Terms and Conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS WITH CUSTOMER INFORMATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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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. Redeeming promotional vouchers
9. Redeeming Gift Vouchers
10. Applicable Law
11. Alternative Dispute Resolution

 

1) SCOPE OF APPLICATION

1.1 These general terms and conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of O I A ceramics Gürtler (hereinafter "seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter customer) has with the seller with regard to the seller's online shop completes the goods shown. The inclusion of the customer's own conditions is hereby contradicted, unless something else has been agreed.t.

1.2 These General Terms and Conditions shall apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of vouchers, unless expressly agreed otherwise.

1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. Entrepreneur within the meaning of these terms and conditions is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity.

2) CONCLUSION OF CONTRACT

2.1 The product information contained in the seller's online shop does not constitute a binding offer on the part of the seller, but serves to enable the customer to submit a binding offer.

2.2 The customer can submit the offer via the online order form integrated in the seller's online shop. After placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and going through the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contract offer with regard to the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. Furthermore, the customer can submit the offer to the seller by e-mail.

 

2.3 The seller can accept the customer's offer within seven working days,

• by sending the customer a written order confirmation or an order confirmation in text form (e-mail), whereby receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or
• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
• by asking the customer to pay after placing his order.

 

If there are several of the above alternatives, the contract is concluded at the point in time at which one of the above alternatives occurs first. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the customer has sent the offer and ends at the end of the seventh day following the sending of the offer. If the seller does not accept the customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this is deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the result that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

 

2.4 When selecting the payment method PayPal Express, the payment is 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 of Use, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement -full or - if the customer does not have a PayPal account, the conditions for payments without a PayPal account apply, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full.full.

 

If the customer selects PayPal Express as the payment method as part of the online ordering process, by clicking the button that completes the ordering process, they also issue a payment order to PayPal. In this case, the seller already declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the point in time at which the customer initiates the payment process by clicking the button that completes the order process.t.

 

2.5 When submitting an offer via the seller's online order form, the contract text is saved by the seller after the conclusion of the contract and sent to the customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the order has been sent. The seller does not make the contract text accessible beyond this. If the customer has set up a user account in the seller's online shop before sending his order, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be called up free of charge by the customer via his password-protected user account by providing the corresponding login data.

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. The customer can correct his entries during the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that completes the ordering process.

2.7 Only the German language is available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.8 Order processing and contact are usually made via email 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 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 cancellation can be found in the seller's cancellation policy.

 

4) PRICES AND PAYMENT TERMS

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices. In principle, free shipping without additional delivery costs applies in Switzerland. Additional delivery and shipping costs would otherwise be specified separately in the respective product description. Shipping outside of Switzerland requires additional delivery and shipping costs.

4.2 For deliveries to countries outside of Switzerland, additional costs may arise in individual cases for which the seller is not responsible and which must be borne by the customer. These include, for example, costs for money transfers by banks (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs can also be incurred in relation to the money transfer 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 The payment option(s) will be communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop.

5) DELIVERY AND SHIPPING TERMS

5.1 Goods are delivered to the delivery address specified by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. When processing the transaction, the delivery address specified in the seller's order processing is decisive. Within Switzerland & Lichtenstein we offer free shipping. The free shipping refers to the standard shipping of the Swiss Post, the delivery usually takes 2 - 3 days for Swiss Economy packages. The delivery takes place via the service and shipping company The Swiss Post. For urgent shipping, we recommend booking the Swiss Priority option. With this shipping method, our packages are delivered within Switzerland within 1 - 2 days.

Shipping outside of Switzerland is subject to a charge. The shipping costs are calculated in the checkout and shown without obligation. Shipping costs vary depending on size & weight - and can vary per country / region / continent.

5.2 If the transport company sends the shipped goods back to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer bears the costs for the unsuccessful shipment. This does not apply if the customer 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 announced the service to him a reasonable time in advance would have. Furthermore, this does not apply with regard to the costs for the delivery if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the regulation made in the seller's cancellation policy applies to the return costs.

5.3 Vouchers are given to the customer as follows:

- by email

- postal

 

6) RESERVATION OF TITLE

If the seller pays in advance, he retains title to the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

 

7) LIABILITY FOR DEFECTS (GUARANTEE)

7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the statutory liability for defects shall apply.

7.2 The customer is asked to complain to the deliverer about delivered goods with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller of this. If the customer does not comply, this has no effect whatsoever on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

 

8) REDEMPTION OF PROMOTIONAL VOUCHERS

8.1 Vouchers that are issued free of charge by the seller as part of promotions with a specific period of validity and that cannot be purchased by the customer (hereinafter "promotional vouchers") can only be redeemed in the seller's online shop and only in the specified period.

8.2 Individual products can be excluded from the voucher campaign if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the campaign voucher.

8.3 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed before completing the ordering process. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

8.4 Several campaign vouchers can also be redeemed for one order.

8.5 The value of the goods must at least correspond 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 can be selected to settle the difference.

8.7 The balance of a promotional voucher will neither be paid out in cash nor will interest be paid.

8.8 The campaign voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in whole or in part with the campaign voucher within the scope of his legal

 

Returns the right of withdrawal.

8.9 The promotional voucher is only intended for use by the person named on it. A transfer of the promotional voucher to third parties is excluded. The seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material entitlement of the respective voucher holder.

 

9) REDEMPTION OF GIFT CERTIFICATES

9.1 Vouchers that can be purchased via the seller's online shop (hereinafter "gift vouchers") can only be redeemed in the seller's online shop, unless otherwise stated in the voucher.

9.2 Gift vouchers and remaining balances on gift vouchers can be redeemed up to the end of the third year following the year in which the voucher was purchased. Remaining credit will be credited to the customer by the expiry date.

9.3 Gift vouchers can only be redeemed before completing the ordering process. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

9.4 Only one gift voucher can be redeemed per order.

9.5 Gift Vouchers can only be used to purchase Goods and cannot be used to purchase further Gift Vouchers.

9.6 If the value of the gift 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 balance of a gift voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it bear interest.

9.8 The Gift Voucher is transferrable. The seller can pay with discharging effect to the respective owner who redeems the gift voucher in the seller's online shop. This does not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the non-authorization, the legal incapacity or the lack of the right to represent the respective owner.

 

10) GOVERNING LAW

The Swiss legal system applies to all legal relationships between the parties, excluding the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law only applies insofar as the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence is not withdrawn.

 

11) ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

11.1 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 out-of-court settlement of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts in which a consumer is involved.

11.2 The seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute settlement procedure before a consumer arbitration board.