Terms and Conditions of website usage

If you browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with, and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which govern Amanda Ransom Design’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, we request that you do not access our website.

The term Amanda Ransom Design, Amanda Ransom Design Limited or 'I' or 'me' or 'us' or 'we' refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is: Hammonds Farm, Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 3QN. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website.

Website usage

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

1.    The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice. You may only use this website for non-commercial use and only in accordance with the terms and conditions. 

2.   All intellectual property rights in any content of the website (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trademarks and logos) are owned by Amanda Ransom Design or our licensors. Except as expressly set out, nothing in these terms and conditions gives you any rights in respect to any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading content from the Site. In the event you print off, copy or store pages from the website (only as permitted by these terms and conditions), you must ensure that any copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced. Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

3.   Neither I, or we, nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law. Content on this website is not intended to amount to authority or advice on which reliance should be placed. You should check with Amanda Ransom Design Limited before relying on any of the content contained herein. 

4.   Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements. We do not guarantee that any content of the website is free from viruses and/or other code that may be contaminating or destructive. It is your responsibility to maintain appropriate IT security safeguards (including up to date anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your requirements for the safety and reliability of content. 

5.   You may retrieve and display content from this website on a computer screen, print and copy individual pages, and subject to the next point (6), store such pages in electronic form. 

6.   You may not however store content of this website on a server or other storage device connected to a network or create an electronic database by downloading and storing all the content of the Site. Neither should you remove or change any content on the Site or attempt to circumvent the security or interfere with the correct working of the website or the servers on which it is hosted, or create links to the Site from any other website which contains any content which is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, indecent, offensive or which infringes on another’s intellectual property rights or rights of another party.

7.   The site must only be used for lawful purposes and in a responsible manner, not in any way that might damage our name, brand or reputation or that of any of our affiliates. 

8.   The site may allow you to upload user-generated content (User Content) and communicate that content either to selected recipients or in a public forum. We do not control the material submitted to these forums, nor are they actively moderated so you are solely responsible for the content and acknowledge that all content expresses the views of the authors, and not our own views. If you participate in any User Content Areas, you must: keep all User Content relevant to the purpose of the User Content Area and the nature of any topic; not submit any User Content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, vulgar, indecent, offensive or which infringes on the intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party; not submit any User Content that contains any viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive elements; not submit any User Content containing any form of advertising and not impersonate, or misrepresent an affiliation with, any person or entity. 

9.   You agree that, by submitting any User Content, you grant us and our affiliates a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such User Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology, and you waive any moral rights you may have in, or to be identified as the author, of such User Content.

10. Whilst we do not pre-screen User Content, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to delete, edit or modify any content created by you and/or to close any topic, at any time without notice to you. 

11.  Complaints about the any User Content must be sent to amanda@amandaransom.com and must contain details of the specific User Content giving rise to the complaint.

12.  This website also includes links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

13.  Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall limit or exclude our liability to you: for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of any term implied by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and which, by law, may not be limited or excluded or for any other liability that, by law, may not be limited or excluded. Subject to this, if you are a consumer and not a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any business losses, and if you are a business user, in no event shall we be liable to you for any indirect or consequential losses, or for any loss of profit, revenue, contracts, data, goodwill or other similar losses, and any liability we do have for losses you suffer is strictly limited to losses that were reasonably foreseeable.


Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Amanda Ransom Design Limited uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Amanda Ransom Design Limited may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 6th July 2022.

What we collect

We may collect the following information from the forms on our website:

·       Name

·       Contact information including email address and phone number 

·       Website

·       Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests 

·       Other information relevant to any enquiry you make


In compliance with GDPR, effective from 25th May 2018, you can contact us any time to request access to, change or delete information that we have about you. If you have any questions about what we do with your data please contact us.

We will make sure to provide you with a copy of the data we process about you. In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify your identity. We will fulfil your request by sending your copy electronically, unless the request expressly specifies a different method. For any subsequent access request, we may charge you with an administrative fee.

If you believe the information that we have about you is incorrect, you are welcome to contact us so we can update it and keep your data accurate. Any data that is no longer needed will be deleted, if you would like us to delete any of your information just contact us.

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

·       To contact you about your enquiry.

·       Internal record keeping.

·       We may use the information to improve our products and services.

·       We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.

·       From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

We assume that by using this website you are happy for cookies to be used. We operate an 'implied consent' policy which means that we assume you are happy with our use of cookies. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete our cookies once you have visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser's anonymous usage setting (called 'Incognito' in Chrome, 'InPrivate' for Internet Explorer, 'Private Browsing' in Firefox and Safari etc.)

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to:

Amanda Ransom Design Limited
Hammonds Farm
Pirton
Hitchin
Hertfordshire, SG5 3QN

If you believe that any information that we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.