Our Terms and Conditions

General terms and conditions with customer information

1. Scope
2. Conclusion of the contract
3. Right of withdrawal
4. Prices and Payment Terms
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
6. Retention of title
7. Liability for defects (warranty)
8. Applicable Law
9. Place of jurisdiction
10. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Diamond Parfums International GmbH (hereinafter "Seller") apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") concludes with the Seller regarding the goods presented by the Seller in its online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby excluded.

This is not valid unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, a consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither attributable to their commercial nor their independent professional activity. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, an entrepreneur is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity that, when entering into a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of their commercial or independent 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 to enable 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 completing the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding offer to purchase the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that completes the order 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 email), whereby the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or

- by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby the receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive in this respect, or

- by requesting payment from the customer after they have placed their order.
If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract is concluded at the point in time when one of the aforementioned alternatives first occurs. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the offer is sent by the customer and ends at the end of the fifth day following the sending of the offer. If the seller accepts the customer's offer within
If the customer fails to comply within the aforementioned deadline, this shall be deemed a rejection of the offer, with the consequence that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 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 sent to the customer in text form (e.g., email, fax, or letter) after the customer submits their order. The seller does not make the contract text available in any other way. If the customer selects a [missing information] before submitting their order...
Once a user account has been set up in the seller's online shop, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the customer via their password-protected user account by entering the corresponding login data.

2.5 Before submitting a binding order via the seller's online order form, the customer can identify potential input errors by carefully reading the information displayed on the screen. An effective technical aid for better identifying input errors is the browser's zoom function, which enlarges the screen display. The customer can edit their entries during the electronic ordering process until further notice.
correct the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button to complete the order process.

2.6 Only the German language is available for concluding the contract.

2.7 Order processing and communication generally take place via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the email address provided for order processing is correct so that emails sent by the seller can be received at that address. In particular, if using spam filters, the customer must ensure that all emails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned by the seller for 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 withdrawal can be found in the seller's cancellation policy.

4) Prices and payment terms

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices including statutory VAT. Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be specified separately in the respective product description.

4.2 For deliveries to countries outside the European Union, additional costs may be incurred in individual cases, which are beyond the seller's control and must 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 and taxes (e.g., customs duties). Such costs may also be incurred with regard to money transfers even 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 When paying via a payment method offered by PayPal, payment processing is handled by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie,SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: "PayPal"), subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full or – if the customer does not have a PayPal account – subject to the terms for payments without a PayPal account, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 Unless otherwise agreed, goods will be delivered by mail to the delivery address specified by the customer. The delivery address specified in the seller's order processing system is decisive for the processing of the transaction.

5.2 If the shipping company returns the shipped goods to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer shall bear the costs of the unsuccessful shipment. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the circumstances that led to the impossibility of delivery or if the customer was temporarily prevented from accepting the offered service, unless the seller had notified the customer of the service a reasonable time in advance. Furthermore, this does not apply to the initial shipping costs if the customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal. Regarding return shipping costs, the provisions set forth in the seller's cancellation policy apply if the customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal.

5.3 For self-collection, the seller will first inform the customer by email that the ordered goods are ready for collection. After receiving this email, the customer can collect the goods from the seller's premises by prior arrangement. In this case, no shipping costs will be charged.

6) Retention of title

If the seller makes advance payment, he retains ownership of 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 warranty for defects shall apply.

7.2 The customer is requested to report any delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the delivery person and to inform the seller accordingly. Failure to do so will not affect the customer's statutory or contractual warranty rights.

8) Applicable Law

All legal relations between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the laws on the international sale of goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only to the extent that it does not deprive them of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which they have their habitual residence.

9) Place of jurisdiction

If the customer is a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or a special fund under public law, and has its registered office within 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 place of business. If the customer has its registered office outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller's place of business shall be the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract, provided that the contract or claims arising from the contract can be attributed to the customer's professional or commercial activities. In the aforementioned cases, however, the seller shall in any event be entitled to bring an action before the court at the customer's registered office.

10) Alternative Dispute Resolution

10.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution 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.

10.2 The seller is neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.