General terms and conditions of sale
The purchase of products offered on saint-louis.com website is subject to the present Terms and Conditions ("Terms and Conditions of Sale").
The saint-louis.com website is operated by the company Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis, manufacturer and entitled with the rights to sell the products offered at the saint-louis.com website. The products bought from the saint-louis.com website shall be dispatched directly from Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis logistic sites in France to the final consumers.
Orders may only be placed on the saint-louis.com website by individual consumers and corporations purchasing Saint-Louis products other than for resale. Any resale or distribution of Saint-Louis products purchased on saint-louis.com website is strictly prohibited.
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis may update the Terms and Conditions of Sale at anytime. You can view the most current version (at the date of use of the saint-louis.com website) of the effective General Conditions of Sale at any time by clicking on the hyperlink labelled "Customer Services Department".
For each order on saint-louis.com website, your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Sale in force at the date of the order will be requested.
Terms of Ordering
The saint-louis.com website is hosted in France and allows final consumers to order on-line a selection of Saint-Louis products from Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis, via the Internet, from all countries in the world.
The delivery zone for Saint-Louis products ordered via the saint-louis.com website is restricted to the following countries: [PLEASE LIST DELIVERY COUNTRIES]. (See "Delivery zone").
An order can be placed for one or several delivery address. (see “Delivery Zone”).
For each Saint-Louis product selected on the saint-louis.com website, a summary page will be displayed automatically featuring a photograph of the item, its colouring and references, the quantity selected, its unit price and the total amount owed for your order. You should check that this information accurately reflects your selection before confirming your order. Upon confirmation, your order will be submitted to Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis for processing (see "Acceptance of orders"). While every effort is taken to try to ensure that the colouring, design and style of the Saint-Louis products in the photographs displayed on the saint-louis.com website are representative of the original products, variations may occur due to technical restrictions of colour reproduction on your computer equipment. Accordingly, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall be under no circumstances liable for any error or inaccuracy in the photographs or graphical representations of Saint-Louis products displayed on the saint-louis.com website. If you have any questions about the Saint-Louis products, you may of course contact our Customer Service Department by clicking on the hyperlink "Customer Services Department".
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis reserves the right to cancel any order placed by a customer with whom it has a dispute concerning a prior order, or if Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis has reasonable elements to suspect that such customer has violated these General Terms and Conditions of Sale, or is engaged in any fraudulent activity or for any other legitimate cause.
In order to ensure a best quality service and product availability, you may not order on the saint-louis.com website more than 9 items of the same reference number within a period of fifteen (15) calendar days.
For any exceptional order, we thank you to contact our Customer Services Department on "Customer Services Department".
Availability
Our offers of products Saint-Louis and their prices are valid as they are on view on the saint-louis.com website, subject to availability. In this purpose, instructions about the availability of the products will be given at the time of the ordering.
Exceptionally, errors or amendments could happen, especially in case of simultaneous orders of the same product by several customers. In case of unavailability of a Saint-Louis product after ordering, you will be informed of that by email or by phone as soon as possible, and it will be proposed to you either to order another item offered on the saint-louis.com website in replacement or to cancel your order. If you choose to cancel your order, you will be immediately refunded, if your bank account has been debited, on the bank account that has been debited.
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall not liable in case of stock outage or unavailability of products.
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis reserves the right to change at any time and without any previous notice the Saint-Louis products proposed on the saint-louis.com website.
Order Confirmation
1. At the end of the ordering procedure, you are invited to click on the "Pay" icon.
2. As from confirmation, your order is transmitted to Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis for processing. The order could not be amended or cancelled except in the express conditions provided for in the Terms and Conditions of Sale. The confirmation of your order means your acceptance of the wholeness of the Terms and Conditions of Sale.
3. You will receive an order summary.
The data registered by the saint-louis.com website establish the proof of the whole transactions operated between Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis and its customers. In case of dispute between Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis and one of its customers about a transaction made on the saint-louis.com website, the data registered by Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis are considered as an irrefutable proof of the content transaction.
In pursuance of the article L.134-2 of the French Consumer Code, when an order deals with an equal or superior to 120 euros amount, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall keep the written document which states the contract concluded between Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis and a customer by electronic way from the execution of the contract, and within 10 years from the delivery date of the product(s) (in accordance with the executive order 2005-137 of the 16th February 2005). You can have access to this document at anytime subject to a request sent to service@saint-louis.com and the justification of your identity.
Price – Payment
The prices of Saint-Louis products are in euros, inclusive of taxes (European Union area). The amount of your order includes the duty and the delivery fees according to the chosen option (see "Shipping and delivery").
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis reserves the rights to amend at anytime and without any previous notice the prices of the proposed Saint-Louis products on the saint-louis.com website. Invoicing of the Saint-Louis products is based on a price list posted on the saint-louis.com website at the time of the confirmation of your order, subject to the availability of the Saint-Louis products ordered at this time.
Any order at the saint-louis.com website has to be settled immediately after the confirmation of the order.
We only accept the credit card and charge card payment.
You cannot use any customer credit delivered by the Saint-Louis stores to purchase Saint-Louis products on the saint-louis.com website.
Orders are payable in euros. Accepted credit cards are: MasterCard®, Visa®, American Express®. Your order shipping will be effective after the checking of your payment mode and the acknowledgment receipt of the debit of your bank account.
The debit of your charge or credit card is effective only at the time of shipping of your order. In case of unavailability of ordered items (see "Availability"), only the price and the carrying cost about available Saint-Louis products will be debited.
Title Retention
The ordered Saint-Louis products remain the property of Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis until full payment of the price to Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis. In case of a payment incident, you undertake to return the received Saint-Louis products to Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis upon first request.
However, you shall bear the risks (in particular of loss, stealing or damage) relating to the delivered Saint-Louis products and this at the effective date of the delivery.
Delivery zone
Saint-Louis products purchased via the saint-louis.com website may only be delivered within the territory of the following countries: [UK, Ireland, Benelux, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai, Oman, Morocco, USA, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Hong Kong, Mexico].
Any delivery address situated outside this zone will be refused. During the ordering procedure and for safety reasons, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis will not process any order for which a post office box or “Cedex” address is provided.
Saint-Louis products will be shipped to the delivery address(es) specified during the ordering procedure.
Duty and Shipping costs
We will inform you of the duty and shipping costs for the shipment considering the country of delivery. This amount will be payable by you in addition to the price, including taxes, of the goods ordered.
An order summary will be displayed on the saint-louis.com website before you confirm your order.
Time required for delivery
Allow 7 (seven) working days between the date of your order and the date of delivery.
However, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis reserves the right to divide your order into part shipments. In this case, your charge card or credit card will be debited to the same way to correspond at the same prices of the effective delivered products. The shipping costs will only be invoiced for the goods shipped and for a single shipment.
Problems in delivery
Any failure to deliver or late delivery exceeding eight (8) business days shall be reported to our Customer Services Department as soon as possible. In order for your claim to be accepted, please notify us of it within a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days from the date of confirmation of your order.
Also, any complaint regarding the conformity or quantity of the Saint-Louis products delivered shall be brought to the attention of our Customer Services Department as soon as possible. In order for your claim to be accepted, please notify us of it within a maximum of thirty (30) calendar days from the date of confirmation of your order.
You should check that your shipment is correct on delivery. If there are any discrepancies in your order when the products are delivered to you, you should note the nature of the potential discrepancy (e.g., open package, damaged goods, etc.) by hand, if possible, on the delivery notice, and sign.
If the goods do not conform to your order or you are not satisfied with them, you may return them, exchange them or request a refund according to the terms and conditions contained in the section entitled "Returns - Exchanges - Refunds"
To the saint-louis.com website
You are entitled to return or ask for the refund of any product ordered via the saint-louis.com website within the fifteen (15) calendar days following the date of delivery, subject to the following terms and conditions:
Saint-Louis products shall be returned in their original condition and packaging, along with its original invoice (or a copy in case of partial return), with the written mention: "SUBJECT TO UNPACKING FOR BREAKAGE OF CRYSTALWARE" to the following address:
Service saint-louis.com - Cristalleries de Saint-Louis, 57620 SAINT-LOUIS-LES-BITCHE (Use the "Return form" included in the delivery packaging of your order for this purpose).
You must fulfil the "Return form" and indicate if you wish to exchange the returned Saint-Louis products or be refunded of their amount.
If you exchange Saint-Louis products, the shipping costs for the first delivery will not be refunded. However, you will not be charged for the shipping costs of the second delivery. Only one exchange by item will be honoured. You may change the Saint-Louis product bought through the saint-louis.com website for one or several different items which together are equal or inferior in value to the full value of the original Saint-Louis product you have received.
If you ask for a refund, Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall do its best commercial efforts in order to ensure that the refund will be made within fifteen (15) business days following the receipt of the Saint-Louis products returned by crediting your charge or credit card. Under no circumstances will it be possible to grant you an electronic credit usable on the saint-louis.com website, nor will the website issue a store credit for use in a Saint-Louis boutique. We do not refund any amount corresponding to a Saint-Louis products that you have received as a gift (please note that you are only entitled to a merchandise exchange in this case).
In either case (exchange or refund), the shipping costs incurred by you to return products will only be refunded in case of non-conformity of Saint-Louis products (e.g., product reference error, damaged, etc.). Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis has sole discretion in determining whether the products are in original condition when returned to saint-louis.com.
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall not be responsible or liable if any Saint Louis products you wish to return to the saint-louis.com website is lost, misdirected or delivered late Insofar as you have to bear the risks of the shipping you have chosen.
For gifts purchased through the saint-louis.com website, only exchange will be allowed (to the exclusion of any refund).
To the Saint Louis boutique located in Paris, France
Any Saint-Louis product purchased (or received as a gift) from the saint-louis.com website may also be for a store credit in the Saint-Louis boutique located at 13, Rue Royale, 75008, Paris, France within thirty (30) calendar days following the date of delivery, subject to the following terms and conditions:
- returned Saint-Louis products must be in their original condition and packaging;
- you must provide the original receipt along with your returns, or a copy of the receipt if you are returning part of your order.
The shipping costs of the first delivery of a product purchased on the saint-louis.com website will not be refunded when you return (for exchange or store credit) the product to the Saint-Louis boutique referred to above.
The Saint-Louis boutique does not offer refunds on any Saint-Louis products purchased on the saint-louis.com website. Under no circumstances will it be possible to credit your charge or credit card.
In order to request for the refund of a Saint-Louis product purchased on saint-louis.com website by exercising your retraction rights, you have to follow the previous procedure entitled "to saint-louis.com".
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis warrants the conformity defect of the Saint-Louis products offered for sale on the saint-louis.com website according to the terms of the articles L211-4 and following of the French Consumer Code and 1641 to 1649 of the French Civil Code.
Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental special or consequential damages, including, without limitation, loss of profits or other intangible losses, arising out of or in connection with your use, buying of Saint-Louis products, or inability to use the saint-louis.com website.
These General Terms and Conditions of Sale shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the French law, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws. In the event of a dispute, the Court of Metz, France, shall have exclusive jurisdiction and you hereby agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such court. Compagnie des Cristalleries de Saint Louis shall be entitled to seek and obtain injunctive or other equitable relief to protect its rights hereunder.