Terms and Conditions
General Terms and Conditions
Table of Contents
1. Scope
2. Conclusion of Contract
3. Right of Withdrawal
4. Prices and Payment Conditions
5. Delivery and Shipping Conditions
6. Retention of Title
7. Liability for Defects (Warranty)
8. Liability
9. Applicable Law
10. Place of Jurisdiction
11. Alternative Dispute Resolution
1) Scope
1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Stratic International GmbH (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 by the Seller in its online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby rejected, unless otherwise agreed.
1.2 A consumer within the meaning of these GTC is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed.
1.3 An entrepreneur within the meaning 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 their commercial or self-employed professional activity.
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 Customer to submit a binding offer.
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 regarding the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. Furthermore, the Customer can also submit the offer to the Seller by email, via the online contact form, or by phone.
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
- delivering the ordered goods to the Customer, whereby the receipt of the goods by the Customer is decisive, or
- requesting payment from the Customer after the Customer has placed their 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 acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the Customer sends the offer and ends at 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 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, 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 user agreement, viewable at https://www.paypal.com
2.5 When submitting an offer via the Seller's online order form, the contract text is stored by the Seller after the conclusion of the contract and transmitted to the Customer in text form (e.g., email, fax, or letter) after the Customer has sent their order. The Seller does 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 their order, the order data is archived on the Seller's website and can be accessed by the Customer free of charge 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 enlarges the display on the screen. The Customer can correct their entries within 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 by email and automated order processing. The Customer must ensure that the email address provided by them 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 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.
3.3 The right of withdrawal does not apply to consumers who do not belong to a member state of the European Union at the time of concluding the contract and whose sole residence and delivery address at the time of concluding the contract are outside the European Union.
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 will be indicated 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 may also arise in connection with money transfers 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 advance payment by bank transfer is agreed, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.
4.5 If the "Sofortüberweisung" (instant bank transfer) payment method is selected, payment processing is carried out by Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 11134 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter "Klarna"). To be able to pay the invoice amount via "Sofortüberweisung", the Customer must have an online banking account enabled for "Sofortüberweisung", legitimize themselves accordingly during the payment process, and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction is then carried out immediately by Klarna and the Customer's bank account is debited. Further information on the "Sofortüberweisung" payment method can be found on the internet at https://www.klarna.com
4.6 If a payment method offered via the payment service "Unzer" is selected, payment processing is carried out by Unzer Luxembourg S.A., 18 - 20 Rue Gabriel Lippmann, 5365 Munsbach, Luxembourg (hereinafter: "Unzer"). The individual payment methods offered via Unzer will be communicated to the Customer in the Seller's online shop. Unzer may use the services of third-party payment service providers for payment processing, for which special payment conditions may apply, to which the Customer may be separately informed. Further information on "Unzer" is available on the internet at https://www.unzer.com
5) Delivery and Shipping Conditions
5.1 If the Seller offers shipping of the goods, delivery will be made within the delivery area specified by the Seller to the delivery address specified by the Customer, unless otherwise agreed. In the processing of the transaction, the delivery address specified in the Seller's order processing is decisive. Notwithstanding this, if the PayPal payment method is selected, the delivery address stored by the Customer with PayPal at the time of payment is decisive.
5.2 If the delivery of the goods fails for reasons for which the Customer is responsible, the Customer bears 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, if the Customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal, 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 forwarding agent, the carrier, 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 to the Customer upon handover of the goods to the Customer or a person authorized to receive them. Notwithstanding this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods also passes to the Customer, even for consumers, as soon as the Seller has delivered the item to the forwarding agent, the carrier, or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment, if the Customer has commissioned the forwarding agent, the carrier, 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 only applies if the non-delivery is not attributable to the Seller and the Seller has, with due diligence, concluded a specific covering transaction with the supplier. The Seller will make all reasonable efforts to procure the goods. In the event of non-availability or only partial availability of the goods, the Customer will be informed immediately and the consideration will be refunded immediately.
5.5 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.
6) Retention of Title
If the Seller makes advance performance, they retain title to the delivered goods until full payment of the owed purchase price.
7) Liability for Defects (Warranty)
Unless otherwise specified in the following provisions, the statutory provisions on liability for defects apply. Deviating from this, the following applies to contracts for the delivery 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 begin anew if a replacement delivery is made within the scope of liability for defects.
7.2 The limitations of liability and reductions of deadlines regulated above do not apply
- to claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the Customer,
- in the event that the Seller fraudulently concealed the defect,
- for goods that have been used for a building according to their usual purpose and have caused its defectiveness,
- for any existing obligation of the Seller to provide updates for digital products, in contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements.
7.3 Furthermore, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any existing right of recourse remain unaffected.
7.4 If the Customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 HGB, they are subject to the commercial duty to inspect and give notice of defects in accordance with § 377 HGB. If the Customer fails to comply with the duties of notification 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 delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the Seller of this. Failure to do so does not affect 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,
- due to a guarantee promise, unless otherwise regulated in this regard,
- due to mandatory liability such as under the Product Liability Act.
8.2 If the Seller negligently breaches an essential contractual obligation, liability is limited to the contract-typical, foreseeable damage, unless unlimited liability exists pursuant to the preceding paragraph. Essential 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 the observance of which the Customer may regularly rely.
8.3 Otherwise, the Seller's liability is excluded.
8.4 The foregoing liability regulations also apply with regard to the Seller's liability for its vicarious agents and legal representatives.
9) Applicable Law
9.1 All legal relationships between the parties are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the laws on the international sale 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 has their habitual residence.
9.2 Furthermore, this choice of law does not apply with regard to the statutory right of withdrawal to consumers who do not belong to a member state of the European Union at the time of concluding the contract and whose sole residence and delivery address at the time of concluding the contract are outside the European Union.
10) Place of Jurisdiction
If the customer is 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 shall be the seller's registered office. If the customer has its registered office outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller's registered office 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 customer's professional or commercial activity. In the aforementioned cases, however, the seller is in any case entitled to appeal to the court at the customer's registered office.
11) Alternative Dispute Resolution
The seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.