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      MEMBERSHIP TERMS AND CONDITIONS

      This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms and conditions on which we provide membership (Membership) of our website www.sparklemembers.com (our site) to you. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before signing up for Membership. You should understand that by doing so, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions, our privacy policy, acceptable use policy and our terms of website use. You should print a copy of these terms and conditions for future reference.

      Please click on the button marked "I Accept" at the end of these terms and conditions if you accept them. Please understand that if you refuse to accept these terms and conditions, you will not be able to become a member of our site.

      • 1 Information About Us
        www.sparklemembers.com and its associated landing page at www.joinsparkle.com is a site operated by Sparklematch Limited (we). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06721211 and with our registered office at 3 Oakham Drive, Aintree, Liverpool L10 8LR. Our trading address is Unit 3, Kerwyns, Gallows Green, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3QS. Our VAT number is [VAT NUMBER].
      • 2 Your Status
        By signing up for Membership, you warrant that:

        2.1.1 you are legally capable of entering into binding contracts; and

        2.1.2 you are at least 18 years old.

      • 3 How the Contract Is Formed Between You and Us

        3.1 Once you have completed online registration and paid the Membership fee, we will give you access to your own Sparkle profile for you to start creating your personalised space. We will also send you an email confirming that your payment has been processed. If for some reason we cannot process your payment, you will need to provide an alternative means of payment before you can gain access to your Sparkle profile. Once you have been given access to your Sparkle profile, a binding contract (Contract) between you and us for Membership for a period of 12 months will be formed. This Membership is renewable on payment of the Membership fee applicable at the time of renewal.

        3.2 We reserve the right to reject your registration for Membership, if we have reason to believe you are not at least 18 years old or you have been suspended or expelled for breach of the terms of the other documents mentioned in these terms and conditions.

        3.3 We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your Membership without refund at any time if we have reason to believe that you have breached any of the terms of any of the documents mentioned in these terms and conditions.

      • 4 Our Status

        4.1 Please note that in some cases, we accept orders for goods and services as agents on behalf of third party sellers. The resulting legal contract is between you and that third party seller, and is subject to the terms and conditions of that third party seller, which they will advise you of directly. You should carefully review their terms and conditions applying to the transaction.

        4.2 We may also provide links on our site to the websites of other companies, whether affiliated with us or not. We cannot give any undertaking, that products or services you purchase from third party sellers through our site, or from companies to whose website we have provided a link on our site, will be of satisfactory quality, and any such warranties are DISCLAIMED by us absolutely. This DISCLAIMER does not affect your statutory rights against the third party seller. We will notify you when a third party is involved in a transaction, and we may disclose your customer information related to that transaction to the third party seller.

      • 5 Consumer Rights
        If you are contracting as a consumer, you have certain rights to cancel the Contract. These cancellation rights will end as soon as we give you access to your own Sparkle profile. By submitting payment, you authorise us to give you such access, whereupon your right to cancel the Contract will end.
      • 6 Price and Payment

        6.1 The price for Membership of our site will be as quoted on our site from time to time, except in cases of obvious error.

        The price quoted includes VAT.

        6.2 Prices are liable to change at any time, but changes will not affect your Membership until it is time for renewal.

        6.3 Payment for Membership must be by credit or debit card.

      • 7 Our Liability

        7.1 The terms of the liability provisions in our terms of website use shall apply to the Contract.

        7.2 Our aggregate liability for losses you suffer, which are not excluded under the terms of the liability provisions in our terms of website use is strictly limited to the Membership fee you paid in respect of the period in which the loss occurred.

        7.3 This does not affect your statutory rights.

        7.4 Where you buy any product or service from a third party seller through our site, the seller's individual liability will be set out in the seller's terms and conditions.

      • 8 Written Communications
        When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail 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.
      • 9 Notices
        All notices given by you to us must be given to Sparklematch Limited at members@sparklematch.net. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when signing up for Membership, or in any of the ways specified in the paragraph above. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our website, 24 hours after an e-mail is sent, or three days after the date of posting of any letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an e-mail, that such e-mail was sent to the specified e-mail address of the addressee.
      • 10 Transfer of Rights and Obligations
        We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of a Contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during the term of the Contract.
      • 11 Events Outside Our Control

        11.1 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 (Force Majeure Event).

        11.2 A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:

        11.2.1 Strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action.

        11.2.2 Civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war.

        11.2.3 Fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster.

        11.2.4 Impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.

        11.2.5 Impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks.

        11.2.6 The acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government.

        11.3 Our performance under any Contract is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event 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 Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.

      • 12 Waiver

        12.1 If we fail, at any time during the term of a Contract, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under the Contract or any of these terms and conditions, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under the Contract, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations.

        12.2 A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

        12.3 No waiver by us of any of these terms and conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with condition 8 and condition 9.

      • 13 Severability
        If any of these terms and conditions or any provisions of a Contract are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
      • 14 Entire Agreement
        These terms and conditions and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the subject matter of any Contract and supersede any prior agreement, understanding or arrangement between us, whether oral or in writing.
      • 15 Our Right to Vary These Terms and Conditions

        15.1 We have the right to revise and amend these terms and conditions from time to time.

        15.2 You will be subject to the policies and terms and conditions in force at the time that you sign up for Membership, 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 Membership already running), or we notify you of the change to those policies or those terms and conditions (in which case you will have the option to unsubscribe (without refund) from our site).

      • 16 Law and Jurisdiction
        All Contracts and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by English law. Any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with such Contracts or their formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.