Terms of use
Terms of use
Thank you for accessing our Service at www.worksheriff.com. Please read this Agreement Carefully as it governs your use of the Service. Do not use the Service unless you wish to be bound by this Agreement because, by clicking ‘Next’ during the sign-up process you confirm your acceptance of this Terms of use (which also includes the Privacy Policy, Payment Terms, Trade Person Code of Conduct, Trade Persons user agreement, and Customer user agreement).
The Service is for use in the United Kingdom only. You must not access the Service from any other authority. You are responsible for all compliance with laws and regulations which apply to you.
This Agreement was last modified on 11/12/2023.
1. Definitions.
Agreement
The Agreement includes the Terms Set out Here, the Privacy Policy, Payment Terms, and Trade Person Code of Conduct as made available via the internet. When you sign up to receive our services, we will provide a Membership Confirmation, which confirms that we will provide the Service to you in accordance with this Agreement. We may issue this to you in an electronic format. There is a Membership Joining Fee and Credit fees as set out in the Membership Confirmation.
Credits
Credits are purchased by Trade People and Used when Biding on Jobs and other Functions on Work Sheriff
Customer
Any person using the Service to publish details of projects for which they invite Quotes from Trade People through the Service Projects is referred to in this Agreement as a Customer, and any information they upload or provide to you, and all information relating to them, is referred to as Customer Information. As part of receiving the Service, you may from time-to-time upload information to the Service or otherwise provide us or other users of the Service with information relating to you, your employees and/or your subcontractors.
Customer Satisfied Job
Where a customer is Satisfied with the Job Fully Completed to the Required Specification and British Standards
Database
The Database is a List of Questions to Help Customers Give as Much information as Possible, so Trade People can Give the Best Price.
Job Posting Fee
Customers Pay the Job Posting Fee, after Completing the Questions from the Database.
Joining Fee
The One-Off Fee Charged to a Trade Person to Become a Member of Work Sheriff.
Membership
Membership is for Trade People to See Jobs Available to Bid On.
Milestone
A Trade Person request a milestone to state that the job is complete, and the Trade Person should be paid.
Refund/ed
Refund is a Payment from Work Sheriff
Remittance Payments
The Payment Made to the Trade Person on Completion of a Customer Satisfied Job.
Service
The Service Provides, Receives, and Distributes Information to Connect Customers with Trade People. The Service Consists of the Website and Apps, and the Content and Services We Make Available Through the Internet, Mobile Devices Including Smart Phones and Tablets, and/or Interactive Television Devices and Services.
Trade Person/ People
Where We Refer to You the Trade Person/ People in this Agreement. As Part of Receiving the Service of Receiving Information to Quote for Jobs, you May from Time-to-Time Upload Information to the Service or Otherwise Provide Us or Other Users of the Service with Information Relating to You or Your Subcontractors and Securing Jobs.
Users
Trades People and Customers/ Homeowner are described as Users.
Work Sheriff
We are Work Sheriff Ltd Trading as Worksheriff.com. Our Registered Company Number is 8409652 and our Registered Office is at 83 - 89 Phoenix Street, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire NG17 4HL.
2. Service Content
We rely on Customers to accurately describe their Project through Work Sheriff requirements. We have little editorial control over the Information given and we therefore cannot guarantee the accuracy and/ or completeness for any particular
purpose of the Information available through the Service. We cannot accept responsibility for errors, omissions, or inaccurate information available through the Service. All Information supplied by customers is for Pricing purposes only, Work Sheriff therefore recommend when the Trade Person quotes for a job he/she will quote for the worst-case scenario and will not charge extra, unless work has been added onto what has been quoted for, or incorrect information causing a large price difference has been supplied.
Work Sheriff make no warranty that the Service will be uninterrupted or error free, or that any defects will be corrected. Whilst we take steps to prevent misuse of our systems, we cannot warrant that the Service will be free of viruses or other malicious code and accept no liability for loss or damage caused from the transmission of such code. We recommend that you always use up-to-date firewalls and anti-virus software to protect your equipment and data.
Any material you obtain from the Service is used at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with access or use of the Service (except to the extent that such liability cannot be excluded by law).
3. Links and User Content
It is not possible for us to review all websites which are linked to from the Service (or link to the Service), and you should therefore take care when following any link. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage that may be suffered because of following any links. You agree not to Post links to any websites.
The Service contains discussion forums, and although our hope is that all users will use the Service responsibly, and we require all users to ensure that all content that they post on the Service is lawful, we are not responsible for reviewing or policing user content and so it is possible that forums may carry offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate material, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabelled or are otherwise deceptive. We urge you to exercise proper judgement and to use caution and common sense when using Forums. We do not control the information delivered to the Forums and have no obligation to monitor the Forums.
You are responsible for your own communications and for any consequences arising out of them. The Forums are intended to allow users to send and receive messages and material that are legal, proper, and related to the Work Sheriff Genre, and you agree that you shall use them only for this purpose.
We do not guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any communications Posted in the Forums or endorse any opinions expressed in the forums. You should take all due care in relying on material Posted in the Forums, as this is done at your own risk.
It is important for you to note that all Forums are public, and that others may read communications made via the Forums without the author’s knowledge. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself in any Forum, and do not give personally identifying information about any other person unless entitled to do so.
4. Use of Information
You are solely responsible for the content, accuracy, and completeness of your Information, and agree only to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information. You also accept all liability arising out of or in connection with your processing and transmission of the Users Information.
You acknowledge that we may edit, modify, or remove any parts of a User’s Information which we consider is in breach of any of the provisions of this Agreement, and/or suspend or terminate your access to the Service without notice.
By providing Information you grant to us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non exclusive license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the material alone or as part of other works in any form, media, or technology whether now known or hereafter developed, and to sub-license such rights through multiple tiers of sub-licensees. The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such materials, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction. You also waive any moral rights you have in the materials. Do not Post any materials on the Service that you would not want us to use in this way.
We check the information that you provide on registration and during your continued use of the Service. You acknowledge and agree that we may at any time request verification and identity and address documents and information from you to complete our fraud prevention and identity and address verification checks which we conduct from time to time. We reserve the right to terminate the provision to you of the Service or restrict your access to the Service at any time if you fail to provide all the requested verification and identity and address documents within the requested timescale or if you do not pass our fraud prevention or identity verification checks.
You consent to information about the device you use to access the Service and verification, identity and address documentation being collected and processed for fraud prevention purposes, and we may use third parties (and information they provide) to help us prevent fraud or unauthorised access to our Service.
You agree not to copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content except for your User Information from the Service without our prior written permission.
Work Sheriff will provide you with Customers Information, you agree that you shall treat the Customers Information as confidential and not share the information with any other person and only use the Customers Information for the purpose of contacting them in relation to the particular Project for which you were provided with the information, and for no other purpose whatsoever at all times and in all respects comply with data protection law.
5. Intellectual Property Rights
You acknowledge that all present and future copyright and other intellectual property rights subsisting in, or used in connection with, the Service and any part of it the “Rights”, including the manner in which the Service is presented or appears and all information and documentation relating to it is our property (or that of our licensors), and nothing in Terms of Use shall be taken to transfer any of the Rights to you.
Solely for the purposes of receiving the Service, we hereby grant to you for the period during which the Service is provided a non-exclusive, non-transferable, license to use the Rights.
6. Limitation of Liability
Notwithstanding any other provision, nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit either party’s liability for death or personal injury caused by that party’s negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
If you are dissatisfied with the Service, or the terms of this Agreement, your sole remedy under this Agreement shall be to discontinue use of the Service. If your dissatisfaction arises due to an act or omission by us constituting a material breach of this Agreement, you may also claim a refund of the fees paid by you in consideration for the Service in the twelve months prior to the occurrence of the circumstances constituting such material breach. If you register as both a Customer and as a Trade Person, then the aggregate cap in this Agreement shall apply – the caps shall not be cumulative.
Other than as set out above in this Limitation of Liability section, and notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, we shall not be liable in contract, tort, negligence, statutory duty, misrepresentation or otherwise, for any loss or damage whatsoever arising from or in any way connected with this Agreement.
We shall not be liable for any loss of business, loss of profits, business interruption, loss of business information, loss of data, or any other pecuniary loss (even where we have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage).
Save as expressly set out herein, all conditions, warranties and obligations which may be implied or incorporated into this Agreement by statute, common law, or otherwise and any liabilities arising from them are hereby expressly excluded to the extent permitted by law.
Without limiting the foregoing, we shall have no liability for any failure or delay resulting from any matter beyond our reasonable control.
We cannot guarantee the day or time that we will respond to any email, telephone or written enquiries or Website form submissions.
Each of the provisions of this Clause shall be construed separately and independently of the others.
7. Our Rights
We always reserve the right to edit, refuse to post, or to remove from the Service any information or materials for any reason whatsoever, and to disclose any information we deem appropriate to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, police request or governmental request.
We reserve the right to terminate the provision to you of the Service or restrict your access to the Service at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever (provided that no further fees shall accrue for the terminated Service after the date of such termination). If we terminate the provision to you and you have credits remaining for the Service remaining after the termination date, we shall refund you your remaining credits.
Without prejudice to the generality of the above, we reserve the right to terminate the provision to you of the Service or restrict your access to the Website at any time immediately on giving you notice:
- if you are, or we suspect you to be in material breach of any term of this Agreement, which is either irremediable or, if it is remediable, you do not remedy it within 7 days of us notifying you of the breach.
- in the event you breach, or we reasonably suspect you have breached, the User Agreements.
If we terminate your access to the Services under the above paragraph, if you have credits beyond the termination date, you will not be entitled to any refund.
We reserve the right to modify or discontinue temporarily or permanently all or part of the Service with or without notice without liability for any modification or discontinuance, save as expressly set out in this Agreement.
We may vary the terms of this Agreement from time to time and shall post such alterations on the Website. If the variations to the terms of this Agreement are materially detrimental to you we will give you written notice of such variations and if you do not agree to such variations then you have the right to notify us that you wish to cancel your membership and to stop using the Service, and you should do so immediately (and in any event within 14 days of us notifying you of the variation). If you cancel the Agreement under this paragraph, then we will refund you remaining credits
Your continued use of the Service after the date the changes have been posted will constitute acceptance of the amended Agreement.
8. General
Clause headings are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of Terms of use.
If any provisions hereof are held to be illegal or unenforceable such provisions shall be severed and the remainder of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect unless the business purpose of this Agreement is frustrated, in which case it shall terminate without giving rise to further liability.
You may not assign, transfer or sub-contract any of your rights hereunder without our prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or sub-contract all or any of our rights at any time without consent.
No waiver shall be effective unless in writing, and no waiver shall constitute a continuing waiver to prevent us from acting upon any continuing or subsequent breach or default.
Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement as to its subject matter and supersedes and extinguishes all previous communications, representations (other than fraudulent misrepresentations) and arrangements, whether written or oral except for the Terms of Use and/or the Customer/ Trade Person User Agreements where these have been entered. To the extent that there is any conflict between them, those agreements shall apply in the following order of precedence:
- The Trade Person User Agreement.
- The Customer User Agreement; then
- This Terms of Use.
You acknowledge that you have placed no reliance on any representation made but not set out expressly in Terms of Use.
Any notice to be given under Terms of Use may be given via e-mail, regular mail, or by hand to the address provided on the Website or otherwise as notified by one party to the other.
Nothing herein shall create or be deemed to create any joint venture, principal-agent, or partnership relationship between the parties and neither party shall hold itself out in its advertising or otherwise in any manner which would indicate or imply any such relationship with the other.
Notwithstanding any other provision in Terms of Use a person who is not a party hereto has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce the terms of this Agreement.
Terms of Use shall be subject to the laws of England and the parties shall submit to the exclusive authority of the English courts.
In the event of any comments or questions regarding Terms of Use, including the Privacy Policy, Payment Terms, Customer User Agreement, Trade Person User Agreement and Trade Person Code of Conduct then Please Contact Us. support@worksheriff.com