Terms and Conditions

Stein’s at Home Terms and Conditions

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern the relationship between you and Rick Stein when you order any of the meal kits or other products (“Products”) listed on our website at www.rickstein.com (“Website”). These terms and conditions set out information regarding your rights, obligations and the restrictions that may apply when you order Products from our Website.

Any reference to “you” or “your”, means you as a customer of our Products and/or as a user of our Website. Any reference to “we”, “us”, “our” or “Rick Stein” is to Rick Stein Ltd.

Please read carefully before ordering any Products from our Website. You should understand that by ordering any of our Products, you agree to be legally bound by these terms and conditions.

We will not file or store a copy of these terms and conditions for each transaction made via the Website. You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

Please tick the accept box if you accept these terms and conditions. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to order any Products from our Website.

Your status
1. By placing an order through our Website, you confirm that:
  1. you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and
  2. you are at least 18 years old.
Our products
1. The images of the Products on our Website are for illustrative purposes only. Your Products may vary slightly from those images as computers and other devices can display colours differently and food itself varies in colour and size. The packaging of the Products may also vary from that shown in images on our Website.
2. Any weights of the Products are approximations only unless we state otherwise.
3. Whilst we will provide general advice, recipes and instructions relating to our Products, any advice, recipes and instructions provided by Rick Stein relating to our Products have been produced in order to help you in using the Products and to give guidance. These are provided for general information only. We accept no liability for any loss, damage or injury arising as a result of the advice, recipes or instructions provided to you on our Website or in conjunction with any of our Products.
4. You are responsible for opening and inspecting the Products upon delivery and then storing them correctly (for example, in the fridge). You are also completely responsible for the preparation and cooking of our Products. We accept no liability for any loss, damage or injury arising as a result of your incorrect storage, preparation or cooking of our Products.
5. If you have an allergy, you are responsible for checking our packaging and Website to ensure that a Product does not contain a relevant allergen to you. If you are not sure, please contact us at online@rickstein.com
6. All of the packaging for our Products is labelled to show any allergen advice, but please note that our Products may contain allergens including cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, barley and oats), crustaceans, eggs, fish, peanuts, soybeans, milk, lactose, nuts, celery, mustard, sesame, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, lupin and molluscs. All Products are packed in a facility that handles nuts. Any severe allergy sufferers should contact us before placing an order.
7. If we are unable to supply you with a Product, for example because we cannot meet your requested delivery date we will inform you of this by email and we will not process your order. If you have already paid for the Products, we will refund you the full amount including any delivery costs charged as soon as possible.
8. We will try our best to supply exactly what you have ordered, including the correct type and weight of ingredient, but we reserve the right to substitute such ingredients that we may not be able to practically and reasonably obtain with similar ingredients. If you are not happy with any substitution, please contact us in accordance with condition 4.6 below.
9. We like to tell you which suppliers we are using as we think they are some of the best. However, we reserve the right to change suppliers at any time and without notification, particularly if there are supply and delivery issues or shortages.
Our contract with you
1. Please take time to read and check your order at each page of the order process. After placing an order for our Products, you will receive an email from us acknowledging that we have received your order. Please note that this does not mean that your order has been accepted. Your order constitutes an offer to us to buy a Product. All orders are subject to acceptance by us, and we will confirm such acceptance to you by sending you an email that confirms that the Product has been dispatched (“Dispatch Notification “). The contract between us for the purchase of our Products (“Contract”) will only be formed when we send you the Dispatch Notification. We are not under any obligation to accept an order from you.
2. The Contract will relate only to those Products whose dispatch we have confirmed in the Dispatch Notification. We will not be obliged to supply any other Products which may have been part of your order until the dispatch of such Products has been confirmed in a separate Dispatch Confirmation.
YOUR CONSUMER RIGHT OF RETURN AND REFUND
1. As our Products contain fresh and perishable food, you are not entitled to the “normal” right to return goods within 14 days after the day you receive them, simply if you change your mind. This is because the food is likely to have a best before date within only a few days of delivery of the Products.
2. Right to cancel an order (or the whole subscription) if you notify us before midnight 4 days before delivery. For example, if you have ordered Products for delivery on Sunday and then change your mind or decide for any reason that you do not want to receive a Product, you can notify us of your decision (see how to contact us below) and cancel your order before midnight on the Wednesday before that Sunday. We agree to cancel your order and will not charge you for it. You will need to tell us whether you just want to cancel your next order(s) or your whole subscription with us. If you cancel your subscription part way through the period you will not be refunded for any remaining future orders. You can contact us to cancel or amend your order via online@rickstein.com
3. Right of return and refund if the Product is defective or not as described: Because you are a consumer, we are under a legal duty to supply Products that are in conformity with this Contract. You have legal rights in relation to Products that are defective or not as described. If the Products we deliver to you are defective or are not as described on our Website subject to 4.6 , you should contact us and report such defect or misdescription as soon as possible (we ask that this is within 3 days from delivery of the Products and if possible we ask that you send us a photograph as evidence of the defective or misdescribed Product – this will assist in processing your refund quickly).
4. We will ask you to safely dispose of such Product and if we agree that it is defective or misdescribed (acting reasonably) we will offer you the choice of either an exchange or a refund of the price or partial price of the specific Product in full.
5. We will process your refund to you within 14 days after the day on which (whichever is the earlier of):
  1. the day we receive the Product back from you;
  2. the day on which you provide us with acceptable evidence that you have sent the Product back to us; or
  3. the day on which you provide us with acceptable evidence that the Product is defective or misdescribed and we have agreed for you to throw the Product away safely.
6. We try our best to ensure that our Products are perfect 100% of time, but we are sure you will agree that this is not always possible. In the event of a minor error (for example, failing to include one ingredient which is not the main ingredient, or substituting a red pepper for a yellow pepper) we reserve the right to use our discretion as to whether a full refund is applicable or not. We will act reasonably and may offer you a partial refund or a voucher.
7. We will refund you by the method used by you to pay.
8. Your legal rights: Advice about your legal right to cancel the Contract is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office. Your legal rights are not affected by your right of return and refund in this, condition 4 or anything else in these terms and conditions.
9. How to contact us: If you wish to cancel a Contract and/or return a Product to us for any of the reasons set out above, you just need to let us know within the applicable timeframe. The easiest way to do this is by emailing us at online@rickstein.com . If you are emailing us or writing to us please include details of your order to help us to identify it (and photographic evidence if applicable). If you send us your cancellation notice by email, then your cancellation is effective from the date you send us the email.
Delivery
1. We will confirm if we can deliver to you and if we can your estimated delivery date, in the Dispatch Confirmation.
2. Product’s will be delivered in accordance with our delivery timeframes as outlined at point of placing an order unless there are exceptional circumstances, for example, if delivery is affected by an Event Outside Our Control (see condition12 for our responsibilities). Please note that delivery dates are estimates only.
3. Unfortunately we do not ship internationally, or to the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands and some of Scottish offshore islands. There are also areas of the Scottish Highlands that we are unable to deliver to on a Saturday or Sunday. We cannot deliver to the Isles of Scilly on a Saturday or Sunday. We cannot guarantee 48 hour delivery to other offshore islands such as the Isle of Wight. Please contact us via online@rickstein.com if you live in these areas.
4. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have given us the correct delivery address and any special delivery instructions.
5. If you are not in when we deliver your Products, we may leave your Products on your designated safe place at our discretion. If we have left your Products in your safe place, or another place deemed safe by our driver, and they are stolen or damaged, we do not accept any liability, but may offer you a refund or other compensation at our complete discretion.
Risk and title
1. The Products will be at your risk on completion of delivery.
2. Ownership of the Products will only pass to you when we receive full payment of all sums due in respect of the Products, including any delivery charges.
Price and payment
1. The price of the Products and any delivery charges will be as quoted on our Website from time to time, except in cases of obvious error. Product prices include VAT.
2. Product prices and any delivery charges are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect orders in respect of which we have already sent you a Dispatch Confirmation.
3. Our Website contains a large number of Products and it is always possible that, despite our best efforts, some of the Products listed on our Website may be incorrectly priced. We will normally verify prices as part of our dispatch procedures so that, where a Product’s correct price is less than our stated price, we will charge the lower amount when dispatching the Product to you. If a Product’s correct price is higher than the price stated on our Website, we will normally, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before dispatching the Product, or reject your order and notify you of such rejection.
4. We are under no obligation to provide the Product to you at the incorrect (lower) price, even after we have sent you a Dispatch Confirmation, if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as an error.
5. Payment for all Products must be by credit or debit card and we require payment before we dispatch the Products. We use Shopify payment services to carry out and process your payments.
Discount codes and gift cards
1. You may use a discount code if it has been issued or authorised by us for our Products. You are only able to use them once per household.
2. Discount codes and gift cards may only be applied to future orders and cannot be exchanged or refunded for cash. Please check if there are time limits to the discount codes and gift cards as you may only have a limited period to use them. No change or credit will be given for unused portions of a gift card.
3. We may apply maximum limits to the value of gift cards and the amount you can claim a discount code on.
Our Warranty
1. Subject to the disclaimers set out, we promise to you that any Product purchased from us through our Website will conform in all material respects with its description, be of satisfactory quality, be reasonably fit for all the purposes for which products of that kind are commonly supplied at the time of delivery.
2. The Products we sell have been designed and prepared to comply with the statutory legal requirements and relevant health and safety standards of the United Kingdom. We can therefore make no representation or warranty that any Product is compliant with health, safety or other legal requirements which apply outside the United Kingdom, unless delivery is within the EEA and common EEA Consumer Protection and Safety rules apply.
3. We shall have no liability to the extent that any damage or defect results from:
  1. a modification or alteration of the Products by anyone other than us;
  2. your or any third party’s use of the Products in a manner contrary to the instructions given to you by us;
  3. fair wear and tear, wilful damage, abnormal storage (i.e. not in a fridge) or working conditions, accident, negligence by you or by any third party; or
  4. any failure to use reasonable skill and care in using (i.e. preparing and eating) the Products and/or failure to use the Products legally and/or for the purposes for which such Products are intended to be used.
Our liability
1. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall:
  1. restrict your statutory rights (including your rights to receive a reasonable standard of service, more details about which can be obtained from your local Trading Standards office or Citizen’s Advice Bureau);
  2. exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence;
  3. exclude or limit our liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  4. exclude or limit our liability for any breach of the obligations implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (this relates to legal title / ownership);
  5. exclude or limit our liability for defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987; or
  6. exclude or limit our liability for any other matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability.
2. If we fail to comply with these terms and conditions, we shall only be liable to you for the purchase price of the Products and any losses that you suffer as a result of our failure to comply(whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise) which are a foreseeable consequence of such failure. We are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable at the time we enter into a Contract.
3. We will not be liable for losses that result from our failure to comply with these terms and conditions that fall into the following categories: loss of income or revenue; loss of business; loss of profits; loss of anticipated savings; loss or corruption of data, information or software; or waste of management or office time.
Written communications
1. Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our Website, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by email or provide you with information by posting notices on our Website. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
Events outside of our control
1. We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control (“Event Outside Our Control”).
2. An Event Outside Our Control includes any act, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following: strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action; civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war; fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster; impossibility / breakdown of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport including traffic; failure by our suppliers to supply; failure of public or private telecommunications networks (including the internet); and the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.
3. Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Event Outside Our Control continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Event Outside Our Control to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Event Outside Our Control.
Entire agreement
1. These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the whole agreement between us and supersede all previous discussions, correspondence, negotiations, previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between us relating to the subject matter of any Contract.
2. We each acknowledge that, in entering into a Contract, neither of us relies on any representation or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these terms and conditions or the documents referred to in them.
3. Nothing in this condition limits or excludes any liability for fraud.
Our right to vary these terms and conditions
1. We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time including (without limitation) to reflect changes in market conditions affecting our business, changes in technology, changes in payment methods, changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements and changes in our system’s capabilities.
2. If we revise and amend these terms and conditions so as to alter the information required to be provided by applicable laws and regulations, such revisions and amendments will not be effective unless you expressly notify us of your agreement to them.
3. You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you order Products from us, unless any change to those policies or these terms and conditions is required to be made by law or governmental authority (in which case it will apply to orders previously placed by you), or if we notify you of the change to those policies or these terms and conditions before we send you the Dispatch Confirmation (in which case we have the right to assume that you have accepted the change to the terms and conditions, unless you notify us to the contrary within seven working days of receipt by you of the Products).
Law and jurisdiction
1. Contracts for the purchase of Products through our Website and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them will be governed by English law. Any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with such Contracts will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.