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Terms & Conditions

These terms and conditions apply to all purchases made by you, the customer, from us, JML Direct. JML Direct is the trading name of John Mills Ltd.

Customer Service

We are committed to total customer care and abide by the principles of The Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000. Should you wish to speak to our customer services department about anything relating to JML, please call our freephone number 0800 781 7831, Monday to Friday between 8am to 6pm.

Customers in the Republic of Ireland should call 041 978 0001.

If you want to place a new order, please call 0871 221 2677 or 041 978 0003 if you are a customer in the Republic of Ireland. Order lines are open Monday all day every day and operated by our own UK based friendly call centre staff.

If you would like to email us, please contact us at customer.services@jmlgroup.co.uk. We will endeavour to reply to your query within one working day. You can also contact us, during customer service opening hours, via our Chat Now service, this function can be found at the top of the home page of our website.

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Acceptance Of Your Order

We reserve the right not to accept your order in the event, for example, that we were unable to obtain authorisation for payment, that shipping restrictions apply to a particular item, that the item ordered is out of stock or does not satisfy our quality control standards and is withdrawn, or that you do not meet the eligibility criteria set out within the Terms and Conditions, such as age restrictions for ordering our kitchen knife products.

JML reserves the right to terminate or withdraw any order for whatever reason it sees fit, without explanation to the purchaser. We will notify you if we do not accept your order. We will not be liable to you or any third party by reason of withdrawing any products from sale whether or not that product has been sold.

Our acceptance of your order will only take place upon dispatch of the product(s) ordered. For the avoidance of doubt, receipt of an order does not constitute acceptance of an order.

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Availability

All orders are accepted subject to stock availability.

If the goods ordered are out of stock, we will contact you within 28 days from the day after your order was placed. If the goods are coming back into stock, we will propose a new delivery date or, with your agreement, we may be able to supply you with substitute goods.

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Value Added Tax (VAT)

Prices included in our catalogue, on our website, and on our promotional materials all include VAT at the appropriate rate. For VAT refunds (where applicable), please contact our customer services department.

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Ways to Pay

By Telephone

To place an order by telephone call us on 0871 221 2677 or 041 978 0001 for customers in the Republic of Ireland. Lines are open all day every day. Our friendly, trained UK based call centre staff will take your order. Your call will be charged at national rates. If you wish to place an order please have your credit or debit card to hand. We accept Switch/Maestro, Solo, MasterCard, Delta and Visa debit and credit cards have to be registered to a UK or ROI address.

JML Direct customers must be 18 years of age or over. You will be asked to provide your personal details. It is your responsibility to ensure that the details provided by you for the purpose of ordering products from us are correct and that you have the necessary credit limits and/or authority to use the credit or debit card you present to us.

By Internet

Order from our website at www.jmldirect.com.

We have some the most advanced methods of credit card and order taking security to protect our customers. If you experience any problems when placing an order online, then our sales team will be more than happy to take the order over the telephone.

You can also talk to our customer service team, and place your order, via our Chat Now application.

By Post

To order by post, please write to us telling us which product you wish to purchase. Please enclose a cheque for the amount of your purchase, including postage & packing, made payable to JML Direct. The address to send your cheque payment to is: JML Direct, FREEPOST. There is no stamp required and no further address detail.

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Cancellation & Returns

JML Guarantee

We’re confident that you’ll love our products, but for your peace of mind, we offer a no quibble 30-day money back guarantee on every purchase. So if, for whatever reason, you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase, you can always send it back to us.

All you need to do to use your 30-day money back guarantee is to make sure you keep all the product packaging, instructions and other contents, as well as the included dispatch note. To return a product to us, you need to contact our customer service team who can issue you with a returns number, without this your refund or replacement may be delayed. You should complete the returns slip on your despatch note or include a letter stating the reasons for your return.

Should you need further advice please contact our retail customer services team on 0800 781 7831. Customers in the Republic of Ireland, please call 041 978 0001.

We are unable to refund “hygiene” products that have been opened or used. Hygiene products include pants, tights, earrings, personal beauty products and creams.

Damaged Goods

If you are cancelling because there is a fault with the product, clearly state the details of the fault. We will meet the cost of returning the product or products to us if the goods are faulty or incorrect. For all other cancellations, you must return the goods to us at your cost.

All returns should be sent via Royal Mail. If you are returning a product or products, please ensure they are returned safely in or with the original shipping box and packaging materials. We will not be held responsible for meeting the cost of returning product(s) by any other courier.

TruColor Sunglasses Never Lost Promise

We are so confident in the power of the never lost technology that if you ever lose your TruColor Sunglasses we'll gladly replace them for free, you just pay the postage and handling charge.

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Statutory Rights

Nothing in our no quibble 30-day money back guarantee policy or this section affects your statutory rights. For example, you have a right to claim a repair or replacement of goods for up to 6 years from the date of purchase (5 years in Scotland) if your goods were not of satisfactory quality or fit for their purpose on the date of purchase. If you make a claim during the first 6 months, and we reject it, it's up to us to prove the goods were of satisfactory quality or fit for purpose at time of sale. After 6 months, it's up to you to show that the product had a fault or defect when it was sold. If you ordered via telephone or internet you have the right under distance selling regulations to cancel your order and receive a refund for home delivered items under our JML Guarantee of a no quibble 30-day money back guarantee. This does not apply to items personalised; made to your specification; audio/ video recordings or software which are unsealed; items which by their nature cannot be returned; perishable goods; or any item ordered or collected in store. To cancel you must email or call customer services within 7 working days (not including weekends or bank holidays) the day after delivery of your order. You are required to take reasonable care of items while in your possession. If you would like to know more about your legal rights, please contact your local Trading Standards Department or Citizens Advice Bureau. Our products are for domestic and personal use only and we are not responsible for any business use loss.

Liability

If you have notified us of a problem with the goods, we will either make good any shortage or non-delivery, replace any goods that are damaged or defective upon delivery, or refund you with the amount paid for the goods. This does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer, nor is it intended to limit our liability to you for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence.

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Safety Advice

For your own safety we recommend that you read carefully all safety information printed either on the packaging, or in any leaflets that may be included with the product. For electrical products always check the power cable and plug for any signs of damage. Always consult a qualified electrician and never attempt to repair any product yourself.

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Customer Reviews

We invite our customers to rate our products, write reviews and share their experiences with other customers. Reviews that are submitted to JML Direct may be used for marketing or promotional purposes. We moderate all reviews before publishing them to this site and we reserve the right to not publish any reviews that contain offensive language.

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Errors

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information supplied is correct at the time of going to press.

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Data Protection Act 1998

JML Direct is registered as a data user under the above Act. The company’s registered entry contains descriptions of the sources, uses and disclosure of personal data held by the company. Information supplied by you will be used for administering your account details, and for promoting goods and services to you.

We may, with your consent, disclose your information to a third party service provider. We may also send you information about goods and services from other companies. Before we do this, we will ask if you wish to receive such offers at the time you place your order.

If you have not been asked, or if you do not wish to receive these offers, please contact us. You also have a right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected and to tell us in writing at the address given below if you do not wish to receive marketing offers by mail, telephone or any other means.

By purchasing products from us, you agree to these terms of sale. JML have the right to revise these terms and conditions including prices at any time. We also have the right to decline service to any individual customer. Our head office address is JML House, Regis Road, London NW5 3EG.

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Call Charges

Call charges to our 0870 numbers will be charged at a maximum rate of 10.21p per minute from a BT landline. However other network charges may vary (for customers in UK). Every effort has been made to ensure that the information supplied is correct at the time of going to press (November 2011).

Number with
prefix:

Max charge from BT
landline in pence

0845

4.032

0870

8.706

0871

10.21

0844

5.105

0844 78

5.052

0800

0.00
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Win A Grand

the monthly ‘Win a Grand’ prize draw from JML.

The JML Win a Grand competition is a monthly prize draw in which one winner will receive a cash prize of £1000.00, this competition will run monthly until further notice. To enter you need to register your details with JMLdirect.com. There will be 1 winner per month who will win one thousand GBP, or equivalent Euro value at rate of exchange at the time of the draw. The prize is a cheque for £1,000 (one thousand pounds) made payable in the name of the winner only.

Only newly registered contacts or customers will be entered into each month’s prize draw – therefore each person can enter only once.

The prize draw is open to UK and ROI residents aged 18 or over. No purchase necessary.

On or before the fifth working day of each calendar month JML use a random selection formula to pick the winning entry from entrants in the preceding month; all newly registered contacts between 1st and last day of the month will be entered into the prize draw. For further details of the selection process please contact JML through the Contact Us page.

By the 7th working day of the month we will have contacted the winner by telephone and email to organize payment of the prize. Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of each draw. Unclaimed prizes will be void.

Persons connected with John Mills Ltd or JML Direct Ltd are ineligible.

Brief details of winners may be included in JML e-newsletters and on social media sites following receipt of confirmation. Winners of prizes will be required to provide a recent photograph for promotional activities.

You can enter the prize draw by entering your details here .

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Win a Rally Experience with Mantis

The lucky winner will win a full throttle ride around a test track with one of Britain’s leading rally drivers! The closing date for entries is 1st July 2012. Good luck! Below are the rules that apply to Win a Rally Experience with Mantis competition.

The prize draw is open to UK and ROI residents. No purchase necessary.

To participate you must be at least 18 years of age. Height and weight restrictions may apply.

You must make your own way to the rally experience which will be held in the UK.

The date of the Rally Experience is Saturday 21st July. If you are unavailable to attend on this date, your prize will be offered to another winner chosen at random. JML will not be responsible for any inability of the prize winner to take up the specified prize. No cash alternative will be offered.

If the prize is unclaimed or declined within a reasonable period, a supplementary winner may be drawn at JML’s discretion and notified by telephone.

The name of the winner may be announced on this website, in JML’s catalogue, on JML’s Facebook page and Twitter.

In the event of fraud, abuse and /or an error affecting the proper operation of the promotion, JML reserves the right to end or suspend the promotion, amend these terms & conditions, declare void the notification of winners.

JML accepts no responsibility for incorrectly completed, lost or delayed entries. Entries not complying to these terms and conditions will be invalid. The instructions provided at the point of registration form part of these terms and conditions of this draw, and in the event of a conflict, these terms & conditions take precedence.

Only entries submitted by 1st July 2012 will be accepted into the competition. The winner will be chosen at random and contacted by telephone or email by 10th July 2012. Persons connected with John Mills Ltd or JML Direct Ltd are ineligible. Don’t worry, we would never share your details outside the JML Group and we will not sell or distribute your email address to 3rd parties for marketing purposes.

To be in with a chance to Win a Rally Experience with Mantis enter here and include your name, address and telephone number so we can contact you if you are the lucky winner.

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