General terms and conditions with customer information (GT&C)

Table of contents

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

1) Area of application

1.1These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter “Terms and Conditions”) of DowHow Trading UG (haftungsbeschränkt) (hereinafter “Seller”), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods, which a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter “Customer”) concludes with the Seller with regard to the goods presented by the Seller in his 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 mutatis mutandis to contracts for the delivery of digital content, unless otherwise expressly agreed.

1.3 These GTCs shall apply mutatis mutandis to contracts for the supply of license keys, unless otherwise expressly agreed. In this context, the Seller owes the provision of a license key for the use of the software or content described by it as well as the granting of the contractually agreed rights to use the respective software or content. The customer does not acquire any intellectual property rights to the software or content. The respective product description in the Seller’s online store shall be authoritative for the quality of the software or content.

1.4 A consumer in the sense of these GTC is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to his commercial nor to his independent professional activity. 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.

1.5 Digital content within the meaning of these GTC is all data that is not on a physical data carrier, which is produced in digital form and provided by the seller under the granting of certain rights of use regulated in more detail in these GTC.

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 the Customer chooses a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment will be processed by 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 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 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 has sent his order. 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 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) Right of revocation

3.1 Consumers are generally entitled to a right of withdrawal.

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 direct debit via Stripe is selected, the payment will be processed via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter: “Stripe”). In this case, Stripe will collect the invoice amount from the Customer’s bank account after issuing a SEPA Direct Debit Mandate, but not before the expiry of the Pre-Notification period on behalf of the Seller. Pre-notification is any communication (e.g. invoice, policy, contract) to the customer announcing a debit via SEPA Direct Debit. If the direct debit is not honored due to a lack of sufficient funds in the account or due to the provision of incorrect bank details, or if the customer objects to the direct debit even though he is not entitled to do so, the customer shall bear the fees incurred by the respective credit institution as a result of the chargeback if he is responsible for this. The seller reserves the right to conduct a credit check when selecting the payment method SEPA direct debit and to reject this payment method in case of a negative credit check.

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 of effective exercise of the right of revocation by the customer, the provision made in this regard in the seller’s revocation instructions shall apply to the return costs.

5.3 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

5.4 Digital content shall be provided to the customer exclusively in electronic form as follows:

• by download
• by email

5.5 Lizenzschlüssel werden dem Kunden wie folgt überlassen:

• by email

5.6 When booking the DowHow Community Package, access will be activated within 24 hours after receipt of the monetary payment.

6) Granting of rights of use for digital contents

6.1 Unless otherwise stated in the description in the Seller’s online store, the Seller grants the Customer the non-exclusive right, unlimited in time and place, to use the provided content exclusively for private purposes.

6.2 The transfer of the contents to third parties or the creation of copies for third parties outside the scope of these GTC shall not be permitted unless the Seller has agreed to a transfer of the contractual license to the third party.

6.3 The granting of rights shall only become effective when the Customer has paid the contractually owed remuneration in full. The Seller may provisionally permit the use of the contractual content even before this point in time. Such provisional permission shall not result in a transfer of rights.

7) Granting of rights of use for license keys

7.1 The license key provided shall entitle the customer to use the software or content apparent from the respective product description to the extent described therein.

7.2 The granting of rights shall only become effective when the Customer has paid the remuneration owed in full.

8) Retention of title

If the Seller makes advance performance, it shall retain title to the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

9) Liability for defects (warranty)

9.1 If the purchased item is defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply.

9.2 If the customer acts as a consumer, he is asked to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the deliverer and to inform the seller of this. If the customer does not comply with this, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

10) Redemption of promotional vouchers

10.1 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.

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

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

10.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

10.5 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.

10.6 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.

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

10.8 The promotional voucher shall not be refunded if the Customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of its statutory right of revocation.

10.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the promotional voucher in the Seller’s online store. This shall not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representation authorization of the respective 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) Place of jurisdiction

If the customer acts as a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law with its registered office in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract shall be the place of business of the seller. If the customer has its registered office outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the seller’s registered office shall be the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract if the contract or claims arising from the contract can be attributed to the customer’s professional or commercial activity. However, in the aforementioned cases, the Seller shall in any case be entitled to invoke the court at the Customer’s place of business.

13) Alternative dispute resolution

13.1 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.

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