Terms of service

General terms and conditions with customer information

Table of Contents

scope
Conclusion of contract
Right of withdrawal
Prices and terms of payment
Delivery and shipping conditions
Retention of title
Liability for defects (warranty)
Redemption of promotional vouchers
Applicable law
Place of jurisdiction
Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of ROCK AND STEEL GERMANY GmbH (hereinafter "Seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "customer") with the seller with regard to the Seller completes goods displayed in his online shop. We hereby object to the inclusion of the customer's own terms, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that can largely not be attributed to their commercial or independent professional activity. Entrepreneur within the meaning of these terms and conditions is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership that acts in the course of a legal transaction in the exercise of its commercial or independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the online shop of the seller are not 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 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 in relation to 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 email), whereby the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or
by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby the access of the goods to the customer is decisive, or
by asking the customer to pay after placing his order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract is concluded at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the customer sends the offer and ends at the end of the fifth day following the submission of the offer. If the seller does not accept the customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this is considered to be a rejection of the offer, with the result that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If the payment method "PayPal Express" is selected, the payment is processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. 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 have a PayPal account - subject to the conditions for payments without a PayPal account, visible at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax- full. If the customer selects "PayPal Express" as the payment method as part of the online order process, he also issues a payment order to PayPal by clicking the button that concludes the order process. In this case, the seller declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time when the customer triggers the payment process by clicking the button that concludes the order 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 is 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 accessible beyond this. If the customer has set up a user account in the seller's online shop before submitting his order, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the customer using his password-protected user account and specifying 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 detection of input errors can be the zoom function of the browser, with whose help the display is enlarged 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 concludes the ordering process.

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

2.8 Order processing and contacting usually take place 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 with the order processing can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1 Consumers generally have 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 terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices that include the statutory value added tax. If applicable, additional delivery and shipping costs are specified separately in the respective product description.

4.2 In the case of deliveries to countries outside the European Union, additional costs may arise in individual cases, which the seller is not responsible for and which are to be borne by the customer. These include, for example, costs for the transfer of money by credit institutions (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs can also arise 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.

4.4 If prepayment has been agreed by bank transfer, payment is due immediately after the contract is concluded, unless the parties have agreed a later due date.

4.5 If payment is made using a payment method offered by PayPal, payment is processed via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. 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 have a PayPal account - subject to the conditions for payments without a PayPal account, visible at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax- full.

4.6 If a payment method offered via the payment service "Shopify Payments" is selected, the payment is processed via the payment service provider Shopify International Limited, Victoria Buildings, 2nd floor, 1-2 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 XN32, Ireland (hereinafter: "Shopify" ). The individual payment methods offered via Shopify are communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. Shopify can use other payment services to process payments, to 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.de/payments.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 The delivery of goods takes place on the way to the delivery address given 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 transport company sends the goods back to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer bears the costs of 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 offered service, unless the seller announced the service a reasonable time in advance would have. Furthermore, this does not apply with regard to the costs for the shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the return shipping costs are governed by the provisions in the seller's cancellation policy.

5.3 Pick-up is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

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

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

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

7.2 The customer is prayed to complain to the deliverer of goods delivered with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller thereof. If the customer does not comply, this has no effect on his legal 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 validity period and that 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.

8.2 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed by consumers.

8.3 Individual products can be excluded from the voucher campaign if there is a corresponding restriction in the content of the campaign voucher.

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

8.5 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

8.6 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.

8.7 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 pay the difference.

8.8 The credit of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor interest.

8.9 The promotional voucher will not be reimbursed if the customer returns all or part of the goods paid for with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

8.10 The promotional voucher is transferable. The seller can provide a liberating effect to the respective owner who redeems the promotional voucher in the seller's online shop. This does not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, incapacity for business or the lack of authorization to represent the respective owner.

9) Applicable 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 is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer is habitually resident.

10) 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 entitled to appeal to the court at the customer's registered office.

11) Alternative dispute resolution

11.1 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 settlement of disputes arising from online sales 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.