Terms of Service

 

1. Scope

The following terms and conditions apply to all orders placed through our online shop by consumers and entrepreneurs.

A consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither commercial nor self-employed. An entrepreneur is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership who, when concluding a legal transaction, is exercising their commercial or independent professional activity.

With regard to entrepreneurs, these terms and conditions also apply to future business relationships without our having to refer to them again. If the entrepreneur uses conflicting or supplementary general terms and conditions, their validity is hereby contradicted; they only become part of the contract if we have expressly consented to this.

2. Contractual partner, conclusion of contract

The purchase contract is concluded with VitaminShop

By placing the products in the online shop, we are submitting a binding offer to conclude a contract for these items. You can initially place our products in the shopping cart without obligation and correct your entries at any time before submitting your binding order by using the correction aids provided and explained in the order process. The contract is concluded when you click the order button to accept the offer for the goods in the shopping cart. Immediately after submitting the order, you will receive another confirmation by email.

3. Contract language, contract text storage
The language available for the conclusion of the contract is German.

We save the contract text and send you the order data and our terms and conditions by email. For security reasons, the text of the contract is no longer accessible on the Internet.

4. Terms of delivery

In addition to the stated product prices, there are also shipping costs. You can find out more about the amount of shipping costs in the offers.

We only deliver by post. Unfortunately, a self collection of the product is not possible.

5. Payment

The following payment methods are generally available in our shop:

Prepayment
If you choose the prepayment method, we will give you our bank details in a separate email and deliver the goods after receipt of payment.

PayPal, PayPal Express
During the ordering process you will be redirected to the website of the online provider PayPal. In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via PayPal, you must be registered there or first register, legitimize with your access data and confirm the payment instruction to us. After placing the order in the shop, we ask PayPal to initiate the payment transaction.
The payment transaction will be carried out automatically by PayPal immediately afterwards. You’ll get more information during the ordering process.
 

PayPal Plus
As part of the PayPal Plus payment service, we offer you various payment methods as PayPal services. You will be redirected to the website of the online provider PayPal. There you can enter your payment details, confirm the use of your data by PayPal and the payment order to PayPal.

If you have chosen the PayPal payment method , in order to be able to pay the invoice amount, you must be registered there or first register and legitimize with your access data. The payment transaction is automatically carried out by PayPal immediately after the payment order has been confirmed. You’ll get more information during the ordering process.

If you choose the credit card payment methodyou do not have to be registered with PayPal in order to be able to pay the invoice amount. The payment transaction will be carried out by your credit card company at the request of PayPal and your card will be debited immediately after confirmation of the payment order and after your legitimation as the legitimate cardholder. You’ll get more information during the ordering process.

If you choose the invoiceyou do not have to be registered with PayPal in order to be able to pay the invoice amount. After a successful address and credit check and submission of the order, we assign our claims to PayPal. In this case, you can only pay to PayPal with a debt-discharging effect. For payment processing via PayPal – in addition to our terms and conditions – the terms and conditions and the privacy policy of PayPal apply. Further information and the complete terms and conditions of PayPal for purchase on account can be found here: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms?locale.x=de_DE .
 

Sofort by Klarna
After placing the order, you will be redirected to the website of the online provider Sofort GmbH. In order to be able to pay the invoice amount via Sofort, you must have an online banking account with PIN / TAN that has been activated for participation in Sofort, identify yourself accordingly and confirm the payment order to us. You’ll get more information during the ordering process. The payment transaction will be carried out immediately afterwards by Sofort and your account will be debited.

Amazon Pay
During the ordering process, you will be redirected to the website of the online provider Amazon before completing the ordering process in our online shop. In order to process the order process via Amazon and pay the invoice amount, you must be registered there or first register and legitimize with your access data. There you can select the delivery address and payment method saved by Amazon, confirm the use of your data by Amazon and confirm the payment instructions to us. You will then be redirected back to our online shop, where you can complete the ordering process.
Immediately after the goods have been dispatched, we ask Amazon to initiate the payment transaction. The payment transaction is carried out automatically by Amazon. You’ll get more information during the ordering process.

6. Retention of title

The goods remain our property until full payment.
For entrepreneurs, the following also applies: We reserve ownership of the goods until all claims from an ongoing business relationship have been settled in full. You may resell the reserved goods in the ordinary course of business; You assign all claims arising from this resale – regardless of a combination or mixing of the reserved goods with a new item – in the amount of the invoice amount to us in advance, and we accept this assignment. You remain authorized to collect the claims, but we may also collect claims ourselves if you fail to meet your payment obligations.

7. Transport damage

If goods are delivered with obvious transport damage, please report such errors to the deliverer as soon as possible and contact us immediately. Failure to lodge a complaint or to contact you has no consequences for your legal claims and their enforcement, in particular your warranty rights. However, they help us to assert our own claims against the carrier or the transport insurance.

8. Warranties and Guarantees

Unless otherwise expressly agreed below, the statutory right to liability for defects applies.
The following applies to the purchase of used goods by consumers: if the defect occurs one year after delivery of the goods, claims for defects are excluded. Defects that occur within one year of delivery of the goods can be asserted within the statutory limitation period of two years from delivery of the goods.
For entrepreneurs, the limitation period for claims for defects in newly manufactured items is one year from the transfer of risk. The sale of used goods takes place under the exclusion of any warranty. The statutory limitation periods for the right of recourse according to § 445a BGB remain unaffected.
With regard to entrepreneurs, only our own information and the manufacturer’s product descriptions, which were included in the contract, apply as an agreement on the quality of the goods; We assume no liability for public statements by the manufacturer or other advertising statements.
If the delivered item is defective, we shall initially provide a guarantee to entrepreneurs, at our option, by eliminating the defect (subsequent improvement) or by delivering a defect-free item (replacement delivery).
The above restrictions and shortened deadlines do not apply to claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

  • in the event of injury to life, body or health
  • in the event of willful or grossly negligent breach of duty as well as malice
  • in the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and compliance with which the contractual partner can regularly rely (cardinal obligations)
  • as part of a guarantee promise, if agreed
  • as far as the scope of the product liability law is opened.

Information on any additional guarantees that may apply and their precise conditions can be found with the product and on special information pages in the online shop.

9. Liability

We are always unrestrictedly liable for claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

  • in the event of injury to life, body or health,
  • in the event of willful or grossly negligent breach of duty,
  • in the case of guarantee promises, if agreed, or
  • as far as the scope of the product liability law is opened.

In the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfillment of which makes the proper execution of the contract possible in the first place and on whose compliance the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations) through slight negligence on the part of us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents, the amount of liability is foreseeable at the time the contract was concluded Damage limited, the occurrence of which can typically be expected. In addition, claims for damages are excluded.

10. Dispute settlement
The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute settlement (OS), which you can find here https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/ . Consumers have the opportunity to use this platform to settle their disputes.
To settle disputes arising from a contractual relationship with a consumer or whether such a contractual relationship even exists, we are obliged to participate in dispute settlement procedures before a consumer arbitration board. The general consumer arbitration board of the Center for Arbitration eV, Straßburger Straße 8, 77694 Kehl am Rhein, www.verbübers-schlichter.de is responsible . We will take part in a dispute settlement procedure before this point.

11. Final provisions

If you are a merchant within the meaning of the Commercial Code, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from contractual relationships between us and you is our place of business.