Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions for Purchase of the Service.
Important Legal Notice

ATTENTION: This legal notice apples to the entire contents of this website umder the domain name www.discoverscotlandtours.com (the “Website”) and to any correspondence by e-mail or webmail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms, if you do not accept these terms do not use this website. This notice is issued by Discover Scotland Tours Ltd (the “Company”) with it’s registered office at 9 Kilwinning Road, Irvine, KA12 8RR and head office at 11 Brierie Ave Crosslee, Renfrewshire PA6 7BQ

1. Introduction

1.1 By accessing any part of this Website, you shall be deemed to have accepted this legal notice in full. If you do not accept this legal notice in full, you must leave this Website immediately.

1.2 The Company may revise this legal notice at any time by updating this posting. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current legal notice, because it is binding on you. Certain provisions of this legal notice may be superseded or augmented by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages of this Website.

1.3 You are permitted to print and download extracts from this Website for your own use on the following basis:

no documents or related graphics on this Website are modified in any way;
no graphics on this Website are used separately from accompanying text;
the Company’s copyright and trade mark notices appear in all copies.

1.4 Unless otherwise stated, and subject to paragraph 1.5, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of this legal notice, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with paragraph 1.3 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of the terms in this legal notice, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.

1.5 All trademarks used on this Website are the property of the proprietor/s of those trademarks. The Company makes no claim to ownership of trademarks used on the Website of which they are not proprietors.

1.6 Subject to paragraph 1.3 , no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other Website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.

1.7 Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

2. Links to and from other Websites

2.1 Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website you do so entirely at you own risk.

2.2 If you would like to link to this Website, you may only do so on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the home page of this Website, and subject to the following conditions:

you obtain our prior consent;
you do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of the Company’s logo;
you do not create a frame or any other browser or border environment around this Website;
you do not in any way imply that the Conmpany is endorsing any products or services other than its own;
you do not misrepresent your relationship with the Company nor present any other false information about the Company;
you do not otherwise use any of the Company’s trade marks displayed on this Website without express written permission from the Company;
you do not otherwise use any trade marks other than those owned by the Company displayed on this Website without written permission from the proprietor of that trademark;
you do not link from a website that is not owned by you;
your website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

2.3 The Company expressly reserves the right to revoke at any time the right granted in paragraph 2.2 for breach of these terms and to take any action it deems appropriate.

2.4 You shall fully indemnify the Company for any loss or damage suffered by the Company or any of its group companies for breach of paragraph 2.2.

3. Disclaimer

3.1 While the Company endeavors to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may make changes to the material on this Website, or to the products described in it, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.

3.2 The material on this Website is provided “as is”, without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly , to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including without limitiation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for this legal notice might have effect in relation to this Website.

4 Liability

4.1 The Company, or any party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Company’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders, contractors, clinicians or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party(including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interuption,and whether in delict(including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such Websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.

4.2 Nothing in this legal notice shall exclude or limit the Company’s liability for:

death or personal injury caused by negligence(as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
fraud;or
misrepresentation as to a fundemental matter; or
any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

4.3 If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

5 Our Services your obligations

5.1 To order our services you should complete the Booking Form supplied on our Website.

5.2The Company will confirm acceptance of your order by electronic means to the e-mail address
supplied by you.

5.3 The Company reserves the right to decline any order placed by you.

5.4 By acceptance of our confirmation you agree that all details provided to us by you are correct, that the debit or credit card details provided are your own and that there are sufficient funds or credit facilities available to cover the cost of the services booked.

5.5 We reserve the right to obtain validation of you credit or debit card details, if validation and payment cannot be obtained, we reserve the right to cancel your order and we will advise you of this by e-mail to the address supplied by you.

5.6 You must pay by credit or debit card at the time of booking, the cards that we accept are detailed on our Booking Form page, any charges incurred by the Company for handling credit or debit cards will be passed on to you.

6. Our Services our obligations

6.1 We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that we collect you at the correct place and time as detailed on your order. However, it is your responsibility to ensure that when booking your transport you build in sufficient time for your journey. We will not be responsible for any loss or costs you suffer or incur ( including missed flights) through any reasonable or unavoidable delays.

6.2 If you are unhappy with any aspect of our services please send your comments to customerservices@discoverscotlandtours.com and we will endeavor to to resolve your issues within 28 days including refunding the cost of your service if it is deemed appropriate.

6.3 Failure to be at the Tour departure point 15 minutes prior to the departure time may result in missing your Tour. No refunds will be given for missed Tours

6.4 You may cancel your booking at any time. The following cancellation charges will apply:

3 or less days prior to your tour departure date 100% of tour cost.
4 – 7 days prior to your tour departure date 50% of tour cost.
Over 7 days prior to your tour departure date, full refund.

7. Force Majeure

7.1 The Company does not accept any liability for any loss, inconvenience or damage caused by war, threat of war, riot or civil strife, terrorist activity, industrial disputes, natural disaster, fires, sickness, weather conditions, airport regulations, temporary, technical, mechanical or electrical breakdown of transport, explosion of any nuclear plant or part thereof of radioactivity/contamination arising from such plant or events beyond reasonable control of the company.

8. Alterations by the Company

8.1 Whilst the Company shall use all its reasonable endeavours to provide the tour as planned, the Company reserves the right to alter itineraries in any way, and for whatever reason.

9. Vistor material

9.1 Other than personal data, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designess shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.

10. Smoking

10.1 Smoking is not allowed on motorcoaches.

11. Insurance

11.1 Whilst Discover Scotland Tours Ltd maintains insurance meeting all statutory requirements,
we strongly recommend that passengers hold comprehensive and suitable travel, medical and cancellation insurance.

12. Prices

12.1 Whilst reduced entry to some visitor attraction may be available, and any such will be made clear by the guide. Tour prices are for transport and driver – guide service only. All cruises, visits to castles, etc are optional extras and along with meals and other refreshments, are at the travellers own expense.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

13.1 This legal notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Scots law. Disputes a rising iarising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts.