Terms of service

1) Scope of application
1.1 These terms and conditions of Mode de Vie online-commerce (hereinafter referred to as "Seller"), apply to all contracts that a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as "Client") concludes with the Seller regarding the goods and / or services presented by the Seller in his online store. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.
1.2 For contracts for the delivery of vouchers, these GTC apply accordingly, unless otherwise expressly regulated.
1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for a purpose that can be attributed neither to his commercial nor to his independent professional activity. An entrepreneur within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his independent professional or commercial activity.

2) Conclusion of contract
2.1 The product descriptions contained in the Seller's online store do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve for the submission of 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 store. In doing so, after entering his personal data, the customer submits a legally binding contractual offer with regard to the goods and/or services contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering 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 e-mail), in which case the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer shall be decisive, or
- by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, in which case the receipt of the goods by the customer shall be decisive, or
- by requesting payment from the customer after the customer has placed the order.
If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract shall be concluded at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. If the Seller does not accept the Customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this shall be deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer shall no longer be bound by its declaration of intent.
2.4 If the customer selects "PayPal Express" as a payment method during the ordering process, he also issues a payment order to his payment service provider by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process. In this case, the seller declares, in deviation from section 2.3, the acceptance of the offer of the customer at the time when the customer triggers the payment process by clicking the button that completes the order process.
2.5 The period for the acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the sending of the offer by the customer and ends with the expiry of the fifth day following the sending of the offer.

2.6 When submitting an offer via the Seller's online order form, the text of the contract shall be stored by the Seller and sent to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has sent its order together with these GTC. In addition, the text of the contract is archived on the Seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the Customer via his password-protected customer account by providing the relevant login data, provided that the Customer has created a customer account in the Seller's online store before submitting his order.
2.7 Before bindingly submitting the order via the Seller's online order form, the Customer can continuously correct its entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions. In addition, all entries are displayed again in a confirmation window before the binding submission of the order and can also be corrected there using the usual keyboard and mouse functions.

2.8 The English language is available for the conclusion of the contract.
2.9 Order processing and contact shall take place by e-mail and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for order processing is correct, so that 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 by the seller to process the order can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal
Consumers are generally entitled to a right of withdrawal. More information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the seller's cancellation policy. 

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 The prices stated by the Seller are total prices. Value added tax is not shown, as the seller falls under the small business regulation. Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be indicated separately in the respective product description.
4.2 Various payment options are available to the Customer, which are indicated in the Seller's online store.

4.3 If the payment method "PayPal" is selected, the payment shall 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, subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, available at https://www.paypal.com/ch/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full?locale.x=de_CH. This requires, among other things, that the customer opens a PayPal account or already has such an account.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions
5.1 The delivery of goods is regularly carried out by shipping and to the delivery address specified by the customer. When processing the transaction, the delivery address specified in the order processing of the seller is decisive. Deviating from this, if the payment method PayPal is selected, the delivery address deposited by the customer with PayPal at the time of payment shall be decisive.
5.2 If the transport company returns the shipped goods to the seller because delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer shall bear the costs for the unsuccessful shipment.
5.3 In principle, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold shall pass to the customer when the goods are handed over for shipment or when they are handed over to the appointed transport person.
5.4 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons. 

6) Liability for defects
The statutory liability for defects shall apply.

7) Special conditions for the processing of goods according to certain specifications of the Customer.
7.1 If, according to the content of the contract, in addition to the delivery of goods, the Seller is also obligated to process the goods according to certain specifications of the Customer, the Customer shall provide the Operator with all content required for the processing, such as texts, images or graphics in the file formats, formatting, image and file sizes specified by the Operator and shall grant the Operator the necessary rights of use for this purpose. The customer alone is responsible for the procurement and acquisition of rights to this content. The customer declares and assumes responsibility that he has the right to use the content provided to the seller. In particular, he shall ensure that no rights of third parties are violated thereby, in particular copyrights, trademark rights and personal rights.
7.2 The Customer shall indemnify the Seller against claims of third parties which the latter may assert against the Seller in connection with an infringement of their rights by the contractual use of the Customer's content by the Seller. In this context, the Customer shall also bear the reasonable costs of the necessary legal defense, including all court and attorney's fees in the statutory amount. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the infringement. In the event of a claim by a third party, the customer is obliged to provide the seller immediately, truthfully and completely with all information required for the examination of the claims and a defense.
7.3 The Seller reserves the right to refuse processing orders if the content provided by the Customer for this purpose violates statutory or official prohibitions or offends common decency. This shall apply in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, offensive, youth-endangering and/or violence-glorifying content.

8) Redemption of promotional vouchers
8.1 Vouchers that are issued by the Seller free of charge as part of promotions with a specific validity period and that cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter "Promotion Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online store and only during the specified period.
8.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.
8.3 Promotion vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.
8.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.
8.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal 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 may be chosen to settle the difference.
8.7 The credit balance of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it bear interest.
8.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotional voucher within the framework of his contractual right of withdrawal, if such a right has been agreed.
8.9 The promotional voucher is intended only for use by the person named on it. Transfer of the promotional voucher to third parties is excluded. The seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material eligibility of the respective voucher holder.

9) Redemption of gift vouchers
9.1 Gift certificates that can be purchased through the Seller's online store (hereinafter "Gift Certificates") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online store, unless otherwise stated in the Gift Certificate.
9.2 Gift Vouchers and remaining balances of Gift Vouchers are redeemable until the end of the third year after the year of the purchase of the Gift Voucher. Remaining credits will be credited to the customer until the expiration date.
9.3 Gift vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.
9.4 Only one gift voucher can be redeemed per order.
9.5 Gift vouchers can only be used for the purchase of goods and not for the purchase of additional gift vouchers.
9.6 If the value of the Gift Voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller may be chosen to settle the difference.
9.7 The balance of a gift voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it earn interest.
9.8 The gift voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the Gift Voucher in the Seller's online store. This does not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representative authority of the respective holder.

10) Applicable law, place of jurisdiction

10.1 If the customer is acting as a consumer, all legal relations between the parties shall be governed by Swiss law, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be the customer's place of residence.
10.2 If the Customer is acting as an entrepreneur, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be the place of residence or business of the Seller.

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