Graphic Arts (Coventry) Ltd t/a Merit Display
At Merit Display we respect your privacy and we promise to:
Use your personal information only to provide you with the information you have requested or have agreed to receive. Keep your data safe and secure and process it in a manner that follows your wishes. Assist you to change your mind at any time about the communications you have signed up to receive. Only disclose your data to third parties for marketing purposes when you have given approval to do so.
1. ABOUT MERIT DISPLAY
Our registered office address is Welcome House, Charter Avenue Industrial Estate, Falkland Close, Coventry, CV4 8AU. The company is registered in England, company number 08422858.
2. WHERE YOUR DATA IS HELD
Your data is held on secure servers in the UK, and will be stored under the robust security measures described below. We do not transfer your data outside of the EEA and comply absolutely with the protection offered to you under the Data Protection Act 1998.
3. INFORMATION COLLECTED
We may collect any or all of the information that you give us depending on the type of transaction you enter into, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address, together with data about your use of the website. Other information that may be needed from time to time to process a request may also be collected as indicated on the website.
4. INFORMATION USE
We use the information collected primarily to process the task for which you visited the website. Data collected in the UK is held in accordance with the Data Protection Act. All reasonable precautions are taken to prevent unauthorised access to this information. This safeguard may require you to provide additional forms of identity should you wish to obtain information about your account details.
5. TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
By submitting your email address you are consenting to receive the particular piece of information you requested, as well as allowing us to send you appropriate and useful communications. This includes, but is not limited to; invitations to our events, our latest assets (including blog posts, whitepapers, guides, reports, infographics, videos, and case studies) and promotional offers on products and services. We would also like to keep you abreast of the charity events and initiatives we partake in.
If you are a customer of Merit Display, you will also receive periodic regular updates. These updates will highlight information relevant to the services we deliver. At any time, you can stop receiving emails from us using the link in the footer of the email.
6. DATA SECURITY
When you give your personal data to Merit Display we will process that data in accordance with our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and other relevant legislation.
We will keep your data safe and secure. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct usage of information, we monitor and adjust our physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal data while in our care, or in the care of any outside suppliers with whom we may contract to process your data on our behalf. Any outside suppliers are under strict contractual terms to mirror the security policies that we currently have in place.
7. WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR DATA – AND WHAT WE DON’T DO
We will process the data you supply in order to provide any service you have requested when you sign up on our website. We will only use your personal data for the purposes you have permitted and we will not share it for marketing purposes outside of Merit Display unless you have given us permission to do so.
8. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain personal information that you provide us as long as we consider it potentially useful in contacting you about our services, and then we securely delete the information. We will delete this information from the servers at an earlier date if you so request, as described in “Opting out and unsubscribing” below.
9. OPTIN OUT AND UNSUBSCRIBING
Reviewing, correcting and removing your personal information
If you provide us with your personal information, you have the following rights with respect to that information:
* To review the user information that you have supplied to us.
* To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us.
* To request that your user information not be used to contact you.
* To request that your user information be removed from any solicitation list that we use
* To request that your user information be deleted from our records.
* To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contactus@merit-display.co.uk. We will promptly change, correct, or delete your information and notify you of the action we have taken.
10. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may provide links to resources that we believe to be useful. These links will lead you to websites operated by third parties that operate under different privacy policies. Should you choose one of these links you will be leaving the Merit Display site for a site over which we have no control.
11. COOKIE POLICY
Our website uses cookies, which are small files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies read more here.
12. HOW WE USE COOKIES
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
13. DISABLING COOKIES
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.
14. OUR OWN WEBSITE FUNCTION COOKIES
We use cookies to make our website work. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
15. VISITOR STATISTICS COOKIES
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
We use Google Analytics. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
16. ADVERTISING COOKIES
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither Merit Display, advertisers, nor our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards.
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com
You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com
17. REMARKETING COOKIES
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called ‘remarketing cookie’ during your visit. We use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to come back to our site. Don’t worry we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You can opt out of these cookies at any time as explained above.
18. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or consent to these updates or changes, do not continue to use the website.
19. CONTACT
Questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to contactus@merit-display.co.uk
CONDITIONS OF SALE: Graphic Arts (Coventry) Ltd t/a Merit Display
Iss. C 27/10/2023
1. GENERAL
In these terms and conditions the seller shall be Graphic Arts (Coventry) Ltd and the buyer shall be the person who buys or agrees to buy goods or services from the seller.
Trading names of Graphic Arts (Coventry) Ltd include Graphic Signs, Merit Display, Providoré and Totally Tubes.
These terms and conditions apply in preference to and supersede any terms and conditions referred to, offered or relied on by the buyer whether in negotiation or at any step in the dealings between the seller and buyer with reference to the goods or services to which this contract relates. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the seller will not be bound by any standard or printed terms furnished by the buyer in any of its documents, unless the buyer specifically states in writing separately from such terms that he intends such terms to apply and the seller acknowledges such notification in writing.
2. VARIATION
Neither the buyer not the seller shall be bound by any variation waiver or addition to these conditions except as agreed by both parties in writing and signed on their behalf.
3. PRICE
a) Unless otherwise agreed in writing, prices are quoted exclusive of Value Added Tax and delivery charges.
b) All quotations and estimates issued by the seller on order forms or elsewhere are, unless otherwise stated, based on the current cost of the goods and services and are subject to amendment before acceptance to meet any rise in such costs.
c) Any variation to prices quoted as a result of government taxes and levies will be for the buyers account.
4. PAYMENT
a) Payment for goods and services shall be made according to the terms agreed when the order is placed. Where the buyer has a credit
account, payment shall be made by the 28th of the month following date of invoice.
b) If payment of the price or any part is not made by the due date the seller shall be entitled to: (i) charge interest on the outstanding amount at the rate of 2% per month calculated on a daily accruing basis; (ii) require payment in advance of delivery of undelivered goods or services;
(iii) refuse to make delivery of any undelivered goods or services whether ordered under the contract or not and without incurring any liability whatever to the buyer for non-delivery or any delay in delivery; (iv) terminate the contract.
5. LIABILITY
a) Any advice, information and opinion given by the seller (whether partner, employee or agent) as to the suitability of the goods offered is provided without legal responsibility. Any recommendations made by the seller are made in good faith, but it is for the buyer to satisfy himself of the suitability of the goods for the particular purpose and he shall be deemed to have done so.
b) The maximum liability of the seller under these terms and conditions shall be the contract price of the goods or services.
c) In no event shall the seller be liable for incidental or consequential loss or any loss of business profit.
6. RISK
The risk shall pass to the buyer at the time of delivery to the buyer’s premises or any other agreed delivery address.
7. TIME
The seller undertakes to use their best endeavours to despatch the goods (or deliver any services) on the promised delivery date (if any) but does not guarantee to do so. Time shall not be of the essence of the contract unless expressly so stipulated in writing and agreed by the seller. The buyer shall not refuse to take delivery of the goods when they are ready for despatch.
8. TITLE
a) Title to the goods shall not pass to the buyer until the date on which the entire contract price has been paid in full and any cheques cleared.
b) Until payment has been made to the seller, the buyer agrees to hold the goods as bailee of the seller.
9. FORCE MAJEURE
If delivery is delayed by strikes, lockouts, fire, accidents, defective materials, delays in receipt of raw materials or bought-in goods or components or by any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the seller, a reasonable extension of time for delivery shall be granted.
10. CANCELLATIONS
The seller reserves the right to refuse cancellation of any order particularly (but not thereby limiting the generality of the sellers rights) in the case of goods ready for despatch, in transit or in the process of manufacture.
11. RETURNS
The seller is not obliged to accept return of goods for credit where they have been correctly supplied. Where the seller voluntarily accepts a return a 20% handling charge may be applied. Goods specially produced for the buyer cannot be returned for credit.
12. PRINTED MATTER
a) The seller reserves the right to refuse a job on sight of the artwork due to the nature of the print. Where proofs are supplied to the buyer for approval, no liability shall be accepted for any error not corrected by the buyer.
b) Quotations are conditional on margins of 10% being allowed for overs or shortage, the same to be charged accordingly.
c) Payment of origination charges does not give entitlement to the property to which the charge relates. Origination charges are a nonreturnable payment.
d) Artwork, design visuals and preliminary work done at the buyer’s request are chargeable and constitute a non-returnable payment.
13. CUSTOMER’S PROPERTY
The buyer’s property and all property supplied to the seller by or on behalf of the buyer will be held, worked on, and carried at the buyer’s risk.
14. LAW
English law shall be the proper law of the contract and the contract shall be deemed to have been made in England.