Terms & Conditions

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE

Article 1 – Definitions

1. The Seller: BETONBLOCK® Group B.V., BETONBLOCK® Global B.V. or legobeton B.V. (also acting under the trade names BETONBLOCK® and BETONBLOCKUSA).
2. The Buyer: any individual or legal entity who/that entered into or wishes to enter into an contract with the Seller, its representatives, agents, assigns or successors.

Article 2 – Applicability

1. Every offer of the Seller and/or every sales contract between the Seller and the Buyer is subject to these conditions unless agreed otherwise in writing by an authorized representative of the Seller. These General Sales Conditions shall apply, save modifications agreed in writing by both parties. The Seller does not accept any reference by the Buyer to his own purchase conditions. The Seller’s offers are without engagement.
2. The sales contract shall deem to have been entered into when the Seller has sent a written confirmation of the acceptance of the order to the Buyer.

Article 3 – Order placement and confirmation

1. Requests for orders can be placed through the website or by email. All (requests for) orders or quotations placed by the Buyer will require an authorized signature approving prices, and approving and accepting these general terms and conditions.
2. The requests for orders placed by the Buyer may be confirmed by the Seller by email.
3. All orders or quotations supplied have a validity of two months from the date of confirmation by the Seller.

Article 4 – Inspection

1. The Buyer is entitled to inspect material of commercial quality on stow to determine the visible features. When special quality requirements have been agreed upon the goods can be inspected before shipment at the warehouse.
2. The Buyer shall give notice to the Seller at the time of placing the order that he wishes to inspect the goods. In case such an inspection leads to extra costs for the Seller, these costs will be for account of the Buyer even if the Buyer does not attend the inspection.
3. When the Byer has notified the Seller that he wishes to inspect the goods but does not do so within one week after the notification for causes beyond the will of the Seller, any claim based on defects, which could have been determined during such inspection, will not be accepted.

Article 5 – Price and payment

1. The prices to be paid by the Buyer are the prices which are mentioned in the order confirmation provided and are payable in the currency therein mentioned.
2. After the confirmation by the Seller invoicing will be done.
3. All orders are to be prepaid, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing. In this case payments of remaining amounts are due within 14 days of the date specified on the invoice unless alternate payment terms have been agreed upon in writing.
4. The Seller shall be entitled without prejudice to its other rights and remedies either to terminate wholly or in part any or every contract or order confirmation between itself and the Buyer or to suspend further deliveries under any of every contract in any of the following events:
5. if any debt is due and payable by the Buyer to the Seller but is still unpaid;
6. if the Buyer has failed to provide any letter of credit, bill of exchange or any other security required by the contract, provided that in such event the aforesaid rights of termination or suspension shall apply only in regard to the particular contract in respect of which the Buyer shall have so failed;
7. if the Buyer has failed to take delivery of the goods under any contract between it and the Seller otherwise than in accordance with the Buyer’s contractual rights;
8. if the Buyer becomes insolvent or enters into a composition of arrangement (including a voluntary arrangement) with its creditors or, being a body corporate, has passed a resolution for voluntary winding up except solely for the purpose of reconstruction, or if a petition has been presented for an order for its winding up, or for a receiver (including an administrative receiver) or administrator to be appointed, or if any such order or appointment is made or, if being an individual or partnership the Buyer suspends payment of his or their debts in whole or in part, or if an application has been made for an interim order or a petition has been represented for a bankruptcy order or if any such order is made, or if the buyer, whether or not a body corporate, shall carry out or be subject to any analogous act or proceedings under foreign law.
9. The Seller shall be entitled to exercise its aforesaid rights of termination or suspension at any time during which the event or default giving rise thereto has not ceased of been remedied and, in case of any such suspension, the Seller shall be entitled as a condition of resuming delivery under contract between it and the Buyer to require prepayment, or such security as it may require for the payment, of the price of any further delivery.

Article 6 – Delivery

1. The delivery will take place after payment of the whole amount specified on the invoice unless other payment terms have been agreed upon in writing.
2. The delivery periods mentioned in the Seller’s order confirmations are given as an indication and by approximation. Unless otherwise agreed the delivery period shall apply ex warehouse to be indicated by the Seller, unless otherwise agreed upon. The periods shall only commence after the contract enters into force and after receipt by the Seller of all necessary data to enable the delivery.
3. Delay of delivery for whatever reason never gives the Buyer the right to claim damages and losses and neither the right to stop fulfilling his obligations based on this or another contract. Without prejudice to his other rights the Seller can extend the delivery periods for a time equal to the period during which the Buyer fails to fulfil any of his obligations towards the Seller.
4. Unless otherwise agreed, the rules of the Incoterms latest edition issued by the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris concerning the term FCA shall apply to all deliveries. The Incoterms latest edition shall apply also to other terms than FCA unless otherwise agreed in writing. If the means of transport for the transport of the sold goods have been made available by the Buyer, the Buyer guarantees the good quality thereof and the Buyer shall hold the Seller harmless for all claims of third parties against the Seller concerning such transport.

Article 7 – Default, Force majeure

1. The Buyer will be in default – without being given notice or put in default – through its failure to fulfil any of its obligations towards the Seller, which shall be the case through the mere passing of the period in which the Buyer should have fulfilled such obligation.
2. In case of force majeure, as described under c., the Seller shall be rightfully excused from the performance of its contractual obligations for the duration of the force majeure situation. If the force majeure situation lasts longer than three consecutive months from the date of the aforementioned notification by the Seller, the Seller shall be entitled to annul the contract or to cancel wholly or partly the quantity that should have been delivered during these months. Neither in the case of force majeure nor in case of the here mentioned annulment or cancellation is the Buyer entitled to indemnification of any loss and damage. After the expiration of the above mentioned period of three months the Buyer can demand that the Seller declares whether he intends to annul or cancel the contract.
3. Force majeure shall be deemed to exist if the performance of a contractual obligation will be partly or wholly impeded by any circumstances beyond the will of the Seller or if such performance causes for the Seller such difficulties that he cannot be required to accomplish it.
4. If circumstances occur such as, but not limited to, war, danger of war, mobilization, insurrection, fire, frost, difficulties or stagnation of transport, shortage of appropriate cars, wagons end or shipping facilities, strikes, blockade, occupation of the premises, stay in strikes, and/or lock outs, embargo, export restrictions, acts of government and difficulties or stagnation in the production of Seller and/or a supplier of raw materials and/or products auxiliary to products for sale by Seller, Seller will be excused from the performance of his obligation without prejudice to the other rights of the Seller as stipulated in b. which rights are also applicable when the circumstances such as here mentioned circumstances occur.

Article 8 – Risk, Retention of title

1. Upon delivery of the goods at the agreed point all risks of loss, damage and other incident shall pass immediately to the Buyer.
2. The Seller and the Buyer expressly agree that until the Seller has been paid in full for the goods comprised in this or any other sale contract between them, or until all other monies due from the Buyer to the Seller on any sum accounted for have been paid in full:
3. legal and beneficial ownership of the goods comprised in the contract (“the goods” remain with the Seller;
4. the Seller may recover the goods at any time from the Buyer if in its possession, if the amount outstanding from the Buyer to the Seller in respect of the goods supplied or any other amounts owed shall remain unpaid after the due date for payment has passed and for that purpose the Seller, its servants and agents may enter upon any land or building which the goods are situated;
5. the sub clause (ii) shall be construed and have effect as a separate clause and accordingly in the event of any of them being for any reason whatsoever unenforceable according to its terms, the others shall remain in full force and effect.
6. Should the case arise, the Seller has the right – in contravention of article 12 – to invoke the law of the country where the goods are situated. In such case this article is assimilated to the most proximate and most comparable right of that legal system.

Article 9 – Warranty/default/liability

1. Any claim or complaint on account of defective goods or for any other cause whatsoever shall be deemed waived by the Buyer unless written notice of such claim is within thirty (30) days after receipt of the goods by the Buyer (or after storage at his account whichever is first). Claims and complaints with regard to goods already processed shall be deemed waived. Damages caused by transport must be reported by return, at the latest within 48 hours of receipt of the goods, accompanied by proper photographs of the condition of the goods at delivery.
2. If the Seller accepts a defect, as notified by the Buyer according to the above paragraph, he shall have without prejudice to article 6, b, c en d, the choice to replace the defective goods or to refund the sales price of such defective goods. In both cases the goods concerned will be kept at the disposition of the Seller and shall only be returned by the Buyer to the Seller after approval by the Seller.
3. The Seller is in no event liable for more or other indemnification than mentioned in paragraph 9b. Therefor he shall in no event be liable for any consequential damages to the Buyer due to any defect in the delivery, whether admitted or not by the Seller. The Buyer shall hold the Seller completely free from any claim by third parties in connection with the goods delivered under this contract and refund the Seller the whole amount the Seller would be obliged to pay.
4. As long as the Buyer does not fulfil his obligation completely under the sales contract, the Seller shall not be liable for whatever damages or losses and shall not be obliged to accept any claims about defect.
5. Seller is no way liable to compensate Buyer for direct or indirect damage, the consequences of damage, or loss of profits, that are caused either by inadequate performance of delivered goods by Seller or through work performed by Seller.
6. Buyer indemnifies Seller against claims by third parties, and against all costs, damages and interest-charges that might directly or indirectly be incurred by Seller from such claims, in pursuance by third parties for compensation for damage caused by shortfall of our delivered supplies.

Article 10 – Tolerances

1. The goods are fabricated and delivered with a tolerance of the original order of plus or minus 10% unless otherwise agreed upon by the Seller in writing.
2. Any variations between samples and deliveries, as i.e., but not limited to minor discrepancies in form, do not constitute a ground for rejection of the delivery, dissolution of the contract, refusal of payment or compensation in the event of variations of minor importance, being defined as a quality that does not affect the essence of the goods delivered and their practical value. An average of the total delivery will be taken when judging if a delivery is correct.
3. All sizes references are approximated and, depending on the product ordered, actual sizes may vary.

Article 11 – Designs, drawings and descriptions, intellectual property

1. All designs, drawings, models, inventions and (technical) documents of similar import, expressly created as original work by the Seller, relating to the products or its manufacture submitted to the Buyer by the Seller shall explicitly remain property of the Seller.
2. All designs, drawing models, inventions and (technical) documents of similar import submitted to the Buyer by the Seller shall not, without the written consent of the Seller, be used for any other purpose than for which they were provided. They may not, without the written consent of the Seller, otherwise be used or copied, reproduced, transmitted or communicated to a third party.
3. The items referred to in the previous paragraphs must be returned to the Seller immediately on the request of the Seller.

Article 12 – Applicable law and exclusive jurisdiction