Preamble
The Wieland Small Tube Website is operated by Wieland-Werke AG and its affiliated companies (hereinafter ‘the Provider’).
The Website offers our customers the ability to view their transaction data (e.g., current orders) with the aim of providing an overview regardless of business hours. At the same time, it is intended to enable registered customers to conclude contracts for goods and services supplied by the Provider. Registered customers can also arrange customary scrap collection via an online form and may download documents. A chat function will enable our buying customers to engage in online dialogue with familiar contact persons at our company, if applicable, in combination with a chatbot. Use of the Website is free of charge. Access is only possible following prior registration.
The Provider will attempt to involve users in the further enhancement of the Wieland Small Tube platform and, within the scope of these Terms of Use, give them the opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions for improvement in terms of content and technology. Simply send us an e-mail at [email protected].
1. Terms of Use
The following Terms of Use represent guidelines under which use of the Wieland Small Tube Website is permitted. These Terms of Use shall also apply in the case of use outside the United States and North America.
2. Use of the Website / Rights of Use
Use is conditional upon acceptance of these Terms of Use by the user and a commitment to comply with them.
When using the Website, care must be taken to ensure that the copyrights and other rights of the Provider and those of other rights holders are respected and not infringed.
3. Compliance with Legal Requirements
Registered users of the Wieland Small Tube Website are responsible for their own actions when using the Website.
When using the Wieland Small Tube Website, users must take particular care to ensure that their own conduct does not violate any applicable laws or regulations or the provisions of these Terms of Use.
Technical actions that impair the functionality of the Wieland Small Tube Website or attempt to do so, in particular by executing scripts, hacking, spreading viruses, worms, Trojans, brute force attacks and similar methods, are prohibited and may result in civil and criminal prosecution as well as exclusion from use.
4. Rights of the Provider
If the user violates applicable law or these Terms of Use as a result of its conduct, the user may be excluded without prior warning or an indication of the grounds.
Users have no right to registration or activation. Registrations can be refused or canceled at any time and without the need to indicate the grounds.
5. Customer Orders
For any supplies of goods and services in connection with the Wieland Small Tube Website, the General Terms and Conditions of Delivery for the company where the order was placed, as amended, shall apply; they are available on the Website of the respective company. These General Terms and Conditions apply to all – including future – contracts with entrepreneurs, legal entities under public law and special funds under public law concerning supplies of goods and services, including contracts for work and services and the delivery of non-fungible goods. We do not accept the customer’s purchasing terms and conditions even in the event we do not expressly reject them again after we have received them.
Orders placed by the customer via the Wieland Small Tube Website shall be deemed to be an offer by the customer to conclude a corresponding contract with the Provider. The Provider will send the customer an electronic confirmation of receipt of the offer immediately after receipt of the offer; this does not constitute acceptance of the offer. The offer shall only be deemed accepted if the Provider informs the customer of acceptance (order confirmation) or by performance. The Provider is not obliged to accept any offer.
6. Liability of the Provider
The Provider makes no promises or assurances whatsoever regarding the scope of the Website or its availability. The Provider assumes no liability for uninterrupted access to the Wieland Small Tube Website, for server failures, or for the accuracy of the content.
In the event of the breach of contractual and non-contractual obligations, in particular due to impossibility, delay, culpa in contrahendo and tort, the Provider – including its executives and other vicarious agents – is liable only in cases of intent and gross negligence, and, in cases of simple negligence, such liability is limited to the damages that are typical to the contract and foreseeable at the time of contract formation.
7. Data Protection
The privacy policy provides information on the collection, storage, processing, and use of personal data.
8. Choice of Law and Applicable Law
The Website is operated by the Provider at its headquarters. The Website is initially directed at an audience in the United States and North America – as far as legally possible – be subject to the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. The applicable law shall, therefore, be the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, provided that this does not exclude mandatory regulations applicable at the user’s domicile.
9. Changes to the Terms of Use
The Provider reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time without an indication of the grounds, provided such changes are reasonably acceptable to the user.
10. Changes to the Scope of Services
The Provider is not obliged to make the Website permanently available for use to the same extent or at all. The Provider is entitled to cease operation of the Website permanently or temporarily, including without prior notice if necessary.
11. Severability Clause
In the event that individual provisions of these Terms of Use are or become ineffective or void, the effectiveness of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use shall be unaffected.