General terms and conditions with customer information

Table of content

1. Scope
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. Special conditions for the processing of goods according to specific customer specifications
9. Redemption of coupons
10. Applicable law
11. Place of jurisdiction
12. Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope of application

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “GTC”) of Virenator GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “Seller”), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods, which a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as “Customer”) concludes with the Seller regarding the goods displayed by the Seller in his online store. Herewith, the inclusion of the customer’s own terms and conditions is contradicted, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 A consumer in the sense of these GTC is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to his commercial nor his self-employed professional activity. Entrepreneur in the sense 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 independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the Seller’s online store do not represent binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve to provide a binding offer by the customer.

2.2 The customer can submit the offer using the online order form integrated into the seller’s online store. After placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and going through the electronic ordering process, the Customer submits a legally binding offer to enter into a contract for the goods in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. Furthermore, the Customer can also submit the offer to the Seller by e-mail or by online contact form.

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), whereby the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or
• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby the receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
• by requesting the customer to pay after placing his order.

If there are several of the aforementioned alternatives, the contract is concluded at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the customer has sent the offer and ends with the expiry of the fifth day following the sending of the offer. If the seller does not accept the Customer’s offer within the aforementioned period, this shall be deemed a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If a payment method offered by PayPal is selected, the payment will be processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as “PayPal”), subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, available 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 for payments without a PayPal account, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full. If the customer pays by means of a payment method offered by PayPal, which can be selected in the online order process, the seller declares the acceptance of the customer’s offer at the moment the customer clicks on the button completing the order process.

2.5 When an offer is submitted via the Seller’s online order form, the text of the contract is stored by the Seller after the conclusion of the contract and is sent to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has sent his order. The Seller will not make the text of the contract accessible beyond this.

2.6 Before the binding submission of the order via the Seller’s online order form, the Customer can identify possible input errors by carefully reading the information displayed on the screen. An effective technical means for better recognition of input errors can be the enlargement function of the browser, with the help of which the display on the screen is enlarged. Within the electronic ordering process, the customer can correct his entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.7 German and English languages are available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.8 The order processing and contact is usually done via e-mail and automated order processing. The customer has to make sure that the e-mail address provided by him for the 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 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 withdrawal.

3.2 Further information on the right of revocation can be found in the revocation instruction of the seller.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller’s product description, the prices quoted are total prices which include the statutory value added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs that may be incurred shall be stated separately in the respective product description.

4.2 The payment option(s) will be communicated to the customer in the online store of the seller.

4.3 When choosing the payment method “PayPal invoice”, the seller assigns his payment claim to PayPal. Before accepting the seller’s declaration of assignment, PayPal will carry out a credit check using the customer data provided. The seller reserves the right to refuse the customer the payment method “PayPal invoice” in case of a negative result of the check. If the payment method “PayPal Invoice” is allowed by PayPal, the customer has to pay the invoice amount to PayPal within 30 days after receipt of the goods, unless PayPal has given the customer another payment term. In this case, he can only pay to PayPal with debt discharging effect. However, even in the case of assignment of claims, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g. regarding the goods, delivery time, shipping, returns, complaints, declarations of revocation, and shipments or credit notes. In addition, the General Terms and Conditions of Use for the use of PayPal’s purchase on account apply, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms.

4.4 If the payment method “PayPal Direct Debit” is selected, PayPal will collect the invoice amount from the customer’s bank account after a SEPA Direct Debit mandate has been issued, but not before the expiry of the period for advance information on behalf of the seller. Pre-notification is any communication (e.g. invoice, policy, contract) to the customer announcing a debit via SEPA Direct Debit. If the direct debit is not honored due to insufficient funds in the account or due to the provision of incorrect bank details, or if the customer objects to the debit although he is not entitled to do so, the customer shall bear the fees arising from the chargeback by the respective bank if he is responsible for this.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 The delivery of goods is carried out by dispatch to the delivery address indicated by the customer unless otherwise agreed. For the processing of the transaction, the delivery address indicated in the order processing of the seller is decisive.

5.2 If the delivery of the goods fails for reasons for which the customer is responsible, the customer shall bear the reasonable costs incurred by the seller as a result. This does not apply with regard to the costs for the return shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of revocation. For the costs of return shipment, if the customer effectively exercises his right of revocation, the provision made in the seller’s revocation instruction applies.

5.3 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

If the seller makes advance payment, he reserves the right of ownership of the delivered goods until full payment of the purchase price owed.

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 If the customer acts as a consumer, he is asked to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damages to the deliverer and to inform the seller. If the customer does not comply with this, this has no effect on his legal or contractual claims for defects.

8) Special conditions for the processing of goods according to certain specifications of the customer

8.1 If, according to the content of the contract, the seller is responsible for the processing of the goods according to certain specifications of the customer in addition to the delivery of the goods, the customer must provide the seller with all content required for the processing, such as texts, images or graphics in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the seller and grant him the necessary rights of use. The customer alone is responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and accepts responsibility for the fact that he/she has the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he shall ensure that this does not infringe any rights of third parties, in particular copyright, trademark and personal rights.

8.2 The Customer shall indemnify the Seller from any claims of third parties which the latter may assert against the Seller in connection with an infringement of their rights by the contractual use of the Customer’s content by the Seller. The customer shall also assume the reasonable costs of the necessary legal defense, including all court and attorney’s fees in the statutory amount. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the violation of rights. In the event of a claim by third parties, the customer is obliged to provide the seller immediately, truthfully and completely with all information necessary for the examination of the claims and a defense.

8.3 The seller reserves the right to refuse processing orders if the contents provided by the customer for this purpose violate legal or official prohibitions or offend common decency. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, insulting, youth endangering and/or violence glorifying content.

9) Redemption of coupons

9.1 Vouchers which are issued free of charge by the Seller within the scope of promotions with a certain period of validity and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter “promotion vouchers”) can only be redeemed in the Seller’s online store and only within the specified period.

9.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.

9.3 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent charging is not possible.

9.4 Only one promotion voucher can be redeemed per order.

9.5 The value of goods must be at least the amount of the promotion voucher. Any remaining balance will not be refunded by the seller.

9.6 If the value of the promotion voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller can be chosen to settle the difference.

9.7 The credit balance of a promotion voucher will neither be paid out in cash nor will interest be paid.

9.8 The promotion voucher will not be refunded if the Customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotion voucher within the scope of his statutory right of revocation.

9.9 The promotion voucher is only intended for use by the person named on it. A transfer of the promotion voucher to third parties is excluded. The Seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material eligibility of the respective voucher holder.

10) Applicable law

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 purchase of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply to the extent that the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence is not withdrawn.

11) Place of jurisdiction

If the customer acts as a merchant, legal entity under public law or special fund under public law with its registered office in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be the registered office of the seller. If the customer has his registered office outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the registered office of the seller shall be the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract if the contract or claims arising from the contract can be attributed to the professional or commercial activity of the customer. In the above cases, however, the Seller shall in any case be entitled to call upon the court at the Customer’s place of business.

12) Alternative dispute resolution

12.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution on the Internet under the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr

This platform serves as a contact point for the extrajudicial settlement of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts in which a consumer is involved.

12.2 The Seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.

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