TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Terms of Service (Status: June 2018)


1. The following General Conditions of Sale are basis for all, also for future transactions with us, unless other terms and conditions are expressly stated by us and agreed in writing. The Basis of the contract are the Incoterms, latest edition.

2. Our offers are non-binding. A contract is only concluded by our written order confirmation or if orders have been executed by us. Changes, additions and/or cancellation of the contract or of these terms and conditions require the written form. The prices are net prices, and they increase in each case by prescribed taxes in the business and levies.

3. Payment is to be made in accordance with the agreed payment terms in the sales contract. The deduction of a discount requires a written agreement. The due date of the payment is the receipt of payment on our accounts. In the case of delays in payment, all our claims connected with business relations are immediately due and payable. Will the delayed payment not be remedied within a reasonable period of grace, we are entitled to withdraw from the contract or to claim damages due to non-fulfillment.

4. The indicated dates of delivery are not fixed dates. If our delivery is delayed, the buyer should grant us a reasonable period of grace. Our delivery obligation is subject to correct and timely self-delivery. In cases in which our supplier has invoked force majeure and other circumstances that make it without paying compensation, performance free, we are free to our customers of the performance. We are not able to deliver on time, we will inform the buyer immediately. We cannot deliver even after a reasonable extension, are entitled to both the buyer as well as we to withdraw from the contract. The supplier has fulfilled his obligations after he has transported the goods in the contracted quality and packaging in Accordance with the Incoterms, to the agreed place of delivery. The risk passes to the buyer, as provided for in the agreed Incoterms, latest version.

5. The delivered goods remain as our property until fulfillment of all claims due to us for any legal reason from the business relationship with the buyer. In the case of processing, combining or mixing with other materials by the customer, we acquire joint title in the proportion that corresponds to the ratio of the invoice value of our goods.

6. The notice of defects has to be carried out in accordance with § 377 of the German commercial code, and at the latest within 6 weeks after delivery of goods to the place of destination, in writing. If this is not done, the goods shall be considered to be good in this relation.

7. The place of fulfillment for both contractual parts is our company's headquarters in Pforzheim. For all legal relationships between us and the buyer, also in case of deliveries abroad, German law shall apply exclusively, insofar as not opposed by mandatory statutory regulations. If these provisions should be partially legally invalid or contain gaps, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.

Privacy Policy (Important note concerning data processing)


This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the responsible body for the data processing that occurs via this website has their basis outside of the European Economic area and Switzerland, then the associated Google Analytics data processing is carried out by Google LLC. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC. will hereinafter be referred to as “Google”.

Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on the site visitor’s computer, to help the website analyze their use of the site. The information generated by the cookie (including the truncated IP address) about the use of the website will normally be transmitted to and stored by Google.

Google Analytics is used exclusively with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()" on this website. This extension ensures an anonymization of the IP address by truncation and excludes a direct personal reference. Via this extension Google truncates the site visitor’s IP address within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional situations will the site visitor’s full IP address be transmitted to Google servers in the United States and truncated there. The IP address, that is provided by the site visitor’s browser in using Google Analytics will not be merged by Google with other data from Google.

On behalf of the site operator, Google will use the information collected to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other website and internet related services to the site operator (Art. 6 (1)( f) GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of the use of the website and the adaptation of the content. The interests of the users are adequately protected by the pseudonymization of their data.

Google LLC. offers a guarantee to maintain an adequate level of data protection on the basis of European standard contractual clauses. The data sent and linked to the Google Analytics cookies, e.g. user IDs or advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 50 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is carried out automatically once a month.

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Further information concerning data processing and use by Google, the settings and deactivation possibilities can be found in the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) as well as in the Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated).

Recaptcha 

We use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google LLC (Google) to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on this site. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being (ab)used by spam bots (particularly comments). This plugin query includes the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided by reCaptcha from your browser shall not be merged with any other data from Google.

This data collection is subject to the data protection regulations of Google (Google Inc.). For more information about Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
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