1.1. These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “GTC”) of TRIGOLIGN BV (hereinafter referred to as “a seller”) apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods which a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as “a customer”) concludes with the seller with regard to the goods displayed by the seller in his online shop. Herewith the inclusion of the customer’s own terms and conditions is contradicted, unless otherwise agreed.
1.2 A consumer in the sense of these GTC is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for the purposes that cannot be predominantly attributed to his commercial or self-employed professional activity. Entrepreneur in the sense of these GTC is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his 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 part of the seller, but serve to provide 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 the button concluding the ordering process. Furthermore, the customer can also submit the offer to the seller by e-mail or by online contact form.
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 the customer to pay after placing his order. If there are several of the aforementioned alternatives, the contract is concluded at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the customer sends the offer and ends with 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 shall be deemed a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.
2.4 If the payment method “PayPal Express” is selected, the payment shall be 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 referred to as “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 Terms for payments without a PayPal account, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full. If the customer selects “PayPal Express” as payment method during the online order process, he/she also places a payment order with PayPal by clicking the button that completes the order process. In this case, the Seller hereby declares the acceptance of the Customer’s offer at the time when the Customer initiates the payment process by clicking the button concluding the order process.
2.5 When submitting an offer via the Seller’s online order form, the text of the contract will be saved by the Seller and sent to the Customer in a text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has placed his order together with these General Terms and Conditions. In addition, the text of the contract is archived on the Seller’s website and can be accessed by the Customer free of charge via his password-protected customer account by entering the relevant login data, provided that the Customer has created a customer account in the Seller’s online shop before sending his order.
2.6 Before bindingly placing an 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 enlargement function of the browser, with the help of which the display on the screen is enlarged. Within the electronic ordering process, the customer can correct his entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that concludes the ordering process.
2.7 Order processing and contact are usually carried out by e-mail and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for order processing is correct so that the 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 are generally entitled to a right of withdrawal.
3.2 More detailed information on the right of revocation can be found in the seller’s revocation instructions.
3.3 The right of revocation does not apply to consumers who do not belong to a member state of the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract and whose sole residence and delivery address are outside the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract.
4. Prices and terms of payment
4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller’s product description, the prices quoted are total prices which include the statutory value added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs that may be incurred shall be stated separately in the respective product description.
4.2 In the case of 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 transfer through credit institutions (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs may also be incurred in relation to the transfer of money 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 customer will be informed of the payment option(s) in the seller’s online shop.
4.4 If advance payment by bank transfer has been agreed upon, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed upon a later due date.
4.5 If payment is made by means of a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment shall be processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter referred to as “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 Terms for payments without a PayPal account, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
5.1 The delivery of goods shall be made by dispatch to the delivery address indicated by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. The delivery address indicated in the Seller’s order processing is decisive for the transaction.
5.2 In the case of goods that are delivered by a forwarding agent, delivery is made “free kerbside”, i.e. to the public kerbside nearest to the delivery address, unless otherwise stated in the shipping information in the seller’s online shop and unless otherwise agreed.
5.3 If the transport company returns the dispatched goods to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer shall bear the costs for the unsuccessful dispatch. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the circumstance that led to the impossibility of delivery or if the customer was temporarily prevented from accepting the service offered, unless the seller had given the customer a reasonable period of notice of the service. Furthermore, this shall not apply with regard to the costs of the return shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of revocation. In the case of effective exercise of the right of revocation by the customer, the provision made in the seller’s revocation instruction shall apply to the costs of return shipment.
5.4 Collection by the customer is not possible for logistical reasons.
6. Retention of title
If the seller makes advance payment, he reserves the right of ownership of the delivered goods until full payment of the purchase price owed.
7. Liability for defects (warranty)
7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply.
7.2 The customer is requested to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damages to the deliverer and to inform the seller about it. If the customer does not comply with this, this has no effect on his legal or contractual claims for defects.
8. Special conditions for the processing of goods according to specific specifications of the customer
8.1 If, according to the content of the contract, the seller is responsible for processing the goods in accordance with certain specifications of the customer in addition to the delivery of the goods, the customer must provide the operator with all content required for processing, such as texts, images or graphics in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the operator and grant him the necessary rights of use. The customer alone is responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and accepts responsibility for the fact that he has the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he shall ensure that this does not infringe any rights of third parties, in particular copyright, trademark and personal rights.
8.2 The Customer shall indemnify the Seller from any claims of third parties which the latter may assert against the Seller in connection with an infringement of their rights by the contractual use of the Customer’s contents by the Seller. The customer shall also assume the reasonable costs of the necessary legal defense including all court and attorney’s fees in the statutory amount. 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 SOFORT, truthfully and completely with all information required for the examination of the claims and a defense.
8.3 The seller reserves the right to refuse processing orders if the contents provided by the customer for this purpose violate legal or official prohibitions or are immoral. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, insulting, youth endangering and/or violence glorifying content.
9. Redemption of promotion vouchers
9.1 Vouchers, which are issued free of charge by the Seller within the scope of advertising campaigns with a certain period of validity and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter “campaign vouchers”), can only be redeemed in the Seller’s online shop and only within the specified period.
9.2 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed by consumers.
9.3 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.
9.4 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent charging is not possible.
9.5 Only one promotion voucher can be redeemed per order.
9.6 The value of the goods must be at least the amount of the promotion voucher. Any remaining credit will not be refunded by the seller.
9.7 If the value of the promotion voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the seller can be chosen to settle the difference.
9.8 The credit balance of a promotion voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it bear interest.
9.9 The promotion voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotion voucher within the scope of his statutory right of revocation.
9.10 The promotion voucher is transferable. The seller can make the payment with a discharging effect to the respective owner who redeems the promotion voucher in the seller’s online shop. This does not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the non-authorization, legal incapacity or lack of authorization to represent the respective owner.
10. Applicable law
10.1 All legal relations between the parties shall be governed by the law of the Netherlands, excluding the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply to the extent that the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence is not withdrawn.
10.2 Furthermore, this choice of law with regard to the statutory right of revocation does not apply to consumers who do not belong to a member state of the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract and whose sole residence and delivery address are outside the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract.
11. Place of jurisdiction
If the customer acts as a merchant, legal entity under public law or special fund under public law with its registered office in the territory of the Netherlands, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be the registered office of the seller. If the customer has his registered office outside the territory of the Netherlands, the registered office of the seller 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 professional or commercial activity of the customer. In the above cases, however, the Seller shall in any case be entitled to appeal to the court at the Customer’s place of business.
12. Alternative dispute resolution
12.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution on the Internet under 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 purchase or service contracts in which a consumer is involved.
12.2 The seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
