Terms and conditions

ARTICLE 1: GENERAL

The terms of sales herein apply to all the sales made through the Websites  www.skippyglobetrotter.com & www.travelabroadwithoutspeakingthelanguage.com. With regard to professional offers, the terms are specific.

ARTICLE 2: ORDERS
You may put in your orders:
On our website : www.skippyglobetrotter.com & www.travelabroadwithoutspeakingthelanguage.com
By mail: SkippyGlobeTrotter  5, rue de la Bretonnière  44880 SAUTRON, France
After keying in your order on one of the website, you receive a confirmation email and your order is entered. Upon receipt of this order, leobook makes sure of its conformity and proceeds to a few previous controls. We may ask you some proof of address and identity concerning certain types of order.

ARTICLE 3: AVAILABILITY OF THE ITEMS
As long as our offers and their prices can be seen on the website, they will be valid. The availability which is mentioned on the website depends on the state of our stock  A new order within a time allowed. If an item on order is not available, the client will be informed by email.

ARTICLE 4: PRICES
The mentioned prices in euros are all-in prices, exclusive of shipping charges. The prices which are not mentioned in euros are for information only. They may be changed. The items on order are invoiced on the basis of the current rate at the entering of the order. The books are sold in accordance with the applicable provisions and especially with Lang law about the flat rate on the book, exclusive of shipping, set by the publisher, the importer or the stockist. The price is payable with order, in full and in a single instalment. Every order is invoiced in euros and payable in euros. Concerning the deliveries out of metropolitan France, the potential customs charges or local tax are to be paid by the recipient.

ARTICLE 5: SHIPPING CHARGES
The shipping charges consist of a contribution to the preparation, packing and postage charges. They are inclusive and they may be composed of a fixed part and another part according to the number of items on order. The total of the shipping charges depends on the geographical area, the nature of the product and the mode of shipping that you choose. You have to think to put together all your items on only one order. Indeed, we can't group together two different orders and the shipping charges are invoiced for each of them.

ARTICLE 6: PAYMENT
Several very high guarantee protection means of payment are at your disposal. You may pay:
By credit card (Carte Bleue, Visa, Eurocard/Mastercard), mentioning your card number without space between the figures, its expiry date and its check code either directly in the box provided ( secure data entry by encryption SSL). Before entering your means of payment and going on your order, you have to check carefully the numbers written in the box provided. The total is debited from your account at the time of the sending of your order.
By cheque in euros to leobook and to be cleared in a French bank, by money order or by international transfer. You send your cheque or the money order with your number of order written on the back, to the following address SkippyGlobeTrotter  5, rue de la Bretonnière 44880 Sautron  France. It is strongly not advisable to send cash. In this case, the client is responsible for it and its security at any time. On no account can leobook be held responsible for a potential loss or thef of such sending.

ARTICLE 7: DELIVERY
Wherever you order from, France or abroad, you can be home delivered to the address you have mentioned. The delivery time includes the preparation time of the parcel and the carriage time. You can consult the shipping rubric to know the methods of shipping, their rates and the time limits. The time limits which are mentioned are not absolute deadlines and skippyglobetrotter can't be held responsible for a delay in delivery or a stock shortage
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If you pay by cheque, the order will be handled only upon receipt the cheque and the time limits mentioned will run from then on. Some countries limit the entry of goods onto their territory. It is up to the purchaser to make sure of the terms of access into the country of the ordered items. On no account can Skippyglobetrotter  be held responsible for potential destruction of the parcel or the ban on its entry into a country.
 
ARTICLE 8: THE QUALITY OF THE ITEMS
Legal guarantee of conformity of the standard items (book,...): The items which are supplied by Skippyglobetrotter are new and without a defect at the time of their delivery. The agreement on the offer is based on the descriptive form of the item. If the photo which may be with this form does not correspond to it, only this latter will determine the contents of the offer proposition from Skippyglobetrotter. In case of defectiveness or nonconformity of an item, we promise to replace or pay it back. Your parcel may be sent in return, by standard way, the items keeping their original packing and with the corresponding invoice Skippyglobetrotter, within two weeks following the receipt of the parcel to:
SkippyGlobeTrotter
5, rue de la Bretonnière
44880  SAUTRON  
France

The replacement will be made very quickly and anyway within a month at the latest as from the claim of the client. In case of a refund, we commit ourselves to make it by cheque chèque ou par remboursement sur le compte de la carte de  crédit utilisé pour le paiement (à traduire en anglais) within in less or equal a month following the receipt of the parcel which has been sent back. No cash on delivery will be accepted, whatever the motive.

ARTICLE 9: GUARANTEE
You have a right to repossess. Indeed, whatever the reason you may send back an item within seven days following the receipt of your parcel. These items must stay in their original  packing. You may send your parcel with the invoice to:
SkippyGlobeTrotter
5, rue de la Bretonnière
44880  SAUTRON  
France

The shipping and return charges are to be paid by the client.
 
ARTICLE 10: TRANSFER OF PROPERTY
TRANSFER OF RISKS. The transfer of property of the items in favour of the client will be realised only after paying the whole price, whatever the delivery date of the items. On the other hand, the transfer of risks in case of loss and damaging of the items will intervene as soon as the delivery and the receipt of the items by the client.

ARTICLE 11: DATABASE PROTECTION
The information which is asked you is, for some of it, necessary to treat and made your claims, and for other one useful to know and improve the services proposed on the website. Your personal database processing gets done in accordance with the law concerning liberty and matters about computer and databases dated January, 6th 1978. At any time you have a right of access and rectification or opposition to your own databases. You have only to contact us (don't forget to mention your surname, first name, address and email) by post to:
SkippyGlobeTrotter
5, rue de la Bretonnière
44880  SAUTRON  
France

Furthermore, we inform you that cookies record some information which is stocked in your hard-drive memory. This information is useful to make out some website statistics and allow us to propose some products according to the items that you have already choosen on our website. Firstly, an alert message asks you if you want to accept the cookies which you may refuse. These cookies do not have information concerning you.

ARTICLE 12: LIABILITY
These sites are for information only and their content are supplied on a “as is” basis only. SkippyGlobeTrotter has used reasonalbe care and skill in compiling the content of these sites but makes no warranty, express or implied, as to the nature or accuracy of any material on this site and cannot accept liability (including liability for any indirect loss of profits or turnover) for any particular material or the result of any use made ot it. If some photos illustrate the items, it is for information only and they do not belong to the contract. If there are mistakes in, on no account will  be responsible for them. The items which are proposed are in accordance with the French laws in force. SkippyGlobeTrotter accepts no responsability in case the delivered item does not respect the delivery country laws (censorship, the banning of a title or an author...). SkippyGlobeTrotter accepts no responsability in case a nonfulfilment of a contract due to a case of absolute necessity (strike, flood, fire...). SkippyGlobeTrotter is not responsible for the contents the websites hypertext links may refer on from its own website.
ARTICLE 13 APPLICABLE RIGHT
Every clause which are mentioned in the present terms of sales and every operation of purchase and sale have to be in accordance with the French laws.
 
ARTICLE 14 ACCEPTANCE OF THE CLIENT
The present terms of sales and the prices are expressly approved and accepted by the client who declares and recognises reading them. Consequently, he renounces to take advantage of every contradictory document and particularly of his own terms of purchase. The purchase leads to the acceptance of the present terms of sales.

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