FcomShop: General Terms and Conditions of Sale

Present conditions govern the sale of records, videos, DVD, cederoms and merchandising between F COMMUNICATIONS (8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS) and you via the website of F COMMUNICATIONS, www.fcomshop.com. These conditions prevail on all other conditions existing on other documents. Present terms and conditions can be amended at any time by F COMMUNICATIONS, under the reserve that they are visible in the website www.fcomshop.com.


ARTICLE 1 - PRICES

- Prices are indicated in Euro all taxes included, excluding postages and packaging costs. Prices can be modified at any time by F COMMUNICATIONS but you are guaranteed the price posted on the Site at the time of purchase.
- In the event of delivery outside the territory of Metropolitan France, you are importer of the products ordered. Any customs duties and local taxes may be required to pay. You are solely responsible for this customs taxes and formalities. We advice you to request further informations about these issues from the relevant local authorities.
- All orders are payable in Euro, whatever the country of delivery.
- The Euro legal rate is fixed at 6,55957 French Francs
- The products shall remain the property of F COMMUNICATIONS until full payment of the price.
- At the time of validing your order, prices are expressed in Euros (EUR) and we added, for your convenience, indicative prices in Pounds (GBP) and US Dollars (USD).
- The transaction will be made in Euro only (Pounds and US Dollars being for information purpose only)
- F COMMUNICATIONS will not be liable for error in the module provided for conversion, or for difference, that could result, between the amount invoiced and debited from your account and the amount displayed on our currency conversion.


ARTICLE 2 - ORDERS

Orders can be done via Internet, on www.fcom.fr or www.fcomshop.com F COMMUNICATIONS undertakes to process and fulfill your order in accordance with the present sales terms and conditions. Contractual informations are written in French and in English. (only the terms and conditions written in the original language (French) are to be considered. This version has been translated in an objective of transparency for our foreign costumers, but cannot be interpreted as the original document.)
These contractual informations will be mentionned on a note confirming your order at the time of delivery, at the latest.
F COMMUNICATIONS reserves the right to cancel any order placed by a customer, in the event of a previous dispute concerning non-paid products.
By validing your order you accept, without any reserve, the present sales terms and conditions indicated in the Web site and you aknowledge that you have a complete understanding of them.
Thereby, you waive the right to take advantage of any conflicting document and, in particular, your own general conditions of purchase, the act of purchasing entailing acceptance of these general terms and conditions of sale.
The confirmation of your order and the datas recorded by F COMMUNICATIONS make the proof of the global transactions passed between F COMMUNICATIONS and his customers.
For online payments: datas stored by the payment system make the proof of the financials transactions.


ARTICLE 3 - OUT-OF-STOCKS POLICY

The offers proposed on this Site shall be valid as long as the product related thereto is on line and while stocks last.
If the product ordered is not available, you will be informed thereof as early as possible by Email or by post. You may, at your option, decide to exchange or to cancel your order and ask to be reimbursed.
You will give your instructions to F COMMUNICATIONS
- by phone : 01.47.707.808
- by Email : info@fcomshop.com or contact@fcomshop.com
- by post at the following adress:
F COMMUNICATIONS - FcomShop, 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS

For payment by check: The reimbursement will be done, at F COMMUNICATIONS option, by a credit on your bank account or a repayment check in a maximum delay of 30 days upon receipton of your payment check.


ARTICLE 4 - PAYMENT

The following payment methods are accepted:
- Credit Card: Visa, MasterCard and CB Your bank account is debited at the time of your order validation.
- Check in euros to the order of "F COMMUNICATIONS". F COMMUNICATIONS will only accept check in euro, issued by a bank established in Metropolitan France or in Monaco. Payment by check is accepted exclusively for a total to pay equal to 20 euros (131,19 FF) minimum, all taxes included.
The check must be send with your order slip printed to:
F COMMUNICATIONS - FcomShop - 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS
Your check will be deposited upon reception.


ARTICLE 5 - DELIVERY

Products are delivered to the adress you've indicated, during the ordering process. When you order several items, the delivery delay of the global order is the longest delay planned for an item.
F COMMUNICATIONS reserves the right to split the delivery. The supplementary delivery costs will then be taken by F COMMUNICATIONS.
F COMMUNICATIONS could not be considered responsible in the event of late delivery. Except contrary stipulation indicated with the offer on the Web site, you will be able to cancel your order if you are not delivered in a delay of 30 days maximum. In case of unusual extra delays, you will be informed by Email.
For payment by Credit Card, delays indicated are average delays (comprising time needed to prepare and deliver the package) for Metropolitan France and Monaco.
For payment by check, your order is processed upon the receipt of the check. The delays, run then, from the date of receipt and consequently could be different from those planned at the time of your order validation.


ARTICLE 6 - SECURISATION

Our website have a securisation system. We have selected a SSL process (Secure Socket Layer).
All your bank informations are protected and crypted before transmission to our treatment center.


ARTICLE 7 - RETURN POLICY

You have a period of seven (7) days, from the date of receipt, to return any products, which do not suit you.
This return must be done in the original packaging.
The postages, packaging and re-expedition costs are at your charge. We only repay the price of products ordered. However, if the returned package has not been open, you will be repayed of your products, and the expedition costs.
Return of the package must be done to the following adress: F COMMUNICATIONS - FcomShop - 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS
- You have the right to return the products provided that it is in its original condition and packaging, i.e. without any damage however slight this may be (whether in appearance or functional) and in a perfect state of cleanliness. Items returned, incompletes, damaged or dirtied by the customer will not be re-taken.
- If it turns out that an item is defective or does not match its description, we undertake to exchange it or refund your money. In this case, we ask you to indicate precise, meaningful and complete reasons for the return on the delivery slip and to return to us the products.
You will be repayed of the expedition and re-expedition costs; but the refund of the re-expedition costs could not be more than twice what you paid for the expedition costs.
- The refund will be made within 15 days or less following the date the returned package is received.
- The reimbursement will be done, at F COMMUNICATIONS option, by a credit on your bank account or a repayment check. For repayment check, the order and the adress would be those you've indicated during the ordering process.
- Under no circumstances, we will accept package returned, "cash on delivery".


ARTICLE 8 - CUSTOMER SERVICES

If you have any questions or need further informations, please contact our customer department:
- via phone : 01.47.707.808
- via fax : 01.47.707.606
- via Email : contact@fcomshop.com From Monday to Friday, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM and from 3:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Address: F COMMUNICATIONS - FcomShop 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS


ARTICLE 9- LIABILITY

Products proposed follow the French legislation. F COMMUNICATIONS denies all responsibility if the item delivered doesn't respect the legislation of the delivered country. (censorship, banned titles ).
You are solely responsible for checking whether the products or the services ordered may be imported under domestic law in the country of delivery.
Photographs of various products and informations provided on the Web Site are for illustration purposes only. These are not contractual informations.
Consequently, F COMMUNICATIONS is not liable in the case of photographic, typographical or any other errors.
F COMMUNICATIONS may not be held liable for non-perfomance due to any stock shortages or unavailability of a product, an event of force majeure, including but not limited to strikes or troubles (especially in concerning the postal and/or public transport services), flood or fire.
F COMMUNICATIONS shall not be held liable for all fees and direct or indirect damages including (without limitation), lost profits, loss of business, loss of chance.
F COMMUNICATIONS shall not be held liable in relation to the content of any websites, which can be visited via a hypertext link contained on its own Web site


ARTICLE 10 - JURISDICTION - DISPUTES

All the clauses contained in these general terms and conditions of sale, as well as all sale and purchase operations which are reffered to in them, will be subject to French law. Any dispute shall be referred exclusively to the French Courts.

ARTICLE 11 - PERSONAL DATA


Ordering via this Web site implies your membership to the "Fcommunity". Informations you indicate are confidential and F COMMUNICATIONS undertakes not to communicate it to a third person.
We use these informations in order to process and fulfill your order and to provide you personal communication and special advantages, especially newsletters you will receive, as a member of the "Fcommunity".
These informations also allow us to personalize this Web site in accordance with your hobbies.

In accordance with the French law n°78-17 of the 6th of January 1978, known as "Loi Informatique et Libertés", you have the right to access and rectify any data which concerns you.
You simply have to contact us and indicate your position (giving us your surname, first name, email address and, if possible, your login)
- by Email: info@fcomshop.com
- by post: F COMMUNICATIONS - FcomShop - 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS F COMMUNICATIONS is concerned about its customers needs.
By the way, we are using cookies, in order to provide you a high level of personal services. Indeed, cookies are used to mark your visit on our Web site.



Our Company Details & Address

FcomShop is a service of F COMMUNICATIONS, domiciled at 8 rue AndrŽ Messager -- 75018 PARIS Registred in France under the number RCS Paris B 395 131 204


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