Website Terms of Use


Effective Date: 1 November 2025


Welcome to the Your Local Garden Designer website.

These Terms of Use apply when you access or use:

https://yourlocalgardendesigner.co.uk/


Please read these Terms carefully. By using this website, you confirm that you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, you should stop using the website.


1. About Us

This website is operated under the trading name Your Local Garden Designer.

Legal business name: [Insert legal business name]
Registered or principal address: [Insert business address]
Company registration number: [Insert if applicable]
VAT or tax number: [Insert if applicable]
Email: [Insert email address]
Telephone: [Insert telephone number]


In these Terms, “Your Local Garden Designer”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the business operating this website.


2. Purpose of This Website

This website provides information about garden design, landscaping and garden build services available through Your Local Garden Designer and participating local garden specialists.


The website may also allow you to:

  • Learn about the services offered.
  • View garden photographs and project examples.
  • Submit an enquiry.
  • Request a consultation.
  • Provide information about your proposed garden project.
  • Ask to be contacted by us or a local garden specialist.


These Terms govern your use of the website only.

They do not govern the performance of garden design, landscaping or construction services. Any paid services will be subject to a separate quotation, proposal, service agreement or contract.


3. Website Enquiries

Submitting an enquiry, consultation request or contact form through the website does not create a binding contract.


An enquiry does not:

  • Require you to purchase services.
  • Require us to accept your project.
  • Guarantee that services are available in your area.
  • Reserve a consultation or project date.
  • Confirm a price, budget or completion date.
  • Create a contract with a local garden designer or contractor.


A contract for paid services will only be created when you and the relevant service provider agree to separate written terms.


4. Using Our Website

You may use this website only for lawful purposes.


You must not:

  • Use the website in a way that breaks any applicable law or regulation.
  • Use the website for fraudulent or misleading purposes.
  • Provide information that you know is false or inaccurate.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorised access to the website, server or connected systems.
  • Introduce viruses, malware, harmful code or other damaging technology.
  • Interfere with the security, operation or availability of the website.
  • Use automated tools, bots, crawlers or scraping technology to extract website content without our written permission.
  • Copy or reproduce substantial parts of the website for commercial purposes.
  • Impersonate another person or business.
  • Use the website to send spam, abusive messages or unsolicited promotions.
  • Use our name, branding or content in a way that falsely suggests an association with or endorsement by us.


We may restrict or block access to the website if we reasonably believe that these Terms have been breached or that the website is being misused.


5. Website Information

We take reasonable care to keep the information on this website accurate and up to date.

However, website content is provided for general informational and marketing purposes. It should not be treated as a final quotation, professional site assessment, planning opinion, structural assessment or guarantee.


Garden projects may be affected by factors that cannot be fully assessed through a website, including:

  • Property size and condition.
  • Ground and soil conditions.
  • Drainage.
  • Access.
  • Property boundaries.
  • Underground utilities.
  • Planning requirements.
  • Local regulations.
  • Material and plant availability.
  • Weather and climate.
  • Customer requirements and budget.


Specific advice about a garden or property should only be relied upon after an appropriate consultation or site assessment.

6. Prices and Budget Information


Any prices, starting prices, estimates or budget ranges shown on the website are provided for general guidance only unless we clearly state otherwise.

Final prices may vary depending on the property, project requirements, location, materials, labour, access, site conditions and the provider completing the work.


Website pricing does not constitute a binding quotation or offer.


A final price must be confirmed in a separate written quotation or agreement.


7. Photographs and Project Examples

The website may display:

  • Photographs of gardens.
  • Previous projects.
  • Design examples.
  • Illustrations.
  • Plans.
  • Mood boards.
  • Computer-generated images.
  • Before-and-after images.
  • Customer testimonials.


These materials are provided to demonstrate possible styles, ideas and outcomes.


They do not guarantee that:

  • The same design can be created at every property.
  • Your garden will look exactly the same.
  • The same materials or plants will be available.
  • A similar project can be completed for the same price.
  • Every customer will achieve the same result.
  • A project will be completed within a particular timescale.


The suitability and final appearance of a garden will depend on the individual property, design, budget, materials, plants and ongoing maintenance.


8. Reviews and Testimonials

Reviews and testimonials describe the experiences and opinions of individual customers.

They do not guarantee that every customer will receive identical results.


We may edit testimonials for spelling, grammar or length, provided that doing so does not materially change the customer’s meaning.

We will not knowingly publish false or misleading reviews.


9. Information You Submit


When you submit an enquiry, you may provide information including:

  • Your name.
  • Your contact details.
  • Your general location.
  • Information about your property.
  • Your project requirements.
  • Your approximate budget.
  • Photographs, plans or measurements.


You confirm that the information you provide is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that you have permission to provide it.


You must not upload or submit anything that:

  • Infringes another person’s copyright, privacy or other legal rights.
  • Contains unlawful, defamatory, abusive or offensive material.
  • Contains viruses, malware or harmful code.
  • You do not have permission to share.


You give us permission to use the information you submit as reasonably necessary to:

  • Respond to your enquiry.
  • Assess your project.
  • Contact you.
  • Arrange a consultation.
  • Introduce you to a relevant local garden specialist.
  • Prepare or facilitate a quotation.


Personal information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.


10. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, all intellectual-property rights in this website and its content are owned by or licensed to Your Local Garden Designer.


This includes:

  • Website text.
  • Branding and logos.
  • Photographs and videos.
  • Graphics and illustrations.
  • Page layouts.
  • Design elements.
  • Downloadable materials.
  • Garden plans and design examples.
  • Website software and functionality.


You may view and print reasonable portions of the website for your personal, non-commercial use.


You must not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, licence, republish or commercially exploit website content without our prior written permission.


These Website Terms do not determine ownership of custom plans or designs prepared as part of a paid garden project. Those rights should be addressed in the separate service agreement.


11. Third-Party Links

This website may contain links to third-party websites, social-media platforms, mapping services, suppliers or local service providers.

These links are provided for convenience and information.


We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their:

  • Content.
  • Availability.
  • Security.
  • Accuracy.
  • Products or services.
  • Privacy practices.
  • Terms and conditions.


The inclusion of a link does not necessarily mean that we recommend or endorse the third party.


You use third-party websites at your own discretion and subject to their own terms.


12. Website Availability

We take reasonable steps to keep the website available, secure and operational.

However, we do not guarantee that the website will always be:


  • Available without interruption.
  • Free from errors.
  • Free from viruses or harmful components.
  • Compatible with every device, browser or operating system.
  • Completely secure.


We may suspend, withdraw or restrict the website for maintenance, updates, security, legal or operational reasons.


You are responsible for protecting your own devices, accounts and information and for using suitable security and antivirus software.

13. Our Responsibility


Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts liability where doing so would be unlawful.

This includes liability for:

  • Death or personal injury caused by negligence.
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • Deliberate misconduct.
  • Breach of mandatory consumer rights.
  • Any other liability that cannot legally be excluded.


We are responsible for losses that are a reasonably foreseeable result of our breach of these Website Terms or our failure to use reasonable care.


We are not responsible for losses caused by:

  • Your reliance on general website content without obtaining appropriate property-specific advice.
  • Inaccurate or incomplete information supplied by you.
  • The actions or content of third-party websites.
  • Events outside our reasonable control.
  • Temporary website interruptions or maintenance.
  • Viruses or harmful technology introduced by third parties, provided we took reasonable security precautions.
  • A separate garden designer, landscaper or contractor where that provider is responsible under its own contract.


These Website Terms do not limit any responsibility we may have under a separate written contract entered into directly with you.


14. Business Users

Where you use the website for a commercial property, property-development activity, trade, profession or other business purpose, we will not be responsible, to the fullest extent permitted by law, for:

  • Loss of profits.
  • Loss of revenue.
  • Loss of anticipated savings.
  • Loss of business opportunities.
  • Loss of contracts.
  • Loss of goodwill.
  • Indirect or consequential business losses.


Nothing in this section excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.


15. Privacy and Cookies

Our collection, use and storage of personal information is explained in our Privacy Policy.


Our use of cookies and similar technologies is explained in our Cookie Policy and cookie-consent settings.


By submitting an enquiry, you acknowledge that we may use the information provided to respond to you and, where appropriate, share the enquiry with a relevant garden specialist.


Marketing communications will only be sent where permitted by applicable law. You may unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.


16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to:

  • The website.
  • Our business.
  • Our services.
  • Our security practices.
  • Applicable laws or regulations.


The latest version will be published on this page with an updated effective date.


Changes will apply to your use of the website from the date they are published.


17. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be treated as removed or limited to the minimum extent necessary.


The remaining provisions will continue to apply.


18. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of [insert the country or legal jurisdiction in which the website operator is established].


If you are using the website as a consumer, this choice of law does not remove any mandatory consumer protections available to you under the laws of the country in which you normally live.


Consumers may bring proceedings in any court available to them under applicable consumer law.


Business users agree that the courts of [insert the website operator’s legal jurisdiction] will have exclusive jurisdiction, unless otherwise agreed in writing.


19. Contact Us


Questions about these Website Terms may be sent to:

Your Local Garden Designer
Legal business name: [Insert legal business name]
Address: [Insert registered or principal business address]
Email: [Insert email address]
Telephone: [Insert telephone number]