Terms & Conditions
If you continue to browse and use this website or our catalogue you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which govern Beal (UK) Ltd’s relationship with you. The term ‘Beal (UK) Ltd’ or ‘us’ or ‘we’ refers to the owner of the website whose registered office is Sterling Works, Texas Street, Tingley (A650), Leeds, LS27 0HG. The term you refers to the user or viewer of our website or catalogue.
The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:
Use of our web site and printed catalogue.
The content of the pages of this website or catalogue is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice. You acknowledge that any information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.
There may be occasions where a product is out of stock and we have to substitute this product with a comparable item. Due to these constraints with suppliers or manufacturing tolerances, product images may occasionally vary. We make the best endeavours to ensure that web images are as accurate as possible, however, we cannot offer this guarantee with the printed catalogue.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.
It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website or our other outlets meet your specific requirements.
Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable.
It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website or our other outlets meet your specific requirements.
We may from time to time advertise special offers, stock clearance or loss leaders on third-party platforms such as eBay or Amazon.
The prices on these platforms are independent of our web site and catalogue.
All orders placed by you and purchases of goods from us (whether in-store, by telephone, via our website or by such other means as we may permit) are on the basis of these Terms and Conditions and are subject to acceptance by us either by delivery of the goods to you; or by providing the goods you have purchased to you at the trade counter, at which point a legally binding contract is constituted between you and us.
The automated processing of your payment and acknowledgement of your order (including web site emails confirming your order is being processed) does not constitute legal acceptance of your order. You will not receive an e-mail confirming acceptance of your order, and there will be no contract between us
All orders placed by you and purchases of goods by you from us are subject to acceptance by us. We may choose not to accept your order or purchase for any reason and will not be liable to you or to anyone else in those circumstances.
Where we accept your order, we have a legal duty to supply goods that are in conformity with these Terms and Conditions.
We reserve the right to change prices, descriptions, modify, or substitute products without notice, and by doing so, may differ from our printed catalogue. Any orders received represents an offer to buy products indicated by you, this not a binding contract until acceptance of the order and we have dispatched the goods.
Occasionally, an error may occur and goods may be either incorrectly priced or described, in which case we will not be obliged to supply the goods at the incorrect price or in accordance with the incorrect description or at all. We reserve the right to correct any errors from time to time. We will (at our discretion) either cancel your order and refund the price you have paid or use reasonable endeavours to contact you and ask you whether you wish to continue with the order at the correct price or correct description. If we are unable to contact you or you do not wish to continue with the order at the correct price or correct description, we will cancel your order and refund the price you have paid.
This website contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions. All trademarks reproduced in this website, which are not the property of, or licensed to the operator, are acknowledged on the website. Unauthorised use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.
From time to time this website may also include links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that we endorse the website(s). We have no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s). You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without Beal (UK) Ltd’s prior written consent. Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England, Scotland and Wales.
Our Use of Cookies
Using cookies is a convenient technique for having the browser remember some specific information, ie items in your shopping cart.
You can choose to disable these cookies and still browse the site, however, the site will not function as intended. You will need to enter the same information repeatedly and you may find the contents of your basket has emptied. The help information in your browser software should provide you with instruction on how to deal with cookies.
Cookies may be categorized as "session" or "persistent" cookies. "Session" cookies are temporary cookies that are used to maintain context or "state" between otherwise stateless Web transactions (e.g., to maintain a "shopping basket" of goods selected during a single logical session at a site) and that must be deleted at the end of the web session in which they are created.
"Persistent" cookies remain over time and can be used for a variety of purposes. eg: To maintain contents of your cart, to track a user's access over time and across websites, or to establish user preferences.
This Website may use both session and persistent cookies.
Financial Transactions:
For telephone payments, we will seek to obtain an immediate authorisation from your card issuer to reserve funds for your purchase, we only charge your card once the authorisation has been successfully approved. Your card details are only used by us to charge for your goods. They are never held on file in any form.
The Beal UK web site does not collect, hold or store any sensitive financial details. Our web site passes only your delivery address and basket total to Worldpay or Paypal who handle all financial transactions on our behalf.
At no point do Worldpay or Paypal divulge any of your financial details to Beal UK Ltd, only a notification that your payment was successful or failed.
At no point do Worldpay or Paypal divulge any of your financial details to Beal UK Ltd, only a notification that your payment was successful or failed.
Whilst we attempt to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us and you transmit such information to us at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission we attempt to ensure the security of your personal information on our systems.
Sale Items:
At various times we may offer a fixed percentage discount or voucher code. These offers are not always applicable to some of our already heavily discounted items.
Some of our heavily discounted items may revert back to their original full price and then be subject to the same discount percentage as the rest of the web site.
On occasions, this may result in some of these items seeing an increase in price.
Only one discount code, voucher or promotion can be used at any one time and discounts/promo codes apply to web site prices only, unless otherwise formally agreed.
Where we run a special promotion, please expect a slightly extended working day lead time.
If your order is suspected to contravene or attempt to circumvent any discounts or promotions, then we reserve the right to cancel your order.
Where we offer a price challenge, the item has to be a like for like comparison and must be challenged before purchase.
Web Statistics:
At the start of each month, orders from the previous month may be marked as completed. This is done for our own statistical research.
It is not a reflection that your order has been completed.
Order completion will be conveyed to you in the form of an official Beal UK invoice sent with the goods, in the post or via a separate email.
System Integrity:
You may not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working to this site or any transaction conducted on our site. You may not take any action which imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure. You may not disclose or share your password with any third parties or use your password for any unauthorised purpose. The site contains robot exclusion headers and you agree that you will not use any robot, spider, another automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our web pages or the content contained herein without our prior written permission. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere with the proper working of the site.
Following the above statement, our web server has a number of security features in place, these may generate the occasional false positive resulting in you being denied access to our web site or email services. If you feel that these may have affected you, please contact us.
Extended Guarantees
Any extended guarantees are with the manufacturers and not with Beal UK Ltd.
To qualify for an extended guarantee (where applicable), you must register your product with the respective manufacturer within 30 days of purchase.
Failure to register within 30 days will invalidate the extended warranty.
Any extended guarantee does not cover damage caused by misuse.
Failure to register within 30 days will invalidate the extended warranty.
Any extended guarantee does not cover damage caused by misuse.
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Privacy Policy
Introduction.
• This Privacy Notice explains what we do with your personal data, whether we are in the process of helping you as a customer or dealing with individuals in our supplier chain.
• It describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations to you. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.
• This Privacy Notice applies to the personal data of our Website Users, Customers, Suppliers and other people whom we may contact to undertake our business.
• It is important to point out that we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please just visit this page if you want to stay up to date, as we will post any changes here.
Who we are.
• This Privacy Notice refers to Beal UK Ltd our registered office is Sterling Works, Texas Street, Tingley, Leeds LS27 0HG
• If you have any cause for complaint, if you wish to exercise any of your privacy rights or if you just want to clarify how we use your personal data you should contact us on 0113 253 8888
Whose data do we process?
Customers: If you are a customer, we need to collect and use information about you, or individuals at your organisation, in the course of providing you services such as:
• Sale and delivery of goods.
• Pricing or product queries.
• Product and catalogue updates.
• Occasional promotions and sale events.
• We limit the data we collect about customers; we need to make sure that our relationship runs smoothly so we will collect the details for our contacts within your organisation, such as names, telephone numbers and email addresses. We DO NOT collect or process “sensitive” data that is subject to GDPR.
• We may occasionally pass on your details to our suppliers, in order that they are able to fulfil your order.
• We will pass on your personal data to logistics companies to deliver items to you directly. In some cases, our suppliers may also arrange delivery directly with our customers,
• We will also collect bank details so that we can arrange payment for products and services.
• We may also hold extra information that someone in your organisation has chosen to tell us.
• The main reasons for using your personal data are to ensure that the contractual arrangements between us can properly be implemented so that the relationship can run smoothly, and comply with legal requirements.
• There are occasions when we will use your name, address and email address for marketing purposes, to develop our business and to extend the level of services available to you, we believe that this is in our legitimate interest. We always provide an ‘opt-out’ option in all our marketing correspondence with you.
• In order to fulfil our marketing campaigns, we may share your personal data with our mailing house or email marketing service provider, we always ensure that this data is transferred securely and these organisations cannot use this data for any other purpose than specified by us.
• We may use ‘cloud storage’ to assist us with our business operations, this includes data storage as well as web applications. All of our data processed on the web is based in the EU.
• We may use your personal data if we deem this necessary for other legitimate interests, such as recovering any outstanding debts etc.
Suppliers and Professional Services: We limit the data we collect about Suppliers and our advisors – we need to make sure that our relationship runs smoothly so we will collect the details for our contacts within your organisation, such as names, telephone numbers and email addresses. We will also collect bank details so that we can pay you. We may also hold extra information that someone in your organisation has chosen to tell us.
• The main reasons for using your personal data are to ensure that the contractual arrangements between us can properly be implemented so that the relationship can run smoothly, and comply with legal requirements.
• We may use ‘cloud storage’ to assist us with our business operations, this includes data storage as well as web applications. All of our data processed on the web is based in the EU.
• We may use your personal data for the above purposes if we deem this to be necessary for our legitimate interests, such as recovering any outstanding debts etc.
• Website Visitors: We collect a limited amount of data from the users of our website, which we use to help us to improve your experience when using our website and to help us manage the services we provide. This includes information such as how you use our website, the frequency with which you access our website, and the times that our website is most popular.
• We collect data to fulfil or contractual obligations with you, such as name, address, delivery address, email address, telephone number.
• We also collect your I.P address to help us protect our systems from fraud.
• We collect data from you on our website if you enter any data into the web forms, such as ‘Contact Us’. This data is emailed directly to the relevant person in our organisation and is not retained on our website.
• Cookie Policy: Our website is managed by Beal UK Ltd, you can find our cookie policy here https://www.beal.org.uk/terms-conditions.html
How long do we keep your personal data for?
• We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
• By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
• If we have not had meaningful contact with you (or, where appropriate, the company you are working for or with) for an additional four years, we will review your data and make efforts to determine if it is still relevant to our relationship. If it is not we will delete your personal data from our systems unless we believe in good faith that the law or other regulation requires us to preserve it (for example, because of our obligations to tax authorities or in connection with any anticipated litigation).
• If we learn an individual has left our customer or supplier we will delete that individuals personal data from our systems unless we believe in good faith that the law or other regulation requires us to preserve it (for example, because of our obligations to tax authorities or in connection with any anticipated litigation).
• To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
How do we process your data internationally?
• There are circumstances where we may transfer your personal data internationally, this may be:
• between and within our different legal entities;
• to third parties (such as advisers or other suppliers to our business);
• to overseas suppliers
• to overseas clients
• to a cloud-based storage provider; and
• to other third parties
• between and within our different legal entities;
• to third parties (such as advisers or other suppliers to our business);
• to overseas suppliers
• to overseas clients
• to a cloud-based storage provider; and
• to other third parties
• To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate procedures with the third parties we share your personal data with to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the law on data protection.
Email Marketing Service Providers
- Our email marketing service providers are based in the US and we have confirmed that they have signed up to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework for the transfer of personal data from entities in the EU to entities in the United States of America or any equivalent agreement in respect of other jurisdictions
Website Service Providers
- Our website service providers are based in the UK and we have confirmed that they are GDPR compliant.
Exercising your rights.
Even if we hold your personal data, you still have various rights in relation to it. To get in touch about these, please contact us. We will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event in accordance with the requirements of any applicable laws. Please note that we may keep a record of your communications to help us resolve any issues, which you raise.
• Right to object: If we are using your data because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests to do so, and you do not agree, you have the right to object. We will respond to your request within 30 days. Generally, we will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.
• Right to rectification: If you have informed us that your personal data is inaccurate you have the right to have your data corrected on our systems. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
• Right to restrict processing: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data or you object to any other processing we deem in our legitimate interest, you may ask us to stop this processing. We will assess if our interests prevail and make a decision based on this assessment. In the event that you are requesting that we stop marketing to you, we will do this unconditionally.
• Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR): Just so it is clear, you have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and you may ask us to modify, update or delete it. At this point we may comply with your request or, additionally do one of the following:
- We may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and
- where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.
• Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to "erase" your personal data. We will respond to your request within 30 days and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply. If we do agree to your request, we will delete your data but will retain your name on our register of individuals who would prefer not to be contacted or have been erased. That way, we will minimise the chances of you being contacted in the future where your data are collected in unconnected circumstances.
• Right of data portability: If you wish, you have the right to transfer your data from us to another data controller. We will help with this – either by directly transferring your data for you or by providing you with a copy in a commonly used machine-readable format.
- We may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and
- where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.
• Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to "erase" your personal data. We will respond to your request within 30 days and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply. If we do agree to your request, we will delete your data but will retain your name on our register of individuals who would prefer not to be contacted or have been erased. That way, we will minimise the chances of you being contacted in the future where your data are collected in unconnected circumstances.
• Right of data portability: If you wish, you have the right to transfer your data from us to another data controller. We will help with this – either by directly transferring your data for you or by providing you with a copy in a commonly used machine-readable format.
• Automatic Decision Making: There are often occasions where organisations make automated decisions based upon personal data held. You have the right to have a person intervene in this decision-making process. We do not undertake any profiling or automated decision making on your personal data
• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, if you want to exercise this right you should contact the Information Commissioners Office at www.ico.org.uk.
• If your interests or requirements change, you can unsubscribe from part or all of our marketing content by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email.
Beal UK Ltd hereby gives consent to all our customers and suppliers (past or present) that any data you hold about our organisation can be retained indefinitely and used freely unless we specifically notify you otherwise.
0113 253 8888
sales@beal.org.uk