Site Terms of Service

General

CDHJ Limited, BeeMade ("we, us, our") own and operate this site, and are located at 8 Glenleigh Place, Mosgiel 9024, New Zealand.

If you want to get in touch, please contact us via [email protected] or office: +64 27 489 8960.

These terms are to be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy as found on our site.

Changes to these terms

We can change these terms at any time, without notice, by updating them on this site. The revised terms take effect when they are published on this site. Your continued use of this site after the terms have been changed indicates your acceptance of those changes.

Acceptance of terms

By using this site, you acknowledge you have read and agree to these terms. If you do not agree to the terms, you should exit this site and stop from placing any order.

Purchase Terms

These terms apply to any purchase by you of honey or beeswaxes goods from us, including honey, organic honey and beeswax goods (“goods”).

Orders

Online orders will only be accepted by us in New Zealand and payment is to be made in New Zealand currency.

The goods are offered for sale only to those who can make legally binding contracts. It is your responsibility to understand and comply with all applicable laws (including minimum age requirements for legally binding contracts) in relation to the use of the site and the purchase of goods from the site.

By placing an order for Goods, you warrant that you are capable of making a legally binding contract and that the goods purchased will be used in a lawful manner.

Goods Availability

Goods may be added to or removed from this site from time to time. Sometimes goods described on this site may not be available. We reserve the right to limit quantities able to be ordered by you, or delivered to you. If your online order is reduced in accordance with this clause, the price payable by you for that online order will be adjusted accordingly.

Online Orders

Goods may be ordered by following the instructions on the pages of this site. We use "Shopify" for taking orders.

Price

All prices quoted include Goods and Services Tax. Prices are exclusive of other taxes, duties and charges imposed or levied in New Zealand or overseas in connection with the supply of the goods.

Orders shipped outside of New Zealand may be subject to customs duty and taxes. These are not allocated by us but are instead charged by local customs. We do not take responsibility for any duties or taxes imposed by customs. For more information please contact your local import customs authority. We are not responsible for any refusal by the customer to provide required details to customs or refusal to pay tax/duties on their shipment. In this instance a refund will not be issued.

Prices may increase or decrease from time to time so check them carefully before ordering.

Payment

You must pay by credit or debit card following the instructions on this site. Visa and Mastercard are accepted for all transactions. We use “Strip" payment service for taking payments.

Where payment is by credit card, you are liable for all orders placed using your credit card.

If your payment is declined by your financial institution, delivery of the relevant online order will not be made. We reserve the right to refuse to accept payment from you by credit card for any reason. If you default in payment for any order, you are liable for all costs associated with debt collection.

Offer and Acceptance of Online Order

When you place an order with us, you are making an offer to buy goods. All accepted orders supersede all previous quotes/estimates. We will take payment from you when we accept your order.

You warrant that all information and data provided by you is accurate, complete, and up to date. You will promptly notify us if there is any change to this information or data.

We reserve the right to refuse any order placed via the site at our sole discretion. Where payment for a refused order has been charged to your credit or debit card, we will refund the value of that order to the credit or debit card that was used for payment.

Order Status and Notification

We will send you an email to confirm that we have received and accepted your order, which indicates that your order has been accepted, subject to availability of stock.

We may communicate with you regarding your account and orders using your email address, phone number (including text message) and other forms of communications that may reasonably be available to us.

Please review your confirmation email when it comes through to check that everything is correct. If something does not look right, then please contact us on [email protected].

Delivery

Delivery of the goods to you will take place in the manner chosen by us unless agreed otherwise with you. We are not liable for any delay in delivery of goods ordered or non-delivery of goods ordered, other than in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993.

Delivery charges will be calculated for each order and shown as a separate item before you chose to enter your payment details and send the order to be processed. Delivery will be by courier or by any delivery service as chosen by us. We may change delivery fees at any time.

If we are unable to deliver any item, your credit or debit card will be credited with full all amounts you paid for the item. This can take around 7 working days, depending on bank processing times.

Risk

Goods are at our risk until delivered to your agent or carrier or on delivery of the goods to the nominated address supplied by you when placing the order. Once delivered, title and risk in the goods passes from your nominated store to you.

Title in the goods does not pass to you until payment has been received in full by us or our agent. You acknowledge that these terms create a security interest as defined in the Personal Property Securities Act 1999 (NZ) in favour of us in any goods purchased from this site. We can at any time register a financing statement on the Personal Property Securities Register to protect our security interest in the Goods. While we retain title to the goods you must properly store the goods and ensure the goods are identifiable as our goods.

New Zealand Law

Any contract arising from this site is governed by the laws of New Zealand.

Details on this site relating to the goods, including any descriptions or claims made in relation to the goods, have been prepared in accordance with New Zealand law and may not satisfy the laws or regulations of any other jurisdiction. We do not warrant that the details, descriptions or claims on this site concerning the goods satisfy the laws of any other jurisdiction.

It is your responsibility to determine whether these details, descriptions and claims satisfy the laws of the jurisdiction where you reside (if that jurisdiction is outside New Zealand) and if the details, descriptions or claims do not satisfy the laws of your jurisdiction, you may not order any goods from the site.

Certain weights, measurements and similar descriptions on the site are approximate and provided for convenience purposes only. We will make all reasonable efforts to accurately display the attributes of the goods, including applicable colours; however, the actual colour you see will depend on your computer and we cannot guarantee your computer will accurately display such colours.

Goods Return

Incorrect or defective orders must be reported to us within [x] 5 days of their receipt together with the order number. Any goods returned must be clean and free from price markings. Goods that have been damaged or are not resaleable may not be credited in full.

We do not allow returns for non-faulty goods purchased through our online shop. However, if items you have purchased are damaged, faulty or spoiled at the time of delivery, we will comply with our obligations under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. Please contact us on [email protected]. if you receive an item that you consider to be damaged, faulty or spoiled. Proof of purchase will be required.

Cancellation

While we try to ensure that the price and description of goods is accurate, if there is an error with the listing of goods on our site, a technical error in the processing of your order, or unavailability of goods, we reserve the right to refuse or cancel the order even if it had been accepted. In such cases we will refund in full all amounts you paid in respect of such unavailable goods.

Warranties

All representations, terms, warranties, guarantees, or conditions whether express or implied by statute, common law or custom of the trade or otherwise, including, but not limited to, implied warranties, guarantees or conditions or merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose, tolerance to any conditions or similarity to sample are excluded and expressly negated to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Subject to our obligations under the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986, it is your responsibility to satisfy yourself that goods you purchase through our online shopping service are fit for the purpose you intend and to use all requisite care and skill when handling, using and/or consuming those goods. You warrant that you will not use goods purchased through our online shopping service for any purpose for which they are not suitable. You acknowledge that you cannot rely on any representation or statement made by us either through our online shopping service or otherwise, other than the express wording of these terms. We do not assume any obligation or liability for any advice given to you and you accept goods purchased through our online shopping service is entirely at your own risk.

Force Majeure

We are not liable for anything that would or might constitute a breach of these terms where this arises out of circumstances beyond our control, including but not limited to acts of God, natural disasters, sabotage, accident, riot, shortage of supplies, equipment or materials, strikes and lockouts, civil commotion, computer viruses or hacking, breakdown of equipment, power supply failure or telecommunications failure, or malicious damage (“force majeure”). We will refund the full purchase price of orders that have been processed but cannot be delivered due to force majeure.

Site Terms

Availability and risk

This site may be inaccessible from time to time due to events outside of our control, or for maintenance requirements. We cannot guarantee any file, data or program available for download from this site (or any third party site that is linked) is free of viruses and you assume the risk of any damage to your device as a result of using this site.

The site is provided for our customers to buy, or find out more about, our goods.

Use of this site

You agree not to use this site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms. You may download the information on this site for the purposes of shopping with us, but otherwise neither this site, nor any material on it, may be scraped, copied, altered, modified, reproduced, transmitted, or distributed without our prior written consent. You agree that you will not interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of this site, or damage the operation of this site, or our systems or those of other persons who use this site, whether by way of a virus, corrupted file, any other software, program, or otherwise. We reserve the right to suspend your use of this site where we consider that you may have breached these terms or the law. You agree that you will not create a hyperlink to this site without our express written permission. If you do create a hyperlink to this site, you are responsible for all losses that we may suffer as a result of that link, whether direct or indirect. Linking to this site is at your own risk. You may not frame any part of this site content by including advertising or other revenue generating material.

Licence

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to access and use our online shopping service solely for your use and on a device that you own and/or control, all on the terms set out in these terms.

You will not attempt to:

  • copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of our online shopping service in any form or media or by any means; or
  • attempt to decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of our online shopping service.

Intellectual Property

We own the site and, unless otherwise indicated, own or are licensed to use all content and other material appearing on the site. The material on this site is protected by copyright under the laws of New Zealand and may not be used without written permission by us. Your use of this site will not create, nor will you represent to have, any interests or rights in our intellectual property. No trade mark (whether registered or not) that is displayed on this site may be used in any way without the prior written permission of us or of the relevant trade mark owner.

If you provide certain ideas or concepts to us for the site, which we have then developed or adopted, you agree to an automatic assignment of any of your intellectual property rights in those elements to us.

Use of Cookies and other Digital Information

Some pages on this site use "cookies" which are small files that this site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files are used for site registration and personalisation the next time you visit us. You should note that cookies cannot read data on your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. If you do not accept cookies, some pages may not function fully and you may not be able to access certain information on this site. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for further information on the use of cookies and other digital information we may collect from your use of this site.

Links to and from other websites

This site contains third party information from or hyperlinks to websites operated by third parties. We provide such information and hyperlinks for your convenience only, but are not responsible for and do not endorse, monitor, sponsor, guarantee, or approve the content of any such information or site.

Consumer Guarantees Act

Nothing in these terms is intended to have the effect of contracting out of the provisions of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 except to the extent permitted by the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993, and all provisions of these terms are read as modified to the extent necessary to give effect to that intention.

Exclusion of Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all liability to you or anyone else for loss, damage, costs, legal costs or other expenses or injury of any kind (however caused or arising including in tort, contract, equity, statute, regulation or otherwise and whether direct or indirect including economic loss, loss of turnover, loss of profits, business or goodwill) relating in any way to the site, the supply of goods or a breach of these terms including, but not limited to, loss, damage, costs or injury you might suffer as a result of:

  • our online shopping service and goods supplied through our online shop;
  • errors, mistakes or inaccuracies on the site;
  • you acting, or failing to act, on any information contained on or referred to on the site or any linked site;
  • personal injury or property damage of any kind resulting from your access or use of the site or the goods;
  • any unauthorised access to or use of the websites secure servers;
  • any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from the site; or
  • your use of, or inability to use, the site.

If you are using the site, or purchasing goods for a business purpose, you agree that the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 does not apply.

Limitation of Liability

In the event that any limitation or provision contained in these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason and we are liable for any loss or damage that would otherwise have been excluded, then to the maximum extent permitted by law, our maximum liability in contract, tort, equity, statute, regulation or otherwise for any loss, damage or injury directly or indirectly arising in respect of the supply of the goods pursuant to an order is limited to the lesser of the following:

  • the value of goods comprised in an order to which a claim relates;
  • the cost of repairing or replacing the defective goods; or
  • the actual loss or damage suffered by you.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us and our related parties, employees, contractors or agents against all liabilities, losses, (including consequential and indirect losses) claims, costs (including legal costs) and expenses suffered or incurred by us, and all claims and demands made against us, arising directly or indirectly out of your use of the site, or any breach of these terms.

Information

While we endeavour to keep information on our site up to date, we cannot and do not guarantee the accuracy and completeness of this information.

Information on goods featured within this site are provided to you “as is” and any reliance on the information is at your own risk. We are not liable for their suitability for use in your specific situation.

The information accessed through the site is to inform you of our range of goods and their use. We do not engage in offering professional medical or health advice. The information accessed through the site is not intended to be complete or to treat a health problem or disease.

If you have a health problem or suspect you have a health problem please consult your health adviser.

New Zealand Law

These terms are governed by New Zealand Law. If we have any issues which need to be resolved by a court, you agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of New Zealand courts.