General Terms and Conditions
Dear customers,
your satisfaction is our top priority. For this reason, we have been awarded a distinction by the Verbraucherschutzstelle e.V. Lower Saxony with a distinction. By clicking on the seal of approval awarded to us, you can check the validity of the certificate and obtain further information.
If, however, a conflict should ever arise between us because of a purchase in our online shop and we are unable to solve a problem to your satisfaction, you as a consumer have the right to call on the Verbraucherschutzstelle e.V. Niedersachsen for impartial arbitration. In this case, the regulations on the return costs in the event of cancellation apply in accordance with our statutory consumer information on the right of cancellation; apart from this, the individual regulations of our General Terms and Conditions of Business always only apply in arbitration proceedings to the extent that you would not be disadvantaged in comparison with a more favourable statutory regulation.
In the event of a conflict, you can call upon the arbitration procedure of the Verbraucherschutzstelle e.V. Niedersachsen by sending an informal email to beschwerde@verbraucherschutzstelle-niedersachsen.de.
General Terms and Conditions
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General terms and conditions with customer information
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Table of contents
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1. scope of application
2. conclusion of contract
3. right of withdrawal
4. prices and terms of payment
5. delivery and shipping conditions
6. retention of title
7. liability for defects (warranty)
8. redemption of promotional vouchers
9. redemption of gift vouchers
10. applicable law
11. information on online dispute resolution
1) Scope of application
1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as "GTC") of Thomas Stephan (hereinafter referred to as "Seller") apply to all contracts that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as "Customer") concludes with the Seller with regard to the goods and/or services presented by the Seller in its online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.
1.2 These GTC apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of vouchers, unless otherwise expressly agreed.
1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these GTC is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes which are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. An entrepreneur within the meaning of these GTC is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his commercial or self-employed professional activity.
2) Conclusion of contract
2.1 The product descriptions contained in the Seller's online shop do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve for the submission of a binding offer by the customer.
2.2 The customer can submit the offer via the online order form integrated in the Seller's online shop. In doing so, after placing the selected goods and/or services in the virtual shopping basket and going through the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contractual offer with regard to the goods and/or services contained in the shopping basket by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. Furthermore, the customer may also submit the offer to the seller by e-mail or by telephone.
2.3 The Seller may accept the Customer's offer within five days,
- by sending the customer a written order confirmation or an order confirmation in text form (fax or e-mail), in which case the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer shall be decisive, or
- by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, in which case the receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
- by requesting payment from the customer after the customer has placed the order.
If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract shall be concluded at the point in time at which one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. If the Seller does not accept the Customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this shall be deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.
2.4 The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the customer sends the offer and ends with the expiry of the fifth day following the sending of the offer.
2.5 When an offer is made via the Seller's online order form, the text of the contract is stored by the Seller and sent to the Customer in text form (e.g. by e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has sent his order together with these General Terms and Conditions. In addition, the text of the contract is archived on the Seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the Customer via his password-protected customer account by providing the relevant login data, provided that the Customer has created a customer account in the Seller's online shop before submitting his order.
2.6 Before submitting a binding order via the Seller's online order form, the Customer can correct his entries on an ongoing basis using the usual keyboard and mouse functions. In addition, all entries are displayed again in a confirmation window before the binding submission of the order and can also be corrected there using the usual keyboard and mouse functions.
2.7 Only the German language is available for the conclusion of the contract.
2.8 Order processing and contacting usually take place via e-mail and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for order processing is correct so that the e-mails sent by the seller can be received at this address. In particular, when using SPAM filters, the customer must ensure that all e-mails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned by the seller to process the order can be delivered.
3) Right of withdrawal
3.1 Consumers are generally entitled to a right of revocation.
3.2 Further information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the Seller's instructions on withdrawal.
4) Prices and terms of payment
4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices. Value added tax shall be shown unless the goods are subject to differential taxation pursuant to § 25a UStG (German Value Added Tax Act). Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be indicated separately in the respective product description.
4.2 In the case of deliveries to countries outside the European Union, further costs may be incurred in individual cases for which the Seller is not responsible and which are to be borne by the Customer. These include, for example, costs for the transfer of money by credit institutions (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs may also be incurred in relation to the transfer of funds if the delivery is not made to a country outside the European Union, but the customer makes the payment from a country outside the European Union.
4.3 Various payment options are available to the Customer, which are indicated in the Seller's online shop.
4.4 If payment in advance has been agreed, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract.
4.5 If payment is made by means of a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment shall be processed via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: "PayPal"), subject to the PayPal terms and conditions of use, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full or - if the customer does not have a PayPal account - subject to the terms and conditions for payments without a PayPal account, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.
4.6 In cooperation with Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden, we offer the following payment options. Payment is made to Klarna in each case:
Invoice: the payment period is [14] days from the date of dispatch of the goods/ticket/ or, in the case of other services, the provision of the service. The complete invoice conditions for the countries in which this payment method is available can be found here: Austria, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom.
The use of the payment methods invoice, hire purchase and direct debit requires a positive credit check. In this respect, we forward your data to Klarna for the purpose of address and creditworthiness checks as part of the purchase initiation and processing of the purchase contract. Please understand that we can only offer you those payment methods that are permissible based on the results of the credit check. Further information and Klarna's terms of use can be found here. General information about Klarna can be found here. Your personal data will be treated by Klarna in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations and as specified in Klarna's privacy policy.
5) Delivery and shipping terms
5.1 Unless otherwise agreed, goods will be shipped to the delivery address provided by the customer. The delivery address specified in the Seller's order processing shall be decisive in the processing of the transaction. Deviating from this, if the payment method PayPal is selected, the delivery address deposited by the customer with PayPal at the time of payment shall be decisive.
5.2 If the transport company returns the dispatched goods to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer shall bear the costs for the unsuccessful dispatch. This does not apply if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal, if he is not responsible for the circumstance that led to the impossibility of delivery or if he was temporarily prevented from accepting the service offered, unless the seller had given him reasonable prior notice of the service.
5.3 In the event of self-collection, the Seller shall first inform the Customer by e-mail that the goods ordered by him are ready for collection. After receipt of this e-mail, the customer may collect the goods from the Seller's registered office by arrangement with the Seller. In this case, no shipping costs will be charged.
5.4 Vouchers shall be provided to the customer as follows:
- by e-mail
- by post
6) Retention of title
If the Seller makes advance payment, he shall retain title to the goods delivered until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.
7) Liability for defects (warranty)
7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply.
7.2 The customer is requested to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the seller of this. If the customer fails to do so, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.
8) Redemption of promotional vouchers
8.1 Vouchers which are issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotions with a specific period of validity and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter "Promotion Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop and only during the specified period.
8.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.
8.3 Promotion vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.
8.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.
8.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining credit will not be refunded by the Seller.
8.6 If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller may be chosen to settle the difference.
8.7 The credit balance of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it earn interest.
8.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.
8.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the promotional voucher in the Seller's online shop. This shall not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representative authority of the respective holder.
9) Redemption of gift vouchers
9.1 Gift vouchers that can be purchased via the Seller's online shop (hereinafter "Gift Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop.
9.2 Gift Vouchers and remaining balances of Gift Vouchers are redeemable until the end of the third year following the year of purchase of the Gift Voucher. Remaining balances will be credited to the customer's Gift Voucher Account until the expiry date.
9.3 Gift vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.
9.4 Several gift vouchers can be redeemed for one order.
9.5 Gift Vouchers can only be used to purchase Goods and cannot be used to purchase additional Gift Vouchers.
9.6 If the value of the Gift Voucher is insufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller may be chosen to settle the difference.
9.7 The balance of a Gift Voucher will not be paid out in cash or earn interest.
9.8 The Gift Voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the Gift Voucher in the Seller's online shop. This shall not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representative authority of the respective holder.
10) Applicable law
10.1 All legal relations between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany to the exclusion of the laws on the international sale of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply to the extent that the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence.
10.2 Furthermore, this choice of law with regard to the statutory right of withdrawal does not apply to consumers who do not belong to a Member State of the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract and whose sole place of residence and delivery address are outside the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract.
11) Alternative dispute resolution
11.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution on the Internet at the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
This platform serves as a contact point for the out-of-court settlement of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts involving a consumer.
11.2 The Seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.