1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter “Terms and Conditions”) of Ocean-Spring Watermakers e.K. (hereinafter “Seller”), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter “Customer”) concludes with the Seller with regard to 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 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that cannot be predominantly attributed to either their commercial or independent professional activity.
1.3 An entrepreneur within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions 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 independent professional activity.
2.1 The product descriptions contained in the seller’s online shop do not represent binding offers on the part of the seller, but rather serve to make a binding offer by the customer.
2.2 The customer can submit the offer using 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 with regard to the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking on the button that completes the ordering process. The customer can also submit the offer to the seller by email.
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 receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
by asking the customer to pay after placing their order.
If several of the aforementioned alternatives are present, the contract is concluded at the point in time at which 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 following the sending of the offer. If the seller does not accept the customer’s offer within the aforementioned period, this is deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the result 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 saved by the seller after the contract has been concluded and sent to the customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the order has been sent. The seller will not make the contract text available 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 free of charge by the customer via his password-protected user account by providing the corresponding login data.
2.5 Before bindingly submitting 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 of better detecting input errors can be the browser’s magnification function, which enlarges the display on the screen. As part of the electronic ordering process, the customer can correct his entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that completes the ordering process.
2.6 Different languages are available for concluding the contract. The specific language selection is displayed in the online shop.
2.7 Order processing and contact usually take place via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the email address he provided to process the order 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.
3.1 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:
4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller’s product description, the prices stated are total prices and include statutory sales tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs that may arise will be stated separately in the respective product description.
4.2 The payment option(s) will be communicated to the customer in the seller’s online shop.
4.3 If advance payment by bank transfer has been agreed, payment is due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.
4.4 If you select a payment method offered via the “mollie” payment service, payment is processed via the payment service provider Mollie B.V., Keizersgracht 313, 1016 EE Amsterdam, Netherlands (hereinafter: “mollie”). The individual payment methods offered via mollie are communicated to the customer in the seller’s online shop. To process payments, mollie can use other payment services for which special payment conditions may apply, to which the customer will be informed separately if necessary. Further information about “mollie” is available on the Internet at https://www.mollie.com/de/.
5.1 If the seller offers to ship the goods, delivery will take place 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 is decisive.
5.2 For goods that are delivered by a freight forwarder, delivery is made “free curbside”, i.e. to the public curbside closest to the delivery address, unless otherwise stated in the shipping information in the seller’s online shop and unless otherwise agreed.
5.3 If 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 shipping costs if the customer effectively exercises his right of cancellation. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the return shipping costs will be subject to the provisions set out in the seller’s cancellation policy.
5.4 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold passes to the customer as soon as the seller has delivered the item to the freight forwarder, the freight 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 goods sold is generally only transferred when the goods are handed over to the customer or a person authorized to receive them. Deviating from this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold, even for consumers, passes to the customer as soon as the seller has delivered the item to the freight forwarder, the freight carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment, if the The customer commissions the freight forwarder, the freight forwarder or the other person or institution 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.
5.5 The seller reserves the right to withdraw from the contract in the event of incorrect or improper delivery. This only applies in the event that the non-delivery is not the fault of the seller and the seller has concluded a specific cover transaction with the supplier with due care. 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.
5.6 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.
If the seller makes advance payments, he reserves ownership of the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.
Unless otherwise stated in the following regulations, the provisions of statutory 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 defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
In the case of used goods, rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
The statute of limitations does not begin again if a replacement delivery is made within the scope of liability for defects.
7.2 The limitations of liability and shortening of deadlines regulated above do not apply
for 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 in accordance with their normal use and have caused its defects,
for any 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 legal recourse claim remain unaffected.
7.4 If the customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 HGB, he is subject to the commercial obligation to investigate and report complaints in accordance with § 377 HGB. If the customer fails to comply with the reporting obligations regulated there, the goods are deemed to have been approved.
7.5 If the customer acts as a consumer, he is asked to complain to the deliverer about delivered goods with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller of this. If the customer does not comply with this, this will have no impact on his legal or contractual claims for defects.
7.6 Excluded from the warranty are consumables such as filters and also reverse osmosis membranes.
If the seller owes the repair of an item belonging to the customer according to the content of the contract, the following applies:
8.1 Repair services are provided at the seller’s headquarters.
8.2 The seller provides his services at his own discretion or through qualified personnel selected by him. The seller can also use the services of third parties (subcontractors) who work on his behalf. Unless otherwise stated in the seller’s service description, the customer has no right to select a specific person to carry out the desired service.
8.3 The customer must provide the seller with all information necessary to repair the item, provided that obtaining it does not fall within the seller’s scope of duties according to the content of the contract. In particular, the customer must provide the seller with a comprehensive description of the error and inform him of all circumstances that could be the cause of the identified error.
8.4 Unless otherwise agreed, the customer must ship the item to be repaired to the seller’s headquarters at his own expense and risk. The seller recommends that the customer take out transport insurance for this purpose. Furthermore, the seller recommends that the customer send the item in suitable transport packaging in order to reduce the risk of damage during transport and to conceal the contents of the packaging. The seller will immediately inform the customer of any obvious transport damage so that the customer can assert any rights they may have against the transporter.
8.5 The item will be returned at the customer’s expense. The risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the item passes to the customer when the item is handed over to a suitable transport person at the seller’s place of business. At the customer’s request, the seller will take out transport insurance for the item.
8.6 The customer can also take the item to be repaired to the seller’s headquarters and pick it up again if this is stated in the seller’s service description or if the parties have made a corresponding agreement on this. In this case, the above regulations regarding the assumption of costs and risks when shipping and returning the item apply accordingly.
8.7 The aforementioned regulations do not limit the customer’s statutory defect rights in the event of purchasing goods from the seller.
8.8 The seller is liable for defects in the repair service provided in accordance with the provisions of statutory liability for defects.
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to all legal relationships between the parties, excluding the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law only applies 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 or her habitual residence.
If the customer acts as a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law based in 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 customer’s professional or commercial activity. In the above cases, however, the seller is in any case entitled to appeal to the court at the customer’s registered office.
11.1 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 in which a consumer is involved.
11.2 The seller is neither obliged nor willing to take part in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.
