Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide.

Items offered subject to prior sale. CREDIT CARD payment accepted through ABE.COmmerce; To ORDER DIRECT, please prepay by money order or check drawn on U.S. bank. Make checks/Money Orders out to L.W. Flannery. (Flannery is our Business Manager & Keeper of the Books.)

Items may be "reserved or placed on hold" via e-mail, telephone, or FAX request; "Reserved" or "Hold" items can be held for 20 days . . . payment must be received before the end of this alloted period; items will be shipped on receipt of payment; libraries billed when necessary, when ordered on institutional letterhead or purchase order form.

RETURNS/REFUND POLICY: Please e-mail within ten days of receipt of books, stipulating your intention to return, and return within twenty days for refund; shipping charges are non-refundable and items of one hundred dollars, or over, must be insured.

SHIPMENT: Domestic orders sent standard mail, UPS, or priority mail at buyer's request; insured or larger volumes, e.g. sets, multi-volume collections, or heavy items, will be sent per buyer's wishes and billed @ cost.

SHIPPING CHARGES: Within U.S. $4.75 (surface) for first volume; $Extra charges for each additional volume and this will depend on size and/or weight. Priority mail at cost. Outside of the U.S. shipments are sent via air-mail, surface-mail, or per buyer's request, depending on value and/or bulk. We strive to keep shipping charges down and provide the method most suitable to the buyer. Sometimes it is necessary to increase rates, which are set by the ABE shipping rate schedules, because their rate schedule is based on average size (2.2 lbs)per book and does not take into consideration larger/heavier items.

If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.

Information regarding the right of withdrawal

Statutory right to withdraw

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).

We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.

We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.

You shall send back the goods or hand them over to Boxer Books, Newberg, Oregon, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.

Exceptions to the right of withdrawal

The right of withdrawal does not apply to:

1. The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
2. The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.

Orders usually ship within 2 business days or less. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required.