Terms & Conditions
1. General
- 1.1 bookkeepers.ie reserves the right to change or amend these Terms & Conditions without notification.
- 1.2 bookkeepers.ie only conducts business subject to these Terms & Conditions.
- 1.3 Should any clause of these Terms & Conditions be deemed illegal, un-enforceable or not applicable, the remaining portions shall remain in force.
- 1.4 By engaging bookkeepers.ie to carry out works, the Client is deemed to have read, understood and accepted these Terms & Conditions in full and agrees to be bound by them.
- 1.5 In accepting these Terms & Conditions, Clients accept that these Terms & Conditions take precedence over any Terms & Conditions imposed on suppliers by the Clients own Trading Terms.
- 1.6 Any Client deemed in breach of these Terms & Conditions, at the sole discretion of bookkeepers.ie, may suffer termination of ALL services and subsequent legal action.
2. Payment Terms
- 2.1 All works are carried out in a given month will be Invoiced for on the last working day of that month.
- 2.2 All Invoices must be paid in full within 30 days of date of issue.
- 2.3 bookkeepers.ie reserve the right to apply interest on late payments at a rate of 3% per month or part thereof that a payment remains outstanding, unless notified under provision 2.4 below.
- 2.4 Complaints or queries regarding Invoices must be notified to bookkeepers.ie within 7 days of the date of the Invoice to avoid interest payments as laid out in provision 2.3 above.
- 2.5 Late or Non payment of contracted fees shall be liable to interest as laid out in provision 2.3 above, and will result in the service being withdrawn until full payment of the overdue amount is made, including the period of any withdrawal of service and the interest accrued.
- 2.6 Any Cheques returned unpaid by a Clients bank, for whatever reason, will incur a penalty charge of €50 to cover the cost of recovering the unpaid sum.
- 2.7 bookkeepers.ie reserves the right to instigate legal proceedings on any unpaid sum, including interest accrued, not subject to section 2.4 above, overdue for a period of more than 90 days from date of Invoice and that the Client shall be liable to all and any costs, incurred by bookkeepers.ie in taking such action, including but not limited to legal fees, court fees, collection agency costs and administration costs incurred by bookkeepers.ie.
3. Cancellations
- 3.1 Cancellation of service contracts must be done in writing to the registered address of bookkeepers.ie, at least 30 days prior to the cessation of service. All fees due, up to and including the date of cessation of service, shall be paid at the time of notification of cancellation.
- 3.2 Within 14 days of cancellation, all archived data held by bookkeepers.ie, in respect of previous trading years, if any, will be transmitted to the client in paper form.
- 3.3 All data processing for the current year will cease 14 days prior to cessation of service to facilitate the completion of the data prior to transfer.
- 3.4 bookkeepers.ie reserves the right to cancel any service contract or works in progress, without notice or forfeiture of fees due, should any member of bookkeepers.ie staff, or our appointed agents, be subjected to threats or intimidation, physical or verbal abuse, unsafe working environments or practices, or are subject to or asked to participate in illegal activities, including, but not limited to, theft, fraud, deception or forgery.
4. Liability
- 4.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall restrict or exclude either party's liability for fraud, death or personal injury.
- 4.2 bookkeepers.ie shall not be liable to the Client nor to any third party for any direct or indirect loss of profit, anticipated savings, business, contracts, revenue, time, goodwill or loss of or harm to data or other content or for any other indirect or consequential loss, however caused, including, but not limited to, withdrawal of service subject to provision 2.5 above or cancellation by bookkeepers.ie subject to provision 3.4 above.
- 4.3 The Client acknowledges that bookkeepers.ie shall not be liable to the Client in respect of any loss or damage arising from the Clients use of or reliance upon any advice or information provided by bookkeepers.ie.
- 4.4 Subject to the other provisions of this Clause, any liability bookkeepers.ie may have to the Client in contract, tort, or otherwise in connection with the supply or non-supply of Services shall be limited in each calendar month to damages equal to the Charges paid by the Client in that calendar month.
- 4.5 bookkeepers.ie makes no warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, as to the fitness of purpose, performance or reliability of any software, hardware or service offering, including, but not limited to, third party products or services, supplied through or by bookkeepers.ie to the Client.
5. Complaints Procedure
- 5.1 All complaints shall be brought to the attention of bookkeepers.ie in writing to the registered address of bookkeepers.ie, no later than 30 days from completion of the works from which the complaint arises.
- 5.2 All and any remedial actions required to resolve a complaint are at the discretion of bookkeepers.ie, who shall validate any complaints prior to any remedial action being taken and subject to provision 4.2 above.
- 5.3 bookkeepers.ie will make all efforts to resolve a complaint to the Client's satisfaction, however where a suitable resolution to a complaint cannot be reached, the case will be put before independent arbitrators for adjudication, the results of which shall be binding on both parties. Any liability bookkeepers.ie may have is subject to provision 4.4 above, as applicable.
- 5.4 Under no circumstances will bookkeepers.ie enter into a dialogue with the Clients Legal Representatives unless the applicable provisions of Clause 5 have been met. Any Legal action taken by the Client in connection with a complaint that has not fulfilled the applicable provisions of Clause 5, shall itself be deemed a breach of these Terms & Conditions and subject to provision 1.6 above.
6. Terms of acceptance of contracts
- 6.1 All service contracts are subject to a site survey prior to commencement of the contract.
- 6.2 All service contracts whether undertaken by verbal agreement or by formal contract are accepted subject to these Terms & Conditions, and may be terminated by bookkeepers.ie at any time, subject to notifcation of the Client, in writing, 30 days prior to termination.
7. Application
- 7.1 These Terms & Conditions shall be effective from the First Day of July 2005 and shall remain in force until superceded or amended.
- 7.2 Application or acceptance of these Terms & Conditions does not affect your statutory legal rights under Irish Law.
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