General Terms and Conditions
(February, 2016)
Your purchase contract is concluded with the company Speedelec proprietario del marchio RocAlpes
info@spe-eng.com
Commercial Register number: CH-550-1042636-3
1. Scope
1.1 All claims arising from and in connection with a contract concluded between the customer and Speedelec Engineering for the catalogue and online trade are always subject to these General Terms and Conditions, in their valid version at the time of concluding the contract.
1.2 In the case of conflicting provisions the order of precedence shall be:
1. Special terms of business for the individual services;
2. These General Terms and Conditions;
3. Provisions of the law.
2. Participants
Speedelec Engineering concludes contracts with customers who
a) have reached the age of 18 and have the capacity to act, and with
b) legal persons who are domiciled in Switzerland or in a member state of the European Union
(hereinafter referred to as "Customers"). Should an offer for an unaccepted customer be mistakenly taken on by Speedelec Engineering, then Speedelec Engineering is entitled to declare its withdrawal from the contract with the customer within an appropriate period.
3. Object of the contract
Speedelec Engineering shall deliver the goods ordered by the customer, or provide the services, within the framework of the acceptance of the offer. If a withdrawal/cancellation takes place, Speedelec Engineering is obliged to immediately credit to the customer's account any instalments and/or advance payments that may have been paid or, if requested, to repay them by means of a bank transfer.
4. Conclusion of contract
4.1 The contract is concluded after Speedelec Engineering accepts the customer's order.
Acceptance by Speedelec Engineering takes place when the customer receives the goods after they have been sent by Speedelec Engineering, or when the service to the customer is performed by Speedelec Engineering. If the customer places an order via the Internet, Speedelec Engineering shall promptly confirm the receipt of the order by electronic means. But the confirmation of the order does not yet constitute an acceptance of the contract.
4.2 The language of the contract is french.
5. Unavailability of ordered goods or service
Should Speedelec Engineering find after the order has been received that the ordered item or service is no longer available from Speedelec Engineering, any payments that have already been made shall be immediately reimbursed. Speedelec Engineering may choose to send, offer or provide to the customer an item or service of the same quality and price. In such a case, the customer is not obliged to accept. Speedelec Engineering shall bear the cost if such an item is returned by post.
6. Delivery/shipping costs
6.1 Unless the contractual parties have made other arrangements regarding the delivery time, Speedelec Engineering shall deliver the goods by transferring physical possession of the goods or control over the goods to you as customer, promptly, and not later than 30 (thirty) days after conclusion of the contract.
6.2 If Speedelec Engineering fails to comply with its obligation to deliver the goods at the time arranged with you as the customer, or within the set period stated in clause 1, then as the customer you shall then ask Speedelec Engineering to make the delivery within an extended deadline appropriate to the circumstances. If Speedelec Engineering does not deliver the goods within this extended deadline, then as the customer you are entitled to withdraw from the contract.
6.3 If the customer orders a shipment using the 24-hour service, and the goods do not arrive even within a reasonable grace period that may be appropriate in certain cases, the customer is entitled to withdraw from the contract and return the goods to Speedelec Engineering. Claims for damages are excluded in such cases, unless Speedelec Engineering had acted intentionally or in gross negligence.
6.4 Speedelec Engineering shall take care to ensure a quick delivery, subject to its receiving the goods from its supplier. If part of the order cannot be delivered immediately, the remaining items shall be delivered later without recalculating the flat rate for shipping.
6.5 The shipping and handling costs are based on the value of the order and as well on the selected logistics service.
6.7 Some products, which are imported from the USA by Speedelec Engineering and/or are manufactured in the USA, are subject to the export control regulations of the USA and other countries, in particular Germany. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the export control regulations are complied with, and he undertakes to obtain all the required export licences and other necessary documents, at his own expense, before the products and/or technical information that he is to receive from Speedelec Engineering are exported.
The customer also undertakes to neither directly nor indirectly sell, export, re-export, supply or otherwise pass on any products or technical information that are subject to export control regulations, to persons, companies (enterprises) or countries where this infringes against the US American or other, in particular German, export control laws, directives, restrictions and provisions. The customer undertakes to inform all the recipients of these products or technical information about the need to comply with these laws and directives.
If an authority refuses to grant an export permit, this does not entitle the customer to withdraw from the contract or to claims for damages. Speedelec Engineering is not obliged to issue to the customer a supplier's declaration or a long-term supplier's declaration, or to obtain such from its own suppliers.
7. Price, payment terms
7.1 The prices in the private customer catalogues are final prices including the VAT amount valid on the catalogue’s issue date. Should the statutory VAT be increased after the catalogue is issued, Speedelec Engineering is obliged to apply the higher VAT rate in the invoice. Generally, prices in the business catalogues are net prices.
7.2 On the invoice, the cost of additional services is listed next to the net price: packing, shipping, 24-hour service, etc., as well as the VAT at the rate valid on the invoice date (for private customers).
7.3 For orders placed via Speedelec Engineering website pages, instead of the catalogue prices, the prices shown below the button [button ordering procedure] when executing the order apply.
7.4. Speedelec Engineering reserves the right to exclude certain modes of payment in individual cases in order to protect against credit risk, and to carry out the requested deliveries only on payment in advance, cash on delivery, or immediate payment on delivery.
7.5 I rimborsi sia per questioni di garanzia, annullamento dell'ordine, il cambiamento di acquisto, sono in forma di credito (Coupon) in conto del cliente.
8. Retention of title
Speedelec Engineering retains ownership of all goods that it delivers to a customer until the final payment for the supplied goods has been made in full. Insofar as Speedelec Engineering replaces an item within the framework of the warranty, it is already now agreed that the ownership of the item to be replaced passes by way of reciprocal exchange from the customer to Speedelec Engineering or vice versa at the moment when Speedelec Engineering receives the item sent back from the customer, or when the customer receives the replacement item from Speedelec Engineering.
9. Warranty
9.1 Speedelec Engineering send tested product, but without any warranty.
9.2 Should the delivered goods have damage during shipping, you must report such defects to the transporter within 10 (ten) days.
10. Liability
10.1 Speedelec Engineering accepts full liability where the cause of the loss or damage is due to an intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty by Speedelec Engineering or by one of its legal representatives or by an ancillary of Speedelec Engineering. Otherwise liability is excluded, within the bounds of the law.
10.2 The above restrictions of liability do not apply to injuries to life, body and health, to a defect after assuming a warranty for the properties of a product, and to fraudulently concealed defects.
10.3 In the event of loss of data, Speedelec Engineering only accepts liability in the case of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty, and then only if there is evidence that you as customer have regularly backed up the data at least once a day. The liability for loss of data is limited to the cost of restoring it when a back-up copy is available.
11. Applicable law
11.1 The legal relations between Speedelec Engineering and the customers, and the respective terms of business, are subject to Swiss law. The application of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of
11.04.1988 is excluded.
12. Miscellaneous
12.1 The customer does not have any right to a set-off or retention, unless the claim is undisputed or established with legal effect by a court.
12.2 Should individual provisions of this contract be partly or wholly invalid or subsequently lose their legal validity, then this shall not affect the validity of the remaining part of the contract.
12.3 The catalogue / website published by us and its entire content, in particular the texts, photos, or other graphics or illustrations and any software, as well as all trade-marks, patents, and utility models, are all protected against unauthorised use by industrial property rights, in particular copyrights, name and image rights, trade-marks, patents or utility models that have come into effect. Use beyond searching for and purchasing of an item requires our prior written consent or, if the respective rights are not owned by us, the prior written consent of the legal owner.
12.4 We reserve the right to make changes at any time to our website, regulations, terms, including these terms of sale. Your order is subject to the General Terms and Conditions in effect when you place your order, except where an amendment to these terms is required by law or by government decree (in such case the amendment also applies to orders that you have made previously).
12.5 For disputes arising from the contracts between the customer and Speedelec Engineering and concerning the formation of the contracts, the regular court at the location of the registered office of Speedelec Engineering, or the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, shall have sole jurisdiction.
Status as at: 01.02.2016