General terms and conditions with customer information

Table of Contents

  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 specifications of the customer
  9. Special Conditions for Repair Services
  10. Applicable Law
  11. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter “GTC”) of Helmut Pfanner, trading under “Helmut Pfanner” (hereinafter “Seller”), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter “Customer”) enters into with the Seller with regard to the Seller’s online goods presented in the shop. The inclusion of the customer’s own conditions is hereby contradicted, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 Consumer within the meaning of these terms and conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed ;activities.

1.3 Entrepreneur in the sense of these terms and conditions is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership who, when concluding a legal transaction in the exercise of their commercial or self-employed professional activity.

2) Conclusion of contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the seller’s online shop do not represent binding offers on the part of the seller, but serve 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.</p >

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 email), whereby the 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 their 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 fifth day following the sending of the offer. If the seller does not accept the customer’s offer within the aforementioned period, this is considered a rejection of the offer with the result that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If you select a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment will be processed via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, SCA, 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 ü has a PayPal account – subject to the conditions for payments without a PayPal account, which can be viewed at https: //www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full. If the customer pays by means of a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected in the online ordering process, the seller already declares acceptance of the customer’s offer at the point in time at which the customer clicks on the button concluding the ordering process.< /p>

2.5 When submitting an offer via the seller’s online order form, the text of the contract is saved by the seller after the conclusion of the contract and sent to the customer in text form after the order has been sent (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter). The seller does not make the text of the contract 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 accessed by the customer via his password-protected user account, stating the corresponding login -Data can be retrieved for free.

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 For the conclusion of the contract, German and English are available.

2.8 Order processing and contact are usually made 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 to process the order can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1 Consumers have a right of withdrawal.

3.2 More information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the seller’s cancellation policy.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller’s product description, the prices quoted are total prices that include statutory sales tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs are specified separately in the respective product description.

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

4.3 If advance payment by bank transfer has been agreed, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.

5) Terms of delivery and shipping

5.1 If the seller offers to ship the goods, delivery will be made within the delivery area specified by the seller 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. Deviating from this, when selecting the PayPal payment method, the delivery address stored by the customer at PayPal at the time of payment 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 delivery if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. If the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation, the regulation made in the seller’s cancellation policy applies to the return costs.

5.3 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold passes to the customer as soon as the seller has sold the item delivered to the freight forwarder, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise responsible for carrying out the shipment. If the customer acts as a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold only passes when the goods are handed over to the customer or a person authorized to receive them. Deviating from this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold also passes to the customer for consumers as soon as the seller hands over the goods to the freight forwarder, the freight carrier or the other person responsible for the execution; person or institution designated to carry out the shipment, if the customer commissions the freight forwarder, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment and the seller provides the customer with this person or institution has not previously named.

5.4 The seller reserves the right to withdraw from the contract in the event of incorrect or improper self-delivery. This only applies in the event that the non-delivery is not the responsibility of the seller and that he has concluded a concrete cover transaction with the supplier with due diligence. The seller will use all reasonable efforts to procure the goods. In the event of unavailability or only partial availability of the goods, the customer will be informed immediately and the consideration will be refunded immediately.

5.5 Pickup is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

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

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

7.1 Unless otherwise stated in the following provisions, the provisions of statutory liability for defects shall apply. Deviating from this, the following applies to contracts for the delivery of goods:

7.2 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur,

  • the seller has the choice of the type of supplementary performance;
  • In the case of new goods, the limitation period for defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
  • In the case of used goods, the rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
  • the limitation period does not begin again if a replacement delivery is made as part of the liability for defects.

7.3 The limitations of liability and shortened deadlines set out above do not apply

  • for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the customer,
  • in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect,
  • for goods which, in accordance with their normal use, have been used in a building and have caused its defectiveness,
  • for any existing obligation of the seller to provide updates for digital products, in the case of contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements.

7.4 In addition, it applies to entrepreneurs that the statutory limitation periods for any existing statutory right of recourse remain unaffected.

7.5 If the customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 HGB, he is subject to the commercial obligation to examine and give notice of defects in accordance with; § 377 HGB. If the customer fails to comply with the notification obligations regulated there, the goods are deemed to have been approved.

7.6 If the customer acts as a consumer, he 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) Special conditions for the processing of goods according to specific customer specifications

8.1 If, according to the content of the contract, the seller owes not only the delivery of the goods but also the processing of the goods according to specific customer specifications, the customer has the seller all for the processing to provide the necessary content such as text, images or graphics in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the seller and to grant him the necessary rights of use. The customer is solely responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and assumes responsibility for having the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he shall ensure that no rights of third parties are violated, in particular copyrights, trademarks and personal rights.

8.2 The customer shall indemnify the seller against third-party claims that these may have in connection with a violation of their rights through the contractual use of the customer’s content by the Sellers can assert against this. The customer also assumes the necessary costs of legal defense, including all court and attorney fees at the statutory rate. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the infringement. The customer is obliged to inform the seller immediately and truthfully in the event of claims by third parties. and to provide fully all information necessary for the examination of the claims and any defense.

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

9) Special Conditions for Repair Services

If the seller owes the repair of an item of the customer according to the content of the contract, the following applies:

9.1 Repair services will be provided at Seller’s place of business.

9.2 The seller provides his services at his own discretion or through qualified personnel selected by him. The seller can also use the services of third parties (subcontractors) who work on his behalf. Unless otherwise stated in the seller’s service description, the customer has no right to choose a specific person to carry out the desired service.

9.3 The customer must provide the seller with all the information required for the repair of the item, provided that their procurement does not fall within the scope of obligations of the seller according to the content of the contract seller falls. In particular, the customer must provide the seller with a comprehensive description of the error and inform him of all circumstances that may be the cause of the error found.

9.4 Unless otherwise agreed, the customer must send the item to be repaired to the seller’s registered office at his own expense and risk. The seller recommends that the customer take out transport insurance for this purpose. Furthermore, the seller recommends the customer to send the item in a suitable transport packaging in order to reduce the risk of transport damage and to hide the contents of the packaging. The seller will inform the customer immediately of obvious transport damage so that he can assert any rights he may have against the carrier.

9.5 The item will be returned at the customer’s expense. The risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the item passes to the customer when the item is handed over to a suitable transport person at the seller’s place of business. At the request of the customer, the seller will take out transport insurance for the item.

9.6 The aforementioned regulations do not restrict the customer’s statutory warranty rights in the event of the purchase of goods from the seller.

9.7 The seller is liable for defects in the repair service provided in accordance with the provisions of statutory liability for defects.

10) Governing Law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany 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 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.

12) Contract text storage

We do not save the complete contract text. Before sending the order via our online shopping cart system, the contract data can be printed out or saved electronically using the browser’s print function. After we receive the order, the order data, the legally required information for distance selling contracts and the general terms and conditions will be sent to you again by email.