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General terms and conditions for ordering journals

 (as of 11 June 2010)

§ 1 Scope of application

1. The following general terms and conditions are valid for all business connections between us and our customers. The version applicable is the one valid at the time of the conclusion of the contract.

2. 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.

3. 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 capacity.
 
4. Customers in the sense of our terms and conditions are consumers as well as entrepreneurs.

5. Terms and conditions deviating or contradicting or supplemental to our 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 Conclusion of contracts

An electronically transmitted order of a customer represents an offer for Lexxion to conclude a purchase contract. If a customer places an order, Lexxion will send a confirmation of receipt via E-mail, listing the details of the order (order confirmation). This confirmation serves only as a confirmation of receipt of the order; it does not however represent an acceptation of your order to conclude a purchase contract. A purchase contract is valid only when items are dispatched by Lexxion. In this case, the purchase contract is valid only for the items dispatched. For further products of the same order that have not been dispatched by Lexxion, no purchase contract comes to effect.

§ 3 Prices

1. All prices indicated are final prices in EUR and include VAT unless stated otherwise.

2. Unless indicated otherwise, prices for journals in German do not include handling and shipping costs, which amount to EUR 0,91 per consignment. Subscription prices for journals in English include handling and shipping costs.

3. Purchase is conducted on open acount.

4. Customers are obliged to pay on receipt of the service within the period indicated on the invoice. After expiration of this period the customer is in default. If in default, the consumer is obliged to pay 5% interest on the base rate of the debt.

5. If in default, entrepreneurial debtors are obliged to pay 8% interest on the base rate of the debt. We reserve the right to substantiate and put to effect a higher interest rate for entrepreneurial debtors.

§ 4 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.

§ 5 Cancellation

Subscriptions of our journals remain valid until cancelled. The customer is entitled to cancel a subscription within a period up to 6 weeks prior to the expiration of the subscription period. Invoices for journal subscriptions are issued annually in advance. Test subscribers are also entitled to cancel the subscription within 2 weeks upon receipt of the second issue of the test subscription. After expiration of this period, regular subscription cancellation conditions apply. The right of extraordinary cancellation according to legal regulations remains hereby unaffected. The publishing company is entitled to cancel a subscription at any time, providing refund for overpaid issues.

§ 6 Data privacy

1.The customer has been circumstantially informed on the form, extent, place and purpose of the acquisition, processing and use of personal data required for ordering. Customers have also been circumstantially informed on their right to object to the use of their anonymous user profile for advertising purposes, marketing research and demand-oriented organisation of services (see also "Data privacy information").

2.  The customer agrees explicitly to the acquisition, processing and use of personal data. The customer is entitled to revoke the agreement at any time with effect for the future.

§ 7 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.