Table of contents

1. Scope
2. Conclusion of contract
3. Right of withdrawal
4. Prices and terms of payment
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
6. Term and termination of subscription contracts
7. Retention of title
8. Liability for defects (warranty)
9. Redemption of promotional vouchers
10. Gift certificate redemption
11. Applicable law
12. Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter “GTC”) of Darwin’s Daughter (hereinafter “Seller”) shall apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods concluded by a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter “Customer”) with the Seller with regard to the goods presented by the Seller in its online store. The inclusion of the Customer’s own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 These GTC shall apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of vouchers, unless otherwise expressly agreed.

1.3 For the purposes of these GTC, a consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. An entrepreneur within the meaning of these GTC is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his commercial or independent professional activity.

1.4 The subject matter of the contract may be – depending on the Seller’s product description – both the purchase of goods by way of a one-time delivery and the purchase of goods by way of a permanent delivery (hereinafter “Subscription Contract”). In the case of a subscription contract, the Seller undertakes to supply the Customer with the contractually owed goods for the duration of the agreed contract term at the contractually owed time intervals.

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 may submit the offer via the online order form integrated into the Seller’s online store. In doing so, 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 the button that concludes the ordering process. Furthermore, the customer can also submit the offer to the seller by telephone or e-mail.

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 point in time at which one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for acceptance of 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 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 a payment method offered by 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 (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 and 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 pays by means of a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected in the online ordering process, the seller already declares acceptance of the customer’s offer at the time the customer clicks the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.5 When submitting an offer via the Seller’s online order form, the text of the contract shall be stored by the Seller after the conclusion of the contract and transmitted to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer’s order has been sent. The Seller shall not make the text of the contract accessible beyond this. If the Customer has set up a user account in the Seller’s online store before sending his order, the order data shall be archived on the Seller’s website and can be accessed by the Customer free of charge via his password-protected user account by providing the relevant login data.

2.6 Before bindingly placing 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 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 during the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.7 The German and English languages are available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.8 The order processing and contacting usually take place via 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) Widerrufsrecht

3.1 Verbrauchern steht grundsätzlich ein Widerrufsrecht zu.

3.2 Nähere Informationen zum Widerrufsrecht ergeben sich aus der Widerrufsbelehrung des Verkäufers.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller’s product description, the prices quoted are total prices which include the statutory value added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be indicated separately in the respective product description.

4.2 The payment option(s) will be communicated to the Customer in the Seller’s online store.

4.3 If the payment method “SOFORT” is selected, the payment will be processed via the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany (hereinafter “SOFORT”). In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via “SOFORT”, the customer must have an online banking account that has been activated for participation in “SOFORT”, must identify himself accordingly during the payment process and must confirm the payment instruction to “SOFORT”. The payment transaction will be executed immediately afterwards by “SOFORT” and the customer’s bank account will be debited. More detailed information on the “SOFORT” payment method can be found by the customer on the Internet at https://www.klarna.com/sofort/.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 The delivery of goods shall be made by shipping 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 shall be decisive.

5.2 If the 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 shall not apply with regard to the costs for the return shipment if the customer effectively exercises its right of revocation. In the event that the customer effectively exercises its right of revocation, the provision made in the seller’s revocation instructions shall apply to the costs of returning the goods.

5.3 In case of self-collection, the Seller shall first inform the Customer by e-mail that the goods ordered by the Customer are ready for collection. After receiving this e-mail, the Customer may pick up the goods at the Seller’s registered office by arrangement with the Seller. In this case, no shipping costs will be charged.

5.4 Vouchers shall be provided to the Customer as follows:

by e-mail

postal

6) Term and termination of subscription contracts

6.1 Subscription agreements are concluded for an indefinite period and may be terminated by the Customer at any time without notice.

6.2 The right to extraordinary termination for good cause shall remain unaffected. Good cause shall be deemed to exist if the terminating party, taking into account all circumstances of the individual case and weighing the interests of both parties, cannot reasonably be expected to continue the contractual relationship until the agreed termination or until the expiry of a notice period.

6.3 Notices of termination shall be given in writing or in text form (e.g. by e-mail).

7) 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.

8) Mängelhaftung (Gewährleistung)

8.1 If the purchased goods are defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply with a time limit of four weeks.

8.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following shall apply to used goods: Claims for defects shall be excluded if the defect only occurs after four weeks from delivery of the goods. Defects occurring within four weeks from delivery of the goods may be claimed within the statutory limitation period. However, the shortening of the liability period to four weeks shall not apply

for items that have been used in accordance with their usual purpose (for a building) and have caused its defectiveness,

for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses of the customer, as well as

in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect.

8.3 If the Customer is acting as a consumer, he is requested to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the Seller thereof. If the customer does not comply with this, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

9) Redemption of promotional vouchers

9.1 Vouchers issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotions with a specific validity period and which 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.

9.2 Promotion Vouchers can only be redeemed by consumers.

9.3 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion, provided that a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.

9.4 Promotion vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

9.5 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

9.6 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining credit balance shall not be refunded by the Seller.

9.7 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.

9.8 The credit balance of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it bear interest.

9.9 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 scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

9.10 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.

10) Gift certificate redemption

10.1 Gift certificates that can be purchased via 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.

10.2 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.

10.3 Gift vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

10.4 Only one gift voucher can be redeemed per order.

10.5 Gift vouchers can only be used for the purchase of goods and not for the purchase of additional gift vouchers.

10.6 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.

10.7 The balance of a gift voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it earn interest.

10.8 The Gift Certificate is intended only for use by the person named on it. Transfer of the Gift Certificate to third parties is excluded. The Seller is entitled, but not obliged, to verify the material eligibility of the respective Gift Voucher Holder.

11) Applicable law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply to all legal relationships between the parties to the exclusion of the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply to the extent that the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence.

12) Alternative dispute resolution

12.1 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 involving a consumer.

12.2 The Seller is not obliged to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board, but is generally willing to do so.