Booking terms

Terms & Conditions for the Alternative Families Show

All business is conducted and orders that are received are subject to our standard terms and conditions, copies of which are available on request as stated on the booking confirmation form. In particular, prices are as stated at the time and date of order, and are exclusive of VAT; all orders must be prepaid unless an approved credit account already exists.

All exhibitors/clients are automatically, with immediate effect, entered into our publicity, awareness and marketing programmes and their logos are featured in the above material and collateral.

Cancellations

If you with to cancel your booking cancellation fees are payable on the following sliding scale. If you cancel:

>91 days or more prior to the event you will pay a 60% cancellation fee
>between 61 and 90 days prior to the event you will pay a 70% cancellation fee
>between 31 and 60 days prior to the event you will pay a 80% cancellation fee
>within 30 days you will pay a 100% cancellation fee

Changes

Alternative families Show holds the right to refuse to allow companies or individuals to exhibit

The organisers reserve the right to and at any point, change the terms and conditions to booking. The dates of each event may also be subject to change.

The organisers reserve the right to cancel seminar if seminars are overbooked to cancel

Exhibitors will be notified by email of any changes made.


Website Terms of Use

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 of Use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern Alternative Families Show’s  (AFS) relationship with you in relation to this website.

The term “AFS” or “us” or “we” refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is 78 Loughborough Road, Quorn, Leicestershire, LE12 8DX. Our Company Registration number is 05984670. 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 id for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.
  • 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 up to 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 of Use.
  • 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 linked website(s).
  • You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without AFS’s prior written consent.
  • You must not use your 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 or 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, route kit or any 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 for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
 

Limitations of Liability

Nothing in these Terms of Use (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 use of our website or under in connection with the Terms of Use, whether in Contract, Tort (including negligence) or otherwise will be limited as follows:

  • To the extent that the website and the information and services of the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
  • We will not be liable for any consequential, indirect or special loss or damage.
  • We will not be liable for any loss of profit, income, revenue, anticipated savings, contracts, business, goodwill, reputation, data or information.
  • We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
  • You agree to the publication of comments, reviews and or feedback relating to you, by others, on our website.
  • You acknowledge that such comments, reviews and/or feedback may be critical or defamatory; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, reviews and/or feedback, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments, reviews and/or feedback.  
 

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, lost costs, liability 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 advisors) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provisions of the Terms of Use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these Terms of Use.

 

Breaches of these Terms of Use

Without Prejudice to our other rights under these Terms of Use, if you breach these Terms of Use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these Terms of Use in any way, we may:

  • Send you one or more formal warnings.
  • Temporarily suspend your access to the website.
  • Permanently prohibit you from accessing the website.
  • Block computers using your IP address from accessing the website.
  • Contact your internet service provider and request that they block your access to the website.
  • Bring Court proceedings against you for Breach of Contract or otherwise.
  • Suspend and/or delete your account with the website and/or
  • Delete and/or edit any of user generated content.
  • Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation, creating and/or using a different account). 
 

Cookies

Like many websites, AFS uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service. A cookie is a text only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. We use two types of cookies on our website:

  • per session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the site
  • persistent cookies, which remain in the cookies file of your browser for longer (how long depends on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
These cookies are used to store information between visits to a site. If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser not to receive cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled, and so in order to enjoy AFS to the full, we recommend that you leave them switched on.

 

Third Party Websites  

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by Third Parties. These links are not recommendations. We have no control over the contents of Third Party websites and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise out of your use of them.  

 

Trademark

AFS and our logo are trademarks belonging to us. We give no permission for the use of these trademarks and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights. The other registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners. Unless stated otherwise we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.  

Variations

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

 

Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our right and/or obligations under these Terms of Use 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 of Use.  

 

Severability  

If a condition of these Terms of Use 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.  

 

Exclusion of Third Party Rights  

 

Entire Agreement  

These Terms of Use together with our Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and use in relation to your use of our website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.  

 

Our Details

The full name of our company is AFS Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 05984670. Our registered address is 78 Loughborough Road, Quorn, Leicestershire, LE12 8DX. You can contact us by email us at [email protected]

These Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any disputes relating to these Terms of Use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales.