Terms and Conditions

Welcome to our website. If you continue to browse and use this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our privacy policy govern PCRmax’s relationship with you in relation to this website. If you disagree with any part of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website.

The term ‘PCRmax ’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 4 Felstead Gardens, Ferry Street, London, E14 3BS. Our company registration number is 6381141. The term ‘you’ refers to the user or viewer of our website.

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

• The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

• This website uses cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you do allow cookies to be used, the following personal information may be stored by us for use by third parties:

• name and job title

• contact information including email address

• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

• Neither 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.

• 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.

• This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

• All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website.

• Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

• From time to time, this website may also include 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).

• 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.

    
Our Terms and conditions of sale are available below

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Cole-Parmer Ltd uses and protects any information that you give Cole-Parmer Ltd when you use this website. A copy of our privacy policy can be downloaded here:

Click here to download the Cole-Parmer UK Privacy Policy

Cookie Usage

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.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain 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

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes

• if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at marketing@bibby-scientific.com

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. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

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 PCRmax , Beacon Road, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0SA.

If you believe that any information 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.

Terms & Conditons of Sale

1. DEFINITIONS

In these conditions of Sale ‘the Company’ means PCRmax  ‘the Buyer’ means any company, firm, or individual from whom the Company receives an order which the Company has accepted in writing: ‘the Goods’ means the product, materials, equipment and/or services to be supplied by the Company; (‘Specification’ means the technical description (if any) of the Goods contained or referred to in the order).

2. APPLICABILITY OF CONDITIONS

The Company accepts orders for the supply of Goods subject only to these conditions. No variation of these conditions shall be valid or binding on the Company and these conditions shall override any inconsistent terms or conditions contained or referred to in any order, or correspondence of the Buyer or elsewhere unless such variation is made and accepted in writing by the Company. 

3. PRICES

All prices are strictly net of delivery charges, VAT and any other tax or duty which shall be added to the price payable by the Buyer. 

4. TERMS OF PAYMENT

Payments by credit card only. The Buyer shall not be entitled to any set off or obligations within or between contracts with the Company. All consular and bank charges and import and customs duties and taxes arising from or by virtue of the contract must be paid by the Buyer.

5. TIME FOR DELIVERY

Dates quoted for delivery are estimated only and not conditions of sale. No claim shall be made by the Buyer nor shall the Buyer refuse to accept delivery on the grounds of any failure to deliver on any particular date or dates.

6. DELIVERY

Delivery shall be deemed to be effective when the Goods are unloaded at the delivery address nominated by the Buyer or his agent for delivery. The Company reserves the right to deliver goods by instalments and in such event each instalment shall be treated as a separate contract.

7. QUANTITY ORDERED AND DELIVERED

Goods can only be supplied in the ‘standard pack or quantity’ or ‘minimum buying quantity’ shown in the Company price lists or in multiples thereof. The Company will use all reasonable endeavours to produce and deliver the quantity of Goods ordered but every contract and delivery is subject to the margins of tolerances (whether over or under the quantity stipulated) customary in the trade and no guarantee or warranty is given or implied on the part of the Company which is incompatible with this provision. 

8. CFR AND CIF TERMS

CFR and CIF prices where appropriate will be based on the current rates of freight and insurance. CFR prices will include cost and freight by direct routes to principle ports, airports or railheads in a Buyer’s territory relevant to the means of transport and at the Company’s discretion. CIF prices will, in addition to CFR terms, include insurance for breakage on the basis of CIF value plus 10.

9. PACKAGING 

Prices shown in quotations or contracts will include the cost of the Company’s normal packaging for destinations in the UK or for export unless stated otherwise.

10. NON-ACCEPTANCE OF DELIVERY

If the Buyer refuses or fails to take or accept delivery of the Goods at the time specified, the contract price shall nevertheless be paid as if delivery has taken place. The Company shall be entitled at its option to terminate the contract with immediate effect to dispose of the Goods as the Company may determine and to recover from the Buyer any loss and additional costs incurred as a result of such refusal or failure or to charge the Buyer for storage and other loss and expense reasonably incurred or suffered by the Company as a result of such refusal or failure but the Company shall not be bound to take any steps for the custody and care of such Goods or shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by the Buyer arising therefrom.

11. PASSING OF TITLE

(a) The absolute legal and beneficial ownership in all Goods shall remain vested in the Company and shall not pass to the Buyer until the purchase price of the order of which they form part (each order being considered as a whole) and all other monies owing by the Buyer to the Company on any account shall have been paid in full by the Buyer to the Company.   

(b) Until such payment has been made, the Buyer shall hold the Goods sold as bailee of the Company and in a fiduciary capacity and shall not sell, dispose of, process or use the Goods except with the express written permission of the Company and on condition that if authorised to resell the Goods to a third party, the Buyer shall not mingle any proceeds of sale with any other monies and shall at all times keep them in a separate bank account and identifiable as the Company’s monies and shall forthwith account to the Company for the proceeds of sale to the extent of the Buyer’s indebtedness to the Company.

(c) Pending receipt of payment made in accordance with these conditions the Goods shall be set aside and stored separately from other Goods in the possession of the Buyer so as to be clearly and separately identifiable and the Buyer shall deliver them upto the Company at any time on demand.   

(d) In the event that the Buyer shall breach any of its obligations under these conditions or under any other agreement between the parties, the Company reserves the immediate right to repossess all or any of the Goods to which it has retained title aforesaid and thereafter to resell the same and for this purpose the Buyer hereby grants an irrevocable right of licence to the Company’s servants and agents to enter upon all or any of its premises with or without vehicles during business hours. This right shall continue to subsist notwithstanding the termination of the contract for any reason and is without prejudice to any accrued rights of the Company hereunder or otherwise.

12. PASSING THE RISK 

The risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer upon delivery. The Buyer shall insure the Goods with a reputable insurance company and if the same are damaged or destroyed, then such insurance monies as are payable shall be immediately paid by the Buyer to the Company to the extent of the indebtedness of the Buyer to the Company and without prejudice to any right of the Company to recover from the Buyer any balance of the purchase price remaining due under the contract.

13. CLAIMS

In the event of any loss or damage or delay to any Goods delivered at our risk to the Buyer or to his agent or otherwise to his order notice of the same shall be given to us in writing by the Buyer forthwith upon delivery (or, in the case of loss of any Goods, at the time when the Goods should have been delivered) and the Buyer shall at the same time take all necessary steps to notify the carrier in writing of any such loss damage or delay and where practicable shall enter a note of the same upon the carriers receipt. If by reason of the failure of the Buyer to give any such notice as provided above, the Company is precluded from making a recovery from the carrier in respect of the loss damage or delay complained of then the Company shall not be liable for any claim by the Buyer in respect thereof and the Buyer shall be liable to pay for the Goods as though no such loss damage or delay had occurred.

14. WARRANTY 

The Company warrants that the Goods shall be in conformity with the Specification or be within its usual tolerances as to quality and finish. The Company shall replace or at its option refund the purchase price as applicable to any Goods which do not in its sole opinion comply with this warranty, provided always that any claim under this warranty is made within 24 hours of commencement of the processing of the Goods or (if earlier) within 28 days of delivery of the Goods alleged to be defective. It is the Buyer’s responsibility to determine whether the Goods are suitable for the contemplated use, whether or not such use is known to the Company. No warranty, condition or representation is given or made as to the quality of the Goods supplied hereunder their condition or their fitness for any particular purpose and any such warranty, condition or representation whether express or implied whether by statute, by collateral agreement or otherwise is hereby excluded.

15. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY 

Except for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the Company, the Company’s aggregate liability to the Buyer howsoever arising whether for negligence, breach of contract, misrepresentation or otherwise shall under no circumstances exceed the cost of the defective, damaged or undelivered Goods which give rise to such liability as determined by the net price invoiced to the Buyer in respect of any occurrence or series of occurrences.

16. CANCELLATION BY THE BUYER 

The Buyer may cancel or suspend the contract only with the Company’s prior written consent following agreement by the Buyer to reimburse the Company in an amount to be determined by the Company.

17. TERMINATION BY THE COMPANY 

The Company shall (without prejudice to any of its other rights hereunder) be entitled to terminate any contract forthwith by written notice to the Buyer.

18. FORCE MAJEURE 

If the commencement, continuation or complete performance by the Company of its obligations under this contract is prevented, hindered, delayed or rendered uneconomic by reason of force majeure then the Company shall not be responsible to the Buyer for any loss or damage incurred or sustained by the Buyer as a result. For the purpose of this condition, the term Force Majeure shall include any factor affecting the performance of this contract attributable to acts, events, non-happenings, omissions or incidents beyond the reasonable control of the Company and, in particular, (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing), the following, namely: strikes, lock-outs, riots, civil revolution, war, state of national emergency of governmental action, trade dispute or labour disturbance, accident, break down of plant or machinery, difficulty or increased expense in obtaining workmen, materials or transport, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake or other natural physical disaster or circumstances affecting the supply of the Goods (or the raw materials therefore) by a Company’s normal source of supply or the delivery of the Goods by the Company’s normal route or means of delivery. 

19. IMPORT LICENCES

It is the responsibility of the Buyer to obtain import licences where necessary.

20. NOTICES 

Any notice hereunder shall be deemed to have been given if sent by pre-paid, first class post, fax or email to the party concerned at its last known address. Notices sent by first-class post shall be deemed to have been given 7 days after dispatch and notices sent by fax or email shall be deemed to have given on the date of dispatch.

21. CONSTRUCTION

All contracts made with the Company shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of England and the parties hereby submit to the jurisdiction of the English courts.