General Terms and Conditions

I. General Terms and Conditions

§ 1 Basic Provisions

(1) The following business terms are applicable to all the contracts, which you conclude with us as a supplier (A.KRÜSS Optronic GmbH) via the www.kruess.com/shop/index.php website. Unless otherwise agreed, the inclusion of your own terms and conditions, if any, is contradicted.

(2) A consumer within the meaning of the following provisions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to their commercial nor their independent professional activity. A company is any natural person, legal entity or partnership that exercises their independent professional or commercial activity when concluding a legal transaction.

§ 2 Formation of the contract

(1) The subject of the contract is the sale of goods.

(2) By placing the respective product on our website, we make you a binding offer to conclude a contract via the online shopping cart system under the conditions specified in the item description.

(3) The contract is concluded via the online shopping cart system as follows:
The goods intended for purchase are placed in the “shopping cart”. You can call up the “Shopping cart” via the corresponding button in the navigation bar and make changes there at any time.
After clicking on the “Checkout” or “Continue to order” button (or similar) and entering your personal data as well as the payment and shipping conditions, the order data will be displayed as an order overview.

If you use an instant payment system (e.g. PayPal (Express/Plus/Checkout), Amazon Pay, Sofort, giropay) as a payment method, you will either be taken to the order overview page in our online store or redirected to the website of the provider of the instant payment system.
If you are redirected to the respective instant payment system, make the appropriate selection or enter your data there. Finally, the order data will be displayed as an order overview on the website of the provider of the instant payment system or after you have been redirected back to our online store.

Before submitting the order, you have the option of checking the details in the order overview again, changing them (also via the “back” function of the Internet browser) or canceling the order.
By sending the order via the corresponding button (“order with obligation to pay”, “buy” / “buy now”, “order with obligation to pay”, “pay” / “pay now” or similar designation), you declare legally binding acceptance of the offer, whereby the contract is concluded.

(4) Your requests for a quotation are non-binding for you. We will submit a binding offer to you in text form (e.g. by e-mail), which you can accept within 5 days (unless another period is specified in the respective offer).

(5) The processing of the order and transmission of all information required in connection with the conclusion of the contract is carried out by e-mail, partly automatically. You must therefore ensure that the e-mail address you have provided to us is correct, that the receipt of e-mails is technically ensured and, in particular, that it is not prevented by SPAM filters.

§ 3 Special agreements on payment methods offered

If you select a payment method that is offered via “PayPal” / “PayPal Checkout”, 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; “PayPal”). The individual payment methods via “PayPal” are displayed to you under a correspondingly labeled button on our website and in the online ordering process. PayPal” may use other payment services for payment processing; if special payment terms apply, you will be informed of these separately. You can find more information about “PayPal” at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/legalhub-full.

§ 4 Right of retention, retention of title

(1) You may only exercise a right of retention insofar as it concerns claims arising from the same contractual relationship.

(2) The goods shall remain our property until the purchase price has been paid in full.

(3) If you are an entrepreneur, the following also applies:

a) We reserve title to the goods until all claims arising from the current business relationship have been settled in full. Pledging or assignment as security is not permitted prior to transfer of the ownership to the goods subject to reservation.

b) You may resell the goods in the ordinary course of business. In this case, you hereby assign to us all claims in the amount of the invoice amount that accrue to you from the resale; we accept the assignment. You are further authorized to collect the claim. However, if you do not meet your payment obligations properly, we reserve the right to collect the claim ourselves.

c) If the goods subject to retention of title are combined and mixed, we shall acquire co-ownership of the new item in the ratio of the invoice value of the goods subject to retention of title to the other processed items at the time of processing.

d) We undertake to release the securities to which we are entitled at your request to the extent that the realizable value of our securities exceeds the claim to be secured by more than 10%. We shall be responsible for selecting the collateral to be released.

§ 5 Warranty

(1) The statutory liability for defects shall apply.

(2) As a consumer, you are requested to check the goods immediately upon delivery for completeness, obvious defects and transport damage and to notify us and the carrier of any complaints as soon as possible. If you do not comply with this, this has no effect on your statutory warranty claims.

(3) If you are an entrepreneur, the following shall apply in deviation from the above warranty provisions:

a) Only our own specifications and the manufacturer’s product description shall be deemed agreed as the quality of the item, but not other advertising, public promotions and statements by the manufacturer.

b) In the event of defects, we shall provide warranty at our discretion by repair or subsequent delivery. If the rectification of defects fails, you can choose to demand a reduction or withdraw from the contract. The rectification of defects shall be deemed to have failed after the second unsuccessful attempt, unless the nature of the item or the defect or other circumstances indicate otherwise. In the event of rectification of defects, we shall not be required to bear the increased costs arising from the transportation of the goods to a location other than the place of performance, provided that the transportation does not correspond to the intended use of the goods.

c) The warranty period is one year from delivery of the goods. The shortened deadline does not apply:

– for culpably caused damage attributable to us arising from injury to life, limb or health and for other damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence;
– insofar as we have fraudulently concealed the defect or have assumed a guarantee for the quality of the item;
– for items that have been used for a building in accordance with their normal use and have caused its defectiveness;
– in the case of statutory recourse claims that you have against us in connection with warranty rights.

§ 6 Choice of law, place of performance, place of jurisdiction

(1) German law shall apply. For consumers, this governing law applies only if this does not exclude the protection granted by the mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has their habitual residence (principle of favourability).

(2) The place of performance for all services arising from the business relationships existing with us and the place of jurisdiction shall be our registered office if you are not a consumer but a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law. The same applies if you do not have a general place of jurisdiction in Germany or the EU or if your place of residence or habitual abode is not known at the time the action is brought. The authority to initiate proceedings at another statutory place of jurisdiction remains hereby unaffected.

(3) The provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods shall expressly not apply.

II. Customer information

1. Identity of the seller

A.KRÜSS Optronic GmbH
Alsterdorfer Straße 276-278
22297 Hamburg Germany
Germany
Telephone: 0049 -40-51431724
E-Mail: info@kruess.com

Alternative dispute resolution:
The European Commission provides a platform for out-of-court online dispute resolution (ODR platform), available at https://ec.europa.eu/odr (https://ec.europa.eu/odr).

2. Information regarding the conclusion of the contract

The technical steps for the conclusion of the contract, the conclusion of the contract itself and the correction options are carried out in accordance with the provisions “Conclusion of the contract” of our General Terms and Conditions (Part I.).

3. Contractual language, saving the text of the contract

3.1. Contract language is German .

3.2. The complete text of the contract is not stored by us. Before the order is sent, via the online – shopping cart system the contract data can be printed out or electronically saved using the browser’s print function. After we have received your order, the order data, the information required by law for distance selling contracts and the General Terms and Conditions will be sent to you again by e-mail.

3.3. In the case of requests for quotations outside the online shopping cart system, you will receive all contract data as part of a binding offer in text form, e.g. by e-mail, which you can print out or save electronically.

4. Essential features of the goods or services

The essential features of the goods and/or services can be found in the respective offer.

5. Prices and payment arrangements

5.1. The prices mentioned in the respective offers represent total prices, as do the shipping costs. They include all the price components, not including are the incidental taxes.

5.2. The dispatch costs that are incurred are not included in the purchase price. They can be called up via a correspondingly labeled button on our website or in the respective offer, are shown separately during the ordering process and are to be borne by you in addition, unless free delivery has been promised.

5.3. If the delivery is made to countries outside the European Union, further costs may be incurred for which we are not responsible, such as customs duties, taxes or money transfer fees (transfer or exchange rate fees of the credit institutions), which are to be borne by you.

5.4. Any costs incurred for the transfer of money (transfer or exchange rate fees charged by credit institutions) shall be borne by you in cases where the delivery is made to an EU member state but the payment was initiated outside the European Union.

5.5. The payment methods available to you are shown under a correspondingly labeled button on our website or in the respective offer.

5.6. Unless otherwise specified for the respective payment methods, the payment claims arising from the contract that has been concluded become payable immediately.

6. Delivery conditions

6.1. The delivery conditions, the delivery date and any existing delivery restrictions can be found under a correspondingly labeled button on our website or in the respective offer.

6.2. If you are a consumer, the law stipulates that the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold during shipment only passes to you when the goods are handed over to you, regardless of whether the shipment is insured or uninsured. This does not apply if you have independently commissioned a transport company not named by the entrepreneur or another person designated to carry out the shipment.

If you are an entrepreneur, delivery and shipment are at your risk.

7. Statutory warranty right

Liability for defects is governed by the “Warranty” provisions in our General Terms and Conditions of Business (Part I).

These general terms and conditions and customer information were created by the lawyers of the Händlerbund who specialize in IT law and are constantly checked for legal conformity. Händlerbund Management AG guarantees the legal security of the texts and is liable in the event of warnings. You can find more information on this at: https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/leistungen/rechtssicherheit/agb-service (https://www.haendlerbund.de/de/leistungen/rechtssicherheit/agb-service).

last update: 29.11.2023