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TERMS & CONDITIONS

Introduction

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The market site www.Carbone14-paris.Com (here named the “site”) is a site of electronic commerce accessible through the internet, open to all users of this medium (here named “internet users”). It is edited by the company carbone14 paris (here named “carbone14”), the headquarters are located at 49 rue Georges Sorel 92100, Boulogne-Billancourt, signed with the “registre des métiers de paris” under the number 849 095 708.


The site allows Carbone14 to offer textile products and accessories for sale with carbone14 brand or any of their business partners (here named “products”) to internet users that navigate on the site (here named “clients”). For the application of the presenters, it is decided that the client and carbone14 will be collectively named "parties" and individually named "party", and that the client that has validated an order will be named "buyer".


All orders of a product offered on the site imply the buyer to adhere to the following terms and conditions of sale. Carbone14 reserves the right to modify at any moment the present terms and conditions of sale by publishing a new version on the site. The general terms and conditions of sale are those that at are put in place on the date the purchase is made.


Article 1. Object

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The current terms and conditions of sale govern the rights and obligations of the parties resulting in the on-line sale of products offered on the site, these apply with the exclusion of any other document.

 

Article 2. Products – price

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2.1 products

 

Only the products featured on the shop on the day it is consulted by the client are offered for sale. The offer of product and price are available, within limits of available stock, if they are offered on the site. The photographs reproduced and illustrating the presented products are not contractual.


2.2 price

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The prices are indicated in euros all taxes included. The prices that are applied are the ones figuring on the site at the time the order is being made. The sum of the all-inclusive price of the fees for preparation and delivery will be communicated to the client on the receipt summary, before the validation of the document. Please be reminded that shipments destined outside of the european community are subject to import taxes and duty fees (ddu deliver duties unpaid) based on your home country's regulations. A customer is responsible for all customs and duty fees. 


Article 3. Order


3.1 registering the order

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The client that wishes to make an order chooses the item or items of his or her choice by clicking on "add to cart".

At any time, the client can:

Verify the number of products in his basket and obtain detailed information on each item by clicking on "my cart", or the "my cart" icon,

A new client must fill out all required fields of information to create his or her client account. The client must fill out the form given to him or her with exactitude, which will include the information needed to determine his identification, including his electronic address and a password of his or her choosing (which will be personal to him as well as confidential) which will in turn allow him or her to identify himself on the site. Every client that already has a password must identify himself after clicking on "log in", by entering his or her email address and his or her password.

The client accepts that this method of identification can prove his or her identity.

It is an obligation to provide the nominative information to be a vendor from a distance, this information is necessary for the treatment and delivery of orders, and for billing. This information is strictly confidential.

After having made an order, and once all the information required has been completed by the client, he or she will be aware of the general terms and conditions of sale to which he will agree to by checking off the square.


3.2 validation of the order

The validation of the confirmation of the cart constitutes as an electronic signature. To the parties this signature is the equivalent to a signed manuscript and is proof of the integrity of the order and the payability of the sum due of the said order.

Once he or she has validated the order, the client becomes a buyer.

Notwithstanding the application of article r624-3 of the penal code, the client will pay his or her order with a banking card (american express, visa, eurocard/mastercard). If the client wishes to make payment with a bank card, he or she must provide the bank card number. The type of card, the expiration date, as well as the cryptogram will need to be provided.

 

3.3 payment

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The price owed by the buyer is the amount indicated on the summary note of the order. In any case, the amount debited will correspond to the product(s) to be delivered. It is specified that when choosing a bank card as a method of payment the buyer is transferred automatically towards the electronic banking server at stripe. The payment of your purchases is carried out exclusively, when placing your order, by bank card (visa, eurocard/mastercard, american express) or via a paypal account. The debit of your bank card or your paypal account is made no later than six (6) days after placing your order, in the currency thereof.

You can shop in total security, the confidentiality of banking information transmitted via the website to an authorised banking institution is carried out in a secure environment (ssl protocol).

Payment card numbers are not stored on our website but on the secure website of the stripe banking institution.

As part of the process of payments made by electronic means, and to combat the fraudulent use of online payment methods, we carry out verification of the reliability of the information entered by you when registering your order.


3.4 acknowledgement of receipt of order

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Once payment has been made, a summary document of the order is sent to the buyer to his or her electronic address. This document serves as an acknowledgment of receipt and is a summary of all the items included in the contract between parties. It will be accessible at any moment in the buyer’s account.


Article 4. Delivery

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Carbone14 will do everything within its means so that the delivery of the order will be made on average between 1 to 5 days, and up to 10 days, counting from the following day the order has been validated by the buyer. It is specified that orders made on the web site www.Carbone14-paris.Com. Friday, saturday or sunday will be processed the following monday. Orders that are made on the web site www.Carbonne14-paris.Com on public holidays other than on a friday, saturday and sunday will also be processed the next opening day. Items ordered by the buyer will only be delivered within eu borders to the address provided by the buyer on the validation page for his order, along with a delivery slip. The buyer has the possibility to have the products delivered to a different address than his own. The delivery will not be insured in case of an extraneous circumstance, transportation strike and/or postal services strike.


Article 5. Receiving the order

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Upon reception of the order, the buyer will verify the conformity of the products received following the execution of the order. Any anomalies concerning the delivery (for example: missing or damaged product, damaged packaging) must be notified imperatively, in the fourteen (14) days following the reception of the products. Important notice: the order may be delivered in several instances. Unless there be a legitimate motive, any claim that is made after the 14 days following the reception of the products will be considered inadmissible, carbone14 will not be liable. Carbone14 reserves the right to ask the buyer to return the product if it is non-compliant or damaged. In the case of an abnormal or improper return, carbone14 can refuse any other orders.


Article 6. Right to retract

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The buyer is entitled to a delay of fourteen (14) business days counting from the date of reception to return, at his or her own charge, the product(s) that he or she has ordered. The product(s) will have to be returned in its original packaging. If the conditions mentioned above are fulfilled, carbone14 will reimburse the buyer for the total amount of his order, within thirty (30) days of the reception of the products carbone14, excluding the charges incurred when sending the products back which are at the buyer’s charge.


Article 7. Guarantee

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All our products benefit of a legal guarantee, abiding that the use of said product was normal and that instructions be adhered to.


Article l211-4 of the consumer code

The vendor is obliged to deliver goods that are in adherence to the contract and to answer to defects that do not adhere to conformity existing when said product is delivered.


Article l211-5 of the consumer code

To conform to the contract, the goods must:

1° must be suited for the habitual type of usage expected from a similar good:

Correspond to the description given by the vendor and possess the quality that the presented to the buyer in sample or model form;

Present the qualities that a buyer could legitimately expect and in relevance to the public declarations made by the vendor, by the producer or by their representative, notably in advertisements or labelling;

2° or present characteristics defined by a common agreement by the parties or be applied to all special usage sought by the buyer, which the vendor was aware of and accepted.


Article l211-12 of the consumer code

The operation resulting in a default to the conformity has a statute of limitations from two years starting from the delivery of the good.


Article 1641 of the civil code

The vendor is obliged to guarantee in the case of hidden defaults of the product sold which render it improper to the use is destined to, or that it restricts so much that usage, that the buyer would not have purchased it, or would have bought it for a fraction of the price, if he had known they existed.

Article 1648 indentation 1 of the civil code

The event that is the result of insurmountable vices must pursue legal action within a two-year delay of the discovery of said vice.


Article 8. Computing and rights


8.1 personal information

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Information of a personal nature is treated by carbone14 to better manage client relationships and prospection. And to allow you to receive offers from our partners, we may communicate that type of information. Abiding by the computing law and liberty of the 6th of january 1978, updated by the law of the 6th of august 2004, the client has the right to access, to rectify and oppose that information concerned.


8.2 cookies

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The site uses cookies. Cookies is a computer generated digital file that is stockpiled on the hard drive of the client's micro-computer. The point is to signal a client's previous visit on the site. The cookies are only utilised with the express purpose of personalising the service for the client. The client reserves his right to refuse cookies by configuring his navigator online. In doing so, he loses the possibility of personalising the services that are delivered to him or her on the carbone14 site.


8.3 web beacon

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Certain web pages of the site may contain web beacons that allow to count the number of visitors on the site and/or allow the carbone14 a certain number of indicators. These web beacons can be used with some of our partners, with the noted purpose of measuring and improving the site.


Article 9. Various stipulations

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9.1 force majeur

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Carbone14 will not be held responsible for the non-execution whether it be total or partial of its obligations for its current contract, if this non-execution is provoked by an event considered force majeure, more notably in case of a disturbance or general or partial strike, notably of postal or method of transportation and/or communication, flood or fire. The parties convene to concert themselves in a timely to determine the method in which to proceed with the order during the force majeure situation. In the case of a delay of one (1) month of interruption due to force majeure, the parties will be freed from their obligations to one another.


9.2. The contract in its entirety

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The present terms and conditions of sale and the summary of the order sent to the buyer, constitute a contractual an integral summary of the conventions that occur between the parties.


9.3 conservation and archiving transactions

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The archiving of bills is done in a viable and durable backing method to correspond to a trustworthy and durable copy.


9.4 applicable law – competent jurisdiction.

The present terms and conditions of sale and the contractual relation between carbone14 and the buyer are subject to french law. In case of litigation, the paris tribunal of commerce will be called upon. However, carbone14 are always open to finding an amicable solution before any legal action is taken.


Legal mentions

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Legal name: Carbone14

Legal form: sole trader (auto-entrepreneur)

Headquarters: 49 rue Georges Sorel

Phone: available on demand (cost of a local call)

Number rm: 849 095 708

Hosting: WIX


The publisher agrees to comply with all laws concerning the establishment and operation of a website.


Technical information

It is recalled that the secrecy of correspondence is not guaranteed on the internet and it is up to each internet user to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and / or software from contamination of viruses circulating on the internet.

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