General Terms and Conditions

Please find our German General Terms and Conditions here.

The purchase is made on German soil, products are delivered from Germany, thus the buyer accepts German law. The jurisdiction is also in Germany. The translated texts are German texts. They were translated solely for the purpose of communication.

Terms and Conditions with customer information

Table of Contents

1. Scope

2. Conclusion

3. Withdrawal

4. Prices and terms of payment

5. Delivery and shipping conditions

6. Retention of title

7. Liability for defects (warranty)

8. Applicable law

9. jurisdiction

10. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms") of Cete Automotive GmbH (hereinafter referred to as "Seller") apply to all contracts concerning the delivery of goods by a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") with the Seller in respect of the Seller completes his goods displayed on his online shop. Hereby the inclusion of own conditions of the customer is contradicted, unless it is agreed otherwise.

1.2 Consumer within the meaning of these terms and conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that are predominantly neither their commercial nor their independent professional activity can be attributed. Entrepreneur within the meaning of these terms and conditions is a natural or legal person or a legal partnership, which acts in the execution of a legal transaction in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of the contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the seller's online shop do not constitute binding offers by the seller, but serve to make a binding offer by the customer.

2.2 The customer may submit the offer via the online order form integrated in the online shop of the seller.In this case, after the customer has placed the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and has gone through the electronic ordering process, by clicking on the button concluding the ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contract offer in relation to the goods contained in the shopping cart.Furthermore, the customer can also submit the offer by e-mail to the seller.

2.3 The seller can accept the offer of the customer within five days,

• by submitting to 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 at the customer is authoritative, or

• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, in which case the access of the goods to the customer is decisive, or

• by asking the customer to pay after submitting his order.

If more than one of the alternatives mentioned above, the contract comes into effect at the time when one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The deadline for the acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the submission of the offer by the customer to run and ends with the expiry of the fifth day, which follows the dispatch 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 When placing an offer via the online order form of the seller, the contract text will be stored by the seller and sent to the customer after sending his order in addition to the present terms and conditions in writing (eg e-mail, fax or letter). In addition, the text of the contract is archived on the seller's website and can be called up by the customer via his password-protected customer account with the corresponding login data, provided that the customer has created a customer account in the seller's online shop before sending his order.

2.5 Before placing the order on 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. As part of the electronic ordering process, the customer can correct his input via the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks on the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.6 The order processing and contact usually take place via e-mail and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for processing the order 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 emails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned with the order processing can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1 Consumers are in principle entitled to a right of withdrawal.

3.2 Further information on the right of revocation results from the revocation instruction of the seller.

3.3 The right of withdrawal does not apply to consumers who, at the time of the conclusion of the contract, do not belong to any Member State of the European Union and whose sole domicile and delivery address are outside the European Union at the time of the conclusion of the contract.

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 value added tax. If applicable, additional delivery and shipping costs are specified separately in the respective product description.

4.2 For deliveries to countries outside the European Union, additional costs may be incurred in individual cases, which the seller is not responsible for and which are to be borne by the customer. These include, for example, costs for the transfer of money by credit institutions (eg transfer fees, exchange rate charges) or import duties or taxes (eg customs duties). Such costs may be incurred in relation to the transfer of funds even if the delivery is not made to a country outside the European Union, but the customer makes the payment from a country outside the European Union.

4.3 The payment option (s) will be communicated to the customer in the online shop of the seller.

4.4 If advance payment has been agreed by bank transfer, the payment is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.

4.5 If payment is made by means of a payment method offered by PayPal, payment is processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, SCA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter "PayPal"), subject to the PayPal Terms of Service, available at https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full or - if the customer does not have a PayPal account - under the terms and conditions of payments without a PayPal account , available at https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.

4.6 If the payment method "PayPal Credit" (installment payment via PayPal) is selected, the seller transfers his payment claim to PayPal. Before accepting the seller's assignment, PayPal will conduct a credit check using the submitted customer information. The seller reserves the right to refuse the customer the payment method "PayPal Credit" in case of a negative examination result. If the payment method "PayPal Credit" is approved by PayPal, the customer has to pay the invoice amount to PayPal at the conditions specified by the seller, which are communicated to him in the online shop of the seller. In this case, he can only pay to PayPal with a debt-discharging effect. However, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, even in the case of assigning claims. For example, to the goods, delivery time, shipping, returns, complaints, revocation statements and shipments or credits.

4.7 If the payment method "PayPal Invoice" is selected, the seller transfers his payment claim to PayPal.Before accepting the seller's assignment, PayPal will conduct a credit check using the submitted customer information. The seller reserves the right to refuse the customer the payment method "PayPal Rechnung" in case of a negative examination result. If the payment method "PayPal invoice" is approved by PayPal, the customer has to pay the invoice amount within 30 days from receipt of the goods to PayPal, provided that PayPal does not specify any other payment term. In this case, he can only pay to PayPal with a debt-discharging effect. However, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, even in the case of assigning claims. For example, to the goods, delivery time, shipping, returns, complaints, revocation statements and shipments or credits. In addition, the General Terms of Use for the use of the invoice purchase of PayPal, available at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 The delivery of goods shall be made on the way to the delivery address specified by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. When processing the transaction, the delivery address specified in the order processing of the seller is decisive.

5.2 If the transport company sends the goods back to the seller, because a delivery to the customer was not possible, the customer bears the costs for the unsuccessful shipping. This does not apply if the customer exercises his right of withdrawal effectively, if he is not responsible for the circumstance that led to the impossibility of delivery, or if he was temporarily prevented from accepting the service offered, unless the seller to him the performance had announced a reasonable time in advance.

5.3 In the case of self-pickup, the seller first informs the customer by e-mail that the goods ordered by him are ready for collection. Upon receipt of this e-mail, the customer may pick up the goods after consultation with the seller at the seller's domicile. In this case, no shipping costs will be charged.

6) Retention of title

If the seller steps in advance, he reserves the ownership of the delivered goods until full payment of the purchase price owed.

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

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

7.2 Deviating from this, the limitation period for claims for defects in used goods is one year from delivery of the goods to the customer. However, the shortening of the limitation period to one year does not apply

• for things that have been used for a structure according to their usual use and have caused its defectiveness,

• for damages and reimbursement claims of the customer, as well

• in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect.

7.3 The customer is requested to complain to the deliverer of delivered goods with obvious transport damage and to inform the seller thereof. If the customer does not comply, this has no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

8) Applicable law

8.1 The laws of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply to all legal relationships between the parties, excluding the laws governing the international purchase of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only 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.

8.2 Furthermore, with regard to the statutory right of withdrawal, this choice of law does not apply to consumers who, at the time of conclusion of the contract, do not belong to any Member State of the European Union and whose sole domicile and delivery address are outside the European Union at the time of conclusion of the contract.

9) Jurisdiction

If the customer acts as a merchant, legal entity under public law or special fund under public law with its seat 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 is located outside the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, the place of business of the seller is the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract, if the contract or claims from the contract can be attributed to the customer's professional or commercial activity. However, in the above cases, the seller is in any case entitled to call the court at the customer's place of business.

10) Alternative Dispute Resolution

10.1 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 point of contact for out-of-court resolution of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts involving a consumer.

10.2 The seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute settlement procedure before a consumer arbitration board.