We are here to help and can provide you with help and guidance or direct you towards relevant information. If you have any queries relating to the fire safety needs of your home or business, please contact us on 0800 612 6537. Although we will always endeavour to give you the best possible advice, the responsibility for ensuring that you are adhering to fire safety legislation, building regulations, other regulations or best practice remains with you. Please note that any advice given will only apply to UK regulations and standards.
There may be regulations requiring the maintenance of some fire safety products. You are responsible for setting up service and maintenance programmes required for products which you purchased from us. However, to help you with this task, we offer a free reminder service which you can register for after the checkout stage. Just tell us at this point which reminders you wish to receive and at which frequency. The reminders are sent per email. We also offer a free online fire safety logbook to help you keep track of your fire safety activities.
Please note: all mains-powered electrical fire safety equipment must be installed by trained electricians.
Fire Safety AdviceWe believe that you have a right to be given clear and unmistakable pricing information. We display both VAT exclusive and inclusive prices, where possible. You can select which display is the primary display. Our shipping charges are clearly displayed on every page and shown in the shopping cart the moment a product is placed in it.
We will always describe products in plain English to help you choose and compare products easily. On top of this we display all technical data sheets, manuals and certifications. Our sales staff are trained to advise you on technical issues and are happy to assist you over the phone or by email. We strive to reply within one working day. For more complex products, we have introduced interactive technical help guides, which will break down the complex purchasing decisions into easy chunks and will guide you through the purchasing process.
No customer wants to be passed around from one telephone operator to the next. Our sales staff are trained to deal with all aspects of customer service. They will advise about products, take orders, deal with any complaints without passing you on to other staff members. Should a staff member not know the answer to your question, they will find out for you and will ring you back. They can also speak with the manufacturer on your behalf and let you know their answers. Should you wish to speak to a manager, they will of course transfer you to the relevant manager to deal with your query. All our staff have their own telephone numbers, so that you can always ring them directly if you want to follow up any discussion.
We would like to understand what you think of our service and our products and we want other customers to benefit from the feedback you give. You will be offered in the checkout the option to request Trustpilot or Google feedback emails. This feedback, which we cannot influence, is displayed both on our website as well as on Trustpilot's or Google’s websites to be seen by other prospective customers. You can also request product feedback emails six weeks after you received your goods so you can tell us how our products performed. Your feedback is then published next to the relevant product for other people to see.
We have a very user friendly one-step checkout. There is no need to register with us before we display the total costs to you. We will, however, supply you with a username and password AFTER you have placed an order with us. This will allow you to review your order history and speed up any future orders. Our customer care staff will ring you if there is any problem with your order, be it that payment failed or that your goods are delayed. At that point you can also request changes to the order. We offer multiple payment options, including most payment cards, Paypal and cheques. Any personal data you pass to us is protected very carefully. For further information, please read our Privacy Policy.
If you change your mind, we offer twice the legal requirement for the returns period without quibbling. See also our Returns Policy.
The delivery charge for your order depends on where you live, the total weight of the order and your selected shipping method. Please see table below.
We offer free delivery for many products. When an item with "free delivery" has been added to an order, the whole order will be shipped without delivery charge, as long as the weight bracket is not exceeded.
There may be a higher delivery charge if you live on an island or in a remote location of the UK. Please see our list of "Islands and remote location" postcodes.
Postal codes starting with: BT, GY, HS, IM, IV40, IV41, IV42, IV43, IV44, IV45, IV46, IV47, IV48, IV49, IV51, IV55, IV56, JE, KA27, KA28, KW15, KW16, KW17, PA20, PA41, PA42, PA43, PA44, PA45, PA46, PA47, PA48, PA49, PA60, PA61, PA62, PA63, PA64, PA65, PA66, PA67, PA68, PA69, PA70, PA71, PA72, PA73, PA74, PA75, PA76, PA77, PA78, PO30, PO31, PO32, PO33, PO34, PO35, PO36, PO37, PO38, PO39, PO40, PO41, PH42, PH43, PH44, TDCU, ZE
| Method | Weight | Mainland UK | Islands and remote locations |
|---|---|---|---|
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Economy (3 - 5 working days)
3:30pm cut-off time Dispatched Monday to Friday |
Up to 5kg |
£3.99 ex VAT £4.79 inc VAT |
£4.59 ex VAT £5.51 inc VAT |
|
Express (1 - 2 working days)
4:30pm cut-off time Dispatched Monday to Friday |
Up to 10kg |
£6.59 ex VAT £7.91 inc VAT |
£15.19 ex VAT £18.23 inc VAT |
|
Express (1 - 2 working days)
4:30pm cut-off time Dispatched Monday to Friday |
10 to 20kg |
£7.59 ex VAT £9.11 inc VAT |
£18.19 ex VAT £21.83 inc VAT |
|
Express (1 - 2 working days)
4:30pm cut-off time Dispatched Monday to Friday |
20kg + |
£9.19 ex VAT £11.03 inc VAT |
£22.19 ex VAT £26.63 inc VAT |
Please note: Fire Doors supplied to England have a delivery charge of £90.00 (ex VAT) per batch, independent from the quantity. Fire door deliveries to Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales might require a transport surcharge. We will contact you should this be the case to allow you the choice of either cancelling the order or to agree to the surcharges.
Fire safes have free standard delivery (for mainland UK, only), with additional, individually priced options for delivery over steps or hand-carried deliveries.
You can leave special delivery instructions for our order but you are responsible for any losses suffered as a result of a parcel being left in a location at your specific request.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act (2018). We are voluntarily registered as a data controller in the Information Commissioners data protection register with registration number Z9733716. Visit the register here: https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/Z9733716.
Safelincs Ltd
33 West Street
Alford, Lincolnshire
LN13 9FX
data-protection@safelincs.co.uk
Processing data can mean collecting, storing and using your data. We only do so to perform tasks you want us to perform. These include one or more of the following:
We do not store any payment data such as credit or debit card numbers on our servers. Instead, we use third party payment processors who have been vetted to meet the highest security standards.
To help prevent fraud and diagnose errors, your IP address may be recorded in our web logs.
We also process some data in a statistical manner through Google Analytics and tools we have written ourselves, to understand how we can improve our web site for visitors and present products and information that is relevant and record visitors coming from adverts. IP addresses and referring URLs are used to achieve this.
We do not sell or share your data with any third parties. Some external companies are contracted by us to achieve tasks such as delivery and online payments and where we have to share customer information with them, this is covered by a Data Protection Contract.
We will only contact you to communicate with you about your order, product or service we offer or in any other situation you've specifically requested us to do so. We might also contact you if products you purchased from us or are serviced by us are due to be serviced again. We regard this as a step to keep you safe. Please let us know if you do not want to be reminded of service dates.
Most order information will be retained for 15 years. Because we deal with safety products and due to many items having extended warranty periods and the significance of possible safety recalls, we have come to the conclusion that it is in our customers' interests for us to securely store this data to be able to support them in the future. This data will not be used for any other purpose, including marketing, except where explicitly requested by you.
We do not record any telephone conversations, however, line managers will occasionally listen-in to conversations to help our staff improve their communication skills and level of service to you.
Cookies, also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies are small text files which are downloaded to your device (computer, phone, tablet, etc.) when you visit a website. The cookies then send data back to the website or other websites that recognise the cookie.
Cookies have many different uses, such as remembering a user's preferences, allowing efficient navigation and generally improving the user's online experience. They also help companies to identify how many people visit their website, and how they found it. Cookies cannot identify you personally.
More information about cookies and how to manage them can be found at allaboutcookies.org.
The list below shows the cookies that are in use on our website, why we use them and how long they will stay active on your device.
| Name | Description | Expiration |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | This cookie contains a unique ID which is used to determine unique visitors to our site. The cookie is updated each page view | 2 years from set/update |
| __utmb | This cookie is used to create and continue a user session and determines the amount of time a user is on our site | 30 minutes from set/update |
| __utmz | This cookie contains information about how users reached our site. i.e. referring link, direct traffic or website search etc. | 30 minutes from set/update |
| PHPSESSID | This generic cookie allows us to create and maintain user's shopping carts and order information | When the browser is closed or restarted |
| jssCustomer | This cookie is used if a customer logs into our site and allows us to identify their session | 24 days from set/update |
| __cfduid* | This cookie is set by Cloudflare, our security and content delivery provider, to help deliver pages fast and securely | 1 year from set/update |
| SERVERID* | This cookie is set by our load balancer to ensure you use the fastest possible web server in our cluster | 1 year from set/update |
| CookieTabShown | This cookies is set after we first show our cookie tab on the web site so we don't bother you with it more than once | 30 days from set/update |
| IDontWantCookies | When you disabled cookies, we set this single cookie to tell our web site to not set any other cookies that may record personal information | 30 days from set/update |
| ShowPricesIncVat | This cookie is set if the inc/ex VAT switch is flipped and stores your preference for displaying product prices on our web site | 30 days from set/update |
* these cookies will not be deleted when using the Remove Cookies feature as they are required for our web site to work
You can remove your cookies using the Remove Cookies feature, found in the footer of our web pages. This will stop features like adding products to the cart and logging in from working, however. You can enable cookies again by using the same settings in the footer.
The data we process belongs to you. We want you to understand your rights and what options you have. You can make a request to view, erase, modify or restrict processing of data we hold about you and, where there isn't a legal obligation stopping us from doing so and where the request is reasonable, we will process your request within 30 days at no charge.
Please send requests to data-protection@safelincs.co.uk.
You also have the right to complain to your local supervisory authority. Here in the UK we are governed by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
We take data security very seriously. We use web hosts with numerous ISO and PCI certifications, including ISO 27001 (information security management). All data transmission, both public facing and between our internal systems is done over a secure connection. Where technically feasible, we also encrypt all user data to industry standards or higher.
At Safelincs, we endeavour to surpass the minimum requirements for current data protection regulation compliance. We train our staff in data protection principles from the first day of employment and we perform impact assessments and record our activity on all personal data processing on our bespoke data protection management system.
If you have any questions or comments about your privacy or data protection, please email the data protection team.
Any returns within the UK should be sent, together with your original order details, to:
Safelincs LtdWe charge UK VAT at 20% (VAT no GB827 6397 88).
Customers from the Channel Islands can ask for the VAT to be removed from the invoice total. Please ring our office to place your order, emphasising the Channel Island delivery location.
International customers can discuss their VAT requirements with our export team
International customers whose shipping address is in the UK but who export the goods out of the EU can ask for a VAT refund after supplying us with proof of export. Please note that we will deduct the bank transfer charges from the refund.
We would ask you to please check the condition of your package before signing for the receipt of the goods. If you see damage on the outer packaging, this must be noted on your copy of the delivery note and on the copy for the carrier. You can refuse damaged parcels without signing for these.
If you find the transport damage after the carrier has left, please inform us instantly. If the claim is made on the same day as the delivery, we will still accept liability. Failure to note damage might affect replacement or refund from us for items damaged in transit.
Discrepancies of quantities or product codes need to be reported to us within 5 working days from delivery. We might be unable to accept liability for any missing items if incorrect quantities are not highlighted within this period.
Safelincs offers its customers a free minimum 5 year warranty on essential fire safety products. Many of the extended warranties are exclusive and only available from Safelincs.
The products covered by the minimum 5 year warranty are:
The above warranties are underwritten by Safelincs. Claims against the warranties need to be made through Safelincs. You do not have to fill in the manufacturer's warranty forms to qualify for our warranties.
Our free extended warranties do not restrict your statutory rights in any way.
To be covered by our warranty fire extinguishers must be installed, serviced and periodically refilled in accordance to the manufacturer’s instructions. Any replacement components fitted in the process of maintenance are not covered by our warranty. Accidental damage and misuse of the fire extinguishers are also not covered.
5 year warranty: The warranty extends 5 years from the date of purchase up to, but exclusive of, the first extended service due after 5 years.
10 year warranty: The warranty extends 10 years from the date of purchase up to, but excluding, the second extended service due after 10 years.
Claims against our warranties must be made through Safelincs.
The warranty still applies; the goods, however, must be sent to us at the customer's expense for repair or replacement and the return shipment must be paid for by the customer.
We have signed up to Valpak's WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) Distributor Take-Back Scheme (Phase 5 Registration ID: 501327). Private households can therefore drop off their electronic and electrical fire safety waste at their municipal recycling centre when they purchase new products from us. To find your nearest recycling centre, please visit www.recycle-more.co.uk.
Please note that Safelincs Ltd, as a member of the Distributor Take-Back Scheme (DTS), do not accept expired electrical items like smoke alarms sent to our premises by private households.
