Terms and conditions
www.les-belles-heures.com (hereinafter the "Website") is published by the company Les Belles Heures, a French “société par actions simplifiée” with a share capital of 1,000 euros, with a registered office situated 63 Boulevard Barbes – 75018 Paris, France, registered with the Paris Company and Trade register under no. 814 607 404, with an intra-community VAT no. FR 53 814607404 (hereinafter “Les Belles Heures” or the “Company”).
I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
The General Terms and Conditions of Sale detailed below apply to all orders placed with Les Belles Heures for all products and services offered on the Website (the “T&C’s”). They can be accessed at any times on the Website.
Les Belles Heures reserves the right to adapt or modify the T&C’s at any time, the version of the Terms and Conditions of Sale applicable to any transaction is the T&C’s published at the date of the order. Consequently, placing an order by a customer implies complete adherence, without reservation, to these terms and conditions.
II - WEBSITE'S INFORMATION AND ACCESS
www.les-belles-heures.com is an e-commerce merchant owned and managed by Les Belles Heures.
The Website is available to all users of the Internet network and is accessible 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, subject to any interruption, planned or not, by Les Belles Heures or its providers, for technical maintenance and/or security reasons or cases of circumstances outside of its control, i.e. “force majeure events” as recognised by the French courts. Les Belles Heures is not liable for any damage incurred by an unavailability of the Website.
Les Belles Heures does not make any promises about the availability or accessibility of the Website or guarantee that the access to the Website, the content on it or the services it provides will be delivered uninterrupted, timely or error-free. For technical maintenance and/or security reasons, Les Belles Heures may be obliged to partially or totally suspend access to the Website temporarily and without notice. By accepting these Conditions of Use, users accept any such technical interruptions.
Les Belles Heures reserves the right to update the Website, particularly for technical or commercial reasons. When any such changes do not alter the conditions of use or, more generally, do not substantially and adversely affect the services that are provided, Users may be informed of the changes made but their acceptance to such changes will not be required.
III – SUBSCRIPTION TO THE WEBSITE
The client has the possibility to create a personal account by filling its personal data (the “Personal Account”).
Subscription of the client shall be validated by Les Belles Heures after checking the standard form filled by the client. A confirmation of the subscription is sent to the client by email.
By creating the Personal Account, the client ensures the accuracy and completeness of the data provided. Client shall update its personal data. If an error occurs relating to the recipient address, Les Belles Heures shall not be held liable in case of any inability to deliver the products ordered.
In order to place an order, client must have attained majority and enjoy its full legal capacity to enter into contracts, and possess a valid payment card issued by a bank acceptable to Les Belles Heures’s payment provider. Les Belles Heures reserves the right to refuse any request or order and to close an account at its sole discretion.
IV - PRODUCTS
The products offered for sale are those described and available on the Website, within the limit of available product stock. Information is updated in real time. Nevertheless, errors occurring during the update cannot held the liability of Les Belles Heures. Les Belles Heures cannot be liable in case of an order cancellation because of stock depletion.
Les Belles Heures takes the greatest care in the presentation and description of the products in order to provide the customer with the best possible information. However, some non-substantial errors may appear on the Website, which the customer acknowledges and agrees to.
In any case, in the event of nonconformity of the product delivered compared to its description on the Website, the customer may either exercise his right of withdrawal, or implement the Les Belles Heures guarantee of conformity which will, where appropriate, result in an exchange or refund of the price (in whole or part) that has been invoiced.
V - ORDER
Acceptance of an order placed on the Website is subject to compliance with the procedure put in place by Les Belles Heures, expressed by a succession of different stages that the client shall follow in order to validate their order.
Client may at any time change or remove the products added in its cart (the “Cart”). The Cart summarizes the products selected by the client as well as its price. V.A.T. and shipping costs are displayed at check out. Client may modify at any time its Cart before validating the order.
The price paid by the Client doesn’t include customs and others taxes. Such additional costs shall be directly paid by the Client to the carrier.
Confirmation of the order by the client implies the acceptance of all provisions of T&C’s. An email confirmation summarizing the order (products, prices, product availability, quantity etc.) will be sent to the customer by Les Belles Heures. For this purpose, the customer formally accepts the use of email for receiving confirmation of the contents of their order from the company Les Belles Heures. In any event, the invoices are available in the 'my account' section.
VI - ORDER REFUSAL
Les Belles Heures reserves the right to remove at any time any product displayed on the Website and/or to replace or modify any content or information related to any product. Despite the best efforts of Les Belles Heures to satisfy the client expectations, Les Belles Heures may be obliged to cancel an order even after having send a confirmation by email. In such case, the order will be reimbursed.
Les Belles Heures cannot be held liable to the client or a third party in case of the removal of a product from the Website, and in case of the replacement or modification of any content published on the Website or refusal of an order after having confirmed it by email.
VII - PRICES AND TERMS OF PAYMENT
Price are mentioned in the Website in Euros. Prices includes V.A.T. but excluded any customs duties and other taxes. The prices indicated do not include shipping costs, which will be invoiced in addition and will be specified to the customer when the order is definitively confirmed.
Certain countries outside the European Union may be subject to additional charges (duties, taxes) upon reception depending upon the legislation of their country.
Les Belles Heures reserves the right to modify its prices at any time but the products will be invoiced and paid on the basis of the rates in force at the time of placing the order, subject to availability.
The products are payable on the day of the order.
The purchases shall be settled either via PayPal, Amazon Pay or via the secure platform provided by our partner STRIPE. The client expressly acknowledges that disclosure of their bank card number to Les Belles Heures gives the company authorization to debit their account to the amount of the products ordered. As the case may be, a notice of the order cancellation for error of payment is sent to the client by Les Belles Heures to the email address registered by the client.
Client may at its discretion save its payment card details for next purchase. Such information is kept and processed by STRIPE. Les Belles Heures will never keep payment card details.
The data recorded and kept by Les Belles Heures constitutes proof of the order and all previous transactions. The data recorded by PayPal, Amazon Pay or STRIPE constitutes proof of the financial transactions.
VIII - DELIVERY
Deliveries are carried out by La Poste, Monday to Saturday, depending on the option chosen by the customer at the time of validating their order.
Delivery operates at the time of the transfer of the product’s physical possession to the Client (the “Delivery”). The risk of lost or deterioration of the Product is transferred to the Client at the time of the Delivery.
Delivery prices applicable to the Order are those indicated at check out depending on the geographic zone of the shipping address.
The delivery is made to the delivery address indicated by the customer, being specified that it must be the address of the customer's residence, an individual of their choice or a legal entity (delivery to their company).
Customer must make sure that they have provided accurate and complete information concerning the delivery address (including in particular: house number number/name, building number/name, staircase, access codes, names and/or numbers for the intercom, etc.). In case of inability to deliver the products at the address indicated by the customer, products will be returned to Les Belles Heures which will contact the customer to organize another Delivery.
Orders are shipped within 6 business days at most for a Delivery in metropolitan France and 20 business days for a International Delivery, from the date after the confirmation of the Order.
Les Belles Heures cannot be liable for the late Delivery caused by a case of force majeure (as defined below).
If the delivery time is exceeded and is not justified by a case of force majeure, the customer may request the cancellation of the sale and within a maximum period of 15 days will receive a refund of the Order. Les Belles Heures cannot be liable of any direct or indirect damage resulting from delay of delivery.
IX. REFUNDS & RETURNS
Any non-professional customer could use its withdrawal right during a period of 14 days from the Delivery. In such case, the customer shall contact Les Belles Heures at hello@les-belles-heures.com. The return request will be confirmed by Les Belles Heures to the customer by email. The customer shall follow the procedure mentioned into the confirmation of the email.
The products shall be returned to Les Belles Heures within 14 days from the day of the Delivery. After 14 days, the sale is final. The products shall be returned with its original packaging, with the original labels, brand new, without having used it or washed it.
Repayment of the customer is made subject to the receipt of the Products returned by Les Belles Heures and its excellent condition. Except as otherwise indicated by the customer, repayment will be made thought the same payment means used to pay the Order.
Return of the product(s) is the responsibility of the customer if the order was placed from abroad and is at their own risk.
In all cases, the expenses of returning the product are borne by Les Belles Heures if the product delivered is damaged or different from the product ordered. If the customer does not adhere to these terms and conditions, including conditions of return or exchange, Les Belles Heures cannot proceed to refund the products in question
X. GUARANTEES AND RESPONSIBILITY
Les Belles Heures’s liability related to the Products is limited to the sale price of each product. Les Belles Heures will not be responsible or liable for any following losses, whenever its cause:
- Loss of benefit or sales
- Loss or revenue
- Loss of profits or contract or opportunity
- Loss of expecting savings
- Loss of data
- Loss of business, management or administration time
- Damage to the image
- Lost chance and especially of sale or purchase of a product
- Psychological damage.
Documents, details, descriptions and information related to the Products published on the Website are not covered under any guarantee, express or implicit, except the guarantees provided by law.
Les Belles Heures makes no promises in respect of any harm that may be caused by the transmission of a computer virus, worm, time bomb, Trojan horses, cancelbots, logic bomb or any other form of programming routine designed to damage, destroy or otherwise impair a computer's functionality or operation including transmission arising from your download of any content, software you use to download the content, the Website or the server that makes it available. In this respect the customer agree that it is its responsibility to install suitable anti-virus and security software on your computer hardware and other devices to protect against any such bugs, viruses or other such harmful programming routines. Subject to the first paragraph of this section, any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Website is done at customer’s own risk and the customer will be solely responsible for any damage to its computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such content.
Les Belles Heures is only required to deliver products which are compliant with the contractual provision. Products are considered as compliant if the following conditions fulfilled : (i) they shall be compliant with the description and have the features mentioned on the Website; (ii) they shall be compliance with the uses which may reasonably be expected of it; (iii) they shall compliant with the quality and strength which may reasonably be expected of similar products.
According to legal regulations, Les Belles Heures guarantees the customers against compliance and latent defects, under the following conditions:
Visible defects
In case of visible defect of a Product, the customer shall send a demand to hello@les-belles-heures.com within 3 days from the Delivery date. All demands shall mention the defect concerned. Failing that, the demand won’t be accepted and no return or exchange will be possible. The Product shall be returned, with its original packaging, with the original labels, brand new, without having used it or washed it, and which the Order reference and copy of such demand shall be sent by mail to the headquarter: Les Belles Heures – 63 Boulevard Barbes – 75018 Paris.
Visible defect confirmed by Les Belles Heures shall give rise, depending of the demand’s content and the nature of the defect, to exchange or repayment or a voucher.
Force Majeure
Upon the occurrence of an event of force majeure, the concerned party shall inform the other within a period of fifteen (15) days of the occurrence of this event, by email or registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Specifically considered as cases of force majeure or fortuitous event, in addition to those regularly cited by the jurisprudence of the French courts and tribunals, are total or partial strikes, lockouts, riots, boycotts or other actions of an industrial nature or commercial disputes, civil unrest, insurrection, war, terrorism, bad weather, epidemics, blocking of the means of transport or supply for any reason whatsoever, earthquake, fire, storm, flood, water damage, governmental or statutory restrictions, legal or regulatory modifications of marketing changes, computer failure, blocking of telecommunications, including wired or wireless telecommunications networks, and any other instance independent of the will of the parties preventing the normal execution of the contractual relationship.
All the obligations of the parties will be suspended for the duration of the event of force majeure, without compensation. If the event of force majeure continues for more than three (3) months, the contract may be terminated without compensation for one or other of the parties.
XI - PARTIAL INVALIDITY
In the event that one of the clauses of this contract is null and void by a change in legislation, regulation or court decision, this shall in no way affect the validity of and compliance with these general terms and conditions of sale.
XII - APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION
This contract is subject to French law. The language of this contract is the French language. In the event of a dispute with professionals and/or merchants, the courts of Paris will have jurisdiction. In the event of a dispute with a customer, the French courts shall have sole jurisdiction.
XIII - MEDIATION
In the event of a dispute, you must first send us a written claim to Les Belles Heures, 63 Boulevard Barbes 75018 Paris, France.
Should you not obtain satisfaction from us within a month from your first written claim, you are entitled to contact MEDICYS mediation services, free of charge through electronic mail by filing an application on www.medicys-consommation.fr, or via mail (please join your email, phone number and your written claim to your mail) to MEDICYS 73, Boulevard de Clichy 75009 Paris.