General terms and conditions with customer information

Table of contents

scope
Conclusion of contract
Right of withdrawal
Prices and payment terms
Delivery and shipping conditions
Retention of title
Liability for defects (warranty)
Liability
Special conditions for the processing of goods according to specific customer specifications
Redemption of promotional vouchers
Applicable law
Jurisdiction
Information on disposal of old electrical equipment
Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Aeris GmbH (hereinafter "Seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") concludes with the Seller with regard to the goods presented by the Seller in his online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own conditions is hereby contradicted, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 These General Terms and Conditions apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements, unless otherwise agreed. In addition to delivering the goods, the seller is obliged to provide digital content or digital services (hereinafter "digital products") that are included in or connected to the goods in such a way that the goods cannot fulfil their functions without them.

1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly neither be attributed to their commercial nor their independent professional activity.

1.4 An entrepreneur within the meaning of these General 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 his or her commercial or independent 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 to submit 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 shop. After placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and completing the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contract offer for the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that completes the ordering process. The customer can also submit the offer to the seller by fax, email or post.

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 payment from the customer after placing his order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract is concluded at the time at which one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the offer is sent by the customer and ends on 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 is 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 If you select a payment method offered by PayPal, payment processing will be carried out 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, 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 conditions for payments without a PayPal account, available at https://www.paypal.com /de /webapps /mpp /ua /privacywax-full If the customer pays using a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected during the online ordering process, the seller hereby declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time the customer clicks the button that completes the ordering process.

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

2.6 Before submitting a binding 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 of better identifying input errors can be the browser's zoom function, which helps to enlarge the display on the screen. The customer can correct his entries as part of the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button that completes the ordering process.

2.7 The German, English, French, Italian and Dutch languages ​​are available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.8 Order processing and contact are usually carried out via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the email address provided by him for order processing is correct so that emails sent by the seller can be received at this address. In particular, when using SPAM filters, the customer must ensure that all emails 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 generally have a right of withdrawal.

3.2 Further information on the right of withdrawal 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 stated are total prices that include statutory sales tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs are stated 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 is agreed, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.

4.4 If you select a payment method offered via the payment service "Shopify Payments", the payment will be processed via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter "Stripe"). The individual payment methods offered via Shopify Payments will be communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. To process payments, Stripe may use other payment services for which special payment terms may apply, to which the customer may be informed separately. Further information on "Shopify Payments" can be found on the Internet at https://www.shopify.com /legal /terms-payments-de available.

4.5 If you select a payment method offered via the "Klarna" payment service, the payment will be processed by Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter "Klarna"). Further information and Klarna's terms and conditions can be found in the seller's payment information, which can be viewed at the following internet address: https://www.aeris.de /pages /bezahlung

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

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.

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 to the costs of delivery if the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation. If the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation, the provisions in the seller's cancellation policy apply to the return costs.

5.3 If the customer is acting 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 delivered the item to the forwarding agent, the freight carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment. If the customer is acting as a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold generally only passes when the goods are handed over to the customer or a person authorized to receive them. In deviation from this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold also passes to the customer in the case of consumers as soon as the seller has delivered the item to the forwarding agent, the freight carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment, if the customer has commissioned the forwarding agent, the freight carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment and the seller has not previously named this person or institution to the customer.

5.4 The seller reserves the right to withdraw from the contract in the event of incorrect or improper self-delivery. This only applies if the non-delivery is not the responsibility of the seller and the seller has concluded a specific hedging transaction with the supplier with due care. The seller will make 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 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

6.1 The Seller reserves title to the goods delivered to consumers until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

6.2 The Seller reserves title to the goods delivered to entrepreneurs until all claims arising from an ongoing business relationship have been settled in full.

6.3 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur, the following applies:
If the delivered goods are processed, the seller is considered the manufacturer and acquires ownership of the newly created goods. If the processing is carried out together with other materials, the seller acquires ownership in the ratio of the invoice value of his goods to that of the other materials. If the seller's goods are combined or mixed with an item belonging to the customer and this is to be regarded as the main item, co-ownership of the item passes to the seller in the ratio of the invoice value of the seller's goods to the invoice value or, in the absence of such, to the market value of the main item. In these cases, the customer is considered the custodian.

The customer may neither pledge nor assign as security items subject to retention of title or legal reservation. The customer is only entitled to resell the reserved goods in the ordinary course of business. The customer assigns all claims against third parties arising from this to the seller in advance in the amount of the respective invoice value (including sales tax). This assignment applies regardless of whether the reserved goods were resold without or after processing. The customer remains authorized to collect the claims even after the assignment. The seller's authority to collect the claims itself remains unaffected. However, the seller will not collect the claims as long as the customer meets his payment obligations to the seller, does not fall into arrears and no application for the opening of insolvency proceedings has been filed.

The customer must immediately report access to the goods owned or co-owned by the seller or to the assigned claims. He must immediately transfer to the seller any amounts assigned to the seller and collected by him, insofar as the seller's claim is due. If the value of the seller's security rights exceeds the amount of the secured claims by more than 10%, the seller will release a corresponding share of the security rights at the customer's request.

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

Unless otherwise stated in the following provisions, the provisions of statutory liability for defects apply. The following applies to contracts for the delivery of goods:

7.1 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur,

- the seller has the choice of the type of subsequent performance;
- for new goods, the limitation period for defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
- in the case of used goods, rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
- the limitation period does not begin again if a replacement delivery is made within the scope of liability for defects.

7.2 The limitations of liability and shortening of time limits 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 have been used in accordance with their normal use for a building and have caused its defectiveness,
- for any obligation of the seller to provide updates for digital products, in the case of contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements.

7.3 Furthermore, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any existing statutory recourse claim remain unaffected.

7.4 If the customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of Section 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), he is subject to the commercial duty of inspection and notification of defects in accordance with Section 377 of the German Commercial Code (HGB). If the customer fails to comply with the notification obligations set out therein, the goods are deemed to have been approved.

7.5 If the customer is acting as a consumer, he is requested to complain to the deliverer about goods that have obvious transport damage and to inform the seller of this. If the customer does not do this, this will have no effect on his legal or contractual claims for defects.

8) Liability

The seller is liable to the customer for all contractual, quasi-contractual and legal, including tortious claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses as follows:

8.1 The Seller shall be liable without limitation for any legal reason
- in case of intent or gross negligence,
- in the event of intentional or negligent injury to life, body or health,
- based on a guarantee promise, unless otherwise provided,
- due to mandatory liability such as under the Product Liability Act.

8.2 If the seller negligently breaches a material contractual obligation, liability is limited to the damage that is typical for the contract and foreseeable, unless unlimited liability applies in accordance with the above paragraph. Material contractual obligations are obligations that the contract imposes on the seller in accordance with its content in order to achieve the purpose of the contract, the fulfillment of which makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and on whose compliance the customer can regularly rely.

8.3 Otherwise, the Seller’s liability is excluded.

8.4 The above liability provisions also apply with regard to the Seller’s liability for its vicarious agents and legal representatives.

9) Special conditions for the processing of goods according to specific customer specifications

9.1 If, according to the content of the contract, the seller is obliged to process the goods in accordance with specific specifications of the customer in addition to delivering the goods, the customer must provide the seller with all content required for processing, such as texts, images or graphics, in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the seller and grant the seller the necessary rights of use. The customer is solely responsible for procuring and acquiring the rights to this content. The customer declares and assumes responsibility for having the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, the customer must ensure that no third-party rights are violated, in particular copyright, trademark and personal rights.

9.2 The customer indemnifies the seller against claims made by third parties in connection with a violation of their rights through the contractual use of the customer's content by the seller. 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 violation of rights. In the event of a claim by third parties, the customer is obliged to provide the seller with all information required to examine the claims and to defend itself, promptly, truthfully and completely.

9.3 The seller reserves the right to refuse processing orders if the content provided by the customer violates legal or official prohibitions or violates common decency. This applies in particular to the provision of content that is unconstitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, offensive, harmful to young people and/or glorifies violence.

10) Redemption of promotional vouchers

10.1 Vouchers issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotional campaigns with a specific period of validity and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter "promotional vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop and only during the specified period.

10.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction arises from the content of the promotional voucher.

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

10.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

10.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining balance will not be refunded by the seller.

10.6 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.

10.7 The balance of a promotional voucher will not be paid out in cash and will not accrue interest.

10.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in whole or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

10.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The seller can make a payment to the respective holder who redeems the promotional voucher in the seller's online shop with a discharging effect. This does not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, incapacity or lack of authority to represent the respective holder.

11) Applicable law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply to all legal relationships between the parties, excluding the laws governing the international sale of movable goods. For 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 or her habitual residence.

12) Place of jurisdiction

If the customer acts as a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a 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 is the seller's place of business. If the customer is based outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller's place of business is 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 customer's professional or commercial activity. In the above cases, however, the seller is in any case entitled to take legal action before the court at the customer's place of business.

13) Information on disposal of old electrical equipment

To take back old electrical devices when purchasing electrical devices from our "Active Office" product line, please contact us at info@aeris.de.

14) Alternative dispute resolution

14.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution on the Internet at 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 sales or service contracts involving a consumer.

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