Our delivery shall be subject to the correct and punctual delivery by the sub-supplier.Where line or batch products, goods of the same kind and quality will be delivered to perform the purchase contract. Minor discrepancies in texture and colour shall be deemed customary to the trade.Where acts of cooperation of the customer are required for performance of our deliverables, delivery, execution or completion periods shall only begin when the act of cooperation has been performed.Discrepancies in the texture or design of subsequent deliveries are unavoidable. Brochures, sketches and measurements are approximate and non-binding. We are entitled to make partial deliveries. We are obliged to comply with the agreed delivery periods.Where the agreed date of delivery is exceeded by more than four weeks, the customer has the right to set a grace period of at least four weeks. If the order is still not executed, then the customer may rescind the purchase contract in writing. The aforementioned deadlines shall be waived only with an explicit agreement in writing.

Shipment shall be free of shipping and free of packaging charges within Germany for a net goods value over 300 euros. Below this amount, shipment and packaging costs shall be charged per package.Shipment abroad shall be charged based on expenditure.

The goods delivered remain in our ownership until full payment is made of all open amounts to do with the mutual item of business. When the business is conducted on an account current basis with the customer, then the reservation will apply until the financial claim of the balance on the account is settled.When the goods under reservation of ownership rights are processed by the customer, then we become the manufacturer of the new products thus generated and obtain the ownership rights. Should the customer undertake processing, conjunction or mixing of the goods under reservation with goods in third-party ownership, then we are to obtain joint ownership rights in the new products thus generated up to the ratio which the invoice value of the reservation goods of us bears to the third-party materials. Should the customer undertake processing, conjunction or mixing of the goods under reservation, with a principal subject matter in the ownership of the customer, then the customer is to cede its ownership rights and/or co-owners-hip rights in the new subject matter, to us here and now in advance.The customer is to be entitled to sell the goods subject to the reservation of our ownership rights in normalday-to-day business, provided that it fulfils its contractual duties towards us under the business relationship in due time. All financial claims from the sale of the goods under reservation of our ownership rights, are to be ceded to us already at the point in time of the conclusion of the contract with us. When we obtain joint ownership reservation rights in cases of processing, conjunction and mixing, then the cession is to be made in the ratio of the value of the reservation goods of us to the value of the reservation goods of the third party. All recognisable balances of financial claims under account current agreements are to be ceded to us at the point in time already of the conclusion of the contract with us, in an amount of the unpaid financial claims of us. The customer is however not entitled to mortgage the reservation goods or the ceded financial claim to third parties or to make such available as surety.The customer is under a contractual duty, to treat our goods subject to the reservation of ownership rights with all the due care of a registered trader at its own expense and to insure such against the usual warehousing risks. The customer here and now cedes its claim rights under the insurance to us already.When the value of the cessions of our financial claims as surety exceed the actual total financial claims of us by more than 15%, then we will waive any further sureties in this regard.The customer is to notify us with immediate effect of any mortgaging or any other encroachments on our rights by third parties in the goods subject to the reservation of ownership rights, or attachment of its financial claims in this regard. Upon our first demand, the customer is to inform the third party with immediate effect in writing of the reservation of ownership rights in the goods, and a debtor of the cession of the financial claim with immediate effect in writing

The customer shall only distribute our products to resellers who have the necessary knowledge, facilities, and service capabilities.Excluded from the right of distribution are transactions with buyers who offer interfaces to open online marketplaces.The customer is not permitted to engage a third party who merely forwards our products to other e-commerce sites.

Where events and circumstances whose occurrence is beyond our control, such as natural events, epidemics, pestilences, industrial conflicts, unpredictable lack of personnel, unpredictable lack of energy or raw materials or adjuvants, disruptions in traffic and operations, damages due to fire and explosions, strikes, lockouts, war, political unrest, terrorist acts, official orders and any and all other cases of force majeure, reduce the availability of the goods, so that we cannot perform our obligations under the contract (by proportionally considering other in-house or external obligations to deliver), we shall be released from our obligations under the contract and not obliged to procure the goods from third parties for the duration of the disruption and the extent of its effects. The provision above shall also apply where the events and circumstances render the execution of the relevant transaction sustainably uneconomic for us or occur with our sub-suppliers. Where these events last more than three months, we shall be entitled to rescind the contract. Where there are hindrances for a temporary period of time, the delivery periods or periods for deliverables shall be extended by the duration of the hindrance plus an appropriate starting time.

We may request advance payment of the full purchase price or rescind the contract, provided that we become aware of circumstances that make a credit appear questionable.Where the customer files an application to open insolvency proceedings, provides information on one’s financial status in lieu of an oath (Abgabe der eidesstattlichen Versicherung) or we become aware of a deterioration of the customer’s financial situation, then we are entitled to discontinue the deliveries immediately. We shall not beobliged to accept the customer’s rescission of the contract. Where we agree with the rescission, we may demand damages.

The customer undertakes to treat any and all technical and commercial information relating to the goods and other information, including technical and commercial business secrets that are either designated confidential or have to be regarded as confidential due to the circumstances under which they have been made available or have become known to the customer (hereinafter jointly “Know-how”), and to not disclose or make such Know-how accessible to third parties, including, but not limited to, our competitors. This obligation to secrecy shall not apply to information that

• was, at the time they have been made available by us, already known to the customer without any breach of the obligations of secrecy as can be proven through documents or other evidence, or

• was publicly accessible without the customer’s interference, or

• was made available to the customer without being bound to secrecy by a third party who had neither directly nor indirectly received such information from us.

We reserve any and all rights in the Know-how.This obligation to secrecy shall remain in force even after the obligations under the contract by and between the customer and us have been performed.The customer undertakes to protect us and our business activities and agrees that paying damages would only inadequately compensate for an infringement of the obligations of secrecy under this clause. Further, the customers accepts and affirms that a committed or imminent infringement of this obligation of secrecy would cause irreparable harm to us and therefore we are, in addition to any statutory and other claims, entitled to obtain a preliminary injunction (einstweilige Verfügung) against the committed, imminent or continued infringement of this obligation of secrecy, if we can demonstrate that such infringement may cause harm, without us being obliged to prove actual damages.

We hereby point out to the customer that we process personal data according to our “Information on Data Privacy for Business Partners / Customers” and our Privacy Policy. The Data Privacy Policy as amended from time to time is available at united-brands.com.