Terms of service

table of contents

1. scope
2. conclusion of contract
3. Right of withdrawal
4. Prices and terms of payment
5. Delivery and shipping conditions
6. retention of title
7. Liability for defects (warranty)
8. Redeeming promotional vouchers
9. Redeeming Gift Vouchers
10. Applicable Law
11. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "GTC") of Rene Kiessling, trading under "My.Bali.nest" (hereinafter "Seller"), apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods concluded between a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter "Customer") and the Seller regarding the goods presented by the Seller in his online shop. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby excluded, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 These General Terms and Conditions shall apply accordingly to contracts for the delivery of vouchers, unless otherwise agreed.

1.3 A consumer within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to his commercial nor to his independent professional activity.

1.4 An entrepreneur within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his or her commercial or independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the Seller's online shop do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve to submit a binding offer by the Customer.

2.2 The customer can submit the offer via the online order form integrated into the seller's online shop. After placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and completing the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contractual offer for the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that completes the ordering process. Furthermore, the customer can also submit the offer to the seller via email or online contact form.

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), whereby receipt of the order confirmation by the customer is decisive, or
• by delivering the ordered goods to the customer, whereby receipt of the goods by the customer is decisive, or
• by asking the customer to pay after placing his order.

If there are several of the above alternatives, the contract is concluded at the point in time at which one of the above alternatives occurs first. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the customer has sent 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 is deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the result that the customer is no longer bound by his declaration of intent.

2.4 If you select a payment method offered by PayPal, payment processing will be carried out via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à rl et Cie, S.CA, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: “PayPal”), subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, available athttps://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/etc/useragreement-fullor - if the customer does not have a PayPal account - subject to the terms and conditions for payments without a PayPal account, which can be viewed athttps://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/etc/privacywax-fullIf the customer pays using a payment method offered by PayPal that can be selected during the online ordering process, the seller hereby declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time the customer clicks the button that completes the ordering process.

2.5 If you select the payment method "Amazon Payments", the payment will be processed via the payment service provider Amazon Payments Europe sca, 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg (hereinafter: “Amazon”), subject to the Amazon Payments Europe User Agreement, available athttps://payments.amazon.de/help/201751590If the customer selects "Amazon Payments" as the payment method during the online ordering process, they simultaneously issue a payment order to Amazon by clicking the button that completes the ordering process. In this case, the seller hereby declares acceptance of the customer's offer at the time the customer initiates the payment process by clicking the button that completes the ordering process.

2.6 When submitting an offer via the Seller's online order form, the contract text will be saved by the Seller after the contract has been concluded and sent to the Customer in text form (e.g., email, fax, or letter) after the order has been sent. The Seller will not make the contract text available beyond this time. If the Customer has set up a user account in the Seller's online shop before submitting their order, the order data will be archived on the Seller's website and can be accessed free of charge by the Customer via their password-protected user account by entering the corresponding login data.

2.7 Before submitting a binding 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 detection of input errors can be the browser's zoom function, which enlarges the display on the screen. During the electronic ordering process, the Customer can correct their entries using standard keyboard and mouse functions until they click the button that completes the order process.

2.8 The German and English languages are available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.9 Order processing and contact are generally carried out via email and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the email address provided for order processing is correct, so that emails 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 by the seller to process the order can be delivered.

3) Right of Withdrawal

3.1 Consumers generally have a right of withdrawal.

3.2 Further information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the seller’s cancellation policy.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the seller's product description, the prices quoted are total prices. VAT is not shown, as the seller is a small business owner within the meaning of the German Value Added Tax Act (UStG). Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be stated separately in the respective product description.

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

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

4.4 If a payment method offered via the “PayPal” payment service is selected, payment will be processed via PayPal, although PayPal may also use the services of third-party payment service providers for this purpose. If the seller also offers payment methods via PayPal for which he makes advance payments to the customer (e.g. purchase on account or payment by installments), he assigns his payment claim to PayPal or to the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal and specifically named to the customer. Before accepting the seller’s declaration of assignment, PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal will carry out a credit check using the customer data transmitted. The seller reserves the right to refuse the selected payment method to the customer in the event of a negative check result. If the selected payment method is accepted, the customer must pay the invoice amount within the agreed payment period or. to pay in the agreed payment intervals. In this case, the seller can only pay to PayPal or the payment service provider commissioned by PayPal with debt-discharging effect. However, even in the event of the assignment of claims, the seller remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g. regarding the goods, delivery times, shipping, returns, complaints, declarations of revocation and remittances or credit notes.

4.5 If the "SOFORT" payment method is selected, payment processing will be carried out by the payment service provider SOFORT GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich (hereinafter "SOFORT"). In order to pay the invoice amount via "SOFORT," the customer must have an online banking account activated for participation in "SOFORT," provide appropriate identification during the payment process, and confirm the payment instruction to "SOFORT." The payment transaction will be processed immediately thereafter by "SOFORT," and the customer's bank account will be debited. Further information on the "SOFORT" payment method can be found online athttps://www.klarna.com/immediately/retrieve.

4.6 If you select a payment method offered via the "Shopify Payments" payment service, payment processing will be carried out by the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter "Stripe"). The individual payment methods offered via Shopify Payments will be communicated to the customer in the seller's online shop. Stripe may use other payment services to process payments, for which special payment terms may apply, to which the customer may be separately informed. Further information on "Shopify Payments" can be found online athttps://www.shopify.com/legal/terms-payments-deavailable.

4.7 If you select credit card as your payment method, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. Credit card payments are processed in cooperation with secupay AG, Goethestr. 6, 01896 Pulsnitz (www.secupay.ag) to which the provider assigns its payment claim. secupay AG collects the invoice amount from the customer's specified credit card account. In the event of assignment, payments can only be made to secupay AG with debt-discharging effect. The credit card is charged immediately after the customer submits the order in the online shop. Even if credit card payment via secupay AG is selected, the provider remains responsible for general customer inquiries, e.g., regarding goods, delivery times, shipping, returns, complaints, cancellation notices and shipments, or credit notes.

4.8 If you select the payment method via Stripe, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. Payment is processed via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter: "Stripe"). Stripe reserves the right to conduct a credit check and reject this payment method if the credit check is negative.

4.9 If you select a payment method offered through the "Klarna" payment service, payment processing will be carried out by Klarna Bank AB (publ), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden (hereinafter "Klarna"). Further information and Klarna's terms and conditions can be found in the seller's payment information, which can be viewed at the following website:

https://store.mybalinest.shop/pages/payment methods

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 If the seller offers to ship the goods, delivery will be made within the delivery area specified by the seller to the delivery address provided by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. The delivery address provided by the seller during order processing is decisive for the processing of the transaction. Exception: If PayPal is selected as the payment method, the delivery address provided by the customer to PayPal at the time of payment is decisive.

5.2 If 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 does not apply to the shipping costs if the customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal. If the customer effectively exercises their right of withdrawal, the provisions in the seller's cancellation policy apply to the return shipping costs.

5.3 If the customer is a business owner, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods shall pass to the customer as soon as the seller has delivered the goods to the freight forwarder, carrier, or other person or institution designated to carry out the shipment. If the customer is a consumer, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the sold goods shall generally only pass to the customer upon delivery of the goods to the customer or an authorized recipient.Deviating from this, the risk of accidental loss and accidental deterioration of the goods sold also passes to the customer for consumers as soon as the seller has delivered the item to the freight forwarder, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise responsible for carrying out the shipment, if the Customer commissioned the forwarding agent, the carrier or the person or institution otherwise responsible for carrying out the shipment with the execution and the seller had not previously named this person or institution to the customer.

5.4 The Seller reserves the right to withdraw from the contract in the event of incorrect or improper delivery. This only applies if the non-delivery is not the Seller's responsibility and the Seller has entered into a specific hedging transaction with the supplier with due diligence. The Seller will make all reasonable efforts to procure the goods. In the event of unavailability or only partial availability of the goods, the Customer will be informed immediately and the consideration will be refunded immediately.

5.5 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

If the seller pays in advance, he retains ownership of the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

7) Liability for Defects (Warranty)

7.1 Unless otherwise stipulated in the following provisions, the statutory liability for defects shall apply. The following applies to contracts for the delivery of goods:

7.2 If the customer acts as an entrepreneur,

• the seller has the choice of the type of supplementary performance;
• in the case of new goods, the limitation period for defects is one year from delivery of the goods;
• in the case of used goods, the rights and claims due to defects are excluded;
• the statute of limitations does not begin again if a replacement delivery is made as part of the liability for defects.

7.3 The limitations of liability and shortening of deadlines set out above shall not apply

• for claims for damages and reimbursement of expenses by the customer,
• in the event that the seller has fraudulently concealed the defect,
• for goods that have been used for a building in accordance with their usual purpose and have caused its defectiveness,
• for any existing obligation of the seller to provide updates for digital products, in the case of contracts for the delivery of goods with digital elements.

7.4 Furthermore, for entrepreneurs, the statutory limitation periods for any existing statutory recourse claim remain unaffected.

7.5 If the customer acts as a merchant i.S.d. Section 1 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), the customer is subject to the commercial obligation to inspect and notify defects in accordance with Section 377 of the German Commercial Code (HGB). If the customer fails to comply with the notification obligations stipulated therein, the goods shall be deemed approved.

7.6 If the customer is a consumer, they are requested to report any goods delivered with obvious transport damage to the delivery company and to notify the seller of this. Failure by the customer to do so will have no effect on their statutory or contractual claims for defects.

8) Redemption of promotional vouchers

8.1 Vouchers issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotional campaigns with a specific period of validity and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter "promotional vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop and only during the specified period.

8.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction arises from the content of the promotional voucher.

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

8.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

8.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining balance will not be refunded by the seller.

8.6 If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller can be selected to settle the difference.

8.7 The balance of a promotional voucher will not be paid out in cash or bear interest.

8.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in whole or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

8.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The seller may, with discharging effect, make a payment to the respective holder who redeems the promotional voucher in the seller's online shop. This shall not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the respective holder's ineligibility, legal incapacity, or lack of authority to represent the seller.

9) Redeeming Gift Certificates

9.1 Vouchers that can be purchased through the Seller's online shop (hereinafter "Gift Vouchers") can only be redeemed in the Seller's online shop, unless otherwise stated in the voucher.

9.2 Gift vouchers and any remaining balance on gift vouchers can be redeemed until the end of the third year following the year of purchase. Any remaining balance will be credited to the customer until the expiration date.

9.3 Gift vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent crediting is not possible.

9.4 Only one gift voucher can be redeemed per order.

9.5 Gift vouchers can only be used to purchase goods and not to purchase additional gift vouchers.

9.6 If the value of the gift voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller can be selected to settle the difference.

9.7 The balance of a gift voucher will not be paid out in cash or bear interest.

9.8 The gift voucher is transferable. The seller may, with discharging effect, make a payment to the respective holder who redeems the gift voucher in the seller's online shop. This shall not apply if the seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the respective holder's ineligibility, legal incapacity, or lack of authority to represent the seller.

10) Governing Law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to all legal relationships between the parties, excluding the laws on the international purchase of movable goods. For consumers, this choice of law only applies insofar as the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which the consumer has his habitual residence.

11) Alternative Dispute Resolution

11.1 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 in which a consumer is involved.

11.2 The Seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

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