General terms and conditions
CS-Minerals Märkli
1. Scope
These General Terms and Conditions (GTC) of the sole proprietorship CS-Minerals Märkli, Kohl-mattstrasse 8, CH-8905 Arni AG, owner Joel Märkli (hereinafter "CS-Minerals"), govern the rights and obligations in connection with the use of the website www.cs-minerals.com and the online store on this website.
CS-Minerals offers its customers high quality minerals and high quality jewelry (hereinafter "articles") for sale on the online store at www.cs-minerals.com.
Between CS-Minerals and its customers the following General Terms and Conditions apply in the version currently available and valid at the time of accessing the website or at the time of ordering an item or concluding a contract.
Customer means any natural person or legal entity that has a business relationship with CS-Minerals. These GTC may be amended from time to time.
These GTC apply exclusively. Conflicting, supplementary or deviating terms and conditions require the express written confirmation by CS-Minerals. The customer confirms with the use of this web page and/or with an article order or with conclusion of a contract to recognize these AGB including terms of delivery and payment comprehensively.
For reasons of better readability, the masculine form is used in these GTC for personal designations and special nouns. Corresponding terms apply in principle to all genders for the purpose of equal treatment. The abbreviated form of language is for editorial reasons only and does not imply any valuation.
2. Information on www.cs-minerals.com
www.cs-minerals.com contains information about articles. Prices and assortment as well as technical changes remain reserved. All information on www.cs-minerals.com (article descriptions, illustrations, films, dimensions and other information) are non-binding and in particular do not represent any assurance of properties or guarantees, unless it is explicitly stated otherwise. CS-Minerals makes every effort to ensure that all details and information on this website are correct, complete, up-to-date and clearly arranged, but CS-Minerals can neither explicitly nor implicitly guarantee this.
CS-Minerals cannot guarantee that the listed items will be available at the time of order. Therefore, all information on availability and delivery times are without guarantee and may change at any time and without notice.
3. Prices
The prices quoted on www.cs-minerals.com are gross prices in Swiss francs (CHF). CS-Minerals is not subject to value added tax.
The shipping costs and any customs duties shall be borne by the customer.
The rates of the Swiss Post valid at the time of shipment shall apply. Any customs costs shall be borne by the customer. CS-Minerals reserves the right to charge the customer for the costs of packaging.
We reserve the right to make technical changes, errors and misprints, in particular CS-Minerals may make price changes at any time without prior notice.
4. Contract conclusion
The offers on www.cs-minerals.com represent an invitation to the customer to order items. With the order via www.cs-minerals.com, including the acceptance of these GTC, the customer submits a binding purchase offer. With successful payment and delivery of the order confirmation from CS-Minerals to the customer, the purchase contract is concluded.
The items offered for sale on www.cs-minerals.com are all unique. The customer who completes the purchase first, including payment, acquires the item.
5. Right of withdrawal
The consumer customer is granted a right of withdrawal during 14 days after receipt of the item. The deadline is considered met if the customer returns the item to CS-Minerals by mail within this period.
The exercise of the right of withdrawal leads to a reversal of the contract. The customer must return the item in its original packaging, together with the delivery bill. Returns are at the expense and risk of the customer. Any payment already made (excl. shipping costs) will be refunded to the customer.
CS-Minerals reserves the right to claim reasonable compensation for damage or for inadequate return and to deduct the reduction in value from the purchase price already paid or to charge the customer.
6. Payment options
When purchasing items, the customer has the payment options specified in the ordering process.
7. Delivery, obligation to inspect, notification of defects and return
Deliveries are usually made within three to five working days and are sent by mail to the address specified by the customer in the order. With the shipment, benefit and risk are transferred to the customer.
If the delivery is not deliverable or if the customer refuses to accept the delivery, CS-Minerals can
CS-Minerals may terminate the contract after a notice of complaint by e-mail to the customer and setting a reasonable deadline and deduct the costs of the troubles from the purchase price to be refunded.
Customer is obligated to inspect the delivered items immediately upon receipt of delivery and to notify CS-Minerals in writing by email within 5 calendar days of any defects for which CS-Minerals provides warranty.
Returns to CS-Minerals are at the expense and risk of the customer. Customer shall send the items to CS-Minerals in their original packaging, complete with all accessories and together with the delivery bill and a detailed description of the defects.
If, upon inspection by CS-Minerals, the items are found to have no detectable defects, CS-Minerals may charge Customer for the inconvenience, return or possible disposal.
8. Warranty
Customer satisfaction is a top priority for CS-Minerals. CS-Minerals strives to deliver items in perfect quality. Minor deviations in terms of color, size, weight and abrasions or injuries are natural, normal and do not represent a defect.
In the event of defects notified in due time, CS-Minerals warrants the item purchased by the customer to be free from defects for a warranty period of two years from the date of delivery. The warranty is provided by refunding the purchase price. Further claims are excluded.
9. Liability
CS-Minerals excludes any liability, regardless of its legal basis, as well as claims for damages against CS-Minerals and any auxiliary persons and vicarious agents. CS-Minerals is in particular not liable for indirect damages and consequential damages, loss of profit or other personal injury, property damage and pure financial loss of the customer and third parties. Any further mandatory legal liability, for example for gross negligence or unlawful intent, remains reserved.
CS-Minerals uses hyperlinks on www.cs-minerals.com only for the simplified access of the customer to other web offers. CS-Minerals can neither know the content of these web offers in detail nor assume liability or other responsibility for the content of these websites.
CS-Minerals is not able to give any assurances or guarantees for the topicality, completeness and correctness of the data as well as for the constant or undisturbed availability of the website, its functionalities, integrated hyperlinks and further contents. In particular, no representation or warranty is made that the use of the website will not infringe rights of third parties not owned by CS-Minerals.
10. Privacy
The protection of customers' personal data is important to CS-Minerals. CS-Minerals takes the issue of data protection seriously and pays attention to appropriate security. CS-Minerals processes and maintains personal data in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), the Telecommunications Act (TCA) and, where applicable, other provisions of data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (GDPR).
The customer agrees that CS-Minerals may use his data for advertising purposes (online or in print), in particular to send him information about offers.
Customer has the option to object to these advertising purposes at any time by notifying CS-Minerals.
In all other respects, reference is made to the privacy statement of CS-Minerals, which can be viewed at www.cs-minerals.com.
11. Other provisions
Should individual provisions of these GTC be void and/or ineffective in whole or in part, the validity and/or effectiveness of the remaining provisions or parts of such provisions shall remain unaffected. The invalid and/or ineffective provisions shall be replaced by provisions that come as close as possible in economic terms to the meaning and purpose of the invalid and/or ineffective provisions in a legally effective manner. The same shall apply in the event of any loopholes in the provision.
If these GTC are translated into other languages, the German version alone shall be binding and legally authoritative.
In the event of disputes, Swiss substantive law shall apply exclusively, to the exclusion of conflict-of-law rules. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG, Vienna Sales Convention) is explicitly excluded.
The place of jurisdiction is Bremgarten AG.
Arni, April 2, 2023