Terms and Conditions

Table of Contents

1. Scope
2. Conclusion of Contract
3. Right of Withdrawal
4. Prices and Payment Conditions
5. Delivery and Shipping Conditions
6. Retention of Title
7. Liability for Defects (Warranty)
8. Redemption of Promotional Vouchers
9. Redemption of Gift Vouchers
10. Applicable Law
11. Place of Jurisdiction
12. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Bestsales Online GmbH (hereinafter "Seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods concluded between a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") and the Seller regarding the goods presented in the Seller's online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 These GTC apply mutatis mutandis to contracts for the delivery of vouchers, unless otherwise stipulated.

1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these GTC is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor independent professional activity.

1.4 An entrepreneur within the meaning of these GTC is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership 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 descriptions contained in the Seller's online shop do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve for the submission of a binding offer by the Customer.

2.2 The Customer can submit the offer via 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 contractual offer regarding the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.3 The Seller can 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), in which case the receipt of the order confirmation by the Customer is decisive, or
• by delivering the ordered goods to the Customer, in which case the receipt of the goods by the Customer is decisive, or
• by requesting the Customer to pay after placing their order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract is concluded at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives first occurs. The period for acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the Customer sends 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 consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by their declaration of intent.

2.4 If a payment method offered by PayPal is selected, payment processing is handled by 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 User Agreement, viewable 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, viewable 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 already declares acceptance of the Customer's offer at the time the Customer clicks the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.5 When submitting an offer via the Seller's online order form, the contract text is stored by the Seller after the conclusion of the contract and transmitted to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after their 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 submitting 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 providing the corresponding 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 for better identification of input errors can be the browser's magnification function, which enlarges the display on the screen. The Customer can correct their entries within the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until they click the button that concludes the ordering process.

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

2.8 Order processing and contact usually take place via e-mail and automated order processing. The Customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by them for order processing is correct, so that 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 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 Conditions

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller's product description, the prices indicated are total prices that include the statutory value-added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be indicated separately in the respective product description.

4.2 For deliveries to countries outside the European Union, additional costs may be incurred in individual cases for which the Seller is not responsible and which are to be borne by the Customer. These include, for example, costs for money transfers by credit institutions (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 money transfers 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.

4.4 If a payment method offered via the payment service "PayPal" is selected, payment processing takes place via PayPal, whereby PayPal may also use the services of third-party payment service providers. If the Seller also offers payment methods via PayPal for which it makes advance payments to the Customer (e.g., purchase on account or installment payment), it assigns its payment claim to PayPal or to the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal and specifically named to the Customer. Before accepting the Seller's assignment declaration, PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal conducts a credit check using the transmitted customer data. The Seller reserves the right to refuse the selected payment method to the Customer in the event of a negative credit check result. If the selected payment method is approved, the Customer must pay the invoice amount within the agreed payment period or in the agreed payment intervals. In this case, the Customer can only make payments with debt-discharging effect to PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal. However, even in the case of assignment of the claim, the Seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g., regarding goods, delivery time, shipping, returns, complaints, declarations of withdrawal and returns, or credit notes.

4.5 If the "SOFORT" payment method is selected, payment processing is handled by the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich (hereinafter "SOFORT"). To be able to pay the invoice amount via "SOFORT", the Customer must have an online banking account enabled for participation in "SOFORT", legitimize themselves accordingly during the payment process, and confirm the payment instruction to "SOFORT". The payment transaction is then immediately carried out by "SOFORT" and the Customer's bank account is debited. Further information on the "SOFORT" payment method can be found online at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

4.6 If a payment method offered via the payment service "Shopify Payments" is selected, payment processing is handled by 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 are communicated to the Customer in the Seller's online shop. Stripe may use further payment services for payment processing, for which special payment conditions may apply, which the Customer may be informed of separately. Further information on "Shopify Payments" is available online at https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-de.

4.7 If a payment method offered via the payment service "Klarna" is selected, payment processing is handled by Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter "Klarna"). Further information and Klarna's terms and conditions can be found here:

5) Delivery and Shipping Conditions

5.1 If the Seller offers shipping of the goods, delivery will be made within the delivery area specified by the Seller to the delivery address provided by the Customer, unless otherwise agreed. For the processing of the transaction, the delivery address specified in the Seller's order processing is decisive. Deviating from this, if the PayPal payment method is selected, the delivery address stored by the Customer with 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 bears the reasonable costs incurred by the Seller as a result. This does not apply to the costs of dispatch if the Customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal. For the return costs, in the event of an effective exercise of the right of withdrawal by the Customer, the provision made in the Seller's cancellation policy applies.

5.3 If the Customer acts as an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods passes to the Customer as soon as the Seller has handed over the item to the carrier, the freight forwarder or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment. If the Customer acts as a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods generally 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 sold goods also passes to the Customer in the case of consumers as soon as the Seller has handed over the item to the carrier, the freight forwarder or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment, if the Customer has commissioned the carrier, the freight forwarder or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment and the Seller had 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 attributable to the Seller and the Seller has concluded a concrete hedging transaction with the supplier with due care. The Seller will make all reasonable efforts to procure the goods. In the event of non-availability 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 due to logistical reasons.

6) Retention of Title

If the Seller makes advance payments, they reserve ownership of the delivered goods until full payment of the owed purchase price.

7) Liability for Defects (Warranty)

Unless otherwise stipulated in the following provisions, the provisions of statutory liability for defects apply. Deviating from this, 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 supplementary performance;
• for new goods, the limitation period for defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
• for used goods, rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
• the limitation period does not recommence if a replacement delivery is made within the scope of liability for defects.

7.2 The limitations of liability and reductions of periods regulated above do not apply

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

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

7.4 If the Customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 HGB, they are subject to the commercial inspection and complaint obligation pursuant to § 377 HGB. If the Customer fails to comply with the notification obligations regulated therein, the goods are deemed to be approved.

7.5 If the Customer acts as a consumer, they are asked to complain about goods delivered with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the Seller thereof. If the Customer fails to do so, this has no effect on their statutory or contractual claims for defects.

8) Redemption of Promotional Vouchers

8.1 Vouchers issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotions with a specific validity period and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter "Promotional Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop and only within the specified period.

8.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if such a restriction results from the content of the promotional voucher.

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

8.4 Several promotional 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 chosen to pay the difference.

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

8.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for entirely or partially with the promotional voucher within the scope of their statutory right of withdrawal.

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

9) Redemption of gift vouchers

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 on the voucher.

9.2 Gift vouchers and remaining credit balances of gift vouchers can be redeemed until the end of the third year following the year of purchase. Remaining credit balances will be credited to the customer until the expiry date.

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

9.4 Several gift vouchers can also be redeemed for one order.

9.5 Gift vouchers can only be used for the purchase of goods and not for the purchase of other 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 pay the difference.

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

9.8 The gift voucher is transferable. The seller can make payment with exonerating effect to the respective holder 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 respective holder's lack of authorization, legal incapacity, or lack of power of representation.

10) Applicable Law

All legal relationships between the parties shall be governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of the laws on the international sale of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has their habitual residence.

11) 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 shall be the seller's registered office. If the customer has their registered office outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller's registered office 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 customer's professional or commercial activity. In the aforementioned cases, however, the seller is in any case entitled to appeal to the court at the customer's registered office.

12) Alternative Dispute Resolution

12.1 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 out-of-court resolution of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts involving a consumer.

12.2 The seller is not obliged to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board, but is willing to do so.