Terms & Conditions

This page (together with the documents referred to on it) sets out our terms and conditions on which we supply any of the products (Products) listed on our website www.littlehelper.co.uk (our site) to you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before ordering any Products from our site. You should understand that by ordering any of our Products, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

Please click on the button marked "I Accept" at the end of these terms and conditions if you accept them. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to order any Products from our site.

Your attention is brought specifically to clauses 6, 10.4 and 11 and to our Privacy Policy and Website Use Terms.

1. INFORMATION ABOUT US AND OUR PRODUCTS
1.1 www.littlehelper.co.uk is a site operated by Real Brands Limited (we). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 11637980. Our VAT number is GB 308 2766 96.

1.2 For the purposes of these terms and conditions: Intellectual Property Rights : means patents, rights to inventions, utility models, copyright, trade marks, service marks, trade, business and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, topography rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including know-how and trade secrets) and any other intellectual property rights, in each case whether registered or unregistered and including 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.

1.3 All Intellectual Property Rights in connection with the Products are owned by or licensed to Real Brands Limited and we reserve all rights therein. We shall exercise all rights of action permitted by law in enforcing such rights.

2. SERVICE AVAILABILITY

Some restrictions are placed on the extent to which we accept orders from specific countries. Your order will not be processed and you will be informed of the restriction if it applies to your order. Please review our Delivery Guide page before ordering Products from us.

3. YOUR STATUS
By placing an order through our site, you warrant that:

(a) You are legally capable of entering into binding contracts;

(b) You are at least 18 years old;

(c) You are resident in one of the countries listed in the delivery guide; and

(d) You are accessing our site from that country.

4. HOW THE CONTRACT IS FORMED BETWEEN YOU AND US

4.1 After placing an order, you will receive an e-mail from us acknowledging that we have received your order. Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to us to buy a Product. All orders are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an e-mail that confirms that the Product has been dispatched (the Dispatch Confirmation). The contract between us (Contract) will only be formed when we send you the Dispatch Confirmation.

4.2 The Contract will relate only to those Products whose dispatch we have confirmed in the Dispatch Confirmation. We will not be obliged to supply any other Products which may have been part of your order until the dispatch of such Products has been confirmed in a separate Dispatch Confirmation.

5. Third Party Products

5.1 We may also provide links on our site to the websites of other companies, whether affiliated with us or not. We cannot give any undertaking, that products you purchase from third party sellers through our site, or from companies to whose website we have provided a link on our site, will be of satisfactory quality, and any such warranties are DISCLAIMED by us absolutely. This DISCLAIMER does not affect your statutory rights against the third party seller. We will notify you when a third party is involved in a transaction, and we may disclose your customer information related to that transaction to the third party seller. IMPORTANT: Please note that we work on an rapid auto-process system when processing orders and in some cases if a customer cancels, we may not be able to cancel the order once processed. This may result in a fee to recall the parcel or return.

6. CONSUMER RIGHTS
6.1 Subject to clause 6.3 if you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel a Contract at any time within seven working days, beginning on the day after you received the Products. In this case, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the Products in accordance with our refunds policy (set out in paragraph 10 below).

6.2 To cancel a Contract, you must inform us in writing and return the Product(s) to us immediately, in the same condition in which you received them, and at your own cost and risk.

6.3 You will not have any right to cancel a Contract for the supply of any of the following Products:

Personalised items such as named vinyl stickers, vouchers and FunPod's that have been personalised prior to despatch with your child's name.

6.4 Details of this statutory right, and an explanation of how to exercise it, are provided in the Dispatch Confirmation. This provision does not affect your statutory rights.

7. AVAILABILITY AND DELIVERY
7.1 Your order will be fulfilled by the delivery date set out in the Dispatch Confirmation or, if no delivery date is specified, then within 30 days of the date of the Dispatch Confirmation, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

7.2 Whilst we have made every effort to portray items accurately, slight variations in colour & measurement may occur. Descriptions are as accurate as photographic and publishing processes will allow and please note the conditions of our Refunds Policy .

7.3 We reserve the right to alter the specification, design and materials used in the production of our Products in accordance with all applicable legislation and also as determined by our supplier arrangements. We shall at all times inform the Customer of any changes proposed between the Order confirmation and despatch. Please read our cancellation and Refund Policy for details about how to cancel and return Products.

7.4 IMPORTANT: Please note that we work on an rapid auto-process system when processing orders and in some cases if a customer cancels, we may not be able to cancel the order once processed. This may result in a fee to recall the parcel or return.

8. RISK AND TITLE
8.1 The Products will be at your risk from the time of delivery.

8.2 Ownership of the Products will only pass to you when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Products, including delivery charges.

9. PRICE AND PAYMENT
9.1 The price of any Products will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.

9.2 These prices include VAT but exclude delivery costs, which will be added to the total amount due, as set out in our Delivery Guide.

9.3 Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Dispatch Confirmation.

9.4 Our site contains a large number of Products and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Products listed on our site may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices, as part of our dispatch procedures so that, where a Product's correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Product to you. If a Product's correct price is higher than the price stated on our site, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Product, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.

9.5 We are under no obligation to provide the Product to you at the incorrect (lower) price, even after we have sent you a Dispatch Confirmation, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mis-pricing.

9.6 Payment for all Products must be by credit or debit card. The checkout page on www.littlehelper.co.uk contains a list of payment cards accepted for payment purposes. We will not charge your credit or debit card until we despatch your order.

10. OUR REFUNDS POLICY
10.1 When you return a Product to us (for instance, because you have cancelled the Contract between us, or have notified us in accordance with paragraph 20 that you do not agree to any change in these terms and conditions or in any of our policies, or because you claim that the Product is defective), we will examine the returned Product and will notify you of your refund via e-mail within a reasonable period of time. We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase. We will usually process the refund due to you as soon as possible and, in any case, within 30 days of the day we received your cancellation or the day we confirmed to you via e-mail that you were entitled to a refund for delivery of the defective Product.

10.2 Products returned by you because of a defect will be refunded in full, including a refund of the delivery charges for sending the item to you and the cost incurred by you in returning the item to us. Any damage must be reported within 3 working days of receipt (including the day of delivery) and photos sent to hello@littlehelper.co.uk with proof of purchase.

10.3 Products returned by you within the seven-day cooling-off period (see paragraph 6.1 above) will be refunded in full, including the cost of sending the item to You. However, you will be responsible for the cost of returning the item to us. If you are outside UK mainland and you either refuse a delivery or send the item back, you will be responsible for the return charge and the import fees imposed on us by UK customs and excise.

10.4 Subject to your statutory rights we will not accept returns:

(a) based on the slight differences in colour and design features of the Product shown on our website as compared to the delivered Product; or

(b) based on differences in the specification, design or material used provided that such differences do not materially affect the look and feel or the quality of the Product purchased

(d) if not reported within 14 days of receipt

10.5 Any order rejected by you at point of delivery will incur a return and restock fee. This fee will vary dependant on product size and weight and rejection destination.

10.6 If you are not in the UK and wish to ship an item back if it is unwanted, you will be responsible for the cost of returning and any duty imposed on the company for returning back the UK.

11. OUR LIABILITY
11.1 We warrant to you that any Product purchased from us through our site is of satisfactory quality. Where we are not the manufacturer of the Product we shall endeavor to transfer to you the benefit of any warranty or guarantee given to us in connection with the Product. This clause shall not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

11.2 Subject to clause 11.8 our liability in connection with any Product purchased through our site is strictly limited to the purchase price of that Product.

11.3 This does not include or limit in any way our liability:

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

(b) Under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987;

(c) For fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

(d) For any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude, or attempt to exclude, our liability.

11.4 We accept no liability for any loss of income or revenue, loss of business, loss of profits or contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, waste of management or office time or for any indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

11.5 We accept no liability where the Product is not used in accordance with the safety warnings or codes clearly marked on the Product or provided with the Product at the point of sale or in any instructions contained on or in the packaging of the Product

11.6 We accept no liability for any defects in the Product unless:

(a) you send written notice of the defect to us, and, if the defect is as a result of damage in transit to the carrier, within 7 days of the time when you discovers or ought to have discovered the defect; and

(b) we are given a reasonable opportunity after receiving the notice of examining such Products and you (if requested by us) return the Product to our contact address at our cost for the examination to take place there.

11.7 we shall not be liable for any defects if:

(a) you make any further use of such Products after giving such notice; or

(b) the defect arises because you failed to follow our oral or written instructions as to the storage, installation, commissioning, use or maintenance of the Products or (if there are none) common sense in the use of the Product or view our safety guide.

(c) you or any third party on your behalf alters or repairs such Products without our written consent.

11.8 Subject to condition 11.6, 11.7and 11.11 if any Products do not conform with their description any warranties we shall at our option repair or replace such Products (or the defective part) or refund the price of such Products provided that, if we the Company so requests, the Buyer shall, at the Company's expense, return the Goods or the part of such Goods which is defective to the Company. If the customer is overseas and the product has a missing part or defective part, the company is deemed to send such replacement parts to make good the product. Should the customer reject this option, the customer shall be obliged to return the goods at their cost and also cover any export costs back to the UK.

11.9 If the Company complies with condition 11.8 it shall have no further liability for a breach of warranty or for any defective Product.

11.10 Any Product replaced shall belong to us and any repaired or replacement Products shall be guaranteed on these terms for the unexpired portion of the Product guarantee.

11.11 We use best endeavours to reproduce as accurately as possible the photographs and descriptions of the Products and accept no liability for any slight variations in colour, description, measurement, weight which do not affect your statutory rights.

11.12 Where you buy any Product from a third party seller through our site, the seller's individual liability will be set out in the seller's terms and conditions.

12. IMPORT DUTY
12.1 If you order Products from our site for delivery outside the UK, they may be subject to import duties and taxes, which are levied when the delivery reaches the specified destination. You will be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please note that we have no control over these charges and cannot predict their amount. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.

NB: If you are not in the UK (including the ROI), you may be subject to import fees. If you purchase via our international partner, Glopal, you are in the EU and your order value is less than €150, the tax is charged and you will not have to pay anything when it arrives in your country. If your country is not in the EU, please note you may be subject to customs charges when it arrives.

12.2 Please also note that you must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the products are destined. We will not be liable for any breach by you of any such laws.

13. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on our website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

14. NOTICES
All notices given by you to us must be posted to Real Brands Limited at this email address: hello@littlehelper.co.uk. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when placing an order, or in any of the ways specified in paragraph 13. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.

15. TRANSFER OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
15.1 The contract between you and us is binding on you and us and on our respective successors and assigns.

15.2 You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent.

15.3 We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.

16. EVENTS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL
16.1 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (Force Majeure Event).

16.2 A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:

(a) Strikes, lockouts or other industrial action.

(b) Civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war.

(c) Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster.

(d) Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.

(e) Impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks.

(f) The acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.

16.3 Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.

17. WAIVER
17.1 If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.

17.2 A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

17.3 No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with paragraph 14 above.

18. SEVERABILITY
If any of these terms and Conditions or any provisions of a Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

19. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
19.1 These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.

19.2 We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us has relied on any representation, undertaking or promise given by the other or be implied from anything said or written in negotiations between us prior to such Contract except as expressly stated in these terms and conditions.

19.3 Neither of us shall have any remedy in respect of any untrue statement made by the other, whether orally or in writing, prior to the date of any Contract (unless such untrue statement was made fraudulently) and the other party's only remedy shall be for breach of contract as provided in these terms and conditions.

20. OUR RIGHT TO VARY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
20.1 We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time.

20.2 You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order products from us, unless any change to those policies or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions before we send you the Dispatch Confirmation (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the Products).

21. LAW AND JURISDICTION Contracts for the purchase of Products through our site will be governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, such Contracts shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales