Terms and conditions

Our Identity

We are Car Connections, West End Garage, Leswalt Road, Stranraer, DG9 0EP, UK. Telephone 01644 430 100, Fax 01644 430 102 email: info@carconnections.co.uk. VAT number 263 1362 79.

In the event of a query or complaint please contact us using the above details.

The following terms and conditions do not affect your statutory rights as a consumer

The Right of Consumer Cancellation

When you receive goods ordered from www.carconnections.co.uk, and you change your mind about anything you order, you may cancel the order up to seven working days starting from the day AFTER the goods were delivered. Please note 7 working days do not include public holidays or weekends.

We will refund the price paid as soon as possible, but no later than 30 days from notification that you wish to cancel the order. This notification must be in writing, and will not be accepted in the form of a telephone call only. We will only refund the cost of the goods to you, the original carriage cost in sending the goods to you is not refundable.

Recovery of goods after cancellation

When you receive goods ordered from Car Connections, you have a statutory right that allows you to cancel the order up to seven working days starting from the day AFTER the goods were delivered. Please note 7 working days do not include public holidays or weekends.

You must return the goods to Car Connections, or make them freely available for collection by our appointed courier. If you do not freely return the goods, at your cost, to Car Connections then we may have to deduct any reasonable costs we incur in recovering the goods from you. This will be deducted from your refund.

If you, the consumer, wishes to return goods, you will return them at your own cost, we will only refund the return carriage if the goods are faulty or are incorrect.

Where products supplied are damaged, incorrect or faulty we will either replace the item or issue a full refund within 30 days of notice. We may request goods to be returned for inspection prior to agreeing to any refund at your cost. If goods are confirmed to be faulty, damaged or incorrectly supplied we will refund any carriage costs incurred in returning the goods.

Special Order Goods

If you make a special order for goods from www.carconnections.co.uk such as altered garments, engraving, or personalization or anything which has been altered from the original manufacturers standard original specification, then these goods are not covered by the RIGHT OF CONSUMER CANCELLATION. This also applies to goods specially ordered which have been bought on a fluctuating market such as goods we specially order overseas on a fluctuating rate of exchange.

Our performance as a supplier to you.

We aim to deliver your order within 3 working days but this may not always be possible. If the goods are not in stock at Car Connections, then we may have the goods delivered to you direct from our supplier. This may take longer, but we will notify you by email with an estimated delivery time if goods are not in stock.

The statutory delivery performance period set out in guidelines by the DTI is that we must deliver your goods within a maximum of 30 days from receipt of your order.

We will however endeavor to deliver well within this time, but in the event of the goods becoming unavailable we may offer you substitute goods, but you are not obliged to accept them. If we have not delivered your goods within 30days then you are entitled to a full refund, including any postage paid by you.

These regulations do not affect any rights you, the consumer, have to claim compensation for non performance of the contract under general law.

Confirmation of Purchase to you, the consumer

When you make an online purchase at www.carconnections.co.uk we will send you a confirmation by email of your order.

Once you have received this confirmation email and you wish to exercise your right to cancel you should contact us using the details shown in the "Our Identity" section. This has to be in writing, in no circumstances will a telephone call will not be accepted in place of written cancellation.

If we do not receive written confirmation of cancellation within 7 days from the day AFTER you have received the goods, then the regulations do not apply.

Contracts

When you purchase goods from Car Connections you are entering into what we call a Distance Contract. This contract is defined as any contract concerning goods or services concluded between a supplier and a consumer under an organized distance sales or service provision scheme run by the supplier who, for the purpose of the contract, makes exclusive use of one or more means of distance communication up to and including the moment at which the contract is concluded.

If you, the consumer, orders goods online but comes to Car Connections to collect and therefore view the goods, then some of these regulations no longer apply.

Our Telephone Contact with you

When we contact you, the consumer, with a view to concluding a distance contract, or to advise a change in delivery times etc., we will identify ourselves by giving the our own (sales persons) name, and our company name, and the commercial purpose of the call at the beginning of the conversation.

If you do not wish to receive telephone communication from Car Connections, then please advise us and we will only contact you by your preferred method, whether it be email, or fax.

Customer Contacts

When you, the consumer, purchases goods from www.carconnections.co.uk, you have an option to give your permission to allow us to contact you with special offers, or news, etc.

Only if this permission is given at this time, we can then contact you via email, or telephone, which means keeping a record of your contact details in our secure database. It is not our policy to share your details with any other organizations.

If you wish to withdraw this permission then we require this in writing and we will then remove your contact details from our database immediately. It is an offence for us to contact you with offers/news without your express concent.

Data Security

For information on data security read our online privacy policy.

Complaints

Should you have a complaint about any product purchased from Car Connections, or about our web site please address this to: info@carconnections.co.uk or contact us by post, telephone, fax or in person (contact details here).

We will review and acknowledge your complaint by email or letter within five working days. We aim to resolve all complaints within 14 days of receipt, you will receive a full reply by email or letter. If your complaint takes longer than expected to resolve we will keep you informed of our progress as we investigate the relevant issues.

Payment

We accept the following credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Switch, Visa Delta, JCB

Delivery

Delivery prices quoted on this web site are inclusive prices for the world region selected on the shopping cart page. All prices are in GB Pounds Sterling.

In order to make our delivery charges as fair as possible they are calculated on the weight of the items in your shopping basket. For this reason it is impossible to show delivery charges until you have added an item to your shopping basket. To view the total cost of your order simply add the items that you require to your basket and select your world region. You are under no obligation to buy anything at this stage.

In some cases it might not possible to provide a tracking number at the time of processing the order, but we will be happy to provide you with parcel tracking information should you wish to contact us when your goods have been despatched.

We always aim to deliver orders within 48 hours. If there is likely to be a significant delay we will contact you. If we are unable to deliver your order within 30 days of your order we will contact you and offer a full refund.

Contract

Automatic confirmation of receipt of your Order does not constitute a Contract between us. A Contract for the Sale of Goods shall only arise on the despatch of the Goods to you.