TERMS OF USE

Welcome to www.businesshorizons.com ("Site" or "BusinessHorizons")You may not use this website for any of the following purposes:

  1. Disseminating any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material.
  2. Transmitting material that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offence results in civil liability or otherwise breaches any relevant laws, regulations or code of practice.
  3. Gaining unauthorized access to other computer systems.
  4. Interfering with any other person's use or enjoyment of the site.
  5. Breaching any applicable laws;
  6. Interfering or disrupting networks or web sites connected to the site.
  7. Making, transmitting or storing electronic copies of materials protected by copyright without the permission of the owner.

Business Horizons may at any time modify the Terms of Use without any prior notification, the modified version being available here on the website of Business Horizons. By continued usage of the service and browsing on our website, you shall be deemed to have agreed to accept and abide by the modified Terms of Use of this site.



Shipping Policy

Ordering an item from Business Horizons? We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Shipping costs for orders from Business Horizons depend upon the methods you choose. Please also note that the shipping rates for all items we sell are weight-based. We do not charge any handling or packing charges and only the net amount required for shipping is charged.

Customs/Import Duties

On International orders, customs and import duties may be applied once the shipment reaches its destination. These charges are the responsibility of the recipient of the order and will vary from country to country. Contact your local customs office for details.

Most orders received and found to be in order, are shipped within 24 hours. However, Business Horizons and its shipping partners cannot influence local delivery practices. The time it takes to get your order from your local post office or customs department to your physical address can vary widely from country to country. Delivery may be delayed by customs or local postal authorities.

Business Horizons, insures items against damage or theft during transit when shipped via courier anywhere in the world. We cannot insure postal service shipments against damage or theft.



Returns Policy and Warranties

In case of receiving damaged books, just return the same, and we will replace it at no extra cost to you - no questions asked. Please note that we are unable to exchange any items.

For booksellers the return period is six months from the invoice date and for all other customers, it is 7 days. All returns will be only be accepted when accompanied with a copy of our invoice(s).

Business Horizons, makes no warranties of any kind concerning the fitness of its materials to meet any educational, regulatory or legal requirements. The responsibility for meeting practical and legal requirements rests solely with the consumer.

Business Horizons, does not, and does not claim to, have control over the content or advertising practices contained in the books, or electronic materials that are not created by Business Horizons. Business Horizons, does not necessarily endorse or condone the content or advertising practices of other companies.

Business Horizons, makes no warranties of any kind concerning the fitness of its materials to meet any educational, regulatory or legal requirements. The responsibility for meeting practical and legal requirements rests solely with the consumer.

Business Horizons, does not, and does not claim to, have control over the content or advertising practices contained in the books, or electronic materials that are not created by Business Horizons. Business Horizons, does not necessarily endorse or condone the content or advertising practices of other publishers.




EMERGING ECONOMIES

Emerging Economies are now being offered reduced and economical pricing for all our books and the prices are adjusted automatically on selection of your country of shipping. They are grouped as per World Bank’s country classifications of Tier 2 and 3. List of Emerging Economies is provided here for reference.


Payment Terms

Payment must accompany your order. Business Horizons, accepts payments by VISA, Amex and MasterCard. We also accept payment by check, or wire transfer to our bank account.
For orders within India, we also accept payment by NEFT/RTGS transfer to our bank account. In this case please contact us for details and/or Proforma Invoice.


Ordering Information

To improve accuracy and to speed order processing, Business Horizons does not accept phone orders. Please send all orders via our on-line order system (http://www.businesshorizons.com) or by email, or regular postal mail.
Booksellers and Academic Institutions, University, College and Public Libraries may settle the trade / discount terms before placing the orders.


PRIVACY POLICY:

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form.
You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs).
  • To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
  • To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
  • To process transactions

  • Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
    The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
    Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. 
    							

    We use a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information will not be stored on our servers.
    We use cookies on our website and your browsing our site automatically provides consent for such data to be collected by our secure servers following international privacy laws applicable from time to time.
    Third party links offered on our website are merely for displaying their products and when a visitor clicks on such links, is taken to their website and we will not be responsible or liable for the content and activities of these linked sites and that company’s privacy policy.
    By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
    If and when we decide to amend our privacy policy, we will post those amendments on this page.