Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policy

1. On receiving an order, ETS will email you a spreadsheet for your employees’ details.
2. On receipt of your employees’ details, ETS will register your employees to the course and email you with their login details. The course can then be immediately accessed.
3. During a normal working day (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm) the registration procedure will usually only take about an hour. Student registration is a manual process and will not be carried out outside normal working hours.
4. The pass mark is a minimum of 50% on both final assessments, with an average of 54% overall.
5. Should an employee fail, they may re-sit the final assessment(s) once. ETS will need to authorise this.
6. Should an employee fail the re-sit, an additional fee of £25 + VAT is payable for their re-registration with IOSH before a second re-sit can be taken.
7. IOSH moderate final assessments and so any success indicated by the automatic online scores cannot be guaranteed until this has taken place.
8. ETS will accept purchase orders and upon receipt will complete the registration process as stated above.
9. When more than 10 employees are required to be registered in one batch, a deposit of £25 + VAT per person is required to cover IOSH fees before the course can be accessed.
10. Full payment must be received before the IOSH certificates are issued.
11. Certificates will be sent by recorded delivery to the business address.
12. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information and advice given in the Starting Safely course is accurate and up to date. Whilst the information and advice given throughout is believed to be true and accurate at the time of production, Essential Training Solutions cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Essential Training Solutions Ltd. accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the accuracy of the information, conclusions that may be drawn from it, or how the information is interpreted and implemented. This is the basis on which the information is presented and the course offered.

1. On receiving on online order, ETS will register you to the course and email you with your login details. The course can then be immediately accessed.
2. During a normal working day (Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm) the registration procedure will usually only take about an hour. Student registration is a manual process and will not be carried out outside normal working hours.
3. The pass mark is a minimum of 50% on both final assessments, with an average of 54% overall.
4. Should you fail, you may re-sit the final assessment(s) once. ETS will need to authorise this.
5. Should you fail the re-sit, an additional fee of £25 + VAT is payable for your re-registration with IOSH before a second re-sit can be taken.
6. IOSH moderate final assessments and so any success indicated by the automatic online scores cannot be guaranteed until this has taken place.
7. Certificates will be sent by recorded delivery to the delivery address quoted on the order.
8. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information and advice given in the Starting Safely course is accurate and up to date. Whilst the information and advice given throughout is believed to be true and accurate at the time of production, Essential Training Solutions cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Essential Training Solutions Ltd. accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the accuracy of the information, conclusions that may be drawn from it, or how the information is interpreted and implemented. This is the basis on which the information is presented and the course offered

Copyright
All rights are reserved. The copying or reproducing of any of the content of this website or any product sold from it is strictly prohibited without prior consent.

Prices and Goods
Prices are subject to change without notice. Images may vary slightly from actual products due to the limitations of the internet and variations between computer screens etc. Orders are accepted at the discretion of Essential Training Solutions and Essential Training Solutions maintains the right to decline orders without giving an explanation.

Overseas (non UK) customers
We are a UK company based in England. All items on our site are priced in UK Pounds Sterling (£). If UK Pounds Sterling (£) is not your currency, the amount you actually pay will vary depending upon the exchange rate at the time your transaction is processed.

Sales Tax (VAT)
The prices shown on our web site include VAT where applicable. Goods sent to private individuals within the EU will attract VAT at the current UK rate. Goods sent to companies within the EU can be zero rated if a VAT registration number is supplied. We advise you to order by telephone, e-mail or fax if this applies to you.

Payment
All goods remain the property of Essential Training Solutions until full Payment has been received and verified.

With the exception of internet orders (which are automatically processed) we will not take payment from your debit or credit card until your order is ready to be dispatched.

Delivery
We endeavour to dispatch all orders within 3 working days. Only on rare occurrences are items not in stock but if it is not possible to dispatch your order promptly we will contact you to advise you of this. Substitute goods will not be sent. Most orders will be delivered by second class mail. The cost of postage and packaging is automatically calculated and clearly shown on this web site according to the delivery address. The cost is displayed for you to agree before the order is submitted.

If you do not receive your goods within 10 working days you should contact us. Compensation is limited to the cost of the goods ordered and will take the form of a replacement.

Customer / After Sales Support
We offer comprehensive after-sales service and provide free technical support on all our software.

For all enquiries telephone 01604 879110.
Office hours are 09:00 – 17:00, Monday to Friday.
Should it not be possible to answer the telephone an answerphone will always be active to record your call.

Alternatively, email us using our Contact Form HERE

Returns
All orders are carefully checked before dispatch. However, very occasionally items are damaged during transit. If your goods are delivered damaged, please retain the packaging and contact Essential Training Solutions within 5 working days of receipt to obtain authorisation to return the damaged goods. Essential Training Solutions will dispatch replacement goods within 3 working days following the receipt of the damaged item(s). We will pay for the cost of returning the damaged goods and no charge will be made for the postage of the replacement goods.

Cancellations
Customers have a cooling off period and have the right to cancel the contract within 7 days of receiving the goods. The customer must give written notice of the cancellation to be received by us within this time frame. However, in the case of all software, the goods must be returned with all packaging intact and unopened for a refund to be made. The customer will be responsible for the cost of safely returning the goods to us. On receipt of the undamaged, unopened goods we will issue a full refund of the price of the goods, minus the original postage and packaging charge within 3 working days.

For all e-learning products the product will be considered to have been “opened” at the time that the customer first accesses the course. Once the e-learning has been accessed by the customer the right to cancel will be lost.

Privacy
Essential Training Solutions respects the privacy of every individual. We collect information about you for 2 reasons: firstly, to process your order and secondly, to provide you with the best possible service. The information we hold will be to the best of our knowledge accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly. Any personal details obtained through the ordering process will NOT be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to others. Essential Training Solutions strives to act lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 to protect your rights.

Any payments made on this website using a debit / credit card will be dealt with using Barclays Banks 128 Bit SSL e-merchant facilities to ensure your online privacy and security. Your card details are not disclosed to us.

See below for our full privacy policy.

Links
Essential Training Solutions is not responsible for and accepts no liability for the content or practices of any websites that may be linked to or through this site. Such links are maintained "as is" for information purposes only and Essential Training Solutions does not, therefore, necessarily approve of or endorse the content of those sites.

Quality Assurance
We believe that the goods we offer are of excellent quality and we make every attempt to offer the most efficient service we can. However, should our goods or services not live up to your expectations then please contact us at:

Essential Training Solutions Ltd.
PO Box 5116
Badby
Daventry
Northants
NN11 3ZB

Legalities
All contracts made between Essential Training Solutions and the Customer are subject the English law and any disputes arising shall be subject to the sole jurisdiction of English courts. These terms and conditions do not affect your statutory rights as a consumer.

Our Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998).

We do not share / sell / lease / your information with any other trading organisation. We only collect that information about you that is necessary to process your order and to provide you with the best possible service.

Cookies
A Cookie is a piece of data containing information about the user which may be stored on the user's hard drive. We make use of these temporary, self-deleting files (lasting only a few minutes). They are used solely for storing your temporary shopping cart details prior to checkout will contain no sensitive information.

Further Information
Further information we may collect about you includes:

your name
address
phone number
email address
This information is used only to provide you with the goods and services stated within this website. We do not collect or store credit / debit card information, banking details, etc.

Sensitive Information
We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent. The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.

The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.

In the unlikely event of our intending to transfer your information outside the EEA (European Economic Area) we will always obtain your consent first.

If you have any questions/comments about privacy, please contact us.