Packaging  Design

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2. TAX - Except in the case of a customer who is not contracting in the course of business nor holding himself out as doing so,
R. Howard Limited reserves the right to charge the amount of any value-added tax payable whether or not included on the
estimate or invoice.

3. PRELIMINARY WORK – All work carried out, whether experimentally or otherwise, at customer’s request shall be charged.

4. COPY – A charge may be made to cover any additional work involved where copy or material supplied in electronic form,
supplied by the customer is not clear and legible.

5. PROOFS – Proofs of all work may be submitted for customer’s approval and R. Howard Limited shall incur no liability for any
errors not corrected by the customer in proofs so submitted. An additional charge will be made for Customer’s alterations and
additional proofs necessitated thereby. When style, type or layout is left to R. Howard Limited judgement, changes there from
made by the customer an additional will also be made.

6. DELIVERY AND PAYMENT
(a) Delivery of work shall be accepted when tendered and thereupon or if earlier, on notification that the work has been
completed and payment shall become due.
(b) Unless otherwise specified the price quoted is for delivery of the work to the customer’s address as set out in the
estimate. A charge may be made to cover any extra costs involved for delivery to a different address.
(c) Should expedited delivery be agreed an additional charge may be made to cover overtime or any other work
occasioned thereby.
(d) Should work be suspended at the request of or delayed through any default of the customer for a period of 30 days, R. Howard Limited shall then be entitled to payment for work already carried out, materials ordered and other additional ncosts occasioned thereby.

7. VARIATIONS IN QUANTITY – Every endeavour will be made to deliver the correct quantity ordered, but all orders are subject to overage or shortage of between -5% and 10% of quantity ordered, the same to be charged or deducted.

8. CLAIMS – Notification of damage, must be given in seven days of delivery. Delay or partial loss of goods in transit or of nondelivery must be given in writing to us and the carrier within seven days of invoice date. We shall not be liable in respect of any claim unless the aforementioned requirements have been compiled with. 

9 STANDING MATERIAL
(a) Metal, film, and other materials owned by R. Howard Limited and used by it in the production of type, plates,
stereotypes, electrotypes, film-setting, negatives, positives and the like shall remain R. Howard Limited exclusive
property. Such items when specially supplied by the customer shall remain the customer’s property.
(b) Type may be distributed and lithographic, photogravure or other work effected immediately after the order is executed unless written arrangements are made to the contrary.

10. CUSTOMER’S PROPERTY
(a) All property supplied to R. Howard Limited by or on behalf of the customer, l while it is in the possession of R. Howard Limited or in transit to or from the customer shall be at the customer’s risk unless otherwise agreed in writing and the customer should insure accordingly.
(b) R. Howard Limited shall be entitled to make a reasonable charge for the storage of any customer’s property left with R. Howard Limited before receipt of the order or after notification to the customer of completion of the work.

11. MATERIALS SUPPLIED BY THE CUSTOMER
(a) R. Howard Limited may reject any paper, plates or other materials supplied or specified by the customer which to R. Howard Limited considers to be unsuitable. Additional costs incurred if materials are found to be unsuitable during production may be charged.
(b) Quantity of materials supplied shall be adequate to cover normal spoilage.

12. INSOLVENCY – If the customer ceases to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business or cannot pay his debts as they become due or being a company is deemed to be unable to pay its debts or has a winding-up petition issued against it or being a person commits an act of bankruptcy or has a bankruptcy petition issued against him, R. Howard Limited, without prejudice to other remedies, shall (i) have the right not to proceed further with the contract or any other work for the customer and be entitled to charge for work already carried out (whether completed or not) and materials purchased for the customer, such charge shall be an immediate debt due to R. Howard Limited and;(ii) in respect of all unpaid debts from the customer have a general lien on all goods and property of the customer in its possession (whether worked on or not) and shall be entitled on the expiration of 14 days notice to dispose of such goods or property in such manner and at such price as he thinks an to apply the proceeds towards such debts.

13. ILLEGAL MATTER
(a) R. Howard Limited shall not be required to print any matter which in its opinion is or may be of an illegal or libellous nature or may infringe the proprietary or other rights of any third party.
(b) R. Howard Limited shall be indemnified by the customer on demand in respect of any claims, costs and expenses arising out of any libellous matter or infringement of copyright patent, design or of any other proprietary or personal rights contained in any material printed for the customer. The indemnity shall extend to any amounts paid by R. Howard Limited on legal advice in settlement of any claim.

14. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS – A contract for printing of a periodical publication may not be terminated by either party unless 13 weeks notice in writing is given, in the case of periodicals produced monthly or more frequently or in the case of other periodicals unless 26 weeks notice in writing is given. Notice may be given at any time but wherever possible should be given after completion of work on any one issue. Without prejudice to the foregoing R. Howard Limited may terminate any such contract forthwith should any sum due there under remain unpaid.

15. FORCE MAJEURE – R. Howard Limited shall be under no liability if it shall be unable to carry out any provision of the contract for any reason beyond its control including (without limiting the foregoing) an act of God, new legislation, war, fire, flood, drought, failure of power supply, lock-out, strike or other action taken by employees in contemplation or furtherance of a dispute or owing to any inability to procure materials required for the performance of the contract. During the continuance of such a contingency the customer may, by written notice to R. Howard Limited elect to terminate the contract and pay for work done and materials used, but subject thereto shall otherwise accept delivery when available.

16. LAW - These conditions and all other express terms of the contracts shall be governed and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.

17 CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS - R Howard limited shall under no circumstances be liable to a customer for any Consequential losses, costs, damages, interest etc, arising from goods and services provided to a customer pursue and to a purchase order.

The materials on this web site (the "Site") are provided by R. Howard Limited which is a trading name of R. Howard Limited, also known for the purposes of this Web site as R. Howard Limited.

These copy, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the materials belong to R. Howard Limited or its agents and any unauthorised use of these materials may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You do not obtain any proprietary or intellectual property rights in the material on the site by using the site. R. Howard Limited grants permission to use and copy documents and related graphics available from this World Wide Web server only for your personal, non-commercial use provided that you observe any copyright notices printed at the head of this page and retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the original materials or any copies. Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by UK law, and may result in civil and criminal action. For the purposes of these terms, any use of these materials on any other web site or network computer environment for any purpose is strictly prohibited. R. Howard Limited may revise these terms at any time.

Other than personally identifiable information,  any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Site or our servers will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary communications. R. Howard Limited will have no obligations with respect to these communications. R. Howard Limited and its authorised agents will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law and you are also prohibited by law from making any alterations or amendments to the text, graphics or content of the web site or any part of the server on which the site sits.

a) Reference herein to any third party products, services, processes, or other information by trade name, trademark, kite mark, association, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by R. Howard Limited.

b) Any links from R. Howard Limited's site will let you leave R. Howard Limited's site. Any linked sites whether linked to our site now or in the future are not under the control of R. Howard Limited and R. Howard Limited is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. R. Howard Limited may from time to time provide these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by R. Howard Limited of the linked site.

c) R. Howard Limited makes no representation about the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on this server. All such documents and related graphics are provided "as is," without guarantee or warranty of any kind and all implied guarantees or warranties are excluded to the maximum extent permitted by applicable UK law. You must check any information on the Site before taking any decisions based on that information.

d) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable UK law, R. Howard Limited shall not be liable, in any event, for any claims for damages or any other remedy in whatever jurisdiction whatsoever, whether in an action in contract, tort (including negligence and strict liability) or any other theory of liability, whether in law or equity including, without limitation, claims for damages or any other remedy in whatever jurisdiction arising out of or in connection with any trade on any stock exchange or market, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents or other information available from this server or the documents or pages that reside upon it.

This site is controlled and operated by R. Howard Limited from its offices within the United Kingdom. R. Howard Limited makes no representation that the information available is appropriate or available for use in other locations, countries or territories. Those who choose to access the site from other locations, countries or territories do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with any and all applicable local laws of the place of access. The internal substantive laws of the United Kingdom shall govern any claim relating to the information.

There is a technology called "cookies" which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a web site. A cookie is an element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Some of R. Howard Limited's pages may use cookies so that we can better serve you when you return to our site. You can set you browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you a chance to decide whether to accept it.

The above conditions apply to all visits to R. Howard Limited's web site, both now and in the future. R. Howard Limited may revise these terms at any time. Users should re-visit this page from time to time to review the current terms because they are legally enforceable.

ONLINE PRIVACY STATEMENT:

R. Howard Limited makes every effort to honour the preferences of our Web site users concerning the collection and use of personally identifiable information. This statement describes how R. Howard Limited collects and uses personally identifying information of visitors to our Web sites.

This privacy statement covers the following sites operated by R. Howard Limited: "www. rhoward.co.uk" and "www. r-howard.co.uk" and other R. Howard Limited sites whether available now or in the future that can be accessed through our main site or otherwise. Questions regarding this privacy statement should be directed to R. Howard Limited by sending an e-mail to

In general, when you visit our Web sites and access information, you will remain anonymous. For some services provided through our Web site, we will ask you to supply information using online forms. A form will ask for information about the Company who will use our online services. Some services available on our Web site involve the purchase by Web site visitors of R. Howard Limited products or goods manufactured by R. Howard Limited. If you elect to engage in transactions via our Web site, you will be asked to provide information necessary to facilitate transactions such as shipping address and payment instructions and possibly credit account application details. In addition to information you provide, R. Howard Limited may collect information about your use of our Web sites that will help R. Howard Limited improve its online services, such as information regarding what pages you access on our sites, what URL you just came from and the URL you next go to, what browser you are using and possibly your IP address. This information may be used to analyse trends and statistics and monitor link usage. R. Howard Limited may use cookies on some portions of its Web site. A cookie is an identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer. Cookies enable us to provide you with a better experience by allowing us to understand what areas of the Web site are of interest to our visitors. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you may still access most of our Web site pages. If you choose to post messages in message areas or to provide feedback or send an e-mail to us, we may keep a record of that posting or correspondence.

R. Howard Limited may use your information for its own sales, administrative and manufacturing purposes and in order to comply with any enquiries you may make, or any orders you may place. This information will be kept at R. Howard Limited. R. Howard Limited does not sell any personally identifiable information provided to it by customers or potential customers.

When you place an order or make an offer to participate in a transaction, we will use your personally identifiable information to facilitate the transaction. R. Howard Limited may also maintain transaction history information about our Web site users. The primary use of your information is to enable R. Howard Limited to deliver specific services or products you request or to complete a transaction initiated by you. During the course of completing a transaction initiated by you, R. Howard Limited may provide your contact or other information to a trading partner or other party to the transaction (e.g., financier or bank transferring funds). We may disclose information to third party suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf or in accordance with a properly executed UK Court order. Use of the Internet by its very nature may involve transmission of data on an international basis. By visiting or using the Site you acknowledge and agree to our processing of your personal data in this way.

R. Howard Limited uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information. Unfortunately, it is impossible to absolutely guarantee the security of data transmission over the Internet or any other wireless network. Therefore, although we take reasonable measures to protect your information, R. Howard Limited cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us or from online services and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will use industry standard efforts to ensure its security on our systems. If R. Howard Limited provide links to third party sites, since we do not control those Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on those third party sites you visit. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at If you are not happy to provide information electronically, we have included various downloadable and printable forms that you can fill out and fax or mail to us if you prefer.

R. Howard Limited takes great care to ensure all Internet communication both incoming and outgoing is screened by current commercially available proprietary software to ensure it is virus free. However, as the company does not control all the stages e-mail or other electronic communication passes through between ourselves and any users of our web site, the company cannot and will not under any circumstances accept any liability for loss or damage resulting from any user or company or person e-mailing data, files or images or text to us or receiving information from us where this information is submitted online and we cannot guarantee that any such communication or any electronic data transfer will be virus-free.

R. Howard Limited Units 4 & 5, New England Business Park, Wainfleet, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE24 4AW

R Howard Ltd.  Carton Design, Full Colour Printed Packaging, Repro, Commercial Printers

Units 4 & 5, New England Business Park, Wainfleet, Skegness, Lincolnshire, PE24 4AW

Telephone 01754 880226. Fax: 01754 881263. Email: enquiries@rhoward.co.uk