Terms and Conditions

 
 
1. Scope
 

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as "Terms and Conditions") of CALCUSO GmbH (hereinafter referred to as the "Seller") shall apply to all contracts for the supply of goods concluded by a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as the "Customer") with the Seller in respect of the goods presented by the Seller in its online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 For contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements, these GTC apply accordingly, unless otherwise agreed. In this context, the Seller owes, in addition to the delivery of the goods, the provision of digital content or digital services (hereinafter "digital products") which are included in or connected to the goods in such a way that the goods cannot fulfil their functions without them.

1.3 These GTC shall apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of physical data carriers that serve exclusively as carriers of digital content, unless something to the contrary is regulated in this respect. Digital content within the meaning of these GTC is data that is created and made available in digital form.

1.4 These GTC shall apply accordingly to contracts for the provision of licence keys, unless otherwise agreed. In this context, the Seller owes the provision of a licence key for the use of the digital contents or digital services described by him (hereinafter "digital products") as well as the granting of the contractually agreed rights to use the respective digital products. The customer does not acquire any intellectual property rights to the digital product. The respective product description of the seller shall be decisive for the quality of the digital product.

1.5 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.

1.6 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 his or her commercial or self-employed professional activity.

1.7 The subject matter of the contract may - depending on the Seller's product description - be both the purchase of goods by way of a one-off delivery and the purchase of goods by way of a permanent delivery (hereinafter "Subscription Contract"). In the case of a subscription contract, the seller undertakes to supply the customer with the goods owed under the contract for the duration of the agreed contract term at the time intervals owed under the contract.

 

 

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 may submit the offer via the online order form integrated into the seller's online shop. In doing so, after placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and going through the electronic ordering process, the customer makes 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 may 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, in which case the receipt of the goods by the customer shall be decisive, or
  • by requesting payment from the customer after the customer has placed the order

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract shall be concluded at the time at which 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 to be a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If a payment method offered by PayPal is selected, the payment will 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: "PayPal"), subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, available at https://www.paypal. com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full or - if the customer does not have a PayPal account - under the terms and conditions for payments without a PayPal account, available at https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full. If the customer pays by means of a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected in the online ordering process, the seller already declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time the customer clicks the button that completes the ordering process.

2.5 When an offer is made via the Seller's online order form, the text of the contract shall be stored by the Seller after the conclusion of the contract and transmitted to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has sent his order. The Seller shall not make the text of the contract accessible 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 by the customer free of charge via his password-protected user account by providing the corresponding login data.

2.6 Before bindingly placing 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 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. The customer can correct his entries during the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button which completes the ordering process.

2.7 Only the German language is available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.8 Order processing and contacting usually take place via 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 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 & Cancellation form

Consumers shall have a right of withdrawal in accordance with the following provisions, whereby a consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes which can predominantly be attributed neither to his commercial nor to his self-employed professional activity.

 

Wider Widerrufsbelehrung

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without stating any reasons.

The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day on which you or a third party named by you, who is not the carrier, has or has taken possession of the last goods.

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (CALCUSO GmbH, Hans-Böckler-Str. 12, 40764 Langenfeld, Germany, Tel.: 02173 - 9608884, Fax: 02173 - 1096926, E-Mail: [email protected]) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by post, fax or e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached model cancellation form for this purpose, which is, however, not compulsory.

To comply with the withdrawal period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the expiry of the withdrawal period.

 

Consequences of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we must repay you all payments we have received from you, including the delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs resulting from the fact that you have chosen a type of delivery other than the cheapest standard delivery offered by us), without delay and at the latest within fourteen days from the day on which we received the notification of your withdrawal from this contract. For this repayment, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; in no case will you be charged for this repayment. We may refuse to make a repayment until we have received the goods back or until you have provided proof that you have returned the goods, whichever is the earlier.

You have returned the goods to us.

You must return or hand over the goods to us without delay and in any case no later than fourteen days from the day on which you notify us of the cancellation of this contract. The deadline is met if you send the goods before the expiry of the period of fourteen days.

You shall bear the direct costs of returning the goods.

You only have to pay for any loss in value of the goods if this loss in value is due to handling the goods in a way that is not necessary for checking their condition, properties and functioning.

 

Exclusion or premature expiry of the right of withdrawal

The right of withdrawal does not apply to contracts for the delivery of goods that are not prefabricated and for the manufacture of which an individual selection or determination by the consumer is decisive or which are clearly tailored to the personal needs of the consumer.

 

The right of withdrawal does not apply to contracts for the delivery of newspapers, periodicals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts.

The right of withdrawal expires prematurely in the case of contracts for the delivery of sound or video recordings or computer software in a sealed package if the seal has been removed after delivery.

 

General notes

1) Please avoid damaging or contaminating the goods. Please return the goods to us in the original packaging with all accessories and with all packaging components. If necessary, use protective outer packaging. If you no longer have the original packaging, please provide adequate protection against transport damage with suitable packaging.
2) Please do not return the goods to us freight collect.
3) Please note that the aforementioned items 1-2 are not a prerequisite for the effective exercise of the right of withdrawal.

 

Sample cancellation form
(If you wish to cancel the contract, please complete and return this form)
To CALCUSO GmbH, Hans-Böckler-Straße 12, 40764 Langenfeld, Germany, Fax: +49 (0)2713 1096926, e-mail: [email protected]
I/We (*) hereby revoke the contract concluded by me/us (*) for the purchase of the following goods (*)/
- Ordered on (*)/received on (*)
- Name of consumer(s)
- Address of consumer(s)
- Date
(*) Delete where inapplicable

 

End of withdrawal notice

 

 

 

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 will be indicated separately in the respective product description.

4.2 In the case of deliveries to countries outside the European Union, further 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 the transfer of money by 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 funds 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 prepayment 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 payment method "SOFORT" is selected, the payment will be 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 that has been activated for participation in "SOFORT", identify himself accordingly during the payment process and confirm the payment instruction to "SOFORT". The payment transaction is then immediately carried out by "SOFORT" and the customer's bank account is debited. More detailed information on the "SOFORT" payment method is available to the customer on the Internet at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

4.6 When selecting a payment method offered via the payment service "Adyen", the payment processing is carried out via the payment service provider Adyen N.V., Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6-50, 1011 DJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (hereinafter: "Adyen"). The individual payment methods offered via Adyen are communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. For the processing of payments, Adyen may use the services of third party payment service providers, for which special payment conditions may apply, to which the customer may be informed separately. Further information on "Adyen" is available on the Internet at https://www.adyen.help/hc/en.

4.7 When selecting a payment method offered via the payment service "Stripe", the payment processing is carried out 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 Stripe will be communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. Stripe may use other payment services for the processing of payments, for which special payment conditions may apply, to which the customer may be informed separately. Further information on Stripe is available on the Internet at https://stripe.com/en.

4.8 If the payment method purchase on account is selected, the purchase price is due after the goods have been delivered and invoiced. In this case, the purchase price is payable within 14 (fourteen) days of receipt of the invoice without deduction, unless otherwise agreed. The Seller reserves the right to offer the payment method purchase on account only up to a certain order volume and to reject this payment method if the specified order volume is exceeded. In this case, the seller will inform the customer of a corresponding payment restriction in his payment information in the online shop. The Seller further reserves the right to carry out a credit check when selecting the payment method purchase on account and to reject this payment method in the event of a negative credit check.

4.9 If the payment method purchase on account via Santander is selected, the purchase price is due after the goods have been delivered and invoiced. In this case, the purchase price must be paid within 30 (thirty) days of receipt of the invoice without deduction to Santander Consumer Bank AG, Santander-Platz 1, 41061 Mönchengladbach. An invoice purchase is only possible for customers who act as consumers and have reached the age of 18. The payment method purchase on account requires a successful credit check by Santander Consumer Bank AG. If the use of purchase on account is not possible due to insufficient creditworthiness or for other reasons, the customer will be offered an alternative payment option. The customer is free to conclude the contract using the alternative payment method offered or to cancel the order process. If the customer is allowed to use the payment method purchase on account after the creditworthiness has been checked, the payment will be processed in cooperation with Santander Consumer Bank AG, to which the seller assigns his payment claim. In this case, the customer can only make payment to Santander Consumer Bank AG Santander with debt-discharging effect. If the customer does not meet his payment obligation or does not meet it in full within the payment period, he will be in default without any further reminder. In this case, the Client is obliged to compensate the damage caused by the default. The damage caused by default may include, in particular, costs for reminders and costs for appropriate legal action (e.g. lawyers' fees). Santander Consumer Bank AG reserves the right to charge a fee of EUR 1.20 for each reminder. The customer is entitled to prove that no damage or not this amount of damage has been incurred. The claims against the Customer arising from the purchase on account may be assigned to third parties at any time, in particular to collection agencies for the purpose of recovering amounts in arrears.
Even if the payment method purchase on account via Santander is selected, the Seller remains responsible for general customer enquiries, e.g. about the goods, delivery time, dispatch, returns, complaints, revocation declarations and deliveries or credit notes.
The Seller reserves the right to offer the payment method purchase on account only up to a certain order volume and to reject this payment method if the specified order volume is exceeded. In this case, the Seller shall inform the customer of a corresponding payment restriction in his payment information in the online shop.

4.10 If the payment method credit card via Stripe is selected, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. 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"). Stripe reserves the right to carry out a credit check and to refuse this payment method in the event of a negative credit check.

 

 

5. Terms of delivery and shipment
 

5.1 If the Seller offers to ship the goods, delivery shall be made within the delivery area specified by the Seller 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 shall be decisive.

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 with regard to the costs for the return shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. In the event of an effective exercise of the right of withdrawal by the customer, the provision on this in the seller's instructions on withdrawal shall apply to the costs of returning the goods.

5.3 If the customer is acting as an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods shall pass 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 is acting as a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold shall in principle only pass to the customer or a person authorised to receive the goods when the goods are handed over to the customer. In deviation from this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods shall pass to the customer, even in the case of 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 commissions the forwarding agent, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment 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 shall only apply in the event that the Seller is not responsible for the non-delivery and the Seller has, with due diligence, concluded a specific covering transaction with the supplier. The Seller shall make all reasonable efforts to procure the goods. In the event of non-availability or only partial availability of the goods, the customer shall be informed immediately and the consideration shall be refunded without delay.

5.5 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

5.6 Licence keys will be provided to the Customer as follows:

  • by download
  • by e-mail
  • postally
 
 
6. Granting of rights of use for licence keys
 

6.1 The licence key provided entitles the customer to use the digital product apparent from the respective product description of the seller to the extent described therein.

6.2 Insofar as the licence key relates to the one-off provision of a digital content, the granting of rights shall only become effective once the customer has paid the remuneration owed in full.

 

 

7. Duration and termination of subscription contracts
 

7.1 The right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected. Good cause shall be deemed to exist if the terminating party cannot reasonably be expected to continue the contractual relationship until the agreed termination or until the expiry of a notice period, taking into account all circumstances of the individual case and weighing the interests of both parties.

7.2 Terminations can be made in writing, in text form (e.g. by e-mail) or in electronic form via the termination device (termination button) provided by the Seller on its website.

 

 

8. Retention of Title

If the Seller makes advance performance, he shall retain title to the goods delivered until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

 

 

9. Liability for defects (warranty)
 

9.1 Unless otherwise stated in the following provisions, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply. In deviation from this, the following applies to contracts for the delivery of goods:

9.2 If the customer is acting as an entrepreneur,

  • the seller has the choice of the type of subsequent performance;
  • in the case of new goods, the limitation period for defects shall be one year from delivery of the goods;
  • in the case of used goods, the rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
  • the limitation period shall not begin again if a replacement delivery is made within the scope of liability for defects.

9.3 The above-regulated limitations of liability and shortening of time limits do not apply

  • for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses of the customer,
  • for the case that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect,
  • for goods which have been used for a building in accordance with their customary use and have caused its defectiveness,
  • for any existing obligation on the part of the seller to provide updates for digital products, in the case of contracts for the supply of goods with digital elements.

9.4 In addition, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any statutory right of recourse that may exist shall remain unaffected.

9.5 If the customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), he shall be subject to the commercial duty of inspection and notification of defects pursuant to § 377 of the German Commercial Code (HGB). If the customer fails to comply with the notification obligations regulated therein, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved.

9.6 If the customer is acting as a consumer, he is requested to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the seller thereof. If the customer does not comply with this, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

 

 

10. Special conditions for the processing of goods according to certain specifications of the customer
 

10.1 If, according to the content of the contract, the Seller, in addition to the delivery of the goods, also owes the processing of the goods according to certain specifications of the customer, the customer shall provide the Seller with all content required for the processing, such as texts, images or graphics in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the Seller and shall grant the Seller the rights of use required for this purpose. The customer alone shall be responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and assumes responsibility that he has the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he shall ensure that no rights of third parties are infringed thereby, in particular copyrights, trademark rights and personal rights.

10.2 The customer shall indemnify the seller against any claims of third parties which these may assert against the seller in connection with an infringement of their rights by the contractual use of the customer's content by the seller. In this context, the customer shall also assume the necessary costs of legal defence, including all court costs and lawyers' fees in the statutory amount. This shall not apply if the customer is not responsible for the infringement. In the event of a claim by a third party, the customer is obliged to provide the seller immediately, truthfully and completely with all information required for the examination of the claims and a defence.

10.3 The Seller reserves the right to refuse processing orders if the content provided by the Customer for this purpose violates statutory or official prohibitions or offends common decency. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, offensive, youth-endangering and/or violence-glorifying content.

 

 

11. Redemption of promotional vouchers
 

11.1 Vouchers which 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 "Promotion Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop and only during the specified period of time.

11.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion, provided that a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.

11.3 Promotion vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

11.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order at any one time.

11.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining credit will not be refunded by the seller.

11.6 If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller may be chosen to pay the difference.

11.7 The balance of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it earn interest.

11.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

11.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the promotional voucher in the Seller's online shop. This shall not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representation authority of the respective holder.

 

 

12. Applicable Law
 

12.1 All legal relations between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany to the exclusion of the laws on the international sale of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply 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 habitual residence.

12.2 Furthermore, with regard to the statutory right of withdrawal, this choice of law 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 at the time of conclusion of the contract are outside the European Union.

 

 

13. Jurisdiction

If the customer acts as 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 place of business of the seller. 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 above cases, however, the Seller shall in any case be entitled to bring an action before the court at the Customer's place of business.

 

 

14. Alternative Dispute Resolution
 

14.1 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 involving a consumer.

14.2 The Seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.