Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions (“Terms”) govern (i) any orders for Services placed by a customer (“you” or “your”) on the website https://eternal.marketing  (the “Website”) or by any other means; and (ii) your relationship with ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING, a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number whose registered office is at Internationa House, 63 Moseley Street, Manchester, England, (“ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING”, “we”, “our” or “us”).

Please read these conditions carefully before placing an order with ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING. By placing an order with ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING, you signify your agreement to be bound by these Terms. 

Key Service Terms (please note that this is a non-exhaustive list for ease of reference only and the full Terms should be read in full below as they are binding on you):

  •  ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING HOURS OF BUSINESS: 30-17.30 (GMT) Monday to Friday inclusive (excluding public and bank holidays)
  •  EXCLUSIONS: The following are excluded from the scope of the Services:
    • on-site services (unless otherwise agreed and subject to agreed fees);
    • computers which are incompatible with our Systems;
    • your negligent usage of our Systems;
    • unauthorised modifications or repairs to your computer; or
    • any damage or loss where you have failed to notify us off an issue with your computer.
  •  PRICE & PAYMENT: Payment will be taken upon signing up the Services and then automatically on the 1st business day of each month, via GoCardless or an invoice will be issued.
  •  DATA PROTECTION: Both ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING and you agree to comply with our respective obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998.
  1.  Definitions
    1. The definitions and rules of interpretation in this clause apply in these Terms & Conditions of Service (“Terms”):

Fees: the charges for the Services and any Third Party Products, in force from time to time, as detailed in the applicable Order;

Intellectual Property Rights: any patents, copyright, trademarks, trade names, domain names, rights in get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, rights in designs (whether registered or unregistered) database rights, topography rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including without limitation know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights or industrial property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including without limitation all applications for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights, and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world;

Order: a document detailing the Services to be provided by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING to you, as agreed by the parties in writing;

Services: Digital Marketing Services, Website Design, Consultancy

Systems: the ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING systems and applications for providing the Services;

Subscription Period: the Initial Term and any Renewal Periods;

Third Party Products: any products or services offered by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING which are licensed to you by a third party e.g. Office 365, antivirus protection etc; and

  •  Engagement
    • These Terms shall:
      • apply to and be incorporated into any Services to be provided by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING to you; and
      • prevail over any inconsistent terms or conditions contained in, or referred to in, any purchase order, confirmation of order, or specification, or implied by law, trade custom, practice or course of dealing.
    • These Terms shall take effect on the date that it is signed by the second party.
    • By instructing ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING to provide you with Services, you acknowledge and agree that ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING will be your exclusive provider of IT services and that you agree to organise all third party hardware and software through ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING.
  •  Our Rights and Obligations
    • We aim to make your computing experience as trouble-free as reasonably practicable. You agree that computers, software and their associated products are often supplied in an imperfect state and that our role is to reduce the effects of such imperfections rather than to eliminate or correct them.
    • We shall provide the Services to you using reasonable care and skill.
    • We shall use reasonable endeavours to respond to queries and resolve issues raised by you in relation to your Unit promptly. The precise timing will depend on a variety of matters including the complexity of the problem, but we will use reasonable endeavours to respond to a support ticket within four Working Hours.
    • We shall use reasonable endeavours to provide you with the Services in accordance with the Service specification for the applicable level of service purchased as per the contract. We reserve the right to make changes in the specification of the Services from time to time which do not materially affect their quality or performance.
    • The Services shall be provided during our usual working hours (08.30-17.30 (GMT) Monday to Friday inclusive (excluding public and bank holidays in England) (“Working Hours”)). We may at our discretion offer to perform work outside our standard hours, in which case we may charge you additional Fees. This may include performing remedial work that has failed during standard hours. Time shall not be of the essence in relation to the performance of the Services.
    • The Services will be provided remotely unless otherwise agreed with you on a case by case basis. Any on-site services may be subject to additional Fees and expenses.
    • Whilst ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING will use reasonable efforts to avoid disruptions to you when providing the Services, ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING takes no responsibility for any issues that may arise on the Unit or in any errors in Third Party Products.
  •  Your Rights and Obligations
    • By ordering the Services, you acknowledge and agree that the nature of the Services requires us to monitor your Units remotely via our software and you hereby provide your consent for us to do so for the duration of the Subscription Period. You must ensure that we have remote access to the Units to enable us to perform the Services and you must maintain the power supply and the telephone lines required for any internet connection to the Units.
    • From time to time we may request that you provide us with certain materials, information or assistance to enable us to fully perform the Services and you agree that this will promptly be provided to us. You must ensure the accuracy of all such materials or information provided to us. If we are unable to perform our obligations to you under these Terms because we have been prevented or delayed by you, such as your failure to do something requested of you, we will not be liable for any delays which may occur in the provision of the Services.
    • The Services are provided to you only, and you may not resell the Services to any third party.
    • You warrant that you have the legal right and authority to enter into and adhere to these Terms.
    • You agree to promptly notify us if any Unit is not operating correctly and not modify any equipment in any way without our prior agreement.
    • After completion of any work that we do for you, we may request that you confirm to us in writing within 24 hours that the work has been completed and is to your satisfaction. If we do not hear from you within this period, the work will be treated as complete and satisfactory.
    • You agree not to use the Units or the Systems in any way that: infringes the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; violates any law or regulation; is defamatory, libellous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; is pornographic or indecent; may damage the property, systems or data of others; involves risks of death, personal injury, property damage or environmental damage; involves life support systems, devices or applications; or breaches a contractual commitment between you and a third party.
    • It is your responsibility to ensure that prior to ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING providing the Services (on any occasion) that all critical data has been backed up and that appropriate recovery procedures are in place. In compliance applicable laws, ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING is obliged to report any apparent infringements found on data during recovery or any other works pursuant to the Services.
    • It is your responsibility to ensure that the effectiveness of any Third Party Products supplied by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING is maintained and that such Third Party Products are updated from time to time when an update is made available.
    • You agree that you will not try to decompile or reverse engineer the Systems or any Third Party Products. You will not try to use the Services for any purpose other than that for which they are offered to you. You will not attempt to connect to our servers except as provided under these Terms.
    • Where the Services are to be performed by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING at your premises or any third party location, you are solely responsible for arranging any insurance against any loss or damage that may arise and ensuring that such premises are in a suitable condition for the provision of the Services.
  •  Service Exclusions
    • The Services do not include the investigation, diagnosis or rectification of any fault or other problem resulting from:
      • the negligent use or operation of the Units;
      • modification or repair to any Units made by anyone other than a person previously approved in writing by us;
      • your failure to implement recommendations in respect of faults previously advised by us; or
      • any breach by you of any of your obligations under these Terms.
    • You may request us to provide the Services in respect of these matters, but if we agree to do so, we will be entitled to make an additional charge in accordance with our then current standard rates.
  •  Orders
    • Any orders placed by you will be treated as an offer to purchase the Services from us. When you place an order to purchase Services from ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING, we will send you a message confirming receipt of your order and containing the details of your order (the “Order Notification”). The Order Notification is acknowledgement that we have received your order, and does not confirm acceptance of your offer to purchase the Services.
    • If the Unit designated by you to receive the Services is over three years old, we will send you a link to download our software in order to run a report on the machine to confirm whether the Unit can be supported by our Systems. Where the Unit cannot be supported, ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING will notify you that your order cannot be accepted in relation to that Unit and the payment of the Fees in respect of the Services for that Unit will not be processed by us.
    • We only accept your offer, and conclude the contract of sale for a Service ordered by you, when we: (i) debit your credit, debit card or (ii) send an e-mail confirming to you that we’ve accepted your order (the “Order Confirmation”).
    • By placing an order, you confirm that you have authority to bind any business on whose behalf you place an order for.
  •  Price and Payment
    • All prices shown on the Website are inclusive of VAT (where applicable) at the current rates and are correct at the time of entering the information onto the system. We reserve the right, however, to change prices at any time by providing you with advance notice (provided that any changes will not affect fixed term orders in respect of which we have sent you an Order Confirmation).
    • Payment of the Fees can be made by GoCardless or Bank Transfer, GoCardless fee’s will be collected on the 1st business day of every calendar month. For the first month of Fees for the Services, a pro rata proportion will be charged to you in relation to the amount of days left from the date the order is confirmed to the 15th day of the then current, or the following, calendar month (as applicable).
    • In the unlikely event that the price shown on a Service webpage or the checkout page is wrong, and we discover this before accepting your order in accordance with clause 6.3, we are not required to sell the Services to you at the price shown. We always try and ensure that the prices of Services shown on our Website are accurate, but occasionally genuine errors may occur. If we discover an error in the price of the Services that you have ordered we will let you know as soon as possible and give you the option of re-confirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it.
    • All credit/debit cardholders are subject to validation checks and authorisation by the card issuer. If the issuer of your payment card refuses to or does not, for any reason, authorise payment to us we will not be liable to you for any delay.
    • If your credit or debit card payment is not processed successfully for any reason, we reserve the right to re-attempt to process payment. We will give you at least 48 hours’ notice in advance of any re-attempt to process payment by sending an email to the email address you have provided to us. If you do not want us to re-attempt to process payment, you must cancel your order within 48 hours of us sending you this email.
    • If you do not pay the Fees by the relevant due date (e.g. if your card is declined or a direct debit is cancelled), we reserve the right to take the following actions:
      • charge interest on any outstanding sums from the due date for payment in accordance with the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998, accruing on a daily basis and being compounded quarterly until payment is made, whether before or after any judgment; and/or
      • suspending the Services we provide to you. We will not be liable for any loss of data that may occur in relation to the suspension of the Services.
    • We may set-off any liability that you may have to us against any liability that we may have to you.
  •  Third Party Products Terms
    • We sell a number of different Third Party Products and each has their own terms and conditions (“3P Terms”) attached to their use by you. Please see the Third Party Products webpage on the Website for links to the 3P Terms for the applicable Third Party Products in your order BEFORE placing your order as the 3P Terms will hereby be deemed to be incorporated into your order.
  •  Term and Service Renewal
    • Unless otherwise stated for a particular Service on the Website or by a representative of ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING, each Service type has a minimum term of 30 days (“Initial Term”).
    • At the end of the Initial Term or at the end of any 30 day period thereafter (each a “Renewal Period”), the Services will automatically renew to avoid any Service disruption to you. However, you can stop the renewal of the Initial Term or any Renewal Period by providing us with written notice at any time prior to the renewal date. We will also send you a notification at least 30 days prior to the automatic renewal date to let you know that the renewal is approaching.
    • For the avoidance of doubt, the Services cannot be cancelled part-way through the Initial Term or any Renewal Period.
    • Some subscription services have a 12 month commitment and cannot be cancelled on 30 days notice until the end of the 12 month contract
  •  Termination
    • Without limiting any other rights or remedies, either party (“Terminating Party”) may terminate these Terms and any Order in force with immediate effect by providing written notice to the other party (“Defaulting Party”) on or at any time after the occurrence of any of the events specified below:
      • a breach by the Defaulting Party of its obligations under these Terms which (if the breach is capable of remedy) the Defaulting Party has failed to remedy within 14 days after receipt of notice in writing from the Terminating Party requiring the Defaulting Party to do so; or
      • an event, including (or similar in nature to) the following:
  • the Defaulting Party is unable to pay its debts as they fall due;
  • the Defaulting Party goes into liquidation either compulsorily (except for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation) or voluntarily;
  • a receiver is appointed in respect of the whole or any part of the Defaulting Party;
  • a provisional liquidator is appointed to the Defaulting Party or the Defaulting Party enters into a voluntary arrangement or any other composition or compromise with the majority by value of its creditors or has a winding-up order or passes a resolution for the voluntary winding-up or has an administrative receiver appointed or takes steps towards any such event; or
    • the Defaulting Party suspends, or threatens to suspend, or ceases or threatens to cease to carry on all or a substantial part of its business.
  • If these Terms terminate for any reason, notwithstanding any other provision, ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING shall have no obligation to refund any Fees and all Fees payable by you to ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING under these Terms will become due and payable immediately. This clause is without prejudice to any right by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING to claim for interest or any other right under these Terms.
  • Any provision of these Terms that expressly or by implication is intended to come into or continue in force on or after termination or expiry of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect.
  • Termination of these Terms will automatically terminate any Order which is then in force.
  •  Limitation of Liability and Indemnity
    • Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes the liability of either party for death or personal injury resulting from negligence or for any damage or liability incurred by a party as a result of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by the other party.
    • Subject to clauses 11.1 and 11.7, neither party will be liable for loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goods, loss of contract, loss of use, loss or corruption of data or information or any special, indirect, consequential or pure economic loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses.
    • Subject to clauses 11.1 and 11.7, each party’s total liability to the other party in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise arising under or in connection with these Terms will be limited to a sum equal to the amount of Fees paid or payable by you for the Services in the preceding 12 month period in respect of the Unit(s) giving rise to such claim for damages.
    • We will take reasonable care, in so far as it is in our power to do so, to keep the details of your orders and payment secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part we cannot be liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures unauthorised access to any data provided by you when accessing or ordering from the Website.
    • ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING does not warrant that the Services will be fit for any particular purpose and it is your responsibility to ensure that the Service specifications meet your requirements.
    • Unless otherwise stated, all warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from these Terms.
    • You will indemnify and keep ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING and its officers, employees, consultants, agents and sub-contractors indemnified, on demand, against all losses, costs and liabilities and all expenses, including reasonable legal or other professional expenses, suffered or incurred by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING arising out of or in connection with any claim in relation to the data, information or materials provided by you either directly or indirectly to us which:
      • infringe a third party’s Intellectual Property Rights; or
      • are inaccurate or incomplete; or
      • are defamatory, offensive, breach data protection or privacy laws or are otherwise illegal.
  •  Intellectual Property
    • All Intellectual Property Rights in the Systems and any software and/or materials (either in the form of pre-contractual documentation, site documentation or as text, images, research papers or electronically stored code for the manipulation, transmission and presentation of information) developed by us under these Terms in connection with the Services, including modifications to any software, will remain our property. We hereby grant you a non-exclusive, revocable and non-transferable licence to use the Systems, materials and software developed by us solely for your own internal purposes during the Subscription Period. This licence shall automatically terminate upon the termination of these Terms.
    • You will be responsible for ensuring that no action or omission of yours or of any of your personnel or contractors constitutes an infringement of any of our Intellectual Property Rights or those of any third party.
  •  Confidentiality
    • A party (“Receiving Party”) will keep in strict confidence all technical or commercial know-how, specifications, inventions, processes or initiatives which are of a confidential nature and have been disclosed (either orally, in writing or by demonstration) to the Receiving Party by the other party (“Disclosing Party”) or its employees, agents or sub-contractors and any other confidential information concerning the Disclosing Party’s business, its products and services which the Receiving Party may obtain (“Confidential Information”).
    • In relation to any Confidential Information received from the Disclosing Party or from a third party on behalf of the Disclosing Party, the Disclosing Party and the Receiving Party agree:
      • to treat the Confidential Information in confidence and to use it only for the purpose of discharging the Receiving Party’s obligations under these Terms;
      • not to disclose the Confidential Information to any third party without the express written permission of the Disclosing Party (except that the Receiving Party may disclose the Confidential Information to its officers, employees, consultants, agents and sub-contractors who need access to the Confidential Information in connection with discharging the Receiving Party’s obligations under these Terms and provided that such officers, employees, consultants, agents and sub-contractors are made aware of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and are subject to confidentiality obligations at least as onerous as those set out in these Terms); and
      • to treat the Confidential Information with the same degree of care and with sufficient protection from unauthorised disclosure as the Receiving Party uses to maintain its own confidential or proprietary information.
    • Nothing in these Terms will prevent the Receiving Party from using or disclosing any Confidential Information which:
      • is in or comes into the public domain in any way without breach of these Terms by the Receiving Party or any person or entity to whom it makes disclosure;
      • the Receiving Party can show was: (i) in its possession or known to it by being in its use or being recorded in its files prior to receipt from the Disclosing Party and was not acquired by the Receiving Party from the Disclosing Party under an obligation of confidence; or (ii) to have been independently developed by the Receiving Party without reference to the Confidential Information;
      • the Receiving Party obtains or has available from a source other than the Disclosing Party without breach by the Receiving Party or such source of any obligation of confidentiality or non-use;
      • is disclosed by the Receiving Party with the prior written approval of the Disclosing Party; or
      • is required by law to be released (e.g. by a court order), provided that, when permitted by the applicable law, the Disclosing Party is given as much prior written notice as possible of such request.
    • This clause 13 shall survive termination of these Terms, however arising.
  •  Data Protection
    • You warrant that you have the legal right to disclose all Personal Data that you disclose to ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING through the Services or Systems, and that the processing of that Personal Data by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING for the purposes of, and in accordance with, these Terms will not breach any applicable laws (including the Data Protection Act 1998).
    • ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING warrants that:
      • it will act only on your instructions in relation to the processing of any Personal Data performed by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING on your behalf; and
      • it has in place appropriate security measures (both technical and organisational) against unlawful or unauthorised processing of Personal Data and against loss or corruption of Personal Data processed by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING on your behalf.
    • When you shop on the Website, we will ask you to input personal details in order for us to identify you, such as your name, e-mail address, billing address, delivery address, credit card or other payment information.
    • To ensure that your credit, debit or charge card is not being used without your consent, we may validate name, address and other personal information supplied by you during the order process against appropriate third party databases.
    • There is a possibility we may contact you to make additional security checks and we ask for your co-operation to enable us to complete them. We will not tolerate fraudulent transactions and such transactions will be reported to the relevant authorities.
    • By accepting these Terms, you consent to such checks being made. In performing these checks personal information provided by you may be disclosed to a registered Credit Reference Agency which may keep a record of that information. You can rest assured that this is done only to confirm your identity, that a credit check is not performed and that your credit rating will be unaffected. All information provided by you will be treated securely and strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
  •  Insurance
    • You agree to maintain public liability insurance, employer’s liability insurance and insurance covering loss of data and equipment failure.
  •  Amendments to these Terms
    • ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING reserves the right at any time to modify these Terms or the Services and to impose new or additional terms or conditions. If you continue to use the Services after being notified of any such modification or additional terms, you will be deemed to have accepted these changes and they will be incorporated into the contract between the parties.
    • Subject to clause 16.1, no variation of these Terms will be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the authorised representatives of the parties.
  •  Force Majeure
    • Neither party shall be liable for any delay in performing or failure to perform (other than a payment obligation) due to any act of god, war, strike lock-out, industrial action, fire, flood, drought, tempest or any other event beyond the reasonable control of either party. Such delay or failure will not constitute a breach of these Terms and time for the performance of the affected obligations will be extended by such period as is reasonable. If a force majeure event prevents, hinders or delays the affected party’s performance of its obligations for a continuous period of more than four weeks, the party not affected by the event may terminate the order immediately by giving written notice to the affected party.
  •  Miscellaneous
    • These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between them, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter. Each party acknowledges that in entering into these Terms it does not rely on, and shall have no remedies in respect of, any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that are not set out in these Terms. Each party agrees that it shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these Terms.
    • All obligations in these Terms which expressly, or by their nature, are intended to continue beyond the termination of these Terms will survive the termination of these Terms.
    • All notices must be in writing and are deemed given when mailed by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to the other party’s main business address, as notified under these Terms or in an order. It is agreed that serving notice by email or fax will be an effective method of providing notice under these Terms, other than in respect of a notice of a claim.
    • You may not assign or sub-contract any of your rights or obligations under these Terms or any related order for goods to any third party unless agreed upon in writing by ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING. ETERNAL DIGITAL MARKETING reserves the right to transfer, assign, novate or sub-contract the benefit of the whole or part of any of its rights or obligations under these Terms or any related contract to any third party.
    • If any provision or part-provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid, legal and enforceable. If such modification is not possible, the relevant provision or part-provision shall be deemed deleted. Any modification to or deletion of a provision or part-provision under this clause shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these Terms.
    • No one other than a party to these Terms, their successors and permitted assignees, shall have any right to enforce any of its terms.
    • No failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under these Terms or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided under these Terms are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.
    • These Terms and any Order may be signed in counterparts. Each signed copy of a document will be deemed to be an original, but all signed copies, when taken together, will constitute one and the same agreement.
    • These Terms are governed by English law and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. English is the only language offered for the conclusion of the contract between us.