The Home Heating Shop Terms and Conditions

Using The Home Heating Shop Website (hereinafter called The Website) does not bind you to any agreements or contracts, we do not require you to sign in or register in order to use this website.

The Website is an advisory service which seeks to inform the public about issues regarding domestic home heating and cooling appliances and associated products, whilst we believe our advice is current and pertinent we offer no legal guarantee as to its validity, we advise you to take advice from suitably qualified persons before undertaking any works involving the supply and / or distribution of energy or energy supply networks and /or the installation of and / or usage of any appliance or apparatus or control system as a result of anything you may have read, heard or otherwise gained information of or about from The Website or association with it or its content.

The Website is not a DIY advisory site, we value your safety and will always advise you to seek professional advice from persons suitably qualified and registered with the appropriate regulatory bodies.

Prices

The Website does not sell products or services, all prices on the website are supplied from third-party sellers who advertise on or are linked to or from The Website and are liable to change from time to time without notification. We advise you to check the price of any product or service with the seller first before completing any purchase.

Advertisers on this website:

The Home Heating Shop constantly monitors advertisers on The Website for service and customer satisfaction and we rely on our visitors to provide us with feedback and reviews enabling us to bring them the best and safest online experience possible. We aim to advise on only the best goods and services, but despite our best efforts, there can be instances where an advertiser falls short of the high standards we expect.

The Website is an advisory service and The Home Heating Shop does not hold stock or sell products or services. When you agree to buy any product or service through an advertiser on The Website or via an advertiser in the shopping pages please be aware that they are a third party and neither The Website or The Home Heating Shop cant be held responsible for any disputes arising over purchases or orders from that third party.
While we will endeavour to resolve any issues, each advertiser has their own customer service department and you must raise any issues with them in the first instance. In all cases, you must deal with them directly for resolution.

We have no control over the content of our advertiser's websites and cannot be held responsible for the content therein.

If you share information with any of our advertisers via their websites we have no control over that information and advise you to check their terms & conditions before doing so.

The Home Heating Shop cannot be held liable for any issues arising from miss-advertising or misselling by a third party link from The Website, any such issues reported to us will result in the removal of the advertiser or service provider links from this site and the blacklisting of them on our associated networks as well as reporting them to the appropriate authorities, including the police if we believe a criminal act has occurred. In this instance, we reserve the right to reveal the details of the affected parties to the relevant authorities in order for a full and thorough investigation to take place.

By using The Website you agree to these conditions.

Image usage on The Website:-

With the exception of advertisers images used for links and marketing purposes, The Home Heating Shop uses its own in-house photography and graphic design team to generate its own imagery.

Where our own self-generated imagery is not used we use public domain images which are free from copy-write or licensing agreements and do not have to be attributed., many of these are sourced from public-domain-image.com, an online public domain image repository.

Another source of imagery is Wikimedia Commons which is an image repository containing files under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and the GNU Free Documentation License, which may be viewed here or you may cut and paste this URL into your browser:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:CC-BY-SA.

We endeavour to provide correct attributions in accordance with these license agreements and advise you that the contributing artists have no affiliation with the website or services we offer nor do they endorse us or our use of their work

Despite our best efforts we may have inadvertently used an image that falls outside of our policy guidelines if this is the case and you are aware of such an image please contact us immediately so we can take appropriate action as follows:

If the imagery is under copyright we will immediately remove it from the website as it against our policy to use such imagery.
If it under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and/or the GNU Free Documentation License and is incorrectly attributed, then please forward us the correct attribution details so we can update them.

Copyright

All copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images, software and other materials on this site are owned by The Home Heating Shop and affiliated companies or are included with the permission of the relevant owner or are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and/or the GNU Free Documentation License.

References to affiliates or affiliated companies shall include all members of The Home Heating Shop Group.

You are permitted to browse this site and to reproduce extracts by way of printing, downloading to a hard disk and by distribution to other people but, in all cases, for non-commercial, informational and personal purposes only with the exception of The Home Heating Shop Logo which may be used on other websites providing it is linked to The Home Heating Shop Website

No reproduction of any part of the site may be sold or distributed for commercial gain nor shall it be modified or incorporated in any other work, publication or site, whether in hard copy or electronic format, including posting to any other site. No other license or right is granted.

About Amazon:-

The Home Heating Shop is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.

Our Privacy Policy

The Home Heating Shop is an information-only service. We do not require you to register, subscribe or sign in to use The Website. Users of The Website are our visitors, not our customers.

Your Privacy and the Home Heating Shop :

We operate a strict privacy policy and do not accept any comments uploaded onto The Website. To communicate with The Home Heating Shop use e-mail via our contact page. Any details you may include in contacting us this way are strictly confidential and will never be related to any third parties unless you send abusively, offensive, threatening or other such communication which would be in breach of the law and may constitute a criminal offence. In this case, we reserve our right to pass on any such communication and any other pertinent information to the relevant authorities, where legislation requires we cannot do so without those authorities being in possession of an appropriate statutory instrument (IE:- a warrant or possession order) we will do so on the production of that instrument.

However, in order for our site to give you the best possible service we may occasionally use cookies, any data contained in cookies that we use is completely anonymous and does not contain any PII.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small snippets of text that a website asks your browser to store. All cookies have expiration dates in them that determine how long they stay in your browser. Cookies can be removed in two ways: automatically, when they expire, or when you manually delete them.

You can delete, remove or opt-out of cookies.

Use the privacy settings in your browser to do this. If you are unsure please visit your browser providers homepage for information on how to do this.

Types of Cookie?

Session cookies - Are temporary cookies that expire (and are automatically erased) whenever you close your browser. These are the type used when you log into a site so you can comment or interact.
Persistent cookies - These stay in your browser until they expire, or until you manually delete them. One usage of these is to help commercial websites understand usage patterns so they can improve the site for their customers.
Essential cookies - these cookies are all first-party cookies that are essential for the operation of websites. For example, some cookies allow websites to identify subscribers so they can access the subscription pages.
Functional cookies - Functional cookies also make sure the website looks consistent as well as allowing them to analyze site usage in order to measure and improve performance.
Advertising cookies - these cookies allow you to share pages with social networks should you wish to do so. They also enable our advertisers to serve you with relevant advertisements that may interest you using online behavioural advertising (OBA). They are sometimes referred to as 'behaviorally targeted advertising cookies' and track information such as which websites you visit and build a profile based on your interests.

There may be limited third-party cookies on The Website that fall into the 'Advertising cookies' category. These cookies could be session or persistent and are set by entities other than The Website. To ensure compliance with our policies, we restrict the use of third-party cookies to trusted partners. For example, we currently allow:

Doubleclick (Google) for our advertisers on our website, who set cookies in order to control the frequency of advertising and to target advertising to the right section or geographic region.
In addition, we use functional cookies for Audience measurement and validation. We use services such as Google Analytics to understand how many people visit us and what is popular, which helps us improve the website.

If you would like to learn more about how advertisers use these types of cookies, please visit

http://www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are based in the EU.

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ If you are based in the United States

For full information on all aspects of cookies please visit the All About Cookies website this is a free resource to help marketers and consumers understand the issues surrounding the use of cookies.

Hyperlinks :

Internal Hyperlinks: Please note that The Website contains hyperlinks linking to other pages on The Website, we track how these links are used so we can see how users navigate around The Website, this anonymous data is used in order for us to improve our performance and provide a better service for our visitors.
External Hyperlinks: We carry links from other websites and advertisements from websites which are not operated by us. We are not responsible and cannot be held liable for the content of external websites and advise you to read the privacy policy of any external site before providing any personal information.

The Home Heating Shop Group operates according to the European Principles on OBA. (Online, Behavioral Advertising)