Gerlach Books

§ 1 Scope of Application

1. For the business relationship between Gerlach Books & Gerlach Press and the customer the following General Terms and Conditions of Business in their version valid at the time of the order shall apply exclusively. Gerlach does not recognise any deviating terms and conditions of the Customer unless Gerlach Press has expressly agreed to their validity in writing.

2. The following terms and conditions also include legal information on the conclusion of distance contracts and on the electronic conclusion of contracts.

3. Consumers in the sense of our terms and conditions are natural persons with whom a business connection is contracted without connection to any commercial or independent professional activity.

4. Entrepreneurs in the sense of our terms and conditions are natural or legal persons or associations of persons with legal capacity, with whom a business connection is entered into and who act on behalf of a commercial or independent professional activity.

5. Customers in the sense of our terms and conditions are consumers as well as entrepreneurs.

6. Terms and conditions deviating or contradicting or supplemental to out general terms and conditions are not part of the contract, even when acknowledged, unless their application is explicitly agreed upon in a written form.
   § 2 Seller / Provider

7. As a customer you sign contracts with the Gerlach Books & Gerlach Press, in the following “Gerlach,” “we” or “us”, represented by its owner and publisher Kai-Henning Gerlach.

8. You can reach Gerlach at the following address:
   Gerlach Books & Gerlach Press Verlagsbuchhandlung
   Inhaber Kai-Henning Gerlach
   Telephone +49 30 32303-111
   Facsimile: +49 30 323 5667
   Email: office@gerlach-books.de
   § 3 Conclusion of contracts

9. On our websites (gerlach-books.de, gerlach-press.de, gerlach-books.com, gerlach-press.com, gerlachpress.com) and in our print media (books and ebooks), we inform you about the conditions and characteristics of the goods. The display of goods does not constitute a contract offer, but a non-binding invitation to you to order goods from us.

10. By placing your order (by phone, fax, email or postal mail), you signify your agreement offer to conclude a purchase contract. We will confirm receipt of your order immediately. This confirmation serves only as a confirmation of receipt of your order; it does not however represent an acceptation of your offer to conclude a purchase contract.

11. Gerlach is entitled to accept the offer contained in your purchase order within two weeks. An acceptance of your offer can be made by an explicit statement or by shipping of the ordered products, with the purchase agreement limited to the products shipped. A purchase contract is not concluded about other products on the same order, which have not been dispatched from Gerlach.

12. About special features on the electronic conclusion of contracts in the online shop of our website please see § 4 below.
    § 4 Special features on the electronic conclusion of contracts in the online shop of our website

13. Once you have found the requested item on our homepage, please select the button “Add to cart” via mouse click (when ordering a single journal article please click “Get access” beforehand). If you wish to order further items, please repeat this procedure for each item (the contents of the cart will not be deleted automatically if you close the browser window).

14. To conclude the purchase, please select “Checkout”. If you do already have access data (E-mail address and password) for our online shop, you may log in and conclude your purchase. If you are a new customer, please generate a customer account by selecting the button “Register a new account”. In order to generate a new account, you are required to fill in your name, the name of your company or institution (where applicable), your address, telephone number and e-mail address. A password for your customer account will then be sent to your e-mail address. Password and e-mail address are required every time you wish to order online. After reading our terms and conditions, you will be required to state your consent by ticking the box accordingly.

15. For concluding the purchase, please complete the following details concerning the purchase. The “Next” button will then lead you to the next page, where you will be required to state an invoice and shipping address and select a payment method. Payment can be made by bank transfer or via PayPal. When buying a journal article or an e-book, you can only pay by PayPal. In this case, you can download the journal article or the e-book immediately after payment has been made via PayPal.

16. While filling in the order form, you may correct your entries at any time by overwriting. Before selecting the “Pay now” button, you may cancel the order at any time by closing the browser window.

17. Information for entrepreneurs from EU member states: Entrepreneurs from EU member states are asked to select “Business Invoice” and give their VAT number in the field “VAT ID” when stating their invoice and shipping address in order to qualify for VAT-exempt intra-community delivery according to § 4 Nr. 1 lit. b UstG.

18. The order of the item given in the order form with the corresponding purchase price is concluded by clicking on the button “Pay now”.

19. We will confirm the receipt of your order by an e-mail, in which the details of your order are summarized. The confirmation alone does not however constitute acceptation of your offer. We are entitled to accept the offer contained in your purchase order within two weeks. An acceptance of your offer can be made by an explicit statement or by shipping of the ordered products, with the purchase agreement limited to the products shipped. A purchase contract is not concluded about other products on the same order, which have not been dispatched from Gerlach.
    § 5 Prices

All prices indicated are prices in EUR and exclude VAT unless stated otherwise.
§ 6 Shipping costs

Unless stated otherwise, when sending printed books we calculate shipping costs in the amount of
5 Euro (incl. German VAT) delivery within Germany
20 Euro (incl. German VAT) outside Germany
§ 7 Terms of payment

1. Purchase is conducted on open account. As to the possibility of a purchase with payment via PayPal in the online shop of our site please see § 4 No. 3.
2. When making a purchase on open account, customers are obliged to pay on receipt of the service within the period indicated on the invoice to the bank account, which is also indicated on the invoice. On expiration of this period the customer is in default.
3. Customers from abroad can alternatively pay their invoice by credit card (VISA or MasterCard). Therefore the customer submits the required information to Gerlach by Facsimile: +49 30 323 5667 or phone Telephone +49 30 32303-111. For safety reasons we explicitly and urgently advise our clients not to send the credit card information by e-mail.
4. If in default, the consumer is obliged to pay 5% interest on the base rate of the debt. If in default, entrepreneurial debtors are obliged to pay 8% interest on the base rate of the debt. In the case of entrepreneurial debtors, we reserve the right to substantiate a higher amount of interest damage as a result of the default and to put it to effect.
   § 8 Reservation of proprietary rights

Goods remain in our property until full payment of the purchase price.
§ 9 Right to Cancel

When buying printed or electronic books, consumers have the following right to cancel within 14 days.
§ 10 Warranty conditions

Legal warranty rights apply to all our goods from the shop on our website. We do not provide warranty beyond legal regulations.
§ 11 Change of address

In the case of relocation, or change of delivery address, the customer is obliged to inform us about the new address at once, or within a period of 14 days at the latest. The customer bears all additional costs if failure to do so leads to dispatch to an incorrect address.
§ 12 Data protection

The Customer has been informed about the type, scope, place and purpose of the collection, processing and use of the personal data required for the execution of orders by Gerlach Press (see below: Data protection). The customer expressly agrees to this collection, processing and use of personal data.
§ 13 Applicable law

German law shall apply to the exclusion of the UN Sales Convention.
§ 14 Final clause

1. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies solely. In the case of customers concluding a contract without connection to any professional or commercial purposes, this choice of law is applicable only as far as the protection is not withdrawn in the customer’s country of habitual residence due to compelling regulations of the law. Regulations of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods do not apply.
2. If the customer is a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes regarding this contract is our place of business. The same applies if the customer does not have a legal forum in Germany or if the customer’s place of residence or habitual residence are unknown at the time of the filing of the lawsuit.
3. Should single regulations of the contract with the customer, including these general terms and conditions, be or become wholly or partially invalid, the validity of other regulations remains unaltered.
   Berlin, 1 November 2020