Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

1. Scope of Application

The following General Terms and Conditions (GTC) apply to all orders placed through our online shop by consumers and entrepreneurs.

A consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. An entrepreneur is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when entering into a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of their commercial or self-employed professional activity.

For entrepreneurs: If the entrepreneur uses conflicting or supplementary general terms and conditions, their validity is hereby rejected; they only become part of the contract if we have expressly agreed to them.

2. Contracting Party, Conclusion of Contract, Correction Options

The purchase contract is concluded with sekastores GmbH.

The presentation of products in the online shop does not constitute a legally binding offer, but an non-binding online catalog. You can initially place our products in the shopping cart without obligation and correct your entries at any time before submitting your binding order by using the correction aids provided and explained in the ordering process. By clicking the order button, you submit a binding offer for the goods contained in the shopping cart. The confirmation of receipt of your order will be sent by e-mail immediately after the order has been placed.

We accept your offer within two days by

  • sending a declaration of acceptance in a separate e-mail or
  • if applicable, the payment transaction is carried out by our service provider or the selected payment service provider. The time of execution of the payment transaction depends on the selected payment method (see "Payment").

The alternative relevant to you depends on which of the listed events occurs first.

3. Contract Language, Storage of Contract Text

The language(s) available for concluding the contract: German, English

We store the contract text and send you the order data and our GTC in text form. For security reasons, the contract text is no longer accessible via the Internet.

4. Delivery Conditions

In addition to the stated product prices, shipping costs may apply. You can find more detailed information on any shipping costs that may arise in connection with the offers.

We only deliver by shipping. Unfortunately, self-collection of the goods is not possible.

We do not deliver to packing stations.

5. Payment

In our shop, you generally have the following payment methods available:

Advance Payment
If you choose advance payment, we will provide you with our bank details in a separate e-mail and deliver the goods after receipt of payment.

Credit Card
During the order process, you enter your credit card details. Your card will be debited immediately after placing the order.

PayPal, PayPal Express
To pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal"), you must be registered with PayPal, legitimize yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction is carried out by PayPal immediately after placing the order. Further information can be found during the order process.

PayPal may offer additional payment methods in the customer account to registered PayPal customers selected according to its own criteria. However, we have no influence on the offering of these methods; further individually offered payment methods concern your legal relationship with PayPal. You can find more information about this in your PayPal account.

Sofort by Klarna
To pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Sofort GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, you must have a bank account activated for online banking, legitimize yourself accordingly and confirm the payment instruction. Your account will be debited immediately after placing the order. Further information can be found during the order process.

Amazon Pay
To pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Amazon Payments Europe S.C.A. 38 avenue J.F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg ("Amazon"), you must be registered with Amazon, legitimize yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction will be carried out within one banking day after placing the order. A banking day is any working day except Saturdays, nationwide public holidays, and December 24th and 31st of each year. Further information can be found during the order process.

6. Right of Withdrawal

Consumers are entitled to the statutory right of withdrawal as described in the cancellation policy. Entrepreneurs are not granted a voluntary right of withdrawal.

7. Retention of Title

The goods remain our property until full payment has been made.
For entrepreneurs, the following additionally applies: We reserve title to the goods until all claims arising from an ongoing business relationship have been settled in full. You may resell the reserved goods in the ordinary course of business; you assign to us in advance all claims arising from this resale – regardless of whether the reserved goods are combined or mixed with a new item – in the amount of the invoice amount, and we accept this assignment. You remain authorized to collect the claims, but we may also collect claims ourselves if you fail to meet your payment obligations. We will release the securities due to us at your request to the extent that the realizable value of the securities exceeds the value of the outstanding claims by more than 10%.

8. Transport Damages

For consumers: If goods are delivered with obvious transport damage, please complain about such defects to the deliverer as soon as possible and please contact us immediately. Failure to complain or contact us has no consequences for your legal claims and their enforcement, in particular your warranty rights. However, you help us to assert our own claims against the carrier or the transport insurance.

For entrepreneurs: The risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration passes to you as soon as we have delivered the item to the forwarder, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment.

9. Warranty and Guarantees

9.1 Liability for Defects

Unless expressly agreed otherwise below, the statutory liability for defects applies.

The following restrictions and reductions in deadlines do not apply to claims for damages caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

  • in case of injury to life, body or health
  • in case of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty and malice
  • in case of breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations)
  • within the scope of a guarantee promise, if agreed, or
  • insofar as the scope of the Product Liability Act is opened.

Restrictions for entrepreneurs

For entrepreneurs, only our own specifications and the manufacturer's product descriptions that were included in the contract are considered an agreement on the quality of the goods; we do not assume any liability for public statements by the manufacturer or other advertising statements. For entrepreneurs, the limitation period for claims for defects in newly manufactured items is one year from the transfer of risk.

The statutory limitation periods for the right of recourse according to § 445a BGB remain unaffected.

Regulations for merchants

Among merchants, the obligation to inspect and give notice of defects regulated in § 377 HGB applies. If you fail to give notice as regulated there, the goods are deemed to have been approved, unless it is a defect that was not recognizable during the inspection. This does not apply if we have fraudulently concealed a defect.

9.2 Guarantees and Customer Service

Information on any additional guarantees and their exact conditions can be found with the respective product and on special information pages in the online shop.

10. Liability

For claims due to damages caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents, we are always liable without limitation

  • in case of injury to life, body or health,
  • in case of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty,
  • in case of guarantee promises, if agreed, or
  • insofar as the scope of the Product Liability Act is opened.

In the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations), due to slight negligence on our part, our legal representatives or vicarious agents, our liability is limited in amount to the damage foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded, the occurrence of which must typically be expected.
Otherwise, claims for damages are excluded.

11. Code of Conduct

We have submitted to the following codes of conduct:

12. Dispute Resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS), which you can find here. We are willing to participate in an out-of-court arbitration procedure before a consumer arbitration board.
The competent body is the Universal Arbitration Board of the Federal Government at the Center for Arbitration e.V., Straßburger Straße 8, 77694 Kehl am Rhein, www.verbraucher-schlichter.de.

13. Final Provisions

If you are an entrepreneur, German law applies to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

If you are a merchant within the meaning of the German Commercial Code, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from contractual relationships between us and you is our registered office.

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