Important legal information
Legal and regulatory statements
This page contains important legal and regulatory statements which you must read in conjunction with the information on our Internet Website which features Hill Hire products and services. The products and services described in this site are available only to UK residents (excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). The information in this site is not directed at anyone other than UK residents and applications from others will not be accepted. The information contained in this site may not satisfy the laws of any other country. The phone number only applies to phone calls made from within the UK. If you proceed to access the information included in this site, you acknowledge that you have read and agree with the above statement (followed by a 'click' button to access the site).
Company details and regulation
Hill Hire plc's registered office is Capital House, Queens Park Road, Handbridge, Chester, CH88 3AN and the company's registered number is 2506613. Hill Hire plc is a Bank of Scotland Group Company. Any reference within the pages of the site to 'Hill Hire' shall be taken to mean Hill Hire plc.
General
Finance is provided for business only and subject to satisfactory credit assessment.
Information is available in large print, audio and Braille on request; please call for details. You may contact us using Type Talk.
Telephone Calls
†Telephone calls may be recorded for security purposes and monitored under our quality control procedures.
Please note that any data sent via e-mail is not secure and could be read by others.
Data Protection Notice
To see how we use your information and how to give your consent, please read the Data Protection section on our Group website www.bankofscotland.co.uk/dataprotection or ask for a printed copy.
We will use your information to contact you by mail, telephone, E-mail, SMS or otherwise about other products and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive this information please visit http://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/dataprotection for details on how to opt out of this service.
We will search credit reference and fraud prevention agencies to check your identity, credit status and help us make decisions. For this application, we will assess you on your own (except where there is another party to this application). By signing/submitting the application, you declare that your financial associate's finances will not affect our decision. We check your declaration and may decline the application if it is inaccurate.
If false or inaccurate information is provided and fraud is identified, details will be passed to fraud prevention agencies to prevent fraud and money laundering. Further details explaining how information held by the fraud prevention agencies may be used can be obtained on our Group website http://www.bankofscotland.co.uk/dataprotection or by writing to: Bank of Scotland, PO Box 23588, Level 1 Citymark, 150 Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, EH3 9PE.
VAT
All references to taxation (and/or VAT if applicable) treatment are subject to confirmation by your professional advisers.
VAT number: 647625023
General
The provision by us of any website address is not evidence of any endorsement by us of the material held there. We accept no responsibility or liability for the privacy of your personal information on such websites, as these are beyond our control. We will accept no responsibility or liability in respect of any materials on any website that is not under our control.
Hill Hire (or our agents) may use IP addresses generally to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer Hill Hire's Internet Website. These may also be used to gather broad demographic information.
Accessibility statement
Browsers
Our Internet Website is designed for use via Internet Explorer 5.0 and above, Netscape Navigator 5.0 and above and other commonly-used browsers.
Disabled access
Bank of Scotland has tried to ensure that Bank of Scotland's Internet Website is accessible and useable by disabled people.
Head office
Hill Hire Head Office, Euroway Industrial; Estate, Wharfedale Road, Bradford, BD4 6SG
Terms and conditions of use and access of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website
Terms and Conditions of Use of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website which you must read and agree to before you continue to use and access this Internet website.
The use and access of pages of the Internet Website of the Hill Hire plc ("Hill Hire plc's Internet Website") is subject to the terms and conditions set out below. Please take a moment to read these terms and conditions carefully. By using or accessing any of the Hill Hire plc's Internet Website, you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions.
Copyright
© Hill Hire plc 2003. The copyright and material on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is owned by Hill Hire plc and protected by the copyright laws of the United Kingdom. The material on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website may only be used by those who access it from the United Kingdom and such users will be entitled to copy any such information for their own personal use but may not republish, store or reproduce any such information in any manner, including without limitation electronic reproduction by "uploading" or "downloading", without the prior written consent of Hill Hire plc. Any unauthorised downloading, retransmission, or other copying or modification of any of the contents of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website may be in breach of statutory or common law rights which could be the subject of legal action. Hill Hire plc disclaims all liability which may result from any unauthorised reproduction or use of the information on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Hill Hire plc.
Trade marks
The Hill Hire plc and Bank of Scotland logos are registered trademarks. Hill Hire Plc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of Scotland. Certain names, words, titles, phrases, logos, icons, graphics or designs to the pages of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website may constitute trade names or unregistered trade marks of Hill Hire plc. The display of any of the above trade names or trade marks on pages of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website does not imply that any licence has been granted to any third party in respect of the same. All other product or company names and devices, logos, icons, graphics or designs referred to on the pages of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website are the trade marks of their respective owners and are exhibited only in such a manner as is intended to be for the benefit of such trade mark owners and Hill Hire plc intends no infringement of such trade marks. The appearance or absence of products, services, companies, organisations, home pages or other Websites on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website does not imply any endorsement or non-endorsement thereof by Hill Hire plc. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by Hill Hire plc.
Liability for damages
Hill Hire plc shall not be liable for any direct or indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, including the loss of profits, business revenue or goodwill arising from the use or access of or inability to use or access, interruption or availability of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website, its operation or transmission, computer viruses, loss of data or otherwise in respect of its use or the downloading or use of any software made available by Hill Hire plc on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website and Hill Hire plc shall not be liable for and each user shall indemnify and keep indemnified on demand Hill Hire plc from and against all claims, expenses, losses or liabilities (including professional fees and expenses) in connection with any claim by a third party relating to the use or downloading of the software or data or arising from such use or downloading.
Any exclusions or limitations or restrictions of liability contained in these terms and conditions of use and access of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website shall be subject to the qualification that nothing contained in any such exclusion or limitations or restrictions of liability shall operate to exclude or restrict any duty or liability of the Hill Hire plc to any person which it has under the Financial Services Act 1986 (as the same may be amended from time to time) (the "Act") or under the rules of any relevant self-regulating organisation (as the term is defined in the Act) (whether or not laid down by the self-regulating organisation itself), as altered, amended, added to or cancelled from time to time, which such organisation has power to enforce and to which the Hill Hire plc is subject by virtue of its membership of the relevant self-regulating organisation.
Warranties
The software, information, materials and functions contained in Hill Hire plc's Internet Website including text, graphics, links or other items are provided on an "as is" basis excluding any warranty whatsoever, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose or freedom from computer viruses. The software made available on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website has been prepared solely for demonstration purposes and shall not be used for any other purposes whatsoever. Hill Hire plc excludes any liability for any errors in or omissions from information, materials and functions included in Hill Hire plc's Internet Website or any third party Websites linked to or from Hill Hire plc's Internet Website.
Jurisdiction
The Hill Hire plc Internet Website is intended to be accessed only by persons located in the UK and Hill Hire plc makes no representation that any information, materials or functions included in Hill Hire plc's Internet Website are appropriate for use in any other jurisdiction. However, if you are unsure whether the products and services referred to on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website are available to you, please email us with a general enquiry.
Security of personal data
Hill Hire plc is concerned about the security of your personal information when using Hill Hire plc's Internet Website. We have created this security statement to explain our information gathering and dissemination practices for Hill Hire plc's Internet Website.
As the Internet is not a secure medium of communication, Hill Hire plc cannot guarantee the security of any information you input on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website or send to us on the Internet. Hill Hire plc is not, and will not be, responsible for any damages you or others may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of any such information.
A cookie is a small piece of information that a web-site places on your computer's hard drive. We generally do not transmit ''cookies'' from this Website to your computer, however, some of the web pages and also web content and services developed in conjunction with third parties and provided by them may do so. Our cookies cannot be read by any other web-site other than that which placed them. We use them to store your preferences for certain types of information to track your progress through our web-site or to prevent the same pop-up screens from appearing more than once when you access our site. You will be advised what information will be collected, the purpose for collecting the information and the method of collection by those third parties on their Website. Browser settings can be adjusted to prevent cookies being placed on your PC if desired; though this may affect the performance of certain areas of the site. Cookies may also be removed on an individual basis from your computer.
Links to other Websites
The provision by Hill Hire plc of a link to another Website does not constitute any authorisation by Hill Hire plc to the user to access material held at that location, nor is it evidence of any endorsement by Hill Hire plc of the material held there. Hill Hire plc accepts no responsibility or liability for the privacy of your personal information on such Websites, as these are beyond our control. Hill Hire plc will accept no responsibility or liability in respect of any materials on any Website which is not under its control.
Accessing / using Hill Hire plc's Internet Website
Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is designed to be accessed via its principal homepages, and not direct to individual pages. If you access individual pages directly, you may not see important information and warnings which are necessary for a full understanding of our products and services and Hill Hire plc generally. As you use Hill Hire plc's Internet Website, you will find words in the text which are a different colour from the normal text and are underlined. These are links or shortcuts to other pages and if you click on them they will take you to those pages. A number of these links refer you to important legal or regulatory information which should be read in conjunction with the text in which the link appears. Hill Hire plc accepts no responsibility or liability for improper use of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website.
Unless the contrary is explicitly stated in the case of any product or service, Hill Hire plc's Internet Website contains only a summary of the information relating to the products and services referred to on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website. Therefore, if you are interested in finding out all of the information in relation to any of the products or services, you should seek further information from Hill Hire plc by any of the methods indicated on the pages describing the products and services.
Nothing on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is intended to constitute advice to you.
Problems experienced using Hill Hire plc's Internet Website
Hill Hire plc's Internet Website has been extensively tested and we hope that it works properly at all times. However, if you experience a problem at any time, please return to the homepage from where you entered Hill Hire plc's Internet Website and try again. It would be very helpful if you could report any problems to us by sending an email via the Website feedback facility.
Enforceability
In the event any provision of these terms and conditions of use and access of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is held unenforceable, it will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions and will be replaced by an enforceable provision that comes the closest to the intention underlying the unenforceable provision.
Reliability of information
Information provided on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is believed to be reliable when posted. However, Hill Hire plc cannot guarantee that information will be accurate, complete and current at all times. All information on Hill Hire plc's Internet Website is subject to modification from time to time without notice.
Governing laws
The terms and conditions of use of Hill Hire plc's Internet Website shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland.
Head office
Bank of Scotland, Head Office, The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 1YZ
