmation will be at your risk from the time of delivery. Ownership of the resources/materials will only pass to you when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the services we are providing.

   5.2 ) Your ability to receive the services which we offer and which you have ordered and we have confirmed in the Confirmation, will be at your risk from the time of dispatch of the Confirmation. Your entitlement to receive our services will only arise when we have dispatched the Confirmation and we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Courses.

6. Price and payment

   6.1 ) The price of any services will be as quoted on our site from time to time or on our promotional literature, except in cases of obvious error.

   6.2 ) Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Confirmation.

   6.3 ) Our site and promotional literature refer to a number of services and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the services listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our dispatch procedures so that, where a services' correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Confirmation to you. If a services' correct price is higher than the price stated on our site or in our promotional literature, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Confirmation, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.

   6.4 ) We are under no obligation to provide the service to you at the incorrect (lower) price, even after we have sent you a Confirmation, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakeable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mis-pricing.

   6.5 ) Payment for all Courses must be by cheque or electronic transfer. Transfer and received by us in cleared funds prior to our service being delivered.

   6.7 ) We are not liable for any price differences that may arise as a result of customers booking services with us at different times or subject to different promotions from time to time.

7. Our refunds policy

   7.1 ) All deposits and service fees are non-refundable with the exception of the cooling-off period as per 7.2

   7.2 ) If you cancel the Contract for any reason within the seven day cooling-off period referred to in clause 4.1 and return any resources/materials we have sent you we will process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day you have given notice of your cancellation. In this case, we will refund the price of the service in full. However, you will be responsible for the cost of returning the resources/materials to us. After the 7 day cooling-off period there will be no refund on service fees and deposits.

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

8. Our liability

   8.1 ) We warrant to you that any service and resources/materials purchased from us through our site is of satisfactory quality and reasonably fit for the purpose for which the service is supplied.

   8.2 ) You should notify us (as provided for in clause 10 below) if you are unhappy with any part of the service within 30 days of the delivery of the service.

   8.3 ) Our liability for losses you suffer as a result of us breaking the Contract is strictly limited to the purchase price of the service which you purchased.

   8.4 ) This does not include or limit in any way our liability:

      a) for death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

      b) under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987;

      c) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

      d) for any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.

   8.5 ) Your success in building any business is dependent on a number of factors. We give no guarantee that by attending and/or completing our service you will experience success in any business or activity that you may carry on following our service.

   8.6 ) We are not responsible for indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage, including but not limited to loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits, contracts or potential contracts or loss of anticipated savings.

   8.7 ) We are not liable for additional costs due to changes in services, courses, content, venues or coaches. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable notice where possible.

9. Written communications

When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on our website. You agree to this electronic means of communication and you 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. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

10. Notices

All notices given by you to us must be given to Bridging to the Future Limited, Impact Hub Birmingham, 58 Oxford Street, Digbeth, B5 5NR. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when placing an order, or in any of the ways specified in clause 9. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail 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 e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

11. Transfer of rights and obligations

   11.1 ) The Contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns.

   11.2 ) You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.

   11.3 ) 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.

12. Events outside our control

   12.1 ) We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (Force Majeure Event).

   12.2 ) A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action; civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war; fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster; impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport; impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.

   12.3 ) Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period.

13. Intellectual Property Rights

   13.1 ) All intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, copyright, moral rights, design rights, trademarks and patents) and all other rights in the service content and resources/materials belong to us. We licence to you all such rights on a non-exclusive basis for the purpose only of enabling you to attend, participate and, where you are able, to complete our service offer. You are also permitted to use small extracts of the resources/materials content for your personal only. Reproduction or distribution of the service content and resources/materials is strictly prohibited.

   13.2 ) Use of our logo is strictly prohibited without our prior written consent.

   13.3 ) Audio and visual recordings of our services are strictly prohibited without our prior written consent.

   13.4 ) Occasionally we may film or record the delivery of our services during your receipt of our services. You authorise us to use your image and voice in any such recordings without payment, other condition or need for further consent.

   13.5 ) You acknowledge that certain information contained in our services and resources/materials is already in the public domain.

   13.6 ) our service-users are not permitted to sell or promote products or services whilst at Bridging to the Future Limited events or premises without prior written permission.

14. Confidentiality

   14.1 ) Save as required by law or in respect of information which is already in the public domain through no breach by you of the provisions of this clause 14, you shall keep in strict confidence all technical and commercial know-how, specifications, inventions, processes or initiatives which are of a confidential nature and have been disclosed to you by us (or our employees, agents, consultants or sub-contractors) and any other confidential information concerning our business or the services we deliver or resources/materials which you may obtain.

   14.2 ) You shall not use any such information for any purpose other than as a customer of our services.

15. Data Protection

   15.1 ) You agree that we may use your personal data in accordance with and subject to the Data Protection Act 1998.

   15.2 ) We may send you information from time to time regarding new services. If you do not wish to receive such information please contact us on 0121 243 8031.

16. Termination

   16.1 ) subject to clause 16.2 below, you fail to attend meetings or events or the equivalent within 18 months of the date of Confirmation or, where we have given our prior written consent;

   16.2 ) in our opinion you cause disruption during using our service or venues or take any action which brings us (or any of our employees, agents, consultants or sub-contractors) into disrepute or adversely affects our goodwill or reputation. These includes any inappropriate actions or communications with our staff.

17. Waiver

   17.1 ) If we fail to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract 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 such obligations.

   17.2 ) A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

   17.3 ) No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 10 above.

18. Severability

If any of these terms and Conditions or any provisions of a Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

19. Entire agreement

   19.1 ) These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.

   19.2 ) We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us has relied on any representation, undertaking or promise given by the other or be implied from anything said or written in negotiations between us prior to such Contract except as expressly stated in these terms and conditions.

   19.3 ) 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 terms and conditions.

20. Our right to vary these terms and conditions

   20.1 ) We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system's capabilities.

   20.2 ) You will be subject to the terms and conditions in force at the time that you order Courses from us, unless we notify you of the change to these terms and conditions before we send you the Confirmation (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the Confirmation).

21. Law and jurisdiction

Contracts for the purchase of services through our site 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) will be governed by English law and all disputes and claims shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.