TERMS & CONDITIONS
These Terms and Conditions communicate your rights and obligations.
Please read these carefully. You may have other rights granted by law and our Terms and Conditions do not affect these.
1. Definition & Notification of Changes
i. By using Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk website platform (“The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store”) and all sub-domains, which are a service of the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you are therefore agreeing to be bound by the below terms and conditions.
ii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store is based in York, England in the United Kingdom.
iii. The Countryside Store Limited trades from, Chapel Street, Cattal, YO26 8DY and is a registered company within the UK with our company number: 12632759.
iv. You can email us on: trades@thecountrysidestore.co.uk or telephone us on: 01423 358533.
v. We reserve the right to change these “Terms & Conditions” at any time and it is your responsibility to read the “Terms & Conditions” on each occasion you use this website and your continued use of Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk, or any sub-domains shall signify your acceptance to be bound by the latest “Terms & Conditions”.
vi. All of the below Terms and Conditions are governed and construed by English law. English law will apply in all cases. This means that the contract you hold with us will be governed by English law.
2. General
i. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store is an online advertising platform and all payments made on it go through a secure online payment system.
ii. All advertisers must be 18 years or older to enter a legally binding contract to advertise their trade, service and/or venue on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform.
iii. By entering a legally binding contract you are agreeing to pay the fees layout under the Fees section of our ‘Terms and Conditions’.
iv. Each advertiser on the site will have their profile to showcase their trade, service and/or venue.
v. As registering as a business on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store you therefore personally have the authority of the business to agree to all the terms and conditions laid out.
vi. Each business or person advertising on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store will have an individual profile that holds the business/individuals name, contact details and information about the business/individual. It is always the legal responsibility of the business/individual to keep all their details up to date.
vii. By subscribing to the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store you are therefore agreeing to pay the correct subscription structure you have chosen.
viii. If in the event of account closure, the subscription fees that have been paid are non-refundable as each payment is paid in advance.
ix. Where you are advertising on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store is not legally responsible for any interaction between you and a potential customer or any communication thereafter. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store is acting solely as an advertising platform.
x. If there is a failure to pay the subscription within the allotted time frame set out in the Fees section, your account will be closed 30 days after the date of the original payment date.
xi. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store does not guarantee sales and encourages all users to promote their profile through various social media platforms.
xii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store has the right to use your profile for promotional purposes and the images within your profile.
xiii. Nothing in these Terms & Conditions affects any of your legal rights. Advice about the legal rights you as an individual has is available from your local Citizens Advice Bureau or Trading Standards.
3. Behaviour
i. When using the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you must not breach any laws or any rights of third parties.
ii. You as an advertiser are solely responsible for the maintenance of your profile and details that you are listing.
iii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store users are solely responsible for keeping their contact details up to date on their profile.
iv. You need to make sure that you do not share or give anyone else your password to use to enter the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you are solely liable to keeping the password secure.
v. When using the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you must not use the platform for an illegal or unauthorised purpose and that you have agreed to comply with all local laws regarding any online conduct you do.
vi. You as an individual are solely responsible for your behaviour and conduct when using the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform. Any content, data, images, audio, video clips, links and text are solely the responsibility of the individual uploading them on Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk and any sub-domains and must not breach any local or international laws.
vii. You must not use any threatening, intimidating, harassing or any other form of abuse to any other user of the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store.
viii. Whilst using the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform you must not produce any unwanted communications to another member of the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store.
ix. Whilst using or visiting Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk or all sub-domains you must not look to or transmit any viruses, worms or any codes that can alter the behaviour of the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform or that can be destructive in any way.
x. You must not look to modify or adapt or hack Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk and all sub-domains or look to create another website that implies to users of the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store that it is associated with Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk or any sub-domains.
4. Liability
i. The Countryside Store does not hold any liability for the following damages or losses:
o Loss of any reputation to you and/or your business, which could then lead to loss of business to you personally.
o Loss of revenue and any future profits to you and/or your business.
o Loss of data.
o A loss that has been suffered by a third party.
o Loss of any opportunity.
5. Sale of Goods
i. All items listed below must NOT be advertised or distributed through the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform:
o Any item that is counterfeit.
o All prescription drugs.
o Any content or material that is infringing or otherwise violates rights of publicity, privacy, or proprietary rights that you do not own or have permission to use.
o All illegal drugs and/or drug paraphernalia and any substances that are designed to replicate illegal drugs.
o Explosives, hazardous materials, fireworks, and destructive devices,
o Stolen property.
o Identity documents, government documents, personal financial records, or personal information (in any form, including mailing lists).
o Obscene material.
o Any form of pornography child and/or adult.
o Any item that is related to the body including body parts and antibodies.
o Pets and/or animals.
o Items that have been recalled.
o Products and services that violate any local law and/or international law.
o Any software and/or coding.
o Any chemicals and/or similar products
o Private sale of firearms and shotguns.
o Hate speech; including, but not limited to, speech that is harmful to others, or that is or promotes transphobia, homophobia, sexism, xenophobia, fascism, racism, and/or white nationalism.
o Products or content promoting prohibited medical claims, such as anti-vaccine items.
o Any product or service that violates the rights of others or is marketed or sold in such a way as to create liability for the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store.
ii. Any persons found to be advertising or distributing such items will be admittedly removed from the platform and have their subscription cancelled without any notice.
6. Fees
i. All subscriptions fee our listed on Traders.TheCountrysideStore.co.uk.
ii. By agreeing to the terms set out, the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store will, therefore, set up a continuous card payment for the subscription period on a yearly basis.
iii. All subscription fees are to be pre-paid before your advert going live.
iv. All subscription payments are run through our secure payment methods (PayPal and Stripe).
v. In the event of your account being closed by either yourself or the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, all subscription fees are non-refundable, as each payment is made in advance.
vi. If for whatever you fail to make payment within the 14 days of your subscription renewal date, your account will be closed automatically without notice being severed 30 days after the date of the original payment date.
vii. We have the right to change our subscription fees at any time and for any reason and will notify users within a reasonable time frame.
7. Changes to Service
i. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store holds the right to change or terminate the service without giving any notice. This could be for one of the below reasons:
o You have breached any of the Terms and Conditions laid out.
o We have reasonable information that you are not complying with the Terms and Conditions laid out.
o If we have received a serious accurate complaint from another user on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform.
o If any law enforcement or compliance authority instructs us to remove your advert.
ii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store holds the right to modify or change the legal terms set out at any given time. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store will notify the registered users of the platform via email to any changes that are made.
iii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store holds the right to refuse any advertiser onto the platform and will cancel any account that breaches any legal terms.
8. Images and Video content
i. As an advertiser on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you are fully accountable for any photographs and videos that you upload onto the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform as part of your advert.
ii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store does not hold any accountability for the quality of the photographs or videos that you upload.
iii. We reserve the right to remove photographs or videos if they do not meet the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store’s ethical standards or quality.
iv. Any photograph and video that is uploaded onto your advert on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store must comply with the below:
o Show the correct and update image of your trade, service and/or venue;
o Be an accurate description of the trade, service and/or venue you are displaying;
o Not to contain any spam;
o Not to contain any text/information that does not relate to the trade, service and/or venue;
o Your wording within your description must not be in any other language than English.
o It must comply with all legislation and regulations that are relevant to your trade, service and/or venue;
o Not stolen from another individual or breaches any copyright laws;
o Not to be irrelevant or off-topic to the trade, service and/or venue;
o Not to upload anything onto the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store that may be corrupt or contains a virus;
o Not to be discriminating or promote any kind of discrimination;
o Not to have pornographic or violent content;
o Not to contain any personal data or information of another person that has not permitted before publishing;
o Not contain any inappropriate contents, strong profanity or be obscene in any way for example offensive, inflammatory, threatening, hateful, abusive, racist, anti-religious or sexually graphic;
v. If any photograph and/or video published on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform does not meet all the requirements laid out above. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store reserves the right to remove the photograph and/or video and will lead to action being taken against your profile.
9. Maintenance
i. There might be occasions where the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store needs to carry out maintenance to our equipment and systems we use. We will always make sure that we do the maintenance with minimum disruption caused to any advert.
ii. If any faults are to be found on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store platform, we will endeavour to investigate and rectify the issue within 72 hours of the first report.
iii. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store will not be held liable for any delay in performance and or failure of performance due to an event that is outside of our reasonable control. This will include fire, flood, an act by God, storm, explosion, global or local pandemic, the threat of a terrorist attack and/or a terrorist attack, a global or local strike and/or power failure.
10. Security and Data privacy
i. By creating your business advert you are for requesting that your trade, service and/or venue appear on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store. You, therefore, are giving your consent for your trade, service and/or venue to be potentially viewed by all persons with internet access throughout the world and for your data to be viewed in this way.
ii. When you register to advertise your business on the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store, you will be given a username and password which you are responsible for keeping secure. The UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store will not be liable to you if you fail to keep your username and password safe. We will not be liable for any loss you may personally suffer by a third party accessing your account unless it is proven to be caused by our negligence.
iii. When registering with the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store to advert your business you are therefore agreeing for us to collect certain personal data from you (for example name, address, email address and contact details).
iv. All personal information that is collected is processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and may have to be used for several different purposes (all of which are outlined in our Privacy Policy).
v. When registering with the UK Business Directory at The Countryside Store you are agreeing to be accurate, truthful and complete about all the information you have supplied. You are also agreeing that you will not register in another name or use a username that will offend.
vi. All of the information you have provided in the registration process will be stored and protected in accordance with the terms set out in our Privacy Policy.