Terms of Conditions

Content 

1. Scope
2. Conclusion of contract
3. Right of withdrawal
4. Prices and terms of payment
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
6. Retention of title
7. Liability for defects (warranty)
8. Special conditions for processing goods according to certain specifications of the customer
9. Redeeming promotional vouchers
10. Applicable law
11. Place of jurisdiction
12. Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope

1.1  These general terms and conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of AK Gold GmbH (hereinafter "seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "customer") with the seller with regard to the seller's Online shop completes goods. We hereby object to the inclusion of the customer's own terms, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2  Consumers within the meaning of these terms and conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither their commercial nor their independent professional activity. Entrepreneur in the sense of these terms and conditions is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership that acts in the course of a legal transaction in the exercise of its commercial or independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of Contract

2.1  The product descriptions contained in the online shop of the seller are not binding offers on the part of the seller, but serve to make a binding offer by the customer.

2.2  The customer can submit the offer via the online order form integrated in 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 contract offer in relation 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 email), whereby the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or
• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby the access of the goods to the customer is decisive, or
• by asking the customer to pay after placing his order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives are available, the contract is concluded when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. 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 after the offer has been sent. If the seller does not accept the customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this is considered to be a rejection of the offer, with the result that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4  If the payment method "PayPal Express" is selected, the payment is processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: "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 conditions 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 the payment method as part of the online order process, he also issues a payment order to PayPal by clicking the button that concludes the order process. In this case, the seller declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time when the customer triggers the payment process by clicking the button that concludes the order process.

2.5  When submitting an offer via the seller's online order form, the contract text is saved by the seller after the contract is concluded and sent to the customer in text form (e.g. email, fax or letter) after the order has been sent. The seller will 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 his order, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be called up free of charge by the customer via his password-protected user account, specifying the corresponding login data.

2.6  Before placing the order through 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 detection of input errors can be the browser's zoom function, which is used to enlarge the display on the screen. The customer can correct his entries as part of the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button that concludes 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 email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for processing the order 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 emails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned with the order processing can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1  Consumers generally have a right of withdrawal.

3.2  Further information on the right of cancellation can be found in the seller's cancellation policy.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1  Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices that include VAT. Any additional delivery and shipping costs incurred are specified separately in the respective product description.

4.2  For deliveries to countries outside the European Union, additional costs may arise in individual cases, which the seller is not responsible for and which are 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 can also arise in relation to the money transfer 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 has been agreed by bank transfer, payment is due immediately after the contract is concluded, unless the parties have agreed a later due date.

4.5  When paying using a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment is processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: "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 conditions for payments without a PayPal account, can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax- full.

4.6  If the payment method "SOFORT" is selected, the payment is processed by 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 activated for participation in "SOFORT", legitimize himself accordingly during the payment process and confirm the payment instruction to "SOFORT". The payment transaction is carried out immediately afterwards by "SOFORT" and the customer's bank account is debited. The customer can call up more information on the "SOFORT" payment method on the Internet at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

4.7 If the payment method "PayPal invoice" is selected, the seller transfers his payment claim to PayPal. Before accepting the seller's declaration of assignment, PayPal carries out a credit check using the transmitted customer data. The seller reserves the right to refuse the payment method "PayPal invoice" to the customer in the event of a negative test result. If the payment method "PayPal invoice" is approved by PayPal, the customer must pay the invoice amount to PayPal within 30 days of receipt of the goods, unless PayPal has given him another payment target. In this case, he can only pay to PayPal with a debt-relieving effect. However, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries even in the event of assignment of claims. B. on the goods, delivery time, shipping, returns, complaints, revocations and returns or credit. In addition, the general terms of use for the use of PayPal purchase on account apply, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms.

4.8  If the payment method "PayPal direct debit" is selected, PayPal will debit the invoice amount from the customer's bank account after issuing a SEPA direct debit mandate, but not before the deadline for prior information has expired on behalf of the seller. Preliminary information ("Pre-Notification") is every message (e.g. invoice, policy, contract) to the customer that announces a debit by SEPA direct debit. If the direct debit is not redeemed due to insufficient account funds or due to the provision of an incorrect bank account or if the customer objects to the debit, although he is not authorized to do so, the customer must bear the fees arising from the chargeback of the respective credit institution if he is responsible for this .

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1  The delivery of goods takes place on the way to the delivery address provided by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. When processing the transaction, the delivery address specified in the seller's order processing is decisive.

5.2  If the transport company sends the goods back to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer bears the costs of the unsuccessful shipment. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the circumstance that led to the impossibility of delivery or if he was temporarily prevented from accepting the offered service, unless the seller announced the service a reasonable time in advance would have. Furthermore, this does not apply with regard to the costs for the shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the return shipping costs are governed by the rules set out in the seller's cancellation policy.

5.3  Pickup is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

If the seller makes advance payments, he retains title to the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects apply.

7.2  The customer is asked to complain to the deliverer about goods delivered with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller of this. If the customer does not comply, this has no effect on his legal or contractual claims for defects.

8) Special conditions for processing goods according to certain specifications of the customer

8.1  If, according to the content of the contract, the seller owes the processing of the goods in accordance with the customer's specifications in addition to the delivery of the goods, the customer must provide the operator with all the content required for processing such as text, images or graphics in the file formats, formats, and to provide file sizes and to grant him the necessary usage rights. The customer is solely responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and assumes responsibility for the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he ensures that no third-party rights are infringed, in particular copyrights, trademarks and personal rights.

8.2  The customer releases the seller from third party claims, which they can assert in connection with a violation of their rights through the contractual use of the customer's content by the seller. The customer also assumes the reasonable costs of the necessary legal defense, including all legal and legal costs in the statutory amount. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the infringement. In the event of claims by third parties, the customer is obliged to provide the seller with all information that is necessary for the examination of the claims and defense in a prompt, truthful and complete manner.

8.3  The seller reserves the right to reject processing orders if the content provided by the customer violates legal or official prohibitions or is contrary to common decency. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, insulting, youth-endangering and / or violence-glorifying content.

9) Redeeming promotional vouchers

9.1  Vouchers that are issued free of charge by the seller as part of promotions with a certain period of validity and that cannot be purchased by the customer (hereinafter "promotional vouchers") can only be redeemed in the seller's online shop and only during the specified period.

9.2  Individual products can be excluded from the voucher campaign if there is a corresponding restriction in the content of the campaign voucher.

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

9.4  Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

9.5  The value of the goods must at least correspond to the amount of the campaign voucher. Any remaining credit will not be refunded by the seller.

9.6  If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the seller can be selected to pay the difference.

9.7  The credit of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor interest.

9.8  The promotional voucher will not be reimbursed if the customer returns all or part of the goods paid for with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

9.9  The promotional voucher is only intended for use by the person named on it. A transfer of the campaign voucher to third parties is excluded. The seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material entitlement of the respective voucher holder.

10) Applicable law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to all legal relationships of the parties, excluding the laws on the international purchase 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 is habitually resident.

11) Place of jurisdiction

If the customer acts as a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law based in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract is the seller's place of business. If the customer is based outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller's place of business is 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 is entitled to call the court at the customer's registered office.

12) Alternative dispute resolution

12.1  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 out-of-court settlement of disputes arising from online sales or service contracts in which a consumer is involved.

12.2  The seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute settlement procedure before a consumer arbitration board.