Terms and Conditions

§ 1 Internet platform

Kossi Art (“kossiart.com”) operates the online shop kossiart.com on the internet. You do not need to be a member to visit the kossiart.com website (“user”). A user must not be a member to purchase products. A user must register to become a member (§ 3). You will receive personal information about impending sales campaigns via kossiart.com ’s e-mail service, provided that you have agreed to receive these e-mails. The prices shown on the website are final and include VAT. Freight costs will be separately according to your final destination.

§ 2 Validity of the general terms and conditions

2.1 By declaring your agreement at the time of registration, you also declare your agreement with the application of these General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “GTCs”). These GTCs define the conditions under which you may use the services provided by kristinkossi.com. 2.2 You can save and print these GTCs at any time from the kristinkossi.com website. 2.3 The general terms and conditions of users, members and partners will not apply to any direct business with kossiart.com, even if not explicitly refuted by kristinkossi.com provides services without objection. This also applies if the user, member or partner has prescribed a special format for filing objections. Deviating terms and conditions will not apply unless this has been explicitly confirmed in writing in advance bykossiart.com. 2.4 The contract language is German.

§ 3 Registration, termination and restriction of membership

3.1 Registration with the kossiart.com is free of charge. By registering you become a member. However, registration and membership do not give rise to any costs or obligation to purchase on your part. There is no legal entitlement to the conclusion of a contract as a result of registering or becoming a member. 3.2 The data requested during the registration process and during the life of the membership must be provided fully and correctly, including in particular a fully functional e-mail address, as a precondition for membership. Where the data provided to kristinkossi.com change, the member is obliged to update his account with immediate effect. 3.3 You may only register once as a member ofkossiart.com. Simultaneous registration of several membership accounts is not permitted. Any circumvention of these regulations is prohibited and may result in the termination of your membership by kristinkossi.com. 3.4 Members are obliged to keep their password confidential and to prevent any unauthorised access to their member account. Members are obliged to inform kristinkossi.com with immediate effect if there is any indication that a member account has been or might be abused by a third party. 3.5 kristinkossi.com will delete member accounts that have been inactive for a period of 6 months or whose holders can no longer be reached at the e-mail address stated. 3.6 Members can cancel their membership of kristinkossi.com with immediate effect at any time free of charge. A cancellation may take the form of an e-mail sent to customer services. 3.7kossiart.com can duly cancel any member’s membership at any time, subject to a notice period of 14 days. 3.8 kossiart.com may block, restrict or terminate a member’s membership without adherence to this notice period if there is reason to believe that the member has violated legal regulations, the rights of third parties, these GTCs or the shop regulations. When choosing a measure, kristinkossi.com takes into account the legitimate interests of the member concerned, especially whether there are any indications that the member is not responsible for the violation.

§4 Conclusion of contract and reservation of title

The description of products and presentation of goods on the kristinkossi.com website in the course of sales campaigns does not constitute a legally binding offer, but merely an invitation to private customers to order goods or services. There is no legal claim to the availability and deliverability of the products advertised. Sales campaigns are only directed at consumers within the meaning of § 13 of the BGB, i.e. any natural person concluding a legal transaction for a purpose that cannot be ascribed either to their commercial or independent professional activities. Only the normal volume required by a household may be ordered. kristinkossi.com reserves the right in due course to make orders under sales campaigns subject to fulfillment of certain individual conditions. To order a product advertised bykossiart.com, you must take the following steps: Either send us an email with inquiry of your product or if allowed place an article in the basket. Enter the delivery and payment information. Actively agree to the General Terms and Conditions and the Cancellation Policy. Send your order by pressing the “Place Order” button. By forwarding your online order, you are making kristinkossi.com an offer to conclude a legally binding contract. By clicking on the “Place Order” button, you are placing a binding order for the goods in the basket, confirming that you are authorised to place such an order, i.e. minors must have the permission of their legal representatives. Immediately on receipt of your order, you will receive an automated e-mail in which the receipt of your offer will be confirmed, thus concluding the contract. All goods remain the property of kristinkossi.com until full payment of the purchase price has been received and all claims resulting from the sale have been settled. You will not be entitled to dispose of the goods before transfer of ownership. If third parties should institute claims for the goods, you are obliged to inform kristinkossi.com immediately. If, before concluding the contract, kristinkossi.com finds that the ordered product is not available, we will immediately inform you about this and reimburse any payments already received. kristinkossi.com is entitled to reject any offers made by you without citing reasons. kristinkossi.com particularly reserves the right to reject an offer where: the delivery address is outside shipping countries we operate; there are indications that the person ordering the goods is not a consumer; an order exceeds the normal volume required by a household; the payment is not received, even after a reminder has been sent and a payment period stipulated.

§ 5 Use of the kossiart.com

5.1 kossiart.com offers the services solely within the framework of the acknowledged state of technology. kristinkossi.com may restrict the services where this is required owing to capacity limits, the security or integrity of the server or to carry out technical activities to provide for or to improve existing services (maintenance work). For technical reasons in particular, it may sometimes not be possible to make full use of the services (unforeseen system failures). 5.2 It is prohibited to use the services in a manner that violates statutory obligations, the rights of third parties or public morals. It is furthermore prohibited to make use of the services in a manner that constitutes abuse or that may adversely affect the reputation of kristinkossi.com. In particular, it is prohibited to use the services for the following purposes: to carry out and/or promote anti-competitive activities, including progressive customer recruitment (such as chain, pyramid or snowball schemes); to make use of content that is deemed pornographic or that violates youth protection laws or to advertise, offer and/or sell pornographic products or products that violate youth protection laws; to abuse our services by, for example, making use of malware such as “robot-reader”, “spider-reader” or “offline-reader”; to upload content subject to copyright to our service, unless the user has the right to the use of such content or has obtained the required permission; to use kristinkossi.com in a manner that adversely affects the availability of our services to other users; to disseminate offensive, racist or otherwise illegal content or information via our services, including slanderous or libelous content, irrespective of whether this content concerns other users, employees of the company or other persons or companies; to use photos with a defamatory, offensive, racist or otherwise illegal or immoral content; to send out chain letters; to intercept or attempt to intercept messages; to advertise for shopping clubs; to send out messages for any commercial purpose; to make use of our services to threaten or unduly harass other people (especially by sending them spam mail) or to violate the rights of third parties (including their personal rights); to make use of the temporary e-mail addresses of so-called 10-minute mail services; and/or to publish the names, addresses, telephone or fax numbers, e-mail addresses, user names and/or other contact data of messenger services. 5.3 Jkristinkossi.com has checked and uploaded its own content on the kristinkossi.com website to the best of its knowledge and belief. kristinkossi.com does not generally verify the content published by third parties on the kristinkossi.com website. Nor does kristinkossi.com generally verify other websites that can be reached by clicking on the kristinkossi.com website, thus no responsibility can be taken for the form, accuracy, appropriateness or quality of such content. kristinkossi.com will remove or suppress any content uploaded by third parties or refuse to provide links ifkossiart.com should find that there is any indication that the content uploaded or other websites might infringe the law or violate these GTCs.

§ 6 Inviting friends, product and sales campaign recommendations

6.1 Members can invite other friends to join kristinkossi.com on the kristinkossi.com website. Members also have the option of recommending sales campaigns or individual products to third parties by e-mail. 6.2 Members undertake to forward newsletters, sales campaigns and product recommendations only to the e-mail addresses of existing, living natural persons who have previously expressed an interest in this regard and who have explicitly consented to receive the corresponding e-mail. In the event of a dispute, a corresponding written statement in this regard will be required.

§ 7 Promotional coupons

The following conditions apply to kossiart.com promotional coupons (and mutatis mutandis kristinkossi.com credit balances): kristinkossi.com coupons for goods can be redeemed for all products uploaded on the kossiart.com website unless the redemption of kristinkossi.com coupons has been excluded on the campaign overview or product overview page or unless the campaign involves ordering via the website of a third party; such is expressly indicated in either instance. The purchase price of the products ordered must at least equal the value of the coupon, unless otherwise indicated at the time the coupon is issued. kristinkossi.com coupons for freight costs can be redeemed against the freight costs incurred when ordering products on the kristinkossi.com website, unless the redemption of kristinkossi.com coupons has been excluded on the campaign overview or product overview page or unless the campaign involves ordering via the website of a third party. Promotional coupons are provided in the form of codes made available to you personally. Usually, codes expire once they have been used. The period of validity and/or minimum order value or other conditions are determined by kristinkossi.com and announced as part of the corresponding promotion. In this case, the minimum order value refers to the purchase price, including value-added tax. Freight costs are not taken into account. Only one kristinkossi.com coupon can be used per order and several kristinkossi.com coupons may not be combined. If you cancel the purchase of an item for which you have used a kristinkossi.com coupon, the coupon amount will not be reimbursed and the coupon cannot be used again. This does not apply if you have obtained the kristinkossi.com coupon directly from kossiart.com against payment. You cannot acquire a kristinkossi.com coupon using a kristinkossi.com coupon that you have not directly obtained against a monetary payment. kristinkossi.com coupons cannot be paid out in cash or attract interest. kossiart.com coupons are personally issued to a member and cannot be transferred to third parties. Where kristinkossi.com becomes aware of the transfer of a coupon, kossiart.com reserves the right to declare the corresponding coupon invalid. Where kristinkossi.com has indicated that the coupon is valid only for new customers, such a coupon will only be issued when a person registers as a member of kristinkossi.com for the first time. With the exception of a loss of a coupon for which kristinkossi.com is responsible, kristinkossi.com does not accept liability for the loss or theft of any coupon. Replacement coupons are only issued whenkossiart.com is liable for the loss of the coupon. The shop regulations may contain further conditions or restrictions for the redemption of promotion coupons; alternatively such conditions or restrictions may be indicated when issuing the coupon.

§ 8 Warranty and liability

8.1 The warranty is governed in principle by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the event of a defect in goods you therefore have the legal right to have it remedied (delivery of non-defective goods), to cancel the contract or to receive a price reduction. 8.2 kossiart.com’s liability in damages towards consumers is limited. Notwithstanding the nature of the loss or damage, liability in damages is excluded unless provided to the contrary below. kossiart.com only has statutory liability where you assert claims in damages that are based on intent or gross negligence, including intent or gross negligence on the part of our representatives or agents. kristinkossi.com only has statutory liability where kristinkossi.com is in culpable breach of a significant contractual obligation. A significant contractual obligation for this purpose is one the fulfilment of which is essential to the due performance of the contract and on compliance with which you are generally entitled to rely. kristinkossi.com also only has statutory liability in the case of culpable death, personal injury or damage to health; this also applies to mandatory liability under the Product Liability Act. 8.3 The same limits on liability in damages towards consumers apply to companies that directly or indirectly participate in sales campaigns contrary to § 4, with the further proviso that liability in damages is limited to foreseeable loss or damage typical of the contract except in the case of liability for wilful acts or for death, personal injury or damage to health. 8.4 The aforementioned liability exclusions and limitations with regard to companies or consumers do not apply where kossiart.com has given explicit guarantees.

§ 9 Disclaimer

The user indemnifies kossiart.com against all claims by third parties instituted against kristinkossi.com for violating their rights or these GTCs, the shop regulations or laws governing the use of kristinkossi.com. The user agrees to bear the costs of the necessary legal defense, including any court costs and solicitor’s fees, as incurred. This does not apply if the user cannot be held responsible for the violation of the rights of third parties or for any violations of these GTCs, the shop regulations or any laws. The user is obliged to provide kristinkossi.com with all information that may be required to verify the claims and to defend the case – immediately, truthfully and completely – in the event that a third party should institute legal proceedings. Any delays in the provision of information will be at the expense of the user.

§ 10 Copyright and rights of use

The content provided by kossiart.com is protected by the laws governing databases, copyright and trademarks. Such content may be neither copied nor disseminated nor used or copied in any manner whatsoever, without the prior agreement of the corresponding proprietors. This applies in particular to any copies made with the aid of robots, crawlers or other automatic mechanisms. Any use or modification of the services for purposes for which they were not intended is prohibited. In particular, copying or uploading of content, offers, directories, databases, etc. for commercial purposes is prohibited and will be subject to criminal and civil legal proceedings within the scope of existing legal options.

§ 11 Concluding conditions

11.1 If individual clauses of these GTCs should be entirely or partially invalid or contain a loophole, this will not affect the validity of the other clauses or parts of clauses. In this event the parties undertake to enter into negotiations, with the aim of replacing the invalid clauses or loopholes with clauses that most closely approximate to the original intention of the parties, while maintaining the interests of both parties. 11.2 Only the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany will apply, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on the Sale of Goods and any envoi to foreign law. As a consumer, any binding regulations of the state in which you have your normal place of residence remain unaffected. 11.3 If you are a merchant, legal person under public law or a special fund governed by public law or if you do not have your general place of jurisdiction in Germany or in another EU member state, Hamburg will be the place of jurisdiction for any disputes arising from this contract. 11.4 With the exception of shop regulations, no ancillary agreements have been concluded and any such agreements must be made in written form.