Website Terms and Conditions

Scoot® – Website Terms & Conditions

Information about us

The Site is owned and operated by Booker Limited whose registered office is Equity House, Irthlingborough Road, Wellingborough, Northants, NN8 1LT , Company number 00197380. Email ScootAdmin@booker.co.uk.

SCOOT is a registered trademark of Booker Limited.

Acceptance of Terms & Conditions ("Terms")

When you access this website ("Site") or content or services ("Content"), available via the Site you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to abide by the terms described below and you are deemed to have entered into an agreement with Booker Limited.

If any material on this Site, your use of this Site, or the Products advertised on this Site, are contrary to the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are located, then this Site is not intended for your use and we ask that you do not use this Site. You are responsible for compliance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are located.

Acceptable Use of the Site

It not possible to provide a list of exactly what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable use of this Site. In general, we will not tolerate any use of the Site which damages or is likely to damage our reputation, the availability or integrity of the Site or which causes us or threatens to cause us to incur any legal, tax, regulatory or other liability. We therefore request you to treat our Site with respect, and not to use the Site for any illegal purpose, or in such a way as to infringe or breach others’ rights or to cause or threaten to cause us damage.

We reserve the right to suspend the use of the Site generally or block your access to any part of the Site and/or to suspend or terminate your rights to use the Site or any part of it if we suspect misuse. We may report any misuse of the Site to the relevant enforcement or other authorities and to our legal advisers. We further reserve the right to disclose any evidence we have which relates directly or indirectly to misuse of this Site.

You agree not to use the Site or cause or permit the Site to be used:

to jeopardise or prejudice the operation, quality or integrity of the Site, or the operation, quality or integrity of any telecommunications network;
to harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
for any commercial purpose including any direct marketing, surveys (including without limitation for price checking by our competitors), contests or pyramid schemes, nor to use the Site to participate in or cause others to participate in sending chain letters, junk email, spam, duplicative or unsolicited messages, advertising or promotional material;
to distribute, download, upload or transmit any material which contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, or any other harmful or detrimental programs;
to attack the Site via a denial-of-service attack; or
contrary to the terms and conditions of any Internet Service Provider you may use.

Availability of Site

Booker Limited will try to ensure continuous availability of the Site, and all the Content of the Site, this cannot be guaranteed and the Site may be unavailable at certain times, e.g. to allow us to maintain and upgrade the Site.

We reserve the right to suspend, change, modify or withdraw the Site at any time and also reserve the right to refuse access to the Site to you at our discretion.

Contracts

No contracts will be formed with Booker Limited as a result of you visiting or using the Site, or by you expressing an interest in becoming a retailer on the Scoot App. Participation on the Scoot App is strictly by invitation only and subject to contract.

No Warranty, Disclaimer of Liability and Indemnity

While we use our reasonable endeavours to provide continuous availability of the Site and to verify the accuracy of the information we place on the Site (‘Content’), we make no warranties, express or implied, that:-

the Site will be continuously available, or that your use of the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free;
the accuracy of the Content; and/or
that the Site or related systems are free from viruses or other contaminating or destructive properties.

This Site is provided by us on an “as is” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on your use of the Site or of any information placed on the Site.

All Content displayed on the Site is for information purposes only and should not be construed as advice or an endorsement or recommendation of any third party supplier, product or service.

Advertising and Third-Party Content

Part of the Site may contain third-party advertising, sponsorship or other third-party content. Advertisers, sponsors and other content providers are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Site complies with international and national law. Booker will not be responsible for any error, omission or inaccuracy in such advertising or sponsorship materials, or content.

Privacy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and security. All personal data that we collect from you will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You should review our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by this reference and is available at Privacy Policy.

Links to Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to internet sites and resources maintained by third parties. Booker Limited accepts no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of other such sites. You assume sole responsibility for use of third-party links. Booker Limited provides these links merely for your information and as a convenience and the inclusion of such links is not and does not imply an endorsement.

Intellectual Property

The content of this Site is owned or licensed by Booker. This material includes, but is not limited to, text, photographs, images, graphics, illustrations, logos, button icons, audio clips, video clips, software, and other content, and the compilation, collection, arrangement, and assembly thereof (including the “look and feel” of the Site).

All materials incorporated in or accessible through the Site are protected by copyright laws, and are owned, controlled or licensed by Booker, or by the original creators of such materials or their permitted licensors. All such rights are reserved.

Such materials may be used only for viewing the Site in the ordinary course of your business or as a resource for purchasing the Products available through the Site. Any other use of such materials, including any copying, reproduction, modification, sale, distribution, extraction, re-utilisation, transmission, republication, downloading, display, posting, performance, or other exploitation thereof by any means or medium without the prior written permission of the copyright owner is strictly prohibited. In particular you may not use this website or its content for any commercial purpose, including the collection and use of any listings, descriptions, prices, make any derivative or commercially exploitative use of this website or its content, download or copy account information, use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering and extraction tool without the explicit written consent of Booker Limited. Any unauthorised use of the Site terminates your permission to use the Site and entitles us to terminate any other agreements between us and you.

The trademarks, logos and service marks ("Marks") displayed on this website are the property of Booker Limited or other third parties. Users are not permitted to use these Marks without the prior written consent of Booker Limited or such third-party which may own the Marks.

General

Severability: If any court or competent authority finds that any of the provisions of these Terms are invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term(s) will, to that extent only, be severed from the remaining terms, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Our right to vary these Terms: We have the right to revise and amend these Terms from time to time, at our sole discretion.

Law and jurisdiction: These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute, which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms or the legal relationship established by them, and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the English courts.

These Terms were issued on 7 February 2025.