Terms & Conditions

Terms and conditions of use

1. Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website.

1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our website.

1.4 You must be at least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at least 18 years of age.

1.5 Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy policy (scroll down the page to read).

2. Credit

2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal (https://seqlegal.com).

3. Copyright notice

3.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.

4. Licence to use website

4.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our website in a web browser;

(b) download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;

(d) and use our website services by means of a web browser;

subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

4.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.

4.3 You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes.

4.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.

4.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our website (including republication on another website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our website;

(d) exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our website.

4.6 Notwithstanding Section 4.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

4.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

5. Acceptable use

5.1 You must not:

(a) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;

(b) use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our 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, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) 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;

(e) access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or

(g) use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).

5.2 You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

9. Your content: licence

9.1 In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website.

9.2 You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media.

9.3 You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.4 You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 9.2.

9.5 You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

9.7 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

10. Your content: rules

10.1 You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.

10.2 Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).

10.3 Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not:

(a) be libellous or maliciously false;

(b) be obscene or indecent;

(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;

(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation;

(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;

(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity;

(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;

(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;

(i) be blasphemous;

(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;

(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;

(l) depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;

(m) be pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;

(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;

(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;

(p) constitute spam;

(q) be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or

(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

11. Limited warranties

11.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website;

(b) that the material on the website is up to date; or

11.2 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

11.3 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website.

12. Limitations and exclusions of liability

12.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

12.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 12.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

12.3 To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

12.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

12.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

12.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

12.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

12.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

13. Breaches of these terms and conditions

13.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our website;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

13.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a 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).

14. Variation

14.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

14.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

15. Assignment

15.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

15.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

16. Severability

16.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

16.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions 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.

17. Third party rights

17.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

17.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

18. Entire agreement

18.1 Subject to Section 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our website.

19. Law and jurisdiction

19.1 These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

19.2 Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

21. Our details

21.1 This website is owned and operated by Alice Harman.

21.2 Our registered office is at Lytchett House, 13 Freeland Park, Wareham Road, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6FA.

21.4 You can contact us:

(a) by post, to the postal address given above;

(b) using our website contact form;

Website disclaimer

Alice Harman

Website: aliceharman.com

1. No warranties

1.1 This website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without any representations or warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

1.2 Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, we do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website;

(b) that the material on this website is up to date;

(c) that this website will be available at all times, or at any particular time, or that access will be uninterrupted; or

(d) that this website or the server that makes it available are free from viruses, malware, or other harmful components.

1.3 We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

1.4 Save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website.

2. Limitation of liability

2.1 We will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts, or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

(a) to the extent that the website is provided free of charge, for any direct loss;

(b) for any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or

(c) for any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities, or goodwill.

2.2 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database, or software.

2.3 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

2.4 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to Section 3; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under this disclaimer or relating to the subject matter of this disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence), and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in this disclaimer.

3. Exceptions

3.1 Nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit.

3.2 Nothing in this disclaimer shall exclude or limit our liability in respect of any:

(a) death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

(b) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on our part; or

(c) matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for us to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, our liability.

3.3 By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

4. Content accuracy

4.1 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

4.2 The content on this website does not constitute a definitive or complete statement of the law on any subject. It is provided for general guidance only.

4.3 We may make changes to the material on our website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice.

4.4 The information on this website may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such information.

5. Not professional advice

5.1 The information on this website is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on this website.

5.2 No part of this website is intended to constitute a contractual offer capable of acceptance.

5.3 Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on this website, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our website is accurate, complete, or up to date.

5.4 Use of this website or any information published on it does not give rise to any professional-client or fiduciary relationship between you and us.

6. Third-party websites

6.1 This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

6.2 We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements, content, accuracy, or practices.

6.3 The inclusion of a link to a third-party website from our website does not imply any endorsement of the third-party website, the website's provider, or any content or material published on the third-party website.

6.4 If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.

7. Unenforceable provisions

7.1 If any provision of this disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this disclaimer.

7.2 If any unenforceable provision would be enforceable if part of it were deleted or modified, that provision shall apply with whatever modification is necessary to give effect to the commercial intention of the parties.

8. Law and jurisdiction

8.1 This disclaimer shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

8.2 Any disputes relating to this disclaimer shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

8.3 Nothing in this Section shall limit the right of Alice Harman to take proceedings against you in any other court of competent jurisdiction, nor shall the taking of proceedings in any one or more jurisdictions preclude the taking of proceedings in any other jurisdictions.

9. Changes to this disclaimer

9.1 We may revise this disclaimer from time to time. The revised disclaimer shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised disclaimer on the website.

9.2 You should check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

9.3 We may notify you of changes to this disclaimer by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

10. Contact us

10.1 This website is owned and operated by Alice Harman

10.2 You can contact us:

(a) using our website contact form;

(b) by email, using info@aliceharman.com

This document was created using a free template from SEQ Legal.

Copyright disclaimer

I (Alice Harman) am not the owner or copyright holder for any of the book cover or inside spread images featured on this site. They are included solely for the purpose of illustrating titles in which I have been involved in an authorial or editorial capacity or which I am featuring or recommending for site visitors.

Delivery and Returns Policy

Alice Harman

Website: aliceharman.com

1. Scope

1.1 This delivery and returns policy sets out the terms and conditions relating to the delivery of products ordered through our website, aliceharman.com

1.2 This delivery and returns policy should be read in conjunction with the rest of our terms and conditions.

1.3 In this policy, "we", "us", and "our" refer to Alice Harman. "You" and "your" refer to our customers.

2. Delivery methods

2.1 We offer the following delivery methods for physical products:

Collection from a named pick-up point (for example, your child’s school or activity group). It is your responsibility to select the correct pick-up point at checkout and we cannot be held accountable for your mistake in selecting the wrong pick-up point.

2.2 Delivery methods available to you will be displayed at the checkout stage of the ordering process.

2.3 We reserve the right to change or withdraw any delivery method at any time without prior notice.

3. Delivery timeframes

3.1 We will aim to deliver physical products, e.g. signed books, either in time for a scheduled event or after the event, in accordance with what we’ve agreed with my event contact, such as a school representative or the activity group leaders.

3.2 All delivery timeframes are estimates only. Whilst we will make every reasonable effort to deliver within the estimated timeframe, we do not guarantee delivery dates and shall not be liable for any delay in delivery.

3.3 Under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, goods must be delivered without undue delay and, unless otherwise agreed, not more than 30 days after the day on which the contract is entered into.

4. Delivery charges

4.1 Delivery charges are as follows:

For collection from a named pick-up point , there should be no additional delivery charge.

4.2 Delivery charges will be displayed at the checkout stage before you confirm your order.

4.3 We reserve the right to vary our delivery charges from time to time. Any changes will not affect orders that have already been confirmed.

5. Damaged or missing items

5.1 Please inspect your delivery upon receipt. If any items are damaged or missing, you must notify us within 48 hours of delivery.

7.2 To report damaged or missing items, please contact us at info@aliceharman.com or through the website contact form, providing your order number and details of the issue, including photographs where applicable.

7.3 If items are confirmed as damaged or missing, we will, at our discretion, send a replacement or issue a refund in accordance with your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

8. International delivery

8.1 We do not currently deliver physical products internationally.

9. Returns and refunds

9.1 If you wish to return goods delivered to you, please contact us at info@aliceharman.com. Personalised items, such as signed books with requested name dedications or messages, are not generally eligible for returns.

9.2 Your statutory rights under the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 are not affected by this delivery and returns policy.

10. Changes to this policy

10.1 We may update this delivery and returns policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

10.2 You should check this page periodically to ensure you are familiar with the current version of this policy.

11. Contact us

11.1 If you have any questions about deliveries or this delivery and returns policy, you can contact us:

(a) by email, at info@aliceharman.com

(d) using the contact form on our website, at aliceharman.com/contact

This document was created using a free template from SEQ Legal.

Privacy Policy

This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks

Internal links

Pages visited

Scrolling

Searches

Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also provide this information with Google Drive for storage, with Substack if you are subscribing to the Big Wide World newsletter through the embedded Substack sign-up form. This information may also be shared with Stripe, our payment processor.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device

Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

Web pages you view while on this website

Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device

Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

Your IP address

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, Instagram feed etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase

Email address

Name

Phone number

We provide this information to Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also provide this information to our shipping service provider(s) so we can ship your order to you. You can read their privacy policy(ies) on their website(s).

Our payment processor(s) Stripe will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

We use branded invoices to collect payments. We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide invoicing services to us.

We may collect information like your:

Email address

Invoice details (for example, line items)

Name

Payment history

Squarespace makes use of Stripe, a third-party payment processing provider which also receives your personal information and processes it in accordance with their privacy policies.

When you contact us or agree to a service, we collect information necessary to negotiate, draft, and execute the service agreement.

This information may include your:

Business details (for example, project scope)

Email address

Name

Phone number

This information is processed and stored securely through our use of the Squarespace platform.

When you purchase a product on this website, we collect personal information from you to ship the order to you.

We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase (for example, the product’s weight)

Email address

Name

Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide shipping services to us.

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace as our commerce platform. Squarespace makes use of Stripe, a third-party service provider, to power automated tax calculations. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address

Details relating to your purchase (for example, Product Tax Codes for the items purchased)

Name

Stripe may also receive personal information and process it in accordance their privacy policies.

You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.

You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.

You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

You’ve created a customer account

Your customer account password has been reset or updated

You’ve made a purchase

Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.