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Terms of service

TABLE OF CONTENTS

scope

conclusion of contract

right of withdrawal

Prices and terms of payment

Delivery and shipping conditions

retention of title

Liability for defects (warranty)

Redeeming promotional vouchers

Applicable Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) SCOPE OF APPLICATION

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of gSkin, trading under "gSkin

1.2 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. Entrepreneur within the meaning of these 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) CONCLUSION OF CONTRACT

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the seller's online shop do not represent 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 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 with regard 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 e-mail), whereby receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or

by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or

by asking the customer to pay after placing his order.

If there are several of the above alternatives, the contract is concluded at the point in time at which one of the above alternatives occurs first. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the customer has sent 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 If you select the payment method "PayPal Express", 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/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, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax- full. If the customer selects "PayPal Express" as the payment method during the online ordering process, he also issues a payment order to PayPal by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. In this case, the seller already declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the point in time at which the customer initiates 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 text of the contract is saved by the seller after the conclusion of the contract and sent to the customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the order has been sent. The seller does not make the contract text accessible beyond this.

2.6 Before submitting a binding 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 as part of the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on 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 contact are usually made via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for order processing 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 e-mails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned to process the order can be delivered.

3) RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL
3.1 Consumers are generally entitled to a right of withdrawal.

3.2 More detailed information on the right of cancellation 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 that include statutory sales tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs 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 for which the seller is not responsible and which are to be borne by the customer. These include, for example, costs for money transfers by banks (e.g. transfer fees, exchange rate fees) or import duties or taxes (e.g. customs duties). Such costs can also be incurred in relation to the transfer of money 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 When paying using a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment is 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/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, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax- full.

4.5 If the credit card payment method is selected, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. The credit card payment method is processed in cooperation with secupay AG, Goethestr. 6, 01896 Pulsnitz (www.secupay.ag) to which the provider assigns his payment claim. secupay AG collects the invoice amount from the customer's specified credit card account. In the event of assignment, payment can only be made to secupay AG with debt-discharging effect. The credit card will be charged immediately after the customer's order has been sent in the online shop. Even if the credit card payment method is selected via secupay AG, the provider remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g. about the goods, delivery time, shipment, returns, complaints, declarations of cancellation and cancellations or credit notes.

4.6 If you select the credit card payment method via Wirecard, the payment will be processed via Wirecard Bank AG, Einsteinring 35, 85609 Aschheim (https://www.wirecardbank.com/) to which the seller assigns his payment claim. Wirecard Bank AG collects the invoice amount from the customer's specified credit card account. In the event of assignment, payment can only be made to Wirecard Bank AG with debt-discharging effect. The credit card is charged immediately after the customer's order has been sent via the seller's online shop. Even if the credit card payment method is selected via Wirecard, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g. B. to the goods, delivery time, shipment, returns, complaints, cancellation declarations and shipments or credits. Reference is made to the information provided by Wirecard Bank AG in accordance with Article 13 GDPR in connection with the processing of credit card payments at https://www.wirecardbank.de/DSGVO.

4.7 When paying via Twint for an online order, no additional payment fees are due.

4.8 Purchase on account with partial payment option (POWERPAY)

As an external payment service provider, MF Group / POWERPAY offers the payment method “purchase on account”. With the individual invoice, you can easily pay for your online purchase by invoice. If you do not make a payment within the specified time frame, you will receive a monthly invoice with an overview of your order in the following month.

When the purchase contract is concluded, POWERPAY takes over the invoice claim and handles the corresponding payment modalities. When purchasing on account, you accept the POWERPAY terms and conditions in addition to our terms and conditions. (powerpay.ch/de/agb).

5) DELIVERY AND SHIPPING TERMS
5.1 Goods are delivered 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 If the transport company sends the shipped goods back to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer bears the costs for 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 service offered, unless the seller announced the service to him a reasonable time in advance would have. Furthermore, this does not apply with regard to the costs for the delivery if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. If the customer effectively exercises the right of cancellation, the regulation made in the seller's cancellation policy applies to the return costs.

5.3 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) RESERVATION OF TITLE
If the seller pays in advance, he retains ownership of the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

7) LIABILITY FOR DEFECTS (GUARANTEE)
7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the statutory liability for defects applies.

7.2 Deviating from this, the following applies to used goods: Claims for defects are excluded if the defect only occurs one year after delivery of the goods. Defects that occur within one year of delivery of the goods can be asserted within the statutory limitation period. However, reducing the liability period to one year does not apply

for items that have been used for a building in accordance with their usual purpose and have caused its defectiveness,
for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the customer, as well as
in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect.
7.3 The customer 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, this has no effect whatsoever on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

8) REDEMPTION OF PROMOTIONAL VOUCHERS
8.1 Vouchers that are issued free of charge by the seller as part of promotions with a specific 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 in the specified period.

8.2 Individual products can be excluded from the voucher campaign if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the campaign voucher.

8.3 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed before completing the ordering process. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

8.4 Several promotional vouchers can also be redeemed for one order.

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

8.6 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 settle the difference.

8.7 The balance of a promotional voucher will neither be paid out in cash nor will interest be paid.

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

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

9) GOVERNING LAW
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 insofar as the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence.

10) ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
10.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution under 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.

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