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TERMS & CONDITIONS
For your peace of mind, we have compiled terms and conditions which you are accepting by booking our vehicles.
BOOKINGS:
1. All Bookings must be by Telephone
2. Passengers must allow sufficient time when booking their journey to allow for any check-in time needed. The Yorkshire Driving Company shall not be responsible for your failure to allow enough time to reach your destination or if the passengers are not ready for collection at the booked time.
3. The Yorkshire Driving Company cannot guarantee to carry excessive amounts of luggage.
4. Any Luggage carried is at your own risk. The Yorkshire Driving Company requests you ensure all bags, rucksacks, and suitcases are secure and where possible have padlocks or similar locking devices. Please note: any child no matter what age counts as one passenger.
PAYMENT:
1. The Yorkshire Driving Company: will email you with a quotation based on the information supplied by you.
2. The Yorkshire Driving Company may amend the quotation if there is any material change to the original itinerary, the number of passengers, or type or size of vehicle required.
3. The method of payment is cash. Bankcard transactions: cannot, be taken.
THE SERVICE:
1. Passengers shall be responsible for the behavior of all the passengers in the vehicle during the journey.
2. Passengers will be charged £100 to cover any cleaning costs due to any unlikely soiling of the vehicle by any passenger.
3. Eating, Drinking, and Smoking in the vehicle is: NOT PERMITTED.
4. All children traveling during the journey need securing in a manner appropriate to their age, weight, and height. Suitable child seats should, whenever possible, be supplied and fitted by the child’s parents. Such seats can be retained by the driver, for the return journey.
5. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire will not carry more passengers than its insurance or licence allows.
CANCELLATIONS:
1. If you need to cancel your booking, please contact The Yorkshire Driving Company as soon as possible. All bookings are subject to our cancellation policy: Less than 24 hrs notice chargeable at 75%, 24 hrs to 48 hrs notice chargeable at 50%. 72 hrs to one week’s notice chargeable at 25%, or by negotiation.
LIABILITY:
1. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire shall use all reasonable endeavors to get you to your destination on time, but shall not be liable for any loss due to delays caused by road or traffic conditions beyond its, control on the journey. Passengers must make allowances for time delays, especially, when calculating long journeys. Ensuring: that, destinations, are on or before time.
2. Under no circumstances shall The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire be liable (in contract, tort, or otherwise) for any loss of profits, or business or for any indirect or consequential loss whatever.
3. Any luggage: is carried, at your own risk.
All luggage must be, properly fastened and secure.
For luggage transfers: from one accommodation to another. Must, be properly labeled and
secure.
The next day’s location for luggage transfers. Must be informed: of the estimated time of arrival.
1. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire shall be entitled to cancel all services and provide refunds in the event of a: Declared, national emergency, riot, war, fuel shortage, extreme weather or terrorist attack,
or other circumstances beyond its control. If the vehicle breaks down during your journey. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire will endeavor to arrange an alternative vehicle to complete the journey as soon as possible.
2. You shall indemnify The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire against all losses, costs, damages, and expenses arising from any act or omission of any passenger in your party.
3. Neither party excludes or limits its liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for wilful default or fraudulent, misrepresentation, or otherwise in any manner, unenforceable by any applicable law.
TERMINATION
1. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire will refuse or terminate any booking with immediate effect if it places any driver or vehicle at risk of damage, or violence as soon as it is safe to do so. No refunds will be given if the journey is terminated partway through the hire.
MISCELLANEOUS
1. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire may subcontract its obligations under this agreement. You shall not assign, transfer, or delegate any of your rights or obligations under this agreement.
2. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire may change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online. Please review these terms and conditions regularly to ensure that you are aware of any changes. All existing bookings will be at the rate quoted or applicable rate in effect at the time of booking.
3. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire shall store, process, and use all information regarding your personal details in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.
4. This agreement and any accompanying quotation represent the entire agreement between you and The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire in relation to its subject. If there is any discrepancy between the terms of this agreement and the quotation, the terms of this agreement shall prevail.
5. Nothing in this agreement. It is, intended, to confer any benefit on any third party, whether pursuant to the contracts (rights of third parties) Act-1999 or otherwise, and no third party shall have the right to enforce any rights under this agreement except where otherwise agreed in writing.
DISPUTES
This Agreement: constructed, in accordance with English Law. The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire and its clients each agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in respect of any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this agreement.
Conveying of children.
1. UK Law states that Taxis/ Private Hire are exempt from legislation to children traveling in a baby/child seat or booster.
2. For Health and safety reasons The Yorkshire Driving Company Private Hire is unable to provide any form of child seat. If you require a child seat for your, journey it would be the child’s parent/carers’ responsibility to provide one, to fit the seat in the vehicle, and to secure the child. If you are booking a return journey and have your own child seat, the driver who carries out your booking will store your child seat for the return journey,
3. PLEASE NOTE: That re-installation, of the child seat, must be carried out by you