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General Terms and Conditions of Business of Naturavetal GmbH & Co KG

  1. General terms and conditions

    1. Scope

    The following General Terms and Conditions (GTC) apply to all orders placed via our online shop by consumers and traders.

    "Consumer" means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;
    "trader" means a person acting for purposes relating to that person’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the trader’s name or on the trader’s behalf.

    For traders the following applies: If the trader uses conflicting or supplementary General Terms and Conditions, their validity is hereby contradicted; they only become part of the contract if we have expressly agreed to them.

    1. Contractual partner, formation of contract, correction facilities

    The contract is concluded with Naturavetal GmbH & CO. KG.

    The presentation of the products in the online shop does not constitute a legally binding offer, but rather, a non-binding online catalogue. You may initially place our products into the shopping basket without obligation and check your entries at any time prior to submitting your binding offer, by using the correction aids provided and explained for this in the ordering process. By clicking on the ordering button, you are submitting a binding offer to buy the products contained in the shopping basket. The confirmation of receipt of your order will take place by e-mail directly after sending the order.

    We will accept your offer within two days

    • by sending you a notice of acceptance in a separate e-mail or
    • if applicable, by having the payment transaction processed by our service provider or the selected payment service provider. The time of processing of the transaction depends on the respective payment method selected (see below under "Payment").

    The relevant alternative for you is determined by which of the listed events occurs first.

    1. Contract language, saving of the contract text

    The language(s) available for concluding the contract: English

    We save the text of the contract and forward the order data and our General Terms to you by e-mail. You may also view the text of the contract in our customer login area.

    1. Delivery conditions

    All prices include VAT. Delivery costs may apply in addition to the product price. Further information about the delivery costs can be found at the offer and in the shopping basket.

    We only dispatch goods en route; pick up by the customer is not possible.

    1. Payment

    The following payment methods are basically available in our online shop:

    Credit Card
    With the submission of the order, you are sending us your credit card details at the same time.
    Your card will be charged immediately after placing your order.

    PayPal
    In order to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal"), you must be registered with PayPal, legitimise yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction will be processed by PayPal after placing the order. You will receive further instructions during the ordering process.

    PayPal may offer registered PayPal customers further payment modalities in the customer account selected according to its own criteria. However, we have no influence on the offering of these modalities; further individually offered payment modalities affect your legal relationship with PayPal. You can find more information on this in your PayPal account.

    1. Right to cancel

    Consumers are entitled to the statutory right to cancel, as described in the instructions on the right to cancel. Traders are not granted any voluntary right to cancel.

    1. Retention of title

    The goods shall remain our property until full payment is made.
    For traders, the following applies additionally: We reserve ownership of the goods until complete settlement of all claims arising from a current business relationship. You may resell reserved goods in ordinary business operations; you shall assign any claims arising from this resale – irrespective of connecting or mixing of the reserved goods with a new item - in the amount of the invoice amount to us in advance, and we accept this assignment. You remain authorised to collect the claims; however, we may likewise collect the claims ourselves, should you fail to fulfil your payment obligations. We shall release the securities to which we are entitled at your request to the extent that the realisable value of the securities exceeds the value of the open claims by more than 10%.

    1. Damage during delivery

    For consumers the following applies: If the goods are delivered with obvious damage caused during delivery, please report the defect to the carrier and notify us without delay. Failure to make a complaint or to make contact does not in any way affect your legal rights or the enforcement of such rights, notably your warranty rights. However, in doing so you help us to assert our own claims against the carrier or transport insurer.

    1. Warranty and guarantees

    9.1 Liability for defects

    We are under a legal duty to supply products that are in conformity with this contract. Unless expressly agreed otherwise below, the statutory guarantee provisions (liability for defects) shall apply.

    Restrictions in relation to tradres and merchants ("Kaufleute")

    The below mentioned limitations and reductions of time periods shall not apply to claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

    • in the event of injury to life, limb or health
    • in case of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty as well as fraudulent intent
    • in the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfilment of which is a prerequisite for the proper performance of the contract and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations)
    • within the scope of a voluntary guarantee, if agreed, or
    • within the scope of application of the Produkthaftungsgesetz (the Product Liability Act).

    In relation to traders, only our own specifications and the manufacturer's product descriptions included in the contract shall be deemed to be an agreement on the quality of the goods; we shall not accept any liability for public statements made by the manufacturer or other advertising statements. For traders, the limitation period for claims for defects in newly manufactured goods is one year from the transfer of risk. The previous sentence does not apply to an item that has been used for a building in accordance with its customary use and has caused the building to be defective.The sale of used goods is subject to the exclusion of any warranty. The statutory limitation periods for the right of recourse according to § 445a BGB (German Civil Code) remain unaffected.

    Provisions for merchants ("Kaufleute" in accordance with HGB - German Commercial Code)

    Among merchants ("Kaufleute"), the obligation to examine and give notice of defects regulated in § 377 HGB (German Commercial Code) shall apply. If you fail to give notice as regulated therein, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved, unless the defect was not recognisable during the inspection. This does not apply if we have fraudulently concealed a defect.

    Voluntary guarantees and customer service

    Information on any additional voluntary guarantees that may apply and their exact conditions can be found with the product and on special information pages in the online shop.

    9.2 Guarantees and customer service

    Information on any additional guarantees that may apply and their exact conditions can be found with the product and on special information pages in the online shop.

    1. Liability

    We shall in any case be liable without limitation for claims due to damages that have been caused by us, our legal representatives or legal agents
    • for injury to life, limb or health
    • for deliberately or grossly negligent breach of duty
    • for guarantee commitments, where agreed
    • insofar as the scope of application of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 is open
    • in relation to any other liability, including any liabilities under sale of goods or supply of services legislation, that may not by applicable law be excluded or limited.

    For breach of material contractual obligations, the fulfilment of which make the proper execution of the contract possible at all and which the contracting parties may generally rely on and trust in being complied with, due to slight negligence by us, our legal representatives or legal agents, the amount of liability is limited to the foreseeable damages at the time of contract conclusion, the occurrence of which must typically be anticipated.
    Ceteris paribus, claims for compensation for damages are excluded.

    1. Online dispute resolution

    The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolutions (ODR) which can be accessed at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. We are neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute settlement proceedings before a dispute resolution body.

    1. Final provisions

    If you are a trader, German law applies, to the exclusion of the UN Sales Convention.

    If you are a "Kaufmann" within the meaning of the German Commercial Code (HGB), public-law legal entity or special public-law fund, the exclusive legal jurisdiction for all disputes from contractual relationships between us and you is our registered office.

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