General Terms and Conditions

1. Territory

The following terms of trade comprise the solely valid terms of trade between you and me, Galerie d´Histoire - André Hüsken e. K., Ballindamm 13, 20095 Hamburg (registered in the Commercial Register Hamburg A 84558), exclusively effective business conditions as far as these are not amended by a written agreement between the parties.

2. Selection of Articles

a) You may select articles on my website and order them.

b) You can click the articles you want on my website. They are then collected in a virtual shopping cart. At the end of your purchase you receive a roundup of all ordered articles together with the all round price of the articles you ordered.

c) Before your order is dispatched you may check your order as regards content as well as amount and price and you may possibly correct it.

3. Conclusion of contract

The offering of my articles is no binding offer for my part. Not until you have ordered goods a binding offer acc. to § 145 BGB has been formed. If we accept this offer we will send you a confirmation of order via email.

4. Payment Terms

a) The purchase price is payable upon conclusion of contract. Delivery of the goods and payment are normally effected against cash on delivery or cash in advance, for well-known customers against invoice.

b) All prices mentioned on my website are quoted as final prices including the VAT valid in Germany, i.e. 7% resp. 19%. Articles which do not include any VAT on the invoice are subject to the differential taxation according to § 25a UStG. Deliveries into non-EU member states are non-taxable export deliveries according to § 4 No. 1a UStG.

5. Retention of Title

I reserve the ownership of all goods until they have been fully paid.

6. Delivery terms

Delivery of the goods will be carried out in the order of order inflow. Forwarding and packaging expenses incurred are charged extra and shown on the invoice. The ordered articles are insured by me up to their full value.

7. Return privilege - withdrawal instruction

a) As the customer (§ 13 BGB) you reserve the right to revoke your order within 14 days after receipt of the goods without indication of your reasons. This cancellation has to be carried out in writing, in words or by returning the goods to me.

b) With the effective exercise of the right of withdrawal you are liable to returning the goods. Return must be effected per registered mail, for a value of goods of EUR 100 to 500 per postal package, for a value of goods of more than EUR 500 per insured registered parcel (Post). The reconsignment is to be sent to André Hüsken, Galerie d´Histoire, Ballindamm 13, 20095 Hamburg. Upon receipt of the reconsignment I will return the invoice amount per remittance or per cheque, as requested.

c) If you cancel the contract you are liable to pay damages for an impairment resulting from the normal use of the goods. Furthermore you are liable for every impairment or the loss of the goods.

8. Guarantee

a) All offered articles are, as long as not stated otherwise, contemporary originals from the respective epoch. The catalogue descriptions are carried out in all conscience. Furthermore I guarantee a lifelong return privilege for originality if it transpires that an article is a forgery.

b) As far as there is a warranty defect you are entitled to withdraw from the contract within the scope of the legal requirements.

c) I classify the preservation of the articles into the following categories:

  1. in mint condition
  2. without flaws, but traces due to old age
  3. deficiencies due to old age
  4. grave deficiencies or traces due to old age

9. Validity and compliance with the legal requirements of §§ 86, 86a StGB

a) Messrs André Hüsken, Galerie d´Histoire affirm that the contemporary and military historic articles from the years 1933 - 1945 offered in the catalogue are solely offered for the purposes of civic clarification, for the defence of unconstitutional and constitution-hostile endeavours, for the academic and art historian research, for the clarification or coverage of the scenes of the events of the day or of the military historic and regimentals research (§ 86 a StGB). On placing his orders for articles furnished with emblems of the Third Reich the purchaser commits to purchase these articles solely for historic-scientific purposes for the above reasons and absolutely not to use them in a propagandistic way, particularly for the purpose of § 86 a StGB.

b) Batons, thrustings and hitting weapons are solely released to persons older than 18 years of age.

10. Protection of data privacy

a) I use the data disclosed by you (title, forename, surname, address, email address, telephone and facsimile No., bank details) according to the terms of the German data privacy laws.

b) The individual-related data are solely used for the execution of the contracts placed between the purchaser and myself.

11. Final clauses

a) German law applies to the exclusion of the UN purchasing law.

b) Should any provision of this contract be invalid or not comply with the legal requirements, the remaining provisions shall be valid. In the place of an invalid provision, a valid provision is presumed to be agreed upon by the parties, which comes economically closest to the one actually agreed upon.

Oktober 1st 2005


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