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The Good Guys Group Storage
Terms, Conditions and Service Agreement
Meaning of key words
in this Agreement
“We/Us/Our” means The Good Guys Group, Registered
Office 84 High Street, Harlesden, London, NW10 4SL
“You/Your” refers to you or your organization
The
“Unit” means the self-contained storage room
The
Centre means the building or facility the address of
which is stated above
“Goods” means anything that you bring into The
Centre or store in The Unit. “Period” is 4 weeks.
“Services” means Use of the Unit, access to The
Centre.
The Agreement
This agreement supersedes any previous Agreements
between You and Us, forms the entire agreement
between You and Us, may not be varied except in
writing by a director of Us and shall be governed by
English law; You and We irrevocably submit to the
jurisdiction of the English courts.
Tenancy and
Relationship
Nothing in this Agreement or the relationship
between You and Us will create any tenancy, lease or
any relationship of landlord and tenant. You agree
that We are not a warehouse keeper.
Your Duty to Keep Us
Informed About Your Change of Address
You
will at all times keep Us informed in writing of
Your current address. Notice from You to Us must be
in writing and will be effective from the date we
receive it.
Your Rights and
Obligations
Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement You may have access to The Centre and Use
of the Unit for the purpose of storage and may
terminate this Agreement by giving Us 28 days notice
writing. You agree to pay our charges subject to
“Payment Terms” below, to inspect The Unit prior to
placing goods in the Unit to ensure that The Unit is
in good condition and is suitable for Your
requirements (if You do not tell us otherwise in
writing then You agree it is), to keep The Unit in
the same condition as it was when it was first made
available to You, to advise Us promptly of any
damage or want of repair in The Unit, to lock The
Unit at all times expect when you are inside or
directly outside it, to comply at all times with the
instructions of our employees and any regulations
for the Use of The Centre that We might issue from
time to time, to give Us the days notice as above,
when You wish to end the Agreement, remove all Goods
and rubbish from The Unit and The Centre, leave it
clean and tidy, inspect the condition of The Unit
together with a member of our staff and pay all
charges due when You want the Agreement to end (if
You do not do this the Agreement will continue in
force) and not bring into The Centre or The Unit
Goods which are owned by someone else, unless the
owner has authorised You to do this and to ender
into this Agreement on his/her/its behalf, or bring
into The Centre or The Unit goods which are
potentially dangerous, damaging or explosive, likely
to encourage vermin or other pests or to cause
infection, animals, including pets, birds or fish
and their cages or tanks, plants or other growing
things, food or perishable goods or flammable
materials, illegal items or items obtained illegally
and not to do anything that might cause nuisance to
other Customers or ourselves invalidate any of our
insurance policies or those of our Customers or (2)
increase our premiums, (if You do so You will be
liable for the costs). You irrevocably grant Us
first lien on all Goods stored in The Unit, which
allows us to retain the goods as security for
payment on all amounts due under this Agreement and
for any other monies You owe Us.
Our Right and
Obligations
Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement We will provide You with the Use
of The Unit for the purpose of storage, keep The
Centre open during the published opening hours apply
the following security policy;- A password will be
issued to You. No admission will be granted unless
You give the password although We will give a prompt
to assist if You forget it. Only You can change the
password and You will have to produce of identity
before doing so. We will no allow others access to
The Unit unless You have given Us written authority.
We may terminate this Agreement by giving You 28
days notice in writing, refuse to give You access to
The Centre and/or terminate the Agreement
immediately if You are in breach of any of the
conditions of this Agreement, vary opening hours
from time to time by means of notice at The Centre,
close The Centre on bank and public holidays, open
The Centre outside published hours at the discretion
of The Centre manager or a director of Us only and
We may charge You for this, decide which unit You
may Use, move at our cost and risk Your Goods from
one unit to another although We will have due regard
for the safety and security of Your unit, obtain
access to Your unit either by means of key or by
forcible entry,if due to circumstances outside of
our control including but without the event of
emergency due to unforeseen circumstances such as
flood, fire, explosion, riot or if We consider it
appropriate to move Your goods from their existing
unit to another unit in The Centre, in the interests
of health, safety and security, open or inspect
goods and if We do so and reasonably believe that
they pose a threat to health,
safety or security We shall be entitled (without
prejudicing any other rights, We may have) to
dispose of them and not be liable to You for their
value or for other compensation, lock any occupied
units that are found unlocked and charge for the
provision of a lock at our published tariff.
Payment Terms
At
the commencement of the Agreement, prior to any
goods being placed in The Unit You will pay Us a
deposit equal to one Period, the storage charge for
the first Period. After that until the end of this
Agreement You will pay Us storage charges on or
before the first day of each Period. At the end of
the Agreement You will pay storage charges until the
latest expiry of the required days written notice
You gave Us, the date You remove all property and
rubbish from The Unit and inspected and agreed its
condition with Us, the date The Unit is reinstated
to the condition it was in on commencement of this
Agreement, We will hold the deposit until You
terminate the Agreement, when We will return the
deposit to You, (without interest), within 14 days
of termination, less any deduction We make in
respect of any other obligation to Us that You have
not discharged in full including storage charges,
cleaning, repairs, disposal of rubbish, the cost of
reinstating The Unit to the same condition as at the
commencement of this Agreement.
Payment and What Will Happen If you
Do Not Pay By Due Date
You
should settle your charges by the due date on our
invoice You may pay by Direct Debit, credit card,
cheque or cash. All payments by cheque should have
your Client code written on the back of the cheque.
If you pay by cheque and it is returned to Us unpaid
We will be entitled to charge You £12. If You are
paying by Direct Debit, the first payment will need
to be by one of the other means of payment, the
second and subsequent payments will be collected by
Direct Debit. If we do not receive payment for any
Period payment within 7 days of due date We will
charge You £5 or 10% of the overdue payment,
whichever is the greater. If for any Period payment
is not made within 14 days of the due date We will
deny You access to The Centre and overlock The Unit
(this means that You will not be able to get access
to it) until You have paid all our charges, issue to
You 28 days notice to remove Your goods and pay all
money due to Us. If You fail to pay We are entitled
to move your goods to another area of the Centre or
to sell or dispose of some or all of the goods
without further notice. If in our reasonable opinion
or the opinion or a competent advisor the goods are
of no resale value or the costs of sales would
exceed the likely proceeds We shall be entitled to
dispose of them as We see fit. If We sell Your goods
we will make reasonable efforts to sell them in the
correct market but We will not be liable to You if
the sales does not realise any particular or
anticipated value. We shall be entitled to make a
charge for the administration, delivery and all
other work involved in sale or disposal and this
will be added to Your account. Any net proceeds of
sale will be credited to Your account and any
eventual surplus will be paid to You without
interest. Any sale or disposal will be without
prejudice to our rights to recover any outstanding
charges still remaining after the goods have been
sold or disposed of.
Liabilities and
Indemnities
The
basis of Your Use of The Unit is that You are
responsible for inspecting Goods on arrival at The
Centre, handling and moving them in and out of The
Unit and The Centre, keeping all records You require
and keeping The Unit locked, We will not have any
knowledge relating to the presence, absence,
completeness, condition, value, nature or state of
repair or the goods. We will not be held liable for
loss of goods or damage to property where We believe
that reasonable grounds were provided to allow
access to Your unit by people other than
Yourselves. We shall not be liable for any indirect,
financial or consequential loss arising from loss or
damage to the goods stored in The Unit directly due
to our negligence You suffer loss or damage to the
contents of The Unit We shall be liable to You for
Your loss of £10 per square foot of the area of The
Unit, whichever is the lower amount. We may be
willing to accept a higher liability on payment of a
higher storage charge. You will indemnify Us against
any costs arising from all claims, demands,
liabilities, damage, loss and expenses incurred by
Us, our agents, employees or other customers arising
out of Your Use of The Unit or Centre by You, Your
agent or employees, or that arises out of any breach
of the storage Agreement by You.
Insurance
As the above limit of liability may
not always be adequate to cover the value of Goods,
You may place in The Unit We insist that You arrange
insurance of The Goods .If You have arranged Your
own insurance You will be required to produce
evidence of cover and to complete an insurance form
which includes a waiver of subrogation.
Alternatively We are able to arrange insurance on
Your behalf, subject to policy terms and payment or
premium, with leading underwriters. For Us to do
this We will require You to complete a proposal
form, including statement of the value of the Goods,
and We will provide you with a summary of the terms
and conditions of the insurance policy offered. The
full terms of cover are available for inspection at
The Centre upon request.
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