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Andrew Chalmers and Alan Stewart at Davidson Chalmers Stewart

Terms & Conditions

Please Read These Terms and Conditions Carefully Before Using This Website. 


Terms of website use

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.davidsonchalmers.com (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site, as these will apply to your use of our site. We recommend that you print a copy of this for future reference.

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

Other applicable terms

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

  • Our Privacy Policy which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Acceptable Use Policy which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. When using our site, you must comply with this Acceptable Use Policy.
  • Our Cookie Policy which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

Information about us

www.davidsonchalmers.com is a site operated by Davidson Chalmers Stewart (“We”). We are a limited liability partnership incorporated under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 with registered number SO300143 and have our registered office at 12 Hope Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4DB. 

Changes to these terms

We reserve the right to revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we have made.

Changes to our site

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

Accessing our site

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. 

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them. 

Online Payment Terms

Davidson Chalmers Stewart offers an online payment facility to:

  • pay a Davidson Chalmers Stewart invoice ;
  • pay a J W Muir (Property Investments) Ltd, Hermiston Securities, J W Muir Pension Fund or Muir Leisure Ltd Rental Invoice

Using our secure payment system, your payment will be processed and you will be issued with a payment confirmation receipt e-mail.

By making a payment using the online payment facility,  you agree to be bound by these terms (these “Terms”), and any other terms applicable to the online payment facility. If you do not accept these Terms and other such applicable terms, then you should not use the online payment facility.

Payment
Any payment made using the online payment facility normally takes a minimum of two (2) working days to reach our account.

Payments made using the online payment facility can only be accepted by us with authorisation from the cardholder. By making a payment using the online payment facility, you confirm that you are either the cardholder, or you otherwise have the cardholder’s permission to make the payment.   

We accept the following cards: Visa Credit, Visa Debit, Visa CPC, MasterCard, MasterCard Debit, MasterCard One Card and Electron, Maestro & JCB. We do not accept the following cards: Amex.  

Your information and security of details
When using our online payment facility, you will be redirected to a site powered by Worldpay who will process your payment card details and take payment. For more information on Worldpay please visit http://www.worldpay.com/

Any personal information which is entered in the online payment facility will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. However, in order for Worldpay to process your payment, we will need to share with Worldpay certain information that you provide to us.

Your payment card details are handled exclusively by Worldpay and are not stored within our system.

For more information on how Worldpay will process your card details, please view its privacy policy. For the avoidance of doubt, by agreeing to these Terms, you also agree to be bound by the terms of Worldpay’s privacy policy.

Restrictions
The online payment facility can be used in respect of invoice payments only. It cannot be used to make other payments or transfers of funds, such as a balance of purchases monies on a transaction.

Liability
It is your responsibility to ensure that payments are made by any specified due date for payment and that the correct information is entered by you when using the online payment facility. Accordingly, to the extent permitted by law, we are not  liable in any way whatsoever for us not receiving payment (or being unable to allocate your payment) as a result of:

  • you quoting an incorrect invoice number or incorrect personal details;
  • your payment being declined or in any way refused by your credit/debit card provider for any reason. You should be aware that we will not be notified of such declined or refused payment. It is your responsibility to check with the credit/debit card provider that payment has been made successfully; or
  • any failure or delay by Worldpay or any other third party or the unavailability of or interruption to the online payment facility.

Where you believe that you have erroneously made a payment or overpaid any amount due, please contact us immediately on the details below. Our team will investigate the matter and, if appropriate, arrange for the erroneous or overpayment to be refunded. Any such overpayment must be refunded to the card that was originally used to make the overpayment, and any such refunds are entirely at the discretion of our management.

In order that any refund queries can be dealt with as efficiently as possible, please have the following information to hand when you contact us:

  • the full name of the person who made the original payment;
  • the details of the card used to make the original payment;
  • the amount you are seeking to be refunded;
  • the (approximate) date and time of the original payment; and
  • the relevant invoice number.

Contact
If you have any queries regarding our online payment facility, including any payments made using our online payment facility, please contact the Cashroom team on 0131 625 9191 or email cashroom@davidsonchalmers.com  

Your account and password

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at mailbox@davidsonchalmers.com.

Intellectual property rights

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.  All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site. 

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

No reliance on information

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up-to-date.

Limitation of our liability

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by Scots law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

  • use of, or inability to use, our site; or
  • use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

  • loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • business interruption; 
  • loss of anticipated savings;
  • loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

Viruses

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact mailbox@davidsonchalmers.com.

Third party links and resources in our site

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. 

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

Applicable law

These terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by Scots law. You and we both agree to that the Scottish courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

Contact us

To contact us, please email mailbox@davidsonchalmers.com.

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