Terms of service

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as “Terms”) of metaFox GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “Seller”) shall apply to all contracts for the delivery of goods concluded by a consumer or entrepreneur (hereinafter referred to as “Customer”) with the Seller with regard to the goods presented by the Seller in its online store. The inclusion of the Customer’s own terms and conditions is hereby objected to, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 A consumer within the meaning of these Terms is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to his commercial nor to his independent professional activity. An entrepreneur within the meaning of these Terms and Conditions is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity who, when concluding a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of his commercial or independent professional activity.

2) Conclusion of contract

2.1 The product descriptions contained in the Seller’s online store do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Seller, but serve for the submission of a binding offer by the Customer.

2.2 The Customer may submit the offer via the online order form integrated into the Seller’s online store. In doing so, after placing the selected goods in the virtual shopping cart and going through the electronic ordering process, the customer submits a legally binding contractual offer with regard to the goods contained in the shopping cart by clicking the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.3 The Seller may accept the Customer’s offer within five days by sending the Customer a written order confirmation or an order confirmation in text form (fax or e-mail), in which case the receipt of the order confirmation by the Customer shall be decisive, or by delivering the ordered goods to the Customer, in which case the receipt of the goods by the Customer shall be decisive, or by requesting payment from the Customer after the Customer has placed the order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives exist, the contract shall be concluded at the point in time at which one of the aforementioned alternatives occurs first. The period for acceptance of the offer begins on the day after the customer sends the offer and ends at the end of the fifth day following the sending of the offer. If the Seller does not accept the Customer’s offer within the aforementioned period, this shall be deemed to be a rejection of the offer with the consequence that the Customer shall no longer be bound by its declaration of intent.

2.4 When submitting an offer via the Seller’s online order form, the text of the contract shall be stored by the Seller and sent to the Customer in text form (e.g. e-mail, fax or letter) after the Customer has sent his order together with these Terms. In addition, the text of the contract is archived on the Seller’s website and can be accessed free of charge by the Customer via his password-protected customer account by providing the relevant login data, provided that the Customer has created a customer account in the Seller’s online store before submitting his order.

2.5 Before bindingly submitting the order via the Seller’s online order form, the Customer can identify possible input errors by carefully reading the information displayed on the screen. An effective technical means for better recognition of input errors can be the enlargement function of the browser, with the help of which the display on the screen is enlarged. The customer can correct his entries during the electronic ordering process using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until he clicks the button that concludes the ordering process.

2.6 Only the German language is available for the conclusion of the contract.

2.7 Order processing and contacting usually take place via e-mail and automated order processing. The customer must ensure that the e-mail address provided by him for order processing is correct, so that e-mails sent by the seller can be received at this address. In particular, when using SPAM filters, the customer must ensure that all e-mails sent by the seller or by third parties commissioned by the seller to process the order can be delivered.

3) Right of withdrawal

3.1 Consumers are generally entitled to a right of revocation.

3.2 More detailed information on the right of withdrawal can be found in the seller’s cancellation policy.

4) Prices and terms of payment

4.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Seller’s product description, the prices quoted are total prices which include the statutory value added tax. Any additional delivery and shipping costs will be indicated separately in the respective product description.

4.2 The payment option(s) will be communicated to the Customer in the Seller’s online store.

4.3 If prepayment by bank transfer is agreed, payment shall be due immediately after conclusion of the contract, unless the parties have agreed on a later due date.

4.4 If payment is made by means of a payment method offered by PayPal, the payment shall be processed by the payment service provider PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (hereinafter: “PayPal”), subject to the PayPal Terms of Use, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full or – if the customer does not have a PayPal account – subject to the Terms and Conditions for Payments without a PayPal Account, which can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.

4.5 Invoicing is done via PDF invoice. The PDF invoice is sent via Email within a few days of placing your order. We will transition to e-invoice in 2026.

5) Delivery and shipping conditions

5.1 The delivery of goods is made by shipping to the delivery address specified by the customer, unless otherwise agreed. When processing the transaction, the delivery address specified in the Seller’s order processing shall be decisive.

5.2 In the case of goods delivered by a forwarding company, delivery shall be made “free curbside”, i.e. to the public curbside nearest to the delivery address, unless otherwise stated in the shipping information in the Seller’s online store and unless otherwise agreed.

5.3 If the transport company returns the shipped goods to the Seller because delivery to the Customer was not possible, the Customer shall bear the costs for the unsuccessful shipment. This does not apply if the customer is not responsible for the circumstance that led to the impossibility of delivery or if the customer was temporarily prevented from accepting the offered service, unless the seller had given the customer reasonable advance notice of the service. Furthermore, this does not apply with regard to the costs for the Hinsendung if the customer effectively exercises his right of withdrawal. In the case of effective exercise of the right of revocation by the customer, the provision made in this regard in the seller’s revocation instructions shall apply to the return costs.

5.4 Self-collection is not possible for logistical reasons.

6) Retention of title

If the Seller makes advance performance, he shall retain title to the delivered goods until the purchase price owed has been paid in full.

7) Liability for defects (warranty)

7.1 If the purchased item is defective, the provisions of the statutory liability for defects shall apply.

7.2 The Customer is requested to complain about delivered goods with obvious transport damage to the delivery agent and to inform the Seller thereof. If the customer fails to do so, this shall have no effect on his statutory or contractual claims for defects.

8) Redemption of promotional vouchers

8.1 Vouchers issued free of charge by the Seller as part of promotions with a specific validity period and which cannot be purchased by the Customer (hereinafter “Promotion Vouchers”) can only be redeemed in the Seller’s online store and only during the specified period.

8.2 Individual products may be excluded from the voucher promotion if a corresponding restriction results from the content of the promotion voucher.

8.3 Promotion vouchers can only be redeemed before the order process is completed. Subsequent offsetting is not possible.

8.4 Only one promotional voucher can be redeemed per order.

8.5 The value of the goods must be at least equal to the amount of the promotional voucher. Any remaining credit will not be refunded by the seller.

8.6 If the value of the promotional voucher is not sufficient to cover the order, one of the other payment methods offered by the Seller may be chosen to settle the difference.

8.7 The credit balance of a promotional voucher is neither paid out in cash nor does it bear interest.

8.8 The promotional voucher will not be refunded if the customer returns the goods paid for in full or in part with the promotional voucher within the scope of his statutory right of withdrawal.

8.9 The promotional voucher is transferable. The Seller may make payment with discharging effect to the respective holder redeeming the promotional voucher in the Seller’s online store. This shall not apply if the Seller has knowledge or grossly negligent ignorance of the ineligibility, legal incapacity or lack of representative authority of the respective holder.

9) Use of logo and name

The seller is entitled to use the customer's name and logo for marketing and reference purposes. For this purpose, the customer shall grant the seller a simple right of use. The customer can object to this use in writing, e.g. by e-mail.

10) Photos and video recordings at events

10.1 The Seller and, where applicable, the local organiser of an event take photos and video recordings during workshops, trainings and other events (for example The Inner Journey).

10.2 By booking or registering for an event, the Customer consents to being photographed and filmed during the event and grants the Seller and the local organiser a simple, unlimited in time and space, free-of-charge right to use these photos and recordings for marketing and reference purposes. This includes use on websites, social media, in newsletters, in advertising and in print material, also where the Customer can be recognised.

10.3 The Customer can withdraw this consent at any time for the future by e-mail to hallo@metafox.eu. Material already published or printed before the withdrawal does not have to be recalled.

11) Applicable Law

All legal relationships between the parties shall be governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany to the exclusion of the laws on the international sale of movable goods. In the case of consumers, this choice of law shall only apply to the extent that the protection granted is not withdrawn by mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which the consumer has his habitual residence.

12) Code of Conduct

The Seller has submitted to the conditions of participation in the eCommerce initiative “Fairness in Commerce”, which can be viewed on the Internet at http://www.fairness-im-handel.de/teilnahmebedingungen/.

13) Alternative Dispute Resolution

12.1 The EU Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution on the Internet at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

This platform serves as a contact point for the out-of-court settlement of disputes arising from online purchase or service contracts involving a consumer.

12.2 The Seller is neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.

Alternative Dispute Resolution pursuant to Art. 14 (1) ODR Regulation and § 36 VSBG:

The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (OS), which you can find at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We are not obliged or willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.