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a. The legal relations established via this online library between the operator of the online library (hereinafter referred to as "Pattern Design") and its customers (hereinafter referred to as "Licensee") shall be exclusively subject to the following General Terms and Conditions in their current version at the time the relevant contract is concluded.
b. These General Terms and Conditions shall exclusively apply to business transactions between companies (B2B).
Any deviating General Terms and Conditions of the Licensee shall not apply. Such deviating General Terms and Conditions of the Licensee shall only become effective if expressly confirmed in writing by Pattern Design. This means any actions taken by Pattern Design in order to fulfil the contract are not deemed to be Pattern Design\'s consent to provisions deviating from these General Terms and Conditions.
In order to be able to buy designs from Pattern Design, the Licensee must register. Such registration shall be free of charge. Upon completion of the registration process, the Licensee shall receive an user account without any restriction as to time. The Licensee must not provide incorrect or misleading information upon registration (such as name, VAT no., e-mail address or URLs).
The purchase of licenses to designs is subject to the conclusion of additional contracts (please see no. 5). Such information provided can only be changed by directly contacting Pattern Design in writing, either via e-mail or mail. The Licensee shall be entitled to request at any time that Pattern Design deletes its registration and thus its user account and deactivates its user name and password. Such request must be made via e-mail or mail.
The Licensee can choose between English and German as contractual language.
The presentation of the designs in the Pattern Design online library and with sales partners shall not be deemed to be a binding offer by Pattern Design to conclude a contract. The Licensee shall merely be requested to submit an offer by placing an order. By sending an order via the online library, the Licensee makes a binding offer aiming at the conclusion of a contract for the designs in the cart. Within the order process the Licensee has to accept explicitly these General Terms and Conditions as the General Terms and Conditions exclusively applicable to the legal relationship between the Licensee and Pattern Design. The acceptance of the contract and delivery shall be effected as soon as the Licensee activates the link for the download of the design.
a. The prices are in EUROS and include the legal value-added tax of 20%.
b. Pattern Design accepts the methods of payment indicated on www.patterndesigns.com.
c. The invoiced amount shall become due immediately upon receipt of the order confirmation. In case of payment by direct ebanking or credit card, the invoiced amount shall be charged to your account on the due date.
a. The personal login data (login name, password) for the user account shall only be used by the Licensee. The Licensee shall be obliged to treat them with strict secrecy and must not disclose them to any third party.
In addition, the Licensee shall be obliged to protect such data from any third party access. Personal login data should be changed in regular intervals for security purposes. In case the Licensee has a reason to believe that any unauthorised third party obtained such login data, the Licensee shall be obliged to change these data immediately.
b. Personal login data must not be stored unless they are encrypted. The Licensee shall indemnify Pattern Design and its vicarious agents against any third party claims if such claims are based on any illegal use of the services offered by Pattern Design and the related services offered by the Licensee or are conducted with the Licensee\'s consent or which result from any disputed arising out of the use of services offered by Pattern Design based on data protection law, copyright law or other legal issues. In case the Licensee recognises or should recognise that such a violation is imminent, the Licensee shall be obliged to inform Pattern Design thereof immediately. The Licensee must notify Pattern Design immediately of any defect or damage to the designs purchased from Pattern Design. Unless otherwise stipulated in the license contracts, the Licensee shall not be entitled to resell or otherwise transfer the designs and/or the licenses thereto.
a. Pattern Design shall be entitled at any time and without prior notice to terminate the Licensee\'s user account or to block it.
b. Pattern Design reserves the right to cease to render offered services or to remove links to other websites.
c. Pattern Design shall not be obliged to provide specific contents.
d. Pattern Design shall be entitled to take legal action in case of any suspected counterfeit merchandise, in particular in case of prohibited reproduction of patterns or sub-licensing.
Should the user account be terminated, e.g. by a notice of termination, the Licensee\'s user account shall be deleted and the user name and password shall be deactivated.
To the extent warranty rights are excluded below, the following provisions shall only apply to entrepreneurs and not to consumers. Except for cases in which the Licensee has a statutory right of rescission, we reserve the right to settle any warranty claims by improvement, exchange or a reduction in price, in our discretion. The Licensee shall be obliged to prove that the defect existed at the time of transfer. Designs must be reviewed immediately after the download. The Licensee must notify Pattern Design immediately, within 7 days after the download at the latest, of any detected defects and inform Pattern Design of the type and scope of such defect. If the Licensee fails to notify Pattern Design of any defect or fails to effect such notification within the stipulated time period, the designs shall be deemed accepted. In such cases, the Licensee shall not be entitled to assert any warranty claims or claims for damages or to assert any avoidance on the grounds of error due to defects. The warranty period shall be 3 months starting as of the time of download.
a. Pattern Design points out that it does not assume any liability for the use of the contractual designs. Pattern Design does in particular not assume any liability if such use violates any third party property rights such as trademark rights, copyrights or registered designs. Claims for damages for slight negligence shall be excluded.
This shall also apply for the benefit of Pattern Design\'s legal representatives and vicarious agents to the extent the Licensee asserts any claims against them. Claims for damages shall become statute-barred 12 months after the damage and the party responsible for such damage became known.
b. A similarity with existing designs cannot be excluded. Therefore, Pattern Design does not guarantee that other copyright holders do not design similar designs at the same time.
The Licensee shall not be entitled to assign or pledge any claims and rights the Licensee is entitled to assert against Pattern Design, unless Pattern Design gives its written consent. Pattern Design shall not be obliged to give such consent unless the Licensee can prove that it has a legitimate interest in such assignment or pledge.
The Licensee shall not be entitled to any right of set-off unless its claim is undisputed or recognised by declaratory judgement. Moreover, the Licensee may only exercise its right of retention to the extent its counterclaim is based on the same contractual relationship.
a. The contractual relationship between Pattern Design and the Licensee shall be subject to Austrian law. The application of the UN Sales Convention as well as of the rules on conflict of laws of the Private International Law shall be excluded.
b. Place of venue for any disputes arising out of the contractual relationship between Pattern Design and the Licensee shall be the court competent for the seat of Pattern Design.
a. Pattern Design collects, processes and uses personal data supplied by the Licensee.
b. The Licensee is aware of the fact that from a technical point of view Pattern Design is able to view any of the data saved on the webserver at any time.
c. The entire Privacy Policy can be reviewed on www.patterndesigns.com.
The ineffectiveness of one of the provisions contained in these General Terms and Conditions shall not affect the effectiveness of te remaining provisions thereof.
General Terms and Conditions B2B (Version 31.07.2012) - Pattern Design Gmbh
a. The legal relations established via this online library between the operator of the online library (hereinafter referred to as "Pattern Design") and its customers (hereinafter referred to as "Licensee") shall be exclusively subject to the followingGeneral Terms and Conditions in their current version at the time the relevant contract is concluded.
b. These General Terms and Conditions shall exclusively apply to business transactions between Pattern Design and consumers (B2C).
In order to be able to buy designs from Pattern Design, the Licensee must register. Such registration shall be free of charge. Upon completion of the registration process, the Licensee shall receive an user account without any restriction as to time. The Licensee must not provide incorrect or misleading information upon registration (such as name or e-mail address).
The purchase of licenses to designs is subject to the conclusion of additional contracts (please see no. 4). Such information provided can only be changed by directly contacting Pattern Design in writing, either via e-mail or mail. The Licensee shall be entitled to request at any time that Pattern Design deletes its registration and thus its user account and deactivates its user name and password. Such request must be made via e-mail or mail.
The Licensee can choose between English and German as contractual language.
The presentation of the designs in the Pattern Design online library and with sales partners shall not be deemed to be a binding offer by Pattern Design to conclude a contract. The Licensee shall merely be requested to submit an offer by placing an order. By sending an order via the online library, the Licensee makes a binding offer aiming at the conclusion of a contract for the designs in the cart. Within the order process the Licensee has to accept explicitly these General Terms and Conditions as the General Terms and Conditions exclusively applicable to the legal relationship between the Licensee and Pattern Design. The acceptance of the contract and delivery shall be effected as soon as the Licensee activates the link for the download of the design.
a. The prices are in EUROS and include the legal value-added tax of 20%.
b. Pattern Design accepts the methods of payment indicated on www.patterndesigns.com.
c. The invoiced amount shall become due immediately upon receipt of the order confirmation. In case of payment by direct ebanking or credit card, the invoiced amount shall be charged to your account on the due date.
a. The personal login data (login name, password) for the user account shall only be used by the Licensee. The Licensee shall be obliged to treat them with strict secrecy and must not disclose them to any third party.
In addition, the Licensee shall be obliged to protect such data from any third party access. Personal login data should be changed in regular intervals for security purposes. In case the Licensee has a reason to believe that any unauthorised third party obtained such login data, the Licensee shall be obliged to change these data immediately.
b. Personal login data must not be stored unless they are encrypted. The Licensee shall indemnify Pattern Design and its vicarious agents against any third party claims if such claims are based on any illegal use of the services offered by Pattern Design and the related services offered by the Licensee or are conducted with the Licensee\'s consent or which result from any disputed arising out of the use of services offered by Pattern Design based on data protection law, copyright law or other legal issues.
a. Pattern Design shall be entitled at any time and without prior notice to terminate the Licensee\'s user account or to block it.
b. Pattern Design reserves the right to cease to render offered services or to remove links to other websites.
c. Pattern Design shall not be obliged to provide specific contents.
d. Pattern Design shall be entitled to take legal action in case of any suspected counterfeit merchandise, in particular in case of prohibited reproduction of designs or sub-licensing.
Should the user account be terminated, e.g. by a notice of termination, the Licensee\'s user account shall be deleted and the user name and password shall be deactivated.
A similarity with existing designs cannot be excluded. Therefore, Pattern Design does not guarantee that other copyright holders do not design similar designs at the same time.
The contractual relationship between Pattern Design and the Licensee shall be subject to Austrian law. The application of the UN Sales Convention as well as of the rules on conflict of laws of the Private International Law shall be excluded.
a. Pattern Design collects, processes and uses personal data supplied by the Licensee.
b. The Licensee is aware of the fact that from a technical point of view Pattern Design is able to view any of the data saved on the webserver at any time.
c. The entire Privacy Policy can be reviewed on www.patterndesigns.com.
The ineffectiveness of one of the provisions contained in these General Terms and Conditions shall not affect the effectiveness of te remaining provisions thereof.
General Terms and Conditions B2C (Version 31.07.2012) - Pattern Design Gmbh
