Terms & Conditions

General terms and conditions

1. Scope

The following General Terms and Conditions (GTC) apply to all orders placed via our online shop by consumers and traders.

"Consumer" means an individual acting for purposes which are wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft or profession;
"trader" means a person acting for purposes relating to that person’s trade, business, craft or profession, whether acting personally or through another person acting in the trader’s name or on the trader’s behalf.

For traders the following applies: If the trader uses conflicting or supplementary General Terms and Conditions, their validity is hereby contradicted; they only become part of the contract if we have expressly agreed to them.

2. Contractual partner, formation of contract, correction facilities

The contract is concluded with Unique Jewelry GmbH.

The presentation of the products in the online shop does not constitute a legally binding offer, but rather, a non-binding online catalogue. You may initially place our products into the shopping basket without obligation and check your entries at any time prior to submitting your binding offer, by using the correction aids provided and explained for this in the ordering process. By clicking on the ordering button, you are submitting a binding offer to buy the products contained in the shopping basket. The confirmation of receipt of your order will take place by e-mail directly after sending the order.

We will accept your offer within two days

• by sending you a notice of acceptance in a separate e-mail or
• if applicable, by having the payment transaction processed by our service provider or the selected payment service provider. The time of processing of the transaction depends on the respective payment method selected (see below under "Payment").

The relevant alternative for you is determined by which of the listed events occurs first.

3. Contract language, saving of the contract text

The language(s) available for concluding the contract: English

We save the text of the contract and forward the order data and our General Terms to you by e-mail. You may also view the text of the contract in our customer login area.

4. Subject of contract

4.1 Product description

Reference is made to the validity of the respective product description as an integral part of the contract.

4.2 Product images

Without prejudice to your statutory warranty rights, we would like to draw your attention to the following special features. Please contact us if you have any uncertainties:

Due to individual screen configurations (e.g. resolution and brightness), slight deviations between the displayed and actual product colours are possible.

Natural variations in the grain, structure and colour of wood products are possible.

5. Requirements and handling of customer content

5.1 Requirements

If it is necessary for the fulfilment of the order that you transmit content (e.g. texts, data, files) to us, the existing technical possibilities for this and any applicable requirements are based on the respective product description.

You are solely responsible for the content, including the legality and accuracy of the content you transmit. We do not carry out an editorial check of the content before executing the order.

5.2 Compliance with applicable law

The content and the products to be created from it must always comply with the applicable legal provisions. In particular, they must not infringe any rights or claims of third parties (especially copyrights, trademarks or other property rights) and must not contain or serve any purposes that glorify violence, are discriminatory, racist, xenophobic or otherwise immoral or unconstitutional.

5.3 Indemnification

You shall indemnify us against claims by third parties which they may assert in connection with an infringement of their rights by our contractual use. You shall also assume the necessary costs of legal defence including all court and lawyer's fees in the statutory amount. The indemnification does not apply if you are not responsible for the infringement. In the event of a claim by a third party, you are obliged to provide us immediately, truthfully and completely with all information necessary for the examination of the claims and a defence.

5.4 Cancellation proviso

We reserve the right to refuse the order or to withdraw from the contract if the content provided by you for this purpose violates legal or official prohibitions or morality or if there is a justified suspicion in this regard. This applies in particular to the provision of anti-constitutional, racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, offensive, youth-endangering and/or violence-glorifying content.

6. Delivery conditions

6.1 Delivery costs

Standard shipping is free of charge from an order value of von 100€ GBP including VAT.

6.2 Delivery options

We ship the products to the delivery address specified in the order process.

We only dispatch goods en route; pick up by the customer is not possible.

7. Payment

7.1  Prices

The prices stated at the time of ordering apply. These are total prices and include statutory VAT.

7.2 Due date and default of payment

The price is due upon conclusion of the contract, unless a later date is specified in the following terms of payment.

The following applies to consumers: In the event of late payment, we reserve the right to charge you a fee of GBP 1.50 per reminder for the second and each subsequent reminder. You reserve the right to prove that the damage incurred is lower. Further claims remain unaffected by this.

The following applies to traders: In the event of late payment, we reserve the right to charge you statutory interest on arrears at a rate of nine percentage points above the base interest rate and a lump sum of GBP 40. Further claims remain unaffected by this.

7.3 Payment methods

The following payment methods are basically available in our online shop.

Payment in advance
If you select payment in advance we provide you with our bank details in a separate e-mail and deliver the goods on receipt of funds

Credit Card
With the submission of the order, you are sending us your credit card details at the same time.
Your card will be charged immediately after placing your order.

PayPal, PayPal Express
In order to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg ("PayPal"), you must be registered with PayPal, legitimise yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction will be processed by PayPal after placing the order. You will receive further instructions during the ordering process.

PayPal may offer registered PayPal customers further payment modalities in the customer account selected according to its own criteria. However, we have no influence on the offering of these modalities; further individually offered payment modalities affect your legal relationship with PayPal. You can find more information on this in your PayPal account.

SOFORT by Klarna
In order to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Sofort GmbH, Theresienhöhe 12, 80339 Munich, Germany, you must have a bank account activated for online banking, identify yourself accordingly and confirm the payment instruction. Your account will be charged immediately after placing the order. You will receive further instructions in the ordering process.

Google Pay
In order to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"), you have to be registered with the service provider Google, must have activated the Google Pay function, identify yourself with your access data and confirm the payment order. The payment transaction will be carried out directly after submission of your order. Further information can be found during the ordering process.

Apple Pay
In order to pay the invoice amount via the payment service provider Apple Inc., One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014, USA ("Apple"), you must use the "Safari" browser, be registered with Apple, have activated the Apple Pay function, legitimise yourself with your access data and confirm the payment instruction. The payment transaction is processed immediately after placing the order. You will receive further information in the ordering process.

Klarna
In cooperation with the payment service provider Klarna Bank AB (publ.), Sveavägen 46, 111 34 Stockholm, Sweden ("Klarna") we offer you the following payment options. Payment via Klarna is only available to consumers. Unless otherwise specified below, payment via Klarna requires a successful address and credit check and is made directly to Klarna. Further information is provided with the respective payment option and in the ordering process.

8. Right to cancel

Consumers are entitled to the statutory right to cancel, as described in the instructions on the right to cancel. Traders are not granted any voluntary right to cancel.

9. Retention of title

The products shall remain our property until full payment is made.
For traders, the following applies additionally: We reserve ownership of the products until complete settlement of all claims arising from a current business relationship. You may resell reserved goods in ordinary business operations; you shall assign any claims arising from this resale – irrespective of connecting or mixing of the reserved goods with a new item - in the amount of the invoice amount to us in advance, and we accept this assignment. You remain authorised to collect the claims; however, we may likewise collect the claims ourselves, should you fail to fulfil your payment obligations. We shall release the securities to which we are entitled at your request to the extent that the realisable value of the securities exceeds the value of the open claims by more than 10%.

10. Damage during delivery

For consumers the following applies: If the goods are delivered with obvious damage caused during delivery, please report the defect to the carrier and notify us without delay. Failure to make a complaint or to make contact does not in any way affect your legal rights or the enforcement of such rights, notably your warranty rights. However, in doing so you help us to assert our own claims against the carrier or transport insurer.

Applicable to traders: The risks of accidental loss or deterioration of the goods will transfer to you once we have submitted the item to the haulier, carrier or other contractor for forwarding to the defined person or establishment.

11. Warranty and guarantees

11.1 Liability for defects

We are under a legal duty to supply products that are in conformity with this contract. Unless expressly agreed otherwise below, the statutory guarantee provisions (liability for defects) shall apply.

Restrictions in relation to tradres and merchants ("Kaufleute")

The below mentioned limitations and reductions of time periods shall not apply to claims based on damage caused by us, our legal representatives or vicarious agents

• in the event of injury to life, limb or health
• in case of intentional or grossly negligent breach of duty as well as fraudulent intent
• in the event of a breach of essential contractual obligations, the fulfilment of which is a prerequisite for the proper performance of the contract and on the observance of which the contractual partner may regularly rely (cardinal obligations)
• within the scope of a voluntary guarantee, if agreed, or
• within the scope of application of the Produkthaftungsgesetz (the Product Liability Act).

In relation to traders, only our own specifications and the manufacturer's product descriptions included in the contract shall be deemed to be an agreement on the quality of the goods; we shall not accept any liability for public statements made by the manufacturer or other advertising statements. For traders, the limitation period for claims for defects in newly manufactured goods is one year from the transfer of risk. The previous sentence does not apply to an item that has been used for a building in accordance with its customary use and has caused the building to be defective. The sale of used goods is subject to the exclusion of any warranty. The statutory limitation periods for the right of recourse according to § 445a BGB (German Civil Code) remain unaffected.

Note to merchants ("Kaufleute" in accordance with HGB - German Commercial Code)

Among merchants ("Kaufleute"), the obligation to examine and give notice of defects regulated in § 377 HGB (German Commercial Code) shall apply. If you fail to give notice as regulated therein, the goods shall be deemed to have been approved, unless the defect was not recognisable during the inspection. This does not apply if we have fraudulently concealed a defect.

11.2 Voluntary guarantees and customer service

Information on any additional voluntary guarantees that may apply and their exact conditions can be found with the product and on special information pages in the online shop, if applicable.

Customer service: Our customer service is available for queries, complaints and claims on working days from to via phone at as well as via email at .

12. Liability

We shall in any case be liable without limitation for claims due to damages that have been caused by us, our legal representatives or legal agents
• for injury to life, limb or health
• for deliberately or grossly negligent breach of duty
• for guarantee commitments, where agreed
• insofar as the scope of application of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 is open
• in relation to any other liability, including any liabilities under sale of goods or supply of services legislation, that may not by applicable law be excluded or limited.

For breach of material contractual obligations, the fulfilment of which make the proper execution of the contract possible at all and which the contracting parties may generally rely on and trust in being complied with, due to slight negligence by us, our legal representatives or legal agents, the amount of liability is limited to the foreseeable damages at the time of contract conclusion, the occurrence of which must typically be anticipated.
Ceteris paribus, claims for compensation for damages are excluded.

13. Code of conduct

We have submitted to the following codes of conduct:

Trusted Shops (https://www.trustedshops.com/tsdocument/TS_QUALITY_CRITERIA_en.pdf)

Google Kundenrezensionen (https://support.google.com/merchants/topic/7105962)

14. Online dispute resolution

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolutions (ODR) which can be accessed at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. We are neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute settlement proceedings before a dispute resolution body.

15. Final provisions

If you are a trader, German law applies, to the exclusion of the UN Sales Convention.

If you are a "Kaufmann" within the meaning of the German Commercial Code (HGB), public-law legal entity or special public-law fund, the exclusive legal jurisdiction for all disputes from contractual relationships between us and you is our registered office.

Should individual clauses of these GTC be wholly or partially unenforceable, the remainder of the contract shall remain valid. If individual clauses are invalid or unenforceable, the content of the contract shall be governed by the statutory provisions.