Terms & Conditions (1) Introduction These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website. (2) Licence to use website Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions. You must not: (a) republish material from this website (including republication on another website); (b) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website; (c) show any material from the website in public; (d) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose; (e) edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; (f) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution . (3) Acceptable use You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity. You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software. You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent. You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent. (4) User generated content In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose. Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website. (5) Document submissions and returns We reserve the right to decline work that contains plagiarised content, or any job involving text which is deemed obscene, inflammatory or otherwise offensive. In situations where copyright infringement or plagiarism is discovered or suspected after a document has been accepted for editing, we will advise you of the serious nature of such breaches and editing will not proceed. The information contained in customer documents edited or created by us may include opinions or views that are not those of Stickler or any person associated with Stickler. We are not responsible or liable in relation to the use of any information contained in customer documents including misleading or defamatory statements, or the infringement of third party copyright. Whilst we make every effort to ensure information submitted to you in completed work is correct, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of technical information. If you intend to submit highly technical work – for example, work of a highly scientific nature – we suggest that you contact us to ensure we are able to offer the high quality service you would expect from us. We strive to provide complete satisfaction to our customers. All documents are proofread or created to a high standard. However, we do not guarantee that proofread or written documents are “perfect” or “error free”. The customer is responsible for reviewing the edited document upon completion and contacting us should any errors be discovered. We will correct any outstanding issues with a document. We are not obligated to refund the cost of the service in the case of an edited document being less than perfect. We request that the customer contact us if not completely satisfied with the service and we will make every effort to remedy the situation. We aim to complete work within two to four working days after payment has cleared, within six working hours where the Express option has been selected, or within an alternative time frame as appropriate, and agreed with you in advance. Occasionally, forces beyond our control or particularly complex pieces of work may mean that we are not be able to complete the work within the specified time frame. If this is the case, we will always let you know as soon as possible. (6) Confidentiality We take intellectual copyright, classified material and other forms of confidential documents very seriously. The customer retains sole copyright, ownership and control over all materials submitted to us for proofreading and editing. (7) Payment Payment information will be sent electronically following our initial quote. Preferred payment method is via bank transfer or PayPal, although alternative payment methods can be accepted. Credit accounts can be arranged for business customers on request: payment is due within seven days of invoice, and can be made by PayPal (via www.paypal.co.uk to payments(at)sticklerproofreading.com or by credit/debit card) or direct bank transfer. The minimum charge for all services is £5.00. (8) Limited warranties Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website (excluding user content) is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill). (9) Limitations of liability Nothing in these terms and conditions (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows: (a) to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature (b) we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage (c) we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information (d) we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control (e) we will not be liable for any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation of transmission, computer virus, or line failure. (10) Indemnity You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions (11) Breaches of these terms and conditions Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you. (12) Variation We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version. (13) Assignment We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent. You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. (14) Severability If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect. (15) Exclusion of third party rights These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party. (16) Entire agreement These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website. (17) Law and jurisdiction These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. These terms and conditions are based on a precedent available at Website Contracts and Website Law

Terms & Conditions



(1)Introduction


These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.


(2)Licence to use website


Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.


You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions. 


You must not:


(a)republish material from this website (including republication on another website);


(b)sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;


(c)show any material from the website in public;


(d)reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;


(e)edit or otherwise modify any material on the website;


(f)redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution .



(3)Acceptable use


You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.


You must not use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.


You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent.


You must not use our website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.


You must not use our website for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.


(4)User generated content


In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to our website, for whatever purpose.


Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law). 


You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.


We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.


(5) Document submissions and returns


We reserve the right to decline work that contains plagiarised content, or any job involving text which is deemed obscene, inflammatory or otherwise offensive. In situations where copyright infringement or plagiarism is discovered or suspected after a document has been accepted for editing, we will advise you of the serious nature of such breaches and editing will not proceed.


The information contained in customer documents edited or created by us may include opinions or views that are not those of Stickler or any person associated with Stickler. We are not responsible or liable in relation to the use of any information contained in customer documents including misleading or defamatory statements, or the infringement of third party copyright.


Whilst we make every effort to ensure information submitted to you in completed work is correct, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of technical information. If you intend to submit highly technical work – for example, work of a highly scientific nature – we suggest that you contact us to ensure we are able to offer the high quality service you would expect from us.


We strive to provide complete satisfaction to our customers. All documents are proofread or created to a high standard. However, we do not guarantee that proofread or written documents are “perfect” or “error free”. The customer is responsible for reviewing the edited document upon completion and contacting us should any errors be discovered. We will correct any outstanding issues with a document. We are not obligated to refund the cost of the service in the case of an edited document being less than perfect. We request that the customer contact us if not completely satisfied with the service and we will make every effort to remedy the situation.


We aim to complete work within two to four working days after payment has cleared, within six working hours where the Express option has been selected, or within an alternative time frame as appropriate, and agreed with you in advance. Occasionally, forces beyond our control or particularly complex pieces of work may mean that we are not be able to complete the work within the specified time frame. If this is the case, we will always let you know as soon as possible.


(6) Confidentiality


We take intellectual copyright, classified material and other forms of confidential documents very seriously. The customer retains sole copyright, ownership and control over all materials submitted to us for proofreading and editing.


(7) Payment


Payment information will be sent electronically following our initial quote. Preferred payment method is via bank transfer or PayPal, although alternative payment methods can be accepted. Credit accounts can be arranged for business customers on request: payment is due within seven days of invoice, and can be made by PayPal (via www.paypal.co.uk to payments(at)sticklerproofreading.com or by credit/debit card) or direct bank transfer. The minimum charge for all services is £5.00.


(8)Limited warranties


Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website (excluding user content) is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.


To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).


(9)Limitations of liability


Nothing in these terms and conditions (or elsewhere on our website) will exclude or limit our liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.


Subject to this, our liability to you in relation to the use of our website or under or in connection with these terms and conditions, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, will be limited as follows:


(a)to the extent that the website and the information and services on the website are provided free-of-charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature


(b)we will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage


(c)we will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data, or information


(d)we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control


(e)we will not be liable for any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation of transmission, computer virus, or line failure.


(10)Indemnity


You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions


(11)Breaches of these terms and conditions


Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, we may take such action as we deem appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.


(12)Variation


We may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on our website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.


(13)Assignment


We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.


You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. 


(14)Severability


If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.


(15)Exclusion of third party rights


These terms and conditions are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party.  The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.


(16)Entire agreement


These terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.


(17)Law and jurisdiction


These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.






These terms and conditions are based on a precedent

available at Website Contracts and Website Law