Privacy Policy

Conditions of Use and Sale (valid from Jan. 1, 2009)

1. Account
If you use the website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner.

Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering. You can access and update much of the information you provided us with in the ‘Your Account’ area of the website.

Schott-music.co.uk reserves the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at our discretion. If we cancel an order, it will be without charge to you.

2. Privacy
Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to schott-music.co.uk, to understand our practices.

3. Access to schott-music.co.uk
We will do our utmost to ensure that availability of the website will be uninterrupted and that transmissions will be error-free. However, due to the nature of the Internet, this cannot be guaranteed. Also, your access to the website may also be occasionally suspended or restricted to allow for repairs, maintenance, or the introduction of new facilities or services. We will attempt to limit the frequency and duration of any such suspension or restriction.

4. Website access
schott-music.co.uk grants you a limited licence to access and make personal use of this website, but not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of schott-music.co.uk. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of this website or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this website or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

This website or any portion of this website may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express written consent.

You may not frame or use framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of schott-music.co.uk and its affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilising schott-music.co.uk 's or its affiliates' names or trademarks without the express written consent of schott-music.co.uk. Any unauthorised use terminates the permission or license granted by schott-music.co.uk.

You are granted a limited, revocable, and non-exclusive right to create a hyperlink to the ‘Welcome Page’ of schott-music.co.uk as long as the link does not portray schott-music.co.uk, its affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any schott-music.co.uk logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without our express written consent.

5. Your conduct
You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.

You understand that you, and not schott-music.co.uk, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only. You must not use the website for any of the following:

• for fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
• to send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any "spam"
• to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety

6. Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability
The content of the website, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to schott-music.co.uk, its products and services (or to third party products and services) is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without any representations or any kind of warranty made (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete website including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by schott-music.co.uk without separate announcement.

schott-music.co.uk will not be liable for any damages, including indirect or consequential damages, or any damages arising from use or loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising from or in connection with the use of the Site.
schott-music.co.uk does not warrant that functions contained in the Website content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.

schott-music.co.uk is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless schott-music.co.uk has full knowledge of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore schott-music.co.uk is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on its page.

7. Copyright and database rights
All content included on the website, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of schott-music.co.uk, its affiliates or its content suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. The compilation of all content on this website is the exclusive property of schott-music.co.uk and its affiliates and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright and database right laws. All software used on this website is the property of schott-music.co.uk, its affiliates or its software suppliers and is protected by United Kingdom and international copyright laws.

You may not systematically extract and/or re-utilise parts of the contents of the website without schott-music.co.uk 's express written consent. In particular, you may not utilise any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation of any substantial parts of this website, without schott-music.co.uk 's express written consent. You also may not create and/or publish your own database that features substantial (eg our prices and product listings) parts of this website without schott-music.co.uk 's express written consent.

8. Conclusion of contract
The description of our range of products on the Internet just serves to inform you. It is not an offer to conclude a contract. By sending an order to schott-music.co.uk, you offer to conclude a contract. You will receive an e-mail or other message confirming receipt of the offer. If individual information on the range of products on schott-music.co.uk is incorrect, schott-music.co.uk shall inform you separately after receipt of the order and submit an appropriate counter-offer to you. The contract with schott-music.co.uk shall be concluded with schott-music.co.uk’s acceptance of your offer. The acceptance of the offer shall be subject to the proviso that the goods are actually available. A separate confirmation of the acceptance of the offer by schott-music.co.uk to you shall not be necessary. If schott-music.co.uk cannot accept your offer, you will be informed electronically.

9. Returns
You shall be entitled to withdraw from the purchase within two weeks after receipt of the goods by returning the goods to schott-music.co.uk. To comply with this term, it is sufficient to despatch the goods in time. The charges for the return of the goods shall be your responsibility. In the case of withdrawal, schott-music.co.uk shall refund the purchase price, if already paid, to you. The return charges paid by schott-music.co.uk will be deducted from the purchase price. With refunds to foreign countries, the transfer fee will be deducted as well. In the case of a considerable deterioration in the quality of the goods or in the case of loss, you shall make good the corresponding reduction in value or loss to us if you withdraw from the purchase. If you have already paid the purchase price, schott-music.co.uk shall be entitled to deduct the reduction in value from the amount repayable.

The right of withdrawal shall be barred in the following cases:

• purchases of audio or video recordings or software if the delivered data carriers have been unsealed by you or the shrink-wrap is not intact any more;
• purchases of goods manufactured according to your specifications or of goods unsuitable for returns, such as antiquarian or archive items;
• purchases where right of withdrawal is expressly barred.

10. Pricing
Due to price fluctuations in the industry, and the fact that schott-music.co.uk is dealing with a large number of suppliers, prices displayed are subject to change. schott-music.co.uk is working to ensure that as many of the prices as possible reflect the publishers’ current catalogue prices. Meanwhile you will be invoiced for the price applying at the date of sale, which may be different from the price quoted on the website. Such items are returnable and refundable. This does not affect your statutory rights.

11. Customs
When ordering goods from schott-music.co.uk for delivery overseas you may be subject to import duties and taxes, which are levied once the package reaches the specified destination.

Any additional charges for customs clearance must be borne by you; we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be. Customs policies vary widely from country to country, so you should contact your local customs office for further information.

Additionally, please note that when ordering from schott-music.co.uk, you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the country in which you are receiving the goods.

12. Electronic communications
When you visit schott-music.co.uk or send e-mails to us, you are communicating with us electronically. We communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the website. For contractual purposes, you consent to receive communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

13. Losses
schott-music.co.uk will be responsible for any losses you suffer as a result of us breaching these conditions if the losses were reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website, or a contract for the sale of goods by us to you was formed. We will not be responsible for any business loss (including loss of profits, revenue, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or wasted expenditure as well as lawyer’s fees) or any other indirect or consequential loss that is not reasonably foreseeable to both you and us when you commenced using the website or when a contract for the sale of goods by us to you was formed. schott-music.co.uk does not limit in any way its liability by law for death or personal injury caused from our negligence or breach of duty.

14. Alteration of Service or Amendments to the Conditions
We reserve the right to make changes to our website, policies, and these Conditions of Use and Sale at any time. You will be subject to the policies and Conditions of Conditions of Use and Sale in force at the time that you use the website or that you order goods from us, unless any change to those policies or these conditions is required to be made by law or government authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you). If any of these conditions is deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

15. Events beyond our reasonable control
We will not be held responsible for any delay or failure to comply with our obligations under these conditions if the delay or failure arises from any cause which is beyond our reasonable control. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

16. Waiver
If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.

17. Governing law and jurisdiction
These conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. You agree, as we do, to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

18. Our details
This website is owned and operated by Schott Music Ltd. For the schott-music.co.uk website:
Schott Music Ltd., 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB, Great Britain, VAT No. GB 340108995, Company No. 00196809 England

You can contact us by visiting www.schott-music.co.uk or sending an email to [email protected]

Privacy Policy (valid from Jan. 1, 2009)

Schott Music Ltd. is committed to ensuring that personal details of its visitors and customers are private and secure. There are a number of areas within our site that request personal information and all of these are covered by the policy below.

• when you register with schott-music.co.uk we will ask for your e-mail address. We may also keep a record of which products and services you are interested in and monitor how you use our site. At schott-music.co.uk we only collect information about you to ensure that any information or offers we send you are relevant.
• when you place an order, we need to know your name, e-mail address, delivery address, credit or debit card number and the card’s expiry date. This allows us to process and fulfill your orders and to notify you of the status of your order.
• we also ask for your telephone number which enables us to contact you if there is a problem with your order.
• we may also use the information collected to occasionally notify you about important functionality changes to our Website, new schott-music.co.uk services and special offers we think you’ll find valuable.
• we use your e-mail address to send you periodic updates on products and services, if you have opted in to receive such information.
• we may also use the information collected to provide information that could be used to enhance our site, providing additional features that would be of benefit to you as our customers.
• when you enter a competition or prize draw, we may ask for your name, address, and e-mail address so that we can administer the contest and notify winners. We may also ask for further information for our marketing records.

• we will not sell, rent, share, trade or give away without your permission any information we hold about you.
• we employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer services. Such companies and individuals will have access to personal information needed to perform these functions, but may not use it for any other purposes and are required to process the data in accordance with the UK’s Data Protection legislation.