Terms and Conditions
1) Scope
1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Melanie Pickard, operating under "PickARTSfashion" (hereinafter "Seller"), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods concluded by a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") with the Seller regarding the goods displayed 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 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 self-employed professional activity.
1.3 An entrepreneur within the meaning of these GTC is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership that acts in the exercise of its commercial or independent professional activity when concluding a legal transaction.
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 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 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), 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 the submission of 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 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 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, the payment processing is carried out 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 terms of use, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/legalhub/paypal/useragreement-full or - if the Customer does not have a PayPal account - subject to the terms for payments without a PayPal account, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/legalhub/paypal/privacywax-full. If the Customer pays using a PayPal payment method selectable during the online ordering process, the Seller hereby 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 contract is concluded and sent to the Customer in text form (e.g., e-mail, fax or letter) after the order has been submitted. The contract text is not made accessible by the Seller 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 recognition of input errors can be the browser's magnification function, which magnifies the display on the screen. The Customer can correct their entries during 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 quoted are total prices that include statutory value-added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs incurred 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 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 arise in connection with money transfers if the delivery is not 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, the payment processing is carried out 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., invoice purchase or installment payment), it assigns its payment claim to PayPal or to the payment service provider specifically named to the Customer by PayPal. Before accepting the Seller's declaration of assignment, PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal carries out 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 test result. If the selected payment method is approved, the Customer must pay the invoice amount within the agreed payment period or at the agreed payment intervals. In this case, they can only make a debt-discharging payment to PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal. However, even in the event of the 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 a payment method offered via the payment service "Shopify Payments" is selected, the payment processing is carried out 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 will be communicated to the Customer in the Seller's online shop. Stripe may use other payment services for payment processing, for which special payment conditions may apply, to which the Customer may be separately informed. Further information on "Shopify Payments" is available on the Internet at https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-de.
5) Delivery and Shipping Conditions
5.1 If the Seller offers shipping of goods, delivery will be made within the delivery area specified by the Seller to the delivery address provided by the Customer, unless otherwise agreed. The delivery address specified in the Seller's order processing is decisive for the transaction.
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 dispatch if the Customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal. For the return costs, in the event of 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 delivered 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 with the handover of the goods to the Customer or an authorized recipient. 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 delivered 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 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 applies only in the event that the non-delivery is not attributable to the Seller and the Seller has concluded a concrete covering 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 partial availability of the goods, the Customer will be informed immediately and the consideration will be refunded without delay.
5.5 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.
6) Retention of Title
If the Seller makes an advance payment, they reserve title to the delivered goods until full payment of the owed purchase price.
7) Liability for Defects (Warranty)
Unless otherwise provided by the following regulations, the provisions of statutory liability for defects apply. Notwithstanding this, the following applies to contracts for the supply 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 defect claims is one year from delivery of the goods;
- for used goods, defect claims are excluded;
- the limitation period does not recommence if a replacement delivery is made within the framework of liability for defects.
7.2 The limitations of liability and reductions of periods regulated 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 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 supply of goods with digital elements.
7.3 Furthermore, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any existing statutory right of recourse remain unaffected.
7.4 If the Customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of Section 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), they are subject to the commercial duty to inspect and give notice of defects pursuant to Section 377 HGB. If the Customer fails to comply with the notification obligations regulated therein, the goods are deemed to have been approved.
7.5 If the Customer acts as a consumer, they are requested 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) Liability
The Seller is liable to the Customer for all contractual, quasi-contractual and statutory, also tortious claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses as follows:
8.1 The Seller is liable without limitation on any legal grounds
- in case of intent or gross negligence,
- in case of intentional or negligent injury to life, body or health,
- on the basis of a guarantee promise, unless otherwise regulated in this respect,
- 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 foreseeable damage typical for the contract, unless unlimited liability exists pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Material contractual obligations are obligations that the contract imposes on the Seller according to its content 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 may regularly rely.
8.3 Otherwise, the Seller's liability is excluded.
8.4 The aforementioned liability regulations also apply with regard to the Seller's liability for its vicarious agents and legal representatives.
9) Applicable Law
All legal relations between the parties are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of 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 their habitual residence is not withdrawn.
