Terms of service

Note: This is an unofficial English translation of our German Terms and Conditions provided for convenience only. Only the German version is legally binding. In case of discrepancies or inconsistencies, the German text shall prevail.

The legally binding German version of our Terms and Conditions can be found here: https://sevengardens.shop/policies/terms-of-service

Our shop primarily serves customers within Germany. Standard shipping is currently available within Germany only. Shipping to other countries may be possible in individual cases upon request. Please contact us before placing an order so we can check availability and shipping costs.

Table of contents

1. Scope of application
   
2. Conclusion of contract
   
3. Right of withdrawal
   
4. Prices and terms of payment
   
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
   
6. Granting of rights of use for digital content
   
7. Retention of title
   
8. Liability for defects (warranty)
   
9. Liability for
   
10. Redemption of promotional vouchers
    
11. Redemption of gift vouchers
    
12. Applicable law
    
13. Alternative dispute resolution

1) Scope of application

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “GTC”) of the company Daniel Sartor (hereinafter referred to as “Seller”) shall apply to all contracts concluded between a consumer or a trader (hereinafter referred to as “Client”) and the Seller relating to all goods and/or services presented in the Seller's online store. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby rejected, unless otherwise agreed.

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

1.3 These GTC apply accordingly to contracts for the provision of digital content, unless otherwise agreed. Digital content within the meaning of these GTC is data that is created and provided in digital form.

1.4 For the purposes of these GTC, a consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or profession.

1.5 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, is acting 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 store do not constitute binding offers on the part of the seller, but serve to submit a binding offer by the customer.

2.2 The customer can submit the offer via the online order form integrated into the seller's online store. 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.

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), whereby the receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive in this respect, or
  
• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby the receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
  
• by requesting payment from the customer after the customer has placed the order.
  

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, 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 offer is sent by the customer 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 a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If a payment method offered by PayPal is selected, 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, 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 terms and conditions for payments without a PayPal account, available 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 completes the ordering process.

2.5 If you select the payment method “Amazon Payments,” payment processing will be handled by the payment service provider Amazon Payments Europe s.c.a., 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg (hereinafter: “Amazon”), subject to the Amazon Payments Europe User Agreement, available at https://pay.amazon.de/help/201751590. If the customer selects “Amazon Payments” as the payment method during the online ordering process, they also issue a payment order to Amazon by clicking the button that completes the ordering process. In this case, the seller hereby declares its acceptance of the customer's offer at the moment the customer initiates the payment process by clicking the button that completes the order process.

2.6 When submitting an offer via the seller's online order form, the contract text is stored by the seller after conclusion of the contract and transmitted to the customer in text form (e.g., e-mail, fax, or letter) after the customer has submitted their order. The seller will not make the contract text available in any other way. If the customer has set up a user account in the seller's online shop before sending their order, the order data will be archived on the seller's website and can be accessed by the customer free of charge via their password-protected user account by entering the relevant login details.

2.7 Before submitting a binding order via the seller's online order form, the customer can recognize 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 magnification 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 on the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.8 Various languages are available for concluding the contract. The specific language selection is displayed in the online shop.

2.9 Order processing and contact are generally carried out 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 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 by the seller to process the order can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1 Consumers are generally entitled to a right of withdrawal.

3.2 Further information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the seller's withdrawal policy.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices that include statutory VAT. 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 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 a payment method offered via the PayPal payment service is selected, payment will be processed via PayPal, whereby PayPal may also use the services of third-party payment service providers for this purpose. If the seller also offers payment methods via PayPal for which it makes advance payments to the customer (e.g., purchase on account or installment payment), it assigns its payment claim to PayPal or to the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal and specifically named to the customer. Before accepting the seller's declaration of assignment, PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal will carry out a credit check using the customer data provided. The seller reserves the right to refuse the customer the selected payment method in the event of a negative credit check result. If the selected payment method is approved, the customer must pay the invoice amount within the agreed payment period or at the agreed payment intervals. In this case, the customer can only make payments to PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal with debt-discharging effect. However, even in the event of assignment of claims, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g., regarding goods, delivery times, shipping, returns, complaints, declarations of revocation and returns, or credit notes.

4.5 When selecting a payment method offered via the “Shopify Payments” payment service, payment processing is carried out by the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter “Stripe”). The individual payment methods offered via Shopify Payments are communicated to the customer in the seller's online store. Stripe may use other payment services to process payments, for which special payment terms may apply, which will be pointed out to the customer separately if necessary. Further information on “Shopify Payments” is available on the Internet at https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-de.

4.6 If you choose to pay by invoice, the purchase price is due after the goods have been delivered and invoiced. In this case, the purchase price must be paid in full within 14 (fourteen) days of receipt of the invoice, unless otherwise agreed. The seller reserves the right to offer the payment method “purchase on account” only up to a certain order volume and to reject this payment method if the specified order volume is exceeded. In this case, the seller will inform the customer of the corresponding payment restriction in their payment information in the online shop.

4.7 If you choose to pay by credit card via Stripe, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. Payment processing is handled by the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter: “Stripe”). Stripe reserves the right to perform a credit check and to reject this payment method if the credit check is negative.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 If the seller offers to ship the goods, delivery shall be made within the delivery area specified by the seller to the delivery address specified by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. The delivery address specified in the seller's order processing is decisive for the processing of the transaction.

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 does not apply with regard to the costs for the return shipment if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. If the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal, the provision in the seller's withdrawal policy shall apply to the return costs.

5.3 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold shall pass to the customer as soon as the seller has delivered the goods to the forwarding agent, carrier or other person or institution designated to carry out the shipment. If the customer is acting as a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold shall not pass to the customer until the goods are handed over to the customer or a person authorized to receive them. Notwithstanding this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold shall pass to the customer, even in the case of consumers, as soon as the seller has delivered the goods to the forwarding agent, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment, if the customer has commissioned the forwarding agent, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise designated to carry out the shipment and the seller has not previously named this person or institution to the customer.

5.4 The Seller reserves the right to withdraw from the contract in the event of incorrect or improper self-delivery. This shall only apply in the event that the Seller is not responsible for the non-delivery and the Seller has concluded a specific covering transaction with the supplier with due care. The seller shall make every reasonable effort to procure the goods. In the event of non-availability or only partial availability of the goods, the customer shall be informed immediately and the consideration shall be reimbursed without delay.

5.5 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

5.6 Digital content is provided to the customer as follows:

- via download

6) Granting of rights of use for digital content

6.1 Unless otherwise stated in the content description in the seller's online store, the seller grants the customer the non-exclusive right to use the content provided, unlimited in terms of time and place, exclusively for private purposes.

6.2 The transfer of the content to third parties or the creation of copies for third parties outside the scope of these GTC is not permitted unless the seller has agreed to a transfer of the contractual license to the third party.

6.3 Insofar as the contract relates to the one-off provision of digital content, the granting of rights shall only become effective once the customer has paid the remuneration owed in full. The seller may provisionally permit the use of the contractual content even before this point in time. Such provisional permission does not constitute a transfer of rights. 

7) Retention of title

If the seller makes advance payment, he shall retain title to the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

8) Liability for defects (warranty)

Unless otherwise stated in the following provisions, the provisions of statutory liability for defects shall apply. In deviation from this, the following applies to contracts for the delivery of goods:

8.1 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur

• the seller has the choice of the type of subsequent performance;
• in the case of new goods, the limitation period for defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
• in the case of used goods, the rights and claims for defects are excluded;
• the limitation period shall not recommence if a replacement delivery is made as part of the liability for defects.

8.2 The aforementioned limitations of liability and shortening of the limitation period shall not apply

• to claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the customer,
• in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect,
• for goods that have been used for a building in accordance with their normal use and have caused its defectiveness,
• for any existing obligation of the seller to provide updates for digital products, in the case of contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements.

8.3 Furthermore, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any existing statutory right of recourse remain unaffected

8.4 If the customer acts as a merchant within the meaning of § 1 HGB (German Commercial Code), he shall be subject to the commercial obligation to inspect and give notice of defects pursuant to § 377 HGB. If the customer fails to comply with the notification obligations regulated therein, the goods shall be deemed approved.

8.5 If the customer acts as a consumer, he is requested to complain to the deliverer about delivered goods with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller of this. If the customer fails to do so, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

9) Liability

The Seller shall be liable to the Customer for all contractual, quasi-contractual and statutory claims, including claims in tort, for damages and reimbursement of expenses as follows:

9.1 The Seller shall be liable without limitation for any legal reason

• in the event of intent or gross negligence,
• in the event of intentional or negligent injury to life, limb or health,
• on the basis of a guarantee promise, unless otherwise regulated in this respect,
• due to mandatory liability such as under the Product Liability Act.

9.2 If the Seller negligently breaches a material contractual obligation, liability shall be limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract, unless liability is unlimited in accordance with the above clause. Material contractual obligations are obligations which the contract imposes on the seller according to its content in order to achieve the purpose of the contract, the fulfillment of which is essential for the proper execution of the contract and on the observance of which the customer may regularly rely.

9.3 Any further liability of the Seller is excluded.

9.4 The above liability provisions also apply with regard to the Seller's liability for its vicarious agents and legal representatives.

10) Redemption of promotional vouchers

10.1 Vouchers that are issued free of charge by the seller as part of promotional campaigns 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 store and only during the specified period.

10.2 Promotional vouchers can only be redeemed by consumers.

10.3 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotional voucher.

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

10.5 Several promotional vouchers can be redeemed for one order.

10.6 If the promotional voucher refers to a specific value and not to a percentage discount, 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.

10.7 If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the seller can be selected to settle the difference.

10.8 The credit balance of a promotional voucher will not be paid out in cash or bear interest.

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

10.10 The promotional voucher is only intended for use by the person named on it. The promotional voucher may not be transferred to third parties. The seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material entitlement of the respective voucher holder.

11) Redemption of gift vouchers

11.1 Gift vouchers that can be purchased via the seller's online store (hereinafter “gift vouchers”) can only be redeemed in the seller's online store, unless otherwise stated in the voucher.

11.2 Gift vouchers and remaining credit on gift vouchers can be redeemed until the end of the third year after the year in which the voucher was purchased. Remaining credit will be credited to the customer until the expiration date.

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

11.4 Only one gift voucher can be redeemed per order.

11.5 Gift vouchers can only be used for the purchase of goods and not for the purchase of further gift vouchers.

11.6 If the value of the gift voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the seller can be selected to settle the difference.

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

11.8 The gift voucher is only intended for use by the person named on it. The gift voucher may not be transferred to third parties. The seller is entitled, but not obliged, to check the material eligibility of the respective gift voucher holder.

12) Applicable law

All legal relationships between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the laws on the international sale of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law shall only apply insofar as the protection granted by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the consumer has his habitual residence is not withdrawn.

13) Alternative dispute resolution

The seller is not obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board, but is willing to do so.