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)
Redeeming promotional vouchers
Applicable Law
Place of jurisdiction
Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope
1.1 These general terms and conditions (hereinafter “GTC”) of BIOGON GmbH – a20plus (after “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 terms and conditions agreed by the seller goods presented in its online shop. The inclusion of the customer's own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 For the purposes of these General Terms and Conditions, a consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that cannot be predominantly attributed to either their commercial or independent professional activity. 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 their commercial or independent 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 rather serve to make 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 going through the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contractual offer with regard to the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking on the button that completes the ordering process. The customer can also make the offer to the seller by telephone or email.

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 (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 asking the customer to pay after placing their order. If several of the aforementioned alternatives are present, the contract is concluded at the point in time at which 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 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  If you select a payment method offered by PayPal, 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 - 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 using a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected in the online ordering process, the seller 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 his order, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the customer via his password-protected user account by providing the corresponding login data.

2.6 Before submitting 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 of better detecting input errors can be the browser's magnification function, which enlarges the display on the screen. As part of the electronic ordering process, the customer can correct his entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that completes the ordering process.

2.7  Only the German or English language is available for concluding the contract.

2.8 Order processing and contact usually take place via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the email address he provided to process the order 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 and include statutory sales tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs that may arise will be stated separately in the respective product description.

4.2  For deliveries to countries outside the European Union, 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 the transfer of money through credit institutions (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs may arise in relation to the money transfer even if the delivery does not take place 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 you select the payment method “SOFORT”, payment is processed via the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich (hereinafter “SOFORT”). In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via “SOFORT”, the customer must have an online banking account activated for participation in “SOFORT”, identify themselves accordingly during the payment process and confirm the payment instruction to “SOFORT”. The payment transaction will be carried out immediately afterwards by “SOFORT” and the customer’s bank account will be debited. The customer can find further information about the “SOFORT” payment method online at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

4.5 If you select a payment method offered via the “Shopify Payments” payment service, the payment is 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 are communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. To process payments, Stripe may use other payment services to which special payment conditions may apply, to which the customer may be notified separately. Further information about “Shopify Payments” is available online at https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-de.

4.6  If you select a payment method offered via the “Klarna” payment service, payment is processed via 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://a20plus.com/pages/paymentinformation

 

5) Delivery and shipping conditions
5.1 Goods are delivered by shipping 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, if you select the PayPal payment method, the delivery address provided by the customer with PayPal at the time of payment is decisive.

5.2 If 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 shipping costs if the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the return shipping costs will be subject to the provisions set out in the seller's cancellation policy.

5.3 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title
If the seller makes advance payments, he reserves ownership of 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 statutory liability for defects apply.

7.2 The following applies to used goods: Claims for defects are excluded if the defect only occurs after one year from delivery of the goods. Defects that occur within one year of delivery of the goods can be claimed within the statutory limitation period. However, the shortening of the liability period to one year does not apply

for items that were used for a building in accordance with their normal use and caused its defects,
for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the customer, as well
in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect.

7.3  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 with this, this will have no impact on his legal or contractual claims for defects.

8) Redeeming 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 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 campaign if a corresponding restriction arises from the content of the campaign voucher.

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

8.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

8.5 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.

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

8.8  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.

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 eligibility of the respective voucher holder.

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 to the extent that the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the consumer has his or her habitual residence.

10) Place of jurisdiction
If the customer acts as a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law based in 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 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 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 not obliged to take part in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board, but is willing to do so.