TERMS AND CONDITIONS

We ship globally from the UK.

These terms of use were last updated in March 2023

This page together with our Cookie and Privacy Policy tells you information about us and the legal terms and conditions (‘Terms’) on which we sell any of the products (‘Products’) listed on our website (‘our site’) to you.

These Terms will apply to any contract between us for the sale of Products to you (‘Contract’). Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them, before ordering any Products from our site. Please note that before placing an order you will be asked to agree to these Terms.

You should print a copy of these Terms or save them to your computer for future reference.

We amend these Terms from time to time as set out in clause 8. Every time you wish to order Products, please check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms which will apply at that time. These Terms were most recently updated in January 2022.

These Terms, and any Contract between us, are only in the English language.

INFORMATION ABOUT US

1.1 We operate the websites www.dearfrances.com. We are Dear Frances Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 08785438 and our registered office and main trading address is Dear Frances, Coda Studios, 189 Munster Road London, United Kingdom, SW6 6AW. Our VAT number is GB177287368

PRODUCTS AND AVAILABILITY

2.1 While we make every effort to ensure that the photographs displayed on our site are faithful reproductions of the original products, including adopting every technological solution possible to minimize inaccuracies, variations may occur due to the technical and colour resolution characteristics of your computer and the handmade nature of the products. Dear Frances Limited shall not be liable therefore for the eventual inadequacy of the graphic representations of Dear Frances products displayed on the Site owing to the above mentioned technical and production issues.

2.2 You acknowledge that the products offered by us with the Service are subject to stock limits.

2.3 You may check the availability of any item offered on our site at any time by checking the sizes available. Any size when selected that shows the sign SOLD OUT is sold out. Inconveniences may occasionally occur regarding the availability of certain products. In such circumstances, we will inform you of this fact as soon as possible (and in any case within the term of delivery as specified below) by e-mail or telephone. We will give you the option to order a different item of the same type or alternatively, to cancel your order. Should you opt to cancel your order no charge will be made to your credit/debit card. In the event that your credit/debit card has already been charged, you will be refunded as soon as possible.

2.4 We reserve the right to change the items offered on our site at any moment, without prior notice.

2.5 We reserve the right to reject orders from any customer with whom there is an ongoing legal dispute regarding a prior order. This applies equally to all cases in which we consider the customer unsuitable, for instance in the case of previous violations of terms and conditions for online purchases on our site or for whatever other legitimate reason, especially where the customer has been involved in irregular activity of any kind

USE OF OUR SITE

3.1 Your use of our site is governed by our:

3.2 Website Terms and Conditions; and

3.3 Privacy Policy

3.4 Cookie Policy 
Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

4.1 We only use your personal information in accordance our Privacy Policy. For details, please see our Privacy Policy. Please take the time to read these, as they include important terms which apply to you.

CONSUMER PROVISIONS

5.1 You may only purchase Products from our site if you are at least 18 years old.

5.2 You have legal rights in relation to Products that are faulty or not as described. Advice about your legal rights is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office. Nothing in these Terms will affect these legal rights.

HOW THE CONTRACT IS FORMED BETWEEN YOU AND US

6.1 Our order process allows you to check and amend any errors before submitting your order to us. Please take the time to read and check your order at each page of the order process.

6.2 The order procedure is completed when you select the “Confirm” option. Upon confirmation, your order will be submitted to us for processing and the order may not be changed or cancelled except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions or as required by the applicable law.

6.3 Confirmation of your order will be taken as proof of your acceptance of the provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions.

6.4 The data recorded on the Site shall be treated as conclusive evidence of the details of the transactions between you and us. In the event of a dispute relating to a transaction conducted on our site, the data recorded by us shall be treated as legal evidence of the transaction.

OUR RIGHT TO VARY THESE TERMS

7.1 We may revise these Terms from time to time in the following circumstances:

7.1.1 changes in how we accept payment from you;

7.1.2 changes in relevant laws and regulatory requirements; and

7.1.3 Any other reasonable circumstances.

7.2 Every time you order Products from us, the Terms in force at that time will apply to the Contract between you and us.

7.3 Whenever we revise these Terms in accordance with this clause 7, we will keep you informed and give you notice of this by stating that these Terms have been amended and the relevant date at the outset of these Term and Conditions.

YOUR RIGHT OF CANCELLATION

NOTE: This clause 8 only applies if you are a consumer and if you are a UK citizen. If you are purchasing Products from outside of the United Kingdom (UK) please see clause 10 below.

8.1 You have a legal right to cancel a Contract during the period set out below in clause 8.3. This means that during the relevant period if you change your mind or for any other reason you decide you do not want to keep a Product or Products, you can notify us of your decision to cancel the Contract and receive a refund. If you are a UK citizen advice about your legal right to cancel the Contract is available from your local Citizens’ Advice Bureau or Trading Standards office.

8.2 However, this cancellation right does not apply in the case of any made-to-measure or custom-made products and/or products made to your specification or clearly personalised.

8.3 Your legal right to cancel a Contract starts from the date of the order confirmation, which is when the Contract between us is formed. If the Products have already been delivered to you, you have a period of 14 (fourteen) working days in which you may cancel, starting from the day after the day you receive the Product. Working days means that Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays are not included in this period.

8.4 To cancel a Contract, please contact us in writing to tell us by sending an e-mail to or by sending a letter in either case headed ‘Notice of Contract Cancellation ‘to Dear Frances, Kemp House, 152 City Road London, United Kingdom, EC1V 2NX.  or info@dearfrances.com. You may wish to keep a copy of your cancellation notification for your own records. If you send us your cancellation notice by e-mail or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us.

8.5 If you refuse delivery or if for any other reason delivery of the Product does not occur then the Product will be returned to us by our shipper and we shall assume less you advise us to the contrary that you have cancelled the Contract.

8.6 We recommend that you insure the return shipment as you are under a duty to take reasonable care of the Product and will be liable for damage to them until we actually receive them at our warehouse. We also recommend that you use a secure, trackable means to return your order to us. Product the subject of cancellation must be shipped to Dear Frances C/O ILG, Unit 2 Sterling Park, Industrial Estate, Gatwick road, Crawley, RH10 9TQ, UNITED KINGDOM

You should retain proof of sending, in case of a dispute.

8.7 Please note that you must cover the cost of the return shipment, as our returns policy does not apply to orders cancelled under the Distance Selling Regulations.

8.8 Product should be returned to us with their original packaging and footwear must be tried on carpeted surfaces only. Product must be unused, unworn and in an unaltered condition. Product must be sent from the country that the order was delivered to.

8.9 Subject to compliance with clause 8.8 above, we will refund the full value of your order, excluding shipping costs, within 30 days of receiving your notice of contract cancellation.

8.10 Please note you may only use your right to cancel the order under the DSRs if you give us formal written notice of cancellation any time after your order has been placed, up until 14 working days from the day after you received you order, as described above.

EXCHANGING AND/OR RETURNING PRODUCT

NOTE: For the avoidance of doubt if you are ordering Product from outside of the United Kingdom (UK) please carefully read the Note at the beginning of Clause 8 which explains that no right of cancellation applies to you. Your only rights to return Product are set out in this clause 9.

9.1 You must upon receipt immediately check all Product you receive against your order. If the Product you receive is damaged, defective or in any way incorrectly supplied on delivery then you must note the details of any damage or error in supply on the delivery documentation or if you are unable to view the items on receipt, you must inform us (by post or e-mail only) as soon as possible but in any case within a reasonable period of time. Product must be returned with its original packaging and footwear must be tried on carpeted surfaces only. Product must be unused, unworn and in an unaltered condition.

9.2 We may also agree to allow any Product not falling within the above to be exchanged once following purchase subject to the requirements set out in clauses 9.3 and 9.4 below.

9.3 To return or exchange a product you will need to first notify us. Please email info@dearfrances.com. Your request must be submitted within 14 days of receipt of the goods. Once your request has been approved we will notify you of the return options available. You should not return any Product to us until these arrangements have been made.

9.4 Any return must be made in a single delivery shipment and any fragmented returns may incur additional costs payable by you to us. It is imperative that you follow our instructions for the return of your items and that all goods are shipped back to us within 7 days of the return label being raised. You will need to contact your local UPS (UK) or DHL (all other countries) depot to arrange for a pick-up. There is no charge to exchange items for a different size, however all exchanges are based on stock availability. Shipping is free on the replacement item.

9.5 If you have purchased Product from us from outside the UK you are wholly responsible for the payment of all taxes and duties on any supply of Product. You must deal with this application directly with the appropriate authority. Additionally any returns of Product from outside the UK, we are unable to refund any applicable taxes or duties. Any applicable charges shall be deducted by us from your credit/debit card.

9.6 We recommend that you retain proof of sending.

9.7 Any refunds given by us will be made to the debit/credit card account provided when you placed your order and will be subject to our right to withhold amounts for products which are damaged or degraded on return.

9.8 Please note card refunds may take up to 10 business days for your bank to complete, depending on their processing time. This can vary greatly between card issuers, and unfortunately we are unable to influence this.

9.9 This returns policy does not affect your legal and statutory rights.

9.10 Items purchased in our Sale Promotions are eligible for free exchange only. A return shipping fee of £20 / €25 will be applied to any refunds.

PRICE OF PRODUCTS AND DELIVERY CHARGES

10.1 Our site contains a large number of Products. It is always possible that, despite our efforts to the contrary, some of the Products on our site may be incorrectly priced. If we discover an error in the price of the Products you have ordered we will inform you of this error and we will give you the option of continuing to purchase the Product at the correct price or alternatively you may cancel your order. We will not process your order until we have your instructions. If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the order process, we will treat the order as cancelled and notify you in writing. Please note that if the pricing error is obvious and unmistakable and could have reasonably been recognised by you as a mispricing, we do not have to provide the Products to you at the incorrect (lower) price.

10.2 VAT is applied to all orders shipping to the UK.

10.3 Sales made to customers outside of the UK are dealt with in clause 11 below.

INTERNATIONAL SALES AND DELIVERY

11.1 We ship DDU (Delivery Duty Unpaid) and DDP (Delivered Duties Paid) to certain destinations outside the UK, Where available you will have the option at checkout to prepay all relevant duties and taxes. If you choose DDU, as the recipient, you are liable for all import duties, customs and local sales taxes levied by the country you are shipping to; payment of these is necessary to release your order from customs on arrival. We are unable to advise or predict the amount. You alone shall be responsible for payment of any such import duties and taxes. Please contact your local customs office for further information before placing your order.

11.2 You must comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the country for which the Products are destined. We will not be liable or responsible if you break any such law.

11.3 We are unable to ship certain products outside the UK including products made of or containing CITES restricted materials. We will make an effort to indicate on the product pages if the product will not ship outside the UK. In checking out, based on your shipping destination, you may be blocked from checking out with these products in your cart and you will need to either remove them or change your ship to destination to proceed with your order.

SHIPPING INFORMATION

12.1 In most instances, Your order will be fulfilled within one working day of receipt. If we receive your order before 13:00 London local time UK, it will be processed and shipped that same working day unless there is an Event Outside Our Control. If we are unable to meet the estimated delivery date because of an Event Outside Our Control, we will contact you with a revised estimated delivery date. Estimated delivery times by country can be viewed here. During sale periods your order may take up to 3 working days to be fulfilled.

12.2 Delivery will be completed when we deliver the Products to the address you gave us.

12.3 Please make sure that the shipping address is correct as we’re unable to redirect orders once they are on their way to you.

12.4 Before we can dispatch your order, we may need to confirm your details with your card issuer. We will do our best to keep delays to a minimum.

12.5 We insure each purchase whilst in transit and until it is delivered to your shipping address. All goods are delivered to the shipping address provided at time of purchase at which point responsibility for your purchased goods passes to you. If you have specified a recipient who is not you or delivery to an address other than that provided at time of purchase for delivery purposes (for example as a gift) then you accept that evidence of a signature by them (or at that delivery address) is evidence of delivery and fulfilment by us and transfer of responsibility in the same way.

HOW TO PAY

13.1 You can pay for Products using the several payment options presented at checkout. We accept several different carts including the following cards: Visa, Visa Debit, Mastercard, Maestro, American Express. We also accept payment via PayPal, Klarna, google pay. 

13.2 Payment for the Products and all applicable delivery charges is in advance.

OUR LIABILITY IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER

14.1 This clause 14 only applies if you are a consumer.

14.2 If we fail to comply with these Terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our negligence, but we are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if they were an obvious consequence of our breach or if they were contemplated by you and us at the time we entered into the Contract.

14.3 We only supply the Products for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the product for any commercial, business or re-sale purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

14.4 We do not in any way exclude or limit our liability for:

14.5 death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

14.6 fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

14.7 any breach of the terms implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (title and quiet possession);

14.8 any breach of the terms implied by section 13 to 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (description, satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and samples); and

14.9 defective products under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

EVENTS OUTSIDE OUR CONTROL

15.1 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a Contract that is caused by an Event Outside Our Control. An Event Outside Our Control is defined below in clause 15.2.

15.2 An ‘Event Outside Our Control’ means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks or impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport.

15.3 If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under a Contract:

15.4 we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you; and

15.5 our obligations under a Contract will be suspended and the time for performance of our obligations will be extended for the duration of the Event Outside Our Control. Where the Event Outside Our Control affects our delivery of Products to you, we will arrange a new delivery date with you after the Event Outside Our Control is over.

COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US

16.1 When we refer, in these Terms, to “in writing”, this will include e-mail.

16.2 If you are a consumer:

16.3 To cancel a Contract in accordance with your legal right to do so as set out in clause 8, you must contact us in writing by sending an email to info@dearfrances.com or by sending a letter to Dear Frances, Coda Studios 189 Munster Road London, United Kingdom, SW6 6AW in either case headed ‘Notice of Contract Cancellation.’

16.4 OR please contact our Customer Services by email on info@dearfrances.com. You may wish to keep a copy of your cancellation notification for your own records. If you send us your cancellation notice by e-mail or by post, then your cancellation is effective from the date you sent us the e-mail or posted the letter to us.

16.5 If you wish to contact us in writing for any other reason, you can send this to us by email at info@dearfrances.com or by pre-paid post to Dear Frances, Coda Studios 189 Munster Road London, United Kingdom, SW6 6AW.

16.6 If we have to contact you or give you notice in writing, we will do so by e-mail, by pre-paid post to the address you provide to us in your order, or by phone.

OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS

17.1 We may transfer our rights and obligations under a Contract to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these Terms.

17.2 You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing. However if you are a consumer and you have purchased a Product as a gift, you may transfer the benefit of your Contract to the recipient of the gift without needing to ask our consent. You must however tell us in writing (which shall include email) that you have done this.

17.3 This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 or otherwise. However, if you are a consumer, the recipient by you of your gift of a Product will have the benefit of a Contract made between us and the original purchaser, but neither we nor you will need their consent to cancel or make any changes to these Terms.

17.4 Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

17.5 If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.

17.6 If you are a consumer, please note that these Terms are governed by English law. This means a Contract for the purchase of Products through our site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it will be governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

17.7 If you are a business, these Terms are governed by English law. This means that a Contract, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), will be governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

17.8 We will not file a copy of the Contract between us.

CONTENT TERMS

18.1 “Content” refers to all of the text, photographs, images, illustrations, graphics, sound recordings, video, audio-video clips, and other material that is referenced herein and posted on the internet and/or social media.

18.2 We do not claim any copyrights in the content. However, by agreeing to these terms you are granting us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, successors and assigns, a nonexclusive, fully paid, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, distribute, publicly display and perform, publish, transmit, remove, retain repurpose, and commercialize the content in any and all media or form of communication whether now existing or hereafter developed, without obtaining additional consent, without restriction or notification, and without compensating you in any way, and to authorize others to do the same.

18.3 In addition, you grant us the right to include the name provided along with the content submitted by you; provided, however, we shall have no obligation to include such name with our use of such content. We are not responsible for the use or disclosure of any personal information that you voluntarily disclose in connection with the content that you submit or license to us. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary for you to grant the licenses granted herein. You further irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding the content that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory. Finally, you waive any and all claims relating to copyright infringement and/or any invasion or misappropriation of the right of privacy or publicity and warrant that we do not need permission from any other party, including those of parents or other subjects in the content.

18.4 To signify your acceptance and understanding of these terms and to grant Dear Frances Limited the rights described above please reply with #DearFrances.

PROMOTION CODES

19.1 Promotion codes are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. Furthermore, they cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion code or offers, and must be redeemed by the date published, if provided.

19.2 Selected promotion codes exclude new arrivals. 

GIFT CARDS

20.1 Gift Cards are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.

20.2 Gift Cards can be redeemed against all products on dearfrances.com.

20.3 Gift Cards cannot be returned or refunded and are non-transferable.

20.4 Gift Cards can only be purchased with a debit or credit card; store/account credit cannot be used to buy a Gift Card.

20.5 If your order exceeds your Gift Card value, any remaining balance must be paid for by credit or debit card.

20.6 If you return products you have purchased using a Gift Card, the remaining balance will be added to your account as credit and can be redeemed against subsequent orders.

20.7 Dear Frances is not responsible if a Gift Card is lost, stolen, destroyed or used without your permission.

20.8 Dear Frances reserves the right to cancel a Gift Card if we deem such action necessary.

20.9 Gift Cards are exempt from duty and tax.

20.10 No delivery charges apply on Gift Card(s)-only orders.

20.11 If a customer purchases a Gift Card or Gift Cards alongside other products, standard delivery charges will apply.