1. Definitions
‘our’, ‘we’ and ‘us’ means NumberJuice (operated by SIMPLE TAX RETURNS LIMITED) and, where applicable, its officers, employees and authorised agents; ‘our site’ means our website or websites; ‘you’ and ‘your’ include any business with which you are associated and on behalf of which you use our site; ‘services’ means the company formation service and other ancillary services offered on our site and where relevant includes any goods supplied by us; and ‘terms and conditions’ includes these terms and conditions of business our Privacy Policy and all other instructions to you posted on our site.
2. Terms and Conditions
2.1 When requesting services from our site you agree to comply with the on-line ordering procedure as prompted on our site.
2.2 When requesting services for the first time we will give you an individual user account number on the basis that you must use this account when requesting services from us.
2.3 These terms and conditions shall apply to all contracts you make with us. Each time you use our services you are offering to contract with us on the basis of these terms and conditions. All access to our site is subject to these terms and conditions. No other terms and conditions will apply to our supply of goods or services.
3. Your Obligations
3.1 We accept orders on the basis that the person placing the order is liable to pay us for the services. It is your responsibility to ensure the security of your user account. You will be liable to pay for any services ordered on that account until we receive notice from you to the contrary.
3.2 We only provide services on the basis that you have given us full and proper instructions and the authority to lawfully carry out those instructions.
3.3 You undertake to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information you provide us and accept all liability for the rejection of documents due to inaccuracies or incompleteness.
3.4 It is your responsibility to ensure that any company name or domain name you choose is available for registration and can be lawfully used by you. We accept no liability for your choice of name.
3.5 Once we have accepted a request for services you may contact us via our site or at the postal address displayed on our site to ask that your request be withdrawn. Given the nature of the services we provide it will be entirely at our discretion whether or not you are entitled to a refund for those services. In the exercise of such discretion we will consider the extent to which we have commenced work on the provision of that service.
4. Our Obligations
4.1 We will exercise reasonable care in compiling our site, use reasonable efforts to make our site available to you at all times; and take the steps set out in our Privacy Policy to endeavour to secure any personal data or credit card information you give us.
4.2 On accepting a request for services from you we will acknowledge our acceptance and confirm the details you have supplied us with by way of e-mail. Our acceptance of instructions is deemed to have occurred at the time of our sending the e-mail and not at the time of your receipt.
4.3 Until we receive further instruction from you we will keep, to your credit, any application or filing fee that is returned to us on the rejection of any application or filing.
5. Price and Payment
5.1 The prices payable for services that you order are set out on our site. We reserve the right to vary these prices from time to time and post such changes on our site. Fees charged by Companies House are those in force from time to time as charged by Companies House.
5.2 Payment will be made by credit card using the procedure set out on our site at the time of ordering. The price of services you order will be confirmed at the time of the request.
5.3 You agree to pay the prices set out on our website for services selected by clicking the accept button.
5.4 Payment for any services to be renewed annually, will be automatically renewed unless we are notified otherwise.
6. Termination
6.1 Cancellation of the service by you requires written notification and will be taken from the day this notification is received. There is no cancellation fee.
6.2 Following the cancellation of your account, NumberJuice will have no further responsibility in relation to the preparation or filing of your Limited company accounts, RTI filings, or any other return. As a Director you will have continued responsibilities and are solely responsible for identifying another service or accountant to satisfy the need for the service that we provided.
6.3 If you require us to prepare your Company’s Year End accounts prior to leaving NumberJuice we will ask you to make up the cost for producing these accounts to the value of £1020 + VAT (calculated as 12 times your monthly subscription of £85 + VAT), if the number of monthly payments made has not covered the full accounting period for which we are producing year end accounts. If you require us to also assist with closure of your company, or preparation for dormancy, additional fees will apply.
6.4 Any data you have in your NumberJuice account would need to be exported prior to closure.
6.5 Suspension of your account could seriously jeopardise our and your ability to manage your company accounts and could lead to the missing of submission deadlines, including monthly RTI filing.
6.6 NumberJuice cannot be held liable for any fines incurred resulting from this, and all our obligations under these Terms of Service are suspended.
6.7 If we withdraw access to the Services no refund will be payable by us. One month’s notice will be given prior to the suspension of an account after which time if any issue has not been resolved within the following month we will take action to disengage ourselves as your Agent. We also reserve the right to close any NumberJuice account for any reason, by giving one month’s notice.
6.8 No payment over 28 days old will be refunded.
6.9 Annual Payments: If an annual payment is made for the Services please note, we cannot offer a pro-rated refund if you choose to cancel your account before the end of the year for which you have paid.
7. Performance
7.1 Time is not of the essence for the performance of the services. We will use our reasonable endeavours to meet the time estimates given on our site but these remain estimates and in particular we accept no responsibility for delay caused by third parties or for reasons outside our control (such as the unavailability of the world wide web or for computer systems or telecommunications failure).
7.2 We are not obliged to accept any request or to continue to perform any service. We reserve the right to reject any request or to discontinue the performance of any service without liability.
8. Exclusion and Limitations
8.1 We make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the information and related graphics published in our site. The information contained in our site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and is intended to be a general indication of our services only. Any implied terms including those as to quality, fitness for purpose, compliance with description or sample are excluded unless you deal as a consumer. If you do deal as a consumer these terms do not affect your statutory rights.
8.2 Except in claims relating to death or personal injury resulting from negligence or as otherwise prescribed by law our liability for any loss or damage (compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties) arising out of any single claim will be limited to the value of re-supplying our site or relevant services to you.
8.3 You agree that this limitation is reasonable having regard to the nature of our site and in particular given that when you purchase information or services through our site you will enter into a separate contract with us in each case.
8.4 Each of the provisions of this clause 7 shall be construed as a separate, and severable, provision of these terms and conditions.
9. Variation
9.1 We reserve the right at any time without notice to revise the content of our site (including the services offered by us) and the terms and conditions. Any changes to the terms and conditions will be posted on our site and by continuing to use our site following any such change you will signify that you agree to be bound by the revised terms and conditions.
10. Termination of Access
10.1 We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny users access to our site or any part of our site without notice and to decline to provide the service to any user that is in breach of the terms and conditions.
11. Links to other sites
11.1 Certain links, including hypertext links, in our site may take you outside our site. Links are provided for your convenience and inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement or approval by us of the linked site, its operator or its content. We are not responsible for the content of any website outside our site.
12. Force Majeure
12.1 We shall not be liable to you for any breach of the terms and conditions or any failure to provide or delay in providing our services through our site resulting from any event or circumstance beyond our reasonable control including, without limitation, breakdown of systems or network access, fire, explosion or accident.
13. Privacy
13.1 You agree that we may collect, store, and use information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You acknowledge and agree to be bound by the terms of our Privacy Policy.
14. Ownership Rights
14.1 All rights in the design, text, graphics and other material on our site and the selection or arrangement thereof are the copyright of us or other third parties. Permission is granted to electronically copy and print in hard copy portions of our site solely in connection with the acquisition of goods or services through our site. Any other use of materials on our site (including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above and alteration, modification, distribution, or republication) without our prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
15. Third Party Rights
15.1 These terms and conditions are not intended to be enforceable by any third party as provided by the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
16. Advice
16.1 Your subscription to the NumberJuice service allows for the provision of general accountancy guidance only and this is restricted to the business which subscribes to the NumberJuice service only. For specific matters relating to issues such as IR35 compliance, broad advice can be offered.
17. Jurisdiction
17.1 Our relationship with you will be governed by English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.