STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE

In the following Conditions of Sale, ‘the Company’ means Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation, and ‘the Buyer’ means any person or firm with whom the Company contracts for the supply of goods or services.

1) When the Company receives and order for goods from any prospective purchaser and such order is accepted by the Company in writing, these conditions of sale shall apply to the contract.

2) Upon accepting an order from the Buyer, the Company reserves the right to inquire within a reasonable time, into the Buyer’s financial or trade status, and in the light of any report we receive, to rescind the contract and the Company shall not be liable to make any payment to the Buyer by way of compensation or damages.

3) PRICE

a) All estimates and quotations are nett exclusive of tax.

b) The Company reserves the right to vary the price of the goods.

c) Delivery charge will be payable in addition to the price of goods unless otherwise agreed in advance.

4) INSURANCE

a) If there are no insurance arrangements in the contract documents, the Buyer is responsible for insuring the transport insurance (from the point of shipment from the Sakurai factory or Sakurai's assignment place to the Buyer’s premises).

5) DELIVERY ACCEPTANCE

a) Deliveries may in the Company’s option be suspended, restricted or delayed if by reason of insufficient data or information supplied by the Buyer, strikes, lockouts, civil commotion, government control or requisition, priority of orders for government departments or public services, fire, breakdown, storm, flood, drought, frost or any other cause beyond the Company’s control, deliveries are prevented or hindered from being made within the contract time. No such suspension, restriction or delays shall render the Company liable in damages or justify cancellation or refusal of the goods by the Buyer.

b) All goods are offered subject to prior sale.

c) If the company delivers the goods in more than one consignment although the Contract of Sales does not envisage split or instalment deliveries, the Buyer shall not for that reason be entitled to refuse any or all of the deliveries.

d) The Buyer shall inspect the goods within seven days after delivery and unless the buyer gives notice with notice in writing within that period to us, specifying any defect in or other proper objection to the goods, it shall be conclusively presumed that the Buyer has examined the goods and found them to be complete and in accordance with the description, in good order and condition and fit for the purpose for which they are required.

6) PAYMENT

a) Our invoices are payable as agreed either by credit card or bank transfer in advance unless another payment timeframe is given by prior agreement and indicated on either the invoice or the order. In the event of non-payment by the due date, Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation reserves the right to request a fixed interest payment amounting to 10% of the sum remaining due. Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation will be authorized to suspend any provision of services without prior warning in the event of late payment.

b) If any payment is in arrears for or on account of or in respect of any goods or any instalment of goods for part of an order delivered under this or any other Contract between the Company and the Buyer, we shall have the absolute right without giving any notice to the Buyer to suspend further delivery of goods under this or any other such contract and if any such payment or any part thereof shall remain in arrears for seven days after written demand sent by the Company to the Buyer, we shall have the right to cancel this and any other such Contract without prejudice to all our rights and remedies to recover any monies then due and owing to us from the Buyer.

c) Payment shall be considered in arrears if not made within the terms stated in the preceding sub-section, or in the terms otherwise agreed.

d) The goods shall remain the property of Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation, until receipt of payment in full.    

e) If a payment is still outstanding more than sixty (60) days after the due payment date, Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation (Parts) reserves the right to call on the services of a debt recovery company. All legal expenses will be payable by the Buyer.

f) Certain countries apply withholding at source on the amount of invoices, in accordance with their internal legislation. Any withholding at source will be paid by the Buyer to the tax authorities. Under no circumstances can Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation become involved in costs related to a country's legislation. The amount of the invoice will therefore be due to Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation in its entirety and does not include any costs relating to the legislation of the country in which the Buyer is located.

7) Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation undertakes to do its best to supply performant services in due time in accordance with the agreed timeframes. However, none of its obligations can be considered as being an obligation to achieve results. Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation cannot under any circumstances, be required by the Buyer to appear as a third party in the context of any claim for damages filed against the Buyer by an end consumer.

8) In order for it to be admissible, Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation must be notified of any claim by means of a letter sent by recorded delivery to its registered office within 8 days of the delivery of the goods or the provision of the services.

9) All our contractual relations will be governed exclusively by Japan law.

10) Warranty 

Replacement parts purchased for machines which are in current production is guaranteed for manufacturing defects for up to six months.

Sakurai Graphic Systems Corporation reserves the right to discontinue production of replacements parts without prior notice.

For machines older than 20 years, spare parts may no longer be available to purchase. In some cases, we hold stock for replacement parts for machines that are no longer in production and may be available to purchase, however their availability is not guaranteed.

11) NO RETURN POLICY

Please ensure that order placed is what you require as once the order is received and despatched, we are unable to accept any returns without exception unless the reason for return is due to manufacturing defects.